Chapter 217 - Battle Royale: Survival of the Jedi (VII)
Chapter 217 Battle Royale: Survival of the Jedi (VII)
The woman gave a dismissive chortle, silently removed her helmet and gloves, and pressed her right palm against her cheek.
The transparent texture of the skin, centred on the area she had pressed, spread rapidly.
Soon, her whole body disappeared into thin air.
The dagger hanging from the side of the man’s waist was silently drawn by her, and after skillfully simulating a throat-slitting motion in the air, the blade was pressed into the heart of her right hand.
Within minutes, the dagger had also turned transparent.
The only disconcerting thing was that the material on her body also clattered off.
The man said with more than a sign language joy, “Can’t wear clothes. …… That’s the bad thing about your transparency powers.”
A piece of water landed on his helmet, probably from a woman spitting on him.
The man took off his helmet without a care, wiped the water stains from it and leaned playfully behind a rock, waiting for her return.
The woman came out of her hiding place brightly and took a step closer to the man sitting on his knees on the side of the water, hearing his headless mutterings to himself.
”My favourite formula ah …… would be the laws of thermodynamics in physics. When I first learned it in junior high school, I thought it was amazing: energy doesn’t get destroyed or created out of thin air, it just transforms from one form, into another.” The young man with the glasses sat on his knees and opened his hands, “…… doesn’t that seem romantic? Your hair, perhaps, is the dust and ashes of a star; your index finger, perhaps, comes from the ashes of an ancient man who burned his poems.”
Immediately afterwards, the woman heard an identical voice coming from the water’s edge: “You’re a real misanthrope.”
The woman pinned her eyebrows in curiosity.
Is this man asking himself a question? Is it possible that he has gone mad?
Ha, that’s right, a nerd sitting in a lab, reading too much, thinking about unnecessary things, mostly mental cleanliness, can’t accept the fact that he’s going to be involved in a murder and just goes crazy.
She has killed seven or eight, if not ten, of these madmen who would rather run away than face reality.
But it’s not really interesting.
As she approaches Bai Anyi a few more steps, she hears Bai Anyi’s crazy words again: “That was when I was a child and I liked to dream. I’m very pragmatic now. Now, I like the formula for gravity. ……F gravity = G*Mm/r2.”
The woman had raised her dagger and thought, what a pathetic madness ……
However, she didn’t have time to finish her thought before the dagger in her hand instantly increased by a thousand pounds.
Her wrist bones couldn’t withstand the sudden force of the force and shattered with a click.
The pressure spread through the woman’s body like air, and she landed on her knees with a thud, her broken hand resting limply on the hilt of the dagger that remained just an inch above the ground, her upper body barely staying upright for a moment, and then, after realising the ominous click of her collar bone, she finally gave up the fight, throwing herself to the ground like mud, an unbelievable groan of pain spilling out from between her teeth.
As her form continued to emerge, Chi Xiaochi turned her face sideways, “Rather, listen to the people.”
When her eyes touched her bare arm, Chi Xiaochi had an uncomfortable look on her face, “Oops.”
He drew back his eyes and pulled his coat off, throwing it over her body.
At this moment, it was like throwing a five-finger mountain over her.
She was pressed to the point of vomiting blood, feeling like her internal organs were squeezed into a ball, and her lungs felt like they were squeezed into a ball of waste paper, but the pressure stopped increasing once she reached a critical mass.
The woman felt like a piece of lunch meat that would be crushed into pulp at any moment.
The man she was travelling with heard the movement and had just rolled over to look at the spot where the woman had fallen on her back when his shoulder was gently put on from behind: “Hello, sir.”
The man’s scalp exploded and without waiting to turn around, the red energy within his right fist instantly expanded countless times and swung backwards.
At the same time, his right shoulder sank heavily downwards.
–The man was so lithe that he stepped directly on his face as his body twisted and turned, using his strength to mount his shoulders, curving one finger against an acupuncture point on his head and instantly firing.
The man let out a low roar of pain and his form plunged forward, falling face down in the same manner as the woman.
He thought he had excellent reflexes, and when he realised he was about to fall to the ground, he made a move to roll forward, but the man put his hand on his back, counted out three cuts from top to bottom, pressed and rubbed twice, and then pushed upwards with his backhand, causing him to lose the strength to resist, stumbling twice and falling headlong into the morning dew-soaked mud.
Without a word or a smile, ” Bai Anyi” caught him by the hair with one hand and sent him crashing into the side of the rock.
During the period of five collisions with exactly the same force, he used only one hand, moving with sharpness and precision to remove all the joints of the man’s right arm from the top to the bottom of the bone.
The red aura in the man’s fist quickly subsided under the intense pain, and ” Bai Anyi” confirmed that everything was correct before kicking him out of several tumbles before stepping on his ribs, then only to break into a faint smile and an apologetic bow, “Offence taken.”
Like a noodle pocket, the man is grabbed by the back of his neck with one arm by the ” Bai Anyi ” and dragged all the way to the woman.
Entering the force field in a daze, the man and the woman instantly flung themselves into a dead couple.
” Bai Anyi” S Wen gave a polite nudge to his glasses, “You close your eyes and don’t look.”
Chi Xiaochi said, “I’m not afraid.”
”It’s not that I’m afraid you’ll see it.”” Bai Anyi” said, “It’s that ‘he’ can’t see this.”
Chi Xiaochi then dutifully closed his eyes.
” Bai Anyi” walked around the two men and leaned down and said, “Can anyone tell me what you do for a living?”
Both were silent.
”Were the other people in the car involved in the game?”
Between asking and answering himself, ” Bai Anyi” took the initiative to return to the forest, picked up the shoe the woman had taken off and examined it, then folded back, took hold of the man’s ankle, folded it upwards and examined the sole of his shoe.
He gathered his hands, and his movements and tone were the same: “The shoes are new, without scuff marks, the soil on the soles is fresh, and they are all stained with morning dew. Please tell me that it is fifty kilometres from where the car stopped to here. Dare I ask which one of you can fly?”
The two men still didn’t say a word more to anyone.
” Bai Anyi” stood in front of the woman and lifted her chin with both fingers, “Ladies first. Please speak.”
It was clear that the woman was terrified, her teeth were chattering and her throat was clenching sharply.
On the one hand, she was resisting the gravitational pull, and on the other, she was thinking about how to answer in order to save her life and not give away her secret.
…… is up, stalling!
She cleared her throat and said, “Don’t get paranoid, I’m not going to say anything. Not unless you promise me one condition ……”
” Bai Anyi” raised an eyebrow: “…… Oh.”
He snapped her slender neck with a clean hand.
The woman’s mouth gurgled and foamed with blood, her throat gurgled for a while, her head dropped to the side and she was silent.
Until the moment before she died, her eyes were still full of astonishment.
” Bai Anyi” abandoned her decisively, maintaining a crouching stance and taking a step across to the man, “She’s trying to stall for time. Time is a precious thing to me. And you? What are the terms to be offered to me?”
The man swallowed with difficulty and actually closed his eyes as Prime waited to die.
” Bai Anyi” tilted his head a little and was just about to reach out when Chi Xiaochi closed his eyes and called out to stop.
” Bai Anyi”: “What?”
Chi Xiaochi closed his eyes and said, “Are you going to torture him to get a confession?”
” Bai Anyi” ummed, “I’m thinking about it.”
Chi Xiaochi : “It’s not necessary.”
The man on the floor breathed a trace of relief.
Clearly, the man sitting cross-legged on the floor was a soft-hearted man who could not see bloodshed and killing.
He had seen such people so many times that even when he caught an enemy who wanted to kill him, he had to say, “Don’t kill, it’s a life.
It’s so fucking hypocritical.
But immediately afterwards, he couldn’t stop laughing.
Because, says Chi Xiaochi, “…… because he’s still stalling, ah.”
With that, Chi Xiaochi stood up, patted the ash from his hands and took a step in the direction of the man lying down with his eyes closed: “Their loyalty, it’s so strange. It’s as if they are facing a fear worse than death.”
The man’s eyes were so bloodshot from the steep gravitational pull that they were spreading like a spider’s web, saliva dripping down the corners of his mouth, and he couldn’t help but make a strangled Ho-Ho sound.
”What, exactly, is the origin of this fear?” Chi Xiaochi took another step and mused, “The dirt on the bottom of their shoes proves that they were dropped straight into this forest. To be able to monitor our position and achieve a precise drop of two or even more people, then they must come from an organisation that can see the whole picture of the situation ……”
”…… is, perhaps, the master control centre outside the game.”
” Bai Anyi” quickly probed his palm behind the man’s ear, and indeed detected the rapid flow of blood and the rapid pounding of his pulse.
He raises his eyebrows thoughtfully.
Chi Xiaochi continued, “Assuming that you did come from the General Control Centre and that the monitors outside were able to observe what you observed, it would be entirely possible to take immediate coercive measures against us, injecting us with poison to ensure your personal safety and forcibly end our race. However, nothing is happening to us now …… presumably because the General Control Centre is concerned that there are psychic abilities among the psychics that are able to observe high intensity, high frequency electronic signals, and in turn, discover that there are other ‘contestants’ in addition to the 101 contestants. Therefore, they removed the collars that could monitor your life signals and replaced them with low frequency band internal communication tools so as to hide them from the public.”
” Bai Anyi” thought along with him, “Well …… in that case, there is another contradiction.”
Chi Xiaochi : “Yes oh. Why do you keep silent, even at the expense of your lives, when the headquarters cannot monitor everything you do and say in real time?”
The man’s face was already like gold paper, his eyes were bloodshot inside, and his ragged breath sounded like he had been crushed by a truck and broken his ribs.
Chi Xiaochi crouches down and rests his cheeks: “Tell the secret for your life and you have an 80% chance of being silenced; don’t tell and you will die. So why don’t you fight for that 20% chance? It doesn’t make sense, and it’s not human.”
”The only possibility that made you risk death to delay, keep silent and fight for rescue was ……” Chi Xiaochi said, “…… There was a third person who came with you.”
In the middle of the forest, a man plucked away the curtain-like roots of a banyan tree and ran like a leopard, leaving a trail of shadow and shifting grass everywhere he went.
As he ran, he used voice input to back up the information to the terminal of the mobile data.
”Correction! Subject 7 Bai Anyi’s psychic ability is level E, specifically manifested as a diversion with no energy fluctuations ……”
He ran out another hundred metres, about eight metres from the tree they had been teleported to, when a strange sound came back to his ears.
The man looked down and his pupils clenched.
The line that had been fluctuating regularly up and down, representing the woman’s vital signs, turned into a smooth straight line.
He is the observer in the trio; in short, those two are in the light, taking care of the target of the mission, while he hides in the shadows, always ready for the unexpected.
When he sensed that the situation was different, he chose to retreat.
He used the voice input function again and said urgently, “Correction for the second time! Bai Anyi’s psychic ability is level D! It manifests itself in the form of a physically fit doppelganger who is good at fighting ……”
Almost there ……
Distance to the fixed teleportation point, 100 metres to go.
The man saw the banyan tree from a distance and, overjoyed, concentrated on his already ghastly gait and stepped up to it.
Almost three seconds later, he arrived at the teleportation point.
Sweeping his foot off the fallen leaves that had been deliberately covered on the ground, the man jumped into a circle of light traced on the ground, crouched down, pulled down a keyboard in the upper right corner of the circle and hurriedly tapped in a few numbers.
Sin can’t keep it, but Kinkai is still alive!
He had to get back to headquarters quickly for help!
But the transmission the man imagined did not happen.
A few seconds later he was still standing frozen in place.
”…… Your collars are indeed difficult to parse.”
The man looked up suddenly at the sound of a clear voice.
Lou Ying sat up in a tree and said, “…… But it’s still easy enough to just temporarily cut off your external communication bands.”
There was a flash before the man’s eyes and there was no longer any sign of the masked man in the treetops.
In the next instant, a dull pain came from his neck.
A hand wrapped around his body just in time as he collapsed.
Lou Ying, still a gentleman, whispered to the unconscious man, “Code NY021398, thanks for the help.”
The man was already unconscious, so he didn’t hear the beep that sounded in his ear return, as his last teammate’s life signal went to zero.
……
After listening to Chi Xiaochi’s analysis, “Bai Anyi” then clicked and snapped the man’s neck.
” Bai Anyi” said, “You’re right, there’s no need for that.”
Chi Xiaochi used up all his mercy by closing his eyes and drawing a cross.
He said, “Just waiting for my brother to bring back the third one.”
” Bai Anyi” turned his head to survey Chi Xiaochi : “…… You don’t look like someone from normal society.”
Chi Xiaochi : “Ah, the last world I came from was the ancient world of war.”
After the exchange of information, “Bai Anyi” already has an initial understanding of Chi Xiaochi: “No, I mean, where you really come from. Your home.”
Chi Xiaochi : “Oh, that’s a society similar to your old world.”
” Bai Anyi” nodded, “Then it’s unlikely you’ll be able to actually ‘go back’.”
Chi Xiaochi smiles.
Back in the last world, he had spied on Lord GOD’s intentions.
Lord GOD Isn’t the logic of having him travel to a world like this, where he can’t survive without killing, an attempt to get him to take on his sinful karma and not be able to return to the normal world?
”I am an actor. What an actor can do is to respect the character, stay close to the character and protect the character. Treating every character like a child is something that my old-timers told me on my first day in the business. The son didn’t do well, but learned to be a father first, says me.”
Chi Xiaochi says, “So, I only think about the character. In a scene that is unique to the character, kill ‘Chi Xiaochi’ so the character can live.”
He continued, “There is no point in letting these people who have come to kill us live. Leave them alive and let them get out alive, and there is a chance they will betray us and possibly make a comeback; if they are scrapped of their fighting ability, scraps who know the secrets of the watchdog, the agency will not let them survive and will even torture them, so it is better to send them to a good and clean death.”
” Bai Anyi” examined Chi Xiaochi’s face, suddenly reached out, held his glasses up for him and smiled brightly, “You’re right. You’re a very practical person.”
A cough came from not far away.
A man was thrown between “Bai Anyi” and Chi Xiaochi with a thud, interrupting “Bai Anyi’s” movements.
Lou Ying leaned against the side of a tree with a spring-like expression, “The man is caught and returned. …… Am I disturbing you?”
The trio was down to the last survivor.
No one else would be tipped off, the last chance to be rescued was lost, and having learned of the deaths of two more companions, the last one recanted to nothing.
The man hung his head witheringly, “Our code name, ‘Catfish’.”
The term “catfish” refers to the “catfish effect”, where fishermen add a fierce catfish to a basket full of tuna in order to ensure that the tuna transported from faraway seas does not die from laziness and thus spoil the flavour.
Catfish dash around, stirring up the water and causing the tuna to swim quickly to ensure they are delivered fresh to shore for the latest fresh and good tasting experience.
The three of them were, indeed, sent from the general control centre outside.
”We are responsible …… for removing people who rank low or play negatively.” The man warbled, “More people like that can take away from the fun of gambling and reduce the number of participants and …… and profits. When we are put in, each of us will have a portal. To minimise the strength of the signals emitted, our collars are removed and the life signals are switched to internal sharing. Because the people to be removed are those who are not capable or are playing negatively, three is quite enough …… so that …… nothing like this has happened before ……”
The three men surrounding him stared at him without saying a word.
The man said dryly, “My psychic ability is high speed running, and my rank is only C ……”
This is still not the answer everyone needs.
The man’s shoulders and neck tensed to iron: “What more do you …… want to know?”
” Bai Anyi” said sharply, “All of them.”
”I’m just an observer ……” the man was almost in tears, “spare me, spare me. An alien of my rank has no access to core secrets, even hunting won’t take me ……”
”Don’t you know?” Chi Xiaochi said unexpectedly, “The iron plate with the pattern, you don’t know what it is either.”
The man’s mouth stiffened at once: “How do you …… ……”
” Bai Anyi” grabbed him by the neck with a tentative push of his fingertips, and the man let out a pig-like wail, “Don’t kill me! Don’t kill me! I said-”
He had seen how quickly women could die.
”‘Catfish’ …… are not just dropped from the outside ……” the man coughed twice as his throat was released, arching his back and not waiting to catch his breath before he said in a desperate mute voice, “Inside the contestants The ‘catfish’ were also placed beforehand and could identify themselves to each other by virtue of the iron tag …… But we are also divided into two different bodies inside and outside within the ‘catfish’, so we don’t know , which contestant is the ‘catfish’ and how many ‘catfish’ there actually are ……”
Seeing that nothing more important could be asked, Chi Xiaochi got up and left, leaving the man behind.
After one collaboration, it was clear that “Bai Anyi” had come to see Chi Xiaochi as a valuable person to work with. He asked him softly, “Work it out?”
Chi Xiaochi nods his head.
Sadly, the man will not return alive either.
…… But, it can’t be now.
Chi Xiaochi offered to take a look at their teleportation point and Lou Ying led the way, followed shortly by “Bai Anyi”.
After a short walk they arrived at the banyan tree with the circle of light depicted on it.
Chi Xiaochi searched around for a while and, to his surprise, found two other circles of light.
After seeing the aperture entity, Chi Xiaochi pursed his lips and thought for a while.
”…… I have an idea.” Chi Xiaochi lifted his hand and stroked the aerial roots hanging down from the banyan tree.
Lou Ying and ” Bai Anyi” wash their ears.
Chi Xiaochi : “We are transported in as consciousness, and they are no different. And this aperture can transport a person’s consciousness out. I want …… to borrow that person’s outside body and check for information. And the one who sends it out had better be good at acting.”