Chapter 492: This is What Counts as a Team

'The password is too simple.'

'This is a trap.'

'Trying to kill me?'

'Lie-Judgment can't deceive a lie out of me.'

'With the Liar-Slayer's protection, it's impossible to physically kill me either.'

'Suppress Mental State!'

Chen Ran once again looked around and found that the scene had not changed.

'Rule out Id Skills.'

'Merge Mental State!'

'Rule out Distance-Free.'

Chen Ran had experimented earlier, so he could also rule out being covered by a Virtual Overlay.

What exactly was it?

Chen Ran clearly had a premonition that as long as he walked inside the door, he would definitely die.

It was a premonition, not a prediction.

Ever since he cultivated his heart, he hadn't had this kind of strong premonition for a long time.

This indicated that he had touched upon his knowledge blind spot: the Ego Mental State blind spot.

This was where the advantage of Lin Xuan's skill showed, giving Chen Ran the cost for trial and error.

He took a deep breath.

He slowly walked to the doorway and looked inside.

What entered his eyes was...

A pair of dead fish-like eyes.

A pitch-black gun barrel.

A yawning face.

The dead fish eyes stared at him.

The black muzzle pointed at him.

The yawning face faced him.

Inside, there was only Shang Yun alone!

'So that's how it is!'

Bang, bang, two gunshots.

Chen Ran was shot in both arms, and his submachine gun dropped.

"Do you know where you lost?"

Blood flowed from Chen Ran's arms, but as if he had no sense of pain, he looked at Shang Yun calmly:

"I should have lost in the fact that, up to now, I might still be unclear which of the three it is: a virtual world, Distance-Free spiritual world, or a Virtual Overlay?"

"This place can obliterate you, and with this shot, you will die." Having said that, Shang Yun pulled the trigger, hitting Chen Ran's forehead.

…

First floor.

The scene hadn't changed at all; it was exactly the same as when Chen Ran and his companions came in.

Ten corpses lay on the ground.

Among them, five were the five people Chen Ran's trio had entrapped to death through the Distance-Free Kill.

The remaining five were the five people of the jeans team; they died with their eyes wide open.

Besides the ten corpses and the alive Shang Yun and his four companions, there were also...

Four stone statues.

Looking at the appearance of these four stone statues: two Lin Xuans, one Chen Ran, and one Qiu Yinong.

Among them, Lin Xuan, Chen Ran, and Qiu Yinong stood side by side.

The extra Lin Xuan stood not far away with his mouth open, as if shouting.

Crack.

The four stone statues shattered, and the four people recovered their bodies of flesh and blood, but they fell straight down.

The two Lin Xuans and the one Qiu Yinong died instantly.

Chen Ran fell to the ground, breathing, but unconscious.

Shang Yun's eyelids lifted a bit, looking at Chen Ran on the ground with some surprise, murmuring: "Interesting, he actually wasn't deceived. It seems in Hell, another player possessing the brilliance of humanity has appeared."

Seeing that his teammates had finished picking up the Point Cards from the corpses of the jeans team, Shang Yun stretched his waist: "Let's change to another place, these people are involved too deeply, let's not get dragged into it."

He then looked upstairs: "Hey, you two upstairs, follow us. Wherever we go, you set up that place as a decryption location."

The two Five-Star players upstairs: No bro, whose home turf is it exactly?

But the two didn't dare to refute. It was true they had authority, but Shang Yun's team had the possibility of killing the Six-Star BOSS. In other words, in this world, as long as Shang Yun wanted to kill them, no one could save them.

…

Shang Yun and his four companions left, and the only one still alive in the entire building was Chen Ran.

Not long after.

Lin Xuan, Chen Ran, and Qiu Yinong, the three of them appeared on the first floor. They looked at the four people lying on the ground, their expressions solemn.

Three dead, one unconscious—what a tragic battle record!

"He's not dead, but it seems he can't wake up." Chen Ran lit a Cigarette.

Lin Xuan scratched his hair: "Previously, in another space, I found I couldn't sense the three people in this space. Therefore, I sent a Lin Xuan from Space Number Five over, trying to wake Chen Ran up. But the sent Lin Xuan also lost contact immediately. He should have been petrified by Shang Yun's skill and failed to wake Chen Ran up."

Qiu Yinong chewed her Chewing Gum: "He should have been deceived to death, but not the kind of deceiving to death Lin Ou spoke of. Rather, Shang Yun used some unknown method to make this Chen Ran feel that he was already dead, so even though he is still alive, he probably won't be able to wake up."

With a word from each, the three explained the reason why the four people had turned into the living dead.

But, this was too unimaginable.

Ever since they came to Hell, they had never encountered such a monstrous team.

So strong that it made people unable to breathe, so strong that one couldn't find a single weakness.

Qiu Yinong's time skill was countered by the Id Tier player in Shang Yun's team.

Lin Xuan's spatial skill was countered by the petrification effect of Shang Yun's skill.

Jiang Zhe's Reverse the Future was countered by the cooperation of Shang Yun's entire team.

Chen Ran's Distance-Free Technique from The Highest Goodness is Like Water should have also been perfectly countered by Shang Yun.

Simply put, this team belonged to a perfect Hexagon team. At the same Star Rating or below, no matter what team they encountered, they would have a method to counter them.

'Monsters!'

Chen Ran took a deep drag of his cigarette to alleviate the fear coming from human instinct in his heart.

"Let's deduce."

Although this trial and error was terrible to look at, it might bring a surprise.

At least one Chen Ran was still alive.

If he could wake up, they would know what exactly happened just now.

But this kind of thing couldn't be pinned on someone who might never wake up.

"First, the composition of Shang Yun's team," Qiu Yinong chewed her Chewing Gum and said, "There might be a skill similar to petrification, Virtual Overlay, an Id Skill, a Secret Room skill, and the fifth skill is temporarily unknown."

Chen Ran supplemented: "Shang Yun's Mental State should be the Second Realm of Lingtai. If it is, then he can reflect scenes of the real world within Distance-Free. This is very terrifying, but what I can't figure out is, if Shang Yun is at the Second Realm of Lingtai and can immunize against Virtual Overlays, then why is there still an Id Tier player in his team?"

The two were startled. Right, since Shang Yun could immunize against Virtual Overlays, the role of the Id Player in his team was almost zero.

Why was there an Id Player?

For a long time.

None of the three could come up with an answer.

Lin Xuan pondered: "Not coming up with an answer might be the best answer."

Qiu Yinong and Chen Ran nodded.

"Not having an answer means we've touched our knowledge blind spot, a knowledge blind spot concerning the Second Realm of Lingtai."

"First, the Second Realm of Lingtai can reflect real-world scenes in the spiritual world."

"Secondly, an Id Skill, a skill of this level mostly acts on the spiritual world."

"Finally, if the two are combined, will it produce some kind of special reaction?"

"It's not over yet."

"There is also a Virtual Overlay. If these three are combined, will it produce an even stronger special reaction?"

Hearing Chen Ran's analysis, Lin Xuan and Qiu Yinong both furrowed their brows tightly. They clearly knew that the answer should be very close, but the only problem was that none of the three had personally experienced it, so they couldn't confirm what exactly the effect of that 【special reaction】 was.

They couldn't help but look at Chen Ran lying on the ground. What was certain was that this Chen Ran definitely discovered something to escape a disaster. When he woke up, combining it with the deductions of the three, they might be able to know the Combo Skill of Shang Yun's team.