Trembling At A High Altitude

After stepping out of the elevator, there was a quiet corridor.

At the end of the corridor, there was a room, the doorknob turned easily and the door opened.

Upon entering, it was a separate room with another door on the opposite side, but it was locked.

In the center of the room, there was a table.

On the table, there was something resembling a timer.

Below the screen of the timer, there was a line of small text.

"Please disassemble and reassemble the handgun within five seconds."

It looked like to enter the next door, one must first complete this task.

Li Teng pulled out the manual for the handgun, which indeed contained details on disassembly.

After pressing the timer, Li Teng clumsily completed the first disassembly and reassembly.

It took a total of three minutes.

"Three minutes to five seconds, here we go again!"

"What's the point of this?"

Li Teng lamented.

There's nothing to say, this task didn't require much skill, it was just a matter of practice making perfect.

The second time, Li Teng was much more proficient, reducing the time to two minutes.

Then to one minute.

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Under ten seconds was difficult to improve upon.

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Three days later.

"4.9 seconds! I've finally done it!"

Cheers from Li Teng echoed in the room.

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The door to the next room opened.

This room was a handgun shooting range.

Ten shots, achieve a score of one hundred to pass.

Without a word, he buckled down and practiced.

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The next room.

Moving targets.

Continue practicing.

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The next room, shooting at moving cardboard bad guys.

But don't hit the hostages.

Keep practicing.

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The next room, shooting while on the move training.

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The next room, running and shooting training.

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The next room...

The next room...

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One month later, Li Teng reached the final level.

He had already mastered the basic skills of handgun shooting.

A new treasure chest appeared here.

The chest contained an assault rifle and magazines for exchange.

Next, of course, was the training course on the use of assault rifles.

60-day countdown ended.

Li Teng chose to continue.

He never touched the words "Prison Break" during the 30-day countdown.

After the assault rifle training, came the use of the shotgun.

Then the sniper rifle.

And the use of weapons like machine guns and rocket launchers.

Then training with hand grenades, flashbangs, and other throwable weapons.

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Two years later, Li Teng finally cleared level -17 of the basement.

He received another key, the key to basement level -18.

Basement level -18, was real combat training.

Inside, instead of individual rooms, there were large halls set up as various scenes.

In the first big hall, there was an enemy hiding within the structure; Li Teng had to kill him to pass the level.

Target practice and real combat were entirely different things.

The enemy had very accurate marksmanship, and Li Teng was shot the moment he let his guard down.

Fortunately, as long as a certain amount of the Time Index was deducted after being killed or seriously injured, his wounds would heal, and the scene would reset.

After finally killing the enemy, the alloy doors at the end of the scene automatically opened, and Li Teng entered the second hall.

This hall was twice the size of the first, and the number of enemies inside the scene had increased to two.

Not only were their shooting skills incredibly precise, but they also cooperated with each other, using various tactics to encircle Li Teng.

It took Li Teng two days and being killed over twenty times by them before he managed to clear the level.

The third hall was twice the size of the second, and the number of enemies within the scene had increased to three.

Li Teng spent even more time and was killed many more times before clearing the level.

The fourth hall continued to expand in size, with the number of enemies in the scene increasing to four.

The difficulty of clearing the level also doubled again.

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One noonday, the military's armored vehicles and soldiers besieged Li Teng's large house.

Using the fruits of his training, Li Teng sparred with them in various ways.

Unfortunately, outnumbered and outgunned, he eventually had his arms and legs broken.

This place was different from the training ground; there was no reset, so he could only wait for the next time, possibly half a month or a month later, when it would be their turn to come and kill Li Teng again before he could try anew.

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By the time he reached the tenth hall, Li Teng had been killed over three hundred times, taking half a year to clear it.

He no longer remembered how long he had stayed here, nor how many times the 60-day countdown had been reset.

After clearing the tenth hall, Li Teng entered a small room through the alloy doors at the end of the scene.

In the middle of the room, there was a treasure chest.

On the opposite side was a locked alloy door.

"Congratulations, you have completed all the content of this script."

"There are no rewards left for you, please break out of prison as soon as possible."

There were no options to exchange treasures on the screen of the chest's lid, only two lines of text.

"This is unscientific! The iron gate upstairs hasn't been opened yet!"

"Also, where does this locked alloy door opposite lead to?"

Li Teng's compulsiveness kicked in again.

No one provided an answer.

Li Teng tried to attack the alloy door with grenades, rocket launchers, and other weapons, resulting in his own severe injuries, but the alloy door remained unyielding.

Back in the large house, Li Teng attacked the iron gate in the same manner.

The whole house was blown to pieces.

Yet, there was nothing to be found in the rubble.

"Have I really cleared it?" Li Teng was not content.

He decided to accomplish one last thing.

That was to wait for the next time the military's armored vehicles and soldiers came to besiege the large house.

After a while, Li Teng re-entered the underground combat training ground.

All the training scenes had been reset, and he started again from the first scene.

This time, he did not lose a single life and managed to fight his way to the fifth scene before finally falling.

Reviving, he continued with the fifth scene.

The 60-day countdown ended over and over, then restarted again and again.

Time passed, but it was unclear how much.

One noonday, on the twenty-third time being besieged by the military's armored vehicles and soldiers, Li Teng finally managed to counter-kill all the soldiers and, eventually, he found a key on the commander's body.

"This is it!" Li Teng was ecstatic.

The large house had been destroyed in the battle.

Using the teleport function of his wristwatch, Li Teng entered the small room behind the tenth scene.

He attempted to unlock the alloy door on the other side of the small room with the key.

However, he failed.

There was still the iron gate on the second floor of the big house to try.

To find out if the key was for the second-floor iron gate, he had to wait until midnight for the large house to reset.

Nothing special had ever been discovered in the rubble after the house collapsed each time.

Even if the key was for the iron gate on the second floor, Li Teng still felt he would likely be disappointed.

Having persisted here for so long, he was determined to find the answer before leaving, no matter what.

Time slowly slipped away.

Approaching midnight.

Midnight arrived, and the large house was reset.

Li Teng immediately rushed to the second floor.