"Does that mean that once you've used many of the smaller features, it'll be like you've permanently mastered them?"
Xiao Linlin had already considered far too many possibilities.
"It's not that exaggerated."
Su Lin finally lowered his head, his gaze hidden in the night, but Xiao Linlin could still see the helplessness and doting in his eyes: "Do you really think of me as Superman?"
"Hehe, in my heart, my brother is Superman!"
"He's Superman, so does that mean I'm just an ordinary person?"
Suddenly, a man's eerie, resentful voice echoed through the darkness, startling Xiao Linlin so much that she almost screamed on the spot.
She looked fearfully into the depths of the alley not far away, where Jia Zhengyi emerged slowly, his face full of resentment, muttering under his breath, "Do you know how tiring it was for me to chase after you all..."
He was really working at a high intensity during this match.
They had to monitor all the players in the city 24/7, conduct a thorough search of resource areas, and at the same time keep up with Su Lin's fighting pace.
Seriously, I'm so tired!
Each of these tasks was extremely physically demanding, and even with Jia Zhengyi's exceptional stamina, he was already feeling overwhelmed.
"Radar, couldn't you at least give us a heads-up? Are you trying to scare us on purpose?!"
Xiao Linlin glared at Jia Zhengyi, who shrugged helplessly: "I was just greeting you, it's your own cowardice that's blaming me."
Compared to Xiao Linlin's panic, Su Lin's expression was much calmer; he had long suspected that Jia Zhengyi was hiding here.
Of course, it's also possible that Jia Zhengyi deliberately revealed his presence when he saw Su Lin arrive.
After Jia Zhengyi finished speaking, before Su Lin could ask any questions, he pointed in a direction: "928 meters, room 305 of the Misu Hotel, there are four people in a standoff. Two of them should be working together on a kill mission, but their raid failed."
"If the boss had arrived in time, he could have taken them all down in one fell swoop."
"Um."
Su Lin nodded, turned and left, rushing to the scene.
With more accurate location information this time, Su Lin arrived at the scene in almost a minute. The four players were evenly matched, and their brief previous encounter made them realize that they might not be able to defeat each other easily. They were trying to communicate and confirm the situation in the game while cautiously confronting each other.
As Su Lin walked down the hotel corridor, he sensed the presence of people inside through the door and decisively took action.
"Bang!!"
The Tang sword, imbued with the power of the Zhou Tian Sword Technique, forcefully broke through the door, sweeping across the room with a massive barrage of sword shadows!
Before the four players inside could figure out what was happening, they were all struck by swords in their panicked dodges, their bodies mangled into pieces, and they died on the spot!
The battle that broke out here was quite large, and given the current high level of tension among the NPC forces in the city, it's likely that nearby superhumans will arrive soon.
Su Lin realized his current situation. Just as he was about to sheathe his sword and flee to wait for the game's settlement information, the settlement came faster than he expected.
Almost the instant these four players died, a notification appeared in front of all the surviving players in the game.
[Match status changed! Only 20 players remain in the current match; the current promotion match has ended!]
[All players' current status has been frozen. Everyone is now returning to the waiting area! Awaiting promotion/rating results!]
[All currently surviving players who meet the promotion match rules can retrieve all lost items.]
As the information notification appeared, Su Lin realized that he could not move. The surrounding space seemed to be completely frozen. He could even see that the blood in the newly broken room was no longer flowing, and the shards of window glass that had just been shattered by the sword shadow were frozen in mid-air.
The entire city of superpowers came to a complete standstill in an instant!
This is by no means a talent for deception, but a genuine mechanism!
"The power of mechanisms is indeed strong and mysterious."
Su Lin silently told himself that his thinking ability was still intact, but at the same time he was absolutely certain that if the system wanted to, it would only take a moment to deprive players of their thinking ability.
Su Lin wasn't particularly surprised or shocked; he had already realized this.
Compared to the ambition and arrogance of people like Xu Zhiyi, Su Lin knew perfectly well just how powerful the mechanism was.
It could even be said that the stronger Su Lin is, the stronger the escape game's mechanics are.
How can a system that can create the strongest player be weaker than the strongest player?
Only when you stand high enough can you truly feel the terror of the system and the profound sense of powerlessness in the face of it.
Su Lin understood these things better than anyone else, so he never mentioned any topic of opposition to the mechanism, or even had the thought of it.
He also dislikes Xu Zhiyi and resists associating with people like her because he doesn't want to rebel against the system.
Or to be more precise, he didn't want the mechanism to realize it.
Out of the corner of Su Lin's eye, he saw colorful rain of light rising from below, constantly devouring and separating his body. Xiao Linlin in his arms was already motionless, like a doll.
Su Lin waited quietly until the colorful light completely engulfed him, swallowing up all the helplessness in his heart.
"The strongest me is the one with no secrets."
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