After saying that, Chen Jiaxu seemed to have thought of something and suddenly grabbed Mo Shuwan's hand to demonstrate. A small wound immediately appeared on Mo Shuwan's hand, but there was no corrosive power on the wound.

"Look."

Mo Shuwan stared at the wound inflicted by Chen Jiaxu and suddenly smiled. "I know, but you should also be careful not to let others notice the changes in you."

Chen Jiaxu nodded. "I will."

"Okay, get some rest. The next match shouldn't be too far away. The third knockout match will definitely be much tougher than the previous ones, so don't let your guard down."

Chen Jiaxu nodded solemnly.

Mo Shuwan, Wen Zuo, and Liu Dongcheng walked over and sat down. The three of them behaved exactly as before, with their heads down and looking at their phones as usual. Their expressions and movements were very natural. Even Cheng Hua and Yun Chen, who had been temporarily sent away and were only now coming over, did not notice that something was wrong with them.

In reality, the three of them were feeling very heavy-hearted. From their conversation with Chen Jiaxu, they had finally come to a conclusion: Chen Jiaxu was a problem.

Originally, they hadn't connected the corrosive wound on Wen Zuo's left hand with Chen Jiaxu. However, after Wen Zuo returned and thought about it carefully, he realized that the situation only occurred after Chen Jiaxu arrived. Considering his strange behavior along the way, they became suspicious. The conversation they had just had finally confirmed that Chen Jiaxu was the one who caused the trouble.

Wen Zuo: It seems that he has two consciousnesses now, one belonging to himself and the other to the enemy.

Liu Dongcheng: How exactly did they manage to avoid being spotted by the bus?

Wen Zuo: He may have his own special methods.

Mo Shuwan: Yes, definitely. After all, judging from the length of time the bus has existed, it's clear that the enemy has been around for a long time. It's not surprising that they found a solution during that time.

The reason they were able to guess how long the bus might have existed was because of the Time Bus Selection Competition. They had previously learned that the competition was held every ten years, but so far at least six competitions have been held, which means that the bus has existed for at least sixty years.

What is the concept of sixty years? For Mo Shuwan and his group, sixty years is more than half a lifetime, and in their understanding, very few people can have another sixty years.

Wen Zuo: The problem is that, judging from Chen Jiaxu's performance just now, he himself is unaware that some changes have occurred.

"Hey, can you guys stop discussing this behind our backs every time? You know you're going to lose two of our best teammates if you keep doing this?"

Mo Shuwan looked up at Cheng Hua and said with a smile, "This time you won't threaten us or take us away?"

Cheng Hua snorted coldly, "Anyway, you can't threaten me, so there's no point in continuing to threaten me."

"That's true."

Chenghua said, "We're all in the same boat now. If you keep whispering and discussing things we don't know behind our backs, it might make us want to kill you, you know?"

After Ben Yunchen walked over, he squatted down next to Wen Zuo and started eating the crystals as if it were none of his business. Occasionally, he would take out some snacks to eat. Now, hearing Cheng Hua's words, he raised his head and said, "I will not have any intention of killing my father, mother, and second father. If you want to kill my father, mother, and second father, I will kill you."

"Stop joking..."

Seeing Yun Chen's serious expression, Cheng Hua paused, turned to Mo Shuwan, and said incredulously, "What he said can't be true, can it?"

Perhaps because Cheng Hua had experienced the same differential treatment he had received before, Chen Jiaxu said with a frustrated expression, "What he said is true. Do you know why we're not related?"

Chenghua instinctively asked, "Why?"

Chen Jiaxu chuckled dryly twice. "Because I'm too weak. Do you know why you're not his relative?"

Cheng Hua was still struggling to process the connection between why he was too weak and his relatives. When Chen Jiaxu asked him this, he instinctively asked, "Why?"

"Because you're too noisy."

Chenghua: "..."

Even after the next match began, Chenghua still couldn't figure out why being too weak was related to being related to relatives, nor did he understand why Yun Chen had to call Wen Zuo, Mo Shuwan's mother, and Liu Dongcheng's second father...

"This is a qualifying round. The first team to defeat three teams will advance. The competition will last for three days. The countdown has begun."

The venue and map are the same as before. The difference is that the knockout stage has been changed to a promotion stage, and all teams must actively seek out and fight other teams in order to advance. Otherwise, they will not be able to advance.

"If you're unlucky and never get to play with a team, you'll probably be eliminated in the end."

Wen Zuo nodded. As the countdown was about to end, he turned to look at Chen Jiaxu. Chen Jiaxu's condition was exactly the same as in the previous two matches, with no change.

Perhaps noticing Wen Zuo's gaze, Chen Jiaxu turned his head and looked at him with a puzzled expression, "What's wrong?"

"fine."

The countdown finally ended, and the map, which had been empty just moments before, was suddenly filled with a whole patch of red dots. Their positions also changed for the first time; they were no longer in the bottom right corner, but had been moved to the center. There were at least ten red dots around them.

"So many?!" Cheng Hua immediately became excited, and even drew his longsword without hesitation. "With so many teams, surely there must be one that I can go all out against?"

"Don't rush. Let's not rush to advance this time. We've already reached the qualifying rounds, and we don't know if we'll be here again for the next competition. We should take this opportunity to search for the fruit we hoped to find in the stratosphere last time."

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