Chapter 102: Those I Wish to Kill Shall Surely Die

A crystal dropped from He Chong’s corpse.

Memento Crystal
Grade: B
Effect: Meditation plus 20%
One of the components of the Underworld God Set

Chen Mo’s eyes lit up. No wonder a mere beginner-tier general could unleash such a terrifying Ninefold Chainblade. It was because he had this divine item, which helped him focus his spiritual power. That drove his concentration to the limit and allowed him to unleash that ultimate strike.

A fine thing. From this moment on, it was mine.

"He's killed He Chong!" the students of the First Academy of the Capital roared in grief and fury, all of them drawing their weapons and preparing for battle.

But Luo Yang made a decisive call. "Retreat!"

"Captain? What are you saying? Are you out of your mind? Our classmate has been killed, and you're telling us to run?"

Luo Yang shouted, "Did you not see the loot drop? This man is terrifying! Even in slaughter mode, he doesn't turn red. That means he must have some special method to conceal his red name. Someone like that is absolutely beyond us. If you still acknowledge me as your captain, then run! I'll hold him off for a bit!"

"Captain! What do you take us for? It's only a life! It's only an item! Today, even if every piece of gear I have explodes out of me, I will not back down one step!"

"So will I!"

"The First Academy of the Capital fears nothing! We are the strongest middle school in the country!"

"Yes! We are the strongest evolution school in the nation!"

Seeing the fearless solidarity of the First Academy of the Capital, Jiang Ming burned with shame. He remembered how, just moments ago, in order to save his own life, he had actually used two girls as shields. He truly was nothing.

Jiang Ming stepped forward from the rear, grinding his teeth. "I'll fight with you too! Side by side!"

"Hahaha! Good! You truly are the elite of the First Academy of the Capital! I am proud to be your teammate. Good! Then let us fight shoulder to shoulder, to the death!"

Pfft!

Before Luo Yang could finish, Chen Mo’s body turned into a shadow. His vampiric claw pierced straight through Luo Yang’s heart.

Too fast. So fast that no one’s eyes could even follow it.

With Wind Blessing activated, and with the speed bonus of the vampire set, Chen Mo could reach three hundred meters per second, nearly the speed of sound.

And now, under slaughter mode, his speed had already surpassed it.

Supersonic speed. What was that like? It meant you could not even see the other side’s movements.

"Captain!" the remaining six members of the First Academy of the Capital had no time even for anger.

Eightfold Blood Shadow!

Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh!

Under slaughter mode, Chen Mo’s attack speed had reached the limit. Unleashing Eightfold Blood Shadow was like eighty steel wires of blood striking through the six teammates at once.

The six elite students of the First Academy of the Capital had not even managed to raise a hand before the battle was already over.

Ding, ding, ding...

All kinds of equipment spilled across the ground. Too bad they were all trash. Chen Mo swept his blood claws through them and collected everything into his storage space.

The fighting spirit and courage that had just ignited in Jiang Ming vanished in an instant.

This, this was too fast. So fast that Jiang Ming hadn’t even had time to blink before those eight living people had already become a heap of flesh scattered on the ground.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Jiang Ming, a top student from Fudan, a genius admired by all, an unruly captain—actually wet his pants, and a fresh stream of urine gushed out.

An unprecedented terror surged straight into his heart.

Fear plus 10
Fear plus 100
Fear plus 500

It was back. That fear was back again.

Chen Mo remembered that when he killed Liu Kunlong, those fear values had appeared as well, and now they had appeared again. But he still had never figured out what use collecting this fear had. Most likely, his intelligence level was not high enough.

"Kill me! Just kill me already!! I can't take it! I really can't take this fear anymore!" Jiang Ming clutched his head, his emotions already on the verge of collapse.

Chen Mo advanced step by step, slowly closing in on Jiang Ming, and said flatly, "Do you know why I kept you until the end?"

Jiang Ming broke down. "I don't know! I don't want to know! Kill me! I was wrong! I never should have ambushed you! I never should have targeted you!! Kill me!"

"I won't kill you that easily. I'm not interested in your life. I'm interested in your shadow manipulation. Why don't you teach it to me, and I'll spare your life?"

Jiang Ming trembled all over. "O-okay, I, I'll tell you. I'll tell you everything! Come a little closer!"

Chen Mo leaned in and said calmly, "Speak."

"I'll speak your mother! Die!"

Suddenly, a skeleton dagger appeared in Jiang Ming’s hand, thrusting straight toward Chen Mo’s back.

At such close range, an ambush was easy to land.

Clang!

A crisp sound rang out.

Chen Mo’s back activated Diamond Body and turned diamond-hard.

Jiang Ming’s skeleton dagger was also a D-rank item, yet it failed to leave even a scratch.

"No!" With his ambush failing, Jiang Ming seemed to have already sensed his fate and let out a desperate howl.

Pfft—

With no mercy at all, the blood claw severed Jiang Ming’s neck. Chen Mo gave him the least painful death possible, as a final kindness.

Killing a player: points plus 20
This player had 167 points: points plus 334

Ding, ding, ding...

Three beams of light. Three items exploded from Jiang Ming’s corpse.

What the hell? What kind of luck was this? Three items!

One had to know that killers had only a certain chance of dropping gear. Even a single item was rare. Three in a row was like winning twenty million in the lottery.

Teleported back to the instance hall, Jiang Ming learned that he had dropped three items and fainted on the spot.

Chen Mo was like a little mushroom-gathering girl—no, that was wrong, a little mushroom gathering girls. One, two, three! He happily picked up all the gear.

Skeleton Battle Armor, Skeleton Staff—two D-rank items. Not bad at all!

And the last one, Shadow Necklace! B-rank gear! Shadow control count doubled, control duration doubled, control power doubled!

Swoosh, swoosh!

Chen Mo licked his lips. A good thing. This was the truly good thing he wanted!

Though Chen Mo had not obtained Jiang Ming’s spiritual core, nor the skill for shadow control, his intelligent brain’s data analysis had already collected the data for shadow control. Next, as long as Chen Mo studied it repeatedly and copied the skill, he might be able to master shadow control. With this Shadow Necklace in hand as well, it would surely be twice the result with half the effort.

Delicious. A huge haul.

Chen Mo stored the three items away in his storage space.

He suddenly felt that the name of this instance should not be Survive at the End of the World. It should be Treasure Hunt at the End of the World.

There were treasures everywhere. It was simply wonderful.

The well-fed does not understand the hunger of the starving.

At this very moment, in the instance, who knew how many players were still fighting bloody battles to hold back the zombies. They were not fighting for treasures; they were merely fighting to live.

Yes, for some people, merely living was already the greatest luxury.