This Character is Suspected of Cheating! [Unlimited Flow]
Chapter 252: Health Bar (End)Zhante completely ignored the wound on his arm.
Raising his staff, he blocked the incoming strike.
It was equipment that had undergone a second forging using the new forging technique.
Ordinary weapons couldn't compare.
His opponent's weapon chipped on impact.
The man's pupils contracted.
He stumbled backward several steps in terror before finally getting a clear look at Zhante's face.
Zhante!
The instant he recognized him, he hurriedly backed away.
"S-Sorry! I didn't mean to ambush you..."
The moment he finished speaking...
He turned and ran.
Only fifty-seven contestants remained.
He estimated he still had roughly a fifty-percent chance of advancing.
Only roughly.
After all, he couldn't see the rankings and had no idea where his combat power currently stood.
Naturally...
He wanted seven more contestants eliminated to secure his advancement.
He had been lying in wait here.
Very few people passed this tunnel.
Those who did were usually unguarded.
He had already killed one contestant through ambush.
Who would've thought the second one would be Zhante?
He'd ambushed the wrong target.
He wanted to flee.
But Zhante blocked him with his staff.
Curling his lips into a cold smile, he said,
"It took me forever to finally find someone."
"And you think I'm letting you leave?"
The man immediately begged,
"Please spare me!"
"Your ranking is high enough that you'll definitely advance."
"Why do you have to kill me?"
Zhante lowered his eyes.
"Based on my experience..."
"Your ranking is definitely below fiftieth."
He was still analyzing.
Suddenly...
The man's eyes sharpened.
With a violent motion, he threw something directly toward Zhante's eyes.
Zhante instantly flashed aside.
At the same time, his staff swept horizontally.
The man collapsed, eyes wide open.
Dead.
Zhante rested his staff on the ground.
Tilting his head slightly, his sharply defined features looked even colder.
A sneer appeared at the corner of his lips.
"You really thought I wasn't prepared?"
"You deserved that."
Countdown:
1 hour 18 minutes.
Remaining contestants:
56.
Picking up his staff, Zhante disappeared into the tunnels at astonishing speed.
—
Gedai hadn't encountered anyone.
As a result...
He knew nothing about the maps.
The area he occupied lay extremely far from everyone else.
Almost no one ever came here.
Under normal circumstances...
He would've simply closed his eyes, gone to sleep, and waited to advance.
But not now.
Standing silently in place...
Gedai frowned slightly.
He hadn't liked He Yu before.
In fact...
He had despised him.
Back during the Dawn Training School instance...
He had constantly mocked him.
Even in later instances...
He continued ridiculing He Yu.
Exactly when...
Had he begun trusting He Yu?
Following his commands?
Stopping those sarcastic remarks?
Even Gedai himself didn't know.
The change...
Had happened invisibly.
Just as...
His relationship with Qiong had quietly become harmonious without him noticing.
His hostility toward Eugene had eased because a greater enemy existed.
They had only temporarily set aside their grudge.
In reality...
They still found each other irritating.
But toward He Yu...
And Qiong...
The two people he'd originally looked down upon...
His attitude had genuinely changed.
Gedai was proud.
Most people from Mechanical Planet were proud.
Gedai...
The greatest prodigy among them...
Even more so.
That very pride was why he had followed Eugene into the Top Talent Show.
A competition where death was guaranteed.
Where only slaughter remained.
That same pride had made him look down on Qiong from Chaos Planet.
And He Yu from Garbage Planet.
Yet without realizing it...
Gedai had lowered his proud head.
He had begun genuinely acknowledging contestants from Chaos Planet and Garbage Planet...
People superior to himself.
Including Ling Buchen.
Including Bo Jingshan.
He admitted it.
He accepted it.
They were strong.
Perhaps...
Even stronger than he was.
Taking a deep breath...
Gedai slowly closed his eyes.
He recalled He Yu commanding them in battle.
He recalled that cold, confident face.
He recalled how He Yu had cornered the mastermind step by step atop the snowy mountain.
Then...
He thought of Cheng Zhao.
And Siya.
Calmly...
Gedai raised a hand.
Removed his own head.
Closed his eyes.
And completely dismantled himself.
Reassembling into an incredibly powerful...
Scanning device.
Gedai had never told anyone.
He...
Was actually the Mechanical Planet citizen best suited to becoming a machine.
Even more so than Eugene.
His suspended head smiled faintly.
"Eugene..."
"You probably never imagined I'd surpass you in this field."
As early as the Universal Dating instance...
He had already demonstrated mechanical abilities superior to Eugene's.
Gedai...
Had originally been created by dismantling and reconstructing machines.
He...
Was the finest machine.
Yet everyone from Mechanical Planet considered themselves people.
Not machines.
Being treated like a machine...
Was humiliation.
Now...
The proud Gedai...
To keep He Yu alive...
Personally displayed every ounce of his machine capabilities.
Beginning with his head...
Layer after layer of scanning waves spread outward.
Sweeping across every detail.
Ignoring no corner whatsoever.
Even the Federation's finest scanners...
Couldn't compare.
Bullet Screen:
"Ahhh, Gedai!!"
"Only those of us from Mechanical Planet who know Gedai understand just how much psychological resistance he had to overcome to do this."
"Eugene has no shame anyway. But seeing Gedai do this... honestly shocked me."
"I'm crying again... Is this what a team fighting for one another looks like?"
Beep! Beep!
Gedai's brain emitted a notification.
His expression turned cold.
Reassembling every part of his body...
He rolled his neck.
His mechanical arm extended.
The already agile Mechanical Planet body suddenly leaped forward into the tunnel.
The mechanical blade slashed.
Perfectly.
Toward one section of the wall.
Boom!
The wall exploded.
A figure darted away.
Gedai intercepted them.
The man immediately dropped to his knees.
Crying, he begged,
"Please spare me!"
"I was only hiding!"
"I wasn't planning to attack anyone!"
"Please..."
He looked up.
His face was filled with misery.
"Gedai..."
"You're guaranteed to advance."
"I know why you're killing people."
"It's because of He Yu, isn't it?"
"Just so he can survive..."
"You people are going to kill so many others?"
Gedai looked down at him coldly.
The man continued,
"Aren't you trying to break the rules?"
"So why obey them now?"
"And sacrifice innocent people like us?"
Gedai suddenly laughed.
His cold, perfectly modeled face was filled with mockery.
"Innocent?"
"Are there innocent people in the Top Talent Show?"
"You're Kendi."
"A contestant from District Five."
"During the Preliminary Selection instance, you pushed every teammate on your boat into the sea so you could reach shore alone."
"They all ended up in the stomachs of fish."
"In Who Is the Undercover, you were the undercover."
"You deceived and betrayed nine teammates."
"In Are They Teammates, you disguised yourself as an ally."
"The moment the mission ended..."
"You murdered the partner who trusted you."
Kendi stared at him in horror.
Gedai tapped his own temple.
"Never compare your memory to someone from Mechanical Planet."
After a brief pause...
He silently added in his heart:
Except He Yu.
Without another word...
Gedai killed Kendi.
There were no good people in the Top Talent Show.
Including themselves.
The entire competition revolved around slaughter.
Betrayal.
Schemes.
Every single instance had always been like this.
Everyone who entered understood that.
Those who didn't...
Had already died during earlier rounds.
Anyone who'd survived until now...
Wasn't a good person.
Including them.
Only because they had followed He Yu...
Slowly entrusting their backs to one another...
Relying on each other...
Did genuine trust and comradeship gradually form.
In reality...
If circumstances changed...
Even teammates would turn against one another.
As for the other contestants...
He Yu wanted to bring them through because he wanted to break the rules.
Had they ever truly believed him?
Now that the rules had become restrictive...
Of course...
Their own team came first.
In other words—
They weren't taking everyone along anymore.
Just like before...
Everything depended on ability.
Gedai put away the mechanical blade.
Coldly changing locations...
He disappeared.
Countdown:
1 hour.
Remaining contestants:
55.
—
Eugene was luckier.
He quickly encountered a powerful opponent in a newly explored area.
The man's strength probably ranked within the top twenty.
Apparently believing Eugene hadn't grown stronger during the Kill the Prisoner instance...
He chose not to retreat.
Instead...
He attempted to assassinate Eugene.
What he never expected...
Was that even without any improvement from Kill the Prisoner...
Eugene remained vastly stronger than him.
Countdown:
50 minutes.
Remaining contestants:
54.
Countdown:
40 minutes.
Remaining contestants:
53.
Countdown:
30 minutes.
Remaining contestants:
52.
Countdown:
20 minutes.
Remaining contestants:
51.
Countdown:
10 minutes.
Remaining contestants:
51.
Only one more.
Just one.
But...
Only ten minutes remained.
Everyone had gone completely mad searching.
Zhen Xing.
Gedai.
Ling Buchen.
Duan Yuchen.
Wanrenzhan.
Qiong.
Zhante.
Tang Ke.
Yuan Ze.
Eugene.
Each carried a map.
Each sprinted desperately through the maze.
Wanrenzhan was so anxious his mouth had practically broken out in blisters.
Countdown:
5 minutes.
Remaining contestants:
51.
His face had gone pale.
Turning toward He Yu beside him...
He found him completely calm.
He continued writing in his notebook.
Marking symbols no one else understood.
Perfectly composed.
Countdown:
3 minutes.
Remaining contestants:
51.
Wanrenzhan finally snapped.
"He Yu!"
"Aren't you scared at all?!"
"You're about to die!!"
He Yu looked up.
His long fingers adjusted his cold rimless glasses.
"Worrying won't help."
"Calm down."
"How am I supposed to stay calm?!"
Wanrenzhan grabbed his own hair.
His eyes were bloodshot.
His voice had turned hoarse.
"What are they doing?!"
"Nine people have maps!"
"There are only thirty-nine others left!"
"Thirty-nine!"
"And they still can't find even one?!"
He desperately wanted to go searching himself.
Yet he was equally afraid that if he left...
Someone would...
Attack He Yu from behind.
Then he remembered someone.
His expression darkened even further.
"And that fellow countryman of yours—Bo Jingshan!"
"He hasn't shown up once!"
"He doesn't even have a map!"
"Has he decided he's definitely advancing anyway, so everyone else can go to hell?!"
The curve of Wanrenzhan's lips was icy with ridicule.
He Yu merely glanced at him.
Still perfectly calm...
He lowered his head and continued writing.
His expression never changed.
Bullet Screen:
"Damn it... I'm so anxious."
"Ahhh, I feel awful. He Yu can't lose."
"If everyone tries this hard and He Yu still gets eliminated... I'm seriously going to cry!!"
Countdown:
2 minutes.
Remaining contestants:
51.
After returning from another reset...
Wanrenzhan stared fixedly at He Yu.
After a long silence...
He spoke calmly.
His voice was hoarse.
"...Next time."
"I'm not resetting the timer."
In other words...
When only one minute remained...
He intended to fight He Yu.
Hearing that...
He Yu looked up.
His eyes became slightly complicated.
Wanrenzhan forced a smile.
Just as he was about to continue—
Movement echoed from two different tunnels.
Looking up...
They saw Zhen Xing.
And Ling Buchen.
Clearly...
With only two minutes remaining...
They had given up searching.
They had returned...
To save He Yu.
The three looked at one another.
All slightly stunned.
Countdown:
1 minute.
Remaining contestants:
51.
【One minute exceeded. Forced combat initiated!】
Zhen Xing.
Ling Buchen.
Wanrenzhan.
The three looked toward He Yu.
Then...
Toward each other.
Their eyes instantly became vicious.
Killing intent erupted.
Moments earlier...
Each had been prepared to sacrifice themselves for He Yu.
But now...
Besides He Yu...
There were three other people present.
In that instant...
What team spirit?
Everyone immediately turned hostile.
Weapons were raised simultaneously.
Three of the strongest contestants in the Top Talent Show...
Were about to clash.
"Ling Buchen."
"Zhen Xing."
"Alright."
Only three exchanged words.
Yet the two immediately displayed perfect coordination.
Together...
They attacked Wanrenzhan.
Wanrenzhan:
"???"
"Holy shit!"
"You bastards are cheating!!"
His axe had barely risen to meet their weapons—
When the system announcement echoed.
【Gong Xuan eliminated! Blood Bar instance complete. Countdown: 12 seconds. Remaining contestants: 50. All fifty contestants advance!】
Inside another tunnel...
Bo Jingshan slowly lowered his curved blade.
Blood dripped from it.
Mud covered his face.
Fresh blood splattered across one cheek.
Yet his back remained perfectly straight.
Like a sword freshly drawn from its sheath.
Sharp.
Unyielding.
He had waited there...
For two full hours.
And at last...
He had intercepted...
The final contestant.
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