Strange Rules: It doesn't matter, the system will take care of it.

Chapter 39 One Step Away from Perfection

People die for wealth, birds die for food.

To earn points for checking in, Chen Feng had to grit his teeth and go even if it meant facing a dangerous situation.

At the stall, he picked up an air rifle and ten steel ball bullets, and then, led by the owner, he arrived at the center of the forest.

The trees here are all equipped with lights, so there's no need to worry about lighting.

This is the taste.

When people think of forests, they usually think of fresh air, fragrant soil, and maybe some animal droppings, but it's definitely not unpleasant to smell.

But this balloon forest is different.

Corpses, corpses, and more corpses.

Chen Feng rarely used the idiom "everywhere" to describe humanity, but that was the situation now. Tourists who failed to pass the test were lying all over the ground, along with rubber fragments from balloons and thin black ropes. Such a bloody scene even reminded Chen Feng of the Human Skin Attic.

This is not a joke.

Chen Feng roused himself; the situation was really not good. In order to get rid of the spontaneous combustion curse, he had already used Sianweistein too many times today. If he activated it again, he would probably pass out.

Therefore, the only solution is to rely on intelligence.

We must find a way to survive.

Chen Feng started loading the air gun, and just as he finished, he saw the boss hurriedly run away.

The game has begun.

Chen Feng heard laughter coming from not far away.

With the help of the lights in the tree, a white balloon comes into view, suspended in mid-air, swaying gently, with a thin black string below swinging back and forth.

Chen Feng decisively raised the air rifle.

This subtle movement caught the balloon's attention, and it turned its head to reveal its front.

It was a grinning human face with eyes as big as light bulbs and a long mouth full of sharp teeth.

Upon spotting its prey, the smiley face balloon immediately approached Chen Feng at an extremely fast speed. In less than a second, the balloon, which was originally ten steps away, was now within arm's reach!

Damn, that's actually kind of scary.

Although Chen Feng said he was scared, he decisively pulled the trigger.

With a bang.

Faced with such a high-speed object, Chen Feng unsurprisingly missed.

Grass!

Chen Feng cursed under his breath, but to his surprise, after hearing the gunshot, the smiley face balloon that had rushed in front of him suddenly stopped in place, as if it had been frightened.

There's a flaw!

Taking advantage of the momentary pause, Chen Feng quickly stepped forward and shoved the gun barrel into the other man's mouth.

"This is the first one."

Chen Feng pulled the trigger, and the smiley face balloon burst instantly in front of him, splashing blood all over him.

bah bah bah!

Chen Feng endured the fishy smell and went forward to check the situation.

First, there was the balloon monster's rope tail. Chen Feng wanted to pick it up and take a look, but as soon as he touched it, he felt like he had been stung by a scorpion, and it hurt terribly.

bleeding.

That's incredibly sharp!

The avatar can inherit 100% of the original's skills. In front of a C-rank hero's body, even a man-eating goldfish with sharp teeth can only leave a white mark.

"And this inconspicuous rope actually managed to cut my hand?"

"If that cuts my neck, wouldn't it separate my head from my body?"

With a sense of unease, Chen Feng continued searching. Among the rubber fragments of the balloon, he found no trace of the bullet, but instead, a steel ball lay in the mud not far ahead.

Two shots were fired, but only one was fired?

Chen Feng pondered for a moment:

"The bullets will disappear after hitting the balloon, but the bullets that miss can be recycled."

"I think I understand what the rule means when it says one bullet, one monster."

"Not only that, judging from what we just saw, even if the bullets have all been fired, the balloon can still be kept stationary for at least a second."

"You can hit a stationary target, even a pig."

To verify his hypothesis.

Chen Feng retrieved the bullets and began searching for his next target.

The second balloon monster found was lying on the ground, gnawing on the flesh and blood of the failed tourists.

The scene was so bloody and mangled that most people would wet their pants.

But Chen Feng calmly raised his hand, fired a shot into the air, freezing the smiley face balloon, and then began to silently count down the time.

"One second, two seconds, three seconds."

The smiley face balloon suddenly resumed its movement and rushed towards Chen Feng.

Is the control time longer than three seconds?

Chen Feng remained calm and pulled the trigger, freezing the balloon again before calmly killing it.

"Tests have shown that the control effect can be reused."

"That leaves only one question."

Chen Feng discovered a dead end: one bullet for each monster. When facing the last monster, he would only have one bullet left to repel it, with no other bullets to control it.

So the last shot absolutely cannot miss!

This is still quite difficult.

Chen Feng asked himself honestly, given how fast the balloon was moving and how one shot could kill it, he wasn't even 10% sure he could win.

No wonder the first three crashed out; it turns out they were the ones who failed last. That makes sense now.

A clumsy method flashed through Chen Feng's mind: instead of killing the monster, he would place his gun at his feet, pick up bullets, and reload, repeating this process to buy time.

Although this method is a bit ugly and you won't get any game currency, you'll definitely survive.

After all, this project did not stipulate that all monsters had to be killed.

Chen Feng continued patrolling with his gun, and within five minutes, he took down five monsters in succession.

"There are only three left now."

The seventh balloon monster did not appear directly, but hid in the shadows, constantly making "hehehehehe" laugh sounds.

Chen Feng followed the sound and found the balloon monster hiding behind a tree, with only a thin black line of its tail showing.

Such blatant seduction must be what Meng Chengcheng was referring to.

Chen Feng looked up and, sure enough, saw a loose thread peeking out from among the leaves.

"If we hadn't received Meng Chengcheng's warning, rushing in rashly would have meant being attacked from both above and below, and we would have been in grave danger."

The more Chen Feng thought about this, the more he understood Meng Chengcheng's importance.

A medium, what an amazing ability!

Chen Feng raised his gun, fired a shot, which stunned the two balloons, and then popped them one by one.

"There's only one left now."

"And I, too, have no bullets left to control."

Chen Feng reloaded the last steel ball; the closer he got to the last one, the less careless he could be.

The last one was even more cunning than the others; it didn't even laugh anymore.

The entire forest was eerily quiet.

The lack of sound as a warning made Chen Feng somewhat paranoid; perhaps in the next second, the balloon monster would attack from some direction and strangle him.

We must not act rashly!

Chen Feng waited patiently, when a commotion came from afar.

coming!

Chen Feng perked up, only to hear the snip of scissors; it was the boss.

Damn! Game time's over.

Chen Feng felt a little regretful; he was just one step away from achieving perfection. He only needed to kill one more enemy to get the game coins.

But Chen Feng didn't regret it.

Taking the initiative is too risky. He's not Liu Xiaohu. For him, getting game coins and completing organizational tasks are just side things; checking in and clocking in are the real priorities.

Just wait until the time comes to complete the check-in; there's no need to push yourself to the limit and ruin your persona.

As Chen Feng pondered this, his expression suddenly changed.

wrong!