Because the force behind that whip kick was too strong, the scorpion tail slammed against the wall and actually caused collision damage, resulting in a double-hit.
It even staggered the Scorpion Woman heavily, her massive body frozen in place.
But Xu Bei himself also stood still, gripping his fists tightly and getting into stance, yet he didn’t strike—he didn’t dare make a move.
(Hit her!)
(Noob!)
(The streamer’s game sense is total trash!)
(Golden Retriever Noob!)
(So bad!)
(Streamer, what are you doing?)
(She’s staggered but you’re not attacking?)
(Hurry up, hurry!)
(Are you going to make us angry, streamer?)
As expected, the streamer’s clueless play once again triggered the viewers’ outrage, and the chat was flooded with harsh criticism.
“Xu Ge, the chat says you’ve staggered the monster. I looked it up online; stagger means the monster’s rigidity bar is full, making the boss vulnerable. Uh, I don’t really get it, but that’s what the guides say,” the little parrot reported the information live.
But Xu Bei was no longer the introverted streamer he once was. Now he had Second Unit helping monitor the chat.
Judging by Sun Xiaohui’s tone, she was a bit confused by these gaming terms too—just reading out the strategy text.
“Does this mean I have to go hit it?”
Xu Bei was also a gaming newbie; he only understood a little bit.
Such a clueless question made the viewers facepalm—only this streamer could make the audience sweat so profusely.
(Can Second Unit punch the streamer?)
(Second Unit, don’t hold back!)
(Second Unit’s mad!)
(Second Unit, do it!)
(Second Unit, go solo! We won’t take this abuse!)
The chat began to stir trouble, frantically setting the mood, even demanding Sun Xiaohui land a punch on Xu Bei.
“The chat’s so mad they want me to punch you. Can I?” The little parrot actually asked Xu Bei’s permission.
“Of course not! The chat’s lying to you, just like the school’s popular girls fool you.” Xu Bei sighed and warned, “You trust others too easily. You need to think carefully if what they say makes sense. There are lots of scammers online.”
Whether there are many scammers online, who knows; but everyone in the stream chat was a liar.
(Little Sun, don’t listen to the chat!)
(Stagger means ‘zombie straightened up’!)
(Do not attack!)
(The boss is charging up!)
Because the chat was flooded with a mix of genuine and fake messages, truths and lies, all trying to trick Second Unit.
Sun Xiaohui was a little dizzy, watching the chat’s conflicting comments that contradicted each other.
So the chat couldn’t be fully trusted. Although many gamers knew their stuff, most were just irresponsible trolls.
(Does everyone like watching this dumb streamer pretend to be stupid?) Even Dao Xia Qujing left a mocking comment in the stream.
But while they were still arguing back and forth, the Scorpion Woman’s stagger wore off.
Xu Bei had completely missed the perfect opening to attack, and the twin pincers plus poison needle assault came crashing down again, almost ending Xu Bei’s life.
“Damn!” He leaned back in a perfect 90-degree bridge, dodging the scorpion’s poison sting, palms pressed on the ground, left foot kicking off the floor, toes stabbing under the scorpion tail.
The streamer’s fists struck left and right, feet kicked up and down—every hit dodging the scorpion’s frontal poison barbs.
No doubt, the streamer’s physical skills were exceptional, but his brain wasn’t quite there.
The whole stagger debacle ended, and Xu Bei and the Scorpion Woman resumed their battle.
But now that he’d found a breakthrough, Xu Bei focused all his punches and kicks on the scorpion’s tail, spending the rest of the time dodging with all his might.
And so…
A completely passionless fight.
Even without finishing off the stagger, the streamer could still kill the five-times-HP Scorpion Woman.
The battle dragged painfully slow, incredibly tedious, excruciatingly long—half her HP took an hour to chip away.
But the viewers watched avidly, all knowing the streamer had been sabotaged by a teammate slacking off, which caused the boss to have quintuple HP.
Even though only the tail got hammered over a hundred times, once the big scorpion’s HP hit zero, the intact main body suddenly collapsed—a rather humorous and unscientific moment.
Xu Bei exhaled deeply, hands down, shaking his palms and loosening his muscles.
(Hahaha)
(Here it comes!)
(Seeing the streamer’s pure reaction, I’m relieved.)
(Hehe)
But at that moment, the chat suddenly turned eerie. Everyone cheered, everyone laughed.
Seeing the laughter, Sun Xiaohui felt a chill creep up her scalp, confused.
The big scorpion’s corpse hadn’t disappeared.
Usually, when a monster dies, its corpse evaporates after a while, so players scramble to loot quickly.
“Crunch! Crunch! Crackle!”
Suddenly, the fallen scorpion’s back exploded again, and that naked female ghost twitched violently, hair wild like a demon.
Even with her perfect figure, those mechanical, grotesque movements were utterly unappealing.
She fully detached from the scorpion’s body, growing her lower half—pale, slender legs—but her hair still covered her private parts, refusing to let anyone see.
Then the scorpion’s corpse completely turned into blood, with the Scorpion Woman standing atop the pool of gore.
The previously vanished boss HP bar reappeared, instantly filling to max, hanging over the Scorpion Woman’s head.
“Ah!” The little parrot screamed, frightened by the horrifying scene.
“Ah?” Xu Bei was startled by the super long HP bar, his hair standing on end as the atmosphere around him dropped several degrees.
He was the most terrifying demon in the mortal world—who here could frighten him?
Yet in this game world, was there something that could truly scare him?
Although Xu Bei knew it was just the game artificially implanting emotions, definitely not genuine fear!
He had never known fear since birth and didn’t understand what being scared meant—hence his recklessness.
The only way to eliminate fear was to kill the fearful thing!
“Xu Ge, this is called phase two! Some bosses enter a special enraged state after their HP drops to a certain level! Even if the HP bar is depleted, be careful. Some special bosses have multiple HP bars; only after losing the first bar do they reveal their true form,” the little parrot reported immediately.
But the next moment, the Scorpion Woman rose on tiptoes, feet lifting off the ground, drifting upward like a ghost.
Then she floated backward rapidly at low altitude, vanishing before Xu Bei’s eyes as if invisible.
Her HP bar disappeared too, leaving only the spreading pool of blood, stretching to the end of the second-floor corridor.
“Running?” Xu Bei was baffled.
He’d been ready for a big fight, but the opponent had fled.
“Damn scumbag went invisible again?”
Xu Bei grumbled, feeling no relief inside, only growing more fearful.