Originally, the Special Security Bureau's focus had been on Chu Xuan, the top prospect.

As for the other contestants randomly selected for the Civilization Contest, the Special Security Bureau never placed its hopes of winning the competition on them.

All that's needed is for the athletes to protect their own lives during the competition, so there wasn't much attention paid to it.

Basically, it was after a brief investigation of the contestants' profiles.

They would send special forces to protect their immediate family members, but would not conduct a comprehensive and in-depth investigation.

Because it's really unnecessary; nobody knows how many days these players will survive in the competition.

As an ordinary person, being selected for such a brutal competition is basically a death sentence; whether you survive or not is entirely up to fate.

The only thing the Special Security Bureau will likely have to do well is to provide support and care for the families involved.

After all, they are fighting for Earth, and they deserve all the treatment they are entitled to.

However, when Li Qingyu, a contestant from Jinghai City, suddenly appeared and dominated the top spot on the Oasis leaderboard for three consecutive days, even surpassing Chu Xuan, a seeded player from China, things took a turn for the better.

The top official of the Special Security Bureau began to take it seriously.

It's incredible that an ordinary person could actually get to where he is today through sheer luck.

He accomplished with ease what other contestants struggled to do.

While the other players were still struggling, he had already started to lie down.

Even judging from Li Qingyu's behavior after the live stream, he did not show anything amazing.

Whether it's personality... or intelligence...

They're all very ordinary.

but....

Whether you call it a man's intuition or the sensitivity of one's profession, it doesn't matter.

The person in charge decided to conduct the investigation thoroughly and meticulously.

then.

The Special Security Bureau began an in-depth investigation into contestant Li Qingyu's past experiences.

Of course, this doesn't mean we have to dig into the players' privacy.

There was no other way; it was my duty.

As professionals, we must conduct thorough investigations even if we have only the slightest doubt.

What if it's later revealed that Li Qingyu is the illegitimate son of some hidden aristocratic family, and he, as the head of the Special Security Bureau, is still unaware of it?

When his superiors ask him questions, does he even care about saving face?

Of course, the above is just a hypothesis, but it is not completely ruled out.

"What about his family? Do they have any special status?" the person in charge continued to ask.

The female secretary flipped through the files in the black folder in her hand.

"Li Qingyu is currently only alive with his mother. His father passed away from cancer when he was eight years old."

"His mother was just an ordinary housewife, with no special family background."

"Even his deceased father was just an ordinary person."

"but...."

The female secretary hesitated.

"But what?" Number One turned his head and asked the female secretary.

The female secretary asked with some doubt, "Li Qingyu's mother doesn't seem to have any concern whatsoever about her son being selected for the Civilization Battle."

"Whether it's buying groceries, playing mahjong, or dancing in the square, it's all done according to the old routine."

"Even when chatting with others, she has never expressed any concern for her son."

"But based on previous information, their relationship has always been very good, and there is no resentment between them."

"I don't know if she didn't understand the cruelty of the war of civilizations in detail, or if she was simply optimistic."

"That's exactly what I'm wondering about."

Number One watched Li Qingyu in the live stream, leisurely finished rinsing the rice, and started cooking.

His eyes seemed to be deep in thought.

"Zhizi... Mo Ruomu?"

............

Looking at the Pineapple brand rice cooker that is cooking Sanchang rice.

Li Qingyu hesitated for a moment, then opened the refrigerator to take a look.

Two bottles of orange soda.

Two servings of golden egg fried rice.

Which one should I eat later...?

There are only two left.

Should we save money, or not?

Is it restraint or indulgence?

Just as Li Qingyu was struggling with his inner conflict, a system notification suddenly sounded.

[System: Lilith, a player from the Abyss Civilization, has been detected. She has now eliminated ten non-Abyss Civilization players.]

This competition will feature a kill mode.

When players from different civilizations clash, the oases possessed by the eliminated players will be plundered and added to the total oasis area of ​​the winning civilization, but will not be counted towards the players' individual oasis area.

Lilith has been given a red name marker.

Killing a player marked with a red name will grant the player all the oasis area looted by that player, and this area will be added to the player's personal oasis area and the total area of ​​their civilization.

[A virtual map of Saha has been loaded for all participants.]

All players can see their own location on the virtual map, as well as the locations of players marked in red.

Slaughter, when peace is gone.

Flesh and blood may be the best nourishment for an oasis.

I heard a long string of system notifications.

Li Qingyu opened the mission panel, and sure enough, there was now an introduction to the Killing Mode.

Wow, I haven't even run into a single player in three days.

This guy from the Abyss Civilization has already killed ten of them. He's too ruthless!

The system is quite poetic, saying it's being phased out, as if it thinks others won't understand.

Is there any other way to be eliminated in this competition besides death?

However, what Li Qingyu didn't know was that Lilith didn't eliminate ten contestants in three days.

Instead, it took... less than a day...

After carefully reading the introduction to the Kill Mode, Li Qingyu casually opened the virtual map of Saha Star that had just been loaded by the system.

Upon opening it, a virtual planet appeared before Li Qingyu.

From the outside, Saha appears to be a yellowish-brown planet covered in desert and rocks.

At this moment, two points of light are twinkling on this yellowish-brown planet.

One is a blue dot representing Li Qingyu's own location, and the other is a blood-red dot representing the location of the red-named player Lilith.

The blue dot representing Li Qingyu is located in the center of a basin-shaped desert.

A ring of rugged sandstone terrain surrounds this desert.

The blood-red light spot was located about half the distance of the planet Saha from the blue light spot.

Li Qingyu breathed a sigh of relief.

Hey, he's half a planet away.

It seems we won't have any contact for the time being.

That's good, at least I don't have to worry about this guy suddenly attacking and killing me without me noticing.

It's best to stay as far away from such a vicious guy as possible.

If it were really near Li Qingyu, Li Qingyu probably wouldn't be able to sleep.