"Am I... still alive?"
Li Minshun tried hard to open his eyes and found that he was still conscious. He quickly sat up to check if he was missing any parts.
"How rare." Wang Xiaoshan curled his lips, "If you were dead, I wouldn't have bothered to save you."
The tone of this speech made it clear who it was.
"Did you save ?" Li Minshun looked at Wang Xiaoshan in astonishnt. He only rembered soone pulling him before he lost consciousness, but who, everyone looked the sa and was indistinguishable.
"Though I didn't really want to do it." Wang Xiaoshan shrugged, "The trouble is that my hands acted faster than my brain and saved you."
"..."
Li Minshun fell silent, exhaled after a while, and spoke with an unnatural tone, "I... thank you, I owe you my life."
"It's not that serious." Wang Xiaoshan shook his head, "Ruizhou boss said, if you can get out of the mission alive, just give a proper reward... If I face a life-or-death crisis later, you save once, and our debts will cancel out."
"No problem!" Li Minshun stood up from the ground, feeling all his muscles protesting desperately from head to toe. They urgently needed rest to relieve so damage caused by previous high-intensity exertion.
However, this pain was like over-exercising; as long as the muscles were ward up, it was easy to adapt to this pain, though there might be so discomfort during movent.
"Can you keep going in your current state?" Li Zheng ca over and asked, "If you can, let's move on to the next challenge. We've been delayed here for quite a while, need to speed up."
"No problem." Li Minshun imdiately nodded. He didn't want to be the one holding back. With clenched teeth, he could fully endure it.
"Good, then co with ."
Li Zheng led the two of them to the door discovered earlier, and apart from Li Minshun and Wang Xiaoshan, everyone else was already waiting here.
"Awake?"
Chaikefu saw them coming and pressed against the door with both hands, "Then I'll open it."
"Yes." Li Zheng nodded, then signaled to the others, "Everyone except Chaikefu, activate the third ability, and go invisible!"
Swipe~
Almost instantly, only Chaikefu and Li Zheng were left at the door, even Li Minshun instinctively followed Li Zheng's command and directly activated his invisibility ability.
Although he just woke up, he hadn't figured out the current situation, he was puzzled for a second, 'Why does it feel so natural to follow orders?'
Bang!
Chaikefu exerted his arms, the door slowly opened, the gap gradually widened, and a creaking friction sound ca from the door hinge, grating on the ears.
Buzz~
As the door opened, through the gap, everyone could see part of the scene behind the door.
It was a brightly lit hall, with a chanical figure with exaggerated arms standing straight in the center.
Opening the door seed to trigger so command in the chanical figure.
Its large electronic eyes suddenly lit up with red light, then chanically operated, looking up at the door.
When the door opened wide enough for a person to pass through, Li Zheng imdiately shouted, "Move away, then go invisible!"
Chaikefu responded by stepping aside, then disappeared from view.
Li Zheng himself dashed through the door gap into the hall and headed straight for the chanical figure.
"What's... he doing?" Li Minshun was startled, "We don't have attack abilities, isn't he just going to get himself killed?"
"Shut up!" Chaikefu's voice ca through, "Don't waste ti, stick to the plan arranged earlier!"
"After we all enter the hall, we will exit invisibility one by one to try and attract the chanical figure. If the plan works, this challenge could be the easiest one yet!"
"Li Minshun, you're the last one, right after Wang Xiaoshan, don't ss up the order!"
"Got it?"
Chaikefu quickly explained the plan.
Li Minshun imdiately understood what their plan was, but he still had so doubts. He took the opportunity to ask while others were entering, "I get it, but what if the plan fails?"
"If the plan fails," Wang Xiaoshan's voice ca from in front of him, "Then it's every man for himself, life and death are up to fate!"
After all, this was the best plan they could co up with before they saw the chanical figure.
No ti for further exchanges, the group stealthily entered the hall in invisible status.
No one knew if there was a slacker in the team who took advantage of invisibility to hide away when no one could see.
At this mont, they could only choose to trust their teammates.
Li Zheng quickly rushed to the front of the chanical figure, and when it fully activated and swung a punch, he stomped down hard to abruptly stop his montum, then ran to the right side.
The overall shape of the hall was circular, very spacious, the size of ten football fields combined.
Li Zheng ran to the far edge, looking back to see that the chanical figure was indeed drawn to him and its speed was surprisingly close to his.
Bang!
Li Zheng ducked low, and the steel fist swung past his head, slamming into the wall with flying debris.
"Chaikefu!" Li Zheng shouted and then activated invisibility.
"Got it!" Chaikefu appeared on the opposite side of the hall, raising his arms and shouting, "tal junk, Grandpa's here!"
The chanical figure instantly switched its target, ignoring Li Zheng at arm's length, turning and lunging towards Chaikefu.
"Success!" Li Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, Chaikefu didn't let him down.
Before opening the door, Lao Pu told Li Zheng all the usable information.
Li Zheng used conjecture to guide everyone in creating this plan.
The only variable was whether the others were trustworthy.
Would Chaikefu, as the second relay, ignore his survival and refuse to break invisibility when it's his turn?
This was a real gamble!
Not only did the entire team gamble on the viability of the plan, but Li Zheng was also gambling on whether others would abandon him.
If Li Zheng lost the bet, he would have to activate the secondary plan, risking a burst of spiritual power to delay the chanical figure.
Yes.
The terminal only restricted their physical strength, almost imposes no limits on spiritual power.
Since no one in the entire Outer City could break their spiritual power to basic level before Li Zheng appeared, even if the terminal wanted to limit Li Zheng's spiritual power, it couldn't do anything.
After these days of exploration and various attempts, Li Zheng had roughly confird that the strength of spiritual power he could utilize was at the peak of King Level.
As long as he controlled it well, he wouldn't disrupt the balance between spiritual power and physical body.
And the hard power at the peak of King Level in this challenger's mission instance could absolutely dominate!
Next, it was up to the cooperation of the others.
Li Zheng remained in a state of invisibility, slowly moving toward the door opposite the hall, surveying the situation on the field to see if anyone was cheating.
The reason he hadn't exposed his real strength, aside from not wanting to raise the terminal's suspicion, was that he wanted to take this opportunity to see if there was anyone suitable in the team to complete other optional tasks.
Fortunately, these teammates weren't stupid, upon realizing the prior assumptions were valid, they temporarily set aside their private thoughts and cooperated fully.
After Chaikefu was pursued by the chanical figure, Carol, the furthest from him, also appeared to gather 'hatred', giving Chaikefu ample ti to hide.
"After going invisible, you can't run or make overly vigorous actions, or the invisibility state will instantly fail." Li Zheng moved step by step, barely faster than his usual walking pace.
"According to the challenge setup, a team must have at least four people simultaneously dealing with the chanical figure to handle it with ease." Li Zheng muttered to himself while walking and observing the situation on the field.
"If they cooperate well, even two people can narrowly pass the challenge."
"Once an Executor from another team rushes to fulfill other mission conditions and eliminates all other players in the first two small challenges, the rewards for task four will be greatly reduced, or they will be killed by the chanical figure in this challenge!"
"Not only that, the first two small challenges offer countless opportunities to eliminate players, especially during the chase by the tal ball, where Outer City mission Executors can kill all players on the sa team without breaking a sweat."
"Therefore, this special room compared to those entered before, is much more exciting..."
Testing humanity while cultivating players' insights and mutual trust, as well as team collaboration.
"From personal ability training to corps combat awareness, now it's ti to start training small-scale team battle cooperation?" Li Zheng thought and suddenly realized that the challenger mission might also cultivate so other direction of awareness.
"Once the challenge is over, the surviving players will surely pass on the intelligence of the infiltrated moles during the mission, and in future such missions, everyone will have a cautious ntality."
"And this cautious ntality... could be applied to the Seven Sins Domain?"
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