Thriller Paradise
chapter-598

"Phew… I say….” Feng Bujue was running on the plain of desktop was showing fatigue. In between the adjustment of breaths, he asked,

“How far are we from the destination?”

D2- Red and D2- Green who were leading the way though looked completely at ease. Red turned back to answer.

“based on our current speed… About 10 minutes.”

"Hmm… that was what you said 5 minutes ago…” Feng Bujue pointed out.

"Yes… because you have run slower and slower.” Red said matter-of-factly. She was not wrong. Compared when they just departed, Feng Bujue’s speed had greatly lowered because his body was reacting to fatigue like increase of pressure on the heart, soreness in his muscle, light-headedness and so on. They would materialize in the ‘surface world’ too but they would show up so fast and so clearly. This phenomenon naturally was related to system limitation.

Under 100 percent system limitation, the pain received by players (including other discomforts) would have a maximum limit. When one broke through that limit, the system would not simulate it. So if the player experienced pain beyond the system limitation, that had to be from psychological effect. Take for example eating shit… the disgust simulated by the system would not be strong enough to kill you but your brain would tell you through experience and common sense that—one’d rather die than eat shit.

But the situation changed when one arrived at the inner world… here the pain received by the player would be two-thirds the intensity received in reality. Just imagine, it… In real world, just headache alone, there were various kinds, the drilling kind, the pulsing kind, the burning kind, the numbing kind; any kind of them, as long as they were intense enough, they would make the person lose their mobility or even faint. Other than that, disgust, fatigue, dullness, extreme heat and cold could bring forth horrible sense of discomfiture…

The 30 percent of system limitation could simulate most of these uncomfortable feelings and through the nervous connectivity made the players believe that their bodies were experiencing these sensation… Therefore Feng Bujue who could run for 1 hour without needing to take a breath in the surface world was as tired as a dog after a half an hour run in the inner world. Even if his Stamina Point had not reached the bottom, the feeling of fatigue would catch up with him.

"Hah… By the way…” Feng Bujue added,

“Can you not use time but give me a more accurate distance?”

"I can’t.” Red replied with impatience.

“The size of the desktop change constantly, the size and structure is always shifting; the whole desktop is made from the most basic 8 digit data and it keeps flowing so one can’t identify its size and density.”

"Wait a minute.” Feng Bujue asked,

“if that’s the case… how do you know where we’re going?”

"Using the radar of course.” Red said while she turned back as she ran. She used her right index finger to pull down the bottom of her right eyelid. At first glance, you would think she was making faces but when Feng Bujue looked closer, he saw what she meant.

"Hmm? That is…” Brother Jue said with interest.

“…is that the identification program unique to you Anomalies?” He saw an extremely small set of code in the shape of the ball and thus asked in a test.

"Indeed, when you reach level 2 and break through the system break, we can enter the inner world and be formatted through this process to gain a status that is more suitable and adaptable to the inner world.” Red answered easily.

"Oh… I get it now.” Feng Bujue nodded.

"You understand that?” Ruoyu who had been following silently suddenly asked. Speaking of which… Miss Li was quite impressive. Similar to the two Anomalies, she did not show any sign of fatigue so far.

"Yes.” Feng Bujue explained.

“it actually quite easy to understand…” he knew Ruoyu would ask that because she wanted an explanation so he directly added,

“When the Anomalies achieve the ‘formatting’ after reaching level 2, it will be similar to upgrade a computer from 32 bit to 64 bit. After that, the Anomalies’ real potential will be invoked and their power will greatly increase. That way at least when they are inside the Inner world, they will not be limited by the ‘scenario’ or ‘system limitation’ and they can utilize their full…”

Bang—

A loud crash came from behind them and interrupted Brother Jue. Hearing that, Feng Bujue already could guess inside his heart the reason behind the loud explosion…

Therefore, he immediately stopped. He turned around as he adjusted his breathing. Ruoyu, D2-Red and Green all stopped moving and turned back to look. And they saw several hundred metres away… a giant stream of data blow rushed into the sky. A whirlpool of savage energy was coming from the centre of the bottom of the beam and twisting the air around it.

"So he has caught up after all…” Feng Bujue mumbled under his breath. The black data flowed in his eyes and the expression on his face was surprisingly serious.

“Hmm… Even though I’ve known he would get stronger but to think he would get this strong… I really do not know what to say…”

"V1- War God?” Ruoyu took two steps forward to come to Brother Jue’s side and asked in an inquisitive tone.

"Ah…” Feng Bujue answered.

“To be more precise… it’s V1- War God at his prime.”

"Then he must be hard to deal with.” When Ruoyu asked that question, she was as still as water.

"I’ll put it this way…” Feng Bujue sighed.

“Our journey to the inner world might need to end here. Next time… we better come back when we’re at max level.” When he said that, Ruoyu understood there was no reason to go further. Brother Jue’s subtext was—we better wait until we’re level 50 before we even pick up the notion of ‘dealing’ with him.

"What’s the problem?” D2- Red soon scanned V1- War God and this was the first time she looked anxiously before Brother Jue. She asked,

“That Anomaly is here for you?”

"Yes, and he is obviously hostile towards us.” Feng Bujue’s eyes fixed on the light beam not far away and said without turning his head around.

“So… I strongly suggest you and Green leave this place, this has nothing to do with you.” But to his surprise, Red said with clear hesitation,

“In your human world, isn’t it a bad thing to ‘leave your friend behind when you are faced with danger?'”

"Ha ha…” Feng Bujue laughed. He turned to address the girl.

“Don’t worry, we aren’t in any danger, at most we’ll be kicked out of the inner world, we will return eventually.” He paused.

“But for you and Green, if you stay beside us, it’ll be very dangerous.”

"Yes, you girls have to go now.” Ruoyu also turned back to add.

"Feng! Bu! Jue!” Just as they spoke, a roar tore through the sky.

V1- War God’s body carried with it a whirlpool of light steam, as he tore through the air as he surged at his target.

"There’s no need to worry about the others!” V1- War God growled.

“I will not attack my kin… The only people I will kill are you humans… I need to kill… you!”

When the ‘you’ left his mouth, V1- War God already reached the spot before Brother Jue. The punch that could break heaven came forth!

Even without zero time simulation, Feng Bujue knew very well… he could not have avoided or survived this hit.

Death and defeat were foretold. However, his journey did not end then. Perhaps what he said earlier was not wrong– the ‘choice’ formed from endless codes, and the ‘destiny’ weaved through endless choices.

In this world made from data, any data entity that had sentience, at any moment, could form any thought that could move the ‘destiny’ of the entire world. For example now… V1- War God did not go for a strange punch but leaped up before Brother Jue and went for a downwards hook. The reason he made this choice was because he wanted to prevent the blast from the punch to hurt Red and Green behind Brother Jue. And his choice slowed his attack for that one moment.

And it was this moment that helped Feng Bujue who would have been certainly dead to survive…