Deceitful Game

Chapter 215 Mechanical Pioneers

Chapter 215 Mechanical Pioneers

At this very moment, at the glass door between the Injury Gate and the Block Gate.

Mingpo and Shen Yiqi waited quietly here for the Spider Spirit's first hunt.

They started chatting, but Mingpo quickly became increasingly listless, only able to respond to Shen Yiqi with "uh-huh" sounds. Later, seeing that he wasn't in a good mood, Shen Yiqi stopped asking him to respond.

He felt waves of icy coldness deep within his body, and he trembled uncontrollably as if he had a high fever. He wondered if it was caused by excessive blood loss.

At the same time, Mingpo heard a soft murmur in his ear.

It was as if it were some kind of auditory hallucination. It was as if someone was whispering something very slowly, word by word, right next to Mingpo's ear. But Mingpo couldn't hear anything clearly, nor could she understand anything at all.

He could no longer even stand.

He nearly lost consciousness in a daze and crashed headfirst into the glass door. Startled, Shen Yiqi quickly caught Mingpo and then coaxed him to sit down on the ground.

But only Mingpo himself knew that it might not be just a matter of blood loss.

His death knell was approaching.

"Thirty minutes are almost up."

Suddenly, Shen Yiqi spoke up: "Get ready, the first hunt is about to begin."

Mingpo mustered her strength, used her trembling right hand to support herself, and slowly stood up.

He didn't even have the strength to respond, and even when he got up, he felt a throbbing sensation in his head.

It's like raindrops hitting a pond.

Before his eyes, concentric circles of green ripples appeared. It was somewhat like "visual dizziness," but there were just too many of these "diffuse" patterns—

This was an experience Mingpo had never had before.

He had never been this weak before.

Shen Yiqi glanced at Mingpo's condition and felt somewhat worried.

He thought for a moment, then reached out and pressed his hand against the wall.

"I need to get a little more serious, bro."

Shen Yiqi said with a smile, the azure light in his pupils shining even brighter: "How about this move?"

The next moment, fine blue light gathered into a net around him, and then suddenly spread rapidly outwards!

They pierced through the wall and disappeared into the adjacent passageway.

After the blue light spread out, the net became much sparser. After flying about fifty meters, it was no longer possible to distinguish the individual blue lines with the naked eye.

Those blue lines look like a model of the Earth. There are both longitude and latitude lines, and their radius extends all the way to near the entrance.

This means that if Shen Yiqi releases this ability near the entrance, it can even spread to almost the entire map in an instant!

Mingpo narrowed her eyes.

This is clearly not the same ability as the previous one to detect traps and mechanisms.

The previous ones were some dark blue zigzag lines that bounced back and forth on the ground. This time, however, they were all extremely fine curves.

"—Oh, there really is one."

Shen Yiqi suddenly opened his eyes and exclaimed in a low voice.

"What?"

"Mingpo asked in a hoarse voice."

"bomb."

Shen Yiqi replied, his tone surprisingly calm and serious.

It wasn't that the pseudo-personality was activated.

Although his tone was calm, it concealed an barely suppressed excitement. It was like someone preparing to play an April Fool's Day prank, trying their best to appear normal.

Shen Yiqi's eyes lit up, and his tone became more urgent.

If he had a dog's tail, it would probably be wagging excitedly right now.

"I just saw that the pirate's title prefix is ​​'bomb-wielding,' and I was wondering if he might use bombs."

Shen Yiqi said, a subtle smile appearing on his face, "Coincidentally, one of the two things I can detect is explosives. Right now, within my detection range, there are a total of thirteen bombs buried."

"Where?" Mingpo asked.

"Ah, I'm not quite sure about that. This ability can only sense whether something exists," but to pinpoint exactly where it is, another ability is needed—that one can't pass through walls."

As Shen Yiqi spoke, a sinister smile appeared on his face: "That bomb wasn't timed; it had a remote control function. He probably wanted to use that ability to target and kill someone."

Seeing how relaxed he was—even somewhat impatient—Mingpo roughly knew what he wanted to do.

"Do whatever you want."

Mingpo spoke softly, adjusting his glasses.

His face at this moment no longer showed the usual madness, coldness, cruelty, and irritability.

In his current state of extreme physical weakness, he actually appears more gentle—even possessing a melancholic air reminiscent of a literary youth.

"Yes, sir!"

Shen Yiqi gave Ming Po a funny military salute.

His smile grew even brighter, and he stretched out his finger in the air as if manipulating something unseen.

The azure light in his pupils grew brighter, and blue fluorescence spilled from his fingertips, like he had fluorescent blue nail polish on.

In reality, he was hacking into the signal receivers of those bombs.

If it's a time bomb, it's really hard to defuse. Just like even the most skilled hacker can't break into an old-fashioned door lock.

However, electronic locks are a different story.

But these bombs were all remotely controlled.

Their internal structure is very simple: fuse, explosive, triggering device, signal receiver—very minimalist, nothing else. There isn't even a safety device to prevent accidental triggering.

For Shen Yiqi, these bombs were completely undefended.

He probably only operated it for six or seven seconds before suddenly turning around.

"Hold on tight — or sit down."

He explained to Mingpo, "It might shake a bit in a moment. After all, this is my first time using this ability, and I don't know exactly what it will be like."

Mingpo paused for a moment.

Because he saw something familiar in Shen Yiqi's blue eyes—

If Shen Yiqi had always given Mingpo the feeling of Ai Shiping, then at this moment—he saw his own shadow in Shen Yiqi.

This man, who appears as ruthless and dazzling as the sun, possesses a suppressed madness deep within his heart.

His face was still beaming with a smile like a variety show host—but at this moment, Mingpo couldn't feel that pleasant joy; instead, he felt a chill run down his spine.

Generally speaking, it would be Mingpo's rivals who would think that way.

"I've been wondering since the game started—why was I assigned this game? You all seem pretty good at it, I feel so out of place. If it's just about detecting traps, it doesn't seem like I'm needed—I'm just there to save energy checking the surroundings. Is my only purpose to turn on a light?"

Shen Yiqi slowly spoke: "You're right, this is clearly a game of the Balance Realm. Since it's a game of the Balance Realm, it means that any deceiver from any realm has an equal advantage here. Any deceiver can win based on their own abilities—"

"—Although I don't know what's so special about that incredibly tall girl, I now understand how I won through my abilities."

"A spider that kills if touched, a constantly moving space, combined with pre-planted time bombs—this is an unsolvable puzzle for all of you. Because none of you have the ability to find and defuse all the bombs without touching or even getting close to them."

"But I have it."

Under Mingbo's gaze, Shen Yiqi revealed a sinister smile: "Because I am—[Machine Pioneer]."

As he spoke, he suddenly clenched his fist.

Click.

After a very brief silence.

A series of booming sounds!

A violent explosion was heard!

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