Game of Deception Chapter 113: How Did She Do It?

"What... what just happened?"

Ai Shiping was stunned.

He hadn't even processed what had just occurred.

He just suddenly felt an overwhelming premonition of death, followed by the sight of the entire building collapsing in a brilliant blaze. Yet, he remained completely unhard.

It was as if it had all been a hallucination.

The instant the flas surged to the heavens, the world was blanketed by an erald glow...

"It's quite obvious."

Ming Po leisurely picked his chopsticks back up. "Soone was fighting in the past."

Gao Fan slowly exhaled, his tense body gradually relaxing.

"It should be that... soone from the future learned the Red Queen would be here today. So, they returned to the past and planted a bomb here ahead of ti."

Gao Fan kept a straight face. "A Deceiver of the World might have planted it themselves... or they could have used a proxy."

Ming Po chid in, "And this explosion clearly didn't kill her—she froze ti using a preemptively activated Zhou's Azure Lead chip."

"Ti Chips can be activated in advance?"

Ai Shiping felt a spark of inspiration. "I get it... you an it's like preparing spell slots, inputting different commands into different chips beforehand. That way, as long as you crush the corresponding chip, the effect activates imdiately?"

Gao Fan nodded. "Unlike 'returning to the past' or 'leaping through ti to learn a skill,' commands like stopping ti that forcibly interfere with other Deceivers aren't guaranteed to succeed... A Zhou's Azure Lead ti freeze is completely useless against anyone with a Silver of Moon authority level. They wouldn't even need to use a chip."

"That's the main reason for raising one's authority level, right?"

Ming Po spoke slowly, a dim yellow light flickering in the depths of his eyes. "No wonder... according to the Red Queen, Deceivers at the Zhou's Azure Lead level already live quite comfortably. They have an abundance of 'ti,' which is tantamount to possessing infinite lifespans and whatever superpowers they desire.

"But if they don't continue to upgrade their authority level, they'll be crushed like bugs by powerhouses at the Silver of Moon or Ti Gold levels."

Ming Po's personal ti had also just been frozen by the Zhou's Azure Lead chip.

He had rely seen the azure glow freeze the explosion before it abruptly stopped.

Because from that mont onward, Ming Po's personal ti had been paused.

This ant that if the Red Queen had any murderous intent toward him, he would already be dead.

"After freezing ti, the Red Queen returned to her base."

Ming Po narrowed his eyes, analyzing in a low voice. "She must have tracked down the source of the information leak—she specifically emphasized that they 'weren't very bright.' If it were an enemy, that assessnt would be rather ambiguous. They nearly blew her up, so how could that be considered not very bright? It should have been a comnt like 'reckless' or 'tired of living.'

"Therefore, I believe an insider must have leaked her whereabouts. That's what led to her being ambushed. Perhaps the information was sold, but I think it's more likely they colluded with an outsider... and it is precisely because of this that the Red Queen referred to them collectively as 'they'."

"They" had "already" been caught "now."

That wasn't speculation, but a certainty.

This indicated she had already caught the mole at that ti.

Ming Po continued, "And the fact that she needed to specifically go back to chop off their heads ans she wasn't the one who caught them, otherwise she would have executed them directly on the spot."

It was precisely because of this tyrant's suppression that the people who caught the mole didn't dare to deal the killing blow themselves... because they knew this matter had to be handled by the Red Queen personally.

"So..."

Ai Shiping looked thoughtful.

He had sorted out the true tiline. "The original tiline should have been that after returning, she ntioned eting so 'interesting people.' Then this news was leaked, so soone who had a grudge against her, or a mole colluding with an outsider, traveled back to an even earlier point in the past and planted a ti bomb here.

"However, the Red Queen triggered a Zhou's Azure Lead chip with a pre-recorded 'ti stop,' safely returned to her base, and found the mole. She then sent soone back to the past to cancel the 'planting the bomb' event, returned here, ended the ti stop, and bid us farewell. Therefore... we saw the bomb suddenly disappear?"

After all, the existence of Deceivers of the World superseded the tiline.

So even if the past was changed, because the act of 'returning to the past to change it' occurred after the explosion, the explosion still appeared in their mories.

"I still don't quite understand."

Ai Shiping furrowed his brows and looked at Gao Fan. "Little Fan... why was the Red Queen able to teleport at the end? What kind of chip effect is that? Did she accelerate her own ti and travel an hour into the future?"

"Although it can be used like that..."

Gao Fan shook his head, not entirely certain either. "But no matter how a chip is used, the visual effects are the sa. The only thing we can be sure of is that 'it was definitely an Hour's Red Copper'."

"It's possible she ended her Manifestation, or perhaps she accelerated her own ti, directly traveling an hour into the future. There's also the possibility that she didn't 'walk back' at all. Instead, she used a chip to return directly from the future to the 'exact mont the explosion occurred,' bid us farewell, and then returned... Considering she had already caught those people but hadn't yet chopped off their heads, I think this is the most likely possibility. But in short, any of these explanations are viable."

Because there was only one Material Realm, yet the thods of manipulating ti were practically infinite.

Just like killing a person; if you wanted to achieve that goal, there were as many thods as you could imagine. Simple ones, complex ones... but no matter the thod, the end result would always converge on the single outco of 'they died.'

A brief silence fell over the three of them.

To them, the battle just now had truly only taken place in a 'split second.'

Yet, outside of their perception of ti, an imnse number of events had already transpired.

"...Deceivers of the World are so dangerous."

Ai Shiping leaned back, suddenly losing his appetite for alcohol.

He smiled bitterly, looking rather deflated. "We just ca out to have fun... I'm sorry, it's my fault. If I hadn't chosen this place, maybe we wouldn't have gotten dragged into this. Or perhaps... how about I go back to the past and negate the fact that we ca out at all? That way, we might not have been targeted."

"It's useless, it's already too late."

Ming Po shook his head, his tone calm and his emotions stable. "The existence of Deceivers of the World supersedes the tiline. Even if we go back, she wouldn't forget that we ca into contact with her.

"Moreover, don't forget... the Red Queen said she didn't co here on purpose, but was guided by Luck. She needed to make contact with us, and she did. For us, this obviously isn't a stroke of luck...

"So when the Luck of both sides clashed, it ans her Luck had already overwheld ours. This is probably how she knows that 'Luck' is an attribute."

"...I'm sorry."

Ai Shiping apologized once more, his mood uncharacteristically downcast.

Ming Po, on the other hand, offered a faint smile. "It's fine. In fact... you could actually say this is a good thing."