Eighteen years of materialism collapsed tonight. Who would have thought it could be such a strange and eerie creature?
As he slowly got off his bicycle, he heard the eerie laughter of a woman coming from the bridge. It must be the culprit who trapped him on the bridge.
Li Changhe also laughed, like a certain old man playing with arrows. Then he suddenly stopped, his eyes filled with fierce light, "Sorry, I let you laugh in vain! To kill me, you'll need some skills!"
He wasn't bragging. He's never been the type to concede to fate.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone from being an orphan in a dilapidated orphanage to a student at Yanyun Middle School.
Even in the orphanage, he understood that too many people in the world complain about the unfairness of fate but do nothing about it.
"It's not terrible to have a hard life. What's terrible is that you've done nothing."
These words of advice from the orphanage director, Li Changhe kept in his heart.
What fate gives you, you can refuse. What it doesn't give you, you can seize! And kill him, as Beethoven said!
So, he struggled time and again, and although no one adopted him, he became a student alongside those rich and privileged children.
And he could joke around with Xiao Nan, who originally came from a different world.
Today, Li Changhe planned to fight once again, and reject fate's arrangement for him!
Survival!
He saw a dark shadow crawl out from the shadows of the bridge, flapping its eagle-wing-like arms, landing on a nearby bridge arm.
It appeared with the face of a human female, but the body was that of a bird of prey from the abdomen down. Its talons struck sparks on the bridge's arm as it landed. Despite its nearly two-meter-tall body, it moved swiftly.
Emitting eerie laughter, its gaze fixed on Li Changhe, like someone eyeing a pig's trotter.
A harpy? The legendary creature that wasn't even a legend, but a creature imagined by humans, appeared in front of Li Changhe.
"So you want to eat me? Well, you have great taste!"
Li Changhe gritted his teeth, took a few steps back, forcing his trembling body due to fear to calm down. He understood that he had nowhere else to run.
"No wonder there were so many feathers left at the scene this morning. Is it because of this bastard's hunting? Did it have its eyes on me already?" Li Changhe's eyes grew fierce. In the orphanage, he wasn't a good boy; otherwise, someone would have adopted him.
Bullying occurs everywhere, and orphans without parental love have to learn to protect themselves.
Fighting and being vicious were part of Li Changhe's life before leaving the orphanage, which made him envious of his classmates.
When he was fighting in the orphanage with his "fellow" orphans,
His current classmates may have been enjoying the care of their parents at that time.
But he hid his past well. No one would think that this funny guy, who liked to play pranks, was the most vicious problem child in the orphanage.
Of course, on the bright side, it also made Li Changhe's physique comparable to that of an athlete.
Now, Li Changhe once again brought out his fierce side from the time he fought for food. And this time, it was to fight for his life!
As if sensing that this prey wouldn't be easy to handle, the harpy didn't approach.
At this time, Li Changhe's backpack fell heavily to the ground, making a deep thud.
Li Changhe reached in and pulled out a...shot put.
He took off his T-shirt, wrapped the shot put in it, glanced at the vigilant harpy, and whispered, "As a sports-oriented student, it's not too much to carry a shot put, right?"
Only a sports-oriented student like Li Changhe, who exercises his body every day, could use a shot put as a weapon.
It was a pity that no one would take the bait. The harpy seemed to lose patience, let out a piercing scream, waved its arms, and closed the distance in an instant. Its metallic talons seemed to slice through prey.
"You don't even know how to connect the bait! Then come on and make a move!"
Li Changhe gritted his teeth, rolled up the T-shirt in his hand, and swung the shot put like a meteor hammer.
Inside, he was chanting to himself, "Amitabha, hurry up like a law, Hallelujah, Amen..."
A second later, a large gash was torn in Li Changhe's arm. Fortunately, he didn't know which god's glory he had caught, the 7-kilogram shot put accurately hit the harpy's chest. The sound of breaking bones came from its chest.
"wooooo" The harpy screamed and fell to the ground. Li Changhe's face turned pale, the harpy's claws still clinging to the back of his left arm, and he fell to the ground with it. The harpy's scream made Li Changhe's head spin.
But he still laughed. He had gambled correctly! The harpy couldn't kill him in one shot!
From the moment he experimented with the mineral water bottles, Li Changhe sensed that if the harpy had the power to manipulate space, it would be simpler to let him fall to his death.
On closer inspection, this space was not the harpy's ability. It was just borrowing it?
That is to say, the harpy itself has no power to hunt down a prepared human, or it's too troublesome. It still needs the help of this space!
Li Changhe seemed to imagine that the previous victim had wandered on the bridge for a long time. After the harpy appeared, he desperately chose to jump into the river to escape, but was still affected by the space, fell to his death on the bridge, and became the harpy's food.
Li Changhe gritted his teeth, raised his T-shirt-wrapped shot put with his right hand, and slammed it into the harpy's face. He showed no mercy, even though it had a human face, but it was also a ferocious man-eating monster. To survive, he had to kill it!
Unexpectedly, the floundering harpy on the ground suddenly waved its wing-like arms. The tough feathers on them resembled blades, shredding the T-shirt and dropping the shot put inside to one side.
"Damn it!" Li Changhe reached out to grab the heavy ball, while the harpy instantly leaped up and tried to take flight, flipping over Li Changhe, who was still grasped by its talons.
Looking at the heavy ball rolling further and further away.
Li Changhe's heart sank. It's over! Without the heavy ball, he didn't have any way to deal with the harpy.
However, his previous attack had inflicted some damage on the harpy.
It didn't choose to continue attacking Li Changhe. Instead, it flapped its wings and retreated a few meters, emitting a sharp cry as if to deter him.
Li Changhe took a deep breath, having suffered heavy losses in their initial encounter. His left hand had been pierced by the harpy's talons, and he had even lost his weapon.
He had thought that with his brutal reputation from the orphanage and his diligent training, he could use the combination of a heavy ball and a T-shirt as a meteor hammer to defeat the monster.
Now it seemed that he had overestimated himself.
The harpy's combat power and physical fitness far exceeded that of humans.
Its steel-like talons and feathers made it even more difficult to handle.
"Are you waiting for me to bleed to death?" Li Changhe looked at the harpy, which no longer approached him but kept its distance instead.
His heart sank - indeed, if the harpy didn't make a move, all he could do was wander aimlessly on the bridge. If the ghost road had no time limit, the harpy could wait for Li Changhe to die from thirst or hunger.
"Wait?" Li Changhe suddenly froze. He saw the heavy ball that had rolled away earlier, rolling back from another direction.
His feet instinctively stepped on the heavy ball while he kept his eyes on the harpy – or more precisely, the puddle under its claws.
That was where the plastic water bottle had shattered during their previous experiment with the strange space.
Which meant...
"Hahaha!" Li Changhe suddenly burst into laughter, grabbing the heavy ball while glaring intently at the harpy.
Li Changhe managed to lift the heavy ball but didn't throw it at the harpy. Instead, he tossed the heavy ball off the bridge.
"I'll go buy some oranges. Stay right here, don't move!"
The harpy watched its dying prey, licking the blood off its talons. It clearly didn't understand the meaning of his words.
"Thirty meters from the water's surface. Ignoring air resistance, the fall should take just over two seconds!" Li Changhe quickly calculated in his heart.
Seeing the harpy still standing there, he laughed heartily, "Have you ever seen palm strikes fall from the sky?"
The next instant, the heavy ball, which had fallen off the bridge, accurately smashed into the harpy's head.
Blood splattered everywhere. The tall figure collapsed on the road.
Without checking, he knew it was dead. In humans, brain death meant certain death.
But this creature... its brain had been completely crushed.
At the same time, a voice came into Li Changhe's ear.
[Detected Fantasy Species player YSNY89****91 killed by non-player Li Changhe]
[Li Changhe obtains player status]
[Achievement unlocked: Non-player kills player, acquire the defeated player's skill]
[Achievement unlocked: Become a LV1 player, randomly added attribute point: 1]
[Random attribute point: Physique+1]
[Achievement unlocked: Human kills Fantasy Species, acquire Fantasy Species creature skill]
[Completed the Eternal Bridge Instance Task. Instance space removed, reward is one Fine Loot Box]
[Player Name: Li Changhe]
[Level: 1]
[Strength: 7, Athletic Talent] (Average is 5)
[Agility: 7, Athletic Talent]
[Physique: 8, Extremely Resilient]
[Energy: 5] (Average is 5)
[Character Alignment: Neutral-Good]
[Equipment: Blood-stained Heavy Ball, Effect: Damage bonus against Mysterious Species and Fantasy Species creatures (Heavy ball with a history of killing Fantasy Species, boss of the heavy ball world)]
[Passive Skill: Eagle Eye Lv1, Effect: You can see farther]
[Passive Skill: Long-range Mastery, increased accuracy for long-range attacks]
[Li Changhe, the 2,333,333rd human player, congratulations on entering the Evolution Game!]