[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste":3,"chapter-pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-373":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},687607,922,"Chapter 373: Forbidden Identity, Passing Each Other By","pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-373",373,"\u003Cp>“Just now, it was Sin’s time, but this city was too quiet.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s not Sin’s style, and it definitely isn’t his level.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perfect Life moved swiftly, like a whirlwind, weaving through the city streets, replaying the past twenty minutes in his mind, pondering countermeasures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There are only two possibilities: either he caught someone, or he didn’t.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The first means the game doesn’t broadcast to all players when someone is caught, and Sin must have changed his usual gameplay habits.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s good news, because it means for sure he didn’t catch me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And the second possibility...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perfect Life’s brow furrowed deeply as he thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He refused to believe that someone like Sin would be incapable of finding other players. The only explanation was that this strongest player had a different understanding of the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, this game was a zero-sum game!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zero-sum game: the sum of all gains and losses of the players equals zero in the end!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the captor catches someone, he gains a point, and the caught player loses a point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In ten rounds with ten players, each player only has one chance to score actively—that is, the one time they act as captor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, no more opportunities. So logically, one should try to score as much as possible. If Sin didn’t catch anyone at all...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perfect Life didn’t see that as a good thing at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—So what was Sin’s real thought process? Why was it so hard to see through?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His game time had already started for several minutes, but at this moment, his mind was not focused on game content; he only thought about Sin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What exactly was that man thinking?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The obvious optimal solution was to catch everyone, and never be caught in any round.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what if Sin didn’t think that way?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the world’s second-ranked player, Perfect Life had long wondered—why wasn’t he number one?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t arrogance but a truly perplexing question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His profile didn’t appear clearly on the game’s top leaderboard, but some well-informed people knew about his existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His identity was the most forbidden presence in this world, someone who couldn’t be openly acknowledged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His existence violated human ethics but was once considered the direction of human evolution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was— a genetically engineered being!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through gene editing technology, he combined all the recognized superior genes within human understanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cancer resistance, disease resistance, elimination of all congenital illnesses, extremely attractive appearance, top-tier intelligence, strong physique...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything good that people could think of was gathered in him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After many large-scale experiments and in vitro cultivation, with a mortality rate over 99.99%, only he survived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterward, related experiments were universally condemned, and gene editing technology was banned worldwide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If anyone in this world could be called a child of gods, it would be him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lived up to expectations: healthy, precocious, never losing since he had memory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Perfect Life didn’t let this pride him; he remained self-reflective, absorbing the world’s civilization achievements, constantly pushing his own limits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until the game arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He became one of the first selected players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cleared the game perfectly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found every perfect solution to the game, even reaching the “god” level early on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when the game rankings were released, he was second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t believe the result; it wasn’t a blow, but he warned himself not to get discouraged and to learn from worthy rivals. So he carefully investigated Sin’s data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result was strange indeed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That guy named Sin was almost the exact opposite of Perfect Life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was jealous, greedy, wrathful, arrogant... every mask he wore represented the most primal sins in human hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was full of desire, shamelessly showing his vices openly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those were exactly the qualities people despised, loathed, and fought desperately to eradicate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, he was so powerful, with overwhelming strength, perfectly clearing the game continuously, taking the number one spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He even named himself directly “Sin”!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep down, Perfect Life felt this might be a test from heaven, a contrasting foil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And conveniently, they were the world’s first and second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking down at his hands, one black and one white, shining in harmony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would black defeat white, or would white defeat black?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With version 2.0 of the game, rankings would now have reward effects, officially turning it into a competition between players!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this time, the game was purely a place for players to perform freely—and he had been matched with Sin...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more he thought, the more immersed he became. Suddenly, his body froze sharply, stopping in place despite moving at high speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wouldn’t use his eyes to distinguish which player was disguised. Moving fast, he didn’t need to see; his yin-yang hands were his detector!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His yin-yang hands told him that the surrounding energy flow seemed to have shifted...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just now, didn’t someone strange brush past him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed... they were wearing a mask???\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Setting aside all distractions in his mind, he snapped his head around sharply to look at the clearly odd person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That person was just walking forward with the crowd, nothing unusual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when Perfect Life teleported in front of him, he suddenly saw a dark green mask!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perfect Life: ?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Ce acted like he didn’t see him at all; the dark green mask still had that deadfish eye expression, silently walking forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perfect Life: ......\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey, I’m asking, friend, what are you doing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sin!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Ce didn’t hear him, continuing forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perfect Life was helpless and took a step forward, using his black hand to press on Lu Ce’s shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you not going to say something?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Ce finally turned his head. The dark green mask showed a deadfish eye expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s up?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one sentence left Perfect Life dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He even suspected he was hallucinating and had mistaken the person, but the yin-yang hands definitely wouldn’t lie!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You... aren’t you... wearing a mask right now?” Perfect Life pointed at Lu Ce’s dark green mask, looking a bit incoherent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you know you’re wearing a mask right now?”\u003C\u002Fp>",1002,"2026-06-02T09:03:27.234Z",1,"novelbin.me","e8ba265bb0844baf3b06769c4410635f1f6439d77871e6196470750495a17182","pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-374","pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-372",867,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fpain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-cover.jpg"]