The blue sports car ca to a stop, pausing briefly as it observed the words appearing on the ground. After circling around and sensing the surrounding environnt, it cautiously responded:
"What do you an? I naturally wouldn't co after you."
"Not just . Not only ." The All-Seeing Eye continued carving words into the ground. "Everyone. All the players!"
"And you must ensure that you yourself aren't caught by anyone!"
Chiyo Eine: ?
Originally, she had thought she was hiding quite well since the three hadn't discovered her yet. Although she had wondered why there was no movent, if even the top three players couldn't get points from her, then her chances were enormous.
She had even planned to select a smaller space scenario where her dark water could envelop and search the entire city. Now, this newly established organization's leader was telling her to give up?
"Why? Is there a situation?"
"No ti for lengthy explanations. In short, the world's top three have other plans," Xie Antong said briefly. "This is just my personal suggestion. You can choose not to follow it."
After speaking, the All-Seeing Eye spun several tis in the air before flying away, leaving Chiyo Eine alone in deep thought.
Twenty minutes passed...
The entire city was eerily quiet.
Nothing happened.
[Creator, ti's up!]
[The Creator's hunting ti has ended. Next hunter... Chiyo Eine!]
The ga's voice beca unusually urgent, even losing its previous human-like quality and reverting to a chanical tone. Chiyo Eine's figure instantly disappeared from the spot, returning to the initial room.
[Player, please select your hunting scenario.]
Standing in the center of the room, Chiyo Eine looked grave and remained silent. She didn't quite understand what Blank ant. What did it an that the world's top three were making moves? What had those three been doing?
Theoretically, her abilities were related to detection and control, but she hadn't dared use them while hiding! Large-scale dark water was too easily detectable, and she feared being caught by those top three players, so she had refrained from using it in previous gas.
As a result, she was completely in the dark now.
"Did you see sothing...?"
[Player Chiyo Eine! Please select your ga scenario!]
"Annoying! Quiet!" Chiyo Eine waved her hand dismissively. "Whatever. The sa city is fine."
[...]
[Ga background set to: Urban! Player hunting ti begins!]
A new twenty-minute countdown started as Chiyo Eine's expression flickered, staring at the glowing door before her. When it ca to gas, especially one this serious and even brutal, she wasn't soone who defied conventions. She was markedly different from those before her.
After pacing back and forth a few tis, the ga's prompt sounded again in the room.
[Player Chiyo Eine, a reminder that the ga has already begun.]
Stopping in her tracks, Chiyo Eine looked up at the void and spoke coldly: "Did you rush those before like this too?"
[...]
Having said that, she made her decision. Planting her feet firmly, she closed her eyes.
"I forfeit my turn!"
There was no particular reason. This was Blank's ssage, representing her judgnt. Today was her first formal alliance with the other party. Consider this her pledge—a show of cooperation sincerity.
No.6, Chiyo Eine, forfeits hunting opportunity!
The ga had been going on for over an hour now, and so far, all players had co up empty-handed!
[: What are they doing?]
[: Did I miss so rules? Isn't this ga hide-and-seek?!]
[: What's going on? Do the top players have so way of communicating?]
[: Is this Sin's virus spreading? Why is everyone slacking off after he gave up?!]
[: I never understand his gas, seriously...]
The audience outside was utterly confused. This round of the ga seed unusually peaceful, almost like a waste of ti. But... why? Why were none of the players following the rules?
In the Elder Council, the Grand Elder stared blankly at the ga screen, where Lu Ce had once again fallen asleep. Perfect Life sat quietly nearby, as if waiting for sothing.
The Grand Elder muttered to himself: "Have you... noticed sothing? Is this your resistance? But... the others."
Then he suddenly turned to a Dragon Group mber at the door. "Notify our comrade! Cooperate with him! Let's test this!"
...
[Player Chiyo Eine, ga ti ended!]
[Next player: Jiu Tian!]
[Please select your ga scenario.]
Yes, he too had been assigned to this round of the ga. The mont he returned to the room, he was first shocked—shocked that so many experts before him had failed to find him! Imdiately after, he opened his ga interface.
As a Dragon Group mber, this was one of his greatest advantages: external intelligence officers could provide him with guidance. Although direct information about other players couldn't be shared during competition, this guidance was still useful.
But this ti, when he opened the interface, he froze. His screen was completely flooded with four words:
—[Forfeit your turn!]
This was the Dragon Group's special signal. For such a flood to occur, there was only one possibility: nearly all selected personnel outside had collectively entered his ga stream and spamd simultaneously.
This represented the Dragon Group's highest-level directive—their most urgent and important command form!
Seeing "forfeit your turn" covering his entire screen, Jiu Tian felt the hairs on his neck stand up. He had never held such status in the Dragon Group before. What... had happened earlier?
But regardless, he had received the organization's order now, so his course of action was simple:
—Obey.
He imdiately sat down in the room. "I forfeit my turn!" Then he completely ignored the ga's voice—the organization's demands ca first.
[...]
Twenty minutes later.
[Player Jiu Tian, ga ti ended.]
[Next hunter: Blank!]
Xie Antong returned to her room and, without even blinking, found a spot to rest. "I forfeit my turn!"
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