Chapter 268 - Battle for the Cape

Chapter 268: Battle for the Cape (11)

Feng Bujue waited for more than three minutes until he could not feel his hand anymore.

“Look, this is an arm where the cells have died from flash freezing.” Like a magician, he extended his frozen arm to Mr. Freeze. Then he showed the pill in his other hand. “This is a medicine that can cure everything.”

Even though Mr. Freeze was covered in full armor, within the glass helmet, he still wore a pair of sunglasses, so Feng Bujue could not see his eyes. If he could see, he would realize that Mr. Freeze’s eyes were filled with bafflement...

“Now, it’s time to witness the miracle...” Feng Bujue tossed the pill into his mouth and swallowed it.

Mr. Freeze was an intellectual; he was not the type of supervillain that had gone far off the deep end. When he saw what Feng Bujue did, he could not help but say, “I must remind you, Mr. Feng, as interesting as your performance is, that is secondary. If you cannot prove what you said, you will end up the same as the two at the door.”

“See, it has already healed.” Before the man finished, Feng Bujue said that. He wiggled his arm about, and the layer of dead skin fell away with the frost.

“Good as new.” He clenched his healed hand into a fist and wiggled his fingers. “I can move it freely.”

Mr. Freeze put down his gun and rushed forward to grab Feng Bujue’s arm and pull it to his eyes to inspect.

“Hmm... interesting... there is a drug that can instantly recover the permanent damage on the cellular level.” He released Feng Bujue’s hand and said, “But that does not mean... that medicine can change my cold-bloodedness, or... cure my wife’s illness.”

“As I’ve said, Prof. Fries, this medicine cures everything,” Feng Bujue said. “Aids, cancer, Parkinson’s, and so on... Be it natural, genetic corruption or a virus, reversible or permanent... with one of these pills, everything can be fixed. This can even turn a zombified person back to normal. There is nothing worth doubting about it.”

“No, the whole sentence you just said is worth doubting,” Mr. Freeze said. “Unless... you can give me a sample to have me study its chemical make-up.”

“Forgive my honesty, Prof. Fries, but that is not possible,” Feng Bujue answered. “Based on what I know, a certain organization has already conducted a lot of experiments and tried to synthesize this medicine, but they all failed. Trust me, prof, the scientific knowledge and the manpower and wealth of that organization... is not below you or any other person on this planet.”

“Since this medicine cannot be made, where did you get this medicine? A gift from god?” Fries asked.

“There are many things that cannot be explained with science. You can choose not to believe me, prof, but... you have to make a choice now,” Feng Bujue said. “I have already shown you the function of this medicine, so the choice is simple for you. One, trust and accept my help; two, deny and give up this chance to save your wife.”

He observed the smallest expression on the man’s face. With gaining confidence, his tone became firmer.

“This ‘gift from God’ is limited in number, and I can only provide you with two of them, one for you and another for your wife. Even if you kill me, you won’t get more.”

Feng Bujue stated his bottom line. For him, exhausting three SCP-500 pills for aid from Mr. Freeze was his limit. If that was not enough, he would rather give up this chance to cooperate.

Name: Summoning—Voice of Shadow

Skill Property: Active Skill, Permanent

Skill Type: Summoning

Effect: Summon one Voice of Shadow (No cooldown time but can only be used once after entering the scenario. Can exist without time limit. Only one summoned creature can exist at one time.)

Consumption: Fifty Sorcery Points and one summoned creature (other than Voice of Shadow)

Learning Requirement: Summoning C

Remark: Voice of Shadow does not possess any fighting ability and hides in the player’s shadow. It possesses its own personality and high intelligence, so it can communicate with the player. When another player uses a summoning skill in the scenario, the Voice of Shadow can sense the other summoned creature and form a bond with the player’s own shadow (no distance limit). As long as the connection is not broken, the Voice of Shadow can detect the player’s location at any time.

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King of Shadows depended on this creature to find Feng Bujue. It was not that he targeted Feng Bujue; it was just that no other players had used a summoning skill, so he could not trace them.

The tracking effect on Feng Bujue was deactivated then. The connection between Voice of Shadow and Feng Bujue’s shadow, even though it was not shown in the player’s menu, was essentially a debuff. SCP-500 could clear all debuffs, and that included this one. Actually, there were a few other ways to disturb the connection with the Voice of Shadow, like staying in a room with bright lights for few seconds or using certain skills from the Medic Mastery.

Other than that... the Voice of Shadow had a hidden negative trait. When there was another person who summoned a level A or stronger creature, the Voice of Shadow would disappear out of fear... Of course, King of Shadows had not faced that before, so he did not know about that condition.

“Hi, I’m going to blow you up.” Feng Bujue wrote this on a piece of paper, walked to the ice block, and found a spot where King of Shadows could see him to show this to him.

This b*stard... is he doing this on purpose? King of Shadows mumbled internally.

Feng Bujue turned the paper over. “In Battle Royale Mode, there is no punishment for leaving. You can consider that.”

When King of Shadows saw that, he scoffed. Humph... laughable, looks like you aren’t able to kill me with an explosion.

Feng Bujue looked at him for several seconds. Seeing that the man had no intention of going offline, he took out another piece of paper from behind him.

“People always hope for a fluke. I can understand that. Just wait and see then. Hehehe :D”

Feng Bujue turned to set up the bomb with Mr. Freeze.

Hey, why did you use both words and emoticons! This is too much! Such an insult cannot be taken lying down!

But King of Shadows could only shout in his heart; not a word could be heard.