Chapter 31

"Did... someone just shout for surrender?" Chu Ci rubbed his ears, which were still ringing from the gunshots, and thought to himself. But before he could finish his thought, Cheng Rui called out loudly from behind, instantly dispelling his musings.

"Uncle, come here quickly."

Chu Ci glanced at the few women who had not yet left. Although he felt sympathy for their plight over the past few days, his absolute rationality made him choose not to approach them. Without giving them any hope, there would be no disputes, a lesson he had learned from his long experience in society.

"Xiao Rui, what's wrong?" Chu Ci stood behind Cheng Rui, who was holding a telescope and looking at something with a worried expression.

"Dad, Uncle, look, there's my dad!"

Chu Ci looked in the direction of Cheng Rui's telescope, feeling puzzled. That direction was the munitions factory, and he remembered that there were only a few Caucasians (poor 007, directly ignored by Chu Ci as one of the Caucasians) and that annoyingly handsome cycle player. When did Cheng's dad get mixed up in there?

Lifting the telescope, Chu Ci scanned the munitions factory while asking Cheng Rui for the location.

"There, there, right there!"

When Cheng Rui got excited, she couldn't explain clearly. If you say "there, there," how can I ask "where, where"? Chu Ci rolled his eyes and asked a more specific question.

"What is your dad doing?"

"The one throwing things to smash the women."

This time, Chu Ci found his target: a blonde, muscular German man with a shiny, leopard-like physique. At the moment, the handsome man was bare-chested, holding a crude explosive package and continuously throwing it over the wall. He had a sea anchor tattooed on his chest, looking strong and full of vitality.

"Xiao Rui, are you a mixed-race child?" Chu Ci's expression was very strange.

"No."

"But he's a Caucasian."

"But he is my dad." Cheng Rui didn't see any problem with this.

Chu Ci looked at Cheng Rui's innocent face, and various scenarios popped into his head: stepfather, the neighbor's old Wang, the backup plan. Fortunately, his rationality quickly suppressed these thoughts, and he decided to confirm Cheng Rui's identity again.

"That's your dad, and you remember the strange thing on his chest." Cheng Rui confidently assured him that she hadn't made a mistake.

"Got it. Let's see which female warrior your dad is struggling to fend off." Chu Ci smiled helplessly and raised the telescope again to observe the battle.

Ah, halftime?

Chu Ci saw that the battle had already ended. The female warrior, armed with metal weapons, had withdrawn, and the people in the munitions factory were cleaning up the battlefield, bandaging the wounded. They looked more like a united group than the few alliances Chu Ci had encountered before.

Not bad, they have strong cohesion, Chu Ci praised. Could this be the work of Cheng's stepfather (after the mental theater, Chu Ci directly demoted Cheng's dad to stepfather)?

As he scanned, Chu Ci immediately recognized a familiar yet strange face—James Bond!

He was familiar because James Bond had spent seven days with Chu Ci. He was strange because the secret agent 007 had now become a migrant worker 007, looking dirty and unkempt, with his handsome middle-aged face wrapped in a gray, dirty cloth from his left ear to his neck, apparently hit by stray bullets.

Chu Ci felt ashamed.

He had watched for so long and hadn't noticed. 007 must have been lightly injured and taken off the line; otherwise, he would have seen him.

Chu Ci shamelessly shifted the blame to Bond.

"Let's go, find your stepdad!" Since Bond was there, Chu Ci had no other choice. It was best to join up with 007 early. Facing the superpowered Gao Yuan and the female warrior who attacked the munitions factory alone, Chu Ci increasingly felt that being a walking ammunition depot wasn't very safe.

"What's a stepdad?" Cheng Rui's innocent mind couldn't understand this complex term.

"Uh, it's kind of like a dad." Chu Ci was stumped and mumbled to the child.

On the way, Chu Ci kept muttering, hoping 007 wouldn't die too soon. He also criticized the organizers of the killing game for letting these superpowered people in. Isn't this like putting wolves in a sheep pen? Of course, Chu Ci habitually ignored the fact that his walking ammunition depot could also be considered a bug-level superpower.

...

"Manager, the spatial ability user is heading to Area A1." The organizers, criticized by Chu Ci, were also troubled by this tough opponent.

"Area A1, that's where the most participants are. Does this guy still not have enough kills?" The man in the military uniform also felt very difficult. According to the game rules, if Chu Ci shouted "game over," the surrounding nanobots would issue a command, and a platform would rise from the ground where Chu Ci was, isolating him from the island until the helicopter arrived to take him away.

But Chu Ci was neither obedient nor willing to quit. The game had only been going on for four days, and he had already killed over a hundred people. How could this still be entertaining for the audience?

Sure enough, the man in the military uniform received a complaint next.

"Manager, Mr. P wants to speak with you."

The man in the military uniform connected the communication and, as expected, was scolded and ordered to immediately restore the game's normal order.

"Manager, what should we do?" An employee cautiously approached, afraid of provoking the man's anger.

Fortunately, the man, as a leader, had some tolerance and did not vent his anger on his subordinates. After several cups of coffee and a dozen cigars, he finally came up with a plan.

"How many enhancers are still unclaimed?"

"Eight."

"Activate the built-in control of the island's ecological system and expose the locations of the eight enhancers. Then increase the interference of the dimensional system and strengthen the spatial disturbance. I don't believe eight enhanced individuals can't deal with this suppressed spatial ability user."

...

Chu Ci had no idea that the so-called spatial lockdown was actually a technological suppression in this cycle world. The information was captured by the main space and became a game-like player prompt. In fact, the main space's authority was much greater than that of a single cycle world, so it easily overcame the cycle world's technological suppression.

Dimensional system spatial disturbance? Chu Ci felt nothing.

Instead, the direction of the munitions factory was filled with intense explosions and gunfire again. It seemed the halftime break was over, and the second half of the match had begun.

Chu Ci didn't know the situation there. On the third day of the game, Yin Yihan had confronted the group occupying the munitions factory, led by Bond. She was almost ready to claim this place for herself. The thought of it made her extremely agitated, with countless cats scratching at her heart, making her restless.

Because of her stubbornness, after recharging and restocking her ammunition, Yin Yihan rushed to the munitions factory, ignoring the new cycle player inside, determined to go all out.

Her complex attack strategy frightened the people inside. If she was this aggressive before even reaching them, they would surely be killed if she did.

Bond unexpectedly found that the cohesion of this small team had become unprecedentedly strong under the immense pressure from Yin Yihan. They worked together, some providing gunfire, others throwing explosive packages, some cooking, and others processing explosives. Regardless of gender, everyone exerted their full potential, repelling Yin Yihan multiple times over the day and night.

By the fourth day, no one had failed to notice the munitions factory, but in the intense bombardment, everyone knew better than to interfere.

Thus, when the man in the military uniform decided to expose all the enhancer locations, he encountered an awkward situation. In Area A1 (the munitions factory), only two enhancers existed. One was taken by Gao Yuan, and the other...

Ah, what's this?

Chu Ci looked around, finding nothing unusual, and then stroked his chin, examining the tree hollow in front of him.

The tree hollow was clearly man-made. If he ignored its sudden transformation from a small, vine-covered entrance to a large, truck-sized hollow, Chu Ci could consider it a favor.

"Is it because I've killed too many people, and the organizers are unhappy, planning to take me away?" Chu Ci couldn't help but think this, as if he were at the top of a kill leaderboard in the game.

"No, I can't leave yet." Chu Ci changed direction, intending to bypass the suspicious tree hollow.

"Uncle, is this an exit?" Cheng Rui suddenly asked innocently, immediately making Chu Ci realize.

Right, ending the game requires shouting to the sky; a tree hollow wouldn't appear for no reason. After making this judgment, Chu Ci decisively walked into the tree hollow. Inside, the space was not as large as he imagined. In the roughly thirty-square-meter hollow, there were only a few bags of jerky and a few bottles of fitness drinks, plus a metal cooling box.

When Chu Ci picked up the cooling box, many people outside groaned.

"Pete, were you thrown by the midwife five times and dropped four times? Why did you expose the enhancer location in front of the spatial ability user!" The man in the military uniform almost hit his subordinate.

"Ma... Manager, I..."

Pete was innocent. The enhancer locations were fixed. Could he have expected to deliver the enhancer hundreds of meters into the munitions factory? The spatial ability user finding it was purely accidental.

"Be more careful next time." The man in the military uniform struggled to control his anger, reminding himself that as a leader, he shouldn't show unstable emotions to his subordinates. He then released Pete and tried to use a more peaceful tone to warn him to be more careful in the future.

"Manager, what should we do next?" Another employee, though reluctant to provoke trouble, knew the problem needed to be addressed.

The man in the military uniform thought for a moment, feeling very troubled. After all, this was a spatial ability user. If he... Ah! The man suddenly realized he was overthinking. A superpowered individual could have only one superpower, and he wasn't afraid of Chu Ci using the enhancer.

Thinking of this, the man immediately calmed down and shared his discovery with his subordinates, earnestly warning them to stay humble and not panic...

The man in the military uniform thought Chu Ci wouldn't use the enhancer, but he didn't know that Chu Ci wasn't a spatial ability user but merely carried a small space. Otherwise, the man wouldn't have been so calm.

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