Chapter 265: Perfume

Swish.

Fingertips flipping pages, Seeing Gouchen, disguised as an ordinary citizen of Toy City, leaned against the subway train's long bench, browsing a children's toy product catalog magazine.

The residents of Toy City were toys to begin with; toys making toys looked abnormal no matter how you viewed them.

Like edible water-based paint (specifically provided for figurine-type toy children, capable of coloring while also offering protection);

Step-by-Step Traffic Rules Point-and-Read Machine (specifically provided for car-type toy children, combining education with entertainment, allowing even newborn little cars to obey traffic rules);

Doctor-themed Lego role-play components (containing scalpels, surgical gowns, and anesthetics, allowing children to disassemble and reattach their playmates' thighs and arms);

And so on, too numerous to list.

Suddenly, Seeing Gouchen's page-turning motion paused imperceptibly; his sharp gaze, hidden behind the magazine, fixed on the left-side doors of the gradually slowing subway train.

Tap, tap.

An ordinary-looking teenager wearing a hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses boarded the subway car, leaning slantwise against the metal handrail while playing with his mobile phone.

Meanwhile, at the right-side doors, a little girl in a skirt boarded the train simultaneously, sitting in the farthest corner of the bench.

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Seeing Gouchen's gaze grew increasingly cold; he had "heard" something off about these two.

The physical materials of Toy City's citizens were nothing more than plastic, rubber, silicone, metal, wood, or ceramic, each producing distinct faint sounds when moving.

The creak of metal, the crunch of plastic, the rustle of wood.

With senses sharpened by his skills, Seeing Gouchen could clearly hear the hooded teenager's dull human heartbeat;

And the heavy footfalls triggered by that seemingly delicately carved little girl's walking—at least four or five hundred jin.

Through the hacker video from this morning, Seeing Gouchen had guessed that Eugene had allied with the Toy City Municipal Hall.

Now that Batmos, Frankenstein, and Joker had all perished, and Eugene obviously would not risk himself by approaching personally,

Only one answer remained—the hooded teenager was that lowest-ranked Lv16 Master Pi Fu.

"Don't come over."

Still holding up the magazine, Seeing Gouchen moved his lips without opening them, using telepathy to speak directly to Li Cheng: "I don't care how you found me; don't come over."

The current situation was that Eugene had already intertwined with the Toy City Municipal Hall, possessing the strongest momentum.

Master Pi Fu and Seeing Gouchen were the only two survivors remaining.

Purely rationally speaking, the two of them should unite at this moment to jointly deal with Eugene.

But Seeing Gouchen thought clearly: even Frankenstein, that lich, had died, yet Master Pi Fu, as the weakest Lv16 in the entire arena, managed to scrape into the top three, which itself was suspicious.

Who knew what strange and bizarre methods this person possessed.

As if he hadn't heard the telepathic transmission, Li Cheng took out his phone on his own, playing music aloud: "Your body carries his scent of perfume, it is my nose that committed the sin~"

Seeing Gouchen's mouth twitched; what did this song mean? Was it implying that Master Pi Fu had tracked him down by his scent? He didn't have any smell on him.

Playing music aloud was already a low-quality behavior, and this song was a remix DJ version, with a thump-thump rhythm in the background, causing the few Toy City residents in the car to lift their heads, trying to figure out the source of the sound.

Shaking the magazine with both hands, Seeing Gouchen lowered his head, continuing to pretend he didn't know Master Pi Fu.

He neither wanted to fight and expose himself nor wanted to get too close to this person, so he immediately transmitted: "Stay away from me; the road is wide under the heavens, let each go their own way."

Li Cheng pondered for a moment, his eyes lighting up, then continued tapping the phone screen to play the next song aloud:

"We promised not to separate, to stay together forever and ever, even if we must oppose time, even if we must betray the whole world~"

Get lost, don't come over here!

Who wants to betray the whole world with you, hey? The Anti-Terror Mobile Squad is searching the entire city; if you don't come over, I'll be perfectly fine, won't I?!

Seeing Gouchen's eyelids twitched repeatedly, and even the tone of his telepathy became somewhat frantic and exasperated: "Do you want us to perish together? Do you want to clash with me? Do you believe I won't chop you into mincemeat?"

Before Li Cheng could find a good song, Hui Yu cheerfully tapped the phone screen, answering with lyrics: "He says that in the wind and rain, what is this little pain? Wipe away the tears, do not be afraid; at least we still have dreams."

Seeing Gouchen's facial features twisted slightly, and the hand holding the magazine trembled faintly.

Ranting wildly in his heart: Where did these two divine weirdos pop up from?!

Just as he began doubting his life, several passengers disembarked, and Li Cheng and Hui Yu took the opportunity to sit on the bench directly opposite Seeing Gouchen.

For transcendent beings, this distance was equivalent to nonexistence; if they wanted to act, it would happen in an instant.

Boom.

The train doors slowly closed, the vehicle started again, leaving the bustling platform and plunging into the deep tunnel.

Seeing Gouchen lowered the magazine and said coldly: "What do you want?"

"What else do you want me to do, what to do? Your sudden text message is enough to make me sorrowful."

Hui Yu still cheerfully held up her phone playing music aloud; Li Cheng lightly flicked her forehead, then turned to Seeing Gouchen and said: "Join forces?"

Seeing Gouchen countered: "Is there any necessity?"

Not to mention that this death match free-for-all could ultimately have only one victor; the key point was that Eugene had already merged with the Municipal Hall, and who knew which safe house he was hiding in.

Unless Master Pi Fu possessed some means of tracking and positioning that could allow them to rush over and forcibly execute Eugene, a temporary alliance held little significance.

Li Cheng raised his arm, displaying the time on his electronic wristwatch: "We don't need to search for him; due to the mission time limit, he will jump out on his own."

Mid-to-high-level players all knew that the mission time limit itself was part of the clues.

Especially since Seeing Gouchen had descended to Toy City's Lower Nest, he knew clearly the plan of that Infected Leader, Yagami Light—the bomb's scheduled detonation time was very close to the twenty-four-hour mission deadline.

The bomb exploding equaled Yagami Light executing his plan, which equaled Toy City facing catastrophic disaster; no matter where players fled, they would meet their end.

Seeing Gouchen himself had invested much in this mission, and that Eugene had likely gambled everything as well; both sides had reasons they could not afford to lose.

Therefore, standing from Eugene's perspective, he faced two choices:

First, hide in a safe house, pinning all hope on the Municipal Hall's thugs; if he could not kill Seeing Gouchen and Master Pi Fu before the mission ended, he would lose everything.

Second, go to the front lines personally, using his full strength to add a bit more weight to the scale, tilting the balance of victory as much as possible toward his side.

Seeing Gouchen narrowed his eyes slightly; if he were Eugene, putting himself in those shoes, he would most likely choose the second option—having already gambled everything, in this death match game, not winning meant losing.

In other words, when the Municipal Hall's thugs arrived, it would mean that Eugene was nearby.

Dingdong.

The vehicle entered the station and slowed to a stop beside the platform.

Two squads of fully armed Interstellar Warriors and Storm Soldiers were already waiting outside the platform.