Chapter 497: Waiting for the Rabbit to Hit the Tree

Rooftop.

The two Five-Star players had already left.

Chen Ran played with the 【Nine of Bamboos】 he obtained, looking down at Mo Xi who was dragging two corpses away from the first floor.

It was unknown what he was thinking.

Jiang Zhe lit a Cigarette, gazing into the distance, and it was also unknown what he was thinking.

Perhaps.

Everyone has their troubles.

…

Bar.

There weren't many people in the shop.

Perhaps because the players who didn't plan to stay had started collecting Cards, very few of the remaining players came to the bar.

There were only three tables of people.

One table in front, one table on the left. Chen Ran couldn't help but curiously size up these two tables of people.

Both tables had five people, likely both teams. The captain of the front table should be that pure-looking woman; the captain of the table on the left should be the slightly lazy youth with dead fish eyes.

The pure-looking woman was wearing a traditional costume.

The youth with dead fish eyes looked listless.

Two very strange people.

However, when Chen Ran saw that both of their respective teams had an Id Tier teammate, he immediately knew that these two teams should be existences he couldn't afford to provoke.

Moreover.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he kept feeling that the gazes of the five people from the Dead Fish Eyes team were very strange when looking at him. To be exact, when he had just returned to the bar, after these five people saw his appearance, they all clearly startled.

'Family, who gets it? Coming to a bar to drink a sip of tea, and now I can't get out.'

Chen Ran looked around.

'Break free!'

He silently picked up the teacup and took a sip. The fragrance of tea overflowed in all directions. When he looked up again, he had already put on Sunglasses.

Seeing this.

The expressions of the pure-looking woman and the Dead Fish Eyes didn't change, but their teammates looked at Chen Ran with great surprise.

But soon.

Chen Ran found that the Sunglasses he had just put on disappeared.

'Suppress Mental State!'

A segment of memory appeared in his mind. Just now, the bar rotated 180 degrees, and his Sunglasses were thrown out.

'It seems the bar has long been overlaid.'

'But...'

Relying on feeling, Chen Ran raised both middle fingers, one pointing forward, one pointing left.

Because...

His eyes were closed.

Right at this moment: "Ghost Whisperer - Emperor's Seal of Reincarnation - Reverse the Future."

Chen Ran: "..."

'No bro, is this right?'

He scratched his head and simply leaned back on the chair, put his legs on the table, and just like that, swayed and fell asleep.

"Pfft!"

In the bar, the traditional costume woman laughed out loud: "Feigning sleep, that really can crack your Combo Skill."

Shang Yun wasn't angry either.

He carefully recalled. It should be that when Chen Ran and his companion came in just now, a member of his own team wasn't mentally prepared and inadvertently revealed a micro-expression, which was caught by Chen Ran and his companion.

'From the micro-expression, Chen Ran deduced that we had encountered Qiu Yinong and Lin Xuan.'

'Deep deduction.'

'When Qiu Yinong, Lin Xuan, and Chen Ran were in that building, they used the Distance-Free Combo Skill to exterminate five players.'

'We encountered Qiu Yinong and the others, yet weren't exterminated by that Combo Skill. Therefore, he would deduce that my Distance-Free is stronger than his.'

'I fought against his Distance-Free in the other space.'

'He cultivated The Highest Goodness is Like Water.'

'An ordinary Five-Star Distance-Free is not his match.'

'But, to overcome that Combo Skill, a Five-Star Distance-Free is far from enough. Therefore, he deduced that I am in the Second Realm of Lingtai.'

'In my team, there is an Id Player.'

'This indicates a high probability that my team has a Virtual Overlay skill.'

'The Second Realm of Lingtai reflecting reality.'

'The virtual skill overlaying reality.'

Shang Yun clutched his forehead. From a teammate's micro-expression, Chen Ran could deduce so much. Truly, details determine success or failure.

He lit a Cigarette and continued deducing.

Actually, compared to the behavioral prediction of Supreme Perfect Enlightenment, Shang Yun preferred this kind of post-raid review. It could clearly see a person's true reaction when facing danger, thereby predicting their underlying logic.

'Just now, he wasn't sure if he was in Distance-Free, but regardless of whether he was or not, he indeed broke free from Distance-Free first.'

'He knew that if it was Distance-Free and there was a scene, it meant I used Distance-Free.'

'He knew that after breaking free from Distance-Free, there was still a layer of Virtual Overlay.'

'Thus, he put on Sunglasses to prevent being pulled into Distance-Free by me unknowingly again.'

'But, he felt it wasn't safe.'

'After putting on the Sunglasses, he immediately closed his eyes, and sure enough, the Sunglasses were thrown out by a skill.'

'He realized that his deduction was correct.'

'Reaching this step.'

'He had already determined that he was only covered by the virtual and Secret Room.'

Shang Yun looked at the bar door...

It was open.

'He knows the bar hasn't closed its door, so the 【Secret Room】 won't cause him harm, and the Virtual Overlay won't cause him harm either.'

'Might as well just lie flat!'

Shang Yun looked again at Chen Ran treating the chair like a rocking chair.

'In his view, if Jiang Zhe noticed the anomaly, he would definitely use his skill. Therefore, as long as he fell from the chair, it would mean...'

'But, there is another situation. If I have my teammates retract their skills and only leave the Virtual Overlay, when Jiang Zhe falls from the chair, Jiang Zhe will also sense something is wrong, know that someone used a skill, and use his skill without hesitation.'

'In other words.'

'He just needs to wait. In any situation, our Combo Skill will be made to disappear by Jiang Zhe.'

Deducing up to here.

Shang Yun felt there was no need to continue and signaled his teammates to retract their skills.

The Chen Rans in different spaces all made the same choice. He felt that continuing would just be mutual attrition. Rather than wasting time on Chen Ran, it would be better to do something else.

'Judging from Chen Ran's performance, he is at least at the top tier of Five-Star.'

'The reason it's "at least" is only because what he lacks is the Mental Cultivation Method for Ego, unable to achieve immunity to Common Sense.'

His teammates retracted their skills.

The chair Chen Ran was sitting on disappeared, and he fell on his butt on the ground. He slowly got up, his expression turning cold, and waved his hand as if shooing away flies, signaling them to get lost.

Shang Yun nodded in strong agreement.

His teammates' expressions changed a bit, but Shang Yun rolled his eyes at them: "Just now, you made a mistake and let others discover an anomaly. It's normal to be humiliated. Otherwise, what do you want to do? Engage in mutual attrition with him, or a real Whisperer's Escape Room overlay?"

The four teammates glanced at Chen Ran and then looked at Jiang Zhe.

Previously, they had seen Jiang Zhe use his skill on the first floor and knew that this guy's skill was very shameless. If the Whisperer's Escape Room overlaid, it would be made to disappear by this guy's skill, and in the end, it would still be mutual attrition.

Seeing that none of his teammates spoke, Shang Yun led the four people into the real bar entrance close at hand.

Shang Yun's group of five leaving meant it was the traditional costume woman's team's turn to set up a checkpoint. She glanced at Chen Ran and Jiang Zhe, who had already opened their eyes: "I don't want to engage in mutual attrition with you guys. You can go in. But, opening your eyes like this, aren't you afraid that what you see is still a Virtual Overlay?"