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The friendliness almost made the black-haired youth wary.

He couldn't help but ask, "Fan Xiao, you wouldn't be... doubting me, would you?"

“No, that’s not true,” Fan Xiao said. “Apart from not revealing your hidden purpose, everything you said is the truth. You can’t fool me without the protection of an S-rank item in the dungeon.”

"If that's the case, why do I feel... that you still harbor hostility towards me?" the black-haired youth asked.

"You're overthinking it. If I were hostile towards you, I would have made my move now."

Fan Xiao spoke the truth.

After saying that, he took out another coin from the player's storage space and tossed it into the air.

This A-level dungeon has sealed the right to use items, otherwise he could have used "King of Imagination" to directly create coins and throw them... It was really good to have prepared some coins in the storage space in advance.

Soon, the coin fell and hit the ground.

Ignoring the slight furrow in the brow of the black-haired youth opposite him, Fan Xiao tossed another coin.

*Clang*—The coin landed on the ground. Fan Xiao looked up at the black-haired youth and gently shook his head, saying, "Both are heads... Xiao Zhuang, you're not being honest."

"...What information has been confirmed this time?" the black-haired youth asked curiously.

"What you said still makes me quite willing to believe you."

Fan Xiao laughed and said, "But you're a cunning old fox, so I always have to be careful around you. These two coins confirm two things."

"The first thing I did was to confirm whether you were using our conversation as a cover to get close to me and plot your hidden agenda."

"The second thing is that I confirmed whether your hidden purpose is related to my S-rank psionic power."

At this point, he pointed to the two coins lying quietly on the ground: "Look, they're both heads. This means that both of these things objectively exist, proving that you were talking to me while you were doing your dirty tricks."

"Flipping a coin is too childish, Fan Xiao. Don't you think it's possible that this is just a simple coincidence, and you're overinterpreting it?"

The black-haired youth had no idea whether Fan Xiao was bluffing him.

He often uses this tactic—first, he deceives the other party by claiming he possesses a skill to distinguish truth from falsehood, and then, at a crucial moment, he pretends to have seen through their scheme to test whether they actually have any malicious intent.

Whether Fan Xiao's ability to distinguish between real and fake coins is genuine, he has no idea.

So... he didn't reveal any flaws.

"Xiao Zhuang, do you know what it means to be too clever for your own good?" Fan Xiao chuckled. "Do you think it's possible that I could actually decide the outcome by flipping a coin?"

Black-haired young man: "..."

Fan Xiao continued, "I'm quite curious about your hidden purpose. What exactly is it that requires close contact with me to accomplish?"

"..."

The black-haired youth sighed softly, "Alright, I've lost this round. But... what I said before, just as you confirmed, is true. I hope you can think about it carefully."

“You lost…and then what?” Fan Xiao asked.

"To be honest, I'm a little scared of your bizarre ability to confirm information out of thin air. I'm so scared that I'm not even confident in my own memory-sealing methods anymore."

The black-haired youth laughed and said, "Although it's a bit of a pity, my counterpart can only die."

He sighed and said, "As for hiding your target... there's no rush. Perhaps you'll come looking for me when you've figured it out in the future."

"Tsk tsk, another misleading 'truth-lies' story. Looks like your hidden purpose has been successful," Fan Xiao said. "Now you're thinking about how to make a discreet exit, right?"

"..."

The black-haired youth dared not speak again.

Fan Xiao... is a bit difficult to deal with!

Dealing with intelligent people who have their own set of standards for judgment is indeed troublesome.

Moreover, Fan Xiao must have used the sophisticated trick of "only telling part of the truth to mislead and create lies" quite often, otherwise... the other party would have realized it as soon as he used it, which shows that he is extremely experienced.

It's impossible to fool this type of person.

Inside the palace, the two gazed at each other silently.

The initially peaceful atmosphere gradually became tense.

At one point, snap—Fan Xiao tossed another coin.

Regardless of Dr. Zhuang's hidden purpose, if the prerequisite for its completion is "close and prolonged contact with him"... then as long as all the counterparts that the other party sent into the instance are eliminated before the instance ends and closes, so that the other party cannot transmit anything, this hidden purpose should be thwarted.

Fan Xiao used luck to confirm the correctness of this prediction.

The coin landed... heads up.

feasible!

"Xiao Zhuang, I can respond to your invitation now."

Fan Xiao grinned and said, "Whether it's the Living Tribunal, One Wing, Mammon, Zoroastrianism, or any other superorganism, it doesn't matter to me...

"Your ideas are yours, not mine, so why should I choose one of you?"

"What an arrogant thought! Can't I... build one myself?"

You're the arrogant one, aren't you... Even with Dr. Zhuang's composure, he couldn't help but feel a little speechless at this moment.

He said no more.

The next instant, his figure vanished from the spot—not because he was attacked, but because he simply disappeared on his own.

"It's just a clone..."

Fan Xiao immediately deduced the intelligence.

He had already witnessed Dr. Zhuang's psychic abilities at node G06—the ability to split one's mind to create clones with different kinds of psychic powers.

This psychic power can be used by every Dr. Zhuang counterpart.

Its clones and its original body are difficult to distinguish... or rather, there is no difference between the clones and the original body at all, and they can be interchanged at any time.

"The boss of this instance is the Speaker. The other members of the Twilight Council are all players who entered the instance with me. These people know this instance very well, and with the Speaker opening a back door for them... it's very easy for them to clear the instance and leave."

"Dr. Zhuang probably had this idea in mind: to exit quickly in this way and then leave the G08 node with his results."

Fan Xiao quickly deduced Dr. Zhuang's escape method, without even needing to flip a coin to confirm it.

No matter what results Dr. Zhuang obtains from him, we must not let him take them away smoothly.

When it comes to matters of S-rank psionic energy, no matter how small, he must handle them with the utmost rigor!

Fortunately, he is now able to handle this matter.

During his previous conversation with Dr. Zhuang, he intentionally or unintentionally inquired about the members of the Twilight Council, not out of mere curiosity—he was preparing for an unexpected event!

Dr. Zhuang was unaware of the characteristics of his abilities, so he revealed all the information about the core members of the Twilight Council without much suspicion.

This is the flaw!

Before this, because Dr. Zhuang used the "Jade Record" to fuse the fates of other people, he was unable to lock onto the identity of the corresponding person and thus could not perform the "Inevitable Annihilation Judgment".

Now... hey, things are different.

Chapter 761 My name is Fan Xiao, and I am already dead.

Fan Xiao acted almost immediately upon thinking of something.

The next second, he cleared his mental energy to its "limit capacity" and launched "Judgment of Inevitable Annihilation" against Savage, an A-level player from Division 007.

That is, the person he was just chatting with.

Some time has passed since he obtained the psychic power "Thoughts of the Four Worlds," and a considerable amount of spiritual power has accumulated in his "Creative World."

In other words, when he fights now, he doesn't use the real-time mental energy of the "Palu"s, but rather the reserves he's accumulated over the past few days.

These reserves should be more than enough to allow him to wipe out the entire Twilight Council using his "tycoon" fighting style.

"When something is out of sight, its effectiveness is indeed much weaker."

Soon, Vanshaw discovered that he could see less of Savage's impending death in his future than he could see in Duke Kane's.

However... he doesn't need to see the instant-death amount that could instantly dissolve the opponent.

Given the current situation, it wouldn't be difficult to kill the other party if a few more trials were conducted.

Next, there's the messenger, Sin Sanger; Javier Celen of the Celen royal family; Sassoon, the leader of the emerging capital group... He won't let any of the other eleven people, excluding Savage, go.

Because he doesn't yet know who the other half of the members who came into the instance are.

He was too lazy to use his luck to confirm this.

If you directly target everyone with several rounds of "inevitable annihilation judgment," all the Twilight Council members who enter the instance will definitely die.

As for the members outside... he was not yet sure whether the effect of "Judgment of Destruction" could penetrate the Supreme Lockdown after the instance was opened.

We can only wait until we clear the dungeon and go outside before we can carry out several rounds of trials.

We can't let a single one escape!

……

Under a gloomy and oppressive sky, a set of stone table and chairs is placed in front of an ancient-style pavilion with upturned eaves at four corners.

Savage, who was sitting quietly on the stone chair with his eyes closed, opened his eyes a second later, revealing a hint of helplessness. He sighed softly, "The plan was only half successful. Fan Xiao ultimately chose to delve into our hidden purpose, and I'm sure he'll be here soon."

Upon hearing this, the other five people sitting around the stone table showed different expressions.

Some were helpless, some were disappointed, some were angry... while others remained expressionless, like still water in a deep well.

These five people are the core members of the Twilight Council who entered the instance this time, apart from Duke Kane and Savage: the handsome long-haired Speaker, Javier Siren of the Siren Royal Family of Division 001, Sassoon, the leader of emerging capital in Division 001, Valentine, a high-ranking member of the Celestial Church, and Quentin Pompeii, the lord of Pompeii City in Division 002.

Among them, Quentin Pompeii is the most fierce-looking one, the strongest player in Division 002, and the only one among the five to show an angry expression.

They are all isotopes of Dr. Zhuang.

However, they also retain some of their original personality traits.

Quentin Pompeii said in a deep voice, "This Fan Xiao is really ungrateful! He keeps focusing on such petty personal gains and has absolutely no sense of the bigger picture!"

“That’s not how it works,” Valentine shook his head. “We can’t expect everyone to have the noble spirit of dedicating themselves to the greater good.”

"Is the collection complete?" Sassoon asked the black-haired youth, Savage.

“It’s finished,” Savage replied. “It’s a blessing in disguise that Vanshaw was willing to patiently listen to me; it gave me enough time to collect the materials. However…”

His tone turned serious as he said, "Completing the collection doesn't mean we've won. At this stage, Fan Xiao already possesses the strength to kill Duke Kane in one blow. If he finds us, probably none of us will escape."

"Don't panic, he won't be that fast. We have copy permissions to help us cheat and appear here. If Fan Xiao wants to find us, he'll have to go through all the previous steps."

Javier Hillen said, "However... we really can't underestimate him. After all, he's an S-class psionic potential user. We need to hurry up and finish this level and leave."

"It's time to leave."

Savage nodded.

Although they had the chairman, who was the dungeon boss, to help them cheat by opening a back door, they still had to go through the most basic procedures to clear the dungeon.

This is considered the "basic difficulty" of an A-level dungeon—even with the help of the dungeon boss to cheat, players cannot avoid the content that is considered basic difficulty.

This rule applies to all "player-controlled instances".

Even Van Chau's "Fairy Tale Kingdom" could not avoid it.

"Let's go, it's time to wash away our sins."

Savage got up from the stone bench as he spoke.

Then... a look of extreme pain suddenly appeared on his face, and his body became like a video that couldn't keep up with the decoding speed, becoming choppy and flickering, with some body parts even disappearing out of thin air.

"Ok?"

The other five people noticed this and immediately began to help Savage.

Unfortunately... it wasn't very effective.

About seven or eight seconds later, Savage fell to the ground.

Shortly after he fell to the ground, his mutilated body seemed to be attacked again, and it dissolved directly in place.

This scene startled the other five people, who simultaneously took defensive stances.

Their mental power was mobilized at high speed, and they all unleashed the damaged version of the Limit Breaker Longinus.

The spears formed by the three major interference domains provide them with protection on three levels: conceptual, spiritual, and material—an ultimate defense created by constantly attacking the surrounding spacetime.