Gao Wu: If this BOSS isn't nerfed, is it even playable?

Chapter 90: Like a Lifetime Ago - Final Rankings!
Lin Ye stumbled.

Everything went black before my eyes, and I lost all my strength, collapsing heavily to the ground.

The huge hole in his chest seemed to instantly swallow up all his life and warmth.

A cold, numb sensation spread wildly down my spine.

The heart was pierced; this was an absolutely fatal wound.

Any normal martial artist, or even Lin Ye, who was LV12 before entering this competition, would already be a cold corpse by now, his consciousness completely sinking into eternal darkness.

But the attribute boosts from the crazy leveling up over the past three days.

The passive skill 【Thick Skin】 provides 5% damage reduction.

And the extra maximum health points that Lin Ye has been constantly absorbing and accumulating through the [Soul Furnace] over a long period of time.

These foreshadowing elements proved effective at the most crucial moment!
All of this transformed into the final dam that kept him from dying on the spot!
Health: 1/2779!

Perhaps it was fate.

Maybe it's a coincidence.

Or perhaps, it was that burning will to the extreme, unwilling to let down the sacrifices of his teammates, that forcibly preserved that last spark of life.

Lin Ye left with his last 1 point of health.

This last, faint glimmer of life.

That was enough for him to complete the last, and most primal, action.

Lin Ye opened his mouth and placed the crystal on the ground, which was already covered with cracks and its light was extremely dim. It was also at its last gasp and only had one last breath left.

It was put directly into its mouth!
No guns were used, no fists were used.

It did not utilize wisdom.

He used the oldest weapon in human history.

teeth!

Take a big bite!
Boom!

Lin Ye felt his gums were screaming; at least two or three molars had completely shattered during this frantic biting.

Consciousness, too, was finally swallowed up by the boundless darkness and chaos at this moment!
but--

In the final moments before his consciousness faded, he clearly heard a crisp sound, like glass shattering.

Click...

collapse! ! !
This is the core of the Crystal Spirit Clan's juvenile form, which comes from the Heavenly Abyss and possesses advanced intelligence, driving them to the brink of despair.

Lin Ye bit it off completely, as if it were a wild beast, and it exploded!
[Ding! Urgent Mission: Supreme Evolution! Completed!]

[Task settlement in progress...]

[Mission Rewards: 15000 Experience Points, 12 Free Attribute Points!]

[You have acquired a brand new mechanic: Gluttony!]

……

reality.

Dongjiang City Central Gymnasium.

In the huge and empty viewing hall.

All the teachers and staff leading the group, and even some senior executives from Mingguang Group who came to observe, watched the giant central light screen with great interest.

On the screen, the final battle between Lin Ye and Zhang Yuqing against the Crystal Spirit Clan's juvenile form was being played.

Wang Zhengguo and Chen Meng sat in the back row, their knuckles white from clenching their fists too tightly.

More than an hour ago.

That is, when Lin Ye first discovered that strange Crystal Spirit Clan larva, the central control room of the entire event keenly focused the main camera firmly on the two of them.

According to hidden information released by the organizers after the start of the competition, they deployed a total of four alien races from Tianyuan throughout the entire first round of the virtual ruins map.

Without exception, all four of these alien races from the Heavenly Abyss were either severely injured or on the verge of death, their strength less than one percent of their peak.

Even so, their existence is vastly different from that of mutated beasts that act on instinct.

These are the hidden bosses.

It is an extra point and a touchstone prepared by the competition organizers for those truly top talents.

Lin Ye and Zhang Yuqing encountered the hidden version of these four hidden bosses!
According to the current classification of the danger level of the Tianyuan alien race by human civilization, the Crystal Spirit race is rated as high as level 5!
This is a terrifying race that, if they can successfully grow to adulthood, possess strength comparable to a human martial artist at the peak of the Divine Realm.

Even if it's just a juvenile.

Even though it suffered irreversible damage.

Its power far surpassed that of the other three. Therefore, when Lin Ye and Zhang Yuqing began to devise the hunting plan that appeared flawed to outsiders, almost no one believed they could win.

Everyone thought that the two young men were courting death.

But at this moment.

The image on the light screen freezes.

The image freezes on the moment when the blood-soaked youth collapsed to the ground, using his last bit of strength to open his mouth and, like a wild beast, crush the purple core.

Everyone was deeply moved.

The battle unfolded exactly as the young man had initially predicted.

It takes two people, burning themselves out.

They even risked their lives.

Only by risking one's life can one fight for that slim chance of existence.

And he succeeded!

[Target "Crystal Spirit Larva" core shattered, all life signs disappeared. Status: Killed!]

The cold, impersonal system ruling was simultaneously displayed in a corner of the light screen.

The silence of the entire hall was broken, and scattered applause began to emerge.

After all, everyone present had their own athletes who needed encouragement.

Their applause was for Zhang Yuqing's sacrifice.

This is also a tribute to Lin Ye's rationality and resilience!

[10th Place: Lin Ye, Dongjiang No.1 Middle School, Hunting Points: 766!]

[27th Place: Zhang Yuqing, Dongjiang No.1 Middle School, Hunting Points: 487!]

Lin Ye's name, which was ranked 21st just over ten minutes ago, suddenly jumped forward and entered the top ten!

Zhang Yuqing, on the other hand, soared from 82nd place to the top 30!
This is because the hunting points provided by this juvenile alien from the Heavenly Abyss are a terrifying 600!
The two cooperated to kill, and the points were split evenly, with one person scoring 300 points!
Chen Meng could no longer suppress his excitement and clenched his fist tightly.

Wang Zhengguo's tense face finally relaxed, and he let out a long breath, his eyes almost overflowing with appreciation.

Hearty!

This battle, although it didn't involve the overwhelming dominance of Xue Wangshu's ultimate strength.

But in terms of sheer brilliance, it was arguably the best performance of the entire event!
The two exchanged a glance, then turned and walked quickly toward the virtual pod area where the contestants were.

They were going to welcome these two heroes who had made school records.

hum-

With a slight mechanical hum, the virtual pod's hatch slowly opened.

The blinding lights and noisy voices from outside rushed in like a tide.

Lin Ye felt excruciating pain all over his body; every muscle and every bone was sending signals of fatigue and soreness to his brain.

He was so mentally exhausted that he couldn't muster even the slightest bit of strength.

Consciousness lingered for several seconds at the boundary between virtual and reality.

He slowly came to his senses.

What comes into view is the stadium's tall and magnificent dome, and those dazzling lights that resemble stars.

ended.

He returned to reality.

"Lin Ye, your and Zhang Yuqing's performance far exceeded my and the principal's expectations!"

A strong, powerful hand braced against Lin Ye's back, steadily helping him sit up from the life support pod.

It's Chen Meng.

His face was filled with undisguised excitement and admiration.

Lin Ye's eyes were still somewhat dazed.

In the virtual world, he experienced three full days of intense life-or-death battles.

Everything felt incredibly real.

But upon waking up, his body's biological clock was forcibly calibrated and returned to normal, experiencing the huge difference in the flow of time and the feeling of surviving a life-or-death battle.

All of this made Lin Ye feel somewhat confused, as if he had just woken up from a dream, as if he had been in another world.

(End of this chapter)