Immortal I Speedrun Supernatural Game

Chapter 531 All power is the source of evil.

Gulu gulu——

"Hoo... Ah!"

Bai Cha wakes up in the Rebirth Pool, the closest pool to where she drowned.

She was still wearing the same female secretary uniform as before, and there wasn't even a trace of moisture left after she came out of the pool; even her hair remained dry.

This is a characteristic of the [Rebirth Pool].

Those who are resurrected will appear in their previous state. It is said that the water in the pool will not wet their clothes because of the effect of the "Eternal Life Field". The residents of the Eternal City firmly believe that the water in the "Rebirth Pool" is a special existence, and that such a slightly counterintuitive phenomenon is within the realm of reason.

After tidying up her slightly messy hair, Bai Cha left the area of ​​the [Rebirth Pool] and went out onto the street to hail a taxi to the nearest law enforcement branch.

She now needs to ascertain Lord Yan Shuangying's situation.

Before dying, Bai Cha clearly heard another person's voice besides Lord Yan Shuangying speaking to her.

That proves that Lord Yan Shuangying's decision was correct.

I did attract someone.

I really hope that the person who comes is the missing Sakura.

The thought of being able to help in these cases made Bai Cha feel slightly excited.

Watching the cars coming and going, she walked to the roadside and waved for a taxi.

However, the moment the hand was extended...

A dark figure with a veiled face suddenly appeared in front of her, grabbing her hand with an overwhelming force that was impossible to break free from. Startled, Bai Cha instinctively tried to kick the other person away with her high heels.

But only a moment later, just as he lifted his foot, the veiled figure vanished without a trace.

It was as if the contact just now was just my own illusion.

But Bai Cha discovered that on the little finger of her outstretched hand, there was a simple ring, as black as ink, without any extra patterns.

"This is... what that guy forced me to put on it?"

The white tea seems a bit strange.

The sudden appearance and disappearance of that veiled shadow was clearly beyond the capabilities of technology; virtual projections cannot touch humans.

Without a doubt, this is some kind of supernatural ability.

In the Eternal City, anyone with this ability can only be a heretic!
The thought of being forced to wear the ring by a heretic made Bai Cha immediately realize that there must be something wrong with it.

My immediate instinct was to take it off to avoid getting it covered in any strange dirt.

Unexpectedly, while turning the ring to pull it out...

The car speeding along the road in front of Bai Cha suddenly stopped in a bizarre instant.

The sudden braking caused the vehicles behind to swerve sharply to avoid it.

Fortunately, drivers in the Eternal City are required to adhere to their professional status and will never exceed the speed limit by even the slightest bit, and they must always maintain a safe distance from the vehicle in front.

Therefore, no traffic accidents occurred.

But the car behind it swerved and almost hit the white tea bushes on the side of the road.

This interrupted her from taking off the ring.

call--

When Bai Cha's hand was no longer on the ring, the car that had abruptly stopped returned to normal.

It shot off in an instant, completely out of line with the acceleration that didn't start from zero.

It was as if it had always maintained this speed and had never been stopped.

This unusual occurrence naturally did not escape Bai Cha's notice.

She looked at her hand, or rather, the ring on it, with disbelief.

"What on earth is this?!"

It seems to be to verify a suspicion in one's mind.

The white tea's breathing became heavy.

She picked up a small stone from under the tree stump and threw it sharply between the branches.

Startled by the pebbles, the bird hiding among the branches quickly flapped its wings and took flight.

Just then, Bai Cha swiftly turned the ring and aimed it at the bird that was taking off.

hum-

At that moment, Bai Cha witnessed an unbelievable scene.

She saw the bird suspended in mid-air.

That's right, it's not simply that it stopped flapping its wings, but that it was frozen in mid-air, like a sticker that didn't fit into its surroundings.

Perhaps they were worried that others would notice this and treat them as heretics.

Bai Cha immediately loosened the ring and let the bird fly away.

She felt her heart beating faster and faster, like a child who had discovered some treasure and was about to hide it away.

Of course, Bai Cha didn't intend to hide this thing and keep it for himself.

Instead, he planned to take it to Lord Yan Shuangying for a look.

Perhaps we can find more clues about heresy from it.

Just as she was thinking this and about to leave, a loud commotion not far from the street caught her attention.

call--

A pillar of fire, as thick as a water bucket, shot into the sky, like a roaring fire dragon announcing its arrival to the world.

But at the tail of the fire dragon was a young boy who was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground.

He stared blankly at the fire dragon that spewed from his hand, swallowing hard before noticing the strange looks from those around him.

This immediately made the boy feel scared.

As normal residents of the Eternal City, everyone is afraid of being labeled as a heretic by others, especially law enforcement.

In this situation, he's like someone who's swallowing a bitter pill—he has no way to express his suffering.

He quickly covered his hands with the cloth in the corner of his clothes, and the fire dragon disappeared from public view. The boy lowered his head and quickly hid in an alley with fewer pedestrians.

This action did not escape Bai Cha's notice.

She could clearly see that the boy was wearing a jet-black ring on his finger that was exactly the same as hers.

They also noticed that many people on the street had strange expressions.

It seems they are trying their best to cover something up.

None of them chose to immediately report the abnormalities that occurred to law enforcement.

At that moment, Bai Cha realized it.

The veiled figure was handing out a large number of jet-black rings to ordinary residents of the Eternal City at an extremely fast pace.

Thinking of this, Bai Cha almost subconsciously wanted to take off the ring and get away from this heretical thing.

However, the image of the fire dragon roaring and soaring into the sky just now kept replaying in her mind.

If, before I could report the situation to Lord Yan Shuangying, I encountered someone else with a similar black ring on the way...

Unable to determine the power of their rings, and knowing that if he were killed, he wouldn't be able to return for another 24 hours.

Nobody knows what the heretics will do in these 24 hours.

I must report the situation no matter what, so that Lord Yan Shuangying will realize the seriousness of the problem!
Therefore, before meeting Lord Yan Shuangying.

Perhaps using this ring properly is a good way to protect oneself.

Bai Cha's gaze grew increasingly firm, yet a hint of excitement lingered beneath.

She waved again to flag down a taxi and headed to her destination...

People with honest ideas like Bai Cha are actually a minority.

Although the residents of the Eternal City are mostly kind.

Everyone abides by the laws of social order and adheres to their social identity and professional ethics.

In their daily interactions, they rarely even argue.

But that's because everyone knows very well that pointless arguments will only escalate the conflict, and once the conflict escalates to physical violence or even killing, there is absolutely no way to escape the pursuit of law enforcement.

Since that's the case, we might as well endure it. Anyway, none of us will die.

Even when they occasionally encounter unpleasant situations, the residents will endure it and pretend that nothing has happened.

This may explain why shows like "Suicide Show," which encourage the unbridled expression of one's true nature, are so popular.

However, everything changed starting today.

Most of the people who were given the black ring encountered people they used to hate in their daily lives, or bosses they had long disliked, while they were in hiding.

For the first time, the thought, "How dare he treat me like this? How could he dare to do this to me!" popped into my mind.

The reason is simple: because the ring is on my hand.

This made them feel inexplicably safe.

Power is the source of all evil.

This applies to both power and fists.

The reason why Wu Wang was certain that this phenomenon would occur from the beginning was that he was already very familiar with it.

Because that's just how reality is.

The heretics in Eternal City are equivalent to the players of the Spirit Disaster in the real world before the open beta. Wu Wang's act of distributing the Black Ring is equivalent to giving them an alternative opportunity for the open beta.

He firmly believed that evil constitutes a large proportion of human nature.

There will definitely be people who, once they gain power, will want to "stop eating beef".

Without the constraints of a special organization like the Bureau of Extraordinary Events, even residents of the Eternal City who intend to use this ability to become superhumans would quickly be converted into Homelanders.

The number of deceased residents being received in the Rebirth Pool is starting to increase...

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This side of the art warehouse.

The situation between the two sides has reached a very awkward stalemate.

A huge rectangular table sits in the center of the warehouse; this is the workbench that Huixin once used to create a medium-length epic.

Ten heretics, who had been killed and resurrected countless times, stood on the left side of the square table, their eyes filled with rage as they stared intently at the group of players opposite them.

Well, to be precise, most people's attention was on Wu Wang, the only one among the three who was sitting with his legs crossed and had found a chair to sit on.

Yes, the two sides have temporarily stopped fighting.

The reason was that the heretics were coordinating well, with some harassing and others attacking, and even some heretics specifically for defense. In addition, there was a temporary "resurrection pool" as a respawn point. It looked like a pentagonal team fighting a team battle.

Unexpectedly, one of the players cheated.

When metal objects were manipulated to pierce the players' bodies, Wu Wang held peanuts in front of him with one hand to block them; when the wind pressure was adjusted and concentrated to the point of almost tearing flesh apart, Wu Wang used peanuts to block them; when the ground began to change unpredictably between the mud and the rocks, and even occasionally protruded with sharp spikes, Wu Wang did not hesitate to step on peanuts as a foothold...

The key is that there are also female superheroes like Yingluo among the players, who have no fancy tricks and are purely high in stats.

If the heretic's power isn't strong enough when they unleash it, their fate will be the same as the man whose neck was snapped by Sakura's punch through the stone wall at the beginning.

This is very embarrassing.

The heretic's abilities weren't strong enough, so he was brutally killed. If his abilities were stronger, Wu would have used Peanut as a meat shield.

He seemed certain that the heretics wouldn't dare actually kill Peanut.

The situation has deteriorated to the point where it's impossible to continue!

"Hehe, keep going! It's only been a few minutes. Your bait should be able to fool the [City System] for a while longer, right?" Wu Wang chuckled.

As he said this, he still held the peculiar [Delite Blade] against Peanut's neck, as if he would ruthlessly destroy Peanut if the other dared to make any rash moves.

"You bastard! You don't look like a law enforcer at all! Legendary? Disgusting! Despicable!" Peanut gritted her teeth and forced out her dissatisfaction.

Even Yingluo and Huixin, who were standing next to her, scratched their faces a little embarrassed.

Wu Wang shrugged indifferently and said, "So what? Why do you curse like you're being coquettish? Where's the aggression? You don't even mention your female ancestors or body parts, so why are you cursing people?"

Do you want me to teach you how to swear?

It looks like Wu Wang is about to "point his little finger and start rapping".

The long-haired woman leading the heretics said with a dark face, "Name your terms. What will it take for you to return the peanuts to us?"

Wu Wang raised an eyebrow and chuckled, "So you're going to use force first and then courtesy? You don't know anything about courtesy, you just know you can't win."

"You want to reconcile now? At this very moment? Are you kidding me?"

After saying that, he raised his hand to stick the dagger into the peanut's head.

Everyone was terrified by Wu Wang's sudden action, their hearts pounding in their throats.

After all, there was a previous instance where this guy opened the door, said a few words, and then beheaded the heretic who controlled the insects.

Who knows what this guy is thinking right now.

The heretics no longer regarded him as a normal resident of the Eternal City, but as a complete madman.

"Don't hit me! Let's talk this out!"

The heretics shouted to stop them.

It seems too late to unleash the heretical abilities in his hands.

Just at this critical moment, Peanut's expression suddenly froze, and the instant the dagger fell on his hair, he vanished into thin air in front of Wu Wang.

Instead, a familiar face appeared.

"Ah...where is this?"

"Hmm!? Lord Yan Shuangying!"

Bai Cha stared blankly at the dagger hanging in front of her, then exclaimed to Wu Wang, who raised an eyebrow in slight confusion.

She remembered getting into a taxi, and then feeling a bit sleepy in the car. Just as she was about to close her eyes and rest, she suddenly felt something unusual, as if someone was calling her softly.

When Bai Cha tried to look around to see where the sound was coming from, she found that the surrounding environment had changed instantly, and she was now standing here.

"Got it! Let's get out of here!"

The long-haired woman spoke loudly.

The next second, to prevent Wu Wang and the others from having any means of tracking them, the person controlling the metal directly pierced the temples of all the heretics with a sharp blade.

They planned to die and be resurrected in the temporary "rebirth pool" before sinking back into the mini-city.

However, before the last heretic died, he saw that Wu Wang's face showed no anger or resentment, except for some confusion.

Instead, he revealed a mysterious smile.

It was as if everything was still under his control.

"Hey! What do we do next? Should we go out and chase after them?" Yingluo asked, shaking Wu Wang's shoulder.

Wu Wang retrieved the dagger.

The white tea looked up and down, still not quite understanding the situation.

He said calmly, "No need. The peanuts weren't taken away by them. I know what I'm doing."

"Now an even more interesting question has arisen: be quiet, I'm grilling."

Huixin couldn't help but whisper, "It's thinking..."

The more interesting question Wu Wang raised was naturally the matter of peanuts being replaced with white tea.

The reason the know-it-all is at a disadvantage is because of Alexander's heretical ability to swap the location of a target without any warning.

She mentioned this ability to Wu Wang during the process of making the black ring, but Wu Wang already had a way to deal with it.

Therefore, he could confidently say that although the peanuts had been swapped, they were definitely not yet in the hands of the heretical organization.

But according to his and the all-knowing's analysis.

Alexander's swap requires something related to the target itself as a prerequisite for casting the spell.

For example, the Substitute Soil that the All-Knowing Person used was the one Alexander used to swap her original body with.

Based on this conclusion—

What is the connection between white tea and peanuts?

All eyes were on Bai Cha, who was completely clueless and looked as dumbfounded as a little white rabbit that had fallen into a wolf's den.

It made her feel really uneasy...

(End of this chapter)