Chapter 255: Shameless Chen Ran

"Upgrade to Three-Star. As for the problem you mentioned, I have already thought of a solution."

"Upon returning to the 18th Level, I will have a Death Row inmate help me deliver a letter of challenge to Lin Xuan."

Saying this, Chen Ran fished out paper and a pen from his bag, and wrote down three sentences.

[First sentence]: I am currently being hunted by the First Floor Master, he is a Five-Star.

[Second sentence]: I am a Three-Star.

[Third sentence]: This humble one has a lot of money and is willful. Even if I die, I must pull someone to cushion my back. I decide starting from this moment, every Instance I will use a hundred-percent Tracking Talisman, infinitely hunting you down, not resting until death.

Qiu Yinong: "..."

'Chen Ran and I don't have a backer, but Lin Xuan has a backer ah, and a big backer at that. It is said to be a certain high-star Floor Master.'

'Transferring the problem to him...'

'Moreover, he has a rare Spatial Skill, which also cannot be casually exposed.'

'At the same time, if he stays stuck at Two-Star and we track him, as long as we force his Skill out, he will help me solve the First Floor Master's Hunter Team, or a Four-Star team.'

'If he also upgrades to Three-Star, and the First Floor Master dares to personally come down to the field, there will definitely be the risk of knowing Lin Xuan's Skill effect. It is bound to offend the high-star Floor Master behind Lin Xuan...'

'After all, the scarcer the Skill, the more it needs to be kept secret. Simply because the drawback of this kind of Skill is a bit big. Once it is known by the First Floor Master, Lin Xuan will lose his value.'

'Taking me as an example, the value of my Skill is very high, but if the command password is known by people, my Skill is basically crippled.'

'In other words, in view of the deterrence of a high-star Floor Master, the First Floor Master...'

'Fundamentally won't dare to personally come down to the field!'

'Not to mention, the relationship between the various Floor Masters in the Alliance is fundamentally not monolithic either. Their relationship with the Leader is that of an Emperor and Vassal Lords. Then between Vassal Lords there will also be contradictions.'

'It's still not over.'

'Lin Xuan's Skill being exposed to us, and our Skills being exposed to Lin Xuan, actually is not a problem. We can mutually restrict each other: you dare expose mine, and I'll expose yours.'

'Then, it is foreseeable, when only the three of us come out alive from the Instance, we will definitely set down a Future Lie in the 18th Level, that no one can expose each other's Skills.'

'But, doing it like this, will it offend the high-star Floor Master behind Lin Xuan?'

'It won't.'

'First, we definitely won't pit Lin Xuan to death in the Instance. After all, we are relying exactly on him acting as our protective talisman.'

'Secondly, us pitting three top Three-Star Players to death as One-Stars this time is bound to cause no small sensation in the 18th Level. Three-Star and Five-Star are both the Id Mental State. Even if he dispatches Five-Star Players down to the field, and they can definitely kill us, there is still the risk of a desperate mutually assured destruction.'

'There is also the most important point. Us binding together with Lin Xuan is equivalent to forcibly teaming up with Lin Xuan. Towards a high-star Floor Master, this might actually be a good thing.'

'After all, although Lin Xuan won't tell the high-star Floor Master our Skill effects, he can give slight hints. Besides, my Skill being a Time-type is not some secret.'

'Just the combination of Time and Space alone is enough to make a high-star Floor Master's heart throb.'

'Perhaps, in the future the high-star Floor Master will even seek us out to negotiate. For example doing a few Instances with him after we grow up, and such things.'

'The various kinds of deductions above, as long as the degree is grasped well, reaching a subtle balance...'

'It is completely feasible!'

Thinking of this, Qiu Yinong looked with a weird expression at the indifferent-faced Chen Ran: "Just now you even said I was sinister. How come I feel you are so Shameless ah? Even this kind of dog skin plaster-like move you can think up?"

Chen Ran said with a serious face: "This is resolving internal contradictions through an external war. This is the Law of the Bright Ocean. When the opponent is overly powerful, we go find an even more powerful opponent and let them fight in an arena. This is..."

"Alright then, it is indeed very Shameless."

Chen Ran could well imagine what kind of expression Lin Xuan would have upon receiving the letter of challenge.

"Alright, no more joking." Chen Ran put away his smile: "Looking at your expression, I knew your deduction might have run into a problem. Do you think a high-star Floor Master negotiating with us in the future will just be simply letting us do a few Instances with him after growing up, helping him resolve a few troublesome opponents?"

"If not then?" Qiu Yinong asked rhetorically.

"We are Chess Pieces, then we must have the consciousness of Chess Pieces. Simply put, this chess move of hunting down Lin Xuan can only theoretically achieve a subtle balance. Speaking frankly, whether it can succeed or not lies in the high-star Floor Master's mood."

"Therefore, since we choose to bind with Lin Xuan, then from now on, wherever the high-star Floor Master points, we must strike. There is no room for bargaining whatsoever."

"To put it even more simply, we are not his Reserve Teammates, yet we have to win proxy wars one after another for him."

"We can only grow within this kind of crevice. Otherwise forwards, backwards, leftwards, rightwards, are all dead ends."

"After resolving the First Floor Master, there are still other Floor Masters. When we are weak, we can only tightly hug onto the thick thigh of Lin Xuan's backer."

"Therefore, in the next Instance, we must definitely fight out our own worth. Aside from Lin Xuan, the rest of the players must all die, including the two experts protecting Lin Xuan."

When Lin Xuan was a One-Star, he had two Three-Star Players acting as an escort. If he stays stuck at Two-Star this time, there should be Four-Star Players protecting him.

Qiu Yinong pondered deeply, muttering: "The next Instance, will it be another fierce battle?"

The weak can only attach themselves. Wait until growing up in the future, then slowly detach.

Hell ah... staying alive is so difficult.

The atmosphere became somewhat congealed.

"Let's not think about this anymore, let's talk about happy things." Chen Ran shifted the topic: "Going back this time, we might be able to verify whether Hell is a virtual world or not."

In this Instance, not only did they kill Li Zhitong and Lin Xiuyuan who were wanted by the Alliance, they even killed three Three-Star Players while leaping two stars. The two people's names were destined to become well known by the players of the 18th Level.

When that time comes, maybe there will be players they knew while alive, who died before the development of virtual games, appearing in front of them.

"En."

"Right, should we meet the force behind Mei Zhixu once?"

Chen Ran thought about it: "If she comes to find us we'll meet, if she doesn't find us we won't meet. Hell has no good people. Relying on ideology to enslave ideology. A group of extremely evil villains, once they have passion, have hot blood, have ideals, have faith..."

"It is absolutely not a good thing!"

Qiu Yinong nodded. An extremely evil villain launching an ideological dimensional-reduction strike against a group of extremely evil villains. This kind of model's force, it's still better to have less contact with.

She even had some suspicion that it was created by a certain True Self Player, a [terrifying] force specialized in dealing with the two Alliances.

The two people, one chewed Chewing Gum, one silently smoked Cigarettes.

Game of Wits, exploring, surviving. These three main threads will run through their career in Hell.

After a long time, Qiu Yinong finally said: "My review has ended. It's your turn."

Her review was mainly all general planning. Next what Chen Ran was going to review was the control of details inside and outside the Instance.

For example, language-type Deceiver's Tongue, Unknown Lies, the Lie-Judgment of Wheel of Time, the Battle of the Two Alliances, points of error within the Instance, etc.