Chapter 41

The answer was almost within reach. That guy, in order to land faster, suddenly changed the rules of flight. However, this change was far from good, which led to him not being able to fly at all and falling directly.

He was lucky to have survived the fall. But the first one to encounter a problem was now a mangled corpse...

"Two people have had issues in a row. The rules we created with the red light probably aren't as smooth as they seem. For safety, everyone should stop flying for now," Qi Yanbin concluded.

"Agreed!" Everyone responded.

Nie Ning stood among the crowd, though she didn't speak, she secretly felt relieved. She had been terrified by the sensation of flying and hadn't fully recovered from it yet.

As for the death of someone just now, she didn't really care. Since coming to this world, she had deliberately treated everything and everyone with indifference, focusing only on her inner world. She didn't know how long she would live, and she preferred to spend her last moments in this wondrous world, walking her own path.

Nie Ning's gaze passed through the crowd and fell on the corpse, causing her to frown.

Huh?

Nie Ning suddenly noticed that above the corpse, the red light was still floating. However, compared to before, it had clearly changed, appearing more pure.

She was the first to notice the issue but didn't plan to study it secretly. Instead, she said directly, "Look, isn't the red light above his corpse different?"

To everyone, Nie Ning was a very clear and quiet beauty. Since leaving the stone room, she hadn't spoken much to anyone.

When she spoke, several people couldn't help but take the opportunity to look at her more closely, especially Lu Nan.

Reality was such that among the twenty people who came out of the stone room, there were five women, and the most beautiful was Nie Ning. Yang Ming was also quite good-looking, but the last three were quite ordinary, making Nie Ning the only one who was visually appealing.

After a few intense glances, those people finally remembered the content of Nie Ning's words.

However, Qi Yanbin and Yang Ming had already reacted and were looking at the red light above the corpse.

But someone was even faster.

Bu Ye had been on the edge of the crowd and had noticed the purified red light even before Nie Ning. He had already walked over.

Seeing this, Qi Yanbin and the others didn't say anything but hurriedly followed.

Some people in the crowd even started jogging, wanting to get ahead of Bu Ye.

Those few people quickly broke away from the crowd and caught up with Bu Ye.

A young man in his early twenties, as he passed Bu Ye, turned back and glared at him, giving a provocative snort.

Bu Ye, hearing the footsteps behind him, knew someone was following but didn't speed up. He hadn't expected anyone to challenge him.

Facing the young man's gaze, he slightly narrowed his eyes but showed no other reaction.

The young man thought Bu Ye was afraid and sneered even more, then took large strides toward the corpse.

Soon, everyone gathered around the corpse, but those who arrived later were all blocked outside.

In the inner circle were about seven or eight people, including Bu Ye, and most of them seemed to have some hostility toward Bu Ye.

Whether intentionally or not, the young man who had challenged Bu Ye stood right next to him on the right. Bu Ye vaguely remembered that this person was called Luo Lingfei, who had previously talked about his college entrance exam experience. Luo Lingfei was a sports student who had often been looked down upon in high school.

"His red light has indeed changed in quality. Could this be the reason he fell from the sky?" someone asked.

"Possible. This suggests that after a person dies, the rules created by the red light remain in the last state."

"But it doesn't seem like there are any rules left now," another person said.

As everyone was discussing, Qi Yanbin and Yang Ming exchanged a glance, and Qi Yanbin said, "Everyone, please step aside. Yang Ming and I have previously interacted with his rules, let us take a look."

Luo Lingfei and the others were somewhat unwilling, but they knew Qi Yanbin was telling the truth, so they moved aside to let Qi Yanbin and Yang Ming through. However, they still blocked the others behind.

The red light of the dead person was floating about a meter above the ground. Neither Qi Yanbin nor Yang Ming paid attention to the corpse on the ground, but they both crouched down to observe carefully.

"It doesn't feel like the previous rules. Should we try?" Yang Ming asked.

"Me?" Qi Yanbin asked in return.

"Can't you see I'm still recovering from my internal injuries? Of course, you should try." Yang Ming rolled her eyes and said.

"Alright."

Qi Yanbin didn't say much more, took a deep breath, and slowly activated the red light on his hand, releasing his flight rule again.

A transparent wave of light spread out. The last time, when his rule collided with the dead person's rule, he was thrown back, so he had to be careful this time.

However, his rule quickly enveloped the red light, but the red light showed no reaction.

Qi Yanbin directly withdrew his rule and said, "It seems there's no rule power at all, just the purest red light."

"But why did it change in quality? It seems purer," Yang Ming said.

"Could it be that the traces left by the previous owner have been erased?" Qi Yanbin said.

Everyone present understood what Qi Yanbin meant. The red light was like a magical tool, and the traces of the previous owner had been erased, making it ownerless!

The people in the inner circle all narrowed their eyes, looking at the red light with intense concentration. They all respected Qi Yanbin, but now they had different emotions when looking at him.

At this moment, Luo Lingfei suddenly showed a simple smile, took a big step forward, bent down, and reached for the red light, saying casually, "Why not just try it?"

No one expected this change. In an instant, his hand had already passed over the crouching Qi Yanbin and Yang Ming, about to grab the red light.

His simple smile didn't evoke any ill feelings, but at the moment of almost getting it, a hint of greed showed in his eyes!

"Whoosh!"

The wind rose, and Luo Lingfei's smile suddenly froze.

Above the corpse, the red light had vanished.

Beside him, Yang Ming stood up with a smile, holding her own red light in her left hand and the newly grabbed red light in her right. She looked at Luo Lingfei with an unashamedly proud expression and said, "I'll try it."

"Why should you?!" Luo Lingfei's composure was clearly lacking, his face trembling with anger as he glared at Yang Ming.

Yang Ming was completely unfazed and said shamelessly, "Because I saved him, even though I didn't save him alive, hehe."

"But Qi Laoda also saved him!" someone argued.

"Qi Laoda is too polite to compete with me. Don't believe me? Ask him," Yang Ming said shamelessly.

When everyone looked at Qi Yanbin, they saw him smiling bitterly, clearly not planning to compete with Yang Ming.

"Thanks."

Yang Ming said to Qi Yanbin and then brought the newly grabbed red light to her left hand.

Then, something amazing happened. As soon as the two red lights touched, the purer one on the right directly merged into the one on the left!

When the two red lights fully merged, Yang Ming's red light was nearly twice as large!

Yang Ming didn't speak but focused intently on the sensation.

At the same time, everyone else looked at Yang Ming with envy and jealousy, especially Luo Lingfei and the others who had come over first.

Bu Ye was a bit regretful, as he could have been the first to get the ownerless red light. However, he had been cautious and didn't compete, and now it was too late to regret.

Soon, Yang Ming came to her senses and said to everyone, "There's no harm. I can feel my red light has grown nearly twice as strong. If I create rules now, it should be much easier."

The last bit of doubt was resolved, and everyone fell silent, the atmosphere becoming quite strange.

The red light had already said that only five people from their group could survive, and the current test was to create a world using the red light.

Now, Yang Ming's red light was stronger, clearly giving her a significant advantage over everyone else.

But this wasn't the real reason for the silence. They were silent because everyone thought they might be able to secure one of the five spots by competing for the red light.

Even more directly, they could kill until only five were left.

However, even then, they might still have to pass the test of creating a world. The five who remained might be the best killers but not the best creators, and the red light wouldn't accept that.

Regardless, the competition for the red light had become a choice, and the previously harmonious group now showed clear cracks.

At this moment, something unexpected happened. Luo Lingfei suddenly turned to Bu Ye and said coldly, "To avoid being stabbed in the middle of the night or having the red light stolen, we should get rid of this murderer first."