Chapter 187: I Have a Special Boss-Fighting Technique (3/4)

"Why are you all crowding around here to watch?" Xiao Yulv squinted at the crowd gathered behind Su Tianji. "Is this game really that good to watch?"

"Doesn't look like much to me..." Xiao Yulv muttered. "Isn't it just looking for things in a pitch-black room... It's not even as good as Resident Evil!"

Right then, An Cheng walked up, throwing an arm over his shoulder. "Brother Xiao, here to watch the games again?"

"What do you mean, 'again'?" A twitch rippled across Xiao Yulv's handsome face. "By the way, is this 'Silent Hill' thing really that good?"

"Want to watch? We're starting from the beginning over here."

"Sure, sure!" Delighted, Xiao Yulv eagerly and cheerfully followed him over.

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Without anyone realizing when it began, the players of the Origin Internet Cafe had formed a habit of gathering in the lounge area by the entrance to eat breakfast.

"Ah—! No matter how much I eat around, this instant ramen is still the best!" An Huwei took a deep sniff of the ramen's aroma.

Sitting on the sofa, Song Qingfeng shook his head and let out a soft sigh over his bowl of instant ramen. "I am only sixteen this year, yet so young and wealthy that I simply do not know how to spend it all. I used to bring my own water to the internet cafe; now I drink Coke. When I eat instant ramen, I even have to add a sausage. I feel a bit lost in myself lately; I hope to return to my original purity."

Everyone gathered around the tea table stared blankly at Song Qingfeng and his companions...

Fang Qi looked at the utterly entranced Song Qingfeng beside him. "...You motherfucker."

"Didn't you teach me that, Boss?" Song Qingfeng looked aggrieved. "I thought those words made a lot of sense."

"Right!" Xu Luo added, chewing on his noodles. "It has a great vibe to it!"

Song Qingfeng lounged lazily against the sofa. "Ever since I took the top spot in the national examination, my family has given me even stronger backing. Right now, it really is exactly that kind of feeling!"

"I also think it makes perfect sense!" Xu Zixin agreed.

Everyone around them: "..."

"Stop explaining, will you..." Fang Qi's face was dark.

"Oh right, Boss!" Song Qingfeng stood up from his seat. "Are you playing Silent Hill today?"

"Everyone's waiting to watch!"

The moment Song Qingfeng asked, everyone immediately looked over.

"When are you playing?! We're all waiting to watch!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Jiang Xiaoyue chimed in. "The boss even said today he'd play some kind of death-seeking style!"

"...Did I say that?"

"You did." Nalan Mingxue raised her head, holding her instant ramen.

"I heard it too," Lanyand seconded.

"The boss wants to back out again!" Dong Qingli, who usually finished eating on the side before crowding over, said, "Can't you be a man of your word and act on what you say?"

"This boss is just afraid that playing too deep will scare you all out of your wits!"

"What's there to be scared of just watching you play?"

"Don't make excuses!"

"Boss! Hurry up and play!"

"The boss is going to play Silent Hill again?!" The Eldest Princess and the people from the two great academies, having just walked through the door, looked over.

"Let's go watch!" Although quite a few people still found it terrifying, they felt a force within them driving them to watch.

The more afraid they were, the stronger their curiosity grew to find out what exactly this Silent Hill was all about, and what kind of ending the male protagonist would meet!

Besides, with so many people around and it being broad daylight, what was there to fear?

Even so, several timid girls had already prudently curled themselves into tight balls before the game even started.

As Fenghua and Yuexin were looking for a suitable spot to huddle together, they noticed a figure in a yellow robe and white inner shirt shrinking toward them as well.

The two girls instantly shrieked, "Junior Brother Xiao! Men and women should maintain proper distance, what are you trying to do!"

"Senior Sisters... I..." Xiao Yulv looked thoroughly embarrassed, lowering his voice, "This game is too terrifying!"

"Then why are you still watching!" The two rolled their eyes at him.

"Aren't you two watching as well...?"

"Go away!" The two looked at him with utter disdain. "A grown man and you're still afraid, why don't you put on yesterday's outfit if you're so brave!"

Xiao Yulv's face froze.

Pure dark history!

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And at this moment, Fang Qi started the livestream once again.

"Where has the boss progressed to?" Xiao Yulv asked.

"Just escaped Pyramid Head's pursuit," Fenghua and Yuexin replied expressionlessly.

"Word is the boss is going to court death today!" Fenghua whispered in discussion.

"Yeah! I heard that too!"

Immediately, they began to watch with relish.

"Look at how cowardly this boss is! He actually curled into a ball before even encountering any monsters!" Xiao Yulv, who had already curled himself into a ball in a corner, looked at the large screen with disdain.

Xu Zixin and the others who had finished watching Nalan Hongwu's livestream in the morning now showed no fear. After all, the lesser monsters weren't impossible to kill and weren't that terrifying, so they stood directly in the front row.

But after watching Fang Qi's livestream for about an hour...

"Ah—!" Everyone inexplicably felt a chill down their spines. Turning around, they saw the sofas were already packed with huddled people, forcing them to find other corners to shrink into!

"Boss! What about the promised death-seeking?!"

"Exactly!" A good number of people, including Dong Qingli and Shen Qingqing, began to protest. "We haven't seen you court death once the whole time, you just close doors and run away! And you keep startling us!"

There weren't really any monsters along the way, so there was nothing to fear at all, but they ended up being frightened out of their wits by Fang Qi's own reactions!

Right at this moment, Fang Qi on the screen finally spoke: "Watch closely, this boss is going to start courting death!"

"Ah—!" Dong Qingli covered her eyes and shrieked. "You didn't go court death when we were watching happily before, and now you start just when we're already terrified by you!"

Fang Qi had no idea that more than half the people outside had already shrunk back onto the sofas. Currently focused entirely on his death-seeking mission, after looting the entire apartment, he threw away all the knives, guns, clubs, and pipes in his inventory, then opened the door to the stairwell, preparing to walk out of this apartment building.

Everyone watched in utter bewilderment: "What is the boss doing?!"

Xiao Yulv: "Boss, have you gone mad?!"

"Throwing away all the equipment? Are you going to fight monsters with your fists later?"

Right then, everyone saw that as he walked in, he chanced upon Pyramid Head once again in a stroke of terrible luck. It was currently committing atrocities against another monster. The way downstairs was entirely blocked by freezing water coming from nowhere, and the door behind him, at that very moment, inexplicably slammed shut!

Locked from the outside!

To say he wasn't panicked would be a lie; Fang Qi was actually a bit flustered in his heart right now. Locked in this narrow stairwell with this Pyramid Head monster, and more importantly, it now had a massive knife in its hand!

Everyone shuddered, their faces turning nearly pale with fright. When it rains, it pours—this wasn't just courting death, this was begging to die!

Fang Qi remained completely oblivious to the situation outside. "This wave of death-seeking should be alright, right? Next, I will explain to everyone how to fight this triangular iron-headed boy."

At this moment, the Pyramid Head on the screen had already lunged forward, while Fang Qi was still bare-handed!

"Ah—!" Screams erupted across the internet cafe, rising and falling like crashing waves!

With a desperate roll, Fang Qi dodged a massive cleaver on one side of the screen, then flipped like a stranded fish to evade the pursuit on the other, engaging in a frantic game of cat-and-mouse with Pyramid Head within the suffocatingly narrow space—a true battle of wits and courage!

At this moment, not a soul in the room dared to speak, their eyes bulging out of their sockets!

Because if Fang Qi took even a single hit, he would die!

And was he seriously supposed to fight this Pyramid Head with his bare fists?! That would take an eternity!

Su Tianji stared at the screen with wide eyes, her mouth agape in sheer disbelief!

Not just Su Tianji, but even An Huwei and the others looked completely bewildered: "The boss, he..."

"Ah—! The boss is cornered!" Unlike the original game where Pyramid Head only lumbered slowly toward the player, this Pyramid Head could actually run!

On the screen, the monstrous Pyramid Head closed the distance in a few swift strides and brought the great knife down.

At the absolute precipice of disaster, Fang Qi twisted his body, and the massive blade hacked over a foot deep into the wall right behind him!

Everyone felt as though their hearts were about to leap out of their chests!

If that strike had connected, he would have been hacked to pieces, wouldn't he?!

Shen Qingqing, Dong Qingli, and the others squeezed their eyes shut in sheer terror.

Right at that moment, a piercing, grating siren wailed through the air!

Hearing the siren, Fang Qi's posture shifted into a display of imposing majesty as he rose from the ground and unleashed a flurry of consecutive punches.

To everyone's utter astonishment, the monstrous Pyramid Head actually turned around and fled?!

It actually ran away at a time like this?!

"So you see, you can't go head-to-head with this pyramid-headed brat because he's thick-skulled and immune to bullets. We must use an aura of absolute majesty to intimidate him, and that is guaranteed to scare him off!" Fang Qi explained.

Are you freaking kidding me!

Su Tianji, Shen Qingqing, and all the onlookers present had their mouths twitching with pure exasperation!

You nearly scared the bile out of us, and this is what you tell us?!

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PS: Chapter four will probably be after midnight... Sorry everyone, tomorrow things will slow down a bit, maybe three updates, the pace has been a bit hard to keep up with lately.

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