This Character is Suspected of Cheating! [Unlimited Flow]

Wanrenzhan completely ignored his injuries. He jumped up and stared fixedly at the countdown above He Yu's head.

“Hey, He Yu, do you have enough votes or not? If you don't, hurry up and beg for some! If you die here, I won't collect your corpse. Sure, I've been hoping you'd die, but I'd rather kill you myself!”

He Yu blinked.

“Your countdown isn't very high either. How about I ask for votes for you?”

Pressing his hands together, he spoke sincerely:

“Dear audience friends, if Wanrenzhan doesn't have enough votes, please vote for him. He's very important to me. Thank you for your support.”

[Barrage: “HAHAHAHA already voted!”]

[Barrage: “LOL, I was going to vote for God He, but since he's asking for Wanrenzhan, I'll vote for him. God He still has plenty of time.”]

[Barrage: “AAAAAH! My ship is feeding us sugar!”]

Ask for votes for him?

Wanrenzhan instinctively hugged his axe and stepped back, eyes filled with suspicion.

Soon, his eyes narrowed.

—Did this guy really like him, or was he plotting something else?

He stared at He Yu carefully.

“I'm telling you, if you're trying to trick me into asking my fans for votes for you, impossible! I'm not falling for it. I finally got one over on you, and I won't help...”

He had fans, after all.

He was the champion of the previous season.

Could He Yu be after his fans' votes?

His own votes weren't enough, so why would he help him?

But if—

If He Yu was sincere, then maybe helping him wasn't impossible.

After all, killing He Yu didn't have to happen immediately. He could always kill him later.

Just as he thought that, Wanrenzhan noticed his votes shooting up crazily.

Thirty thousand.

Thirty-five thousand.

Forty thousand.

Forty-five thousand...

Wanrenzhan: “???”

He looked at He Yu, utterly confused.

He Yu only had to ask, and people voted?

If he had such appeal, why weren't his fans voting for him?

He was about to hit zero himself!

Unless...

His votes were already enough?!

Wanrenzhan's brain filled in countless details and finally reached one conclusion—

He Yu had enough votes.

And...

He definitely liked him a lot!

So maybe he shouldn't kill He Yu next round?

Maybe he could let him enter the finals?

Meanwhile, Eugene was still gloating.

“Hahaha, He Yu, my votes are enough!”

He pursed his lips proudly.

“My votes are enough. I can leave anytime. But if your votes aren't enough, you'll die before me!”

Wanrenzhan interrupted.

“His votes are enough.”

Eugene wasn't disappointed.

“That doesn't matter. He's still leaving before us. Brothers, we've done it! We finally joined forces and kicked He Yu out of the competition! We finally won once!!”

They had been tricked so badly by He Yu that simply outlasting him felt like victory.

They practically wanted to set off fireworks.

Since none of them could beat Li in this instance—

If He Yu's countdown hit zero first, then they had won.

Eugene laughed so hard his mechanical body shook.

[Barrage: “...Poor guy.”]

[Barrage: “Poor Eugene.”]

[Barrage: “Poor little robot.”]

Wanrenzhan thought about it and grinned viciously.

“You've got your day too! He Yu, bet you didn't know I tricked you once!”

He Yu looked at him.

“The time you lied about whose countdown was the lowest?”

Wanrenzhan: “?”

His smile vanished.

“You knew?”

He Yu nodded.

“Yep.”

Rubbing his chin, he blinked.

“And actually, my votes aren't enough.”

Everyone: “?”

Wanrenzhan couldn't believe it.

“If your votes aren't enough, why the hell did you help me get votes?! What are you thinking?!”

For some reason, he suddenly felt anxious.

Eugene was stunned too.

“Then why aren't you panicking? Aren't you smart? Didn't you calculate your own countdown? Yours is the lowest, yet you're still this calm?”

He shook his head uncertainly.

“Did I really succeed in scheming against He Yu? Did I actually trick He Yu to death?”

Wanrenzhan repeated blankly,

“He Yu... is going to die?”

Then Eugene's eyes widened.

“We actually managed to trap He Yu in this instance! That's incredible! He Yu, don't worry, I'll avenge Blue Star for you!”

He Yu said calmly,

“My votes aren't enough, and I don't intend to leave with votes. I want to pass this instance and advance normally.”

“You're dreaming!”

Eugene pointed upward.

“Do you know what your countdown looks like right now?!”

Wanrenzhan stared blankly.

“10...9...”

It had entered seconds.

At that moment, his emotions were incredibly complicated.

He had always thought he'd be happy when He Yu died.

Yet now, not only wasn't he happy, there was a strange bitterness in his chest.

An emotion he'd never experienced before.

One he couldn't describe.

Something like...

Sadness.

He Yu asked,

“Only a few seconds left. Aren't you two leaving?”

Wanrenzhan: “?”

Eugene: “?”

“Hey! You're the one whose countdown is in seconds!” Eugene roared.

“8...”

He Yu blinked.

“Oh, you mean the number above my head?”

He pushed up his glasses leisurely.

“The Federation's advanced equipment and mirrors are really useful. Not only do they support 3D projection, they only reflect designated objects and never accidentally reflect the surrounding scene. Very convenient.”

Eugene: “7...”

Wanrenzhan looked at him with mixed emotions.

“You're about to die, and this is what you're talking about? Don't you have anything else to say?”

He Yu nodded seriously.

“They really are useful. I'm not lying. Didn't you all fail to notice?”

As he spoke, he reached above his head with both hands as though fiddling with something.

His expression remained calm.

No trace of someone about to die.

—Wasn't this guy supposed to be smart?!

—How could he not know they were counting down his seconds?!

Eugene: “6...”

Wanrenzhan exploded.

“He Yu! You're dying, understand? What about your votes? Do you have enough or not?! If you do, hurry and leave!”

He Yu stopped moving.

Looking at them, he revealed an extremely strange smile, eyes curved.

“Haven't you noticed?”

“The countdown above my head...”

“Is yours.”

Wanrenzhan, Eugene: “?”

5...

Slowly, He Yu removed a transparent 3D mirror.

“When entering the competition, I thought that since you'd just joined the Avengers Alliance, you'd probably try to mess with my countdown. I don't like settings that involve information only other people can see. So I used my advanced transformation equipment to make a transparent 3D mirror and placed it above my head to block my own numbers.”

“After all, drawing seventy-two hours was pretty unlucky.”

4...

He Yu continued:

“This way, it was easier for you to monitor your own countdowns whenever you wanted. I like helping people, and I wasn't expecting your gratitude, so I didn't tell you.”

“But... you really wanted to trick me.”

“And you really hoped the number above my head would get smaller.”

The mirror transformed into a bead in his hand.

Above He Yu's head—

20.

20 hours!!

3...

Eugene: “?”

Wanrenzhan: “?”

[Barrage: “HAHAHAHAHA, what do you mean ‘I like helping people, no need to thank me’?!”]

[Barrage: “FUCK! That's brutal!!”]

[Barrage: “I've fully become Eugene and Wanrenzhan. I'm completely confused.”]

He Yu smiled.

“Still not leaving?”

“2...1...”

Now it was He Yu with the absurd twenty-hour countdown doing the counting.

“HE YU! FUCK YOUR GRANDPA!!”

“HE YU! YOU'RE NOT HUMAN! YOU BEAST!!”

Before the countdown hit zero—

The two disappeared.

【Congratulations to Wanrenzhan and Eugene for advancing to the Top 5000! Remaining slots: 1829/5000. Please hurry, contestants.】

Putting away the advanced transformation equipment, He Yu looked at the remaining person.

His expression was calm.

“You haven't spoken since they brought up the countdown.”

“Zhen Xing.”

Zhen Xing: “......”

He wanted to speak.

But what was there to say?

At first, seeing He Yu's countdown drop by five hours shocked him.

Then Wanrenzhan and Eugene began mocking He Yu.

Sure, two hours wasn't much...

But was it really worth mocking him that hard?

Their own countdowns might have decreased too.

He turned toward Wanrenzhan and Eugene.

And saw—

Ten minutes.

Two ten-minute countdowns mocking two hours?

He'd intended to remind them...

Then He Yu asked for votes for Wanrenzhan, and Zhen Xing instantly sensed something wrong.

—Someone as smart as He Yu couldn't possibly have been successfully tricked.

Then came the conversation.

Then the countdown.

If something wasn't wrong, he might as well write his name backward.

Because...

Apparently he wasn't seeing the same thing they were.

So he shut up.

He knew something was off.

But never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that He Yu had stuck a mirror above his head from the very beginning.

Using the advanced transformation equipment he'd won in the first stage of the previous round.

The same equipment everyone had mocked.

Including Eugene and Wanrenzhan.

And now they themselves had been tricked by it.

Zhen Xing sighed.

“This advanced equipment really is useful. Not a single flaw was exposed.”

He Yu nodded.

“Yeah. Blue Star mirrors reflect everything around them, but Federation mirrors are controllable. And advanced equipment is so flexible and convenient.”

Zhen Xing sighed.

“So I only have one hour left now?”

Originally two hours.

But right before He Yu removed the mirror, another hour had disappeared.

He Yu nodded.

“You still plan on staying?”

“Trying to find the real way to clear the instance?”

He Yu nodded again.

Zhen Xing's gaze became complicated.

“Actually, you're a pretty good person. You gave them time to leave, and Wanrenzhan didn't have enough votes, yet you even helped him get them.”

He Yu smiled.

“If it were you, I'd help you too.”

Hearing that, Zhen Xing smiled as well, completely satisfied.

Putting away his Rubik's Cube, he turned around and waved.

“I'm off.”

“Good luck.”

【Congratulations to Zhen Xing for advancing to the Top 5000! Remaining slots: 1820/5000. Please hurry, contestants.】

Zhen Xing left too.

Now, only He Yu remained in the instance.

Along with Keli Hai, whose body inside the room was crawling with ants and insects.

He Yu turned around with a smile.

He was kind?

No.

He wasn't soft-hearted.

Nor was he truly kind.

—To play against the masterminds behind the game...

He needed pieces of his own.

His footsteps remained calm and unhurried as he walked toward the room on the left.

There was still someone inside.

And now—

That person had already awakened.

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