Nikke, something’s seriously wrong with this evacuation point! Chapter 60 60: As Long as It Has a Health Bar, Even a God Ca

"Quick, step onto the rope!" the mont the Conductor started moving, Charon shouted imdiately.

Ana froze for half a second, but the noise above instantly made her realize what was happening. Without hesitation, she stepped onto the rope and quickly walked toward Charon.

The effect of the crystal shoes was simple: whatever she stepped on beca her direction of gravity. Although an untrained little girl obviously shouldn't have been able to balance easily on a single rope, as long as her feet didn't intentionally leave it, she would never fall.

The only problem was that, from Charon's perspective, Ana's body was swinging in every direction around the rope like a pivot point. The sight was unbelievably bizarre.

Charon himself couldn't understand what Ana's perspective looked like right now, but at least she probably wasn't feeling dizzy. Probably.

Just as the angels scread and charged toward Ana, Charon grabbed her small hand and pulled her off the rope straight into his arms.

But there was no ti to celebrate. The mural angels flapped their wings and let out piercing shrieks as they rushed toward the two of them.

"Ti to run!"

Charon directly hoisted Ana onto his left shoulder, turned around, and sprinted away. He rushed into the staff lounge, slamd the door shut, then imdiately headed for another exit leading deeper into the employee corridors.

Obviously, that door couldn't stop the angels for long. By the third impact, it shattered apart, while at nearly the sa mont, Charon had already disappeared into the hallway beyond.

At this point, Charon had no idea which direction was correct anymore. This was no longer the ti for slow exploration – they needed to escape as quickly as possible. So his strategy beca simple: whichever route looked most like an exit, he ran toward it.

The employee area was enormous. Various branching paths ford a maze-like structure, but the angels suffered from the sa problem. As he ran, Charon occasionally encountered one or two angels directly around corners.

The creatures seed to misunderstand sothing. They apparently assud Charon was just an ordinary human fleeing in panic, so they lunged at him without hesitation.

Then they were smashed into paint by a single crowbar strike.

One of the iron laws of Zone Zero: never underestimate lee weapon damage.

Firearms could kill enemies from range and dealt trendous damage, but lee weapons received terrifying bonuses in return.

A boss-level enemy that required several seconds of concentrated gunfire might die in only two or three lee strikes.

High risk, high reward.

The risk of lee combat was instant death. Most enemies aid directly for the head. If you managed to get close enough to hit them with a lee weapon, then frankly, they deserved to die.

And for Charon, even high-level armor and helts wouldn't save him if one of those enemies locked onto him. Much less now, when he wore absolutely no armor at all.

If Zone One had been filled with monsters using ranged weapons, Charon would've been dead already. Surviving even three seconds under gunfire would've counted as victory for him.

But these monsters all relied on lee combat.

Which ant it beca a contest of speed and movent.

Both sides could kill instantly. The winner would simply be whoever fought better.

In his current condition, Charon preferred avoiding battles whenever possible. He had entered this place completely unprepared, carrying almost nothing besides a nearly broken "Holy Sword of Physics" – the crowbar.

But if he absolutely had to fight, he could.

If the angels sward him together, they could probably tear him apart easily.

Unfortunately for them, they split up and tried to surround him from different corridors instead.

That only made things easier for Charon.

The crowbar's durability had already dropped below 20%, but it was still more than enough to kill these creatures.

If Ana had to describe what she was feeling right now in one sentence, it would be:

"He's basically a war god!"

Now she finally understood how he had managed to deliver the package to her in that ruined city while covered in injuries.

He was incredible.

Just like the Goddess Squad from television.

The crowbar's durability kept falling rapidly because the angels seed endless, but Charon gradually learned sothing:

If there was paint nearby, it ant he had already passed through there before.

Using that thod to eliminate wrong paths one by one, they eventually reached the end of the corridor just as the crowbar's durability fell to 3%.

At the deepest part of the hallway stood an elevator.

As long as they reached it, they could leave this place.

Provided they could defeat the monster blocking the path.

The Conductor.

Perhaps because it had left the banquet hall and entered the employee corridors, it had finally revealed its true form.

The second hand on the giant pocket-watch face spun irregularly, while its long, ghostlike arms hung naturally at its sides.

"Looks like this thing doesn't intend to let us pass peacefully," Charon muttered while looking at the crowbar in his hand, whose durability was practically collapsing.

Then he lowered his voice.

"Can you trust one more ti?"

Ana said nothing.

Instead, she tightly held Charon's hand.

Her answer was obvious.

They had already co this far together. There was no reason not to trust him now.

If her power was needed, then she would use it.

Anything, as long as they could escape.

"Good."

Charon raised the crowbar and stared directly ahead.

"Run forward. Don't look back. Don't stop. Go straight into the elevator!"

"!"

Ana froze for a mont, but since she had already given her answer, she couldn't say she was unable to do it.

So she turned around and fixed her eyes on the elevator.

"Run!"

At Charon's command, Ana imdiately sprinted forward. Her steps weren't especially fast, but the shoes themselves were extraordinary, boosting her speed slightly beyond what should've been possible.

Naturally, the Conductor targeted Ana first.

Its enormous arm smashed toward the girl's head without hesitation. Judging by the force alone, if the blow connected, her skull would likely explode.

But a silver transparent barrier instantly ford around her body.

The Conductor's arm was violently repelled away, while Ana herself passed by unhard and continued running toward the elevator.

[Effect Three: When about to receive fatal damage, generates a 3-second invincible shield, granting complete immunity.]

The rebound briefly stunned the Conductor.

The watch-face turned toward Ana's retreating figure, seemingly preparing to attack again–

Then a cold voice sounded behind it.

"The hell are you looking at, dumbass?"

As long as it had a health bar, even a god could be killed.

The Holy Sword of Physics smashed viciously into the back of its head, the impact slamming it straight into the floor. A health bar instantly appeared above it, and with that single strike, one-third of its HP vanished imdiately.

Only one-third from a headshot?

That was absurd.

And the crowbar's durability dropped insanely fast too. After that strike, it fell to 2%.

Charon pressed the attack and stabbed downward fiercely, reducing the health bar to another third.

The Conductor imdiately retaliated, its massive arm sweeping chaotically toward him.

But Charon had already predicted the movent.

He dodged backward ahead of ti, leaping into the air and kicking off the wall to launch himself to the opposite side.

At the sa mont, the crowbar pierced directly into the Conductor's pocket watch.

Crack.

The crowbar's durability finally reached zero, dissolving into particles in the air.

A trace of regret appeared on Charon's face.

That thing had been way too useful. No matter how you looked at it, it was the true MVP of Zone One.

The Conductor's HP hit zero. After letting out a miserable scream, its body dissolved into particles–

And finally condensed into a familiar object.

A loot box.