This Character is Suspected of Cheating! [Unlimited Flow]

The moment the notification appeared, everyone fell into an eerie silence. For that instant, even the sound of breathing seemed to disappear.

But very quickly, their breathing became heavy, as though a ball of fire were burning inside their chests, wanting to burn everything clean.

Raging flames.

Only those four words could describe how they felt.

After a long while, Zhante suppressed his fury and spat out a single word: “Fuck.”

Wanrenzhan’s fingers clenched tightly around his axe, his fingertips turning white, the veins on his wrist bulging. His eyes were nearly splitting with rage, his gaze vicious as a wolf’s. “Ferry... Loop? Beneath the <Ferry> instance, there really was another loop hidden underneath? If we didn’t discover it ourselves, it wasn’t even going to tell us?”

Duan Yuchen’s voice was hoarse. “This really is trying to wipe all of us out...”

What kind of competition instance was this?!

Not only had it hidden the truth of the instance, it had fucking erased their memories and rewound everything from the beginning. At least from their perspective, everything they remembered up until this moment was their entire experience.

They had entered from the Transfer Station at 2:50 in the afternoon, struggled all the way until now, dealt with the corrosive rain, dealt with attacks from other contestants. Everything had felt so real.

And now the instance was telling them that even the instance’s name had been fake!

How could they not be shaken?

Zhen Xing and Ling Buchen had already guessed that there was a loop, so when the system announced the renamed instance, they were the quickest to accept it and immediately began analyzing everything in their minds.

Zhen Xing sneered. “The Death. The mastermind’s true killing move is here.”

The Death truly lived up to its name.

A death cruise ship destined never to leave Gama Strait.

Ling Buchen’s voice was faint and eerie. “So the question we were just discussing—whether the first two loops succeeded or failed—has no meaning at all. Because in the first two loops, there was no such thing as success or failure. We never left Gama Strait in the first place.”

Duan Yuchen and the others had all focused their attention on the suddenly changed instance name and had failed to notice the predetermined ending written for them by the word “loop.”

Uncovering the truth that <Ferry> was actually <Ferry Loop> meant uncovering the mastermind’s killing trap, as well as their inevitable death.

Hearing this, the fury on Duan Yuchen and the others’ faces froze.

Being schemed against, trapped, and caught in a conspiracy—hearing it suddenly made them furious. But once they realized that they were trapped in a loop that guaranteed death, the anger remained on their faces while despair and sorrow quietly began spreading underneath it...

More had already guessed it. He tilted his head back and laughed mockingly. “See? There’s no way out. You don’t have one either.”

He looked at He Yu, and sympathy actually began appearing in his eyes.

How could humans fight against the rules?

They were in the hands of the mastermind. As long as the other side casually changed the rules, as long as one inevitable-death trap after another was laid out for them, how were they supposed to defy fate and fight back?

There was no bug.

This instance did not even have a bug for them to exploit.

An instance designed by the mastermind: one Death, one Gama Strait, and a group of contestants standing opposite He Yu and the others...

If they killed He Yu’s team, everything would be settled. If He Yu’s team killed them, then the instant the ship left Gama Strait, everything would loop back again.

Over and over, until He Yu’s entire team was wiped out.

More and the others were miserable. They did not possess complete memories, only fragmented images. For the More of this moment, he had simply entered an instance and struggled desperately to survive, only to suddenly be told—

You are already dead.

Was that despairing?

Yes.

But He Yu and the others, who were still alive yet destined to die, were no less desperate than More.

He Yu had already deduced this earlier, so at this moment he was extremely calm.

He merely slowly straightened his body. His rimless glasses rested on the bridge of his nose, his eyes slightly lowered, his thick lashes like two little brushes covering half his eyes.

His voice was calm. “More, there’s no need to mock us or pity us. Haven’t you noticed something inconsistent?”

More froze slightly, confusion in his eyes. “What?”

Inconsistent?

What was inconsistent?

He Yu’s lips parted lightly. “We’ve already looped twice. This is our third time passing through Gama Strait. How many memories do you have? Did you die the exact same way in the corrosive rain during both previous loops?”

More froze, staring blankly at He Yu.

He only had a brief memory of himself dying in the corrosive rain. He had died, so he belonged to the dead faction and had to oppose He Yu and the others, killing He Yu’s living faction...

But they had already looped twice!

The first time, he died in the corrosive rain.

During the second time, the dead faction would join forces to kill the living faction, just like now.

Then what had happened during the second loop?

How had he died the second time?

More suddenly burst out laughing. “Hahaha, I understand now.”

They had already failed once!

The first time, he died in the corrosive rain.

The second time, just like now, he died after their attack failed.

They only survived until the point in time when they had died during the first loop. They never lived long enough to reach the point at which they died during the second loop!

This moment was only now his second loop’s death point!

With the instance arranged this way and the rules set like this, they would only be driven to repeat the exact same choice they had made during the second loop.

If they knew in advance how they had died the second time, would they still have attacked He Yu and the others?

—No.

They would have had no hope left. They would only have hated the rules and joined forces with He Yu.

Without the memory of their failure, all their resistance was nothing more than repeated struggles toward certain death.

They were clearly still living people, yet they were like “mini-bosses” set by the instance, meant for He Yu and the others to refresh again and again, meant to make He Yu and the others understand despair.

Living, vivid people had somehow ceased to be treated like people.

The dead faction was doomed to die.

The living faction had no way out.

How miserable.

Everyone was miserable.

He Yu gave More a deep look, then turned around. “Let’s discuss this somewhere else.”

They had already gotten everything they could out of More. There was no need to continue interrogating him.

Eugene glanced at More without saying anything, then lifted his foot and followed He Yu.

None of them attacked More.

When they reached the stairs, a calm and cold announcement sounded in their minds—

[Battle Planet contestant No. 291, More, eliminated! Remaining contestants in the instance: 14/50.]

He Yu’s footsteps paused slightly.

They had not killed More.

But in the end, More still died by his own hand.

He had been a capable, thoughtful expert. Through repeated tempering, repeated trials, and repeated evolution in <Top Talent Show>, he had grown into a hero, an expert who could dominate an entire region of the Federation.

His brilliant life should only have been beginning...

But in the end, he never managed to leave <Top Talent Show>. He remained here forever.

Had they wanted to kill He Yu?

Had He Yu and the others wanted to kill them?

—Neither side had wanted that.

If they had met outside the competition, somewhere in the universe, perhaps they might have become friends, kindred spirits who appreciated each other.

They could have taken him to see the Federation universe, proudly showing off the incredible journeys that had shaped them.

He could have taken them to see Blue Star, to see different scenery and a different culture.

Unfortunately, they had met on a battlefield and had been forced to kill each other by the rules.

More, Hison, even Cheng Zhao and Siya—one vivid and remarkable person after another. Their lives would have no continuation. Everything ended abruptly here, their brilliance stopping at this point forever.

He Yu’s footsteps paused for only an instant before he raised his foot and continued forward.

Step by step, firmly moving ahead.

Outside, torrential rain poured down. Enormous waves surged and slammed against the cruise ship. The silver cruise ship rose and fell among the dark waters, swaying as it gradually sailed farther away.

-

Aside from Barre, who was still diligently steering the ship, the remaining thirteen people gathered in He Yu’s room on B1. Apart from the twelve members of He Yu’s team, the only outsider was Zhao Pingqi.

His equipment was a pair of boxing gloves. When put away, they became a pair of rings. The instant battle began, the gloves would wrap around both fists. His attacks were fierce and brutal, every punch striking flesh. He was notoriously difficult to deal with.

Of course, he was also the only person present who was not part of the team, even though he came from Blue Star.

Eugene was therefore extremely wary of him. His mechanical face was completely serious as he narrowed his eyes and stared intently at Zhao Pingqi. “Which faction are you from? Don’t tell me you’re also part of the dead faction.”

Zhao Pingqi frowned slightly, then spread his hands. “I don’t know. At least right now, I don’t have any memories of dying.”

Without memories of death, he was still one of the living.

He Yu leaned against the bed, his fingers rubbing the carved character “two,” his eyes thoughtful.

Beside him, Wanrenzhan asked curiously, “You carved this?”

He Yu raised his hand. The broken sword appeared in his palm, and he slowly carved another horizontal stroke into it with its sharp edge, turning “two” into “three.”

His voice was faint. “I carved it.”

The handwriting was identical. Moreover, noticing something was wrong and leaving a mark behind was something the He Yu from the second loop could have done.

After carefully tracing every mark with his fingers, He Yu withdrew his hand and turned to look at everyone. “Let’s keep discussing.”

More than a dozen people were crammed into the narrow room, but none of them had the slightest interest in complaining. Everyone’s thoughts were focused on the loop, and the more they thought about it, the more hopeless it became.

Gedai licked his dry lips, his voice hoarse. “There are fourteen of us now. Even if we eliminate four and only ten survive, we still won’t successfully leave Gama Strait. We’ll just loop back and begin a fourth crossing of Gama Strait?”

Zhen Xing nodded lightly.

Zhante: “As long as we don’t die, the loop won’t end, right?”

Zhen Xing shook his head. “We don’t know. But judging from what we know now, yes.”

Eugene’s pupils contracted violently. He suddenly looked at He Yu and raised his voice. “Supplementary planks!”

Just those three words made everyone react instantly.

Duan Yuchen braced himself against the bed, his body trembling slightly, his voice sharp. “There is no next time. We don’t have another loop!”

There were no supplementary planks left!

And without supplementary planks, they could not seal such a huge breach. When they entered Gama Strait again, the corrosive rain would flood into the cabin...

And then what would happen to them?

Total annihilation...

They would be wiped out immediately!

Without supplementary planks, there would be no next time.

Gedai gritted his teeth. “The supplementary planks, the supplies on the ship—the Ferry loops, but these things don’t!”

Yuan Ze: “I understand.”

He took a deep breath and slowly analyzed, “The first time, which was when we initially entered the instance, Wanrenzhan kicked apart the door. We used one supplementary plank to repair it and survived until the moment we crossed Gama Strait. Then the Ferry looped and sent us back to the starting point.”

Qiong nodded and continued, “Consumed supplies don’t loop, but the supplementary plank repaired the cruise ship and became part of the ship itself. That’s why the cruise ship looked intact when we saw it.”

The cruise ship they saw had already been repaired by the supplementary plank.

Duan Yuchen: “The second time, the same process repeated. The only difference was that the dead faction now had memories and attacked us. We won, and the outcome was the same as the first loop. We survived, so we entered the third loop.”

Eugene: “The third time, the same thing repeated again. We used the final supplementary plank. Setting aside who exactly survives this time, the loop has already happened before, and next time, there will be no supplementary plank.”

Tang Ke took a deep breath. “So Wanrenzhan kicking the door is an inevitable event. At that point, no one has any memories, so we can’t stop him from destroying the cabin door.”

Just like at the start of this loop, they had all thought they had only just entered the instance. They had mocked one another and shown off their identities. Eugene would provoke Wanrenzhan, Wanrenzhan would lose his temper, and the cruise ship door would be smashed...

“Bang—”

Wanrenzhan was thrown against the wall, crashing heavily into it before falling down. Then Eugene, Gedai, and the others all pounced on him and gave him a vicious beating, every punch landing solidly.

Even Qiong secretly stretched out her leg and took the opportunity to kick him.

They were furious!

If this bastard had not smashed the door, they could have kept looping again and again. Eventually, they might have found a way to solve the problem.

But because of that broken door, they only had three chances!

And now, this was the last one.

Wanrenzhan covered his head and meekly let them beat him, not daring to fight back.

If someone else had been the one who broke the door, he definitely would have beaten that person too. Breaking the door was such a wicked thing to do, extremely wicked...

—And now, the wicked bastard was him.

Covering his head while being beaten, Wanrenzhan weakly said, “Then is there any way to stop the me from back then?”

No one answered.

They merely punched even harder.

There was no way to stop him!

With no memories, what the hell were they supposed to stop?

He Yu raised his hand and pushed up his glasses, saying indifferently, “Time is limited. Stop hitting him. Even if it weren’t Wanrenzhan, something else would have damaged the cabin door or damaged the ship.”

It was impossible for the loop to continue endlessly.

And the mastermind was determined to kill them. How could it possibly allow the ship to remain perfectly intact?

“Wanrenzhan breaking the door” was a coincidence.

But “the door being broken” was inevitable. Something that was certain to happen.

The others understood this too, but that did not stop them from beating Wanrenzhan once.

After finishing, everyone gradually stopped, straightened their clothes, and recovered some calm. Their expressions became composed again, while the anger and despair in their eyes slowly faded, clarity returning.

Being suddenly confronted with information like this made all of them feel as though a ball of fire had been trapped inside them. But everyone else was already dead, and they did not even know who the mastermind was, so there had been nowhere to vent that fire.

Unlucky Wanrenzhan had walked right into it. After venting on him for a while, they gradually calmed down.

Wanrenzhan crawled up from the floor with a bruised and swollen face, reaching toward He Yu. “You’re still the best to me. I knew—”

“Bang!”

He Yu slowly withdrew his foot and expressionlessly pushed up his rimless glasses. “What do you all think now?”

Wanrenzhan: “...”

With He Yu’s tiny amount of strength, being kicked by him was basically like being tickled. But even if it was only a tickle, Wanrenzhan no longer dared approach He Yu. He pitifully sat down beside him, the rugged man somehow looking rather miserable.

Eugene moved his body slightly. His mechanical arm reflected a sharp, cold gleam beneath the light, his eyes icy. “We’ve already reached a consensus that this instance is a total-annihilation death trap, right?”

Everyone nodded.

Eugene tossed the Captain’s Manual aside, his voice calm. “Only our team remains now, and all of us have already broken the rules. The original rules of the instance are no longer important.”

Yuan Ze nodded. “The differences between identities and obeying the rules were all distractions belonging to the <Ferry> instance. We’re in the <Ferry Loop> instance now, a loop with no next chance.”

Eugene’s gaze swept across everyone, missing none of the emotions in their eyes. “We’re repeating the process of the previous loop. The reason those people from the dead faction attacked us is because they were already dead. At this point during the first loop, every one of them was already dead.”

He paused, then continued, “But after this point, will more people from the dead faction appear? Are any of you members of the dead faction?”

Leaving aside the fact that More and the others could only know who was alive at the present moment, even if they knew who ultimately lived and died, they could not reveal it.

After those people died, there were fourteen people left in total.

Among these fourteen, were there any more members of the dead faction?

Or rather, was anyone about to join the dead faction?

Zhante shook his head. “I’m not. I’m alive.”

Yuan Ze: “I’m still alive right now. I don’t know what happens afterward. Also, I haven’t received any notification.”

Duan Yuchen: “Same here. They attacked all of us before, so perhaps all of us remain alive until we leave Gama Strait.”

The others nodded as well.

According to the rules, after crossing Gama Strait, there was still another hour before they could reach Legendary Island.

Therefore, at the moment they sailed out of Gama Strait, there could still be more than ten people aboard the ship. It was perfectly logical for all fourteen of them to still be there.

Eugene looked at Zhao Pingqi with suspicion and narrowed his eyes slightly. “You’re alive too?”

Zhao Pingqi nodded. “Right now, yes.”

Only after passing his death point could he learn whether he was dead or alive. At the moment, he was still alive.

Eugene said directly, “I don’t trust you.”

Gedai pursed his lips slightly and slowly walked behind Zhao Pingqi. Duan Yuchen and the others also straightened, silently surrounding Zhao Pingqi.

Zhao Pingqi stood upright and clenched his fists. The gloves instantly wrapped around his hands as he raised his defenses to the maximum.

He Yu interrupted them. “Wait.”

Gedai frowned. “We have to guard against them. They aren’t trustworthy.”

Besides, there were fourteen of them in total, but only ten advancement slots. Sooner or later, they would have to fight anyway. Whether there was one more person or one less hardly mattered.

He Yu shook his head. “I don’t support killing anyone else. The most urgent thing right now is getting out of Gama Strait.”

Zhante: “What if they become members of the dead faction later?”

He Yu looked at Zhao Pingqi. His rimless glasses rested on the bridge of his nose, his gaze calm. “Then that’s perfect. We can obtain more information.”

The moment he finished speaking, Eugene and the others uniformly put away their weapons.

As though nothing had happened, Eugene continued the earlier topic. “Our loop is caused by the instance. This is our final chance. If we can’t think of a way to stop the Wanrenzhan from the next loop, then we have to succeed this time!”

Yuan Ze pursed his lips. “I’m afraid the only option is to find a way to break the loop and leave Gama Strait.”

Stopping the Wanrenzhan from the very beginning of the loop was impossible.

Gedai said darkly, “Kill Wanrenzhan?”

Duan Yuchen expressionlessly shook his head. “If that worked, we could kill him right now. But it won’t. If we kill him now, then at this point in the next loop, only then will he gain the memory of dying.”

Qiong lifted the brim of her hat, brows tightly furrowed. “If we want to break the loop, we have to understand what causes it.”

Ling Buchen: “The instance itself causes the loop, because the mastermind wants to kill us.”

Tang Ke: “So the way to escape the loop is for us to die?”

Eugene laughed, his smile cold. “If that’s the rule, then there doesn’t seem to be much difference from simply killing us outright.”

Duan Yuchen suddenly looked at He Yu, expectation in his eyes. “Does a loop instance have a path to survival?”

He Yu was the best at finding bugs and loopholes in the rules. <Kill the Prisoner> had also been an inevitable-death trap, yet He Yu had still found a way out.

Could there be a way out this time too?

He Yu seemed lost in thought. Only after a moment did he answer, “I don’t know. If we can’t figure out the principle behind the loop, there’s no way to break it.”

Zhen Xing asked in confusion, “What are you thinking about?”

He Yu paused, then slowly shook his head. “I still feel like something isn’t quite right...”

Now they understood the instance rules. <Ferry> was actually <Ferry Loop>. As long as they were alive, the loop would not end, and because of the supplementary plank problem, they would undoubtedly die in the next loop...

It was the mastermind’s killing trap, an extremely obvious one.

But he still felt that something was wrong.

Ling Buchen murmured, “Break the loop... how do we break the loop?”

Wanrenzhan had not spoken this entire time. He could be considered the “culprit,” so he had not dared voice an opinion, afraid they would condemn him again. But now, he really could not hold back. His hand slapped against the bed as his brows furrowed tightly—

“You’re saying we’re repeating what happened during the previous loop, right? Then doesn’t that mean the bloodstains from He Yu will appear a third time too?”

In a flash, a thought streaked through He Yu’s mind. His hand clenched into a fist, his eyes turning sharp.

Twice!

The others, however, had a different thought.

Zhen Xing frowned deeply. “Those bloodstains... are He Yu’s blood?”

Eugene strode forward, pulled the two bloodstained sheets out from beneath the bed, lowered his head, and sniffed them. He closed his eyes slightly, then reopened them after a long while, shock filling his gaze. “It’s... He Yu’s blood.”

Their hearts instantly tightened.

Wanrenzhan truly was not very smart. His focus was always somewhat off, and most of the time, that focus was He Yu.

But they had to admit that this time, what he had noticed was extremely important.

Important enough to send chills down their spines.

He Yu...

Was something going to happen to him?

Qiong sucked in a sharp breath and abruptly looked at He Yu. “He Yu, someone is going to attack you.”

There were fourteen people in total now. Apart from the twelve members of their team, there were Barre and Zhao Pingqi. Neither of those two could be fully trusted yet.

And within their own team, perhaps there was also—

A traitor.

The traitor who had killed Siya.

He Yu frowned in thought, his gaze fixed on the bloodstains on the bed, slightly dazed.

After a long while, he murmured, “Fourteen people. The first time, they died and we survived, entering the second loop. I believe the ‘He Yu’ from the second loop would also have been able to deduce the existence of the loop. If so, every event in the second loop should have happened exactly as it is happening now... So why would two loops with different experiences leave behind two identical bloodstains?”

He Yu’s rimless glasses rested loosely on the bridge of his nose. His eyes were deep, his brows tightly knitted. “There’s still too little information...”

He abruptly looked at Zhao Pingqi and in Barre’s direction. “If you or Barre enter the dead faction, I hope you can stay calm. I need information.”

Zhao Pingqi nodded. “I have no problem with that. It depends on whether Barre and I died during one of the previous loops.”

The moment he finished speaking, Zhao Pingqi’s expression suddenly changed. He turned and ran outside, leaving behind one sentence:

“Something happened to Barre!”

Everyone froze slightly, then immediately followed him.

Inside the warehouse arranged as the bridge, Barre lay in a pool of blood, completely without breath.

The moment they arrived, Barre disappeared.

[Biological Planet contestant No. 908, Barre, eliminated! Remaining contestants: 13/50.]

In an instant, a chill spread from their feet throughout their entire bodies. Their hair stood on end, and cold ran down their spines.

There had been fourteen people in total.

Thirteen had been in He Yu’s room.

Barre had been steering the ship alone...

Then who exactly had killed him?!

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