ICUGW Chapter 7

Chapter 7 Mission Completed

An entire fish head was attached on the window. The train was still running at high speed, and the face of the contaminant was a little deformed by the pressure.

Zhu Ning saw the contaminant, and the contaminant also saw Zhu Ning.

Zhu Ning acted decisively. She opened the train door and started shooting at the window while Li Nianchuan was stunned.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

The bullet pierced the car window and strong winds blew in from outside. Before Li Nianchuan could react, Zhu Ning raised her gun and shot at the roof of the train.

"Follow my aim and shoot." Zhu Ning gave an order decisively.

Li Nianchuan moved on instinct; he immediately stopped reading the recipe and followed Zhu Ning's movements, hitting wherever Zhu Ning aimed.

Fortunately, their guns use air bullets. Otherwise, when shooting in a confined metal space, real bullets would bounce back and might injure someone by mistake.

There were bullet holes on the roof, and more and more wind leaked in. It was obvious that something was crawling on the roof.

It was larger and heavier than a human. Every move it made left dents on the train roof.

A normal subway train would be sturdy because of its metal composition, but the contaminated area's train almost collapsed under the barrage of bullets. The gun's air bullets were not considered strong, yet it could cause so much damage on the train. It could only mean one thing.

They have discovered the source of pollution, and it weakened the contaminated area's stability.

Zhu Ning wanted to curse.

'Why are cleaners only equipped with air guns? If we had a machine gun, the fight would have been over by now.'

The power of air bullets is limited; it can't hit very far, and reloading takes time, and it can't directly kill contaminants.

Suddenly, the lights inside the train began to flash violently before completely shutting down.

Zhu Ning frowned. The night vision function of the helmet had not been adjusted. She held the gun in one hand and moved slowly.

The passengers in the car stared at Zhu Ning. They let out low growls, like the howls of wild animals looking at their prey.

The contaminated area is nearing its collapse.

Zhu Ning was still looking around when her pupils contracted.

Crash!

A hand with a sharp fish fin pierced through the train's window, grabbed Zhu Ning's neck, and then yanked her forcefully. Under Li Nianchuan's surprised eyes, the fish hand directly pulled Zhu Ning out of the train.

Li Nianchuan shot at the fish-hand that suddenly emerged from the darkness, but it was too late.

The train was running at a high speed and Li Nianchuan was still on board. In just a few seconds, the train zoomed past. Li Nianchuan and Zhu Ning lost contact.

When the fish man pulled her out, Zhu Ning reacted very quickly. She pressed the inflation button on her work clothes. The inside of the suit was filled with air, turning from a motorcycle leather suit into a "space suit".

The inflatable work clothes provided her with additional cushioning, protecting her body when she fell off the rails after she was pulled by the fish man.

Zhu Ning rolled over for more than ten times. When she came to her senses, the fish man grabbed her neck and straddled her stomach.

Her gun was lost when she rolled down.

This was a subway rail track, and Zhu Ning was lying with her back on the stones of the track; a mad fish man on top of her.

The fish man's eyes were as big as fists and completely bloodshot. In the center of the fish man's eyes were swirling vortices. The vortices were spinning at an extremely strange speed, making people feel dizzy just by looking at it.

" H a v e y o u s e e n t h e l a s t t r a i n ? " The fish man grabbed Zhu Ning's neck. It wanted to take off her helmet.

Zhu Ning breathed deeply and kept kicking it in the abdomen.

She can't let it take off her helmet. Once her helmet was pulled off, Zhu Ning would definitely be contaminated.

"I c o u l d n ' t c a t c h t h e t r a i n ." The fish man said as he tried to violently tear off Zhu Ning's helmet.

"M y d a u g h t e r i s s t i l l w a i t i n g f o r m e a t h o m e . I h a v e n ' t s p o k e n t o h e r f o r d a y s . "

"I c o u l d n ' t c a t c h t h e t r a i n ."

It kept repeating these sentences.

Zhu Ning's head began to feel dizzy.

'So that's what happened.'

The fish man didn't catch the last train, so it was not on the train. It could only cling to the outside of the train.

It never got on the train even until its death.

[Mental value decreased by 10%]

[Health decreased by 20%]

[Please escape as soon as possible]

The system kept prompting her, but Zhu Ning was empty handed and she had nothing to help her escape.

[Side quest, "The Disappearance of Line 1's Last Train"

Current purification progress is 70%. ]

Good news, the purification progress is almost finished. Bad news, she was getting strangled to death by a fish man. Who knows which one would be finished first?

'What a crappy system.'

Zhu Ning continued to kick the fish man's lower abdomen.

Boom—

It was the subway. The subway was here again.

Two headlights illuminated the rails. The train was in a continuous loop, and Zhu Ning was now pinned to the tracks. Once the train rush over, she would be crushed into a pulp.

'Damn! What a vicious fish!'

Li Nianchuan was on the train. He was looking for an opportunity to get off, but the train had no intentions of stopping.

Li Nianchuan began to feel anxious. He rushed into the driver's cabin and shot the driver in the head. Then he locked himself inside.

Outside the transparent glass door were all crazy fish men scratching the door frantically to get in.

Li Nianchuan saw Zhu Ning on the railroad tracks ahead. She was being pressed down by a fish man.

"Fvck!" He immediately looked for the brakes, but no matter how hard he pulled it, the train wouldn't slow down at all.

The driver was just a decoration, the subway has its own operating rules.

"Zhu Ning!" Li Nianchuan shouted, "Get out of the way!"

Of course Zhu Ning couldn't hear it, so Li Nianchuan started to smash the train horn. Fortunately, this button worked.

"Zhu Ning!" Amid the noisy horn sound, Li Nianchuan shouted, "Get out of the way!"

Li Nianchuan, a garbage collector, didn't want to watch his fellow garbage collector be crushed into a pulp by the train.

The headlights were too bright, and Zhu Ning's already abnormal mind became even more disoriented.

The sound of the horn was so piercing that it seemed to pierce her eardrums.

Zhu Ning had no weapons or props, so she could only persistently attack the fish man's lower abdomen over and over again, hitting the same spot.

She could feel the scales on the fish man's belly crushing with blood oozing out. Zhu Ning gritted her teeth. She needed the fish man to relax for a second.

Just one second, just give her... one second.

"Hiss..." Zhu Ning heard the fish man gasp for air. She broke one of its ribs.

Right at that moment, Zhu Ning exerted force with her legs and hit the fish man in the face with her elbow, instantly turning it over and pushing it off her.

BOOM

BOOM

BOOM

The sound of the subway track was getting closer and closer.

Zhu Ning had no time to deal with the fish man. She supported herself on the edge of the platform with one hand and jumped onto the platform.

But then, her right leg sank; the fish man grabbed her ankle. Zhu Ning had just stepped onto the platform when she was almost dragged back down by the fish man.

In a critical situation where life and death are at stake, every action done would be based on instinct.

Zhu Ning raised her foot and kicked the fish man hard on the face.

BOOM

The fish man fell back onto the tracks.

The high-speed train whizzed past, and the grip on Zhu Ning's ankle loosened.

She heard a muffled sound of something getting crushed under the track.

Crunch–

The long period of lack of oxygen made her eyes go dark. She breathed deeply and looked back at the train. The train was still speeding past with no intentions of stopping.

Zhu Ning went to look at the subway tracks. Under the tracks lay a crushed fish man. Blood was everywhere, fish scales squashed, and the fish man's lower limbs were crushed and badly mangled.

If Zhu Ning hadn't reacted quickly, she would have been the one underneath.

No contaminated spores have been released, which means it wasn't completely dead yet.

Having experienced the apocalyptic world, Zhu Ning's philosophy of survival is to always finish off the enemy!

Zhu Ning immediately turned around and went to the platform wall. She smashed the emergency glass, and took out a fire axe. While the opponent was still weak, she should take advantage and give it a few more slashes.

Zhu Ning walked back carrying an axe, but was stunned when she saw the fish man.

"I . . ." The fish man leaned on the railroad tracks.

Like a real dead fish unable to open its mouth, it mumbled, "I c o u l d n ' t c a t c h t h e t r a i n ." 

It was the same sentence again. The key to mental pollution is repetition. The fish man keeps repeating this sentence.

"I c a n ' t g o h o m e . T a k i n g a t a x i w i l l c o s t m e a w e e k ' s s a l a r y ."

The fish man was choked by the blood in its throat.

"I ' m n o t w i l l i n g t o s p e n d m o n e y . T h e y w o u l d s c o l d m e . . . "

"M o c k e d m e . . . t h a t I ' m u s e l e s s , p o o r , i n c o m p e t e n t , a n d c a n ' t e v e n a f f o r d a t a x i . "

"T h e y t h i n k I ' m . . . h y p o c r i t i c a l a n d c a n ' t e n d u r e h a r d s h i p . "

Zhu Ning listened for a while, and realized that the fish man's obsession was actually this.

It's not that it lost the love of its life, it just couldn't catch the last train.

Life is full of pressure and a small thing not going right could push a person to their limits.

In this fish man's case, not catching the last train was what broke the camel's back. The last train was its last straw.

"A m I b e i n g p r e t e n t i o u s ? " The fish man raised its head covered with debris and blood.

She felt that the fish man was waiting for her to speak. Zhu Ning could not care less about this vicious fish who wanted to kill her earlier. She was not that kind to offer it comfort.

Zhu Ning stood at the edge of the platform carrying an axe. She looked at the fish man's face and said coldly, "No."

Zhu Ning always thought that the statement "can't endure hardship" was nonsense. Who would want to endure hardship when they don't have to?

The fish man was stunned for a moment, then laughed softly, "H a h a h a h a h a , y o u a n d I a r e t h e s a m e . "

Zhu Ning frowned.

'What did it mean by that?'

" T h e e n d o f t h e w o r l d i s c o m i n g , h a h a h a h a h a —" The fish man coughed twice while laughing. " T h e e n d o f t h e w o r l d i s c o m i n g . "

End of the world? What end of the world?

The fish man raised its upper body with a vitality so strong that it was shocking. It was crawling towards Zhu Ning slowly, like a friend walking towards another friend.

With a snap, the fish man's hand reached out for the platform.

Zhu Ning quickly retreated three meters away. She held the fire axe in her hand firmly; if the fish man came up again, she would chop it into a chopped pepper fish head.

"Y o u ' r e t h e s a m e a s m e . " The fish man gripped the platform with one hand, but it couldn't prop up its upper body even after using all its strength.

It looked at her at the edge of the platform, "Y o u , y o u w i l l b e c o m e l i k e m e . . . l i k e . . . l i k e . . . "

With a thump, the fish man's body fell backwards.

Zhu Ning did not loosen her hand holding the axe. She tentatively moved slowly to the edge of the platform, ready to guard against the fish man's resurrection at any time.

Eeeeeeeee–

There was a rusting sound coming from the depths of darkness. It was the train coming through again, but its sound was different from the previous roars. It sounded like a broken windmill, creaking with its parts rusted.

The train began to fall apart before it even reached the station, collapsing rapidly like a melting wax figure.

The train stopped.

The fish man was lying on the track. After death, its body quickly rotted and slowly turned into a pool of blood. Blood-like contaminated spores began to float from it.

One, two, three...

Hundreds of blood-red spores were floating in the air. The contaminated spores seemed to have life and swam like fish. They left the fish man host and struggled upwards.

But Zhu Ning was still wearing her work clothes with no exposed skin. The contaminated spores could not find a new host.

They simply bypassed Zhu Ning and floated slowly beside her. One of the contaminated spores landed on Zhu Ning's axe and rubbed the tip of the axe affectionately.

Ding

Zhu Ning heard the mechanical voice of the system in her mind:

[Congratulations on completing the side quest: "The Disappearance of Line 1's Last Train," with a purification level of 100%]

[Main Mission: Purify the Homeland

Completion rate: 1%]

[Reward settlement in progress...]

[Congratulations on receiving the basic reward: Activation of some panel data.

Restoring the mental value to 100%]

[Congratulations on receiving a purification value reward of 500. Purification value accumulation: 545]

[ Congratulations on getting the fish man reward: Rotten Fish Head ]

[ Rotten Fish Head:

Class D contaminant.

You can use mental pollution on people or contaminants repeatedly to increase your movement speed when escaping. The speed increase ranges from twice to four times the speed. Only single-person use is allowed.

Please note that using this item will consume health points, so please use it with caution.]

[Congratulations on obtaining the primary talent: Danger Premonition]

[ Danger Premonition:

Can predict danger in advance. ]

[Congratulations on receiving the side quest reward: K003 Explosives]

[Reward description:

Micro explosives.

Can blow up a 30 story building in 15 seconds.

Can be stacked three times for higher explosive power

User is immune of taking damage from this item.]

Zhu Ning: “?”

Wait, what does she need those explosives for? To destroy the world?

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The translator has something to say:

And the fish man arc is finished! I feel a bit bad for the fish man, but well...it did try to kill Zhu Ning....

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