[Judgment of Gunfire——]
[Crime Determination Activated]
[Target: Holmes Laine]
[Charges: Injustice! Unfairness! Betrayal! Massacre! Bullying!]
[Charges Confirmed! Resurrection Forbidden!]
[Module · You Are Guilty! Activated]
[Additional: Guilt of the Innocent]
[Additional: Power of Verdict]
[Final Judgment: Death]
A gunshot.
A life ended.
A black-and-white dual explosive round tore through Laine’s skull.
Half of his face was gone, and on the remaining half twisted madness and unwillingness.
But none of that mattered anymore.
Laine was dead.
In the Imperial Order’s public chat room, the avatar bearing his name had been flattened to gray.
Ye Qiyan leaned over and closed the only eye left on his face with his hand.
A ball of flame ignited from Laine’s corpse without any wind; all traces of him would remain forever at this Hanging Drowning Seaheart.
If Laine had not used Game Card abilities to fight Ye Qiyan in a normal duel, he might have held out much longer. Even though Ye Qiyan still would not have spared him, at least he would not have died in such a disgraceful way.
But he chose to use Game Cards, to play rules that absolutely favored him.
And yet, he failed.
Failure’s price was a catastrophic collapse of his spirit and body down to absolute ice.
Still, that was Laine’s own choice.
Two Game Cards floated in the air.
One of them had already become half-transparent and would soon withdraw from this world to hide somewhere unknown, waiting for its owner’s return.
But the card named [Weapon Epoch] was also fading, though at an extremely slow rate, as if unwilling to leave.
But that was the rule.
There were no Game Cards in Ye Qiyan’s hand, nor did he intend to collect them.
After all, compared to playing games, he preferred straightforward combat.
However, things that can be taken for free aren’t worth passing up.
Just like the time he obtained [Calamity Card · Intelligence Machine Crisis].
He produced an Anchor and dropped an Anchor Point toward [Weapon Epoch].
“Hide well. Maybe one day I’ll come looking for you.”
Zhao Lin was collecting Game Cards; with her luck, she might at some point obtain something valuable and useful to him.
She might even trade this card for her one great stroke of luck.
No matter how you look at it, it’s a sure win.
As for the other card, he reached out and touched it, displaying its information.
[Game Card · Dice Game]
[Dice: Throw it! Gamble it back!]
[Bet: Winner takes all! Loser loses everything!]
This seemed to be a Game Card that purely tested luck.
No wonder Laine hadn’t used it; he probably lacked confidence in his own luck.
“Tsk tsk tsk, if that card ends up in Zhao Lin’s hands, it’ll be kind of broken.”
As the two Game Cards faded, Ye Qiyan’s gaze fell on the scepter lying on the ground.
It was the only thing left behind after Laine’s death.
[Golden Arrow Scepter (Level 11)]
[Perma-Bound: Holmes Laine]
[Upon binder’s death · This item loses all effects · and dies]
[“Items are loyal. You can recycle it to obtain some potentially useful materials? Or… keep it?”]
Ye Qiyan picked up the scepter and weighed it in his hand.
Perma-bound.
Items of this tier likely shared similar properties.
Recycle the item...
Nah.
After all, this was the first Imperial Order member he had personally killed, so he’d keep it as a memento.
After Ye Qiyan stored the scepter in his storage space, he walked over to Zhu Xingshu, who lay on the ground in a surprisingly peaceful state.
Lisette had received orders and bent down, gracefully splashing a stream of water onto Zhu Xingshu’s face.
“Hey, wake up.”
Zhu Xingshu opened the only eye she had left and rubbed her aching head.
Seeing Ye Qiyan, she flashed a happy smile.
“Ah, Brother Ye, long time no see~”
Ye Qiyan glanced at Lisette beside her.
He had just told Lisette to knock this charlatan out—could she be knocked stupid instead?
Lisette hurriedly shook her head to indicate she had no idea.
“Hehe, I was just having a really long dream, but Brother Ye, come on~ seeing a beautiful girl like me sitting on the ground, why not help me up~”
Ye Qiyan stood up and curled his mouth in disgust.
“Is your brain broken?”
“No.”
“Then speak normally.”
“Okay~”
Zhu Xingshu stood and looked around, finding the scorched remains where Laine’s body had burned.
The smile on her face slowly faded, and she grew serious.
She shook her head.
“Laine originally liked fair games, so he quickly obtained those first two Game Cards.”
“But later he changed. After losing once, he began forming rules that absolutely benefited himself.”
“The Game Cards didn’t like him.”
“They wanted to leave, so they began influencing Laine, making his personality go increasingly strange.”
“Actually, I didn’t like him much either. Someone who can’t fully control their Card Sequence—he joined the Imperial Order because Fan Huo recruited him.”
Zhu Xingshu yawned, extended a finger, and pointed in a direction.
“Brother Ye, remember to take that door over there. It was left by Abukado, specifically designed to counter divination types like me. As for the rest… hehe, I’ve finished what I came here to do. As for you, hmm, do whatever you want.
You helped me; that promise is enough.
You don’t need to keep putting yourself in danger.
This Hanging Drowning Seaheart will explode in three hours.
When it detonates, the foundations of all the city-states in Miranda World will be directly destroyed.
Of course, it won’t kill too many people.
What’s destroyed is only the node of this ritual.
If you want to find anything, hurry and go look.
Anyway, thank you, Ye Qiyan.”
She smiled at Ye Qiyan; it was not a fake, irritating smile but a genuine, heartfelt one.
Ye Qiyan didn’t reply. He only watched as Zhu Xingshu left.
“So, this charlatan came here to blow this place up? All the city-states destroyed...”
“Tsk...”
Ye Qiyan rubbed his forehead in disbelief.
He recalled something he had said after entering this world.
[“Now I can’t be the city destroyer anymore.”]
Although he had nothing to do with the city’s destruction! Still, how strange was this coincidence?
Hold on—every time a city was destroyed, Zhu Xingshu had been present!
So the real city destroyer wasn’t him, it was Zhu Xingshu.
Yes, that had to be it.
“Whatever. Who cares. Three hours—WALL-E should be able to find them, right?”
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