This Character is Suspected of Cheating! [Unlimited Flow]

Wanrenzhan choked on his words, but everyone immediately realized—

He Yu had another theory.

And there had been a reason why the He Yu from the previous loop had chosen Tang Ke.

Wanrenzhan was unconvinced. "Then tell me. Why did you choose Tang Ke?"

They had already learned that the He Yu from the second loop had chosen to search for the truth, uncover clues, and pass them on to the He Yu of the third loop.

Meanwhile, the He Yu of the third loop was responsible for solving the problem, forging the lifeboat, and integrating the information passed down by the He Yu of the second loop.

From one to five in the morning, they had been busy forging. The cruise ship had also become battered and riddled with holes. They had no time to search for clues and could only wait for those clues to be delivered right to them.

"Memories of death" were precisely the method the He Yu from the previous loop had chosen to transmit information!

The first person to bring them information was Tang Ke.

Unfortunately, Tang Ke had fallen into a crazed obsession and hadn't told them anything.

—Had the monstrously intelligent He Yu anticipated all of this?

He Yu raised a hand and pushed up his glasses. Because he was injured, his skin looked even paler than usual, and there was hardly any color in his lips. He looked sickly, yet his eyes remained clear and piercing.

Just like He Yu himself, they would never admit defeat, no matter how desperate the situation.

His voice was hoarse, but every word was clear. "The forging is almost finished, and we'll soon enter the lifeboat. This point in time is crucial. I believe the me from the previous loop would definitely send us useful information. Tang Ke fell into an obsession partly because he was afraid of death, but most likely also because the information he knew drove him to make that choice."

"What information?" Qiong pressed.

After all that, He Yu still hadn't actually explained why he had chosen Tang Ke, but no one was impatient. They listened as He Yu analyzed everything piece by piece, unraveling the tangled threads.

He Yu's voice was certain. "He probably knew that the loop was connected to me."

Or rather, they had discovered that fact in the previous loop.

Everyone's breathing stalled slightly.

The air fell silent.

Tang Ke had brought this up just now. In truth, all of them had considered the same possibility.

The loop existed because of He Yu.

The mastermind wanted He Yu dead, which was why they kept looping over and over again.

It almost seemed as though the mastermind had given them a choice—

Save themselves, or save He Yu?

Tang Ke had chosen himself.

They had done everything they could to save He Yu.

But what if they themselves were forced to make that choice?

What if, at the critical moment between life and death, they absolutely had to choose?

Zhen Xing swept his gaze over everyone and said calmly, "Don't harbor any wishful thinking. We've been following He Yu all this time, and we know too much. If the mastermind wants to kill He Yu, they won't spare us either."

Eugene scoffed. "Why are you emphasizing that? We're not idiots. We won't let the mastermind lead us around by the nose."

Ling Buchen said nothing. He merely looked at He Yu, clearly curious about what he would say next.

He Yu continued, "Some loops happen while others don't. Too much information is missing or inconsistent, and many details we encountered in the two loops were different, so the information available to us was naturally different as well. In the previous loop, they must have already confirmed that the loop was connected to me. One hundred percent confirmed."

His voice remained calm, as though he hadn't noticed the worried gazes of Zhen Xing and the others.

"But being connected to me doesn't mean killing me will end the loop."

Zhante raised a hand and rubbed his brow, feeling a headache coming on.

He hoped that was true.

If the only way to end the loop was to kill He Yu, they would be forced to make an extremely difficult choice.

So they desperately hoped—

That killing He Yu wasn't the way to end the loop.

Yuan Ze pressed, "And then?"

He Yu flicked his hand and unfolded the bedsheet Zhante had just given him to wrap around his neck. The vivid scarlet bloodstains on it were extremely conspicuous.

The corner of his lips curved upward as he dropped a bombshell.

"Look familiar? The pattern on this."

Tang Ke had injured him, not the corrosive black water, so the recovery potion had worked well. After He Yu removed the bedsheet from around his neck, the wound was no longer bleeding and had already begun to heal.

Everyone: "!!!"

Wanrenzhan's pupils contracted. He grabbed the bedsheet and examined it, then immediately turned and ran.

He jumped down into He Yu's room on the level below and pulled another two bedsheets out from beneath their beds.

With several more leaps, he returned to He Yu's room. The battered interior of the cruise ship had already completely lost its original structure, making it easy to move between levels.

Zhante, Qiong, and Gedai immediately unfolded the sheets. Zhen Xing frowned and placed the bloodstained sheet beside the other two.

They compared all three.

The fresh blood on the first sheet was bright scarlet and extremely conspicuous. At first glance, the other two sheets appeared completely white.

But when they tilted their bodies and examined them carefully under the light, they discovered bloodstains on the white sheets as well.

And the bloodstains on all three sheets were almost exactly identical!

Zhen Xing's pupils contracted.

Zhante raised his voice. "Fuck, they're exactly the same!"

Yuan Ze sucked in a sharp breath, his voice filled with shock. "So Tang Ke was supposed to injure you three times?"

Ling Buchen was puzzled. "Three times?"

They had experienced three loops, but only the second and third had followed the same trajectory.

The first had been the original.

At that time, there had been no traces left on the ship, and they hadn't known anything about the loop.

According to their previous deductions with More, the first loop had divided them into two factions: the "living" and the "dead."

Barre and Zhao Pingqi had both only gained memories later. They didn't know who had killed Barre, while Zhao Pingqi had been killed by He Yu during the second loop.

In other words, Zhao Pingqi had still been alive during the first loop.

Even Barre had still been alive.

There were ten available places, and with Barre and Zhao Pingqi both still alive, surely they hadn't yet reached the point where they needed to purge members of their own group?

Then why had Tang Ke attacked He Yu?

Had his mental state collapsed that early?

Gedai pursed his lips and slowly voiced the suspicion in his mind.

"Tang Ke—was the mole?"

It was entirely possible!

There might still be someone among them who had killed Siya.

What if that person had been Tang Ke?

Bo Jingshan frowned. "Could Tang Ke kill Siya?"

Eugene sneered. "If the mastermind helped him, there's nothing they couldn't make happen."

Hearing this, He Yu neither agreed nor disagreed. His smile merely turned colder.

"Still haven't noticed the contradiction? If Tang Ke attacked me in the second loop, could he still have become the person I chose to carry information?"

Impossible!

If Tang Ke had attacked He Yu, how could He Yu have told him anything afterward?

How could he have asked Tang Ke to pass information to his next self?

Ling Buchen murmured, "And if he'd already attacked you last time, he would've known it wouldn't work. He couldn't possibly make the exact same mistake again this time."

He Yu nodded. "Right. So the reason the previous me chose him to transmit information was simply because there was a very serious problem with his mental state. Choosing him to carry the information could produce one of two outcomes."

He paused, lifting his chin slightly, his expression perfectly calm.

"Either his mental state stabilized and he told us the information he was carrying, or his mental state remained unstable—and he attacked me."

Only now did he formally explain why he had chosen Tang Ke.

A mental collapse wasn't something that happened overnight.

Tang Ke couldn't possibly have fallen into such an extreme obsession merely because of the trauma of dying once.

He wasn't one of the central members of their team. He had constantly worried that he would be abandoned. During Twelve Down to Ten, he had believed he would be the one they sacrificed.

He Yu had already guessed the truth.

In the previous loop, Tang Ke's mental state had already deteriorated badly enough that there were signs he might attack He Yu.

That was why the previous He Yu had chosen Tang Ke to carry information.

It was an opportunity for Tang Ke.

It was also another method of transmitting information.

Wanrenzhan's breathing quickened, and he raised his voice. "So you used your own life to test Tang Ke? Or to temper him? Couldn't you have chosen someone you could trust?!"

They were both He Yu.

Wanrenzhan was questioning the He Yu before him, but he was also questioning the He Yu from the previous loop.

He Yu's rimless glasses rested on the bridge of his nose, his gaze indifferent.

"Someone trapped in an obsession is a ticking time bomb. We're already in enough danger. A bomb either has to be defused or allowed to explode. This was the best solution."

Tang Ke had been the bomb.

The He Yu from the previous loop had given Tang Ke a choice.

If he chose the team, the bomb would be defused.

If he chose betrayal, the bomb would explode.

Either way, the problem would be resolved.

They were trapped in an environment filled with murderous danger, while the mastermind was constantly waiting for an opportunity to scheme against them. Under circumstances like these, even the smallest crack could cause them to lose the entire game.

There was no possibility He Yu would allow a single chess piece to destroy the entire board on which he was playing against the mastermind.

So he had chosen to confront Tang Ke's problem head-on.

—The result had been unexpected, yet perfectly reasonable.

After a pause, He Yu added indifferently, "Besides, if there really is a mole in our team, is there anyone we can truly trust?"

Everyone's breathing stalled.

That was right.

Only eleven people remained.

Aside from He Yu, the remaining ten had all been part of a long-standing, stable team. Some of them had even gone through several instances together.

Zhen Xing from District Three, steady and imposing.

Wanrenzhan from District One, the hotheaded idiot.

Ling Buchen and Bo Jingshan, He Yu's Blue Star comrades who had faced life and death together.

Eugene, the flirt from District Two, and the tsundere Gedai.

Qiong, the violent little girl from Chaos Planet.

Yuan Ze, the number-one contestant from an ordinary planet.

Duan Yuchen, the forging master from District Five, and Zhante, the mercenary...

If even one of these people was a mole, it would be terrifying!

They couldn't imagine that someone to whom they had entrusted their backs might actually be harboring malicious intentions...

At this moment, they desperately hoped there was no mole.

And if there was one, they hoped that person had been Tang Ke.

Wanrenzhan gritted his teeth. "Even if you don't trust me, won't you trust Zhen Xing, Ling Buchen, and Bo Jingshan?"

He Yu took a deep breath and closed his eyes slightly.

When he opened them again, his voice was calm—

"When we don't know who the mole is, I treat all of you equally. By default, I assume there is no mole among us and regard all of you as teammates I trust. It's precisely because I trust you that I wouldn't choose you to transmit the information."

Ling Buchen looked into He Yu's eyes.

He understood.

He Yu had chosen to trust everyone.

Including Tang Ke.

The reason he had made Tang Ke transmit the information was because Tang Ke's mental state had deteriorated, causing him to fall into an obsession and become a bomb that needed to be dealt with.

Wanrenzhan wasn't angry because He Yu didn't trust him either.

He was angry because He Yu had gambled with his own life.

This time, even Bo Jingshan looked at He Yu reproachfully. Like a strict disciplinary director, he said sternly, "Your combat power is low, and your physical constitution is terrible. The slightest mistake could cause an accident. If that wound had been even a little more severe, you would have died."

The wound on his neck had been deep.

If they had been even slightly later, he could have died from excessive blood loss.

He Yu's voice was still extremely hoarse, and neither his face nor his lips had regained any color.

The situation really had been serious.

Zhen Xing's gaze was equally disapproving. "I know you like walking the line between life and death, but you need to remember that your life is the most important thing."

He Yu smiled. "Because I knew you would save me."

Eugene's silver hair swayed as he snorted. "You're actually counting on us? What if we don't save you?"

He Yu looked at him and smiled faintly.

"If you can't even accomplish something this simple, then what use—are you to me?"

Eugene: "..."

—That made way too much fucking sense.

Within their team, He Yu was the "brain." He devised their strategies and bore the heaviest burden.

They were the hands, the feet, the weapons.

If He Yu couldn't even rely on them at a moment like this...

Forget it.

They might as well wash up and go to bed. Better that than drag Captain He Yu down.

They were a combat team, not a garbage team where one person had to carry ten useless burdens.

So, exactly as He Yu had anticipated, even if Tang Ke became a traitor, they would still be able to save He Yu.

Qiong sighed and pressed down the brim of her hat, puzzled. "You gave Tang Ke two choices. He chose betrayal, so how did the information get transmitted?"

He Yu raised his hand.

His slender, clearly defined fingers brushed over the bedsheet covered in vivid scarlet bloodstains.

His voice remained calm.

"This is the information. If his mental state remained unstable and he chose to attack me, then he would inevitably injure me and leave bloodstains behind."

The previous loops would leave bloodstains on the bedsheet.

When he was injured this time, a bedsheet would also be used to wrap the wound.

The bedsheet itself was the information.

Three bloodstains.

Exactly identical.

The result caused by "Tang Ke attacking" pointed toward the bloodstains on the bedsheet.

And those bloodstains, in turn, pointed toward the information the He Yu from the previous loop had wanted to transmit.

No one understood him better than himself.

The previous He Yu only needed to leave him an anchor point, and the current He Yu could use that "anchor point" as the center from which to infer the information his previous self had intended to transmit.

Ling Buchen's pupils suddenly contracted as realization struck him.

"Wait. You just said that if Tang Ke had attacked you last time, you wouldn't have chosen him to transmit information. Then the bloodstains on these sheets—"

He Yu sneered and gave a slight nod.

Instantly, a chill crawled up everyone's spines from their feet.

Every hair on their bodies stood on end.

Their scalps tingled.

Tang Ke hadn't attacked He Yu.

Yet He Yu had still lost enough blood to leave those massive stains...

Fuck.

The more they thought about it, the more horrifying it became.

Yuan Ze was meticulous and immediately frowned. "Wait, I have a question."

He looked at He Yu.

"Which came first? Tang Ke being chosen to transmit the information, or the bloodstain on the bedsheet?"

Approval flashed in He Yu's eyes.

Everyone on his team was intelligent. They could discover countless problems from even the smallest detail and would never overlook a clue that appeared insignificant but was actually crucial.

"Right. Transmitting the information came first."

He took a deep breath and pushed up his glasses.

"So the me from the previous loop had already sensed that something was going to happen to me. I must have discovered an extremely important clue and confirmed this point. That's why I set the anchor point on the bedsheet."

It was He Yu's bedsheet.

The bloodstain had remained there throughout the loops.

There were three bloodstains.

That meant the He Yu from the previous loop had already discovered one of them, then cleverly chosen the bedsheet as the anchor point.

Even He Yu himself wanted to praise his previous self.

Of course, his previous self must have left other backup clues as well.

You never put all your eggs in one basket.

But now that the bedsheet had already delivered the information directly to him, whether those backup clues had been erased no longer mattered.

Zhen Xing stared fixedly at He Yu. His deep, phoenix-shaped eyes held unmistakable shock and fear.

Ling Buchen opened his mouth, but not a single word came out.

He Yu ignored their unease.

He lifted his chin slightly. The smooth, flawless line of his profile looked unusually sharp. The firelight inside the cruise ship reflected from his rimless glasses, like flames dancing within his eyes—

"You've figured it out, haven't you? Something happened to the me from the previous loop. No—not just the previous loop. Something happened to me in every loop. Someone is definitely going to attack me."

"So the loop is connected to me. But perhaps it isn't that the loop continues while I'm alive. Instead—when I die, the loop begins again."

"In other words, I've already died twice."

"At least twice."

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