Trembling At A High Altitude

"Old man! What a sword technique!" Mao Patrol couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

He was the one who had looked down on Li Teng the most before, and now he was the most shocked.

"Holy shit! Your uncle is indeed your uncle!" Qiu Engineering still hadn't snapped back to reality.

"I thought Uncle had been scared away! Who would've known... I'm really sorry." Doctor Zhong, although she hadn't said anything when Li Teng had escaped, still felt ashamed of herself for having misunderstood his intentions at the time.

"Are we acting in a Xianxia movie or what? This white-haired and white-bearded uncle isn't human! He's an immortal!" Wang Tongxun, his face covered in blood, also spoke up.

"So cool!"

"Can't describe what I'm feeling right now!"

The others were also dumbstruck as if witnessing a miracle.

"Brothers! The battle is not over yet, let's cross the river together and raid their camp!" Qiu Engineering yelled to everyone.

"Cross the river and raid their camp!" The rest of the group, also in a state of excitement, completely forgetting their wounds, yelled and ran with Qiu Engineering towards the riverbank, then crossed the icy river and stormed into the Barbarian Country's camp.

Li Teng, holding a saber followed behind them, would have outrun them if he hadn't deliberately slowed down his pace.

Having just successfully connected to this Scripted World, the APPs in his watch lit up one after another.

With the battle being so intense, Li Teng hadn't had time to try out these APPs one by one and only quickly opened the storage APP, taking out a machete and an Energy Drink.

In the past, on the shooting training ground, he grew older and, to replenish his energy at any time, his storage APP always had a stock of hundreds of bottles of Energy Drinks.

After moving away from the crowd and downing it in one gulp, Li Teng threw the empty bottle back into the storage APP.

The soldiers from Barbarian Country had already cornered seven of his companions into a dead end in the gorge.

At the critical moment, Li Teng attacked from behind the Barbarian Country soldiers.

The group stormed the Barbarian Country soldiers' camp, only to find a few logistic personnel inside. After tying them up, questioning them and finding the Communications Soldier, they extracted the recent military movements from him.

Things were a bit unexpected, as the elders of the Barbarian Country had actually limited them from crossing the border.

However, due to the chaotic situation within the Barbarian Country, these elders had weak control over the lower-ranking officers and soldiers, leading to unauthorized and rule-breaking actions such as building Spirit Towers across the border.

These few dozen men represented all the military force stationed nearby.

After some discussion, they left only the Communications Soldier behind; the others were forced to go to the gorge and carry the corpses one by one to the edge of a certain cliff on the barbarian tribe's side and drop them into the deep ditch filled with swamp gas below.

Then, these men were also knocked out with iron rods and pushed down.

The purpose of keeping the Communications Soldier was to have him report the military situation daily to the rulers of this region of the Barbarian Country using the Spiritual Artifact, that all was well and nothing was amiss.

Finding that Qiu Engineering and the others had arranged everything tightly without any hidden dangers, Li Teng returned to the camp early.

The Energy Drink could only keep him young for half an hour.

After half an hour, he would be even weaker and more decrepit than usual.

...

When everyone returned to the camp, they saw Li Teng looking even more listless than before.

"Old man, you're quite good at playing the weakling!" Mao Patrol walked in and, seeing Li Teng like this, thought he was pretending again.

"How did you do it? Killing so many people by yourself, do you have superpowers?" Qiu Engineering was also puzzled by the previous scene with Li Teng.

"Hehe, can you teach us some tricks? How can we reach your level of skill?" asked the others as they crowded around.

Doctor Zhong was treating the injured with a first-aid kit from her room, while curiously looking over at Li Teng.

"I've been in Film and Television City for over fifty years, practicing the Sword Technique for as long, to be able to perform like earlier. Also, executing this set of Sword Technique requires burning life; my weakness isn't faked. Now every time I exert myself, I'll live several months, even a year, less," Li Teng gasped out the 'truth' to everyone.

Of course, it wasn't all lies—he had practiced spear techniques for over fifty years, and sword technique was something he picked up along the way.

Mainly used for passing through gunfight training courses without alerting the enemy.

"Is that so?" The crowd showed expressions of disbelief.

Doctor Zhong came over, checking Li Teng's breathing and pulse.

"He is really very weak, even weaker than when I saw him before," Doctor Zhong told everyone the bad news.

No longer laughing, everyone looked at Li Teng with his eyes half-closed and his pale complexion, realizing that he indeed had been burning his life away before.

He burnt his own life to save everyone else's.

It was thanks to this elderly man, a candle in the wind, that this group of young people had been able to survive up to now.

Later, Li Teng drifted off to sleep without realizing it.

Doctor Zhong gestured for the others to stop talking and not disturb him so he could get some good sleep. She stayed in the room to take care of Li Teng and two others who were seriously injured, while those with minor injuries went to the next room to chat.

At night, when everyone else was asleep, Li Teng woke up.

His body had recovered slightly but was still very weak.

This weakness was no longer like when he was young; it would not recover with sleep and rest alone.

It would continue to weaken until death arrived.

While no one was watching, Li Teng activated the transmission app on his wristwatch.

Several transmission points inside "Time Prison" had turned gray, but one was still lit.

After setting up a new transmission point on his bed, Li Teng transported himself into the last remaining transmission point of the Scripted World inside "Time Prison."

The Scripted World no longer had various monsters, nor was there an apocalyptic collapse.

Time inside had frozen.

Frozen at the instant Li Teng left "Time Prison."

It was as if it were a three-dimensional photograph.

However, all the walls, even including the ground, furniture, and everything within sight, were all in a state of disintegration, like fragmented pieces.

And they were sealed and fixed in space, unable to be moved.

The treasure chest of the Hunting Cabin was the same, having long lost the ability to exchange.

This place was a wasteland.

A wasteland that carried over fifty years of Li Teng's memories.

"It hasn't been completely cleared yet!" Li Teng sighed.

In theory, he should have considered the script one hundred percent cleared only after defeating the final boss, the Grim Reaper, which was Liu Shiyuan's AI.

But he hadn't been able to defeat this final boss.

He had only exhausted the script's resources, causing the final boss to lose its fighting capability.

He felt so unfulfilled!

"You're here?"

A familiar voice sounded.