“Chai-shu, I think we should just settle it like this,” Honghu said.

“I also think this is the most appropriate,” Juan Menghuan nodded in agreement.

“I have no objections anyway,” Zhao Yingwang added.

“But…” Fei Chai-shu seemed a little unsure when he replied, “I don’t think I’m suitable to be the captain at all…” He subconsciously touched the back of his neck. “I… I’m not good at ordering people around.” As he said that, he glanced at Honghu. “Or, how about you, Honghu?”

“Heh…” Honghu smiled. “Chai-shu, a captain… doesn’t necessarily have to be someone who issues orders.”

“Besides…” Zhao Yingwang continued, “Even if your intelligence and martial strength aren’t the strongest on the team, you can still be the captain, as long as…”

Juan Menghuan picked up where he left off, “As long as you have enough cohesion and a sense of responsibility.” He also looked at Fei Chai-shu. “In terms of these two points, we are far inferior to you.”

“That’s right.” Honghu added, “To put it bluntly, a leader must have the kind of charisma that makes people willing to follow them to the death.” He smiled and shook his head. “That’s a quality produced by a combination of innate talent and acquired personality. Unfortunately… I don’t have that.”

“Uh…” Fei Chai-shu’s mouth twitched a couple of times. “You guys are praising me so much that it’s hard for me to refuse…”

…

The blood and light made the air smell sweet and feel humid.

Fragments of memories came unbidden.

“Cohesion… and a sense of responsibility…” Watching his teammates get killed before his eyes in an instant, Fei Chai-shu couldn’t help but feel a little lost. “Have I disappointed the people around me again…”

“Sunglasses guy, you actually have time to space out?” Infinite’s words pulled Fei Chai-shu back to reality.

Following his words was a beam of cyan energy emitted from his eyes.

“Ugh—” By the time Fei Chai-shu reacted and looked down, his chest had already been pierced by the beam. He couldn’t help but groan and quickly took off his sunglasses and threw them away.

Two seconds later, Fei Chai-shu’s fatally wounded body quickly turned into a phantom and dissipated, while his main body teleported to the sunglasses, his injuries healed.

“Heh… you have quite a few life-saving tricks up your sleeve.” Seeing this, Infinite sneered and fired another beam of light from his eyes.

This time, Fei Chai-shu was prepared and dodged in advance, but he only barely avoided a fatal hit. A layer of flesh was still scraped off his left shoulder.

“Still not dead?” Seeing that the other party had taken two of his “not holding back” attacks and was still standing, Infinite revealed a hint of impatience. “Being too tenacious… is annoying!”

After shouting loudly, Infinite suddenly flashed in front of Fei Chai-shu and threw a straight punch with overwhelming force.

This was the simplest, most direct, and fastest way to attack… but considering the vast difference in speed and power between the attacker and the defender, this naturally became the most efficient way to attack.

Whoosh—

Because the penetrating power of this punch far exceeded Fei Chai-shu’s defensive power, and the speed was unbelievably fast, Fei Chai-shu didn’t even feel much pain when Infinite’s right arm pierced through his abdomen… Even the sound of the fist piercing through his body was as faint as the wind.

“Pfft…” Immediately afterward, Fei Chai-shu spat out a large mouthful of blood, splashing it all over Infinite’s face.

“Tch…” Infinite spat. “The power increased too quickly. I couldn’t quite control it.”

According to Infinite’s original idea, this punch should have shattered his opponent—just like smashing an ice cube with a hammer; however, the actual effect was more like poking a window with an iron bar…

“Oh well.” He then wiped the blood off his face with his left hand, looked at Fei Chai-shu, and grinned. “Heh… I’ll let you, you good-for-nothing, live a few more seconds and feel a little more pain.”

“Good-for-nothing… huh…” At this moment, Fei Chai-shu’s eyes were already glazed over. The delayed, excruciating pain finally came, but he didn’t even have the strength to scream.

…

“Damn! Held back in the second grade! Did you see the look on that principal’s face? I’ve never been so embarrassed in my life!”

“I told you not to bring this thing home! You insisted that it looked good and must be smart, but what happened? It’s just a waste! An idiot!”

“Nonsense, who could have seen that coming? Don’t give me hindsight! In the end, isn’t it your fault for not being able to give birth?”

“Can you keep it down? Are you afraid the neighbors won’t know about our family’s problems?”

…

“Hmph… Hey Chai, the lesson we’re teaching you today is to help you remember. You better remember this—stay away from the girls in our class, got it?”

“You think you can show off just because you’re a pretty boy, huh? You think I won’t mess you up?”

“Hey! Hey! I’m talking to you, look up… I’m warning you one more time, some people—you, this, good-for-nothing, can’t reach!”

…

“Chai, can you be serious? You’re slowing down everyone’s progress every time we rehearse!”

“Yeah, can you have some team spirit? Do you think we have to accommodate you just because you’re a foreigner?”

“I say… Don’t you have a saying in China, ‘No pain, no gain’? Has no one ever taught you that?”

“Okay… everyone, say a little less. He’s already working very hard, don’t…”

“What’s wrong with saying a few words to him? He’s holding us back all day like a good-for-nothing, and we’re not allowed to say anything?”

…

“Heh… Mr. Chai, is it?”

“We’ve already looked at your resume. To be honest, the group you used to be in had very limited influence in Korea, to say it was a flash in the pan would be polite. With your qualifications and… age, I’m afraid you don’t meet our company’s signing requirements.”

…

“You don’t need to say anything more. I have nothing to say to you anymore.”

“You can’t do anything right. People are already bosses at twenty-five or twenty-six, but what about you? You don’t even have a stable job.”

“I’m begging you, please stop bothering me. I’m still young, and I don’t want to be stuck with you for the rest of my life.”

…

“Xiao Chai, I don’t want to criticize you, but… you’re almost thirty years old, how can you still be so unreliable?”

“You can make so many mistakes just collecting parking fees, and you fall asleep all night working the night shift. How can I protect you?”

“Okay, don’t say anything. Go to the finance department to settle your account now. You don’t have to come tomorrow.”

“Don’t you like playing games? You play so much that you don’t have the energy to work. Now it’s best, you can go home and play slowly and see if you can earn a salary.”

…

In a trance, fragments of memories flooded his mind.

“Yeah…” Fei Chai-shu murmured softly, “I seem to have always… been called a good-for-nothing…”

In the same second, Infinite was about to pull back his right arm and throw Fei Chai-shu away.

“Hmm?” But when he tried to pull his arm back, he found that… he couldn’t pull it back.

“What do you mean by this…” Infinite looked up and saw that Fei Chai-shu had firmly grabbed his arm with both hands, stuck in the bloody hole in his abdomen and unable to move. “Do you still want to resist?”

“Maybe… they’re right…” As Fei Chai-shu said this, his secret technique—[Cardboard Box Assassination] was activated.

In an instant, a huge cardboard box fell from the sky, covering him and Infinite.

“My life path is made up of countless accusations and countless disappointed gazes.”

The cardboard box pressed down on Fei Chai-shu and Infinite all the way, falling straight down from the sky.

“The ridiculous thing about growing up is… when you haven’t grown up yet, your heart firmly believes that you are different, but at that time, you choose to stick to the rules; because you are afraid of being different, afraid of being regarded as a freak and isolated by your peers. But when you grow up, you admit your ordinariness in your heart, but at that time… you choose to be unconventional in front of others; because you are afraid of being mediocre, afraid of being regarded as useless and ignored.”

Boom—

After a loud bang, the cardboard box crashed to the ground. Instantly, the two people inside were shrouded in an unknown darkness.

“When you’re ignorant, you think there’s nothing wrong with you, and the world is the problem; but the more mature you become, the more you realize that many problems are on your own…”

Not long after landing, the cardboard box began to shake violently, and fierce barking sounds came from inside.

“I… am someone who has neither talent nor is very hardworking.”

“When I truly realized this, I was almost thirty years old.”

Infinite’s tactical control program had already reacted. While parrying bites from all directions in the box, he was executing control options.

“At this age, it’s about the age to be called ‘Uncle.’”

Ch ch ch…

About five seconds later, dozens of cyan rays of light broke through the outer shell of the cardboard box and burst out from inside.

“It wasn’t until I became an uncle that I discovered what I was good at, what I loved, and what I could use to support myself.”

After the cyan light swept through, [Cardboard Box Assassination] was also terminated. The tattered cardboard box instantly turned into data fragments and scattered on the ground.

“Maybe, in reality, I’m destined to be a loser in life, just a Fei Chai-shu.”

Reappearing on the battlefield, Infinite still hadn’t broken free of Fei Chai-shu’s restraints. His right arm was still stuck in the other’s torso.

“But here, in Thriller Paradise… there are partners who trust me and rely on me, and friends who truly respect me and like me…” Fei Chai-shu’s voice was always low, and the injuries on his body made it difficult for him to make a loud sound. “At this moment, for them… I must not fall easily.”

“Ha?” Infinite couldn’t understand Fei Chai-shu at all. From his point of view, it was impossible to understand. So, he just continued with his usual attitude. “Can’t fall easily? Ha! Hahahaha…” He mocked, “Are you an idiot? What do you, this good-for-nothing who’s on his last breath, think you can do? Do you think putting on a look of ‘ready to die’ will…”

Di di di—

Suddenly, an urgent alarm sounded in Infinite’s mind, causing him to swallow back what he was about to say.

Warning:

—High energy reaction detected.

Data identification:

—[Fei Chai-shu’s Desperate Blow]

Tactical control options:

—???

Survival rate:

—18%

“What the f*ck (wtf)?” Infinite exclaimed in his heart, “An eighty-two percent mortality rate? And no countermeasures at all! What does that mean? Endure it? And gamble on the probability?”

Just as he was shocked…

Fei Chai-shu’s eyes under his sunglasses revealed a resolute look, “It doesn’t matter if you call me a good-for-nothing…” As he spoke, he spread his arms, released Infinite’s right hand, and instead grabbed the other’s shoulders.

A person who had already been beaten to the brink of death, no one knew where the strength came from, but his ten fingers were deeply embedded in Infinite’s shoulders, gripping him tightly.

“I’ll let you see it now…” Fei Chai-shu stepped forward and took advantage of the momentum to bring up the tall Infinite. “…the power of a good-for-nothing!”

“Impossible…” When he was being pulled up, Infinite was still desperately refreshing the tactical control program, trying to get a solution, but—there was no solution.

“Heh… hahahaha…” In the end, Fei Chai-shu also laughed. He grabbed and lifted the other party up and launched a suicidal ultimate throwing technique towards the ground, “You scum! Fall into the abyss of despair with me!”