I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

The skinny man in the pointed hat whom we had met before spoke up: "Wait! There's nothing wrong with taking them to find Leizha."

"Oh Buddha, this is against the rules!"

"This is different from what was promised!"

The others started to shout, but Mofumo stood up and said, "Although they don't meet the requirements, this young man knows Leizha. Since they're friends, it's no big deal to make an exception." On his arm, where Jingyang had grabbed him earlier, there was a small, inconspicuous rose-gold pentagram pattern.

Poppo yelled, "Are you fucking out of your mind! Even if you take them there—"

Before he could finish speaking, Mofu and Jingyang looked at him together. The next moment, the fat man's words stopped abruptly in his throat, along with the noisy discussions of all the pointed-hat accomplices in the entire bar hall.

A few seconds ago, six psychic bubbles containing pentagrams quietly approached their ankles, gently touched them, and simultaneously imprinted stars on their feet.

Jingyang was too lazy to argue, so he waved his hand and said, "Let's go, lead the way."

The fat man was startled. His body seemed to move on its own, just as the guy had said, and he walked toward the gate. Not only him, but everyone else did the same, as if they were obeying the guy's every word.

"What have you done to us?!" the fat man shouted, but his feet didn't stop as he went out with the others to lead the way for the three guys.

"Shut up," Jingyang said.

The fat man was horrified to discover that he had indeed shut his mouth. No matter how hard he tried, his mouth seemed to have no control over itself, remaining completely unresponsive.

"Oh right, come back first." Jing Yang waved to the fat man and released his direct control over the skinny man in the pointed hat, Mo Fumo. Instantly, Mo Fumo regained his senses and found himself with the others heading towards the lighthouse where Lei Zha was. He broke out in a cold sweat.

The fat man obediently returned, his eyes filled with anger.

"Don't you like drinking?" Jing Yang hefted the bottle and poured it towards the fat man's mouth, spilling the remaining liquid all over his face. "Why aren't you drinking?"

“Didn’t you tell him to shut up?” Bisky said silently from the side.

“Ah, open your mouth,” Jingyang said.

The fat man, his face covered in alcohol, immediately opened his mouth. Jing Yang casually stuck the bottle neck into his mouth, patted the fat man's chubby cheeks, and said, "Let's go, keep leading the way. Don't drop the bottle, okay?"

"You're quite vengeful."

Walking behind a group of collaborators, Bisky said this.

Jingyang chuckled and said, "Hehe, so Auntie, don't offend me, I might hold a grudge!"

Speaking of grudge notebooks, Bisky remembered something and asked Drop, "What were you doing, writing and drawing in your notebooks in the back seat of Batra's car that day?"

Xiao Shi said, "I've compiled Bisky's guidance, and I plan to have another member of ours learn from it in the future."

"member?"

"Auntie Bi, do you want to join?" Jingyang asked with a smile as he walked towards the lighthouse, his hands in his pockets. "We've formed a small organization, and only elites can join."

Bisky scoffed, "Only elites can join, that sounds familiar? Oh right, the Hunter Association! I remember I'm a professional hunter, aren't I?"

Jingyang asked, "Is it okay if we take the knowledge points you taught us to show our friends?"

Bisky generously replied, "It's fine, as long as it doesn't spread everywhere, you can handle it yourselves."

She paused, glancing at the pointed-hat figures leading the way who seemed to be doing it so naturally. "The operational system is so convenient, huh? But how did you know we didn't meet any of the conditions, and how were you so sure these people knew Leizha?"

The way the skinny man in the pointed hat spoke to the fat man in the pointed hat was clearly controlled by Jing Yang, which means that the skinny man's words came from Jing Yang.

Jingyang casually replied, "I just guessed, and I accidentally guessed right."

Lying. Bisky's intuition told her, but then she thought: Even if this kid actually knew some of the tricks to finding Leiza, he could just say it outright, why lie? He doesn't seem like the type to lie all the time depending on his mood…

Before long, the lighthouse arrived.

Although it's called a lighthouse, it has actually been converted into a small fortress. Its defensive function is secondary; the main purpose is to expand the space so that Leizha can spend his time there.

Following the pointed-hat men, they went straight into the fortress, pushed open a heavy iron gate, and saw bright light shining through the cracks, revealing a huge stadium-like space inside. However, after the pointed-hat men stepped through the gate's boundary, a strange thing happened—they vanished into thin air.

"Huh?" Little Di exclaimed in surprise. She walked to the gate and peered inside. The bright gymnasium was fully equipped. It was laid out as two basketball courts, with two basketball hoops on each side. There were also volleyball nets in the middle of the court, and vaulting platforms and weightlifting barbells on the sidelines...

Apart from that, there wasn't a single other living person present. It was as if those people had vanished into thin air the moment they stepped into the stadium's lights.

Bisky said, "I see. It seems we actually found the right place for that castle we were looking for."

Jingyang strode confidently into the stadium, followed by Xiaodi and Bisky. Their footsteps echoed in the empty stadium, making the silence even more pronounced.

“Dual space,” Jingyang said. “According to Bisky, creating unique spaces and imbuing them with rules should be the domain of the materialization system.”

Xiao Di picked up a basketball and spun it rapidly. "Are people from another dimension watching us right now?"

"..." Lei Zha, with a volleyball tucked under his arm, silently watched Jing Yang and the other two who were "right in front of him," then looked down at a card in his hand: -007 'Sandbox': Game administrators can use this card to create a mirror space that can only be entered by those with the required permissions.

Chapter 250 Loss

The pointed-hat men, controlled by Jing Yang using star markers, completed their commands the instant they entered the mirrored space inside the Lighthouse Stadium. Instantly, the fat man in the pointed hat named Po Po Po shouted:

"Damn it! What did that kid do to us?!"

"Shh!" The skinny man in the pointed hat, Mofu, was horrified. Without hesitation, he jumped over and punched the fat man's greasy face, yelling, "Shut up!"

The fat man was sent flying and slammed against the gymnasium wall. Inside the brightly lit gymnasium, the other pirate members who had been exercising and playing with Lei Zha were all stunned and confused. As for the other five who had led the way in, they were all sweating profusely.

"It hurts..." The fat man slid down the wall, about to fly into a rage, but then he was horrified to notice Lei Zha's change.

"You guys..." Lei Zha still had that kind-hearted, squinting look, but when he turned to look at the fat and skinny men, his aura instantly became like a volcano about to erupt. "You've been hit by an unknown manipulation-type Nen ability, haven't you?"

The skinny man in the pointed hat, his face ashen, said, "Leizha, we can explain..."

"No need to bother."

Leizha raised his hand, and seven spheres of Nen energy flew out from his palm, transforming into seven floating Nen balls. Without hesitation, he jumped up and spiked the balls—Bang! With a loud bang, it was as if Leizha had grown seven hands, simultaneously spiking the seven Nen balls out, instantly blasting the heads of the seven pointed-hat pirates leading the way open, spraying blood mist and brain matter.

A basketball fell from his hands to the ground with a thud. The other pirates in the gymnasium, some hanging on the horizontal bar and others standing still, stared at the corpses, silent as if trembling with fear.

Anyway, these people were all death row inmates hired by him, so Leiza didn't hesitate to kill them. Who knew what rules governed their Nen manipulation abilities, or how to break them? Even the person who spoke just now was still questionable. It was easier to just kill them directly.

"Clap clap."

Lei Zha clapped his hands, squinted his eyes, and said with a warm smile, "Don't just stand there, everyone. We haven't had today's practice match yet, have we?"

……

"what happened to you?"

On the way out of the lighthouse fortress, it was getting late. Bisky noticed Jing Yang's momentary absent-mindedness and couldn't help but ask, "You... could see the real scene inside the lighthouse through the people you controlled, right?"

Jingyang nodded and said, "That's right."

Bisky laughed and asked, "Is this the Leiza you're looking for?"

"Have."

"Judging from your expression, do you have some idea of ​​how to get in?"

"That's about right, let me think about it some more..."

Xiao Di then reached out and touched Jing Yang's chest, asking, "Are the people who led the way dead?"

Looking at the death energy that had suddenly drifted over and transformed into 7 points on the death energy panel, Jing Yang exclaimed, "What a decisive squinty-eyed guy!" As he spoke, he casually allocated 2 points of the 7 points of death energy to the transformation type, instantly raising his aptitude to 91.3%. Now there was only one type left to improve, as the other types had already reached 100% and could not be improved any further. He felt like he had lost out.

Bisky, unfazed, said, "It's normal to keep your distance from those whose abilities you don't know. You should keep your distance even more from those who have clearly been affected by unknown manipulation-type Nen abilities."

Seeing that Jingyang and Xiaodi were looking over, Bisky spread her hands and said, "Just kill them directly. This distance is the safest."

“That makes sense,” Jingyang said.

-

“I saw that there was more than just Leiza in the stadium; there were quite a few other guys dressed like athletes. Plus, the stadium was a place that didn’t quite fit the island’s atmosphere, so I had a guess…”

"What guess?"

"If Leizha is acting as the boss of a game level, then the game setting to trigger meeting him is probably related to the stadium venue—for example, playing a sports game with him. Since it's a basketball game, we probably have to play a basketball game. And if we have to play a basketball game, he must limit the number of players, at least enough to make a proper 5v5, right? The fact that the three of us can't get in means we probably don't have enough players."

“There are four.” Xiao Di suddenly interjected, tearing off her tiger-skin skirt and throwing it to the ground beside her.

The tiger-skin skirt fluttered in mid-air, transforming into a crescent-white tiger. The stripes on its body shimmered faintly in the pale moonlight. The beast, weighing hundreds of pounds, landed lightly and silently, displaying the agility of a feline.

Bisky exclaimed, "No wonder she's one of the Seven Beauties, those markings are truly beautiful."

“There are five.” Jing Yang looked up and saw that the little rock sparrow had flown off somewhere again. After a while, it flapped its wings and flew back under the moonlight.

Bisky asked, "Now that we have five, shall we go back and try again?"

Jingyang knew that five were not enough, but he did not object. He took Wu Er, who had deactivated his transformation, grabbed Yan Que, and returned with Xiao Di and Bisky to the Lighthouse Fortress. However, the stadium was still empty, as if no one lived there.

In the mirror space, seeing them return with only a tiger and a sparrow, Lei Zha, clutching a volleyball, thought to himself, "Did they already guess there was a number requirement? They gathered five people; did they think it was a basketball game?"

As the game administrator, Leizha naturally knew that the Miserable Moon Tiger and the bird were both players from Greed Island.

It wasn't that he had checked any backend systems, but rather that more than a month ago, Yida, the administrator of the entrance, had complained about this strange thing in the internal communication channel between Tiger and Little Sparrow after Tiger and Little Sparrow logged in.

Arantelle Blanchett's sudden return to the island seems to be related to this group of people who were playing games and even walking birds and tigers...

……

"It still didn't work."

"Maybe it's not basketball. — Or maybe it's not five people."

Leaving the Lighthouse Fortress once more, Bisky pondered, "Speaking of which, how does the game determine how many of us came?"

Xiao Di asked, "Should we arrange for someone to observe from the shadows?"

Neither of them plays video games much, so they are unfamiliar with the items and related settings, and have no interest in them whatsoever.

Jingyang called out "BOOK," opened the card collection book, and said, "It's a spell card. The 'Companion' spell card can take your companions to a designated destination. If the number of players flying in wrapped in the same 'Companion' spell reaches the requirement, it should trigger the game's settings and open a level."

“I see…” Bisky nodded. “Want to give it a try?”

Xiao Di said, "Then we'll need to find more people, 10... 20?"

“There’s only one card available, and only one chance,” Jingyang said. “We have to use it sparingly.”

Bisky said, "That's easy, just borrow a few more."

She pointed with her thumb to the town of Shoufulabi not far away, "Isn't the town and this island littered with game cartridges?"

Xiao Di nodded in agreement.

Jing Yang said, "It's easy to gather enough people, but the key is to compete. Although we don't know what Lei Zha's challenge will be, it's always good to be prepared. I'd better take advantage of that time to fully improve the Nen Beast's abilities to ensure everything goes smoothly. We'll try to beat this boss in one go."

Little Drop nodded in agreement.

Bisky remained impassive, but inwardly she wondered: He's lying again. But what's the point of lying? Could it be that this kid… is actually quite certain that Leiza's test is indeed a sports competition? If so, why can't he just say it? Why does he have to lie so veiledly?