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Slow down your breathing.
Adjust your pace.
When Lin Yiyi took the first step, she felt her movements were somewhat stiff and awkward. But by the time she reached the third step, she had already begun to adapt to her new body.
She didn't have much time to think.
...Is this really a game? Is this some sort of alien civilization's black technology? Why was she chosen? What would happen if she died? Could the items from this game be taken out?
These messy questions, indeed, flashed through her mind.
But Lin Yiyi quickly expelled and ignored these scattered thoughts with her strong willpower.
Because, no matter what, she was temporarily unable to find answers to these questions.
If so, wishful thinking would only degrade her performance—Lin Yiyi had always believed that if it was something she could not obtain for the time being, then she shouldn't even think about it. Meaningless fretting would only dilute her concentration and deplete her energy, preventing her from doing well in things she could otherwise have achieved.
She just needed to focus on one thing.
To do one thing well—
—for instance, stealthily killing a person.
When Lin Yiyi got about five or six meters away, she silently stopped her steps.
If she moved any further, they would probably notice her.
Now was the moment to try this...
She focused her attention on "Charge".
——Thump! Thump! Thump!
Suddenly, she felt her heart pumping violently, the sounds of her beating heart magnifying so much that even she could hear them.
Her entire body's muscles seemed to ignite, and as a strange sensation of soreness emerged, she felt a surge of warmth rush to her legs.
Without hesitation, she followed that force and burst forward from a strong push against the ground.
But the moment she surged forward, she suddenly felt that something was off—
The charge was too intense!
Lin Yiyi could barely control the power she was exerting, as she raised her sword flatly and channelled strength into the blade.
The wind around her seemed to part to both sides as she pushed through!
A distance of less than ten meters was covered in the blink of an eye.
And those two people had just heard the sound and were trying to look back.
But their bodies were relaxed, and they hadn't even drawn their swords. It seemed they had not anticipated that the person appearing behind them at this moment would be an enemy…
The next moment, Lin Yiyi charged forward.
The sword blade thrust out sharply, easily penetrating the back of one of them, nearly half way in.
She felt a severe vibration as the blade entered the person's back. It seemed to be because she didn't understand human anatomy, and had stabbed the ribcage with her sword.
Fortunately, after a "click", the sword still managed to squeeze out from the chest. The person opened his mouth wide, making a "uh-uh" sound, but he couldn't even scream out loud.
"Enemy attack—"
The other person was immediately alarmed. He didn't try to draw his weapon, instead staring fixedly at Lin Yiyi while shouting for help and swiftly retreating backward. After moving about twenty meters away, the person turned around and fled without looking back.
Lin Yiyi originally intended to pursue and attack.
Taking advantage of the situation before the other drew his weapon to kill him was the Righteous Path.
But she discovered that her sword seemed stuck to the man's back…
She tried to pull it out tentatively a few times, but failed to extract the blade; instead, the man beneath her hands emitted increasingly pitiful and fading whimpers with her sawing motion.
Eventually, Lin Yiyi, frustrated and embarrassed, kicked the man down. Stepping on his waist, she exerted force with both her foot and wrist, finally pulling out the long sword that was nearly half buried in him.
Only then did she belatedly feel the soreness in her legs.
The all-out Charge had left her gasping for air as if she had just sprinted fifty meters. White mist like steam spewed from her throat, and faint reddish marks outlining blood-vessel-like patterns were visible on the skin of her arms.
"That Charge was way too powerful!"
She couldn't help but curse under her breath.
When Lin Yiyi first stabbed the sword in, she distinctly felt the blade bend slightly. A moment of panic struck her, fearing the sword would break off inside the body.
But fortunately, it came out...
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The game's instinctual thinking led Lin Yiyi to subconsciously believe that "Charge" might be an initiating skill that could knock an enemy to the ground with a stun or something.
Then, while the enemy was stunned, she would take their head off.
To her utter surprise... Charge turned out to be a powerful ultimate move.
Fortunately, her quick reaction earlier had prevented her from ramming into the enemy with her arm or shoulder. Otherwise, the enemy would indeed have been stunned or knocked back, but she would probably have been dazed as well...
As Lin Yiyi retracted her weapon, she looked at the scratches and tiny notches on the blade with a headache.
Compared with the overly strong Charge, the quality of this sword was not so trustworthy.
It had merely collided with bone, and yet the blade seemed to chip a little...
While she was looking at her blade with heartache, the silence of the camp was suddenly broken by roars and wails. Alert cries, screams, and the sound of swords clashing startled the unprepared Lin Yiyi.
At the same time, Lin Yiyi faintly heard a not so loud, even somewhat frantic shout not far in front of her: "Is anyone there? Help! Help me, I can't beat this monster!"
It seemed to be a very young girl.
She must be a player—
—and, there were monsters over there!
Without hesitation, Lin Yiyi charged forward, but she also carefully made as little noise as possible.
After she had charged forward for a while, a prompt suddenly appeared before her:
[You have killed the enemy and gained 13 points of public experience]
"...Huh?"
Lin Yiyi paused for a moment.
Is it finally dead? Its heart... probably its heart, had been pierced by her! When she pulled out the sword, it still sawed for a while, and then there were no more screams...
"...I get it now, it's a game of last-hitting," Lin Yiyi realized.
If you don't see the experience prompt, you need to hit a few more times. Stabbing directly in the eyes should do the job quickly.
She quickly reached the female player's side, but to her surprise, the battle wasn't as dire as the girl had screamed:
The girl had a blue name hovering above her head:
[Jiu'er]
She was quite short, visibly shorter than Lin Yiyi by more than a head. The long sword she held matched her height—obviously shorter and thinner than the one in Lin Yiyi's hands.
Her face was filled with panic and fear, her body trembling, but the movements of her hands were vicious.
She herself had no injuries, except for a cut on her face from which blood dripped down her chin. She wielded her sword as if holding a kitchen knife, attacking the person in front of her fiercely—not cutting, but smashing and chopping.
The "bandit" opposite Jiu'er was in a much more miserable state.
His shoulders, face, chest, and arms were covered in bloodstains. Dark red blood streamed all over him; he was so weak he could barely hold his sword, and his defense was also strained.
But Jiu'er didn't back down half a step; with each slash, she would take two steps forward, relentlessly and fiercely pressing the attack, all while emitting sounds like a trampled puppy—pitiful and desperate:
"Help me! Help me! Someone save me, is there no one there?"
With every cry, she delivered a sword strike with all her strength.
Finally, Jiu'er lifted her long sword high and abruptly brought it down with the force of lightning.
—That was a Full Force Strike!
Lin Yiyi quickly recognized the move.
The man's sword couldn't withstand the strength of this strike at all and was instantly knocked to the ground by Jiu'er, his weapon slipping from his hand and falling away.
Seeing the enemy's weapon fly out of his hand, Jiu'er's attack speed suddenly increased. Like chopping ground meat, she brutally smashed her sword into the man's face—not even slashing, but pounding since not every blow was cut with the edge.
After a couple of strikes, the man in front of her was already motionless on the ground. Yet, Jiu'er still kept a foot on his stomach and continued to chop away.
This ruthless attack made Lin Yiyi's heart race with horror, leaving her not daring to leap out and help.
Suddenly, Jiu'er stopped. She must have received the prompt.
"Ah? Oh... dead, finally killed it..."
She let out a frightened sigh of relief and staggered a few steps back: "That monster was so tough..."
Beside her, Lin Yiyi looked on in horror: I don't know about the monster, but that guy really got it rough!