Chapter 371: Teaming Up Is Impossible

"I've heard that in the showdowns between Nine-Star and Ten-Star players, there is a special Mental State called The Highest Goodness is Like Water, which is rumored to be the product of developing Heart Cultivation to the extreme. You were trying out The Highest Goodness is Like Water just now, right?" Shu Renjun's eyes looked somewhat strange, smiling yet not smiling.

Chen Ran lit a cigarette, holding his forehead, feeling very exhausted, and asked: "Did you break through to the Unity of Man and Heaven Heart Cultivation realm?"

Shu Renjun shook his head, smiling without saying a word.

The trap Chen Ran dug was a bit obvious. After all, there was a high probability they were still being monitored by the Omniscient and Omnipotent. If Shu Renjun admitted it, going out would likely coincide right with the Hell Great Escape, and he would definitely die without a doubt.

"Are you lacking a teammate?"

"What?" Chen Ran suspected he had misheard, feeling somewhat uncertain.

"Even though you are at the center of the vortex of certain games, as long as you are willing, we can become teammates."

Hearing this, Chen Ran shook his head: "My teammates have very likely already been predetermined."

Shu Renjun was taken aback, glancing at Qiu Yinong and Lin Xuan who were closing their eyes and attacking the Mental State.

"Who is it?"

"It should be... a person who can kill me, and a person who needs my help. As for who specifically, I'm not entirely clear."

In the real world, even nuclear bombs have a nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

Let alone Chen Ran's Eternal Kingdom.

Therefore, he guessed that perhaps before long, the alliance leaders would send someone to track him all along, but a person not here to kill him.

This was to ensure that Chen Ran, this nuclear bomb, wouldn't go berserk. Their nature should be the same as Chen Ran and the other tracking Lin Xuan.

Put simply, equivalent to the role of Sha Wujing in the scripture-seeking team of Journey to the West.

In the Flowing Sands River, Sha Wujing ate nine past incarnations of the Tang Monk, yet nothing happened to him at all. This was obviously risk control arranged by the Heavenly Court.

The previous nine projects were done too poorly, so they were directly terminated by Sha Wujing.

After the plan submitted by the tenth incarnation of the Tang Monk was approved, only then did Sha Wujing let them pass. At the same time, he chose to follow the project, ensuring the project's progress while possessing the right to call off the project at any time.

By the same logic.

A character similar to Sha Wujing was bound to appear beside Chen Ran. This character would look for an opportunity to kill him in one blow. If there was no opportunity, they would constantly evaluate Chen Ran's danger coefficient of going berserk. Once the danger coefficient became too high, then in the next Instance, he might just face an inevitable death trap.

As for the person who needed his help.

Chen Ran felt it should be that 【Sage】 who possessed a resurrection skill.

From deduction, possessing a resurrection True Self Skill must have very large restrictions.

And Eternal Kingdom's stat bloat in the future might have the effect of eliminating this restriction.

Therefore, he guessed that among his teammates, one should be the 【Sage】.

In other words.

A team of five: Chen Ran, Lin Xuan, Qiu Yinong, Risk Control, and the Sage.

The personnel quota was already full.

Although out of the five, only Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong were teamed up on the surface, the various factions would likely control the personnel to five people. This way, there would be three teams that could track Chen Ran. As long as Chen Ran showed signs of going berserk, three teams with luxurious lineups would immediately snipe and kill him. After all, the Deceiver Alliance, Liar-Slayer Alliance, and The Underworld happened to be exactly three factions.

Thus, there was no spot for Shu Renjun.

'How truly pitiful.'

Shu Renjun looked at Chen Ran in front of him, who had already foreseen the future and still maintained an indifferent attitude. He suddenly felt that perhaps there was some reason why he was the True Self.

However, Chen Ran saying this made Shu Renjun realize that if he wanted to team up, he must kick out one of these five people.

Risk Control could be ruled out.

The Sage could be ruled out.

Qiu Yinong could also be ruled out. After all, Chen Ran didn't have Superego Heart Cultivation right now. Once Qiu Yinong was killed by Shu Renjun, Chen Ran might hold a grudge against him, and then teaming up would be meaningless.

Therefore, the answer was Lin Xuan. Chen Ran was cryptically telling him: if you want to team up with me, you must kill Lin Xuan first.

Looking from a God's perspective, did Chen Ran really want to team up with Shu Renjun?

The answer was negative.

If it was an ordinary teaming up, it meant that as long as there was an opportunity, Chen Ran would kill him. After all, their teaming up in this Instance was only a forced choice because Shu Renjun was too strong.

If it wasn't an ordinary teaming up, then only a master-servant relationship remained. But if Chen Ran signed a Slave contract, then the two alliance leaders only needed to target Shu Renjun, and Chen Ran would definitely die.

In the Hell Great Escape, heaven knows when Shu Renjun would die. In other words, Chen Ran would very likely be already dead before he even had the chance to use Eternal Kingdom.

So, no matter what, subjectively, it was impossible for Chen Ran to team up with him.

Actually, anyone who sorted out the complex games surrounding Chen Ran wouldn't walk alongside him for too long, otherwise they would easily die.

Shu Renjun fell silent.

'The rules on Chen Ran: One, prohibited from teaming up; Two, Slave contract; Three, prohibited from being unable to defeat him; Four, prohibited from leaving alive with him; Five, prohibited from letting him go berserk.'

'Prohibited from teaming up, meaning I cannot team up with him, otherwise I will die.'

'Prohibited from Slave contract, meaning if I subjugate him and sign a Slave contract, then I will become a target to be focus-fired.'

'Prohibited from being unable to defeat him, this is actually very easy to understand. If I can't defeat him, I will die, thereby ensuring his skill is not exposed.'

'Prohibited from leaving alive with him, this is also very easy to understand. If he and I lay down our arms and cease hostilities right here, and I leave alive, it will inevitably expose his skill. Even if I don't expose it, the numerous skills in Hell will also make me unknowingly expose his skill. After he becomes a public enemy, he will go berserk.'

'Prohibited from letting him go berserk, meaning he cannot be given the illusion that he will become a public enemy of the people, otherwise he will go berserk after going out.'

'There is one problem I haven't been able to figure out all along, which is that no matter how you look at it, Qiu Yinong doesn't seem like someone who complies with the rules surrounding Chen Ran. How did she survive until now?'

'Moreover, she seems to be immune to the rules surrounding Chen Ran.'

'It's not over yet.'

'I faintly feel that she is immune to many karmic causes and effects that might exist.'

Looking from a God's perspective, The Almighty chose to descend onto Gao Lan. Although the descent failed, logically speaking, wouldn't descending onto Qiu Yinong or Chen Ran himself have an even more unexpected effect?

It's not over yet.

Gao Lan died. With The Almighty's powerful skill, could they not have predicted that Gao Lan would die? That he would inexplicably die in the previous Secret Room before he had the time to use the skill?

Therefore, The Almighty doing this was either a kind of experiment.

Or...

There definitely existed a variable inside here, and a variable capable of changing the future.

Put simply, in The Almighty's prediction, Gao Lan would use the skill. But influenced by the variable, Gao Lan died in the previous Secret Room before using the skill.

(You can mark this down, this foreshadowing will be used a long time later.)

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'Lin Xuan is the result of Chen Ran's choice.'

'The Risk Control and the person needing his help are the arrangements of the various tycoons in the 18th Level.'

'Only Qiu Yinong's appearance does not conform to logic. But this kind of non-conformity to logic is often accompanied by great terror, and cannot be provoked.'

'Therefore, my choices are only and exclusively two: One, kill Lin Xuan and replace Lin Xuan's position, but by doing this, I must find a backer in the 18th Level to solve the problem of Chen Ran being targeted by the Floor Masters.'

'Two: Kill Chen Ran.'

'Both choices are very troublesome, but from the perspective of the Unity of Man and Heaven Heart Cultivation, I should kill them all and carve out a path belonging to myself.'

'Let's test the waters first.'