The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 1038: Get Mad

Chapter 1038: Get Mad

The dorm keeper appeared beside Gao Yang, a hologram exclusive to Gao Yang that only he could see or hear.

She smiled and sideeyed him. “You have accumulated...”

“I’m in a hurry. Get to the point.” Gao Yang stared at Qilin, ready to meet him in a fight any time.

The dorm keeper dropped her smile and said at a quickened pace. “3799 points. A little away from comprehending Time-Space Spirit.”

Gao Yang focused. Just as he had thought.

It wasn’t his first time entering Qilin’s illusion, and he wouldn’t get any Luck points from simply being in it this time. However, level 8 Eidos was tremendously dangerous, and that gave him a high bonus.

According to the system notification, the threat had been increasing steadily. Gao Yang estimated that the moment he entered the sweet dream of victory, the danger was at least at a 14000 bonus level. From the time Qilin sought him out to the ten minutes Qilin was trapped in the Absolute Barrier, the danger level had steadily climbed to 20000.@@@@

That had yielded Gao Yang over 3000 Luck points. With the 700 and some Luck points he'd walked into the fight with, he was close to getting enough for one attempt at comprehending a Talent.

“The target is powerful. I suggest you keep your distance and keep him busy until you get enough Luck points.”

Gao Yang was surprised. “Didn’t expect you to worry about me.”

“He gave me a different skin for no reason. Even a system would get mad.” The dorm keeper eyed Qilin with a displeased expression. She really was getting more and more like a real person.

“Comprehend Time-Space Spirit as soon as I have enough Luck points.” Gao Yang ended their conversation with a joke. “That’s it for now, Miss Bo.”

The dorm keeper blinked before putting on a polite, business-like smile. “Of course, Mr. Liu. May you recover soon from the Jupiter Virus.”

The moment she disappeared, a notification sounded a warning in Gao Yang’s head.

[Warning...]

Before the system finished, Gao Yang’s keen senses had already sensed the quickened flow of the air around him—something dangerous was circling him. It was Pestilence’s poisonous wind!

Gao Yang’s heart sank. It seemed that Gregor had become a living puppet under Qilin’s Lonesome Emperor.

He teleported out of the lethal wind.

He felt a pang in his chest as he looked up at the night sky. In the end, Sir Jiang was the only one who understood him—no, perhaps not even Sir Jiang did. The pride monster merely wanted a straight-A student to turn in the answer sheet for him.

Clink. Qilin knocked on the ground with his cane.

Strange energy rippled from his feet and turned into a giant web covering his one-kilometer radius; it was level 8 Puppeteer’s puppet formation.

Within the web, Qilin could seamlessly manipulate all his puppets—an upgrade similar to the leap from a 3G network to a 4G network.

Soon, his puppets emerged, taking their positions: on street corners, atop rooftops, perching on lampposts and billboards, lurking in alleyways, and surrounding Gao Yang.

Gao Yang calmly assessed them.

The corpse puppets included Sister Ling, Nomad, Flower, First Firelord, Amon, Jing Ke, Stubborn Weasel, Yellow Lotus, Thick Earth, Zhong He, Blood Amber, and Edmond.

The living puppets included War Tiger, Liao Liao, Ke Yo, Heavenly Dog, Gregor, and Rain River.

Within the puppet formation, Qilin could switch between his puppets’ Talents and his own without delay. One second, a puppet might be using its Talent, and the next, Qilin could be using it.

Gao Yang would effectively be fighting eighteen puppets and a Qilin with all their Talents at the same time. He wouldn’t last without using an Absolute Barrier, not for even ten seconds, let alone ten minutes.

However, an Absolute Barrier would only delay his demise. Time wasn’t on Gao Yang’s side. Qilin could very well trap him here while sending living puppets to take care of Zhang Wei.

Qilin calmly stared at Gao Yang, taking off his glasses and putting them in his suit jacket’s breast pocket.

“Farewell, Gao Yang.”

By now, Gao Yang's right forearm had largely regenerated with Medicine C and Gecko. Golden energy wrapped around it like a cybernetic limb, reinforcing it.

He rushed at Qilin the next second.

Whoosh. Qilin surrounded himself with thick poisonous wind to block the approach, while most of his puppets charged at Gao Yang. The young man's blazing eyes reflected only Qilin.

Then suddenly, gray-blue energy rippled out powerfully.

Gao Yang vanished.