"Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we forgive men's debts, and not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from evil: for all is yours for the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever, Amen. ”

Karachev knelt behind the wall of a watchtower, facing the rising sun, holding a small hardcover Bible in his hand, and silently recited the prayer with his eyes closed.

"Hey, Karachev, are you still religious?" At this time, Qi Lin also came to the top floor of the watchtower, and just in time to see Karachev open his eyes after reading "Amen".

"Didn't you ask knowingly? I was a devout Orthodox Christian decades ago. Karachev said.

"Hmm...... Do you believe in the existence of God? Or do you think the so-called 'Lord' will really redeem their followers? Qi Lin pointed to the Bible in Karachev's arms.

"Redemption ......" Karachev was silent for a moment, then looked at the desolate wasteland in the distance.

"I never felt that salvation would come to us." Karachev shook his head and said.

"And you still say you're a devout believer?"

"These are two different things, and whether or not the 'Lord' really exists, it doesn't affect me from having some private beliefs outside of work...... If you believe in Him, He exists, and if you don't, He is nothing......"

"Okay, I see...... Psychological comfort, right. Qi Lin glanced at Karachev, and then at the radiation cloud that blocked the entire rising sun behind him - if that damn God really existed, with his arrogant personality, it would be absolutely impossible for people to make the earth look like this.

God wants to flood the earth and clean up the world, yes; But if humanity were to destroy the world with nuclear weapons, it wouldn't work – because all of this is God's creation.

That's unreasonable.

"Let's get down to business, you want to duel with Arthur Li, young master, he already knows." Karachev took the Bible in his arms and got up from the ground.

"Oh, what did Cheng Yanqiu say?"

"Young Master said, if you can slow down a little, maybe he will have a chance to see how funny that Arthur Lee looked when he lost the duel."

"Oh, so he's already on his way?"

"Yes. Moreover, according to the intelligence network of the Cheng consortium, after launching a duel against you yesterday, Arthur Li asked someone to rush back to the base of the Dessau consortium overnight and took a stockpiled [Steel Mixture]. ”

"'Steel mixture'? What is that, it sounds like a prop in a game...... Ah, sorry, I almost forgot, we're in a game right now......"

"A rare potion of purple quality requires the synthesis of more than a dozen rare mutated biological materials. The effect after taking it is simply invincible. Karachev said.

"Invincible? This is a bit, right? Qi Lin tugged at the corners of his mouth, this is a realistic game, you can't put on a holy shield like the magic online games of the old days and start rubbing Hearthstone so laid, right?

"Of course, invincibility is just an exaggeration. However, this kind of elixir that can only be used by those who have evolved above the second level will instantly make the muscles and skin of the user as hard as alloy, greatly increase the defense power, increase the strength attribute by two to three times, and will not affect the body movements and other physiological functions, the duration is determined by the quality and purity of the potion, but according to conservative estimates, the potion taken by Arthur Li can at least allow him to maintain a strengthened state for more than twenty seconds. Karachev said.

"Is there a weakness in that? For example, eyes and the like, will they also become invulnerable? Qi Lin asked.

"Eyes are indeed a weakness, but in your duel entry, there is no restriction on the use of armor, as long as there is no self-powered armor, all can be brought on the field - even including a power armor that has been de-energized, Arthur Lee will definitely find a way to protect his eyes."

"It's okay, as long as you know that this thing has weaknesses, then it's easy to do-"

……

……

Twenty minutes before twelve o'clock, Qi Lin had already arrived at the square of the central fortress of the 147th outpost, where a circular ring made of reinforced concrete with a diameter of more than 100 meters and a height of two meters had already appeared in the middle of the square, and the surrounding area was already crowded with players watching the excitement.

Arthur Lee had already been waiting in the ring, wearing a suit of soft armor made of mutant bio-tanned leather, which was pitch-black and had high-strength carbon fiber armor on his shoulders, knees, and elbows.

In addition, although Arthur did not wear a helmet, he wore a pair of well-made goggles, as Karachev expected, and judging by the lilac gemstone luster on the lenses, it should have been polished from a top-grade corundum, with a special metal plating added to it.

"It is the L2 type goggles produced by the 'Daystar Company' under the Dessau consortium, the lenses can withstand the frontal impact of the bullets fired by AK47 within 200 meters without breakage, and there are multi-layer cushioning structures in the part where the frame and the wearer are in contact, which is one of the best goggles in the alliance at present, the inventory is very limited, and the price has reached 110,000 resource points." Karachev followed Qi Lin's side and whispered.

"One hundred thousand? The price of this pair of glasses is equivalent to a top-of-the-line sniper rifle of the old era, this guy is really willing to spend money. Qi Lin pouted.

"Compared to [Steel Mixture], this L2 goggles are nothing, it is said that for this steel mixture, Li Arthur overdrew his six-month internship salary and the dividends of the shares under his name, because of this incident, even his father Li Yinian was alarmed."

"Then he really hates me."

"If you need a potion, our Cheng consortium can also provide you with some now, but for time reasons, it is impossible to get a product of the level of [Steel Mixture], but I have a little bit of special power potion and rampaging potion on my body now, and there are several treatment needles."

"There's no need, if you have to take drugs to deal with a Li Arthur, you have to laugh at me for a month by your young master...... Okay, the time is up, I'm up. ”

Qi Lin patted Karachev on the shoulder, squeezed out of the crowd, and jumped into the ring with a slight leap.

"I thought you wouldn't dare to come?" Seeing Qi Lin arrive, Arthur Li on the other side said with some contempt.

"You think too much, how can I bear to refuse if someone is willing to send money to the door." Qi Lin continued—a duel of this nature, unnutritious trash talk before opening it is definitely indispensable.

"I hope you'll be able to beg me for mercy in such a relaxed tone later—" Arthur Lee snorted coldly and drew his weapon.

It was a medieval knight's heavy sword-shaped long sword, but from the red glowing blade and the slightly distorted air around the blade, Qi Lin recognized at a glance that the real name of this "knight's sword" should be called "high-frequency cutting blade".

Like the Gauss sniper rifle, the high-frequency cutting blade was an experimental weapon in the old days, and the most obvious feature of this weapon was the blade that vibrated at an ultra-high frequency of thousands of hertz.

The high-frequency cutting edge heats the blade by high-frequency vibrating particles, and when it comes into contact with the object, it can automatically peel off the object through resonance at the molecular level, and from the perspective of the naked eye, it is almost equivalent to cutting iron like clay.

In contrast, Qi Lin's equipment seemed to be much colder, with only two cold steel tiger claw knives, and only a simple set of combat uniforms on his body, as for the dragon scale light armor, it was due to serious damage, and he asked the Karachevto people to send it back to Huaxia to repair it a few days ago.

However, in the face of high-frequency cutting blades, the defensive effect of dragon scale light armor is not satisfactory - in the face of this kind of blade that "cuts" objects from the molecular level through vibration, the best way to deal with it is to dodge.