ITGR Chapter 76

“Why can’t he be one of us?” Lian Yu raised his hand to take off his mask, wanting to show off to Coco. However, halfway through his motion, he suddenly realized something and quickly put it back on before anyone could see his face. 

Dark Sentinel 1802, carrying three tons of idol baggage, finally remembered that his current face was completely unbearable to be seen by others. 

On the other hand, the real man Yao Jin, with his unshaven beard, heavy eye bags, and a scar on his nose, didn’t care about his image at all. 

“He is my lover, Lian Yu, the one who got sold as a sex slave by Man Yun.” Cen Zhen briefly introduced: “He killed a masked killer, took his place, and sneaked into the Slave Arena.” 

Coco wondered if someone had smashed his head and his brains were flowing out. Why did he start to hear hallucinations? 

Killed a masked killer? That was a masked killer, not a breadman. When he was on the run just now, he saw with his own eyes that a masked killer cut people like cutting vegetables and tearing people like paper. Four or five strong war slaves attacking together still can’t beat a masked killer. 

Sneaked in by replacing one’s identity? This is the Slave Fighting Arena in the Slave Market, not some farmhouse cockfighting arena in a tourist resort. They are all engaged in a lucrative business with blood on the edge of a knife. There are surveillance, chips, and countless eyes staring at this place. How could someone come and go so easily? 

The Werewolf felt more and more absurd, but the facts were before him, leaving him no room for doubt. After five seconds of hesitation, his worldview showed signs of collapsing, and doubted everything about life. He slowly sat on the ground with his bleeding head covered, and said incoherently: “Then should I run away now?” 

Only Cen Zhen understood what he said. He couldn’t help but smile, and his eyes swept across Lian Yu beside him, “Maybe… there’s no need for the time being?” 

On the other side, ShouHe violently cracked the medical box deformed by being smashed like a brick and could no longer be opened normally. After he opened the box, his movements became much gentler, fearing that the already endangered medicines inside would be made worse. However, the contents of the box were destined to disappoint them, unfortunately. 

There were no medical supplies, only huge stone bricks fixed on the sides of the box. It was not wrong to call it a brick before. 

But it makes sense. How could the Slave Market really give a particular slave real medicine and medical equipment? The slaves in the Slave Arena are disposable consumables. If they die, they die. Regardless, there will only be one slave left in the end. 

Perhaps the eyes behind the screen are even expecting to see a seriously injured slave trying his best to open the medical box, thinking that he can be saved, but sees a box of stones and collapses in despair. 

The Werewolf whispered: “No wonder it hurts so much to swing and smash people.” 

Yao Jin doesn’t have much hope in the first place, so he is not disappointed, but ShouHe feels very sorry. More importantly, the blood on the Werewolf’s head keeps flowing. As long as they abide by the rules of the Slave Fighting Arena they can hold on for a long time, but the Werewolf is likely to be in danger of life soon due to excessive blood loss. 

“No way?” The Werewolf Coco was shocked. Seeing ShouHe’s worried look, he said in surprise: “What relationship do we have between us? We are all strangers. You don’t have to care about my life or death. Similarly, I won’t care about yours.” 

His declaration of independence to sever ties was like speaking to a deaf ear. No one paid attention to him. ShouHe treated him as a tsundere and turned around to discuss how to break the seemingly deadlock with Cen Zhen and Yao Jin. 

“The most critical problem is the slave chip.” He said, “As long as I can get out of its control, I can end this farce immediately… Maybe I can try to push and hold on, as long as we can get hold of the chip controller before the Slave Market issues a destruction order.” 

“We can’t hold on.” Yao Jin’s face was pale, as if he recalled some terrible scene, “I as an S-level Sentinel can’t even stand the intensity of the intermediate punishment alone, and we don’t know where the controller is.” 

At this point, Yao Jin finally found the direction to solve the problem vaguely. He turned his head to look at Lian Yu and asked: “Did you get any information about this before?” 

Lian Yu raised his eyebrows behind the mask, ” No. ” 

Yao Jin sighed and did not force it, “At least you and Cen Zhen are safe. When we reach the end of the arena, even if I die here, I will try my best to send you out.” 

“……” Lian Yu choked and swallowed the transition words he had prepared, “Then I… shall thank you first? ? ” 

Cen Zhen closed his eyes, feeling that if things continued like this, his Sentinel would suffocate to death trying to act cool, “He has a way.” 

This sentence made ShouHe, Yao Jin, and Coco raise their heads and look at him in unison. Cen Zhen looked at the three pairs of doggy eyes in front of him looking exactly the same – Tibetan Mastiff, Samoyed, and Blackback, and reiterated again: “Lian Yu has a way, believe him, he is very capable.” 

The golden retriever finally felt comfortable. 

Lian Yu once again became the focus of everyone’s attention in the container. He coughed lightly, patted the lion’s head beside his leg, and signaled it not to wag its tail like a dog: “That’s true.” 

Cen Zhen, the professional dog breeder, felt a little tired deep inside. 

“My approach is based on Cen Zhen’s role.” Lian Yu gestured to Cen Zhen to take out his ID card. “I noticed it previously, hacker, after the research center is connected to the Internet, all electronic technology products are open to you. Do the so-called electronic technology products here include the controller of the slave chip?” 

“I think this ID card is hinting to Cen Zhen that his goal is not to kill people with real swords and guns but to try to connect to the Internet and then control the chips of all the remaining war slaves to wipe them out all at once.” 

“Thus my method is simple. As long as there is a way to the control mechanism of the slave chip, I can reverse the control and disconnect it.” After speaking, Lian Yu and Cen Zhen looked at each other, and the two smiled at each other tacitly. After all, the former undeniably is still in heat. Even if he knew they were in public and Yao Jin as his own kind would understand the meaning of certain actions, he still couldn’t help but get close to Cen Zhen’s neck. He took a deep breath, stretched his hands out to hook the Guide’s neck strap, and tried to touch his skin going under the strap with his fingertips. 

Yao Jin quickly shifted his sight and pretended to be blind. 

Since Lian Yu dared to say so, ShouHe dared to believe it. He opened the map on the bracelet and quickly scanned all the areas. “So what we need to do now is to connect the research center to the Internet?” 

“No, the first thing is to find the research center.” Lian Yu stood next to ShouHe and looked at the map. “To be precise, it is the core area of ​​the research center, which is the specific lair of the scientist who captured you. We don’t know where the core is yet.” 

“Now that you mention it…” Yao Jin suddenly found a blind spot. “This small island is called the research center. The scientist captured so many people to do experiments and develop superhuman bodies. Yet, this map only shows areas like commercial areas, parks, and beaches, but no research areas, experimental bases, or anything like that. ” 

Cen Zhen also opened his map and lowered his eyes, “I’ve thought about this. I originally thought that the most likely place for the scientist to do experiments was the hospital, but Coco and I just came from the hospital. The container cells there are just like the ones here, and there is nothing suspicious.” 

“Is that the school?” The Werewolf finally couldn’t help but join the discussion with his leaky head. A wild orc like him has no other advantages, but a strong vitality. If he has a chance to survive, how could he be determined to die? 

“It’s possible,” Lian Yu tapped his nails on the map, “But I prefer a different answer—” 

“The core area is not marked on the map at all.” Cen Zhen took over for him naturally. Lian Yu couldn’t help but bend his eyes and smile at Cen Zhen again. 

Werewolf: “……” 

Werewolf: “Tsk. ” These two are so annoying. Why are they spreading dog food when discussing business? I, a werewolf, don’t eat these annoying things. 

ShouHe’s concentration is much stronger than that of the Werewolf. He ignored it and continued to analyze the situation: “If this is the case, then we can only sweep every corner of the Slave Arena.” 

“We must hurry up.” Yao Jin frowned and said, “There are more and more restricted areas, and we will have fewer areas to move to, and fewer places to search.” 

“That’s right, there is no time to lose.” ShouHe looked at the others, “We don’t have any communication methods, so it’s not wise to split up and search. It’s best to act together. There is a patient here, and a brothel customer who has to rest every 500 meters. Cen Zhen and Lian Yu are both Guides, so I suggest using the method I mentioned before.” 

Cen Zhen: “……” 

Yao Jin: “…Uh, so that… Never mind.” 

Lian Yu: “…Actually, I’m not a Guide… (Sigh), never mind.” 

Facing the silence and hesitation of the three people, the Werewolf didn’t realize the suggestion was definitely a bad idea. He asked blankly: “What’s the method you mentioned before?” 

A minute later, the Werewolf Coco got the answer…… He spat out the bloody hair brought into his mouth by the wind and felt that the little brain left in his head was also about to get blown away. Otherwise, how could he be willing to get on this damn ridiculous bed car? Finally, the werewolf howled in shame and anger covering his face with his claws. Beside him sat Yao Jin with flying red hair. In order to let ShouHe have physical contact, he had to sit in the front and extend his ankles out of the bed for ShouHe to hold. The howling wind made it impossible for him to open his eyes. 

If he knew that he was actually the male protagonist of this world, and there is no such damn Slave Market plot in the original story. Instead, he should be sleeping on the soft and gorgeous bed of the Jiao Princess, with countless servants serving him, offering him delicious food and wine, yet he still had a cold face and was uncooperative. It’s interesting to wonder how Yao Jin would feel.

On the other side of the bed sat Cen Zhen and Lian Yu. Lian Yu was no longer using the identity of a masked killer. He took off his mask and casually put on a corpse’s clothes. He naturally nestled in Cen Zhen’s arms, closed his hearing, and could only sense the Guide’s pheromones surrounding him. He was so happy that he collapsed into a lion cake. 

Cen Zhen listened to the creaking sound of the bed board beside his ear and was very worried that this poor-quality bed board would fall apart under the concerted efforts of the four bros. 

ShouHe’s abnormal behavior must have attracted the attention of the Slave Market, but they didn’t care. It was impossible to hide it anyway, so it was better to fight a quick battle and solve the only threat before the Slave Market realized the seriousness of the problem. 

The ‘amazing’ scene of one man carrying four men was a beautiful scenery wherever they went. At first, all the war slaves avoided them from a distance, but when ShouHe ran through one-third of ​​the Slave Arena, suddenly a row of bullet holes hit his footsteps. One of the bullets almost grazed the tip of the Werewolf’s ear. If Yao Jin hadn’t pulled him quickly, the bullet would have hit the back of Coco’s head, leaving a fatal scar on his already bleeding wound. 

The Werewolf turned his head in shock, his ears pointed. Yao Jin pressed his shoulders and said seriously, “Come sit next to me, I will protect you, bullets can’t be faster than my reaction.” 

On the other side, Lian Yu raised his head from Cen Zhen’s neck and asked, “Why did they suddenly start attacking us?” 

Because several people were blocking the way ahead, ShouHe had to slow down his pace. Cen Zhen carefully observed the surroundings: “I don’t know. There is more than one group of people. This is very strange. Did the Slave Arena give an order?” 

Lian Yu felt that Cen Zhen’s guess made sense. He rubbed the completely invisible communicator on the nail of his right pinky, put it to his lips, and whispered, “Pan, check what’s going on.” 

This was the communication set he originally prepared for Cen Zhen to use so that Cen Zhen could reply to his messages at any time. In the early stage of heat, he was still thinking about how to send it to Cen Zhen in the Slave Arena. In the later stage of heat, his IQ cleared out, and sent himself in on express, and personally delivered it to the Slave Arena. 

The other end of the communicator was clearly unprepared. After a flurry of knocking, Pan’s tentative and hesitant voice came cautiously: “Is this Lian Yu?” 

“Yes, that’s right, it’s me.” 

“Oh my God… Are you a god? How can you do anything and everything?” Pan was amazed from the bottom of his heart. 

In fact, Cen Zhen was also a little surprised. Lian Yu was too omnipotent. He could always open a door when he thought there was no way out of a desperate situation. 

However, when he remembered that the person next to him was Dark Sentinel 1802 in the book, Cen Zhen was indifferent again. He could only say that he was indeed worthy of his reputation. Unless it was an overpowering individual like ShouHe, no one or any organization could deal with him. 

And ShouHe was only responsible for arresting, and not detaining, so as soon as he left, Lian Yu escaped from prison the next day. 

 

Original Author’s Note: 

Brother Zhen: After all, I couldn’t escape the fate of being traffic light… 

Catfish: Wrong, there is one extra person, it’s Four Happiness Meatballs.

 

Translator’s Note:

Dog food: There’s a Chinese slang that refers single people as dogs and when other couples are being touchy and showing off, they are producing ‘dog foods’ 

Lion Cake: Related to hamster cake, when hamsters felt safe and comfortable they relaxed to a flat cookie shape

Four Happiness Meatballs is a famous Chinese cuisine. It represents the four great joys of life: good fortune, wealth, longevity, and joy.

Can you count how many times the phrases ‘can’t/couldn’t help but’ and ‘on the other hand/side’ showed up in this chapter……