Chapter 20: Follow Su Qiu, and Death Cannot Escape!

【I have a very bad premonition.】

【Although I witnessed Su Qiu's survival experience with my own eyes and know what to do to obtain that rule, I just feel very uncomfortable.】

【It's not just you; I feel it too.】

【You have to know that when Su Qiu violated these rules, none of the anomalies in Qian Gu Guang's broadcast screen appeared!】

【The cat in Su Qiu's broadcast room didn't lose its fur, and there was no knocking sound or ghost shadow when he headed to the stairwell!】

【Could it be that we missed some detail?】

【We might have missed it, but the Bug Country that provides intelligence to Qian Gu Guang wouldn't have!】

【They must have verified it multiple times before sending the intelligence to the Chosen One!】

【Then that's strange.】

【Since he is following Su Qiu's path exactly, these situations shouldn't be happening in Qian Gu Guang's broadcast room.】

【Perhaps our feeling was wrong after all.】

【Sigh, stop thinking about these useless things and keep watching.】

【Qian Gu Guang has already arrived at the stairwell. We will soon know whether following Su Qiu's method can actually obtain that rule.】

【.】

In the Qiongdong Zhibojian of the Bug Country, Qian Gu Guang had already arrived at the stairwell.

He held the cat in his arms, which had already lost most of its fur, and bravely took the first step toward the depths of the darkness.

As Qian Gu Guang stepped onto the first floor of the stairwell.

A strange feeling rushed toward him like a surging tide, covering his entire body in an instant.

"Thump-thump. Thump-thump."

Qian Gu Guang suddenly felt that breathing was somewhat difficult.

Following the lack of oxygen.

The audience in the Xianshishijie could clearly hear Qian Gu Guang's heartbeat, which had been amplified countless times.

It was also at this moment that everyone's strange feeling grew even stronger. 【Wrong! Something is very wrong!】

【I watched Su Qiu's entire broadcast process from start to finish! He didn't have a reaction like Qian Gu Guang's at all before stepping onto the first floor of the stairwell!】

【The Bug Country's Chosen One looks like he's drowning.】

【No! Following Su Qiu's method is completely wrong! If Qian Gu Guang doesn't exit the stairwell now, he will soon pay the price!】

【Baka! You bunch of useless idiots who don't understand anything, shut up and don't curse our Detective God!】

【Exactly! You are just jealous of Lord Qian Gu Guang!】

【.】

As the barrage of comments appeared one after another.

The sensation of drowning grew even worse.

Qian Gu Guang no longer had the strength to continue walking to the upper levels of the stairwell; he put down the cat in his arms and clutched his neck tightly with both hands.

"Hahaha."

He gasped for air, trying to take in the thin air in the 【water】.

And doing so did indeed have some effect; at least, Qian Gu Guang's complexion was no longer as ghastly as before. "Meow."

And just as he calmed his breathing and prepared to continue forward.

A cat's cry suddenly came!

This sudden cry subconsciously attracted Qian Gu Guang's attention; he looked up, and at this sight, he was startled.

Just see.

The originally docile and cute cat had lost all its fur, becoming ferocious and terrifying! The cat was no longer a cat; it looked more like a person! A young infant, and because it was standing on the fifth floor of the stairwell, the 【cat】 could look down at him.

In those scarlet slit pupils, Qian Gu Guang actually saw mockery.

【What is going on?】

Qian Gu Guang was completely dumbfounded; he didn't understand why he would encounter this situation when he was following the correct hints from the Xianshishijie.

Could it be,

that the man named Su Qiu also encountered the situation he was facing before obtaining the special rule? "Meow—!!"

Just as Qian Gu Guang's thoughts were lost in deep contemplation because of this, the cat suddenly let out a sharp cry, and then, those sharp claws suddenly swiped at Qian Gu Guang! Qian Gu Guang, unable to dodge in time, was caught squarely!

Three ferocious bloodstains appeared on his face, and the unprecedented, intense pain made his expression turn savage.

"Ah—"

Qian Gu Guang let out a miserable scream.

His body fell back outside the stairwell due to a loss of balance.

Damn it!

His complexion became especially unsightly.

At this very moment, even if he were any more foolish, he would know that he had made the wrong decision!

Truly damn it!

Qian Gu Guang could never have imagined that the one sabotaging him was actually the Xianshishijie, the country he belonged to!

Those idiots!

Didn't they know that if his attempt failed, the Xianshishijie would also suffer punishment!

Why didn't they verify it more before conveying the hints to him? Qian Gu Guang was incomparably regretful.

The most wrong decision he had made in his life was to easily trust the Bug Country! 【I told you so!】

【It seems that the sudden appearance of that uneasy feeling was justified.】

【Qian Gu Guang has indeed met with an accident.】

【His example tells us: following Su Qiu is not necessarily correct; on the contrary, it might lead you into an abyss!】

【Impossible! This is impossible!】

【We clearly replicated Su Qiu's survival experience one-to-one; he was able to obtain special rules, so why couldn't Senior Qian Gu Guang?】

【Su Qiu's side is indeed somewhat special.】

【But none of that matters now; what matters is... the Bug Country actually sabotaged its own Chosen One.】

【It's truly hilarious.】

【The Detective God Qian Gu Guang is very excellent; even failing in his first confrontation with a Guiyi does not mean he will definitely lose, but it is a pity he trusted the Bug Country's hints.】

【He would never dream that the one who killed him was actually his own people.】

【...】

Qian Gu Guang's livestream footage had not yet reached the point of his failed attempt.

However, everyone in the Xianshishijie knew clearly that he had lost this match.

The number of rules Qian Gu Guang violated was simply too many.

Those strange occurrences that were supposed to appear in the late stages of the 【Game】 were all appearing in Qian Gu Guang's livestream room; what does this mean? It means his run is about to end.

Because the Chosen One violated the rules multiple times, that chain binding the Guiyi began to loosen.

Now.

The Guiyi can strike once again... Guiyi Zhijia.

Having fallen outside the corridor, Qian Gu Guang still did not want to die.

He scrambled desperately from the ground, attempting to evade the cat's pursuit.

But, the moment he turned his head.

That long, narrow ghost shadow not illuminated by sunlight suddenly appeared; it grinned and laughed at Qian Gu Guang: "You can see me, you can see me now!"

No facial features, no color... its entire body was black, and even inside that wide-open mouth was endless darkness. "You—don't come over! Don't come over!"

Qian Gu Guang was scared to the point of wetting himself.

Even with years of detective experience, the scene before his eyes made him feel fear in a very real way.

"Spare me."

"Spare me!"

"I can help you, I can help you! I know the situation over at the Bug Country!"

"I can let you run rampant through the bugs once you descend into reality; by then, the 【delicacies】 you can enjoy will be countless!"

(End of chapter)