Chapter 206 - Li Ling Is Worried And Angry.

"The killing what now?!" Zhihao reacted almost instantly. 

Li Ling gasped and coughed as he continued to run and responded, "The killing turtle. A-Zhi, I'm sure you're smart enough to know what it is from its name alone." 

Zhihao, "And its name doesn't really scream good news to me!" 

"Nor does its face!" Li Ling added as he continued to run as fast as he could, following after Zhihao who was running ahead of him. 

"I don't get it. I thought there wasn't supposed to be anything dangerous in this level." 

"There wasn't," Li Ling sighed as he responded, "This killing turtle is from another level." 

"Eh?!" Zhihao was thoroughly shocked and confused as he heard the man. 

From the brief description of the level given by Alvi at the beginning, it was clear that the difficulty in this level lay within finding the stone that was hidden. They weren't supposed to meet any seriously dangerous creatures here and Li Ling had already confirmed that. 

This killing turtle didn't belong to this level and that could only mean one thing. Even for Zhihao who had only ever played a game and never dived into the creation process of it, even though his knowledge on the topic was basically nonexistent, he was still sure that this meant trouble. There was something wrong with the game. This was probably a bug. Quite a serious bug that needed to be reported and fixed immediately. 

"Gege, let's jump levels?" 

"Forced transmigrate?" Li Ling questioned and Zhihao nodded in turn. 

"It's either that or we fight this creature," Zhihao added.

Li Ling scoffed as he almost found the suggestion funny, "A-Zhi, do you think we can fight this creature? This creature is the most dangerous creature existing inside T.I.A.D. right now. It's supposed to be in an S-ranked level." 

Zhihao's eyes widened as he heard this new information that had shocked him to the core once again. 

Li Ling gulped as he glanced back for just a second before continuing, "No player had ever beaten this creature. Not even the gamemaster." 

Zhihao was shocked and a bit intimidated but he would be lying if he said that he wasn't a little excited as he heard Li Ling. 

Zhihao hated the fact that he actually kinda liked it. If this creature was so strong and unbeatable, as T.I.A.D.'s top player, Zhihao ought to correct that record and be the first one to do the impossible. 

"Gege..." Zhihao muttered as he suddenly came up with a suicidal plan, "Do you know a good place to hide in this level?" 

Li Ling had no time to question why Zhihao was asking such a thing so he simply nodded and responded, "I do. Let's go there and hide first. We'll try to force transmigrate if things get too out of hand." 

"Good," Zhihao suddenly slowed down and Li Ling seemed to have instantly noticed it as he turned around, looking at Zhihao in disbelief. 

"A-Zhi, what are you trying to do?" 

Zhihao gulped as he equipped his sword Shuang before looking back at Li Ling with a smile, "Gege, go and hide. Report this bug first. I'll try to stall the creature. If it follows us to the hideout, we will already be doomed." 

"A-Zhi, no..." Li Ling muttered as he also came to a stop and looked at the man with a stunned and speechless expression. 

Zhihao sighed as he shook his head and didn't bother explaining as he turned around and started running towards the killing turtle. 

"Mastermo!!" Li Ling cried out as he stood in his spot for a moment, the mere shock of what was happening paralyzed him. 

"Gege, run!" Zhihao didn't turn around again but he still instructed Li Ling to run away. 

The killing turtle looked to be more than happy as it saw Zhihao running towards it with a sword. 

Zhihao smirked as his heart raced and the sheer adrenaline rush caused him not to fear the creature that was said to be the strongest in the whole game. 

This was like fighting against a final boss in a game and there would only be one person in the whole world who would look this happy while fighting against a final boss and that person would be none other than Mastermo. 

He jumped up using some boosters and got higher than the creature before striking down with his sword at the creature's neck. 

Zhihao didn't look to be joking around this time. He was seriously trying to take this creature down and that was why he aimed at its neck directly because he knew that a creature without a head was as good as dead. 

The skin of the killing turtle was tough, however, Zhihao bought a lot of boosters for his weapons using the T-points that he had earned in the previous G-ranked level. With his Shuang using as many boosters as possible, the rare sword that was already powerful suddenly became undefeatable and with a clean strike, the head of the creature fell down and its body stopped moving any further. 

Zhihao landed on top of its shell as he glanced down at the head and a smirk slowly crept upon his face. He couldn't believe that he had killed the creature so easily. The creature that was said to be undefeated in the game was easily taken down by a single strike? It certainly sounded just as ridiculous as it looked. 

"Gege, I guess you were worrying about nothing," Zhihao commented as he suddenly felt pride fill up his lungs. 

"You idiot! Get down!" Li Ling didn't look to be shocked or relieved as he cried out and scolded Zhihao. The worried expression on his face just got much more intense as he cautiously kept his eye glaring at the creature.

Zhihao chuckled as he raised his sword as if trying to proclaim his victory, "Gege, It's already dead. Do you think it'll rise and become a zombie or something? That only happens in fantasy novels."

"A-Zhi, freaking get down! Don't depend on your luck like that! Let's get out of here!" Li Ling shouted with a bit of anger laced along with his worried voice. 

Zhihao frowned as he sighed and finally got down from the creature's back. He jumped in front of the creature and didn't forget to kick the creature's head before walking over towards Li Ling. 

Li Ling immediately reached out forward to grab Zhihao's hand but when his hand was just a few inches away from Zhihao's hand, they heard some rustling sound coming from the creature behind Zhihao, and Zhihao who had almost walked up to Li Ling immediately got pulled back by force. 

The force was so strong that within just a second, Zhihao was already pulled all the way back to the creature, and the creature that had lost its head glared at Zhihao through the newly formed eyes that were on its newly created head. 

"Oh... Fast regeneration..." It was the only thing Zhihao was able to mutter as he looked at the creature that was just a few inches away from his face. 

"A-Zhi!!" Li Ling cried out from behind him and Zhihao tried to use his sword to attack the creature again and free himself, however, the creature wasn't willing to give Zhihao any time. 

Before Shuang could be raised once again, the creature opened its mouth that was filled with hundreds of thousands of sharp teeth. 

Zhihao gulped and so did the creature, however, what Zhihao gulped down was his own saliva while what the creature gulped down was Zhihao's upper body, ruthlessly tearing it away from the lower portion of the body. 

Everything happened so fast that even Li Ling was unable to attack or react on time. 

When he saw the gruesome sight of Zhihao's body being torn in half, Li Ling immediately screamed the man's name, "Zhihao!!!" 

Blood rushed up to his head and he could no longer think for himself. He was disappointed, shocked, and angry. There was suddenly a need for revenge in his heart but before he could act on it and try to kill this creature, the screen in front of him instantly turned dark. 

Li Ling was left in the darkness with no sound and only confusion to fuel his anger. 

"Eh?" He muttered after a solid minute of silence as he looked at the black screen. 

Almost immediately, he heard a ding notification and there was suddenly some text displayed on the black screen along with a voice of a girl that could be heard in his headphone.

[Voice recognition complete!] 

[Error solution running: 112] 

"Huh?" Li Ling muttered again as he saw a long list of commands running on the screen at a speed that made it impossible for him to read them.

When all the text stopped, the area around turned black once again and there was no sound of any system this time. 

"What the heck happened?" Li Ling muttered as he looked around and tried to open his inventory or call Alvi, however, no matter what he did, nothing happened. It looked like the game had shut down or something.