Immortal I Speedrun Supernatural Game

Chapter 516 The non-existent person

Dada-da-da-da

Wu Wang and Bai Cha's footsteps echoed slowly and deliberately in the empty corridor.

They went to the nearest law enforcement checkpoint to install communication equipment for Wu Wang and then rushed over.

This place is called [Fist Power Club].

The name itself tells you that it is a club that engages in boxing-related activities.

At the same time, boxing matches are also held here regularly.

It's just like the reason why the [Suicide Show] has been so popular in the Eternal City for so long.

Because of the existence of the [Eternal Life Field].

Therefore, the boxing matches in the Eternal City are, on the surface, far more brutal than those in the real world.

They could easily kill their opponent in the ring during the match.

Anyway, the opponent can be resurrected from the [Rebirth Pool] the next day.

Of course, this only applies to the opponent.

According to the information Bai Cha just provided, it was not long ago, around the time Yan Shuangying and she went to the library.

In this club, a female boxer named "Sakura" cleanly defeated her opponent on the stage, but suddenly went berserk and jumped off the stage, rushing towards the audience.

In front of everyone, they beat an audience member to death in their seat.

Although death no longer exists in the Eternal City, the law and order still exist.

Otherwise, wouldn't this place become a no-man's-land where people can kill without consequence?

Cases like this, where someone intentionally causes death, will likely be punished to the highest level by the laws of the Eternal City.

A six-month-long death loop

First, law enforcement officers shoot the prisoner dead on the spot. Then, professionals are sent to guard the prisoner for half an hour before the prisoner is resurrected from the "rebirth pool" the next day, and a facial recognition robot is used to lock onto the prisoner.

He was killed on the spot after being revived.

This cycle repeats for six months.

Bai Cha also said that during the 24 hours after death when waiting to be resurrected, the residents' consciousness did not completely dissipate.

They would vaguely sense that they were in darkness and needed to endure that difficult time until a beam of light appeared so that they could be revived.

In other words, the person receiving this punishment will, in the limited memory of the next six months, only recall the images of being repeatedly tortured.

The rest of the time could only be spent in endless darkness.

This is an extremely cruel punishment on a person's mind.

Immortality, ironically, became a prerequisite for the execution of this punishment.

After listening, Wu Wang had two feelings—

First, although Yingluo may be a bit reckless and impulsive, she is definitely not the kind of person who would kill indiscriminately or act so rashly as to do such a thing for no reason.

Otherwise, she wouldn't be a friend recognized by the Xie Zhi, and she wouldn't have survived until now in the previous dungeons.

There must be some reason for this.

Secondly, Wu Wang felt that this punishment sounded quite lenient.

He had just come up with more than a dozen even more inhumane punishments in his mind.

Let's see if we can apply to the law enforcement headquarters to report this to the [city system].

What kind of punishment is it to only kill someone for six months?
All told, I've only died about a hundred times, which is less than the number of times I've attempted suicide in the past few days.

In short, we still need to come to the club to see how things are going.

Regardless of why Yingluo wanted to kill that guy, she certainly wouldn't just surrender after killing him.

Sure enough, when Wu Wang and Bai Cha walked through that long corridor...

When I arrived at the boxing arena, I was shocked to find that the huge venue had been emptied and all the spectators had been evacuated.

Only the heads of the two clubs remained.

And two law enforcement officers who rushed to the scene to cordon it off.

When they saw Bai Cha and Wu Wang beside him, they immediately came over and saluted.

But perhaps because the news that Wu Wang killed Bai Ta and came back with his head twisted had already spread internally, coupled with the fact that the city-wide broadcast of the "Suicide Show" was too eye-catching.

The way these two law enforcement officers looked at Wu Wang was not only admiration, but also had a star-struck feel to it.

"Let me explain the situation first," Wu Wang waved his hand, telling them to skip the formalities.

The two law enforcement officers exchanged a glance, and one of them spoke:
“We have reviewed the surveillance footage. After murdering the victim, the resident named ‘Sakura’ disregarded the club’s security personnel and rushed out of the scene with an incomprehensible force. The law enforcement officers who arrived later were unable to stop her.”

After saying that, the other party also took out equipment and played the surveillance footage for Wu Wang to see.

It's immediately clear from the surveillance footage that it is indeed [Sakura Fall] herself.

After killing the person, he leaped high into the air and punched through the ceiling of the building, escaping the club's surveillance range from above the dome.

Wu Wang also looked up at the gap.

Hmm... it certainly doesn't seem like something people from this world could create.

Only a monster with stats like Sakura can leap high into the air and fly out like a superman, relying solely on his physical strength.

"What was the identity of the audience member who was beaten to death?" Wu Wang asked.

The law enforcement officer immediately spoke up: "Oh, this person is called Xu Bansheng, a screenwriter for a magazine called Starry Sky."

The person next to him added, "There is currently no evidence that the two have ever had any interaction, and this is even Xu Bansheng's first time watching a boxing match."

Wu Wang frowned after hearing this.

My gaze returned to the monitor, and I slowed down and zoomed in on the footage.

It must be said that the Eternal City is far more advanced than the real world in certain technological applications.

The surveillance equipment was so clear it was like a movie set; it could zoom in so much that you could see every single eyelash on Yingluo's face.

Suddenly, he realized something was wrong.

After winning the match on the ring, when Ying Luo raised her hand and looked around in a victorious pose, her demeanor and everything else seemed normal.

Only when facing this audience member did her pupils noticeably contract sharply, and even her raised hand froze in mid-air, ceasing its waving motion.

He then immediately broke free of the ring, his teeth clenched in fury.

Even as he rushed towards the opponent, or even as he raised his hand to strike, he was still frantically saying something.

However, due to the large number of spectators around her, the entire venue was extremely noisy, and even though the surveillance camera could record sound, it was impossible to hear what she was saying.

But there's no doubt that these two people know each other.

The club manager standing nearby said sheepishly, "Sir, shouldn't you hurry up and arrest her?"

"We can't just keep letting her cause trouble outside, can we? That would be a serious blow to our club's business!"

Wu Wang ignored the guy and instead stared at Ying Luo's lips, trying to decipher them at the slowest playback speed.

Bai Cha noticed this detail and quickly asked, "Do you need me to find professional identification equipment to analyze it?"

Wu Wang shook his head at this.

He believed that even if they brought in lip-reading analysis equipment, it would be of no use.

The reason is simple—Yingluo speaks in a dialect.

The regional dialects in the real world are meaningless to you no matter how hard you try to recognize them in this virtual world.

Under what circumstances would someone spontaneously start speaking in their dialect?
That must be because he was extremely emotional. "I am no longer half-lived."

Wu Wang spent more than ten minutes comparing the information before he could fully translate Ying Luo's words.

However, the content is somewhat puzzling.

What do you mean she's no longer Xu Bansheng?
Why does it feel like there's so much more information now?
None of the other players who joined with me in the Spirit Disaster had that name!
Who exactly was this guy she saw?
I don't dislike Wu Wang, the player from the Spirit Disaster game, Yingluo; at least he's an upright and honest person.

During the incident when they helped Xie Zhi together, Wu Wang realized that this extraordinary woman was a very pure person, just like Xie Zhi.

To put it bluntly, he's just single-minded and very simple-minded.

But at least she almost never has any bad intentions or schemes against others, and Wu Wang is happy to be around such a person.

"Lord Yan Shuangying, this person can already be labeled as a [heretic], right?" Bai Cha asked tentatively.

Generally speaking, even if a resident wanted for intentional homicide tries to escape out of fear of the death cycle, they would never make such a big commotion as Sakura Fall.

They will be arrested and brought to justice in a very short time.

Only those who have completely degenerated into "heretics" can display such illogical power and easily escape normal pursuit methods.

To the residents of Eternal City, those who could display such inhuman abilities were themselves anomalies.

For those arrested "heretics," the law enforcement headquarters has a healing machine that can directly connect to the "city system."

People attributed the changes made by the "heretics" to being infected with some kind of mental virus.

With the help of machines, they will have their personalities, memories, and even physical bodies cleansed of the virus, and they will become normal residents of the Eternal City again.

However, in Wu Wang's view, this method was no different from murder.

To let a machine reshape a person's personality or even their memories is tantamount to killing the other person and then creating a new robot.
This is truly a complete overhaul.

How could he possibly let Yingluo receive such punishment?

So he shook his head and said, "Don't rush to conclusions, let's find the person first."

After saying that, he suddenly raised an eyebrow.

He asked Bai Cha, "I have a plan to capture someone, but I need your cooperation, and I need you to be prepared to die to assist me. Are you willing to do it?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Cha puffed out her chest proudly and said, "Lord Yan Shuangying! That is my honor!"

To be honest, Bai Cha has had his share of troubles in previous operations to capture "heretics".

After all, as the person in charge's secretary, she had to be by their side at all times.

Bai Ta, the previous person in charge, was someone who liked to take the lead and personally go to the front line.

This also means that white tea has been injured or even died.

"Very good! You're full of energy! Come on, let's go outside."

With Bai Cha looking puzzled, Wu Wang led her outside the club.

There is an artificial fountain here, with water about knee-deep.

Just as Bai Cha was puzzled.

Wu Wang pointed to the fountain and said, "Can you do this? Squat down next to the fountain, put your head in, and don't lift it up until you're about to drown and choking on water.

This request is even more outrageous than when he asked himself to tease the drink sales clerk at the "Suicide Show" registration point.

Bai Cha hesitated for a moment, then turned back to confirm, "Is this... a joke?"

In response, Wu Wang shrugged and said, "It depends on how you think about it. Anyway, I think it's a scheme called 'luring the enemy into a trap.'"

After confirming several times that this guy wasn't really joking.

Bai Cha took a deep breath.

He suddenly plunged his head into the water.

Seeing this, Wu Wang took the opportunity to hide in the bushes not far away. Under the effect of the clown suit, his presence became less and less noticeable, or rather, more and more reasonable.

For him, it was just a matter of waiting a few minutes.

But for white tea, it feels like an eternity.

As the oxygen in her body was gradually consumed, she began to feel a burning sensation in her lungs, and almost instinctively wanted to lift her head out of the water.

However, when she thought of Yan Shuangying's words, and how she had disobeyed his instructions in the library, which led to his capture by the heretics, she felt a pang of sadness.

Bai Cha stubbornly suppressed his survival instincts, keeping his mouth and nose submerged in the pool water.

Gradually, her consciousness began to blur, and her hands and feet became cold and weak. If she didn't quickly lift her head, she would probably really drown at the entrance of this club.

Just at this critical moment, a dark figure flashed into view from not far away.

Looking at Bai Cha's body, which had struggled to the point of almost giving up.

The figure quickly approached.

But just as they were about to reach the edge of the pool, several ghostly figures crawled out from their shadows.

Hold onto your legs firmly to prevent them from moving.

The next second, Wu Wang emerged from the bushes, teasingly saying, "Hey, good morning, know-it-all. What a coincidence, you're taking a walk around here too?"

The newcomer was none other than the know-it-all, who was completely covered up from head to toe.

Instead of being angry, she asked curiously, "How do you know I will definitely show up?"

In response, Wu Wang shrugged and explained, "It's simple. I've seen the mark you left on Bai Cha. If nothing unexpected happens, besides locating her position, you can even sense her vital signs, right? Otherwise, wouldn't we lose money if something went wrong with the auction item?"

"You want to use this girl to track my location at all times, so if her vital signs drop, it means that something unexpected is happening to me."

"I believe that with the curiosity of our best personal intelligence brokers among the Calamity players, they would not let go of information about such an unexpected situation."

"Even if you weren't here to rescue her, you would have come to check on the situation, wouldn't you?"

Yes, Wu Wang was able to come up with a quick way to find Ying Luo by asking Wan Shi Tong for help.

After all, everyone has their own expertise, and this is what they do.

Hearing this, the know-it-all sighed.

Helplessly, he said, "Fine, you win. What do you want from me?"

Wu Wang quickly explained the situation on Yingluo's side.

They deliberately emphasized that the other party's abnormal behavior was very likely due to the existence of something in the Eternal City that they had not yet noticed.

This thing has now been discovered by Sakura.

Therefore, whether from the perspective of navigating the dungeon or helping your companions, you need to find Cherry Blossom as soon as possible.

The expert did not reject the proposal.

However, she still glanced behind Wu Wang, frowned, and asked:

"Speaking of which, aren't you worried that something might really happen to that silly girl, Bai Cha?"

Wu Wang said, "Isn't there an [Eternal Life Field]? Even if you really die, you can be resurrected tomorrow. Why are you asking this?"

Universal pointed to the fountain.

He said calmly:
"Oh, it's nothing, it's just that she seems to be floating on the water and not moving."

"..."

Only then did the two realize it.

They seemed so engrossed in chatting and discussing plans that no one bothered to call Bai Cha out of the water.

(End of this chapter)