Chapter 427: Barely Passing, Passing, and Extraordinary Performance (1)

My name is Lin Xuan.

Before entering this Instance, I thought I was a genius.

At that time, it was hard for me to imagine who in this Instance could defeat me.

I was arrogant, very arrogant, extremely arrogant.

I lied unscrupulously and fooled around in all sorts of ways, as if I were just playing a game in the human world. I hoped to see an expression called 【panic】 on their faces.

But, from the start of the Instance until now, I have been battered to pieces.

20 players.

Putting skills aside, eighteen of them could instakill me. Of course, I haven't gotten an inferiority complex to the point of counting that idiot Gao Lan.

I have thought about it. It should be because I had it too easy in my previous Instances, which led to me being too negligent in my control over details.

I found that ever since Chen Ran cleared Shu Renjun's Instance, he has been like a different person.

His words and his gaze have mocked me for being stupid more than once.

For example, right after clearing Shu Renjun's Instance, he said to me: 【Yo, Lin Xuan, does your score here illustrate that the important thing is participating?】

And another example:

【Are you alright?】

【I'm very doubtful right now, apart from your spatial skill, what value do you have?】

The former Chen Ran would never have said these words.

How should I put it?

The former Chen Ran gave off the feeling of a refined gentleman; the Chen Ran who came out of Shu Renjun's Instance gives off the feeling of a refined scum.

Moreover, this is Hell.

The kind of unpredictable, illogical, and baffling aggro-drawing behavior typical of Cannon Fodder in novels doesn't exist.

First, Hell players never do meaningless things.

Second, this level of verbal attack is like an ant trying to shake a tree to a Heart Cultivation player.

Heart-killing doesn't exist.

But next, Chen Ran carried out emotional heart-killing on both Shu Renjun and Hua Changsheng, and it seemed very successful.

Showing favoritism?

No, is he sick in the head? He just gave me a simple emotional heart-killing, but threw out a devastating blow of emotional heart-killing at the other two.

I don't care.

I also want to be... emotionally heart-killed!

Ahem, however, he probably doesn't know about my experiences before death yet.

I'll let it slide this time.

But then again, I vaguely feel like he is hinting at something to me.

After all, I am at the First Realm of Lingtai; it's impossible for me to be emotionally heart-killed. There's no need for him to make an unnecessary move and say unpleasant things to me.

I lit a Cigarette.

Looking ahead at Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong, who were constantly being stared at by the two Wooden Men.

Somehow, I had a kind of...

Intense sense of crisis.

What's even stranger is that when my intuition captured this sense of crisis.

I felt...

An inexplicable fear of death.

I stared fixedly at Chen Ran's back.

Murderous intent!

I felt his murderous intent towards me.

Very strong!

No, is he crazy? Being stared at by Wooden Men, and still thinking about how to kill me?

To be honest.

After I cultivated my heart to the First Realm of Lingtai, intuition rarely appeared.

What is intuition?

When experience, knowledge, deduction, and logic are unclear, they blend into a result in my brain. Namely, knowing the result but not knowing the reason why. It is my brain reminding me:

【Chen Ran wants to kill me!】

This is strange.

To the Ninth Floor Master, my skill is very important, therefore I am important.

Because I am important, therefore...

I am very important to Chen Ran. He has no reason to kill me in this Instance.

Unless, I no longer have value.

But the problem is, my skill cannot be taken away by others. As long as my skill is still there, I am very important.

I can't figure it out.

I silently took a puff of my cigarette. I really wanted to run up, grab Chen Ran's collar, and say: If you have something to fucking say, can't you just say it straight?

Therefore.

I felt this was Chen Ran's test.

Simply put.

I performed too poorly earlier, leading Chen Ran to temporarily give me a pop quiz.

If I fail the exam, there is a high probability he will kill me in this Instance.

Since there is an exam.

Then he should have told me the exam questions long ago, or hinted at them to me.

I fucking thank you!

It's decided. Later, when the effect of Eternal Kingdom ends, I will go to other spaces and mercilessly scold the Chen Rans in those other spaces.

…

Suppress Mental State!

Might as well sort things out.

What did Chen Ran do and say after Shu Renjun's Instance ended.

First: Right after clearing the stage, Chen Ran immediately followed up with an Eternal Kingdom.

Second: Chen Ran emotionally heart-killed me, and emotionally heart-killed Shu Renjun and Hua Changsheng.

Third: He and Qiu Yinong preempted me and seized the square grids of the two rows.

Analyzing them one by one.

First: What did it mean for Chen Ran to use Eternal Kingdom immediately upon clearing the stage?

It was obvious: to prevent being set up.

He was worried that while he was in Shu Renjun's Instance, Shu Renjun and Hua Changsheng would use their skills to set a trap in the Third Secret Room.

Therefore, he used Eternal Kingdom the very first moment he cleared the Instance.

Second: What did it mean to emotionally heart-kill me and emotionally heart-kill the other two?

The focus should be on me.

After all, by emotionally heart-killing me, Chen Ran was doing useless work, yet he still chose to emotionally heart-kill me, which meant...

There was a deeper meaning.

He denied my intelligence, but he did not deny my skill.

Moreover, according to the deduction, as long as my skill is present, I am very important.

Wait.

This conclusion seems to have a problem...

That is, I will not die easily!

Simply put.

Chen Ran will definitely hold onto me and not let go, and his skill can ban my use of skills for an hour. Therefore...

If we form a special team, I will frequently encounter situations where I cannot use my skill.

At these times, I need to have enough intelligence to protect myself.

If I don't have this level of intelligence, even if Chen Ran doesn't kill me in this Instance, I might be killed by other players in the next Instance.

After all, the players Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong match with are all... either a Hunter Team one Star Rating higher, or outstanding elites two Star Ratings higher.

If I don't have enough intelligence to protect myself when my skill is banned.

Then, dying in this Instance is no different from dying in the next Instance.

This is Chen Ran's logic for wanting to kill me!

In other words.

The topic of this pop quiz is...

How should I protect myself?

In other words.

In Chen Ran's view, I am already facing a life-and-death crisis right at this moment?

In other words again.

Chen Ran had already deduced in Shu Renjun's Instance that I would face a life-and-death crisis right at this moment?

How is this possible!!!

Deducing up to here, I canceled my originally suppressed Mental State; I needed pressure.

The hand I used to hold my cigarette was shaking.

Because I knew.

Chen Ran acts in the style of the School of Military Momentum, and what the School of Military Momentum is best at is...

Dealing with various unexpected situations.

In other words, Chen Ran deduced an unexpected situation in Shu Renjun's Instance, so he handed this unexpected situation over to me to handle.

In this unexpected situation, if I don't handle it well, I will die.

Hm? What's going on?

I turned my head and looked at the others. I don't know if it was an illusion just now...

I seemed to feel someone trembling.

Moreover.

I looked ahead and saw that the two Wooden Men were still staring at Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong.

What's the situation?

Why do I feel like I'm increasingly unable to understand the logic in this?

Is this the gap...

From the difference in tiers?

Shouldn't I be a genius? Why do I suddenly have this feeling at this moment: the word "genius" is actually so far away from me...