Chapter 123: A Raven That's Clearly Not Up to Any Good
When Mo Fei opened the snake urn, a black mamba emerged from it.
The black mamba, a member of the Elapidae family, is Africa's longest and most terrifying venomous snake, the fastest crawling snake in the World, capable of speeds up to 1h, and the most lethal snake worldwide. Its average length is 2.4 meters, with a maximum of 4.48 meters.
With Mo Fei, a Transcendent, a small black mamba was naturally an easy catch.
There was no missing map inside the snake urn, only an elephant doll and a small note.
The note only had one sentence written on it: "See the elephant, the climb begins."
However, Mo Fei, with his God's perspective, knew that this plot point was utterly useless.
Making players risk being poisoned by a black mamba, only to get nothing in return... This could only be due to the game designer's powerful background, perhaps some ancient demon god, otherwise, he would have been hacked to death by players long ago.
"According to the map and the message, our next objective is to cross a canyon and then find an elephant..."
Bethany's words suddenly stopped because many fierce-looking, grim-faced mercenaries suddenly appeared in front of them.
"Run!!"
"Why run? Leave it to me!" Mo Fei twisted his neck, producing a series of cracking sounds from his joints.
"Oh, oh!"
Bethany only now remembered that they had Mo Fei, a great Master, in their team.
The leading mercenary also spotted Mo Fei and his four companions and strode over with powerful steps.
The surrounding NPCs were all scared and retreated, not daring to approach.
They weren't carrying guns, presumably intending to capture Mo Fei and his group alive.
The mercenary leader immediately launched a fierce straight punch at Mo Fei's face.
Mo Fei's left arm parried his punch, and his right hand, clenched into a fist with his index and middle knuckles slightly protruding, delivered a powerful blow to his stomach.
Instantly, he felt a piercing pain emanating from his stomach, and the intense pain assaulted his brain, causing him to lose the ability to stand. He fell to the ground, his muscles began to spasm, and he completely lost his fighting capability.
Next was the second one, who charged at Mo Fei with a sneer, swinging his fist.
Mo Fei had a faint smile on his lips as he effortlessly blocked the man's heavy punch, then kicked out, striking the man squarely in the chest.
The man's burly frame was sent flying by Mo Fei's kick, soaring through the air in a graceful arc, crashing into a wall, and falling heavily to the ground, spitting out a large mouthful of fresh blood. His body convulsed, and it looked like even if he didn't die, he would be crippled for the rest of his life.
Mo Fei then swept through them like cutting melons and vegetables; those mercenaries were no match for him in a single exchange.
After all, Mo Fei, with his Level 4 Xing Yi Quan, could be considered a Transcendent; how could these ordinary people pose even the slightest threat to him?
Perhaps they were getting desperate from being beaten; the few people behind them gave up on the idea of capturing Mo Fei and his group alive and pulled out revolvers.
Mo Fei chuckled, "I wanted to play house with you guys and stretch my muscles, but you didn't appreciate it. So, don't blame me for what comes next!"
A phantom flashed, and Mo Fei, who was five or six meters away from them, instantly closed the distance.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
With three consecutive sounds, Mo Fei's three lightning-fast kicks sent them flying.
Three revolvers appeared in Mo Fei's hands.
"Caw! Caw!"
Above their heads, a crow's cry suddenly sounded from a nearby eaves.
Mo Fei's perception ability detected something amiss. He looked up and saw that the crow's eyes were blood-red; it clearly wasn't a normal crow.
Mo Fei narrowed his eyes, took the revolver in his hand, raised his arm, and fired two bullets.
But the crow was also very agile and managed to dodge the two bullets Mo Fei fired.
"Idiot human, still trying to hit me? Caw! Caw!" It showed a disdainful expression: "But things have changed; I need to go back and inform Master quickly."
But!
Those two bullets, which had flown straight, suddenly changed direction at some point... curving around.
"Caw! Caw! How can this be? Master, Master, come quickly, your bird has been hit!"
(Professor Van Pelt: "...")
A look of terror flashed in the crow's eyes as it was blown apart by the two bullets.
[Ding-dong! Congratulations, Host, for independently comprehending the skill - Curved Shot.]
Such an unexpected bonus?
Mo Fei nodded in satisfaction.
Curved Shot had a complete set of training techniques in the Assassin Alliance, but even the top assassins within the Assassin Alliance rarely managed to learn it.
Generally speaking, only those who had learned Bullet Time could then learn Curved Shot, because Curved Shot had extremely stringent requirements for perception, body control, speed, and various other aspects.
After Mo Fei gained Transcendent power and the Bullet Time skill, he also spent a long time learning Curved Shot with Mindy, but he never managed to learn it. Mo Fei almost thought he would never learn it in this life.
He didn't expect to get such an unexpected bonus from hitting a crow.
In fact, this was the result of Mo Fei's accumulated training over the previous period; without that early accumulation, it would be a miracle if he could comprehend Curved Shot on his own now!
"You... you've finally come..." At this moment, a young man in a brownish-yellow leather jacket pushed through the crowd. He was disheveled, like a beggar, and came before Mo Fei and his four companions, tears welling up in his eyes from excitement. He knelt down and cried bitterly: "Three months, I've been stuck in this primitive World for three full months! No San Fernando Valley, no Playboy magazine, no Japanese ladies... Everything is so utterly boring!! Three months! Now I finally have hope of getting out!"
Alright, this young man was another character in the game, "Seaplane" Mike McDonnell, whose real name was Alex.
His specialties were flying planes and mixing cocktails, and his weakness was mosquitoes.
However, this pilot's luck wasn't good. During the few months he was trapped in the game, he failed twice in his attempts to reach the next level. The first time, he was shot down from a hot air balloon by ape-men and died once; the second time, his plane was shot down by a fighter jet, and he died again. Now he only had one life left, so he didn't dare to proceed.
He invited Mo Fei and his group to his forest cabin and even offered them homemade cocktails.
However, when Mo Fei and the others suggested going to the next level, Alex hesitated: "It's already so late; why don't we rest for the night and go tomorrow?"
In reality, it was because he only had one life left and was afraid of dying in this game, so... no matter how Bethany, Spencer, and the others, who wanted to go home, tried to persuade him, he refused to budge and wouldn't go with Mo Fei and the others to steal the helicopter and then proceed to the next level.
Mo Fei was getting a little impatient. Did he really think that just because he was Taylor Swift's rumored boyfriend, he needed to give him face?