Within the virtual space, Zhu Yan obediently refrained from turning back into 【Mist】.
He watched the nervous people filling the room with a beaming smile, doing his utmost to play the part of a clown.
“Honestly, how did you all manage to be this stupid?”
“This time, 【Madhouse】 gave me a mission: to make the dungeon descend bit by bit and open a passage for it to come through.”
Zhu Yan began spinning a half-true, half-fabricated tale.
With sufficiently skilled manipulation, 【Human Alliance】 could easily be led astray.
Inside the virtual space, several Alliance players exchanged glances, tacitly agreeing not to interrupt Zhu Yan.
This Hunter was actually so pleased with himself that he had started spilling the beans.
One of the players recorded his words verbatim and sent them to their teammates and superiors outside.
As long as they kept quiet and coordinated with the people outside, they might be able to take this man down.
Even if he somehow escaped, 【Human Alliance】 would still obtain more useful information. Wasn’t that a worthwhile trade?
“Honestly, I thought it would be difficult.”
Zhu Yan continued to make grandiose boasts.
“Do you like the guaranteed-death dungeons that 【Madhouse】 specially designed for you?”
“You shameless bastard!” one of the players cursed.
Outside the virtual dungeon.
Zhu Zeyu crouched down and carefully pulled up the ring.
Inside the dungeon.
Zhu Yan grinned at the person who had cursed him.
“What are you getting so worked up about? If ten more dungeons like this come along, this sanctuary will be completely breached.”
I’m dying laughing.
Actually, no matter how many came, the sanctuary would be completely breached in the end.
Across from him, several Alliance players exchanged glances without changing their expressions. Their faces looked particularly grim beneath the flickering lights.
Damn it, this was another one of those chained attacks.
Fortunately, this Hunter was young and had exposed the plan himself. At least the Alliance could prepare for it.
“Don’t rush,” Zhu Yan continued, trying to coax them along. “I’ll act as quickly as possible. Besides, your relatives and friends will definitely be coming down to reunite with you soon.”
The player Zhu Yan had provoked finally snapped and began hurling curses at him.
Outside the virtual space.
Zhu Zeyu timed it perfectly and pried with his dagger.
Crack!
As the ring broke cleanly into two pieces, the hand Zhu Yan had hidden behind his back moved ever so slightly.
A violent explosion rang out without warning. The entire virtual space shattered from within, and the walls abruptly vanished, revealing a massive hollow space.
Inside the virtual space, the Hunter’s expression froze.
Zhu Yan began shouting loudly, just like the clown he had imagined himself to be.
“Impossible! This is impossible!”
His hand flashed. In full view of everyone, he pulled out a new fake 【Connector】 and tried to press it against the ground.
However, Captain Zheng’s wind blade was faster than Zhu Yan’s hand.
The instant the wind blade struck, the enraged Hunter spat out a vicious curse before vanishing on the spot.
“Get ready!” Captain Zheng roared. “No one inside move for now—”
His eyes swept the area like a hawk’s, while the adrenaline surging through him made his heart pound violently.
Yet in the blink of an eye, that damn Hunter had disappeared again.
Captain Zheng warily scanned his surroundings, only to feel a frigid wind brush past him. Then, from far away, came a cry of pain.
Zhu Yan had deliberately crashed into the item 【Heavenly Net】, taking the attack head-on.
He rolled across the ground twice. While his face was pressed against the floor, he quietly gulped down several mouthfuls of high-grade 【Universal Potion】. Then he pretended to be in agony, collapsing to the ground and cursing loudly.
“Holy crap! How can you people play dirty like that?!”
No, he couldn’t hold it in—he was about to laugh.
He had never played a villain who suffered such a spectacular defeat before.
He admitted that his acting was a little over the top…
Zhu Yan bared his teeth and tried to force a little cold sweat out with his mind. He had no idea whether it had worked.
Well, considering how hard he was trying, this terrible performance shouldn’t be enough to blow his cover, right?
Everyone who witnessed the scene was left dumbfounded.
A few seconds later, a wave of cheers suddenly erupted. Captain Zheng and several other players who had recovered from their shock rushed forward and efficiently tied the Hunter up tight.
“Search him.”
Captain Zheng felt over Zhu Yan’s entire body, but naturally found nothing.
The man didn’t even have a ring on him. Even the player mark in his palm had been concealed.
Only the Hunter mark on his right hand remained, glaringly obvious to everyone.
Captain Zheng was ecstatic.
“Quick, take him back.”
He directed more than a dozen people, including Zhu Zeyu, to add several more layers of restraint items to the young Hunter.
Zhu Yan fought hard to keep from laughing, putting on an unwilling expression as if he might kill someone at any moment.
With 【Mist】, these restraint items were nothing more than useless toys to him.
“Behave yourself, kid.” Captain Zheng patted his face. “You’re the one who chopped off Director Jin and Captain Jin’s hands? You’re going to suffer for that.”
“Behave myself?” Zhu Yan sneered. “My younger brother is Qiu Lingxiao. What do you think that makes me?”
Captain Zheng froze at those words.
But the Hunter merely turned his head away. He said nothing and made no attempt to resist.
Captain Zheng could only suppress his doubts and signal with his hand.
More than a dozen people escorted Zhu Yan toward the elevators, not daring to let their guard down for even a moment.
Zhu Zeyu noticed that Director Jin, not far away, had clearly perked up. His tense, somewhat ashen expression had changed into one of radiant delight.
He personally led several 【Human Alliance】 players forward and carefully pulled the players out of the virtual dungeon space one by one, soothing and reassuring them.
“Take them to give statements,” Director Jin ordered. “I want to know exactly what the Hunter did inside the space.”
Liu Lei nodded. “Of course, Director Jin. Don’t worry. Taking statements is a necessary standard procedure.”
…
Floor Negative Twenty-Three.
Jin Rongxu stopped swirling his red wine.
He stared at the red words floating across his retina for a moment, then suddenly burst out laughing.
“Good! Excellent!”
“The dungeon has descended, and the Hunter has already been caught so quickly!”
A wisp of 【Mist】 floated across the ceiling, circling excitedly.
Floor Negative Eighteen—his floor Negative Eighteen.
The 【Mind Reading】 ability was simply too overpowered. The people upstairs would definitely have Jin Rongxu assist with the interrogation.
When was Jin Rongxu going upstairs?
When would this bastard get to experience the eighteenth level of hell?
Jin Rongxu seemed to think of something and sneered.
“This Seer is all looks and no substance. With something this major, that prophecy turned out to be complete garbage.”
He stared at the red announcement celebrating their victory for a while before replying, “You didn’t cut off the Hunter’s hands, did you?”
A response came almost immediately.
“No, Captain Jin.”
“Don’t touch him.” Jin Rongxu moved his wrist with a cruel smile. “I’m going up right now. I’ll cut off his hands myself.”
The other side paused, apparently consulting their superiors.
Then Jin Rongxu received the answer he wanted.
“No problem, Captain Jin.”
“But before that, we need you to assist with the interrogation.”
“The Hunter is being held in the interrogation room on Floor Negative Fifteen. When would you like to come over?”
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
