98: Chapter 78: What Are You Really Afraid Of?

_3 98: Chapter 78: What Are You Really Afraid Of?

_3 Shang Xiulin’s expression was calm, his thoughts inscrutable.

Chen Bing’s face was ashen.

She knew things had turned troublesome.

Shen Qingping was not even bothering to conceal his intentions anymore…what exactly did he want to do?

Phoenix’s face was like cold frost, revealing little in the way of emotional changes.

Yet, her fists were clenched so tightly that her nails were almost piercing into the flesh, drawing blood.

Virtual combat was designed to demonstrate a player’s true skill level, as well as to provide concrete criteria for assessment and elimination.

Therefore, every fight simulated pain at one hundred percent fidelity.

A blade wound in the virtual world felt like an actual blade wound in the real world.

A broken arm in the virtual world felt identical to a broken arm in the real world.

Phoenix knew that Tang Fei was in great pain right now.

The kind of pain that sears into the marrow.

“Big Brother…” Little Fatty was frantic.

He attempted to rise from the stretcher, only to be restrained by the medical staff standing by.

“Don’t move…you can’t get out of bed yet…”

“The match is still ongoing, you getting up won’t help…”

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Little Fatty’s body was already weak; he had no strength left to struggle.

“Big Brother…” Little Fatty screamed, “Stand up…”

He knew his big brother feared injury, feared pain, feared failure, and even more, feared being looked down upon.

He had said that in private you may collapse, but in public you must stand.

Stand taller, stand straighter than them; only then will they fear you, respect you.

“Big Brother, stand up!”

He knew Tang Fei couldn’t hear him, but he still yelled with all his might.

He had said he would stay to cheer for his big brother.

On New Star, the two brothers relied solely on each other for survival.

If he was fighting all-out up front, how could he hide silently in the back?

He forced his body upright, shouting with his hoarse and powerless voice, over and over again: Big Brother, stand up.

“Big Brother, stand up!”

“Big Brother, stand up!”

“Big Brother, stand up!”

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He wished each sword strike were upon himself; he wished his own arm were the one severed.

He didn’t want Big Brother to suffer.

“Ptui!”

Tang Fei spat out another mouthful of blood.

He tried to mobilize the Yin Yang Qi within his body to heal his displaced organs but found that it was not responding to his command; too many injuries required its healing powers.

“I’m going to die!” Tang Fei thought as he collapsed to the ground.

“I can’t die!” Tang Fei told himself.

They bullied him so; he must take his revenge.

Yes, without interest or dignity in mind.

Simply to vent the hatred in his heart.

To get revenge!

They shouldn’t have bullied him like this!

They shouldn’t have!

Tang Fei, holding the sword in one hand, stabbed it into the ground and slowly used it to prop himself up.

Tang Fei’s face and body were covered in blood, his hair disheveled, looking like a fierce ghost.

He raised his head, gazing at Shen Qingping floating in the air.

“You shouldn’t have!”

He leaped into the air, his right hand wielding the blade and viciously striking towards Shen Qingping.

“Idiot!”

Shen Qingping did not raise his sword to block but instead slashed at Tang Fei’s head.

Yes, he was tired of this game; it was time to end it.

Starlight Slash!

The sword, seemingly slow but beating the earlier strike, targeted Tang Fei’s head.

Tang Fei, heedless of everything, kept his previous slashing motion.

Shen Qingping was shocked; this was a fight to mutual destruction.

Even if he could behead Tang Fei first, his sword could still cleave open his own face…

Shen Qingping didn’t want to perish together with Tang Fei.

He had already paid so much; how could he possibly die alongside him?

He had to win.

He must win.

In a hurried change of moves, that slash aimed at Tang Fei’s head was now parried upward.

Clang!

Their swords collided, and Shen Qingping was sent crashing to the ground.

He could not understand how Tang Fei, with only one arm, could still possess such fearsome combat prowess, such tremendous strength?

What Shen Qingping didn’t realize was that Tang Fei had entered a berserk state.

He was fighting by burning through his life, by consuming every last bit of Yin Yang Qi in his body.

It was a battle with death as the only outcome!

Tang Fei’s body followed through, once more raising the great sword and chopping down towards Shen Qingping’s head.

He targeted only Shen Qingping’s head, because only in doing so could he ensure a complete kill.

He had just one chance.

One opportunity to strike.

With every slash, he aimed to exchange life for life.

Shen Qingping had no choice but to raise his sword in defense, again and again.

Clang!

Clang!

Clang!

Sword after sword was aimed at the vital spots Shen Qingping had to guard.

Intimidated by Tang Fei’s momentum, Shen Qingping, who had all the advantages, was forced to retreat repeatedly.

Sword after sword…

as if returning each and every strike Shen Qingping had dealt him earlier.

“What are you afraid of?” Tang Fei asked aloud.

Bleeding from the mouth, covered in wounds, his voice and tone, however, exuded disdain and scorn.

As if he was the victor.

“What are you afraid of?” Tang Fei asked again.

With every strike, Tang Fei asked:

“What are you afraid of?”

“Damn commoner,” Shen Qingping was enraged by Tang Fei.

He stopped dodging, stopped blocking.

Instead, he lunged forward, thrusting his sword towards Tang Fei’s heart.

He wanted Tang Fei dead.

Snikt!

The sword pierced through Tang Fei’s heart.

Tang Fei’s body began to fade, about to disappear.

Snikt!

Tang Fei also struck Shen Qingping’s neck with his blade.

A head rolled to the ground.

“What exactly are you afraid of?”

Tang Fei looked down at the head on the ground, letting out a roar of grief and indignation.

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