This Character is Suspected of Cheating! [Unlimited Flow]

When they woke up, everyone had been restrained.

The harsh environment...

The shock...

The tension...

The lingering panic...

All of them had been lying flat on their beds, unable to move, unable to see everyone else.

As a result...

...none of them had realized someone was missing.

Qu Wu...

...was gone.

A chill instantly shot down everyone's spine.

Goosebumps covered their bodies.

He Yu stared at the ceiling.

His eyes were unfathomable.

His voice carried a trace of heaviness.

"You've only just noticed?"

"Qu Wu has been missing ever since we woke up."

Siya opened her mouth.

After a long pause, she finally managed to speak.

"Like Zhen Xing..."

"...he's already been taken away for experimentation?"

Eugene's expression remained cold.

"Be rational."

"He's not that special."

"We're all still here."

"He disappeared long before any of us woke up."

"The doctor never mentioned his number either."

"That only means one thing."

"He's already dead."

Qiong stared blankly ahead.

Her voice was barely above a whisper.

"He probably died during Chaotic Night."

"So..."

"Chaotic Night really does kill people..."

Annie had been the first.

Qu Wu...

...the second.

If they remained trapped in this instance...

...who would become the third?

A terrifying silence settled over everyone.

None of them feared combat.

Battles.

Slaughter.

Life-and-death duels.

Those were all decided by strength.

Victory or defeat.

Nothing to complain about.

Just like the previous instance.

A one-on-one elimination.

One advanced.

One lost.

The loser accepted defeat openly.

There was nothing unfair about it.

But this...

What was this?

Dying...

...in an unknowable darkness.

Not even knowing how you'd died.

Not even knowing death was coming.

If they imagined themselves dying like that...

...none of them could accept it.

No wonder He Yu had been so desperate to formulate an escape plan yesterday.

They simply didn't have time to drag things out.

If they stayed here another ten days...

...would every single one of them be dead?

Annie was dead.

Qu Wu was dead.

Wanrenzhan had disappeared.

Zhen Xing's fate remained unknown.

Only six of them were left.

Only...

...two days had passed.

Nobody spoke.

Silence once again swallowed the laboratory.

He Yu continued looking at the ceiling.

He was thinking about Qu Wu.

Qu Wu had been one of the Federation's elite.

Like countless young Federation geniuses...

...he'd been powerful.

Confident.

This was only the second instance He Yu had shared with him.

The first had been <Species Collapse>.

Back then...

Qu Wu had become a backpack.

He'd fallen into Gao Jianming's hands immediately...

...and had been forced to accompany him from city to city.

Later...

Gao Jianming died.

He Yu had someone rescue Qu Wu.

Qu Wu had practically wanted to cling to He Yu's leg and cry for help.

Everyone remembered him as cheerful.

Straightforward.

Easygoing.

Although he'd only experienced two instances alongside He Yu...

...he'd never become a burden.

Even if he hadn't made any major contributions in this instance...

...he'd never held anyone back.

From the moment He Yu first met Qu Wu...

...he'd known Qu Wu would never reach the final round.

His strength...

His temperament...

Neither were enough to become the ultimate Top Talent.

But...

He absolutely shouldn't have died like this.

Unable to wipe out the Top 100 all at once like the previous competition...

...had the mastermind simply changed tactics?

Killing them...

...one by one?

Who would be next?

He Yu's eyes turned ice cold.

His gaze toward the ceiling became as sharp as blades.

It was as though he looked beyond time itself...

...meeting the mastermind's eyes across an immeasurable distance.

A mocking smile slowly curled across his lips.

—Almost.

—I almost have you.

Duan Yuchen's hoarse voice broke the silence.

"Let's share our information."

Qu Wu was dead.

They mourned him.

Regretted his death.

Felt furious over the way he'd died.

Yet...

Hidden beneath all those emotions...

...was undeniable relief.

At least...

...it hadn't been them.

Those complicated feelings lasted only a moment.

None of them had the luxury of grieving.

In an instance this dangerous...

...the next corpse could easily be their own.

The only thing they could do...

...was share information immediately.

Find a way to break this instance.

He Yu slowly closed his eyes.

When he opened them again...

...they were completely clear.

He spoke calmly.

"The doctor took us away after dawn."

"He never interfered during Chaotic Night."

The moment he finished speaking...

...someone subconsciously held their breath.

None of them were stupid.

They immediately understood what He Yu meant.

Eugene picked up the thought at once.

"So Chaotic Night is inevitable."

"According to the setting, we've been imprisoned in Death Prison for too long."

"We've all gradually gone mad."

"That's why Chaotic Night exists."

Qiong continued the analysis.

"In other words..."

"Chaotic Night is part of the System's design."

Siya's eyes suddenly lit up.

She clenched her fists tightly.

"Chaotic Night is connected to the killer."

"It exists so we can identify who the killer is!"

Duan Yuchen let out a mocking laugh.

"Heh."

"As if this instance wasn't already difficult enough."

"A total party wipe."

"And on top of that..."

"...they had to throw in both a killer and Chaotic Night."

"They're terrified we won't die."

"They're terrified we won't turn on each other."

Turn on each other.

Those three words carried special meaning.

Duan Yuchen now regarded all of them...

...as one team.

From the very beginning...

He Yu had insisted on joining forces.

The mastermind never openly opposed that idea.

Instead...

...the System's rules relentlessly divided them.

Preventing cooperation at every turn.

But now?

The rules wanted them dead anyway.

Why should they continue obeying them?

At this moment...

Even knowing a killer was hiding among them...

...they trusted He Yu without reservation.

They remained firmly united.

Because they all understood—

Everyone else felt exactly the same.

Inside this instance...

...they were one team.

No matter how desperately the rules tried to divide them...

...they refused to play along.

He Yu understood their attitude.

His mood visibly improved.

He liked intelligent people.

And even if someone wasn't especially intelligent...

...he appreciated those willing to follow instructions.

Whatever the reason...

Anyone who had reached this stage of the Top Talent Show...

...yet still stubbornly obeyed the rules in an instance like this...

...was an idiot.

Zhen Xing.

Ling Buchen.

Bo Jingshan.

The ones who had chosen He Yu's side from the beginning...

...were smart people.

He pressed his lips together.

His voice was soft...

...yet perfectly clear.

"Someone killed Qu Wu last night."

"We never saw his body."

"So we have no idea how he died."

After a pause, he continued,

"We can only deduce the method of his death from everyone's memories."

Everyone began reporting one after another.

Eugene:

"I don't remember doing anything."

Ling Buchen:

"Neither do I."

"I stayed in bed the whole time."

Duan Yuchen:

"Same."

"I don't remember getting up."

Siya:

"Me too."

Qiong:

"My memory is also extremely simple."

He Yu smiled faintly before finishing the thought for everyone.

"So everyone's memory is identical."

"Shortly after entering Chaotic Night..."

"...we all saw someone moving."

"Qiong probably saw Siya moving."

"Siya saw Qiong."

"But everyone else..."

"...saw Qu Wu moving."

"Correct?"

No one had actually said it outright.

Yet combining their memories with his own...

...He Yu immediately reconstructed the truth.

The laboratory instantly fell silent.

Thump.

Thump.

Thump.

Every heartbeat echoed clearly.

An eerie atmosphere enveloped the room.

Inside the men's dormitory...

...everyone's memory was almost identical.

Unlike the previous night...

...none of them remembered doing anything.

Every single one shared only one fragment—

They saw Qu Wu moving.

Only moving.

After that...

...nothing.

Qu Wu had been staying in Room 706.

The people inside 706 saw him get up.

Then he walked into Room 705.

The people there saw him as well.

Duan Yuchen spoke first.

"I saw Qu Wu sit up."

"After that..."

"...nothing."

Eugene nodded.

"I saw Qu Wu walking outside."

"My memory ends there too."

He Yu said,

"I saw Qu Wu enter Room 705."

Ling Buchen added quietly,

"So did I."

Eugene shrugged.

"Siya and Qiong's memories aren't important."

"Nobody can cross between the men's and women's dormitories."

"Zhen Xing was unconscious."

"So last night's killer has to be one of four people."

"Duan Yuchen."

"Me."

"He Yu."

"Or Ling Buchen."

Duan Yuchen shook his head.

"No."

"We can't completely eliminate Zhen Xing."

"Chaotic Night forces people to move unconsciously."

"He's still alive."

"He might've acted too."

Eugene answered indifferently,

"Fine."

"Then include him."

"That makes five suspects."

Qiong didn't suspect He Yu.

But something about all this information felt wrong.

She spoke softly.

"He Yu..."

"On the first night..."

"Annie tried to kill you."

"On the second night..."

"Qu Wu also got up."

"He was probably trying to kill you too..."

After all...

On the first night...

Qu Wu's objective had already been He Yu.

Annie had simply acted before he could.

The second night...

...he had most likely intended to do the same thing.

Hearing that...

He Yu chuckled softly.

He instinctively wanted to push up his glasses.

Unfortunately...

...his hands remained restrained.

He could only adjust his wrists before speaking.

"Exactly."

"Both victims intended to kill me."

"So..."

"Does that mean the killer was acting in self-defense?"

Eugene immediately shook his head.

"No."

"The common factor is that both victims wanted to kill you."

"That's exactly why every one of us could be the killer."

If the victims had targeted anyone else...

...they wouldn't necessarily have acted.

But because they were targeting He Yu...

...any one of them might've stepped in to protect him.

The first night...

...everyone protected He Yu.

The second night...

...the same logic applied.

Duan Yuchen nodded.

"The clues now point toward the five men in the dormitory."

"But everyone's memories from last night are practically identical."

"Any one of us could be the killer."

"So..."

"...we can only continue reasoning from the conclusions we reached after the first night."

Siya recalled last night's discussion.

She frowned.

"So..."

"Last night's memories were basically useless?"

"Yesterday we'd already narrowed the suspects down to Eugene and Ling Buchen."

The memories were simply too fragmented.

They hadn't provided any decisive evidence.

After the first night...

...their final suspects had been:

Eugene.

Wanrenzhan.

He Yu.

Ling Buchen.

Ling Buchen later proved He Yu wasn't the killer.

That left Eugene...

Wanrenzhan...

...and Ling Buchen.

Last night confirmed Wanrenzhan couldn't have acted.

Even if he'd gone berserk...

...he couldn't possibly have reached Floor Seven to kill Qu Wu.

Only Eugene and Ling Buchen remained.

Eugene sneered.

"If the suspects are only Ling Buchen and me..."

"...then in my opinion..."

"...Ling Buchen is the killer."

He Yu suddenly turned toward him.

"What makes us so certain..."

"...that the killer from last night is the same person as the killer from the first night?"

"And another thing."

"We've only assumed that the murderer is the killer we're searching for."

"What if..."

"...the murderer isn't actually the killer?"

That possibility was entirely plausible.

Nothing explicitly stated that the "murderer" and the "killer" were the same person.

And even if they were...

Who said there could only be one murderer?

Everyone: "............"

—Fuck.

—Please stop.

—Our heads hurt.

[Bullet Screen: "Mine too."]

[Bullet Screen: "As viewers we know who the murderer is... but we still don't know who the killer is!"]

[Bullet Screen: "The System never actually told us who the killer is supposed to be."]

Just as everyone's brains were about to explode...

...footsteps echoed through the laboratory.

Dr. Ganlun strode inside, barely containing his excitement.

His eyes immediately lit up when he saw they were awake.

He walked toward them with long strides.

"My dear experimental subjects!"

"You're finally awake!"

"It's been far too long."

"I've missed you all terribly!"

Dr. Ganlun appeared to be a refined middle-aged man.

He wore a spotless white lab coat.

His demeanor was calm and cultured.

Yet...

The manic excitement in his eyes...

The madness written across his face...

Created an overwhelming sense of pressure.

Simply looking at him inspired fear.

Eugene spoke expressionlessly.

"We literally met yesterday..."

Dr. Ganlun immediately glared at him.

"Oh!"

"You obnoxious Mechanical Planet native."

"Take him away."

"I don't need him for my research—for now."

Eugene glared back.

His silver hair shifted slightly.

"Since you know I'm from Mechanical Planet..."

"...you should also know how united our people are."

"If you dare experiment on me—"

He attempted to threaten the doctor.

Dr. Ganlun merely waved dismissively.

The madness in his eyes intensified.

"Do you even know what kind of experiment I'm conducting?"

"If I succeed..."

"...I'll become the strongest being in the universe."

"I'll become the Father of Gods."

"No one will dare harm me."

"Everyone..."

"...will beg for an audience with me."

So...

Still cursing nonstop...

...Eugene was dragged away.

Under the circumstances...

...it was impossible to tell whether he was actually safer than the others.

Dr. Ganlun gradually calmed himself.

He washed his hands.

Still smiling...

...he approached the remaining five experimental subjects.

It was obvious.

The experiments were about to begin.

He Yu was Subject Number One.

His operating bed was the first.

Dr. Ganlun walked over.

He connected several monitoring devices to He Yu's body.

He Yu remained perfectly calm.

He quietly watched every movement the doctor made.

There wasn't the slightest trace of panic in his eyes.

Instead...

...they were filled with curiosity.

Dr. Ganlun paused.

"You're not afraid?"

He Yu smiled slightly.

"I'm not."

He looked directly at the doctor.

His expression became serious.

"Doctor..."

"Before you begin the experiment..."

"...I think you should first hear what I have to say."

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