Chapter 810: Silver Crown

"Lord Andre, are we just going to let Lin An go like this..?"

"Just now there clearly was an opportunity..."

Outside the Blood Moon Trial Hotel, a large number of North American War Zone Awakened Ones surged out as if they had burst out, surrounding him completely.

"What else?"

"Are you questioning my decision?"

His tone cold, Andre looked expressionlessly at the questioning Awakened One, completely lacking his previous gentle demeanor.

Under the silver crown, his features were exquisitely handsome, at a glance like a religious priest walking out of myth.

"I don't dare..."

His face grim, the questioning Awakened One officer lowered his head slightly, showing a forced smile.

This person is a high-ranking commander of the North American War Zone; whether before or after the Apocalypse, his status is extremely high.

But in front of Andre, he appears somewhat weak.

The crowd followed Andre's movement, obviously regarding him as the core of the core.

"I let Lin An go, naturally I have my reasons."

His voice icy cold, as he spoke he indifferently gazed at the blue moon above.

"First, our intelligence suffered a major error."

"If it weren't a 'coincidence,' I had people follow him from the moment he entered the trial; can you imagine how fast Lin An's clearance speed is?"

"No matter how high the will attribute, it doesn't represent strong thinking ability or strategy."

"High attributes without brains amount to nothing. What's frightening is when both are combined."

A half-smile, not quite a smile.

Andre glanced at the few Awakened Ones organizing the intelligence, a flash of coldness in his eyes.

"Luck? Fluke? Stealing the Safety Token?"

"In the intelligence you gave me, Lin An's rating is only A-rank, even lower than Ron... Of course, after the physical trial it increased a bit."

"Arrogant, not knowing how to use his own advantages, making too many enemies..."

"In your mouths, Lin An is nothing but a lucky brute."

His steps stopped, the Awakened One stared at by Andre felt his soul flee his body.

Now it seems the intelligence was wildly wrong, but initially the outside world indeed viewed Lin An this way.

Although his strength is strong, he is overly impulsive and ostentatious, as if afraid that nobody would go to besiege him.

For a moment, nobody dared to reply, a killing intent permeated the air.

They were all too familiar with Andre's methods.

This youth, who appears to have an excellent temperament and be gentle and refined to outsiders, actually has a fearsome reputation among the high ranks.

Andre, as the sole surviving test subject of the apl (artificial pseudogods plan) that existed before the Apocalypse.

In an extremely short time after the Apocalypse broke out, he displayed ruling-level strength, transforming from a controlled test subject into one of the top leaders of the North American War Zone.

The hidden bloodshed behind him is enough to instill innate fear.

Silence, dead still.

After a few seconds, Andre moved his gaze back and continued forward.

Those few who were stared at seemed to be dragged out of water, drenched in sweat.

"Rather than saying I let Lin An go, it's more like I wasn't confident enough to kill him."

"In the feedback from the Holy Spirit Crown, Lin An's true body also belongs to the mutants."

The information was brief, yet it left everyone stunned.

"How is that possible!?"

"Each mission only selects one person as a mutant; Lin An cannot possibly become a mutant again!"

"Unless, in the real world he is a psychic power variant..!?"

Without turning back, Andre directly interrupted:

"I know that, no need for nonsense."

"Don't forget."

"We've tested many times; even if a psychic power mutant from the real world enters this mission, the system will not 100% select them as the mission's mutant."

"Moreover, even if Lin An were selected, that would mean two mutants in one team, completely violating the system's rules!"

"So I suspect whether Lin An might have deceived our personnel we sent out for detection."

A hint of wariness flickered in Andre's eyes.

"Even, the footage seen by the tracking personnel is entirely false. Lin An, like me, long ago chose to hunt other Awakened Ones in this stage to farm points."

"But how could he do that?"

"Capable of creating illusions in a suppressed trial..."

"He has mastered more loopholes than I... yet deliberately pretends this is his first encounter with the Blood Moon mission, and acts unaware that he is a mutant."

"Taking all of the above..."

"I have sufficient reason to believe that Lin An still holds some trump card, to the extent that.."

"He might even intend to feign weakness and hunt us?"

As he spoke, the white light in Andre's eyes grew brighter.

Even if this idea sounds fantastical, he dare not ignore this possibility.

If it truly is as imagined.

Then Lin An's terror would rise to its peak, to the point that even he would find it troublesome.

This is also why he keeps throwing out olive branches to win over Lin An, yet he is unwilling to reveal any hostility.

As soon as the mission ended, Andre decisively led his people away from the Blood Moon Trial.

Even the originally planned encirclement and slaughter was directly abandoned.

At the forefront of the group, Lin An walked ahead in silence, as if deep in thought with his head lowered.

The team still had 14 members, and the traitors were collectively dealt with.

If they don't court death, Lin An can ignore them; but if they seek death, then he'll send them on their way.

His thoughts flowed.

Was the earlier feeling of being watched coming from Andre's methods?

He slowed his steps and relaxed a little.

From the moment he entered the trial, Lin An felt a tremendous pressure.

But after the Blood Moon Trial ended, he also felt a sense of relief.

The feeling of being watched should have come from Andre..

I just don't know what level that guy's crown on his head is..

That silver crown, even if its aura was suppressed by the system, still gave him a feeling of great power.

Perhaps it is of the same rank as the Causal Sequence.

He stopped his steps, Lin An sorted out his tangled thoughts, and didn't think further.

Andre is probably the Awakened One who has left the deepest impression on him since his rebirth, aside from Chu An.

To be honest, when he saw the final voting results, his heart actually jolted violently, far from the calm he showed.

He had thought Andre hid at most two people, but he never expected that Andre actually hid a full ten people.

If Andre hadn't, due to some unknown reason, refrained from acting all along, or perhaps was overly confident wanting to rack up points first.

Lin An wonders whether he might possibly capsize in a gutter.

Being schemed against in advance and with his power suppressed, in the trial just now he was very likely to be surrounded and killed to death.

The moonlight gradually faded into Wu Yun.

Lin An subconsciously raised his head and looked toward the sky.

After this, he always felt that Andre might cause him considerable trouble in the death match.

Such an Awakened One, strong in both power and intellect, is too troublesome to deal with.

His eyes flickered, and after a moment's thought he made up his mind.

Think of a way... to instantly kill this guy in the death match.

With full martial power, he should be able to slay him with a single sword.

When facing a troublesome Awakened One, the utmost respect in his heart is to leave the opponent no intact corpse.

If he can instant-kill, then do so; killing him... would leave fewer complications.