Chapter 370: Don't Panic, Let's Light a Cigarette First

Qiu Yinong, the Big Gold Tooth, and Lin Xuan, the three of them were still closing their eyes in deep thought.

Chen Ran's current state prevented him from continuing to cultivate The Highest Goodness is Like Water Heart Cultivation.

He began to review the previous Secret Room.

Actually, there wasn't much to review. After all, they all had amnesia at the time, the memories in their bodies were those of the plot NPCs, and their souls had also been exchanged, so it didn't hold much reference value.

The only thing worth noting was their respective instinctive reactions, or rather, their true natures.

First, there were the dead Gao Lan, the Pan-faced Woman, Qiu Hua, and the Short and Fat player.

These four people's weaknesses were very obvious.

Gao Lan: Insufficient ability. Without the enhancement of a Skill, he was just a noob in a high-end match.

The Pan-faced Woman: Perhaps she was ordinarily accustomed to acting cowardly (Gou), but in the previous Secret Room, acting cowardly meant certain death, so she didn't survive.

The Short and Fat player: His death didn't surprise Chen Ran at all. He was too showy, and he lost the initiative. After all, the reputation of his Hunter Team was too big, which led to Chen Ran, Lin Xuan, and Shu Renjun joining hands to dismantle his team right at the start of this Instance. The moment his team was dismantled, the Short and Fat player's ending was already doomed. Put simply, the Short and Fat player was best at fighting in coordination, but after his team was dismantled, he could only fight alone. In terms of military strategy, this belonged to mistakenly entering a dead end; certain death without a doubt.

Next were the five who survived.

Lin Xuan: A Gambling Dog. But the Unity of Man and Heaven ideology imperceptibly saved his life, showing that although he was a Gambling Dog, he knew the pros and cons.

The Big Gold Tooth: Chen Ran felt that this guy hid himself very well. When waking up in the Initial Secret Room, in the first moment, Chen Ran truly couldn't determine who the Sinister Youth was. It was only when he saw the Big Gold Tooth was still alive that he could determine the Sinister Youth was the Big Gold Tooth. This showed that this guy not only acted cowardly but also knew when it was time to fight. Currently, Chen Ran really hadn't discovered his weakness.

Shu Renjun: A hexagon warrior. His initial plan was special clearance plan one. Seeing his plan broken, he immediately chose 【two】. Moreover, the fact that his layout could be 【one】 or 【two】 already explained the problem. Possessing both foresight and the ability to fight blitzkriegs, this kind of opponent truly made people feel afraid.

However, Chen Ran felt that Shu Renjun ultimately still exposed a weakness.

'He seems to have...'

'A very deep obsession with rules and order!'

'For example, when he finished dealing with the people outside, he should have known that the four people hiding in 1803 couldn't possibly come out.'

'But he still waited.'

'I feel this is a kind of provocation!'

'He knew we wouldn't come out. The reason we didn't come out was because we were imprisoned by the Unity of Man and Heaven ideology, and the Unity of Man and Heaven ideology comes from rules and order. Therefore, his waiting, I feel, is a provocation towards rules and order.'

Thinking of this.

Chen Ran's complexion suddenly became ugly.

Simply because, at this moment, Shu Renjun was very likely cultivating the Unity of Man and Heaven Heart Cultivation.

Once he broke through the imprisonment of the Unity of Man and Heaven ideology, wouldn't that mean he would...

Have no weaknesses?

'Oh my heavens Bodhisattva, I'm willing to use Qiu Yinong's... uh, use Lin Xuan's ten years of lifespan to bet that Shu Renjun's Unity of Man and Heaven Heart Cultivation fails!'

Chen Ran took a deep drag of his cigarette.

Having finished analyzing them, he felt he should properly analyze himself now.

'Supreme Perfect Enlightenment Heart Cultivation and The Highest Goodness is Like Water are opposites to each other.'

'The former is the unification of thought, then the latter is the chaos of thought.'

'Just now, in the World of the Heart I constructed myself, I tried to make contact with the 【Joy, Anger, Sorrow, and Happiness】 that I suppressed.'

'But, it was very chaotic.'

'The four of them seemed to also contain many kinds of emotions. For example, 【Happiness】 especially liked to stir up trouble, act goofy, and be nonsensical. In short, you would never know which point he would place his chess piece on next.'

'【Happiness】 is one of the emotions I suppressed. In other words, this is one of the emotions I initially possessed. Put simply, he is me, the me possessing 【Happiness】.'

'【Anger】 is the same.'

'But it's very strange, why is 【Anger】 the boss among the four emotions?'

'Moreover, I could clearly feel that 【Anger】 was hostile towards me.'

'Why is it like this?'

'Perhaps, I have to go there once more...'

'However, my mental state at this moment...'

'There's also another point, where did 【Fear】 run off to? By rights, normal emotions should be 【Joy, Anger, Sorrow, and Fear】. Could 【Fear】 be the ultimate BOSS?'

The situation was urgent.

Chen Ran couldn't bother with that much anymore. He stood up and exercised his body a bit.

Although he might have a fight to fight in the World of the Heart later, which had nothing to do with his physical body in reality.

But him exercising his body right now was to find the feeling of when he used to fight in the past.

Don't look at Chen Ran's handsome appearance, thin figure, and seemingly lacking the strength to truss a chicken. His reaction speed was fast! Like in the previous Instance when he snatched other people's bus tickets; with a set of silky smooth small combos, the bus tickets were in his hands. There was no technique whatsoever, it all relied on his brain's fast reaction speed.

About two hours passed.

Actually, the door leading to the Third Secret Chamber of the Instance had long appeared in the Secret Room, but four out of the five people were deep in thought, and Chen Ran was also preparing to take a gamble, so none of them went to the Third Secret Chamber of the Instance.

He had recovered enough.

Chen Ran sat leaning against the wall, lighting a cigarette and silently smoking.

'It's a pity. The Highest Goodness is Like Water has no specific Heart Cultivation method. I can only cross the river by feeling the stones, and I don't even know if it's correct.'

Flicking away his cigarette butt, he slowly closed his eyes.

The next moment.

His consciousness appeared in the World of the Heart he had constructed.

Having learned his lesson from last time, this time he didn't think about those messy things, like 'Jingjing' and the like. If his thoughts wandered, a Jingjing would really appear in the World of the Heart.

It's just that the Jingjing that appeared last time was a faceless woman. This might be related to him not having the Three Realms of Lingtai Heart Cultivation, unable to project a specific person into his World of the Heart.

He had just appeared in the World of the Heart.

The four Chen Rans opposite him looked at him.

【Holy shit, the boss actually dared to come back. This is naked provocation. Even if it were me, I wouldn't be able to tolerate it, can you?】

【He has a Heart Cultivation method, we can't beat him, let's just destroy everything.】

【Second Brother, it's not that I want to criticize you, but can you be a bit happier about things? Reason relied on Heart Cultivation to occupy our body, but isn't our King also seeking other Heart Cultivation methods? He wants to take us all back.】

【All of you shut up. I've always been at odds with Reason, today I must show him some color.】

Chen Ran was taken aback.

'Didn't I do Heart Cultivation to retrieve the emotions I discarded?'

'Why would 【Happiness】 say that I'm here to take them back?'

However, right at this moment, Chen Ran's reason told him it was time to suppress his Mental State.

Otherwise, he would definitely be beaten out of the World of the Heart by 【Anger】 like last time.

'Something seems wrong...'

But there was no time to think more. The 【Anger】 opposite him had already charged over.

【Anger】 swung his fist and smashed towards Chen Ran's face. Chen Ran smiled slightly, dodged sideways, lifted his foot, and kicked towards his crotch.

The bloodline-ending kick!

However.

The next moment, Chen Ran was kicked in the root of life by 【Anger】.

His entire person retreated backward, falling to the ground, his body curling up like a shrimp.

【I am you. Do you think I wouldn't know what you are thinking?】

【But you are no longer me. You don't know what I am thinking.】

【Anger】 stood in front of Chen Ran, looking down from above. In those blood-red eyes, Chen Ran saw an emotion called 【Contempt】.

'Wait, is this right?'

【Anger】 didn't hesitate in the slightest, exploding Chen Ran's head with a single stomp.

…

In the Initial Secret Room.

Chen Ran, who was originally deep in thought, abruptly opened his eyes. A piercing, heart-drilling pain transmitted from his mind; it hurt so much his head felt like it was going to explode.

Don't panic when encountering trouble, let's light a cigarette first.

Even though his body at this moment was twitching in pain, the hand holding the cigarette was trembling, and his eyelids were becoming increasingly heavy.

But he had no choice. If he collapsed at a time like this, it would be very easy to be tricked into telling a lie while in a daze, and then he would be completely finished.

However, right after he lit the cigarette, he caught a glimpse of Shu Renjun, who had woken up at some unknown point, looking at him with a beaming smile while slowly raising a thumb to give Chen Ran a thumbs up.

Chen Ran took a deep drag of the cigarette, turned his head, stopped looking at him, and returned a...

Middle finger.

In terms of imposing manner, Haji-Chen couldn't possibly lose. He wouldn't lose in this lifetime.