You Go If You Can

Roar!!

Standing nine meters tall with a door-slab greataxe in hand, the Minotaur let out a roar whose explosive sonic wave smashed through everything in its path, sending the few figures before it flying back over ten meters.

"Heal! Plant your battle banner! What the hell are you doing, Fu Junlin!"

A team leader holding a greatsword, his abdomen pierced by a sharp wooden stake, shouted at the top of his lungs.

Hiding in the corner of a courtyard wall and looking somewhat lean, Fu Junlin snapped out of his daze at the shout, drawing one of the four battle banners protruding from his back.

As a flash of green light swept across his hands, the banner went thud and drove straight into the ground.

Instantly, a dark green halo burst outward from the battle banner, sweeping over the four injured teammates in a flash.

The bone-deep wounds on their bodies were caught by the halo and began rapidly closing and healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A second halo swept past, its color shifting to deep green.

The third turned pale green, and the fourth transformed directly into a beam of white light.

The energy grew weaker with each pass, yet the injuries of his teammates recovered by seventy or eighty percent.

Fu Junlin pulled out the battle banner, shoved it back onto his back, and sprinted to another corner to plant a second banner, sending a red halo radiating outward.

His teammates' strength surged rapidly.

The greatsword leader commanded:

"Mages, clear out the mobs with area-of-effect fire; Fistmasters, flank around the back to hit the Minotaur's blind spot; Mecha Master, switch to the Gatling gun and cover me."

The staff in the mage's hand was nothing more than a broken stick with a red ruby embedded at the top.

Yet once the flames covered the area, their momentum was formidable, instantly pressing the surrounding giant spiders back so they dared not advance.

A nimble youth wearing massive gauntlets scrambled directly between the Minotaur's legs, attempting to leap up onto its back.

The tall youth pulled a massive Gatling gun from his Mecha Belt as a blue energy source on the weapon flashed violently.

Light blue bullets poured wildly toward the Minotaur.

The Minotaur blocked the greataxe in front of its chest while the greatsword warrior hoisted his weapon backward and leaped high into the air, a build-up of red light fiercely suppressed along the blade.

Amplified by the red battle banner, its power grew manifold, and he looked ready to deliver a furious, downward slash.

Yet at that very moment, the giant spiders that had already closed in suddenly lunged forward with suicidal recklessness, reaching a distance of just one meter from the mage.

Bang!!

A cluster of green blood mist exploded, and the shockwave sent the mage flying backward on the spot, transforming into a white light and vanishing mid-air.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A dozen or so spiders lunged successively toward the Fistmaster, the warrior, and the Mecha Master.

The crazed self-destructions blew them all into white light on the spot, and the Mecha Master was even sliced in half at the waist by a flying spider leg, his Mecha Belt dropping straight to the ground.

In an instant, aside from the ground littered with mangled flesh and blood, the massive Arena Zone left only the Minotaur and Fu Junlin, who was hiding far away.

Fu Junlin swallowed hard, standing frozen in place as his teammates vanished so fast it felt like a tornado...

Meanwhile, outside the Arena Zone, within a Teleportation Array.

The four players who had been blown to death tumbled out of the teleporter one after another, and the Blade-and-Sword Enchanter hammered the ground in bitter frustration, collapsing to lie on the floor with his face covered in weary defeat.

Some forty or fifty people surrounded the Teleportation Array, including teachers around twenty-five years old, though the majority were students of sixteen or seventeen.

Everyone stared at a large screen before them displaying the interior of the Arena Zone.

"Fu Junlin! Don't forget to pick up my Mecha Belt!!"

The Mecha Master's first action upon climbing up was to grip the communicator on his ear and roar at the top of his lungs.

For they knew it was over; all four teammates had returned, leaving behind a War Banner Master who was utterly useless.

They had failed once again, and the contaminated zone remained uncleansed.

The stunning female teacher standing at the very front sighed helplessly as well, preparing to call Fu Junlin via radio and tell him to hurry back.

Yet at that exact moment, nobody noticed.

High up in the sky, after a fireball burst, a beam of white light plunged straight through the clouds.

It pierced through the high-altitude Electromagnetic Interference Clouds, pierced through the virus-contaminated zone, and plummeted toward the Arena Zone on the ground.

Fu Junlin was currently gathering his courage, preparing to step forward and snatch his teammate's Mecha Belt back.

The moment he stood up, however, a beam of white light descending from the heavens crashed violently into him, plunging straight into his body.

Fu Junlin was sent flying backward to slam into the courtyard wall behind him, crumbling bricks peeling away as he was nearly shaken to death on the spot.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Fu Junlin clutched his chest, coughing violently and staring in horror at the Minotaur.

What kind of thing just ambushed me?

The Minotaur was also stunned, failing to understand why this human had just mutilated himself so thoroughly.

"Damn, what a huge cow!"

At this moment, a voice rang through Fu Junlin's mind, startling him so badly he shuddered.

"Who is it!!"

"Young man, don't be afraid. I'm just lodging in your body for a while."

The voice even sounded somewhat excited.

At the same time, Fu Junlin felt his nervous system slip out of his control. His limbs actually twitched a few times without his conscious will, just like something was fighting him for control of his body.

"Are you a ghost? Stop moving around!"

Fu Junlin was terrified. Not only could this thing speak, it was also trying to seize his body, which closely resembled ghost possession from ancient legends.

The entity inside immediately behaved, giving up its random manipulation of his body.

"Look at you, all scared! Such a stingy little fellow~!"

"What on earth are..."

Just as Fu Junlin was about to panic and ask what was going on, the Minotaur had already charged over brandishing its giant axe.

Running for his life was paramount.

Fu Junlin rolled on the spot, first reaching out to grab the Mecha Belt, and then fiercely pressing the button on his chest badge.

Watching the Minotaur charge over, Fu Junlin put on a confident "farewell" expression.

But his finger pressed down...

Huh!?

Where's my badge!

The giant axe whistled down with a howling wind, and Fu Junlin could only roll once more, narrowly dodging it.

Although getting hacked to death would still send him back to the city, that pain was real.

This was no illusion game; they had come out via the Teleportation Array, and it only provided eighty percent damage mitigation.

If injured, they would still suffer varying degrees of wounds upon returning.

And in the event that the energy source of the Teleportation Array ran out or malfunctioned while he died, he would actually die!

At this point, the crowd watching the battle in front of the giant screen gradually grew restless.

"What is Fu Junlin doing! Why isn't he coming back yet?"

"Could he be overthinking things, wanting to challenge the Minotaur Boss?"

"Stop joking around. Fu Junlin only majors in the Battle Banner because he's such a coward. When it comes to being afraid of death, he ranks first and no one ranks second!"

The female teacher of Class Three cast a dissatisfied glare at them.

The female teacher was named Shi Hongyu, and her peerless beauty surpassed the entire school. As a person with Superior Species genes, her rating was extremely close to the Mighty Species.

Her figure was even more perfection itself; a tight one-step skirt and a small blouse thoroughly displayed her jade-pillar-like snow-white long legs and willow waist, while her black-and-red gradient hair was unforgettable at first glance.

Yet she had firmly chosen to tutor a Subspecies gene class.

At this moment, the teacher also took out her walkie-talkie and said sternly:

"Junlin, return to the city quickly."

Yet Fu Junlin's desperate scream came through the walkie-talkie:

"I... I lost my badge!"

The teacher froze, and the crowd immediately burst into a roar of laughter. No wonder.

Listen to that desperate racket; the kid was probably scared out of his mind.

Dozens of students wore expressions of disdain amidst their smiles, especially many female students who shook their heads and sighed in disappointment.

This Fu Junlin possessed an outstanding physique, striking looks, and a sharp mind, making him very popular with girls.

Yet simply because he was too cowardly, he repeatedly disappointed the girls.

In this day and age, whether it was in a safe city where strength was supreme or out in the pollution zones rampant with monsters.

The weak were destined to be unworthy of possessing anything.

Inside the Arena Zone at this moment, Fu Junlin was chased all over the place by the Minotaur, reduced to a laughingstock for the watching students.

The voice in his mind said pleasantly:

"Not bad, brother, blazing fast! But do people on your planet train in such an eccentric way, needing to find a little animal to chase you from behind just so you can run?

Is this to stimulate your potential?"

"Have you ever seen a nine-meter-tall little animal?! What do you mean by your planet, are you not—oh shit!"

Fu Junlin snapped angrily, but this distraction meant he almost got cleaved in half by an axe, forcing him to hurriedly pick up the pace.

"Ah, so you're not training."

"Of course not!"

"Then why the hell are you letting it chase you? Beat the crap out of it!"

The voice in his mind asked in confusion.

"If you're so great, you do it!!"

Fu Junlin instinctively shouted out this catchphrase; if he weren't a coward, he wouldn't have become a War Banner Master.

Who knew that as soon as those four words left his mouth, two words immediately rang out in his mind.

"Alrighty!"

Then Fu Junlin felt his body instantly slip out of his own control.

He couldn't exactly say he had become a mere spectator, but it felt as if someone was standing right behind him, forcibly controlling him.

Yet it seemed that because of those words just now, the control of his body had effectively been agreed to be handed over.

Fu Junlin stepped onto the courtyard wall and instantly darted up a seven- or eight-meter-tall tree.

This move scared the wits out of Fu Junlin, as he had never jumped that high in his life.

"Your physical fitness is way too poor; you must be a lazy student, too!"

The voice in his mind muttered, already making Fu Junlin pull something out from the Mecha Belt.

A gigantic Gatling machine gun.

Fu Junlin was about to stop it, wanting to say that he hadn't trained with this thing and didn't know how to use it.

His own body had already hoisted this massive Gatling gun and hurled it toward the Minotaur like a dart.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—bang!

Awoo!~~

Because he was standing in a tree and the height was just right, it hit the target dead center.

The Minotaur never expected the opponent to throw a gun over, and the nearly two-hundred-jin Gatling gun smashed directly into its face, causing the Minotaur to clutch its face in pain.

Fu Junlin's body then reached out and dipped back into the Mecha Belt, pulling out a large sniper rifle measuring a full one meter sixty-seven!

Making a motion as if to throw it!

Fu Junlin cursed angrily:

"What kind of freak are you transformed from? Is this how you use this thing! Have you ever seen anyone use guns to throw at people!!"