After an Infinite Flow Player Retires

Chapter 9

After a long and anxious wait, rescue finally arrived.

The rubber of the tyres spun against the ground, making a sharp screech. As soon as the door opened, Liu Zhaocheng rushed over as fast as he could.

The higher level a combat personnel was, the stronger they were, and they were also smaller in number. Since M City wasn't too large, the highest-levelled combat team was only D-Level.

The captain of the team was called Lin Cheng. He was a dark-skinned middle-aged man with a tall and strong build, and he was also the only C-Level personnel on the team.

As soon as Lin Cheng got out of the car, he ran into Liu Zhaocheng who rushed over.

Liu Zhaocheng didn't even bother wiping away the sweat on his bald head and began to share information like a cannon, "You're finally here! Six of our people are trapped inside, five F-Level combat personnel and one from our logistics department. We thought it was an ordinary wandering soul at first, but……"

Lin Cheng looked in the direction Liu Zhaocheng was pointing to.

When he saw the situation there, he couldn't help but be shocked, "This…….!"

A thick layer of dark mist enveloped the teaching building completely. In the night, the outline of the building was becoming increasingly blurred and difficult to see. It was like a fearsome beast lurking in the dark night, silently opening its mouth, waiting for its prey to enter and be eaten.

Lin Cheng calmed himself down. He lowered his head and looked through the analysis reports Liu Zhaocheng handed over.

The more he read, the sweatier his back became.

The equipment did not have the ability to determine what kind of enemy they were facing and could only faithfully report out terrifying readings.

Even without needing to go any closer to inspect, Liu Cheng knew very well that those who had already entered might not be able to be saved.

He placed the reports down and took a deep breath: "I'll report to the head and see if he can deploy an A-Level team to solve it. You are responsible for sealing off the areas around the school. After that, contact the relevant departments to see if you can…."

Before Liu Cheng could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the anxious Liu Zhaocheng: "Then what about my people?"

Lin Cheng spoke with a grim expression, "….The chance of survival is too small. Even those combat personnel will need extensive fighting experience and great luck to escape alive so for an ordinary person in the logistics department……."

He sighed and shook his head, "I'm afraid that even the gods won't be able to save him."

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Inside the teaching building.

The logistics staff who couldn't be saved by the gods was standing alone in a small space. The floor had turned into a thick and dark gel-like texture and more foul-smelling fluid poured out from the cracks on the walls, ceiling and sinks, gurgling and bubbling as it did that.

Those tentacles continued to attack him from all directions.

The attacks were fierce and crazed, giving the other party no chance to breathe.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait…..Calm down first….." As he defended, Ye Jia tried to communicate normally with the Sucker, "What did you mean just now?"

A blade moved silently and smoothly through the air, accurately blocking every attack.

Ye Jia persisted, "What do you mean if it weren't for me, he wouldn't have come? Who is he?"

The repeated misses made the Sucker even more frustrated. It hissed angrily: "I want to peel your skin off little by little, tear off your flesh and then let you watch me crush your bones, dig out your internal organs, drink your blood and tear your soul into pieces!"

The viscous and foul-smelling liquid under his feet started to bubble.

"I want you to wish you were dead and struggle about in pain until you beg for me to eat you!"

Ye Jia's head hurt.

…..Communicating wasn't possible at all!

During that moment of distraction, his wrist was struck by the other party's tentacles.

The moment it made skin contact; the shape of that tentacle immediately changed.

It was a terrible looking hand with weirdly long and thin fingers covered in a wet and sticky layer of skin. It looked like the hand of a dead person who had been soaked in water for too long.

That grotesque hand gripped Ye Jia's wrist tightly and the place where it touched made a sizzling sound. In an instant, the skin in that area turned as dark as charcoal.

A hoarse and crazed laughter sounded from within a narrow toilet cubicle, "Hahahahahaha…..I didn't expect that the once famous Ace would actually be captured by me!"

The Sucker's mark was branded onto the soul.

—- As long as they are marked, the prey could no longer escape.

The Sucker would chase after them like gangrene on bones, feeding on the negative emotions of the marked prey, sucking them dry little by little.

That was also the origin of their name.

"Hahahahahaha!!!" The Sucker's voice had a hint of vicious glee, "He also wouldn't have thought that the person he had been looking for for so long would become my food and die miserably in fear and pain! I want him to……"

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The next second, the voice suddenly stopped.

"This……..This………."

The small black hand crawled out from under Ye Jia's collar.

It looked at the very familiar scene before it and sighed sympathetically, "Brother, don't let it get to you. I was also like this the first time."

Ye Jia grabbed the small black hand on his shoulder with a smile on his face and squeezed it until it let out a squeak before letting it go again.

The Sucker suddenly sensed the danger it was about to face.

It immediately changed its new tentacles into the shape of a blade and fiercely chopped off the tentacles wrapped around Ye Jia's wrist.

The gnarly hand that looked like it belonged to a dead person lost its shape in an instant, changing into a pool of black mucous.

The mucous lingering on the young man's pale and clean skin slowly disappeared, like a drop of water falling into the sea.

Ye Jia lowered his eyes. His light-coloured eyes were like the grey sky after a heavy storm.

He suddenly spoke, "Did you know? Every ghost has a different taste."

"Some are like food; some taste good and some don't taste good, and there are also some that taste a little strange like dusty old books or a wet towel." He raised his eyes to look at the dark mass that was slowly receding away from him, "And your taste……"

Ye Jia knitted his brows, "Like a rotten slug."

Small black hand: "………."

Fuck.

It suddenly recalled the situation that day —– At that time, it had tried to consume the party's life energy but what it came into contact with was a mass of dense and dark ghost energy.

Unable to escape, it could only feel itself being pulled in and watch it's ghost energy be consumed little by little by the other party.

It didn't understand what happened back then but now…..Everything seemed to make sense.

The small black hand trembled on Ye Jia's shoulder. Inside, it cried out tearfully——

Helppppppp!! This person can eat ghosts!!!!!!

The Sucker made an immediate decision and turned around and fled.

But before it could make its escape, a sharp silver blade landed accurately in front of it, stopping it in its path. The crescent shaped blade gleamed coldly, looking like it could cut through everything.

Not all players would have their own weapons.

Their weapons are often redeemed in the game using the points they had accumulated, and they also have an expiration date.

Ace was the only exception.

No one knew where this mysterious sickle that could cut through gold and jade came from. Some speculated that it was a reward for some hidden mission while others guessed that it was a bug in the game system. There were once jealous players who had organised an ambush in attempt to steal his weapon and points.

No one knew what happened that day.

They only saw on the leaderboard that Ace's points had increased tenfold overnight and those who tried to ambush him never appeared again.

But now, after encountering the mysterious sickle at such a close distance, the Sucker realised in horror —– That wasn't a weapon. Instead, it was more like…..some kind of extremely cold, extremely pure and extremely terrifying manifestation of ghost energy. It was essentially an extension of the other party's soul.

"Don't be in such a hurry."

The young man's voice sounded from behind. It was gentle and indifferent, along with a small hint of lazy, devil-may-care attitude, "Let's talk."

The Sucker panicked.

The temporary domain was about to lose its effect and the area it could control was shrinking little by little. The invisible oppressive force from the other party however forced it to reveal its true form.

It was a rotten and swollen head with eight pitch-black tentacles attached to it. At the end of each of the tentacles were hands that looked like it belonged to a corpse. The skin was pale, soggy and dark, and foul smelling mucous dripped from it, making sizzling sounds when it came in contact with the ground.

After realising that it couldn't escape, the Sucker stopped struggling. It instead twisted its head over to look at Ye Jia and let out a strange laugh: "Heh…..hehhehheh……What do you want to talk about?"

"The 'he' you mentioned just now. He's the one who almost wiped your entire lair out?" Ye Jia frowned and remembered the small black hands words and added, "In other words……your King?"

"King? Hahahahahaha King?" The Sucker laughed hoarsely like it had heard the funniest joke in the world, "What kind of King is he? Don't think that we will all submit to him after being acknowledged by the game…….He's not a King! No!"

Ye Jia continued to probe, "Then what is he?"

The ugly and vicious head in front of him suddenly twitched. It was a subconscious act of panic and fear, "……..He is a madman!"

—-It still remembered the appearance of that man when he appeared at their lair.

It was a teenaged boy with pale complexion and narrow shoulders. He looked so fragile, it seemed like he would instantly be swallowed up by the darkness looming behind him.

The youth stood there with a pair of deep and dark eyes and seemed to look a little lost.

He asked in a small voice, "……Have you seen my big brother? He's gone. I can't find him anywhere."

Overwhelming ridicules poured out from the cave. It had laughed wildly together with the other Suckers and sneered, mocked and humiliated the youth in front of them.

It was as if the youth didn't hear them at all. He continued to look around blankly, as if he was searching for something that didn't exist.

This continued until———

"Your big brother?" A hoarse voice sounded, "I've seen him."

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The youth was slightly startled. Some light appeared in his eyes and he immediately looked in the direction of the voice.

"I've tasted him….Very delicious. His blood and fear were fragrant. I had never tasted such a delicious player before." The hissing voice sounded both pleased and vicious, "—–Really want to try it again."

Suddenly, for almost no reason, the Sucker instinctively shuddered.

It didn't know why it sensed a creepy feeling from this youth. It was clearly something it would only feel when encountering a ghost that was A-Level or greater.

The next second, a trace of scarlet surged from the depths of the youth's eyes.

The red colour appeared very quickly, almost instantly swallowing the darkness.

None of the Suckers were aware of this change.

Even their mocking laughter continued.

There was the sound of bones rubbing against each other.

The youth's thin figure slowly changed. His limbs stretched and elongated, and his body grew taller.

As his body changed, a strong oppressive force spread.

The laughter slowly faded and it eventually disappeared completely.

All that was left was eerie silence.

That man stood against the light. Only the crimson in his eyes was particularly vivid in the darkness.

Like a sea of blood, it was filled with cruel bloodthirstiness.

His voice was soft and hoarse. It carried chilling obsessiveness, "Ah….That's great then….."

The Suckers all looked at this strange existence before them vigilantly and tried to understand what happened. Only the most timid Sucker fearfully backed away and unconsciously hide itself in its hidden domain.

Before the domain opened, it heard the other party's voice come from a very distance place. It was spoken lightly, as if those words weren't anything unusual, "In that case, as long as I eat you, I will be able to take back a part of my big brother. Isn't that right?"