48 Hours a Day

Chapter 1189: Murals

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It only took a few seconds for the helicopter to recover from the loss of control.

However, the people on the aircraft felt like they had been through a century. Seeing Master Kui, the only pilot shot, many people felt like they were going to die this time. However, other than searching for support to stabilize their bodies, there was nothing else they could do, and they could only watch the helo fall from the sky.

Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, it was Simon who took over the helicopter’s controls and stabilized the fuselage. At the same time, Zhang Heng and the wounded Master Kui switched seats and took the pilot’s seat.

However, the old woman named Sauk also cursed and reloaded the shotgun.

This time, she took aim at Zhang Heng. Sauk was clearly not as crazy as she appeared to be. She knew very well that as long as she killed the pilot, none would be able to escape the helicopter.

However, this time, she encountered an opponent. Although they could fly the helicopter, Master Kui and Zhang Heng’s piloting skills were completely different. Master Kui’s piloting skills were learned from a dungeon, but due to the limited time in the game, she had only learned the basics. She spent half a month learning how to fly from point A to point B, but that was all.

Zhang Heng, on the other hand, had spent half a year training with the ace pilot Armstrong in the Flight Dynamics Lab under NASA. Zhang Heng’s shooting skills were also at level 3. With just a glance at Master Kui’s injuries, Zhang Heng could roughly estimate Sauk’s shooting skills. She should be at the peak of Level 2, so as long as he could land steadily, Zhang Heng was confident that he could kill Loki’s second incarnation.

Thus, when Zhang Heng took over the helicopter, he first pulled the joystick to the left and tilted the aircraft to block Sauk’s shooting angle. At the same time, he pulled down first and then raised the throttle main lever. The helicopter nodded downward, but it was only a ruse to fool Sauk. Before the latter could open fire, the aircraft continued to pull up. Sauk’s second bullet grazed the landing gear of the helicopter and ricocheted away.

Zhang Heng didn’t risk descending, continuing his climb to a relatively safe height before flying to the other side of the field. It was not until he was out of the shooting range of the hunting rifle that he finally found a suitable place to land.

After the three minutes of shock, many people were still unable to catch their breath. They were dazed by a certain someone’s extreme maneuvers, but they now looked at Zhang Heng in an even more admirable way.

Although they were not Simon’s fans, they had seen several posts related to Zhang Heng on the forums during this period. There had been rumors that Simon might have no weaknesses in his skills, a rare all-rounder. That had to be the only explanation for why he had been single-tasking all this time.

However, most people were skeptical of this theory because it was well known that their time and energy were limited. It was hard to believe that someone could do something that a team would usually do. It was ridiculous, of course, but they all believed it after personally arranging a dungeon with Simon.

Zhang Heng first took a look at Kui’s injury. The latter had been shot in the right arm by Sauk. Her condition wasn’t looking too good; the place where she had been shot was a bloody mess. There was a lot of blood, but fortunately, the position was not fatal. It was a blessing in disguise.

The doctor was already helping her bandage up. So Zhang Heng said to Mouse, “Your legs are in no condition to move. Stay here and protect them. Leave Loki’s avatar to me.”

Mouse was very self-aware, so he didn’t try to be brave. Instead, he nodded. “Okay, we will guard this place well and try not to drag you down, God.”

Zhang Heng looked around to make sure that there was no danger. Then, he took out his [Filter Lens] and put it on. He bent down with the rifle in hand and hid his body in the wheat field, moving toward Sauk’s place.

It took him about 15 minutes to reach Sauk’s house again. The lights were still on, but after the haystack, Sauk was nowhere to be seen. Zhang Heng was not in a hurry. It had only been an hour since the mission’s second phase began, and there was still plenty of time. He took a detour and sneaked in from the south side.

When he was close, he first smashed the window with a stone. Then, he pressed his body against the wall on the other side. However, there was still no movement in the house. Zhang Heng heard the sound of the stone hitting the ground and rolling around before crashing into another wall; he stopped. Almost simultaneously, he broke through the door and rushed into the room.

Because there was still a kerosene lamp burning in the room, he didn’t need the [Filter Lens] to see everything inside. Unlike ordinary residences, the large room was empty. There was nothing but a wooden table. Zhang Heng couldn’t even find a bed inside. It was really no different from a cave.

Other than that, a mural was on the wall. It was drawn with charcoal, depicting the five avatars of Loki. One was a corpse and a fly. Seeing that the body was very similar to Scherbina’s, Zhang Heng’s heart skipped a beat. He looked at the other paintings. One of them was an old woman running in the forest, and a black shadow with a gun was chasing him. If he wasn’t mistaken, the old woman was Sauk herself, and the Black Shadow was Zhang Heng.

There was another painting on the wall that Zhang Heng had seen before. It was of a horse drinking water by a stream, and there was a Lada parked on the other side of the river. Zhang Heng quickly scanned through the other murals and memorized the contents. These murals were obviously similar to the hints in the game, pointing the way for the players to find Loki’s avatar.

Of course, Zhang Heng didn’t wholly believe the contents of the murals. Based on his understanding of Loki, he didn’t think that the guy would be so kind and considerate of the players. In fact, it was bizarre that these murals would appear here, especially the one about the white mare. It was a scene that happened in a parallel dungeon.

The Lada that appeared in the murals wasn’t a coincidence. The person who painted it had obviously seen this scene with his own eyes, but this also meant that Loki had entered the parallel dungeon with him. Zhang Heng recalled what had happened in the parallel dungeon and realized that other than Loki’s two other avatars that appeared in the middle of the dungeon, he didn’t believe that the other people he had come into contact with were Loki’s disguises.

Furthermore, looking at the young man in the uniform, it was evident that he was also engrossed in killing the werewolves. He did not expect Zhang Heng to suddenly attack him.. Could the mural on the wall have been painted by someone else?