Chapter 622: VR Vision Building Parkour!
There were still many vehicles and pedestrians on the road, but Alex completely ignored all of them. In sprint mode, Alex would automatically vault over cars, walls, and obstacles.
Zou Zhuo's mad dash caused traffic chaos. Car horns blared incessantly, and pedestrians' screams filled the air. Yet, instead of feeling annoyed or in danger, Zou Zhuo experienced a strange sense of exhilaration!
In real life, it was impossible to charge around like this, but in the game, he could do it without any restrictions!
In the sky, an armed helicopter was still in hot pursuit, firing a missile directly at Alex!
"Boom!"
Alex was thrown back by the blast wave, and a taxi happened to fly through the air, which he caught steadily.
Following the system prompt, Zou Zhuo locked onto the helicopter within his field of vision, then hurled the taxi with all his strength!
"Boom!"
The helicopter collided with the taxi in midair, producing a violent explosion, then plummeted rapidly downward.
Air support, which was a devastating weapon in most games, was effortlessly taken down by Alex.
"Unbelievable... did I just..."
Clearly, even Alex himself couldn't believe he had accomplished so many incredible feats.
Being sprayed by an automatic rifle without a scratch? Easily leaping over walls several meters high? Picking up a taxi to smash an armed helicopter out of the sky?
Obviously, none of this was something a normal human could do!
The mission objective refreshed again, and the camera cut to a close-up of the rooftop of the tallest building nearby.
[Mission Update: Go high. Run up the wall to the top of the building.]
"Here it comes, wall parkour?"
Zou Zhuo got excited instantly. In the opening cutscene, Alex had been able to scale building walls vertically, but he hadn't experienced that feeling in the game yet.
Zou Zhuo charged straight toward the distant building. Just as he was about to crash into the wall, he actually began running vertically up it!
In the first-person perspective, even though it was a sheer building wall, Alex moved as if on flat ground, sprinting upward at an incredibly high speed!
In other games, there were also heroes who could climb walls, like Genji and Hanzo from *Overwatch*. But that was climbing, more like a gecko in terms of movement, whereas Alex was *running* on the wall!
The chubby guy secretly glanced downward, and his legs went weak.
In just a few seconds, he had already climbed to a great height and was still going higher. In VR mode, even the wind whistling past his ears felt so real that Zou Zhuo truly experienced a dizzying sense of acrophobia!
Although the chubby guy kept telling himself, "This is a game," his legs still trembled involuntarily.
Moreover, a small line of text appeared at the edge of his vision, reminding the player that they could switch perspectives freely and use a third-person follow camera to observe the protagonist's actions.
Zou Zhuo switched to the third-person follow perspective. The camera automatically pulled back to a position behind Alex.
Zou Zhuo could clearly see Alex's legs covered in a rust-red unknown substance. His feet were like steel, deeply piercing the building's hard wall, leaving shallow pits behind. Alex was using this brutally forceful method to keep sprinting upward!
During the sprint, Alex could also leap upward repeatedly to increase his speed!
Furthermore, Alex could run sideways along the building. His posture shifted accordingly—his feet stomped against the side wall while his right hand braced against the surface to prevent falling, allowing him to move across the building's exterior in an incredibly stylish manner!
Soon, Zou Zhuo reached the rooftop of the building opposite his target. He spread his arms and landed steadily on the roof.
In the third-person perspective, every single move Alex made was flawless, even cooler than professional parkour athletes. Zou Zhuo watched with intense excitement.
After all, Alex was a cheater. Those parkour masters had to consider gravity and real-world physics, but Alex didn't. He only needed to think about looking cool enough...
At this point, Alex's position was still separated from the target building by a street. Zou Zhuo leaped forward without hesitation!
Obviously, jumping directly from this position was unrealistic, because Zou Zhuo was on a new save file. Most of Alex's abilities were still locked—he couldn't air-dash or glide, and a simple jump couldn't clear an entire street.
"Whoa! Thrilling!!"
In the first-person perspective, Zou Zhuo felt himself plummeting straight down from the building, falling in freefall from over a dozen stories. In other games, a fall from this height would mean instant death for any protagonist, no matter how much health they had—even a certain witcher would die outright from a second-story drop...
But Alex was different. Zou Zhuo already understood that Alex was practically omnipotent in this world. Even if he took damage from this height, he definitely wouldn't die!
The wind howled past his ears as Zou Zhuo plunged straight toward the ground in freefall. The sensation was like bungee jumping—extremely thrilling!
Or, to put it more accurately, this must be what jumping off a building felt like!
"Boom!"
Zou Zhuo slammed heavily into the ground. His feet created massive cracks on the pavement, with countless fissures spreading out like a spiderweb. The surrounding vehicles and pedestrians were even blasted into the air by the sheer force, and the nearest car exploded on the spot!
Yet the instigator of all this, Alex—or rather, Zou Zhuo—was completely unharmed, with no reduction in health at all!
"Awesome!"
Zou Zhuo climbed the building again, reached the rooftop, and used throwing to take down three more armed helicopters before entering a cutscene.
Alex stumbled away, seemingly exhausted, and collapsed against a wall.
A Blackwatch soldier discovered him and reported to his commander.
But just then, Alex suddenly stood up. Countless rust-red tendrils emerged from his body, all piercing into the soldier's body, completely absorbing him!
The viral matter receded, and Alex had transformed into the soldier's likeness. By now, there was no trace left of the soldier's existence.
A true case of vanishing into thin air!
The commander arrived after receiving the report, but he didn't notice anything unusual about the soldier. From the outside, Alex looked exactly like the soldier, and it was impossible to tell them apart with the naked eye.
Before the commander could react, Alex grabbed him by the neck and absorbed him too!
Memories flooded in like a tidal wave. Zou Zhuo saw many chaotic and complex images before him—all fragmented snippets—along with countless voices whispering in his ears.
Finally, Zou Zhuo heard an address, a key location to advance the story: the residence of...
[This chapter's address: Remember the URL for one second.]