Chapter 225: Three kills, monsters, spaced out kidnapping.

After the demonstration, Chi Xiaochi ignored the crazy pop-up section and looked at the time: "Brother, it's late, come in and go to bed."

Lou Ying: "We're supposed to change shifts two hours into the night, and it's not time to change shifts yet. ......"

Chi Xiaochi: "Who's next on night duty?"

Lou Ying looked at Zhao Rou, who was still in a daze.

Chi Xiaochi, holding the tent frame with one hand, said to Zhao Rou, "You're half an hour ahead of your watch, is that all right?"

The words sounded like a discussion, but there was no hint of a discussion in the tone.

He didn't care what Zhao Rou's answer was, a pair of peach blossom eyes containing sleepiness looked at Lou Ying , and glanced at the tent behind him, "Brother, come in."

Lou Ying's heart thudded and her breathing stopped for a moment when his eyes caught hers.

When the air flowed again, and nothing changed around him, only he knew that there was a little more light in his heart.

He responded, "Uh-huh."

Once inside the tent, Lou Ying closed the tent curtain.

Noticing Zhao Rou outside, Lou Ying opened the internal communication channel with Chi Xiaochi, and said, "Isn't it a good idea to order her around like this? You're leading the team, it's best to be lenient and strict at the same time. If you are too strict with her, she might rebel."

Chi Xiaochi set out Lou Ying's sleeping bag and laid it out for himself.

"There are people who don't like to be controlled, and for such people, it's necessary to be lenient." Chi Xiaochi says, "But there are some people, who have to be controlled in order to feel at ease."

Lou Ying sniffed, reopened the tent, which had just been drawn up, a crack, and looked out.

Sure enough, Zhao Rou's expression was much more soothing than it had been when he sat down by the fire.

She peeked into the tent where Chi Xiaochi was, and in her heart, she had grown to believe that with this man, she might actually be able to survive, and even have a chance to see the light of day again.

Meanwhile, Chi Xiaochi, inside the tent, lowered his eyes and said, "This kind of person doesn't have too strong an opinion, and in extreme circumstances, being ordered around by someone who is absolutely strong, not only doesn't resent it, but on the contrary, he becomes ten times more dependent on him and trusts him a hundred times more."

Chi Xiaochi pulled out the pillow that came with her sleeping bag and patted it until it was fluffy, her long eyelashes casting a pleasing glow under the vapor lamp, "This is all the peace of mind I can give her."

Lou Ying's heart softened at Chi Xiaochi's words, and she rubbed his hair and went to his sleeping bag, rearranging his still-warm bedding.

Two people crouching back to back, shadows blending together in harmony.

"One more question?"

"Ask."

"Why do you want to provoke those watchers." Lou Ying said, "The card's effectiveness lasts another eight hours ......"

Chi Xiaochi faintly said, "Psychic abilities can only be concealed from the human eye, not from machines."

With just this mention, Lou Ying was enlightened, "...... I understand. Our collars are able to locate us, and the staff of those organizations have long known that we have left the A8 area. But why didn't they say anything?"

Chi Xiaochi let out a dismissive snort.

Lou Ying's mind turned quickly and smiled along with him, "Yes. They have inside information, they should have also bought their bets on us early on. ...... This way, even if there is an insider situation, they won't reveal the situation to the other players."

"But after the fire started, the situation is very different." Chi Xiaochi said, "Just now, all the other players probably thought they were winning and bought into those two guys' bets in large quantities, and I guess they lost a lot of money."

Lou Ying nods, "Their reaction to this anomaly must have been unusually violent. The agency's staff can't help but deal with this agitation, and will soon expose our coordinates through the locator on the collar."

Once their coordinates are exposed, these gamblers who have lost a lot of money will surely increase their stakes at all costs, issue "bounty orders" and call on the aliens to kill them.

In case there really is an individual who isn't afraid to die and come to B3, that would be too much trouble.

So Chi Xiaochi not only took it upon himself to disarm the illusion card, but also made a blatant taunt, almost as if to say, "I'm in the B3 area, so if any of you have the guts, come on over".

Already two unsuspecting people had fallen under the illusion and been burned on the spot, which would make any person wonder if Chi Xiaochi's camp, which they had moved to the B3 area, was just another false bait.

Even if the staff with inside information broke the news again, saying that they were indeed in the B3 area and not bait, the gamblers would not dare to place their bets indiscriminately, and they could only watch them sleep peacefully and then gasp themselves to death alive.

Chi Xiaochi covered her mouth and let out a rather showy yawn.

He said, "True or false, false or false. I want them to know full well that I'm using the empty city trick, but they can only stare and dare not come over."

With that, he burrowed into the comforter Lou Ying had laid out and said, "...... And, tomorrow morning, we'll get up early and get ready for the pickup."

Lou Ying: "...... Hmm?" What customers?

"Thank them for spreading the word." Chi Xiaochi closed her eyes, "By now probably all the shifters know we're in the B3 area, and we've shown goodwill to those who defected in good faith, along with plenty of supplies to offer. So, guess how many people will come to defect to us tomorrow?"

Lou Ying reminded him, "There may be 'catfish' mixed in with the people who defect to us."

Chi Xiaochi said, "I know."

Lou Ying said, "There were four 'catfish' in all, and it was a real headache."

Chi Xiaochi said, "No headaches."

Lou Ying remembered Chi Xiaochi's earlier question about the number of "catfish": "Do you think there are three "catfish" mixed in with the aliens, instead of four? "

Chi Xiaochi says, "Ah, that's just a question I have about myself. Not important."

Lou Ying: "Doesn't it matter?"

Chi Xiaochi : "Whether he has three or four, he's going to die in the end."

Lou Ying : "But it does make it difficult if they blend in."

Chi Xiaochi, however, said, "It won't blend in. They're all going to die, and, besides, it won't even be necessary for us to do it ourselves."

Now Lou Ying was really confused: "What?"

Chi Xiaochi only returned an inaudible laugh, "Ha."

Lou Ying asked, "Is that your plan again?"

Chi Xiaochi still doesn't answer positively, "When you make a program, of course, you want to make the most out of it in every way, don't you?"

Lou Ying loses his smile, "Go ahead, what else, do you know that I don't."

"...... two women." Chi Xiaochi said.

"Hmm?"

Chi Xiaochi coughed a little uncomfortably, "I just went into Bai Anyi's ...... that, the immersion 'that'. Underwater, I could determine by the sound that the ...... people who pushed Bai Anyi into the water were two women."

Lou Ying Seeing him stammering, he knew he was vain about what he had just done.

...... It's good to know that you're afraid.

Lou Ying pivoted halfway out of his sleeping bag and, in a repeat of her trick, put her hand to his forehead in a gesture to flick it.

Chi Xiaochi busily held her breath, closed her eyes and frowned, waiting for the pain to come.

The pain was long in coming, but a strange sensation hit his body.

Lou Ying integrated a card into Chi Xiaochi's body, and after a shimmering flash of light, he leaned down and gently held Chi Xiaochi's spiritual body away from Bai Anyi's body.

Lou Ying cupped his face, his index finger resting on the small mole at the end of his eyebrow, stroking it lovingly twice before dropping a feather-light kiss on the spot where he had just been flicked.

The lips of the man who had been so full of strategic plans just a moment ago twitched, and a blush set off from his cheeks and stretched down to his neck, his ears, and it was a sight to behold.

Lou Ying touched his forehead gently and said warmly, "Good night."

......

The two fell into a peaceful sleep, while outside the establishment was lit up over the mess they had made.

Inside the Emergency Response Department, all the members are assembled in the conference room.

The minister stood at the forefront, using a stylus to write down a keyword on the light screen, "As far as our current intelligence can tell, in this five-member squad, the seven types of psychic abilities, namely, foreseeing the future, disarming weapons, randomizing dice, distorting things, instantaneous transfer, hallucination, and storage in a different space, have clearly appeared. The higher-ups have noticed the problem, emphasizing that the nature of the problem is very serious, and want us to meet immediately to discuss it."

Someone else commented, "Doesn't that Wei XVI have a dice that can randomize his powers, and 'hallucinogenic' might be a power he's arranged."

"Not very likely." The minister frowned deeply, "Wei XVI has taken a quiz, and his randomized powers last for a very short period of time, usually no more than five minutes. The hallucinogenic spell just now lasted for several hours long at least. In addition, the special collar is able to record the amount of class A globulin growth in an alien's body when he or she is using an alien ability. ......"

He pointed to Wei XVI's name on the screen, "According to the data, he showed no signs of a surge in class A globulin during this period of time, which means that he didn't utilize his supernatural abilities at all."

The members of the ministry at the bottom looked at each other in disbelief, but no one dared to believe the answer that bubbled up in everyone's mind at the same time.

The minister continued, "...... You should not guess. The rest of you, the amount of globulin in your body, is also normal."

A member of the ministry was astonished, "How is this possible? The data provided by the collars has always been more than accurate."

The minister said, "So there are two possibilities at the moment-"

"First, the data recovered from our collars was wrong. The one who mobilized the alien energy was indeed Wei XVI correctly."

Here, the minister paused slightly, unable to hide the excitement in his voice, "...... Secondly, we have discovered the world's first polymath."

Even though they had already guessed, the ministry members still could not help but feel a tingle down their spines when they heard the speculation from the minister's mouth, "...... So ...... which one of them is it?"

The Minister drew a circle around the names "Bai Anyi" and "Chi Jiangyu".

"The former possesses the psychic ability of instantaneous transfer, but earlier, his psychic ability was in the state of 'Unjudged' for a long time, which is really suspicious, and, just now, he took the initiative to provoke us, as if he was explicitly informing us that he was the multi-psychic. "

"However, the more deliberately he behaves in this manner, the more I suspect that the multi-powered person is, in fact, the latter, Chi Jiangyu," the Minister spoke eloquently, "...... While being held in an institution for 're-education', he did have a record of successfully distorting items; and the items in the other dimension were all taken by Chi Jiangyu's hands. Therefore, I have a reasonable suspicion that hallucination is also one of Chi Jiangyu's abilities. However, in front of the audience, he only explicitly demonstrated the ability to 'fetch objects from other dimensions'. Therefore, I would venture to guess that Chi Jiangyu did not want to openly reveal too much of his strength in front of the audience, so he asked Bai Anyi to step in and intentionally provoke him instead, misleading the audience into thinking that 'hallucination' was Bai Anyi's ability, while 'instantaneous transfer' was Wei XVI's random ability. ' on the other hand, was Wei XVI's randomized dice ability. --Be aware that the audience is very good at misleading, and what they can see is always limited."

As he spoke, the minister raised his fingertips and rubbed them repeatedly on the name "Chi Jiangyu", and he could not suppress a bit more greed in his eyes, as if he was looking at a fortune tree.

His vision was really not bad, from the moment Chi Jiangyu appeared, he knew that this person was not ordinary.

It was not in vain that he had staked his entire fortune on this man.

The matter having become clear, the minister continued, "What are we going to do about it?"

The minister looked like he was taking it for granted, "Of course we want Chi Jiangyu to live. Only if he comes out alive can we study him and call him to our use."

"That's right ......" mused another ministry member, "What about the need for us to end the game immediately and bring him out?"

"No way." The minister flatly refused, "It's in the middle of a game in progress, and there are quite a few players who have placed a lot of bets on him. If he disappears or the game is aborted, it will cause much commotion and trouble, do you know?"

"So let him keep playing? In case he dies ...... I mean, after all, it's not like there hasn't been a blowout before ......"

"Of course we have to do our best to protect his life!" The minister said, "Only a living Alien is worth studying."

"Then, what should we do about the 'catfish' that was planted? Let's not talk about the other aberrations, their aggressiveness may not be that strong, but the 'catfish' is different. There are only three places to live, they will definitely try their best to kill Chi Jiangyu.'Catfish', will become a threat to Chi Jiangyu."

The minister dropped his stylus on the conference table, "How many 'catfish' are there this time?"

The minister replied, "It's the same as before, all three."

"Let me ask you, are ten or twenty 'catfish' with single psychic abilities worth one Chi Jiangyu with multiple psychic abilities?"

After the rhetorical question, the minister waved his hand, "My opinion is to escalate the situation and get an order from the top to order the activation of Contingency Program #2 to get rid of all three of those 'catfish'."

The minister was surprised, "Minister?"

"For the time being, we need to eliminate all dangerous factors that can threaten Chi Jiangyu." The minister said with justice, "...... We have to do our best to preserve Chi Jiangyu."

"Compile a report on what we found and how we handled it and send it to the top. Let the top make the decision."

So much had been made of the day that the report had just been handed in and feedback was quickly forthcoming.

The approval is only two words.

"Agreed".

Seeing the result, the minister smiled with relief.

A member of the ministry asked again, "What about the alliance that Chi Jiangyu and the others have entered into?"

The minister didn't even raise his head, "Have you never seen all kinds of alliances concluded by the aliens before? Which of them didn't end up killing each other in the end? There's not even one that could stand toe-to-toe with us until the end, forcing us to inject poison to end the game."

He said, "People are such cheap things that they will never learn to trust each other."

In less than ten minutes, the approved document from above was delivered to the head of another "catfish" organization.

"...... killed them all?"

The secretary who read the order was appalled, "Boss, why kill them when you say so? These 'catfish' are excellent seeds-"

"No reason was given, it was only said that it was a level one secret and the reason could not be disclosed." The person in charge grimaced and said, "Who knows what the headquarters side is for."

This is the "Game Center", where all the aliens participating in the game will be sent here after inhaling anesthetics.

This place is far away from the headquarters and is only responsible for watching over the aliens and the "catfish" that are sent from the various branches of the organization, not knowing much about what's going on in the game.

The secretary was careful, "But ...... you bet a lot of money on that 'catfish' ......"

The head honcho pursed his lips, a hint of resignation escaping, "Yeah, 'that guy' clearly has the best hope of winning."

Secretary because he knows the inside information, the "catfish" is equally optimistic, for him to bet half of his fortune.

How can he afford to let it go now that he's being asked to blow it all away?

The matter is urgent, the secretary's mind is not slow to turn, not long, before the eyes is a hard light: "Boss, the upper management let us use the second contingency plan, right?"

He pulled out a document and spread it out sharply on the desk of the man in charge.

"Boss, we signed a contract with each of the three 'catfish', right?"

"Their collar construction looks exactly the same as the other aliens, and even if you take the most sophisticated instruments and scan them, you can't see any abnormality, but there is one difference ......"

The secretary drew a striking circle on the diagram of the collar's cross-sectional construction labeled on the document, "In their collars, it's not poison that's stored, it's glucose. This is our contract with them, to ensure that they will not be harmed by outside forces during the game."

"Let's make an analogy. If a group of gamers form an alliance and refuse to abide by the rules of the game, once they are judged as 'passive resistance' by the headquarters, they will be collectively injected with poison from their collars, and only three people will be left behind 'at random'. These three people are our 'catfish'."

"But on the back of their wristwatches, they're hiding another poisonous hidden retractable pin. That's contingency plan number two that we've secretly prepared in case they reveal the secret of the 'catfish' to anyone else, or to deal with any other emergencies. This is the plan that HQ wants us to activate. But as you know, the ability of that 'catfish' ......"

The man in charge understood, went to a huge floor-to-ceiling window, raised his hand to hold it, and muttered to himself, "It's ...... that 'catfish' that's not afraid of poison."

However, he was still a bit uncertain about this muddy offer, "But headquarters requires that all the 'catfish' die. If one doesn't die--"

"Aiya, Boss!" The secretary was afraid that he would back out and actively persuaded, "It's his own skill that 'Catfish' doesn't die, it's none of our business. As long as we submit the report of 'successful injection', you've completed your mission. As for that 'secret', who knows if it's important."

The man in charge stared into the window, nodding down slightly after a long moment.

"Good." He said, "Just do it."

Inside the window, lay the 101 aliens who were in the middle of a game of

They lay inside coffin-like transparent capsules bathed in pale blue light, helmets on their heads, breathing quietly, like dead men dipped in formalin.

Some of the capsules had dimmed to a tiny dead star.

Some are still gleaming, not knowing when they will collapse into dust.

The man in charge picked up a joypad and pressed it with an expressionless face.

Three capsules, darkened in unison.

But within a few moments, one of them ghostly lit up again, the light flickering on and off like a giant one-eye that kept blinking in the darkness.

......

Six hours later.

Chi Xiaochi wakes up from his sleeping bag after a good night's sleep.

The first thing he did was check the survivor numbers on his wristwatch.

Last night, after his sleep, a total of five people died.

A man and a woman with two alien powers fought in the M1 area, one was killed and one was seriously injured, the seriously injured woman struggled alone for half a night, but still couldn't make it through.

In addition, two women died in Sections D9 and Q10, and one man died in Section E6, all of which had unknown causes of death, and were therefore determined to be dashed hopes and suicide choices.

Three suicides in one night, all in one breath, is not a normal number in itself.

However, there were a few people who committed suicide in despair during the course of the game, and the stakes on these guys weren't that high, not to mention that the suicides took place in the middle of the night, and the number of people still watching the live stream was already extremely small, so no one even paid attention to when they died.

Chi Xiaochi put his hand on his forehead and fell silent.

For Chi Xiaochi, plans can change constantly as circumstances change.

At first, he planned to let the catfish come to them.

It was only when dealing with Zhao Rou that Chi Xiaochi realized something was wrong.

To subdue a little girl, he already needs to spend a lot of thought, if the "catfish" mixed in the people who came to join, it will take energy, afraid of the car bucket, difficult to count, in case of an accidental error in judgment, very likely to destroy the whole situation.

Not to mention that he will not be able to complete his own mission, Bai Anyi's life, which was so easily recovered, will also be played away.

As a result, he made adjustments to his plan.

He flaunts his powers, he provokes, he puts Lou Ying in front of the curtain and induces everyone to believe that Lou Ying is polymath.

He wants Lou Ying to be the new "catfish" for the organization to protect.

Developments, Agency Decisions, Death of the Catfish ......

Everything was moving steadily along the track he had envisioned.

After he made a big show of displaying multiple powers for Lou Ying, the guys really decided that his Lou was the one and only multi-powered man.

According to the rules, there can only be three people to survive, so the "catfish" who has an early advantage will never be willing to fall into the cannon fodder, and will definitely try to get rid of Lou.

But then their intentions conflict with the needs of the institution.

For the organization, what is it worth to kill a few "catfish" in order to protect this polymath and keep him alive?

This way, at least for now, Lou is the safest in the entire game at the moment.

Chi Xiaochi has kidnapped the whole organization with his interests and made the whole organization stand behind Lou Ying and become his invisible umbrella.

With this in mind, Chi Xiaochi turned his face toward Lou Ying, who was still sleeping peacefully.

He wore that mask, creating horrific scars and trying desperately to look menacing.

Nevertheless, his sleeping expression was so peaceful that Chi Xiaochi couldn't help but smile, and he couldn't help but think what a good person Lou Ying was.

And what kind of person is he, Chi Xiaochi?

It's a ...... monster who managed to drift off to a good night's sleep because of Lou Ying's kiss, knowing that people would die because of his plan.