Trembling At A High Altitude

When he woke up the next morning,

the hacking progress bar was at 99 percent.

Li Teng had an ominous premonition.

After breakfast, Li Teng still joined the other six for their regular shooting training.

However, at 9:40 a.m., the officer who had agreed to Young Master Zheng's request for a facial transplant found Li Teng at the training range and asked him to come along.

Li Teng knew his face was going to be changed, and now he could only obey the order and follow the officer to the base's infirmary.

As he walked, Li Teng brought up the Death God APP interface several times in his vision.

Unfortunately, it was still stuck at 99 percent.

Not long after Li Teng entered the infirmary, Zheng Junzhe and his girlfriend also arrived.

The base infirmary was not large, with only a few rooms, but it was fully equipped, and with some black technology, performing a face transplant was a breeze.

Soon, Li Teng was placed on the operating table.

Two doctors and several nurses came over with various surgical tools in hand.

Zheng Junzhe and his girlfriend Qin Jingyu looked on with interest, ready to enjoy the full process of the doctor's face-removal surgery.

The officer also stood by.

This morbid curiosity was unparalleled.

Li Teng checked the Death God APP once more.

The hacking progress bar was still stuck at 99 percent.

"He knows what we're about to do, right? He looks completely unresisting," Zheng Junzhe chatted with the officer.

"He knows, but he has no memory of his past. We've been instilling the concept that obeying orders is his duty these past days; he doesn't know how to resist, nor dares to. Besides, if he did dare resist, all I have to do is press a button, and his head will explode," the officer responded to Zheng Junzhe.

"Hmm, after we've removed his face, just blow up his head," Zheng Junzhe considered and then suggested to the officer.

"That… He's a costly purchase from the black market, and we've spent a significant amount of drugs to brainwash him and remove his watch; after we take his face, we can just give him any other face to continue serving us, to avoid wasting resources," the officer was not keen on Zheng Junzhe's idea.

"I said blow it up, and you will blow it up. I don't like his eyes, it's hard to describe, but I feel like he might hold a grudge against me," Zheng Junzhe furrowed his brows.

"All right, as Young Master Zheng wishes," the officer dared not defy Zheng Junzhe's command.

Li Teng couldn't help but curse inwardly.

His eyes? He had tried his best to feign indifference and emptiness; he had tried his utmost to endure, and yet they would not let him go?

This was simply outrageous!

It seemed he had to fight desperately now.

He wasn't sure if others had the ability to blow up his head, but now he had no other choice. When the doctor approached with the scalpel, he had to grab the knife and kill the officer first, then quickly silence everyone in the room, and clean up to see if there was even a sliver of a chance to turn the situation around.

Of course, there was a greater likelihood of him being shot in the head on the spot once he acted out.

Moreover, he still didn't know the mechanism behind the device, nor if others had the capability to remotely detonate the device in his head.

The operating room was surrounded by cameras; if someone was watching everything from the monitoring room, and they also had the remote detonation control for the device in his head, then his fate was sealed.

However, no matter what, he must struggle with all his might in a moment; otherwise, he'd surely be dead.

"The situation is critical. The APP needs to borrow the host's brain computing power to accelerate the hacking process. Does the host agree to the borrowing?" Suddenly, a prompt from the Death God APP popped up in Li Teng's field of vision.

"Agreed." Li Teng hurriedly responded with his thoughts.

"Accelerating the hack may cause the host's brain to overclock, leading to a rapid rise in body temperature or even overheating. Please be psychologically prepared, host."

"Hacking acceleration in progress..."

"Host body temperature detected to be rising rapidly..."

Li Teng felt dizzy and nauseous, as if he had a high fever all day long.

His body also felt very cold, and he couldn't help but start to shiver.

When the anesthesiologist was about to inject Li Teng with the anesthesia, they noticed Li Teng suddenly had a nosebleed, and his complexion was off, so they stopped and, with the chief surgeon, conducted a check on all of Li Teng's vital signs.

"What's going on?" Zheng Junzhe noticed something was wrong.

"He seems to have an unexpected infection, or other unknown causes of severe fever. We can't operate until we understand the cause," the doctor explained to Zheng Junzhe.

"What the hell? Getting sick suddenly? How coincidental?" Zheng Junzhe was very displeased.

"We need to do a comprehensive examination on him, which will take about half an hour. Maybe Young Master Zheng could rest outside for a while?" The doctor was also unclear about what exactly had happened to Li Teng.

In such circumstances, they dared not proceed with the transplantation in case they transferred an unidentified virus or some other toxin to Young Master Zheng, a responsibility they simply could not bear.

"That long? I have an important meeting to attend in half an hour," said Zheng Junzhe, glancing at his watch.

"At least half an hour is needed," the doctor answered with an apologetic tone.

"I've got just a bit of time now, and I'll be busy all day! Well then, make sure you properly check him out, see what's wrong with him. This afternoon... around six-thirty, I'll take half an hour to come here. Don't cause any more problems for me!" Zheng Junzhe was angry, and after saying those words, he turned and left with his girlfriend Qin Jingyu.

"The host's body is overexerting, hacking acceleration paused..."

As his brain and body temperature dropped, Li Teng immediately felt much more comfortable.

The hacking progress remained stuck at ninety-nine percent.

Luckily, the surgery was unexpectedly halted, or it would have been dangerous just now.

The doctor conducted various checks on Li Teng for over half an hour, and the test results were available quickly.

As far as standard indicators were concerned, there was nothing wrong with Li Teng's body.

Luckily they only checked standard indicators. If they had continued to examine things like cell mitochondria or aging, they might have discovered Li Teng's biggest secret.

In the end, the doctor concluded that it was probably a stress response caused by the shock of facing his face being cut off and his head blown up, which led to an abnormal increase in Li Teng's body temperature.

With no problems found, the officer had no choice but to take Li Teng out of the infirmary and come back later in the afternoon for the surgery.

He had narrowly escaped a disaster.

"I'm lending you my brain; hurry up and accelerate the hacking. Just don't burn my brain out," Li Teng instructed the Death God APP through his thoughts.

Soon, Li Teng's body temperature began to rise again.

But this time, it was more gentle and not as rapid as the emergency in the surgery room.

This allowed Li Teng to not become faint-headed and still carry out other activities normally.

However, it still put a certain strain on Li Teng's brain, making his reactions a bit sluggish, leading to more scolding, kicking, and beating during training.