Edited by Jules
Action was better than words.
Since he had decided to have the Endymion contribute to his path of poverty, Xiao Lan quickly began pondering how to execute his plan.
There was still around 20 minutes before the trash organisation arrived. Time was limited, so it had to be quick.
At the same time, there was also a contract player upstairs somewhere who was massacring everyone, so they had to be careful to avoid him when they took action.
As such, they couldn’t act out too much when tearing apart the ship, nor could they leave behind traces that were too obvious. It was best to tear apart one section and then silently proceed to another.
Xiao Lan suddenly thought of something. “【Insurgent’s Bone】 was strengthened by your core; will they sense it?”
Luo shook his head. “Most of my power in the core has long been consumed, and it has also integrated with 【Dalit’s Bone】. It already has a different aura from mine.”
Xiao Lan: “Oh, right, will that contract player recognise your face?”
Luo: “No. I’ve never appeared in front of them. As for the Master, he has always just distributed tasks and has never been interested in chatting with any of the players.”
Only then did Xiao Lan relax slightly.
There wasn’t much time left. Xiao Lan called for Luo and they embarked on their big demolition project.
The two first headed for the bottom level, and brusquely tore open a part of the watertight compartment.
Xiao Lan then turned 【Insurgent’s Bone】 into a knife and cut numerous holes in discreet sections of the hull.
Luo wasn’t idle either. Although he couldn’t use his ability, he took 【This is a dagger coated in highly toxic poison】 from Xiao Lan and began tearing things apart with a flourish.
The two moved extremely quickly as they darted non-stop through the ship.
A cabin was torn apart in ten paces, and none within a thousand miles was spared.
After completing the deeds, they departed without leaving either name or poverty.
Today, the emotionless demolition machine and his loyal hunting dog were giving their all for business as usual.
Every place they passed through looked fine at first, but would silently start leaking.
Very soon, the leaks in the Endymion became more serious; the large amount of seawater flooding in even caused the ship to start tilting slightly.
At the same time, however, the rumbling above their heads drew closer.
Finally, it was on the same level as they were.
The other side.
A player was running with all his might.
He ran until his face turned pale and he was panting heavily; it was obvious that he was already expending all his strength.
He was a long-range attack player, and he was already very fast. At this time, he even activated all his skills and items which could boost his speed.
As he ran, he was also constantly using his skills to try and obstruct the guy behind him, and tossing out items as if they cost nothing.
But the footsteps behind him continued to grow closer, like the call of a grim reaper.
The player shouted in despair, “I already said I don’t know ah!!! I’ve never seen that thing in your hands before!!!”
“It doesn’t matter anymore. I’m in a bad mood, and you’re unlucky. That’s all.” The voice behind him was extremely calm, as if the man was just asking, “Boss, can you pass me a handful of scallions?”
The player couldn’t help getting angry. “You madman!! Psycho! Murderer —”
Before he could finish speaking, the other had already attacked.
The baseball bat struck the back of his head at a merciless speed. The attacker seemed to have used a lot of strength, as the entire skull was shattered. Red and white liquid instantly splattered.
The player’s body was still moving, and it took a few steps forward before it dropped to the ground.
The corpse was still twitching, but the life was already gone.
The man in braids and beach shorts walked over and tore off a piece of the corpse’s clothes to wipe his bloodstained baseball bat.
After cleaning the baseball bat, the man casually tossed aside the dirty rag.
He surveyed his surroundings and dismissed the corpse. “I’ve gone through so many and none of them are the one; how many pests are there in this instance? Looks like I won’t be completing this mission. Ai… my holiday… How troublesome…”
He scratched his head impatiently, then slammed the baseball bat solidly against the ship with a tremendous sound.
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In the wake of his attack, seawater poured into the ship.
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Braids smiled. “Caught two more pests…”
The instant Xiao Lan stepped around the corner, he sensed a hair-raising murderous aura.
At the same time, a figure appeared at the far end of the corridor. They were extremely far apart and he couldn’t see the other person clearly, but it was instantly clear from that unconcealed killing intent that the other party didn’t have any goodwill.
As someone who would treat a player with such killing intent, the other’s identity was as clear as day —
It was the contract player who had entered the game!
Without hesitation, Xiao Lan and Luo tacitly broke into a run.
Although he had reached the advanced level, Xiao Lan wouldn’t blindly assume he could go up against a contract player.
That was to say nothing of how the other had been dispatched by the Master to find Luo. He couldn’t let Luo be discovered; it was best not to even get close.
The two figures swiftly fled.
However, the man in braids reacted quickly and pursued them closely.
He seemed to be like Xiao Lan, a player with a reinforced physique, but he was far quicker than Xiao Lan. He ran as quick as lightning, and rapidly closed the distance between them.
If this continued, the man would catch up to Xiao Lan in a few more seconds.
The chilling murderous intent attacked them like a knife. It felt like being immersed in icy water, and Xiao Lan’s muscles couldn’t help twitching.
The man’s voice rang out behind them. “Hey, why are you running?”
Luo’s brows were slightly creased. “Sir, I’ll lead him away.”
Xiao Lan firmly refused. “Speed up, let’s continue.”
With no time to feel heartache over his poverty value, he decisively activated his skill.
【Name: Poverty is unable to restrict my imagination】
【Ability: 16-fold acceleration】
Xiao Lan’s speed increased sharply and the gap suddenly widened tremendously.
Luo also followed closely behind him, and they once again pulled away from their pursuer.
“Tsk.” The man in braids tutted in disdain.
He also sped up as he chased the figures in front of him.
But this time, he was unable to close the distance as quickly, and couldn’t catch up in a short period of time.
Xiao Lan also noticed this.
Since they were already being pursued, just concealing their whereabouts was useless.
As he ran, he constantly attacked the hull, both damaging the ship and creating obstacles for the guy behind them.
More and more holes appeared in the ship and a great deal of seawater gushed in.
Numerous junk and flotsam poured in with the seawater. While they did affect the man in braids, it wasn’t enough to allow Xiao Lan to fully escape him.
The man in braids swung his baseball bat and broke apart the debris in front of him.
He was really a little pissed off at these two pests, and picked up his pace with all his might as he chased Xiao Lan and Luo tenaciously.
The two sides were still engaged in a chase in the gradually sinking Endymion.
Following Xiao Lan’s actions, the entire ship constantly shuddered and sank.
The distance between them was sometimes small, sometimes large. Sometimes, the distance grew due to the obstacles created by Luo and Xiao Lan, and sometimes, the man in braids caught up and drew closer. They were at a stalemate and neither party could fully control the situation.
Up until they reached a dead end.
No matter how large the Endymion was, there was still a limit to it. This place was already very close to the bow of the ship, and Xiao Lan saw that the corridor had come to an end.
Soon they would have nowhere to run.
He heard the man behind him whistle in joy, as if celebrating his prey leading the way to their own doom.
Xiao Lan’s gaze turned to the side.
These were probably the steel plates of the ship, and would be a little thicker compared with other parts, but it wouldn’t exceed ten centimeters.
He suddenly leaped, the blade in his hand forcefully stabbing at that spot.
The blade which had absorbed the Insurgent’s core, combined with Xiao Lan’s strength, which was far greater than what an ordinary player had, pierced the boat deeply.
However, Xiao Lan’s movements didn’t stop there.
With the aid of the 16-fold acceleration from his skill, he ran across the vertical surface of the ship, leaving behind a long gash.
Luo instantly understood Xiao Lan’s intentions. He stabbed his own knife into the ship at the same time and rushed forward ahead, and another long and narrow cut appeared as well.
As the two sprinted forward, the two lines of devastation also grew, and seawater instantly flooded the corridor.
Xiao Lan reached the end of the corridor. He ruthlessly slashed with all his might at where the two lines intersected, then forcibly tore open this long cut with his extreme strength.
Instantly, seawater poured in like a torrent, as if he had opened the gates of hell, and it flooded the ship.
The seawater pouring in separated Xiao Lan and Luo from the man in braids who was close behind them.
He only had time to let out, “Fuck —”
Right after that, caught off guard, he was instantly shoved to the other end of the ship by the oncoming seawater.
It was like dumping a tank on a camel that was already on the verge of collapse.
The damage-ridden Endymion finally couldn’t withstand the water gushing in, and the entire bow of the ship tilted downward as it abruptly started to sink at an even more rapid rate.
This cruise ship named after a beautiful youth in eternal slumber finally stepped on the same path of deep sleep.
The sinking of the Endymion created a huge whirlpool, and a strong suction force emerged, as if wanting to drag in everyone to sink into oblivion as well.
There was countless rubble and clutter in the water, muddying the seawater and obscuring the line of sight so that visibility was at its lowest.
But this also made it easier for Xiao Lan and Luo to hide their tracks.
Xiao Lan struggled with all his might in the seawater as he resisted this terrifying suction with his advanced player constitution and the acceleration from his skill.
Because Xiao Lan’s range of vision was affected, it was Luo who guided him away from the man in braids.
Finally, Xiao Lan resurfaced and broke away from the force of the whirlpool. He temporarily shut off his skill.
The next moment, he heard a delightful system notification.
“Destroyed an important setting (Degree of participation: 10%). All of the Endymion’s bosses express enormous interest in you, and hope you die as soon as possible.”
“Poverty value increased by 2.9 billion. Xiao Lan stands at the peak of poverty.”
As expected of a luxury cruise ship. The construction cost was truly extravagant ah; even though it was just 10%, it already yielded such a terrifying amount.
Sure enough, the braver one was, the greater the production of poverty value.
The feeling of climbing to the peak of poverty was simply addictive. As for the bosses’ attention, who cared.
Following that were more system notifications.
“Poverty value exceeded 1 billion, the skill 【Poverty is unable to restrict my imagination】 upgraded to LV. 4.”
“Poverty value exceeded 3 billion, the skill 【Poverty is unable to restrict my imagination】 upgraded to LV. 5.”
【Name: Poverty is unable to restrict my imagination (Bound)】
【Ability: 1. Imagine an ability, and it will be bestowed upon you. The poorer you are, the greater the ability. Every minute it is in use, 10 million poverty value is consumed. The poverty consumption can be multiplied (2/4/8) to upgrade the skill’s effect (lv. 5).
- The player’s physical qualities are boosted according to the degree of poverty. When attacking a target, it is possible to obtain items randomly (Passive)】
【Explanation: Even if I’m broke, I can still have a dream ah! This is a broke person’s ultimate obstinacy】
The man standing at the pinnacle of poverty calmed down slightly.
Looking at the skill description, he could choose to increase the consumption of his skill to increase its effects.
The previous life or death situation had burnt 130 million poverty value. Adding his earnings from sinking the ship, his current poverty value barely passed 3 billion.
If he activated the highest multiplication of 8, he would consume 80 million poverty value per minute.
Altogether, he could use his skill —
For roughly 37 minutes.
Why did it feel like the more poverty value he had, the quicker he expended it?
Without waiting for Xiao Lan to carefully ponder it, a new system notification appeared.
“Detected, player Xiao Lan’s overall combat strength exceeds that of an advanced player by 1000% and meets the conditions to be upgraded to a contract player.”
“Accept contract upgrade training? 【Yes/No】(Note: Player can choose to participate in training at a later date).”
Xiao Lan decisively chose ‘No’. He even wanted to tick ‘Don’t remind me again’, but unfortunately, this option wasn’t provided.
Unexpectedly, this much poverty value directly pushed his combat strength up so much it even reached the level of a contract player.
He now wanted to go find that contract player with braids and fight him; unfortunately, a dense fog hovered on the surface of the ocean and Xiao Lan couldn’t see him. Moreover, he didn’t dare take any risks when it came to Luo.
It was still better to leave the instance sooner so as to avoid any accidents.
Right at that time, a cacophonous motor rang out from within the fog.
The motor sounded broken and dispirited. It was obvious that it wasn’t some high-quality thing.
The sound of the motor was slowly approaching Xiao Lan’s location.
Xiao Lan, however, smiled.
To be able to perceive the air of poverty just from the sound – this was definitely that dear and familiar trash organisation.
Sure enough, a ratty old boat emerged from the fog.
Most of the boat was riddled with holes and gashes. The paint was flaking in many areas, and rust and dirt covered the boat all over.
There was even an extremely erudite ad printed on it: “Please believe in XX Andrology Hospital for infertility treatment, trustworthy specialists in andrology.”
The font was bright and fat. Paired with the bright yellow background, it drew the eye.
Xiao Lan couldn’t stop his lips from twitching. Sure enough, it was a boat that was easily recognisable.
To even display an advertisement in international waters to save on money – perhaps no other organisation could achieve such professional competence.
“Aiya, SB001, it sure was hard to pinpoint your location. Thank goodness there was a tracker, otherwise I would have run out of fuel in a bit.” A tanned Asian man with yellow hair waved at Xiao Lan from the window.
The voice was extremely familiar; this was the unreliable guy whom Xiao Lan had been in contact with all this time.
Xiao Lan and Luo climbed into the boat, and the dilapidated boat creaked from the weight.
This boat likely couldn’t withstand a single punch from Xiao Lan in his current state. The trashy organisation truly looked as if it was on the verge of collapsing from poverty.
Blondie saw an extra person and curiously asked, “This is?”
Xiao Lan had long thought of a countermeasure. “This is the investor I recruited for the organisation. He’s especially good at earning money.”
Blondie instantly revealed a huge smile. “Oh oh oh, hello hello hello. Welcome, our organisation loves financial backers like you… Ah no, I meant talent! Talent!!!”
Look at his enthusiastic appearance; he simply had no intention of digging further into Luo’s identity.
It was likely that even if Xiao Lan took the initiative to say not to take Luo with them, this person would stop him with all his might.
The blonde started the boat with a smiling face. “SB001, I’ll deduct the money from your bank account.”
“Mn,” Xiao Lan said.
“Triggered a special condition, poverty value increased by 157.2815 thousand.”
Xiao Lan: “…”
As expected of a stingy and broke illegitimate organisation. This was the first time Xiao Lan had seen so many decimal points in the poverty value.
The small worn-out boat slowly steered off into the fog.
The surrounding noise gradually faded and darkness slowly descended.
“Ding dong —”
“Congratulations to player Xiao Lan for clearing the game ‘The Endymion’.”
“Item reward gained from the game clearance: 【Koukou】.”
【Name: Koukou】
【Ability: Silences the target for a duration of 3 minutes (Cooldown time of 24 hours)】
【Description: How to turn everything indescribable】
The author has something to say:
I suddenly realised that the contract player could be called ‘Gourd Splitting Beach Shorts’ or ‘Gourd Splitting Braids’.
Also… I’m so unwilling to part with that broke illegitimate organisation ah, I was so happy writing about them.
Petition to rename Endymion to Titanic II
+1!!!
+2
+3
+4!!!
And some time after that broke organisation got Luo, they became one of the hugest and richest organizations. That still cared a lot about money. The end
Bravo what a good end 👏
clap, clap, clap this organisation deserved it so much 😭🤧
Titanic 2.0
Damn… from Kingsman to Titanic… this arc is sure interesting. 😂😂😂
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
Thank you for the chapter ❤️
This arc was so great 😂😂😂
Thanks for the chapter