Chapter 429: I Can't Do It!

The known conditions and the exam question have all been deduced. Next is solving the question.

There are three lines of thought for solving the question: the lower, the middle, and the upper.

Lower: Protect myself.

Middle: Protect myself and incidentally protect Chen and Qiu.

Upper: Protect myself, incidentally protect Chen and Qiu, and simultaneously kill Shu and Hua.

To Chen Ran, all three lines of thought are acceptable, but their significance is different.

Lower: Belongs to barely passing.

Middle: Belongs to passing.

Upper: Honors student.

He has three ways to die.

One: Perish together with Cui Yu.

Two: Killed by Hua Changsheng.

Three: Killed by me and Hua Changsheng.

Not bad. Actually, fate had arranged the ending for Shu Renjun long ago.

How truly ironic. A player with Unity of Man and Heaven Heart Cultivation, in the end...

Still cannot escape fate's arrangement.

Perhaps, this is how those who chase the light will ultimately die in darkness.

Therefore, the cause of death Chen Ran has given Shu Renjun is... irresistible fate.

This is simply heart-killing!

So ruthless!

Next is Hua Changsheng. What kind of death has Chen Ran prepared for her?

This needs to be analyzed.

How might Hua Changsheng die?

The answer is: tricked into lying.

This is an Instance she designed, so clearing the stage is very easy for her. Therefore, her only way to die is to be tricked into a lie.

However, she is a Three-Star peak Superego Player and was previously the lackey of Du Hongnian, the Floor Master of the 9th floor of the Deceiver Alliance. How difficult would it be to trick a lie out of her?

There are too many uncontrollable factors.

Could it be that Chen Ran hasn't prepared a proper death for her?

That shouldn't be.

Chen Ran giving out the exam question means that his plan might be deduced in advance by Shu Renjun and Hua Changsheng.

Looking at it now, Shu Renjun has probably already deduced his own cause of death.

Hua Changsheng hasn't deduced it yet.

Since Chen Ran dared to give the exam question, it means that in the 【Honors student】 answer, I should be able to kill both of them.

No, three of them.

There's also Cui Yu.

Wait!

Holy shit, could it be...

Tian Ji's horse racing strategy?

Simply put.

The lineups for both sides:

Our side: Me, Cui Yu.

Enemy side: Shu Renjun, Hua Changsheng.

As for Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong, the two are immobilized and can be directly ignored.

Our superior horse is Cui Yu, because he has a special mechanism: guaranteed kill on Shu Renjun.

The enemy's superior horse is Shu Renjun, after all, he is a Five-Star player.

According to the logic of Tian Ji's horse racing strategy...

It should be:

I am the inferior horse, so I should go kill the enemy's superior horse:

I kill Shu Renjun.

Cui Yu is the superior horse, so he should go kill the enemy's inferior horse:

Cui Yu kills Hua Changsheng.

If I want to kill Shu Renjun, I definitely can't do it with conventional methods. I can only use skills.

For Cui Yu to kill Hua Changsheng, other methods definitely won't work, he can only use conventional methods. Simply put, skills won't work; he can only use the rules of the game to kill Hua Changsheng. Therefore, Chen Ran will definitely follow up with Eternal Kingdom.

Conclusion: After I kill Shu Renjun, Chen Ran follows up with Eternal Kingdom. Cui Yu, seeing that Shu Renjun is already dead, will target Hua Changsheng.

This way, a triple kill can be achieved.

Completing the 【Honors student】!

However, how did Chen Ran know the game mechanics of this Instance in advance?

He probably didn't know.

Therefore, the answer he hopes I give is: Protect myself, incidentally protect Chen and Qiu, and simultaneously kill Shu Renjun.

He never considered having me kill Hua Changsheng in this Instance.

In other words.

My plan is even above 【Honors student】; it should be 【Extraordinary Performance】.

Tsk tsk tsk, clever as I am.

…

The exam question and the thought process for solving it have all been deduced. Next...

I should deduce the steps to answer the question.

The steps to answer the question...

There is one and only one.

How should I kill Shu Renjun?

Since Chen Ran could give an exam question of this level, then after learning the game mechanics of the Instance, he would deduce the perfect answer of 【Extraordinary Performance】.

Therefore, the moment Shu Renjun dies, he will immediately follow up with Eternal Kingdom, causing Cui Yu to target Hua Changsheng.

But, after he uses Eternal Kingdom, and he and Qiu Yinong clear the stage, with Shu Renjun dead, the Instance will only have left: Me, Cui Yu, Hua Changsheng.

How do I protect myself?

Also, players of Three-Star rank or above all have a Psychological Defense Line: they do not kill themselves.

Simply put.

If I teleport Shu Renjun to a space where time flows faster, the Chen Ran in the other spaces cannot use Eternal Kingdom.

Hua Changsheng is guaranteed to win!

If I transfer Shu Renjun over there, logically speaking, he is guaranteed to die. But if he tells Hua Changsheng about the game of chess in this space, then according to the Psychological Defense Line, the Hua Changsheng in that space who has already won will not kill him. Not killing him means...

If Chen Ran follows up with Eternal Kingdom and the real Shu Renjun returns, Cui Yu's target will still be Shu Renjun, and Hua Changsheng can survive.

If Chen Ran does not follow up with Eternal Kingdom, the Hua Changsheng in this space is guaranteed to win.

Therefore, the Hua Changsheng in the other spaces will not kill the real Shu Renjun!

So, this plan is wrong.

Fuck, fuck, fuck!

I feel like my brain is going to start smoking.

My CPU is burning!

Chen Ran, you motherfucker, couldn't you make the exam question a bit simpler?

Fuck!

Fuck!

Fuck!

Can I withstand this?

I can't!

It's too difficult!

I can't do it!!

Actually, I clearly know that above this 【Extraordinary Performance】...

There is also a 【Perfect Score】 answer sheet.

That is: kill all of them.

But, I really can't do it, because the moment Hua Changsheng uses her skill, Qiu Yinong will use the Wheel of Time without hesitation.

This Wheel of Time is truly perverted.

It can pull Hua Changsheng back to before she used her skill.

Then Qiu Yinong will remind Chen Ran, and Chen Ran will immediately use Eternal Kingdom.

Just ask if that's exaggerated or not?

In other words.

When Chen Ran was designing the exam question, he already considered the possibility that I might kill him. As long as Qiu Yinong is present, not only will I not be able to kill him, but I'll also screw up this exam.

Namely: Fail.

Be reasonable, both are Superego Skills.

The Wheel of Time is simply too exaggerated.

From a certain angle, it also has an effect similar to Eternal Kingdom's skill-breaking.

After all, being able to pull a player back to before they used a skill, isn't that equivalent to breaking it?

Wait, is that right?

Is the Wheel of Time really a Superego Skill?

And not a True Self Skill?

Holy shit!

What the hell am I thinking about!!!

Right now, I have to deduce the answer for 【Extraordinary Performance】, otherwise...

Chen Ran might really kill me!

(This is the habit of degenerate gamblers; they don't really like the state of absolute rationality, they prefer taking risks. See, deducing all the way until now, Lin Xuan hasn't suppressed his Mental State again.)

I glanced at my Watch.

I don't have much time.

I grabbed my hair. This feeling is just like the helpless and pathological gambler's mindset of having lost all chips at the gambling table in the past.

This mindset will force me to think if there is anything else I can gamble with.

What other plans do I have that can achieve a score of 【Extraordinary Performance】?