Chapter 48

Fang Zheng always believed that the so-called protagonist halo was just a slightly exaggerated metaphor. But now, he reluctantly discovered that this thing actually existed!

What!? You ask why Fang Zheng could be so sure?

What nonsense! He used psychic energy to hit Tom 30 times with a zero percent success rate. What the heck? Could a person get this lucky?

This protagonist halo should not be this obvious!

Damn it, those bulls*** aliens killed Tom all in seconds… Why is it so difficult to injure him so that he can get a blood transfusion? If one said that there wasn’t anything involved, Fang Zheng would rather die than believe it. Now, he finally understood how depressed the grim reaper of the Final Destination must have felt. Boss toiled so hard to silence you without making any noise but he still escaped. Anyone would feel unhappy.

I guess I don’t have any choice but to do it myself.

After another two resets, Fang Zheng was left with no choice but to make a decision because he discovered that the plot had started to develop towards the later stages. At the moment, Tom had come to realize the brutal truth that the dam in his dream was a trap. The enemy just wanted to lure him and bleed him out slowly, and then take away his ability.

In fact, Fang Zheng had always thought that this boss was really stupid. Where wouldn’t it be okay to make him bleed? You have absolute superiority on the battlefield. You can just send hundreds of monsters to surround the protagonist and slowly bleed him out. Would anyone dare to trouble you? Or can you knock him out and drag him away? Isn’t that also possible? But no, you want to waste a stupid amount of energy to lure people into an abandoned dam. And in the end, I still saw through it. This damn alien’s IQ is… sigh, really worrying.

This stupid alien could not be counted upon and anyone scheming from behind the curtain was restrained by the protagonist’s halo. So, left with no choice, Fang Zheng had to go with plan B, and that was to do it himself and be well-fed and well-clothed.

In this reset, Fang Zheng had already learned the general progress of the plot with the help of the psychic energy; Tom went to the dam according to the dreams he saw when he had died before. He wanted to take the boss alone. But it turned out that it was a trap, so he decisively committed suicide and reloaded again. And this time, while discussing with the heroine and the others, the heroine helper mentioned that he had built a signal generator by himself which could enhance the signal induction between Tom and the boss, through which they could know the true location of the alien boss.

And in this reset, the duo would take a trip to the London headquarters and meet the commander who had sent Tom to the front line. And then he would get the generator made by the heroine’s helper from him… After thinking it through, this story was full of flaws. Because no one believed him, the heroine’s assistant lost his job and became a maintenance worker. But the thing he had built was well kept by the general. The general didn’t believe what they said. And if he didn’t believe in Tom and the heroine’s experience, why did he keep the generator in the safe? Shouldn’t it have been smashed and thrown away under normal circumstances?

Forget it, is there any login in Hollywood movies? As long as it’s a blockbuster, it’ll be alright. In any case, once you have bought the ticket and watched the movie, you can’t get a refund, regardless of whether or not the movie is reasonable.

The superheroes in American movies don’t necessarily have normal IQ, so we can’t request anything from this popcorn movie.

Wrumm wrumm…!!!

Fang Zheng cast his thoughts aside and focused his attention on the road in front of him. He had already seen Tom and the heroine driving towards the headquarters through the psychic energy. Fortunately, Fang Zheng had predicted their route in advance when they reloaded last time. Otherwise, it would have been really hard to find someone at this moment.

Very soon, the car the duo was driving appeared before Fang Zheng. The heroine was calm as ever but Tom looked a little nervous; he kept looking left and right every now and then. However, Fang Zheng understood why he was acting like this. His several attempts might not have done anything to Tom but they had scared him for sure. After all, Tom always believed that everything would happen just like it did in the previous reload. But Fang Zheng’s few attempts were neither in order nor in his memories. Although they were anything but dangerous in the end, this situation was enough to make him worried and nervous.

However, Tom could rest assured because Fang Zheng had given up on those attempts and planned on doing it himself.

“Remember, when we get to the headquarters, you must…oh, sh**!”

At this moment, Tom and the heroine were discussing what to do next when suddenly as they turned the corner, Tom saw a young man wearing a casual outfit, standing in the middle of the road before their car. He was just standing there watching their car. Seeing this man suddenly appear, Tom cried out loud. He had never thought that such an accident would happen. The last time he came here, there was no one on the road!

The heroine also reacted quickly. She hurriedly turned the steering wheel after seeing someone appear before her car. The car turned immediately but right then, they saw the young man suddenly raise his right hand.

In the next moment, their car seemed to have been violently struck by something. It flew into the air and crashed into a wall by the side of the road with a boom before rolling and coming to a stop.

“Puff… I don’t believe that I won’t be able to do it this time.”

Fang Zheng, putting down his right hand, heaved a long breath. Then, he made his way straight to the car and looked inside, totally ignoring the surroundings. Through the psychic energy, Fang Zheng found that neither of them had died but both had fallen unconscious, which made him nod in satisfaction. Apparently, the psychic energy control that originated from Kerrigan was quite handy. He really shouldn’t have learned it and tried doing things like in the movie Final Destination. If he had gone straight up, nothing would have happened.

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng stretched his hand out. And soon, the car began to disintegrate under the influence of psychic energy. Then, he lifted the two, threw the heroine to the side of the road, and brought Tom with him.

This incident soon caused a big stir in the entire city because many people saw what Fang Zheng did at that time, especially the scene where he used the psychic energy to dismantle the vehicle. There were many people watching. For a while, this mysterious and powerful young man had become the target of many forces. Even when the entire city was under martial law, many soldiers were directly mobilized to search for Fang Zheng.

The heroine was also pretty unlucky. She was arrested and questioned. But the heroine was very distressed after she woke up. She didn’t know who the young man was who appeared before her as soon as she woke up. And more importantly, they had taken Tom away!

The heroine immediately lost all interest in life. I’m afraid this Brit will be taking pills.

Be that as it may, Fang Zheng had already taken Tom back to the Zerg nest while everyone was busy. It seemed that there was a limit to the effect of Tom’s protagonist aura. It might have been impossible for Fang Zheng to plot against him in secret, but if he flipped him head-on, suppressing his strength completely, the protagonist’s halo would have been rendered useless.

“You are back, Master.”

Mylune capered about just as Fang Zheng went into the nest. I have to say, this Zerg Queen is looking more and more like a dryad.

Mhmm, I’m back.

Having been greeted by Mylune, Fang Zheng got straight to it and threw Tom on the ground just as she nodded in return.

“This…”

Looking at Tom, Mylune was stunned for a moment, then walked up to him with curiosity.

“A human!? Master, I feel that the time gene sequence in him is stronger.”

“A lucky guy?”

Fang Zheng made a gesture to Mylune.

“Is there a way to extract his gene sequence without hurting him?”

“But of course, Master.”

“Then, do it.”

“Yes.”

Mylune, upon receiving Fang Zheng’s order, bent over and backed away as a few worker bees approached and dragged the unconscious Tom away at once. No one was more advanced than the Zerg when it came to biotechnology. In less than half a day, Mylune reported Fang Zheng that they had completely extracted the gene sequence from Tom. Tom had become an ordinary person, once again. Besides that, Fang Zheng was in for another surprise.

“Master, the genetic sequence extracted from that human was much stronger than what we had assimilated before. I…”

“Just use it if you want to.”

Fang Zheng knew what the other party meant even before Mylune had finished speaking. The Zergs were born with an instinctive desire for stronger power. The alien blood in Tom’s body was just a defective product; Fang Zheng didn’t care about it. His goal was the energy core of the alien boss itself. That was a bigger trophy. In contrast, it was just an appetizer, Fang Zheng had no interest in it.

“Thank you, Master.”

Mylune was obviously happy with Fang Zheng’s reply. She thanked Fang Zheng and capered away. Whereas Fang Zheng shook his head helplessly as he stared at Tom. Then, he reached out and slapped him a few times, waking Tom up.

“Um…Where…Who are you?”

Tom was worthy of being called an immortal who had reloaded countless times. He immediately realized that the situation wasn’t right as he came to. He immediately crawled back up, staring suspiciously at Fang Zheng. Fang Zheng smiled, looking at the surprised Tom.

“Don’t worry, I didn’t have any malicious intent in bringing you here. In fact, I just want to tell you that your abilities have…”

Originally, Fang Zheng wanted to say, ‘your abilities have disappeared.’ But what he didn’t expect was that before he could finish his sentence, Tom took out the pistol from his waist, pointed at his head, and pulled the trigger.

BANG!

“…”

The corner of Fang Zheng’s mouth started twitching as he looked at Tom’s corpse lying on the ground, having no idea what to say.

“Master, what happened?”

Mylune hurriedly ran over with a group of Zerglings when she heard the gunshot, stunned by this scene.

“How did…this human die?”

“…Just an accident. Bury him in a mine somewhere.”

What could Fang Zheng say about this? Well, at least Tom sacrificed his life to prove that his ability had indeed disappeared.

But as to whether he died unjustly… Fang Zheng was unclear.

Anyway… this should be considered suicide, right?