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{
Well, shall we begin gutsy boy?
}
My psyche was stable; it already accepted the horrible fate. However, my body failed to hear my commands, shivering like a stray dog in cold winter.
Answering with a low tone, I chimed, "Yes,"
Immediately after agreeing, he snapped his finger, making a wave hit my mind, dizzying me on the spot.
I fought through the strong tide of the slumbering thoughts for a couple of seconds before I could no longer withstand it.
After I slept, the smiling ghost words showed up in the tablet.
{
After thousands of years, this old man can finally have some entertainment; this is going to be interesting, hehehehe!
}
...
Opening my eyes, I was in an unfamiliar cage; blood covered the walls, and the nasty smell almost made me puke; skulls were scattered around, chained to their feet.
«System! Where Am I?»
Suddenly I felt something touch the back of my head;
"Huh?" Sweat dripped all the way down from my neck.
I felt a cold hard substance clasp my back.
A scary mini black skeleton hugged my neck from behind before slowly pointing at the cristal tablet in front of me.
Blood, colored words appeared.
{
Welcome dear participant, to your first challenge;
I usually check my victim's memories to dictate which one is suitable for their "sins," yet, it seems like a powerful barrier locked your mind, that even my monstrous GUI mental strength couldn't break it,
Coincidentally, I decided to gift you challenges from my personal taste, hehehe!
Starting up, with level one, the first one is the chained fate; your task is fairly easy; break out of this chain before a hundred clock ticks.
Failure will result in death.
And remember, the only rule that exists here is "Don't die."
}
The screen shut down, and I felt the little skeleton deform itself before it jumped straight to my legs tying me up with a chain of hard as steel bones to a wall.
Tick
I heard the first tick of the alarm; there wasn't any timer to see how much was left, so I counted with my mouth, "One, two.."
I looked down and found a thick bracelet entangling my foot. It was linked with the chain, and in turn, the chain was trapped in the wall.
Thus, I grabbed the bone chain and tried to remove it with my cultivation strength; however, my efforts were in total failure. The bracelet and chain were so tightly glued.
Shaking my head around the room, I searched for clues, urgently looking for anything to use; I saw a long shaped bone in the corner;
I sprinted toward it with all my speed; I grabbed it and entangled it between my foot and the bone bracelet, trying to create room for my foot to slip out; I even spitted in the spot to make it more slippery.
Time went on.
«Fuck!» the chain was so tight, I moved it around, pushing my foot as hard as I could, but the long bone broke before I managed to slip my foot even to the slightest.
"41"
"42"
"43"
The annoying ticks resounded in my ears; panic started to strike my soul, as the thoughts of death made my heart hardly pump blood to keep me standing.
Tick,....tick.....
Hepleness roamed my mind; there was bearly any time to think about something, clenching my teeth, a crazy idea struck my brain looking at a sharp-edged bone beside me, it was perfectly suited there that I didn't see it at first, "Don't fucking tell me his initial objective is to cut my foot?"
Dismay was the only word I could describe how I felt like with that discovery.
Forouciously shaking, I reached the knife bone, edging it to my foot.
At those short, miserable times, my breath almost stopped, but the clock never did; counting with my numb tongue muscles, I felt a bitter taste in my mouth.
Heavy breath followed by a loud pump, I closed up the distance to my foot, still desperately thinking about a solution.
"67"
"68"
«System!!! Hurry; for How many XP points can I regrow a limb?»
The answer devastated me even more; he said a regular limb regrowing pill would take at least over several million XP points, let alone the GUI pill, a legendary pill made by one of the strongest fallen gods, Yaogui.
«Fuck! Fuck fuck!» I cursed my luck; I wasn't like the villain, with his inheritance; in my case, If I get disabled, I will need to stuck with it for hundreds of years, or maybe till my death.
«What should I do?» My thoughts drifted like an open book page put on a storm, and precisely on the count of "70", one idea crossed my mind.
"SKIN."
My skin might be the answer; if I cut down the skin around my foot, I can try slipping it.
Holding my skin, my hand moved to slash my precious skin, "I never thought in my life, I will be forced to Skin my self."
Just like a peach, I cut the meat around my ankle, while seeing the pieces of meat dropping down, as the blood dripped down, on my foot, the collision between the bones and the exposed flesh made me question if I should aim to cut my neck instead.
But I bore the pain without a whimper until I couldn't contain my scream anymore; pain rushed the area, to the point that my mind wished someone did it for me.
Yes, I requested for a torturer; at least I can close my eyes and lose consciousness.
Before long, my ankle got successfully peeled off; I finally can try to slip it down.
«Finally! I can escape!»
But wait, why it doesn't want to come down?
"DAMMIT!!!!!!"
I hardly tried cruelly smashing it to come off. But it was still chained down.
Clack clack.
I heard my own mouth mumble "90".
At this moment, I perhaps experienced the same fear Chun did before undergoing the eye removal; all I beg for right now is to go back to earth, to my warm blanket.
But what you wish for and reality often never collide.
"92"
"93"
All I have on my plate right now is cutting my whole leg; my mind reminisced to my college days. We used to cut frog skin and body parts without any regard.
Did they feel like me? I wondered.
"Parts? Ankle?»
In my desperate struggle to save my foot, I looked at my bloody heel.
"What if I only slice my calcaneus bone?"
The idea seemed totally logical, especially with the adrenaline rush numbing my fears, and following that, I took the most extended sigh in my life.
Tick.
"95"
Tick.
"96"
I clashed the bone knife in a straight motion toward my heel, smashing close enough a quarter of my foot.
"97"
"98"
Horrifically, I pushed down the bracelet with all my might.
Clack!!
"99"
"100"
The black tablet in the wall shined again, delivering my death or life verdict.
{
Hehehe! That was fun!
My utmost Congratulations, you successfully removed the chain.
However, the real task is to escape the room, 3 seconds, and the room will be flooded by poisonous air, heheheh!
}