Chapter 809

There Are Vile Characters Around Us!

Having witnessed with his own eyes the "turning against each other" between Hearts and Spades, Sun Bumian panicked a little. He subconsciously took half a step back... Jian Changsheng's evaluation of Chen Ling unconsciously floated in his mind:

"Sinister, cunning, fickle, cruel, crazy, likes to deceive people, likes to play with other people's feelings, builds his own happiness on the suffering of others..."

The blue veins on Sun Bumian's forehead throbbed.

Chen Ling stood still in front of him, his eyes staring at that face wearing small Round Sunglasses, his brows slightly furrowing...

"Have I seen you somewhere before?"

This was Chen Ling's first time looking at Sun Bumian up close, but the instant he saw that face, a sense of familiarity welled up in his heart.

Sun Bumian had thought of many possibilities, such as Chen Ling drawing his blade to face him without a word, or throwing him underground like Jian Changsheng. After all, under the rendering of Jian Changsheng's words, Demon Head Chen had already been completely demonized. It seemed not strange at all for such a lunatic to do anything against conscience.

But he didn't expect that the first sentence Chen Ling spoke to him was so normal... or rather, relatively normal.

"... I remember now."

Chen Ling pondered slightly, and remembered where the familiarity came from. He had once seen a photo of Xiao Chunping in the Timeline Save File. On it was a group photo of him and an Awakened Lion youth. Although that youth's attire was completely different from the Sun Bumian in front of him, the sunglasses and facial features were almost exactly the same!

He sized up Sun Bumian, a look of astonishment emerging in his eyes... One must know, that photo was taken over three hundred years ago. How could he possibly meet someone in this era who looked exactly the same as the person in the photo?

Unless...

"Do you also have a Timeline Save File?" Chen Ling proposed the most likely assumption.

"Timeline Save File? What is that?"

"It's a USB Drive like this."

Seeing the USB Drive Chen Ling took out, Sun Bumian directly shook his head. "I haven't seen this kind of thing..."

Chen Ling also reacted. One must know, the starting point of all Timeline Save Files was consistent, which was the instant The Red Star streaked across the sky above Earth. But the group photo of Xiao Chunping and the Awakened Lion youth was in 2020. Even if one used the Timeline Save File to go back, it wouldn't reach that point in time.

"Then can you time travel?" Chen Ling's brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

"Or... do you know Xiao Chunping?"

...

Underground of the Dark Palace.

Behind a certain pitch-black door.

A Beggar lowered his head, quickly following behind a group of participants moving forward vigilantly. A pair of bright eyes like translucent colored glaze secretly observed the surroundings.

He was a Path of Divination possessor from the folk, and also the first person to find the entrance to the Dark Palace...

But besides this, he also had an extremely hidden identity.

He silently changed direction, walking beside another figure trailing behind the crowd. After looking around to ensure no one was there, he silently grabbed that person's clothes corner.

That person frowned and stopped in his tracks.

"Heart 7, what are you doing?" That person waited for the crowd to go far before lowering his voice in the darkness. "Didn't we agree to pretend not to know each other this time?"

"... No, Clubs, I feel something is not quite right!"

The Beggar hesitated for a moment, but still spoke. "Just now when picking the doors, I cast a divination. It seems these six doors are all doors of death?!"

Club 7 frowned. "What do you mean?"

"Every door is nine deaths and one life. Tell me, if this Dark Palace was designed by the Tower to Heaven, it shouldn't be so perilous, right?"

"Isn't that very normal?" Club 7 didn't mind. "This Dark Palace was originally to accelerate the progress of the struggle. If it isn't perilous, how can they rapidly reduce the number of people?"

"But the divination also shows... there are vile characters around us!"

"Vile characters?"

"It says, there is a risk of being backstabbed."

The Beggar scratched his head. "I'm thinking, the two of us definitely won't backstab each other... Then besides us, who else could do this? We aren't familiar with the others either, right?"

Club 7 lowered his head, falling into deep thought.

"Could it be that there are other Dusk... other of our people mixed in this team? Didn't recognize each other's identities and accidentally injured?"

"The two of us have also joined the Society for some time now, and we recognize about eighty or ninety percent of the other members. There are only those few people old enough to participate in this struggle, and they aren't among these people either!"

"Could it be the younger generation?"

"The 6-series generation? The two of us indeed don't have much interaction with them." The Beggar pondered for a moment. "But I heard Old Chu mention before that those few are not very old. Even if they have extraordinary natural talents, they shouldn't be able to threaten us, right?"

"True... Speaking of which, since you clearly knew these six doors are all doors of death, why did you still come in?"

"To ordinary people they might be doors of death, but I can divine luck and misfortune, so it's not completely without a path of survival... Moreover, didn't I have to come to remind you?" The Beggar patted his shoulder. "The favor I owed you last time is Square and Even!"

Club 7 coldly snorted and didn't speak anymore.

Right while the two were speaking, a sudden scream came from ahead!

They saw that a giant chasm had already appeared on the originally flat road. Along with the crazy operation of mechanical sounds, scorching blue sharp blades superimposed on each other into a meat grinder-like device, directly chopping the two participants rushing at the very front into four segments!

This sudden unforeseen event gave everyone a jump. They subconsciously wanted to turn around and run, but found that the passage they originally came from had already disappeared...

Taking its place were three deep pits sunken down just enough to avoid the blade cuts.

And at this moment, above these three deep pits, three signboards were respectively marked: "This pit can accommodate a maximum of 3 people", "This pit can accommodate a maximum of 2 people", and "This pit can accommodate a maximum of 1 person".

Ahead was the sharp blade killing setup forged by the Tower to Heaven, and behind was a safe zone that could only accommodate six people. But at this moment, there were fourteen people who chose this corridor!

At this moment, all the participants understood the "referee's" intention in setting up this level. They didn't hesitate to release their Divine Paths in the narrow space, revealing killing moves towards the participants closest to them!

And similar scenes were also playing out in the other five passages. Although the predicaments each passage faced were different, the slaughter between each other erupted at the exact same time!

Roaring loud noises accompanied by corpses falling down, slowly opened the curtain to the "Dark Palace" struggle...

And the mastermind behind all this had yet to intervene in it.

Inside the rotunda.

Hearing these two questions, a strange glimmer flashed in the depths of Sun Bumian's eyes.

He calmly pushed the small Round Sunglasses on his nose bridge, using the lenses to block his eyes, and then spread his hands:

"I don't know what you're talking about... Six of Hearts Chen Ling, right? Did you mistake me for someone else?"