Volume 2, Chapter 30 – Sorry, I’m Just a Cold-Blooded Killer! (Part 2)

“Huff, huff, huff~~”

With her back against the railing, Zhou Jieyu squatted on the overpass and gasped for breath.

That was close. She had almost been caught. Good thing she could run fast.

Just now, all she had done was run, practically reaching her limit. She had run like a gust of wind, and the moment she stopped, Zhou Jieyu felt like she was about to suffocate.

Normally, let alone running, she could not even be bothered to walk.

That terrible level of physical fitness translated into the game as 3 points of Endurance, which was worlds apart from Anran’s current 12 points of Endurance.

Fortunately, she had raised her Agility to 9, and there had still been some distance between them. Otherwise, she really would have been caught.

The moment she thought about how decisively Anran had killed those men in black, Zhou Jieyu could not help shivering.

Terrifying.

If she had been caught, one bullet would have sent her straight back to the newbie village.

But after calming down just a little, Zhou Jieyu became excited again.

So cool!

Anran herself might not have realized it, but as a bystander, the only thing Zhou Jieyu had felt was one word: cool.

Who said girls could not have a cool side too?

Draw the gun, aim, fire.

“Sorry, I’m just a cold-blooded killer!”

Bang!

The bullet vanished into the night.

Zhou Jieyu put away her gun. After thinking about it, she added 3 of her remaining 6 attribute points to Endurance, then gave 1 point each to Strength, Intelligence, and Spirit.

Before she knew it, her six core attributes had become: Strength 6, Agility 9, Endurance 6, Intelligence 7, Spirit 5, Charm 5.

(The three trash newbie starter items reduce Charm because they’re just too ugly.)

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Not bad. It looked fairly balanced now.

Playing this kind of hyper-real game was all about experiencing life, and if you were going to experience life, of course you had to do it perfectly and develop morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and practically!

Closing the game interface, Zhou Jieyu discovered that some of her stamina had recovered, so she stood up and started heading elsewhere.

She already had the good footage she needed. Next, she had to find a safe place to tidy up that live thread of hers.

…

“Sorry, I’m just a cold-blooded killer!”

In the hot live thread posted by player “Leading the Escape,” the latest video update had exactly that title.

In a live thread about war, the sudden appearance of the word “killer” instantly drew in a lot of players who had nothing better to do.

What kind of killer was it?

Was it a “war god” mowing down countless enemies on the battlefield?

Or a special operative carrying out covert assassination missions?

The video opened from a high vantage point. At the center of the shot was a shop, and vaguely, one could make out a hat-wearing figure hiding by the entrance. Because the sky was so dim, it was hard to see the details clearly.

The image was shaky.

It left the viewers rather bored.

But that did not last long, only around ten seconds or so.

Apparently the person filming had come down from above to ground level.

They hid in the shadows, secretly filming that figure standing at the shop entrance.

Only then did the scene finally become somewhat clear.

The hat-wearing person was small in stature, with a backpack strapped to her chest. Her jacket fluttered in the wind. She held a gun in both hands, leaned sideways against the wall, and kept her eyes fixed on the building.

You could see the words “Colin’s Repair Shop” written on the sign propping the door open.

Soon, the figure moved. Hiding behind a dumpster, she took down the person sneaking over from the side with a single backstab.

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When that figure disappeared, the secret filmer immediately followed after her.

The moment the hat-wearing “killer” reappeared on camera, she fired and successfully killed the second person.

After that came closer-range footage in the alley, where the entire video reached its climax.

The “criminal” inside the house seemed to have taken a hostage and was threatening the “killer.”

Then the killer adjusted her cap, the light fell across her face, and the viewers were stunned.

The true face of the cold-blooded “killer” was actually a young girl?

Though it was only a fleeting glimpse of her profile, that delicate face still left many people stunned for quite a while longer.

So much so that when they came back to their senses,

all they saw was the girl lowering the brim of her cap, pulling the trigger, and saying indifferently, “Sorry, I’m just a cold-blooded killer!”

As for the later part, where the filmer got chased and the image shook even worse from fright as they ran away, nobody cared about that at all.

[Sorry, I’m already a fan because of pure skill.]

[As expected of “Leading the Escape”!]

[Are the NPCs in the main city all this cool?!]

[The camerawork is way too awful. Please drag the director out and replace them with someone better.]

[Excuse me, what’s the name of the main character in the video?]

[Tch, my wife is still prettier—]

[This game is seriously amazing. The humanlike quality of the NPCs is such a pleasant surprise.]

Satisfied.

Zhou Jieyu closed the forum with great satisfaction.

She was famous now, as an “outstanding” war correspondent.

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She checked her private messages and found that dozens had appeared all at once.

One of them read: Hello, I’m a writer for XX Media. May I repost your thread? I can pay you for it. If you’re interested, please reply.

Emmm…

She was not short of money.

But if the payment was in in-game currency, that would be a good deal. The moment Zhou Jieyu thought of that, she immediately clicked on the other party’s profile picture.

…

This was a house that looked ordinary on the outside, but was decorated quite nicely inside.

Anran and Aila sat against the wall in the corridor outside one of the rooms.

Newspapers had been spread out on the floor.

At that moment, Colin was inside the room undergoing surgery.

Only just now had Anran learned that the middle-aged woman in the white coat was named Eudora.

Other than that, she still knew nothing more.

“Aila,” Anran suddenly called.

Aila, who had been rubbing at the hem of her clothes, looked up at Anran in confusion.

Anran said, “Do you know Eudora?”

Aila nodded. “I do.”

“Do you know what she does?”

“No.” Aila shook her head.

“Then what is your relationship with her?”

Aila’s eyes shifted slightly. She seemed to be thinking about Anran’s question, and only after a long while did she say, “I don’t know.”

“…”

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Anran froze for a moment and did not continue questioning her. The confusion in Aila’s eyes was impossible to hide.

It seemed impossible to get any information about Eudora out of Aila.

In any case, everything would have to wait until the treatment was over.

Aila suddenly tugged on Anran’s clothes.

“What is it?” Anran turned her head.

Then she saw Aila touch her own stomach. “I’m hungry.”

“…”

Where am I supposed to find food for you at a time like this?

Anran had been about to answer that way, but then she suddenly remembered that Aila was not an ordinary person. She ate metal.

Speaking of metal, Anran immediately pulled out one of the pistols she had just confiscated from her backpack and handed it to Aila.

“Here. Dinner.”

Aila took the pistol with both hands and was just about to put it into her mouth when Anran quickly grabbed her hand.

“Wait!”

“Huh?” Aila looked at Anran in confusion as she took the gun back.

Click-clack…

Anran removed all the bullets from the magazine before handing the gun back to Aila. “This thing might explode if you eat it like that.”

Aila did not really understand what Anran meant, but she did know that she could start eating now.

So she started from the muzzle. Crunch—

Anran covered her eyes.

Robots were terrifying!