"Awake, are you?"
Chen Feng looked at the Drill Instructor's pig-like face. "I won't get to see that mug of yours anymore. I'll kind of miss it."
Such blatant provocation naturally annoyed the Drill Instructor.
Bang!
Once the solitary confinement cell door slammed shut, Chen Feng, now the lucky recipient of a seven-day stint, began working out how to break free.
First, he sorted through what he knew.
Rabbit Nurse's barrier really was invincible. Physical attacks certainly weren't getting through it.
So he needed help.
She Qingqing's petrification could be triggered by a mere gaze.
And as it happened, the holder of the Logbook had to stare at an opponent for a full minute to learn their name.
Stare at She Qingqing for a minute?
Yeah, right. Even the Landlady and the Water Ghost, both clearly stronger than She Qingqing, had turned ashen and stiff after a single glance at her.
A full minute would certainly kill Rabbit Nurse.
To get She Qingqing's help, he had to free her. That would also let him complete his Check-In plan along the way.
Breaking the barrier around the confinement room required both the Sheep-Face Key and the Rabbit Face Key.
If he wanted the Sheep-Face Key without clashing with the professor, he could only make his move in a week, when the professor left for a meeting.
And to get the Rabbit Face Key, he had to enter the Nurses' Station.
"Never mind how I'm supposed to grab the key and get out in one piece with Rabbit Nurse interfering."
"Even the Sheep-Face Key is a problem."
"Sure, I could enter the Internet Addiction Academy and get the key with the Trio, but by then, She Qingqing will have spent seven days locked up and already joined the hospital."
"I have to contact She Qingqing beforehand to make sure she lasts until the seventh day. But if I do that, I can't sneak into the Internet Addiction Academy to steal the Sheep-Face Key."
"Damn it. If only I could split myself in two... Wait! I've got it!"
Chen Feng suddenly remembered that on the seventh day, the Trio would steal the key but find they couldn't get through the main gate. Li Guolong would then venture into the sanatorium alone to cut the power lines on the high wall.
The misty playground lay between the main gate and the sanatorium, so the Sheep-Face Key had to be on Li Guolong.
"I'm a genius. Newton had nothing on me."
Chen Feng let out a long breath now that he had a solution, then checked the system:
[Save-Load Count: 1] [System Points: 9]
"Spend one point to increase my Save-Load Count."
Though he had a decent number of Points, Chen Feng bought only one extra life.
He was being that stingy to avoid finding something he wanted that cost just one Point more than he had left because he'd spent it on a Save-Load Count first.
Now, someone might ask:
Why not wait until my Save-Load Count hits zero before buying more? Wouldn't that save another Point?
That wasn't how it worked.
Chen Feng had once thought the Save-Load System meant he could do whatever he wanted. Then he'd run into a dead-end save and nearly died for good.
The close call taught him that the Save-Load System wasn't foolproof. If he got trapped at a respawn point and died twice in a row, something incredibly stupid would happen.
He'd be dead with Points left unspent.
So, to be safe, he needed to keep at least two lives at his save point.
Chen Feng checked what remained from the Check-in System.
As expected, the unfinished Fourth Mental Hospital mission was still there.
The Check-In missions for Crazy Zoo and Horror Amusement Park, which he'd heard about earlier, were there too.
"Damn, I messed up," Chen Feng cried. "I should've talked to snake girl longer. As a local... uh, local snake, she must know plenty of Check-In locations."
A new box had arrived too. Its Identifier was YX-03-HKS, and it said: "Technology and dirty tricks."
YX meant it was a system from a game.
But "technology and dirty tricks" first made Chen Feng think of prepackaged meals, additives, and artificial sweeteners. None of that seemed to have a damn thing to do with games.
Could it be a Gourmet Cuisine game system?
After seeing how good the Three Kingdoms system was, Chen Feng wasn't about to underestimate another game system.
But he was desperate to escape, so a system that boosted his combat power was still his best bet.
Chen Feng opened box KH-02-SBFS.
Come on, let's see what kind of system starts with SB.
[Ding! Congratulations, user. You have successfully activated the Cyber Ascension System.] [Users can spend Points on body modifications to achieve the great goal of mechanical ascension.] [Skin modification: Subdermal Armor increases the recipient's defense, allowing them to withstand attacks from handguns/shotguns/sniper rifles.] [Arm modification: Mantis Blades implant blades in the recipient's arms, allowing them to execute biological enemies below 10%/30%/50% health.] [Leg modification: Reinforced Tendons increase the recipient's running speed and endurance by 1/2/3 times.] [Immune modification: Reverse Inductor converts electric shocks or electromagnetic pulses received by the recipient into 50%/80%/100% energy.] [Circulatory modification: Secondary Heart revives the recipient upon death, restoring 30%/50%/100% health.]
The modifications came in three tiers: ordinary cost 5 Points, epic cost 10, and legendary cost 20.
Holy shit! That's expensive!
But they were undeniably good. Unlike Warlord's Protection from the Three Kingdoms system, which cost Points every time it activated, these Cybernetic Body modifications were permanent.
Reverse Inductor was especially tempting. With that, the professor would become a walking power bank.
But spending five Points just to deal with the professor wasn't worth it.
Since these Cybernetic Body modifications came from a cyberpunk world, surely they had...
Chen Feng suddenly remembered the powerful Cybernetic Body David had used in Cyberpunk 2077, the one that made everyone around him seem to slow down.
Do they have it? Do they?
After frantically searching the shop, Chen Feng soon found it:
[Sandevistan: An active Cybernetic Body modification. When activated, it grants the host extraordinary reflexes and physical capabilities, increasing movement speed to more than 4/8/16 times that of an ordinary person.] [Warning! Using this modification will severely damage the host's health, causing symptoms including muscle damage, neural overload, and memory loss. Ultimately, the host will lose their personality and become a Cyberpsycho.] [Tip: The stronger the body, the fewer side effects Sandevistan will cause.]
As the saying went: If I speed up, everyone else slows down.
Overuse might cause memory loss and physical damage, but making everyone around him move four times slower was practically Time Stop, wasn't it?
Chen Feng weighed it up. "My body's at Brick-Burst Level now. Using it once or twice should be fine, right?"
"All right, system. Install the ordinary Sandevistan."
[Ding! Performing Cybernetic Body modification on the host.]
"This kind of hurts. Easy does it, system."
"Aaaaaah!"
Once the modification was complete, Chen Feng played the fool again and managed to get back into the sanatorium.
That evening, he secretly slipped outside the confinement room and told She Qingqing his escape plan.
When she heard that Chen Feng intended to kill Rabbit Nurse in a week and escape the Fourth Mental Hospital, She Qingqing asked doubtfully, "Can the two of us really do that?"
"What are you afraid of?" Chen Feng said. "Why won't you take on Rabbit Nurse?"
After Chen Feng worked on her for a while, She Qingqing finally agreed to try.
Soon, the seventh day arrived.
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