Trembling At A High Altitude

"Are you up for this or not?"

After running for several hours at the training ground in the afternoon, Li Teng looked at the panel in his field of view with some helplessness.

He had been running a fever for half the day, yet the progress bar was still stuck at ninety-nine percent.

There were only twenty minutes left until six o'clock, and the sergeant was about to come looking for him.

If he had to go back on the operating table again, the trick of feigning a fever probably wouldn't work anymore.

After mocking the Death God APP mentally, Li Teng found his body temperature had risen by at least one degree.

His head was spinning, and he collapsed onto the ground with a thud.

Just as the physical trainer was about to whip Li Teng, the sergeant from the morning rushed over and stopped him.

The sergeant took Li Teng to a nearby rest room, and seeing that he was in bad shape, brought him water and bread—actually fresh bread, not the cold, hard kind from the cafeteria.

Although eating before surgery was highly inappropriate, the doctor no longer cared about this patient's life or death; they only wanted his face, so it didn't matter whether he ate or not.

"Eat up, sigh, you'll be hitting the road soon," the sergeant sighed, unclear whether he was lamenting Li Teng's tragic fate or the wasted money the base had spent on him.

After drinking water and eating bread and sitting for a while, when the time was almost up, the sergeant took Li Teng back to the medical room.

Zheng Junzhe and his girlfriend Qin Jingyu were already waiting there, and they started berating the sergeant when he only now brought Li Teng over.

Even though the sergeant had arrived before the agreed time, he was scolded and kept apologizing to Zheng Junzhe.

Li Teng was back on the operating table once more.

"I have some official matters to handle. This is the remote control password for his brain, Young Master Zheng, you can set it up in your phone and activate it anytime," the sergeant transmitted a password to Zheng Junzhe.

Upon receiving the password, Zheng Junzhe immediately entered it into the respective APP, and after verification, an activation button appeared on the screen. If he pressed it, Li Teng's head would explode into a burst of blood.

The sergeant gave Li Teng one last look before turning and walking out of the medical room.

Following the nurse's instructions, Zheng Junzhe undressed and lay down on another operating table.

He handed his phone and the bag containing his important personal items to his girlfriend Qin Jingyu, telling her if there was any anomaly with Li Teng, to immediately press the button on the screen as a precaution.

Of course, just as a precaution, because those who had been brainwashed and lost their memories, like Li Teng, generally didn't have any rebellious consciousness. At least there had never been an issue before; they would do whatever they were told to, including giving up their lives.

"Turn off all the surveillance in the room," Zheng Junzhe, after arranging everything, suddenly remembered another thing and ordered the nurse.

The last time he had a face transplant, someone who was unhappy with him secretly recorded the unflattering footage of his surgery in the surveillance room and circulated it privately in the base, which had a bad impact on his image.

Zheng Junzhe would not let such an incident happen again.

The nurse made a call to the surveillance room, and after validating Zheng Junzhe's identity, the surveillance team remotely withdrew the cameras in the room into the metal storage boxes within the walls and closed the metal box doors.

...

The doctor was making the last preparations.

The Death God APP was also struggling in its final moments, raising Li Teng's body temperature to the limit.

If his brain continued to overheat like this, Li Teng was going to lose consciousness.

"His condition is very unstable," the anesthetist said to the chief surgeon while preparing to inject Li Teng with the anesthesia.

"Don't worry about it," the chief surgeon also felt that Li Teng's condition was odd, but to delay the surgery further to find the reason, which probably couldn't be determined quickly, could upset Young Master Zheng, which would be troublesome.

Just as the anesthetist was about to administer the injection to Li Teng…

The hacking progress of the Death God APP suddenly jumped from ninety-nine percent to one hundred percent.

"Bottom layer data algorithm modification in progress..."

"Modification completed..."

"Selecting a rare algorithm to encrypt the transmission data..."

"Encryption completed..."

"Initiating biodegradation program..."

"Degradation progress: zero percent..."

"..."

This meant that Li Teng's brain had completely lost connection with the external remote-control device.

No one could activate it remotely anymore.

Then the Death God APP also initiated a decomposition program, preparing to permanently eliminate this hidden danger through biological metabolism.

The anesthetist's hand holding the syringe was grasped by Li Teng.

The next moment, the needle was stabbed into the anesthetist's throat.

The lead surgeon, who had just turned around with a scalpel in hand, had it snatched away by Li Teng, and then his throat was slit.

"Press the button on the phone quick!"

This Sudden Change startled Zheng Junzhe greatly, and he promptly yelled at his girlfriend Qin Jingyu beside the bed.

Qin Jingyu hastily began pressing on the phone screen.

But... the prompt that popped up was 'Communication password has become invalid, unable to connect.'

Li Teng didn't pay any attention to them, but instead rushed to the door and slit the throats of two nurses trying to escape the surgery room, before turning back to look at Zheng Junzhe.

"What's going on with you?" Zheng Junzhe yelled at his girlfriend Qin Jingyu.

"The password's invalid, could it be that officer..." Qin Jingyu couldn't understand why the password would become invalid, and could only suspect the officer who had provided the password earlier.

"Soldier! I am your superior officer! I command you to immediately put down your weapon! Do not advance any further!" After pressing the phone screen a couple more times and finding it indeed ineffective, Zheng Junzhe got up from the bed and sternly reprimanded Li Teng, at the same time reaching out to his girlfriend Qin Jingyu, signaling her to take out her handgun and pass it to him.

Li Teng took a step forward and, leaping up, landed a flying kick on Zheng Junzhe's face, sending his entire body flying and crashing into the white wall of the medical office, leaving a bloody imprint before sliding down the wall.

Qin Jingyu, who was about to pull out a handgun from her bag, found that Li Teng had already landed in front of her, and she was completely paralyzed with fear.

"Put down the bag, I don't kill women," Li Teng said to Qin Jingyu, very gently.

"Alright," Qin Jingyu quickly dropped her bag, desperately trying to control her inner fear and flashing a charming smile at Li Teng; she had always been very confident in her looks.

"You really wanted to get intimate with this handsome face of mine, didn't you?" Li Teng said with a demonic smile, moving closer.

Qin Jingyu hesitated for a moment... Life was the most important thing now, nothing else mattered... She closed her eyes and leaned towards Li Teng.

Li Teng cupped her face, and then...

He violently twisted it three hundred and sixty degrees.

Accompanied by a horrendous sound of breaking bones, Qin Jingyu collapsed onto the floor without making a sound.

"I said I don't kill women."

"But, that doesn't include despicable women."