Chapter 960: The Final Dozens of Meters
Translator:Sean88888Editor:Elkassar1
Sheyan did not waste his breath on the Cardinal. There was only one thing in his mind at the moment. To be exact, it was a number.
"1744.38 meters."
The number was not an altitude or something. It was the distance Sheyan had carefully calculated on Google Maps in advance.
It was the exact distance from his current spot to the eleventh floor of the Morgan Financial Center!
This was the distance between failure and success - the distance between life and death!
The target Sheyan set for himself was to do everything in his power and seize every opportunity to keep reducing this number. When the number reached 0, it would be his win.
In such a difficult situation, only in this way, without any other distraction, was it possible to survive this ordeal! The slightest bit of distracting thought could make him lose the courage and motivation to hang on until the end.
The surrounding air evaporated suddenly and rippled like water. Sheyan took a deep breath as he watched the huge white cross smash into his body.
This time, the Cardinal read his memory of plundering Huashan Fei's money and drugs in the real world. Therefore, the sin this time was Greed.
Out of thin air appeared a horrible creature. It looked like a water elemental and also like the Genie in Aladdin, but its color was the dark yellow of amber. Gurgling bubbles would flow out from its translucent body from time to time. It hovered in the air only thirty centimeters off the ground, but towered at a height of five meters. It rapidly glided towards Sheyan.
"What the hell is that?" wondered Sheyan. While he was still lost in bewilderment, a yawning man walked out of a subway station while moving his body to the rhythm of the rap music he was listening to. The weird liquid creature completely ignored the man's existence and ran into him from behind, then engulfed him completely with its body!
After the man was swallowed into the translucent liquid creature, he immediately made a painful expression. He seemed to be screaming in agony too but he couldn't make a sound! To Sheyan's horror, the man quickly turned red and black, and eventually his whole body turned into a scorched log. His clothes had blackened really quickly too and even his phone had caught fire and exploded.
Presented with such a sight, Sheyan felt a chill creeping down his spine. According to the information available, this thing was an oil elemental that was comprised entirely of boiling oil! The punishment for the sin of greed was to fry the culprit in boiling oil. Well, to put it in a fashionable way, it was the same as what KFC does to chickens....
From the look of it, Sheyan was sure that he couldn't let himself be "hugged" by the oil elemental, or he would definitely suffer some dire consequences. Even if he was not immediately fried alive, he would suffocate to death. While he tried his best to hide his intention of escaping towards the Morgan Financial Center, multiple thoughts ran through his mind.
"Logically speaking, the heavier the sin, the heavier the punishment will be, but the Cardinal's oil elemental is so insanely strong that I don't even have a chance to fight back. It's not fast, but it's not that slow either. It's much stronger than the punishment for gluttony previously. Huh? According to the characteristics of oil, could its weakness be.....?"
Sheyan suddenly had an idea. He instantly grabbed a garbage bin that was next to him.
The garbage bin was really big and it was full of rubbish. The garbage men usually put a hook on the edge of the bin and emptied the garbage with the help of machines. But in Sheyan's hand, the garbage bin was thrown 20 meters away without much effort. It hit the waist of the giant oil elemental, causing oil to splatter everywhere.
The entire garbage bin went into the oil elemental and ended up being deep fried as well.
Sheyan noticed that the oil that splattered from the impact of the garbage bin gathered into droplets like mercury and did not disperse. The droplets then slowly crawled toward the oil elemental as if they had a life of their own. It seemed that the oil elemental had the ability to heal itself. However, Sheyan also noticed that the movement of the giant boiling oil elemental was markedly slower when it was frying the garbage bin inside it!
"I see." Sheyan looked as if he had understood something. He slammed his shoulder into the door of a nearby shop. The hinges of the unfortunate door issued a metallic moan in protest before the door was torn open with a loud crash. A dent outlining Sheyan's shoulder could be seen on it.
Sheyan swooped forward, rolled himself up, lifted the two-liter plastic water container in the water dispenser next to him, and returned to the sidewalk.
Then, Sheyan simply threw the half-full plastic water container at the giant boiling oil elemental.
The plastic container only lasted for about five seconds under the boiling oil before it dissolved. Remember what happens when a drop of water comes into contact with hot oil in a frying pan? Well, right now, over a liter of water came into contact with hot boiling oil inside the giant oil elemental. It produced a terrifying explosion!
As soon as Sheyan threw the plastic water container, he immediately fled towards the Morgan Financial Center as fast as he could.
Not that he didn't want to flee right away when he saw the giant boiling oil elemental, but the oil elemental moved faster than he did, and he wasn't sure if the oil elemental had any long-range attack capability. If it did, it was tantamount to selling his back to the enemy. In that case, it would not be an escape, it would be a beating!
When a loud bang was heard behind him, Sheyan was already over 100 meters away, but he could still feel an unbelievable heat assaulting his back, like millions of scorching needles trying to pierce through his skin. The boiling oil had apparently erupted and splashed all over his back.
Sheyan paid it no heed and continued to run vigorously. He believed that after such an explosion, he should be safe from the oil elemental for at least a minute. And he was right. Almost half the body of the giant boiling oil elemental was blown apart. The wounded part of his body kept wriggling like snails and continued to mend itself. However, it also moved considerably slower.
Forget about catching up to Sheyan, just healing itself would take at least ten minutes. Sheyan was still feeling extremely pleased with himself as he reached the door of the Morgan Financial Center when the giant boiling oil elemental suddenly exploded by itself.
The spectacle was spectacular. It looked like a fountain shooting straight into the sky, spraying hot, boiling oil thousands of square meters in the vicinity and caused severe burns to more than 70 innocent and curious New Yorkers.
The explosion of the oil monster made Sheyan stumble. A sudden pain caused him to fall to the ground. Another brand representing the sin of greed was visible on his leg.
"That thing was truly malicious. Once it realised that it was too late to catch up to me, it decisively self-destructed to brand me with the mark of the sinner."
Sheyan gritted his teeth, climbed up and charged determinedly into the Morgan Financial Center. Although his appearance was a mess, he was only eleven floors away from success! (ED: A rhyme! How nice!) As long as he could perservere, he would reap immesse profit!
But right that moment, the Cardinal mysteriously appeared a hundred meters behind Sheyan. The Cardinal tilted his head slightly and once again pulled Sheyan into an illusion.
This time, the Cardinal's punishment for Sheyan was the same one experienced by Aziz- Lust!
It appeared that the Cardinal could only condemn experiences in the real world as sins, and not experiences in the nightmare worlds, so Sheyan only ended up being chased by two magma elemental creatures. Compared to the enormous scale of Aziz's punishment with lava and smokes everywhere, which seemed almost at the level of forbidden spells, it was a difference of heaven and earth.
Sheyan did not dare to take the elevator after he regained his freedom, but instead ran up the fire escape. The speed of the pair of magma elementals were not high and their attack did not pose too much of a threat to Sheyan, so Sheyan decided to brave their blows and carry on with his climb!
When Sheyan reached the eighth floor, one of the magma elemental tried to grab him in a hug and he immediately kicked at it. The orange flame on the creature's head instantly spread to Sheyan's foot, but it was also sent flying. The flame on its body rapidly grew weaker after it landed, exposing the rock body inside. Its rock skull banged hard on the floor and actually shattered into pieces!
"That's so shameless! Another one that killed itself!" fumed Sheyan in indignation, "I was just trying to kick it away!"
Sheyan was now only three floors away from the eleventh floor, and the Cardinal's punishment was getting weaker every time. This time, Sheyan was found guilty of the sin of pride. The punishment for this sin was having his body split apart by several giant wheels.
Aziz would probably suffer quite a heavy punishment for the sin of pride, but Sheyan only had to drag the five huge shackles that had abruptly emerged around his body as he continued to stride forward.