Chapter 18: Foolish Kindness
"asshole!"
Andrew's tearful voice suddenly rang out from behind Li Qing: "What have you done!"
Looking at the fire that was rapidly spreading across the ship, and seeing the flames about to explode the oil tank, he finally instinctively overcame his fear of the "bald madman":
"Didn't I tell you not to smoke on the boat?"
"This ship... this ship is going to be blown up by you!"
"I know."
"This ship is going to blow up."
Li Qing shrugged his shoulders and said calmly: "So..."
"So?" Andrew had a very bad feeling.
"Take care, Captain. See you later!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Qing turned around and jumped into the sea.
The flames quickly spread along the trace of gasoline leakage all the way to the yacht's oil tank.
The large amount of gasoline stored in the oil tank exploded instantly, and a thunderous sound resounded in all directions.
The yacht, which was made entirely of steel, was torn into pieces by the blast like a piece of fragile paper. Fireballs carrying gasoline shot out in all directions like flowers scattered by fairies, creating a short, brilliant but deadly meteor shower on the sea.
At this time, Li Qing had already escaped safely underwater, and found a place that was not covered by kerosene and surfaced.
The flames on the sea surface burned more and more fiercely. The yacht broke into two pieces after the explosion and slowly sank into the sea.
Looking at this doomsday-like scene, Li Qing smiled:
"Very good, the plan was successful."
"But the experience hasn't been acquired yet, which means that guy isn't dead yet."
He turned his head and looked at Skaalo, who was slumped over in the speedboat's driver's seat, with severe burns all over his body.
"So…"
"Just let me 'do him a small favor'!"
Li Qing thought so in his heart, and swam quickly towards the half-dead Skayaro.
At this moment, a heart-wrenching cry came from the sinking yacht behind him:
"Help! Help!"
Andrew cried bitterly and hugged the broken railing of the yacht, his eyes full of fear and despair.
There was a sea of fire with floating fuel all around, and the wrecked yacht under my feet was about to sink in the flames.
He had no way to escape or hide, and could only move his fat body with difficulty, and under the pressure of the heat waves and flames, he kept retreating towards the bow of the ship where there was no way out.
"oh…"
"So he's not dead yet."
Li Qing's expression was very indifferent——
He never considered taking care of Andrew's life from the beginning.
On the one hand, the hull exploded very quickly, and he really didn't have time to turn back and jump into the sea with Andrew.
On the other hand…
He never considered Andrew as a "human being" from the beginning to the end.
Whether it was Amor and Diablo whom he had met before, or Andrew and Scyaro whom he met now, all the people in this world, after awakening their digitization abilities, Li Qing, who had replaced himself with the role of a game player, strictly speaking, was not equal to himself in his eyes, but...
NPC.
NPCs are not human, so he kills without any scruples.
People don’t remember how many pieces of bread they have eaten, and for game players, how many soldiers have died in front of them?
"May the best be to you."
"I still have to go over there to finish off the enemy and get the reward."
Li Qing ignored Andrew's desperate wails and continued to swim towards where Skayaro was .
But the heart-wrenching cry for help still echoed on the sea:
"Save me, please...save me!"
“I want to go home…”
"God... no, Mom, I want to go home..."
This middle-aged fat man, who was at least 40 years old, called out to his mother in a cowardly manner.
Under the approaching flames and the increasingly scorching heat, Li Qing swam farther and farther away, and Andrew's cries for help became weaker and weaker.
Then, he stopped crying in despair.
The world was quiet, and only the raging hot wind caused by the flames was still howling on the sea.
“Damn it…”
Li Qing's calm expression showed some fluctuations:
"What are you yelling about...it's so noisy!"
"Fatty, I'll make you shut up when I get back!"
He suddenly stopped walking away and turned around to swim towards the sinking yacht.
At this moment, the yacht was already surrounded by flames.
Li Qing had no other choice but to rely on his digitized body that was not afraid of pain to forcibly create a passage in the sea of fire.
The flames devoured his body, causing his health, which was only half left after the battle, to drop rapidly.
Finally, when his health dropped to only 5%, Li Qing finally returned to the yacht in the flames and dragged Andrew, who was already desperate and waiting to die, to a safe place.
"Thanks…"
"Thank you, Mr. Baldhead!"
Andrew hugged Li Qing's thighs and cried incoherently.
Although he knew that what happened to him today was entirely caused by this bald guy, he also knew in his heart that there was no need for Li Qing to take the risk to save him just now.
For a good person, not only is this not considered a good deed, he should also be held accountable for blowing up the ship and harming people.
However, if such deeds were attributed to Li Qing, the "bald mafia", it would be a touching story of "instant enlightenment".
So, Andrew now seems to have Stockholm syndrome, and regards Li Qing as his savior, the kind of gangster knight in the movies who is both good and evil and respected by everyone.
He thanked Li Qing from the bottom of his heart, but Li Qing only responded with cold words:
“Don’t waste time!”
"This boat is about to sink. There is a speedboat over there. Come with me and swim over."
“Yes, yes!”
Andrew nodded gratefully, then obediently followed Li Qing to swim towards the speedboat where Skayaro was not far away.
As he swam, he suddenly stared at Li Qing's back in a daze:
"Huh?"
"Mr. Bald..., why is there a..."
“The green frame?”
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The speedboat that Skayaro was on was not too far away, and Li Qing and Andrew swam across the short distance of just a few dozen meters quickly.
And Skayaro still seemed to have not woken up from his coma due to serious injuries.
His entire body was covered with indistinguishable black and red burns, and he collapsed unconscious on the speedboat that was like a coffin.
"Still unconscious?"
Li Qing cautiously stopped ten meters away from the speedboat.
After a brief observation, he turned to Andrew beside him and said:
"Don't swim here for now. I'll call you over after I make sure it's safe."
Andrew nodded obediently, and Li Qing left Andrew behind and swam to the speedboat in one or two breaths.
But at this moment...
On the boat, Skayaro, who looked like a dead pig that had been roasted too much, suddenly opened his eyes whose eyelids were burnt.
His eyes were filled with pain, and murderous intent as violent as fire and as cold as ice:
"Li Qing, you're finally here..."
Skaaro roared in a low voice with his broken throat:
"You shouldn't have given me the chance."
"If you had just come over to take my life, I might not have had a chance to resist."
"But you insisted on saving that useless fat man. Not only did you give me time to recover, but you also consumed your own 'life' to this extent in the sea of fire."
He looked at the red health bar above Li Qing's head, which was less than 10%, and smiled a triumphant smile with difficulty:
"Hahaha…"
"Because of your foolish kindness, in the end... in the end I still won!"
"Go ahead!"
Shikya Luo endured the severe pain from the burns and released the last bit of spiritual energy he could drive:
"This is my last stand——〔Impact〕!"
The giant shark reappears!
Its huge body, which was twenty meters long, appeared on the sea in an instant, and its appearance caused the white waves to soar into the sky.
In the next second, this body as heavy as a mountain will fall on Li Qing from top to bottom.
Under this overwhelming large-scale attack, he had nowhere to escape.
However, the Echo Shot requires the successful positioning of the target by first releasing the Sky Sound Wave before achieving high-speed displacement. If you only think of using it now, it is already too late.
"I won. I won."
"I can make it to the lunch appointment with Di Chano!"
Shikayaro's eyes widened, with an indescribable light flashing in them.
However, at this moment...
Li Qing's face once again showed that annoying calm expression:
"Feel sorry."
"I have to correct you. My foolish kindness is not completely unrewarded."
"At least…"
"That useless fat guy you mentioned is now my 'teammate'."
As soon as he finished speaking, his figure suddenly turned into a gust of wind and lightning, rushing towards Andrew who was far outside the attack range of [Impact]:
"Golden Bell Cover!"
