Immortal I Speedrun Supernatural Game

"The list of those who have advanced includes—Zhang Zhong, Xin Yifan, Qi Yong..."

"The last one is Mr. Yan Shuangying, the first enforcer in the history of the [Suicide Show]!"

As Yingluo watched the unfamiliar faces flash by on the TV program, her gaze finally settled on that familiar face with a mocking smile.

She wasn't surprised at all.

After all, judging from Yan Shuangying's previous performance, his advancement should be completely effortless.

Last night, Yingluo and Huixin racked their brains all night and discovered one piece of good news and one piece of bad news.

The good news is that the detection tools researched by the Bureau of Extraordinary Events have confirmed that this instance has indeed failed three times, just as Alexander said.

The difficulty level of the dungeon has also been confirmed as "Nightmare".

In fact, a similar item was developed by the Bureau of Strange Events shortly after the public beta launch, but it could only provide detection in dungeons, offering limited information to those entering the dungeons.

This means that the Tower of Order does indeed possess the technology to detect instances outside the passage.

This is also why Yingluo and Huixin accompanied her into the dungeon this time.

Now all that's left is to clear the dungeon, survive, and then report the news to the [Bureau of Extraordinary Events] headquarters so that they can cooperate and negotiate with the [Tower of Order].

As for the bad news, it is—

They tried various methods to find out why the players in the Spirit Disaster had an extra sense.

Just in case, they called back Lancet, who was out searching for clues, to keep him under constant surveillance.

I also decided to go and tell Yan Shuangying about this situation after dawn.

Why didn't you call or go looking for them immediately?
Of course, this also takes into account the special nature of this instance and the need to conceal oneself.

Discussing specific details directly over the phone could lead to eavesdropping, and searching for the other party at night could arouse suspicion from any residents encountered, who might perceive the person as a heretic.

After all, given their professions, they shouldn't be wandering the streets at this time of day.

Therefore, Yingluo only called Wu Wang to ask for his address.

"Yan Shuangying told us to go to the 'Suicide Show' program team at the Chengxi Art Museum to find him."

The preliminary selection process ended yesterday.

Now only 64 suicidal rookies remain to advance.

Therefore, there is no need to showcase it in different places throughout the city; the production team had already prepared a venue for the live broadcast.

When Yingluo, Huixin, and Liuyedao arrived at the scene, the venue, which could hold tens of thousands of people, was already packed with people.

After all, this is the only time in Eternal City when everyone must act according to their professional identity and can gather together without restraint or regard for the rationality of their behavior.

Only those with tickets to the "Suicide Show" can enter the venue during this time, regardless of their status, even if it's during working hours.

This thing can even be used as a leave slip. Your boss will completely understand your behavior and might even ask if you have any ideas about selling tickets.

Your boss might be even more eager to come and see than you are.

Furthermore, during the official start of the competition, all work within the entire Eternal City was allowed to be suspended.

You can watch the live stream using your playback device without any problems.

Because watching "suicide shows" is a perfectly reasonable behavior.

Yingluo arrived at the entrance and told the staff their names.

This is a privilege that Yan Shuangying, as a player who successfully advanced, possesses: he has five designated free spectator slots that he can give to others.

After all, who wouldn't want to invite their friends and family to show off after successfully advancing to the "Suicide Show"?

The three of them were in a position with an excellent view of the game.

As the host, dressed in colorful and peculiar costumes, appeared on stage and introduced the contestants who had advanced to the next round, everyone watched.

The competition then officially began.

One by one, the contestants showcased their unique suicide skills on stage.

"Wow! Last year's champion's move was amazing! She used twelve revolvers, each pointed at herself from different directions, each with only one bullet inside, and the exact position was uncertain after being rotated. Each gun had a trigger mechanism with different activation conditions. She danced in this unknown encirclement, not knowing when or which gun would trigger, or even if the triggering would coincide with when there was a bullet. The unknown death was adrenaline-pumping! Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!"

"Hehe, I think that champion who made a comeback after ten years is pretty good too! He locks himself in a completely soundproof, transparent room, and the temperature inside the room slowly rises with the cheers of the audience. When it reaches a certain critical threshold, he will be roasted to death. It all depends on the emotions and cheers of the audience. It is even possible that the cheers of the audience will just happen to put him on the verge of death and he will be unable to get off. The interactivity is a pretty good innovation!"

"..."

After witnessing the contestants' wonderful performances, the audience began to discuss them.

Each of these brilliant performances would have been a contender for the championship in previous years.

This year is only the beginning.

I wonder what kind of amazing performances will follow.

Before long, Yingluo and the others saw Yan Shuangying appear on the stage.

He simply made a gesture.

Behind him appeared a thick door frame; indeed, there was only the door frame and no sign of the door itself.

Wu Wang stood firmly between the door frames, forming a large "X" shape.

Just as everyone was wondering, a beam of light a few centimeters wide fell from the top left of the door frame.

It turns out this is a device similar to the laser corridor in the movie "Resident Evil".

When the beam of light touched the fingertips of Wu Wangping's left hand.

The extreme temperature melted a small section of the fingertip to the point of almost disappearing into thin air.

The pain is so intense that just looking at it makes your scalp tingle.

Wu Wang, standing on the stage, remained completely still.

Immediately afterwards, a second laser beam was fired.

The distance was just slightly shifted to the right compared to the previous one.

The remaining part of the previously vanished fingertip was melted away again.

This cycle continued, and Wu Wang's entire left side gradually disappeared.

Until the laser completely melted away a part of his brain.

he died.

The next second, due to his resurrection, he immediately returned to normal and stood on the stage.

Just as the audience below was somewhat confused, and some even thought that this was just a simple change of torture instruments to torture someone to death, without any originality whatsoever.

The laser continued to fall, shifting slightly to the right again; it was still cycling.

But since it had reached the very center of the human body, each laser strike would cause Wu to die and then be resurrected.

Before long, they finally reached the part that melted down the right half of his body.

At this point, some of the judges finally realized what was happening.

He stood up, snatched the microphone from the host, and exclaimed, "Genius! Unparalleled genius!"

"Just like that so-called 'Ship of Theseus'! Every time the body is resurrected and its tissues are restored, it's like replacing the original parts with new ones!"

"He is gradually killing off his original self and becoming a completely new self, or perhaps, at some point, he ceased to be himself altogether?!"

The judges' words sounded a bit awkward.

But after a moment's thought, the audience understood the deeper meaning.

He immediately cast a respectful glance at Yan Shuangying on the stage.

It's important to understand that the residents of the Eternal City can only be resurrected using the [Eternal Life Field], which doesn't mean they will experience any problems with pain.

However, Yan Shuangying on stage did not show any change in expression at all during the process of undergoing so many laser beams to gradually eliminate her body.

What incredible perseverance!

Coupled with the profound meaning behind this performance, the crowd couldn't help but exclaim that this was not suicide, but a display of art!

After Wu Wang's performance ended completely, thunderous applause erupted in the audience.

Judging from the feedback on the performances of the previous contestants, it seems that Wu Wang's advancement is once again a foregone conclusion.

However, as he left the stage, the host called for the next contestant to come on stage.

However, the designated personnel failed to appear for a long time. As time went on, this drew criticism from the public.

This is the first time since the show "Suicide Show" started that a contestant who advanced to the next round has been absent.

After all, this is the most exciting show in the whole city.

Those who advance will not let any difficulties deter their determination to participate.

Unless... he's gone.

"Li Qin is dead? Like Haier, who seemingly died from his own [heretical ability]?"

In a private box at the venue for the show "Suicide Show".

Two men and one woman discussed the matter with furrowed brows.

In the corner of the private room, there was a corpse that looked like trash, carelessly tossed on the floor.

Its face was ferocious, but its skin was so withered that it looked as if all the blood in its body had been drained.

This is exactly the Li Qin they were talking about.

This is also the contestant the host is currently looking for.

He is actually a heretic.

[Heretical Ability] involves using the pendant on his chest to control the surrounding water flow.

However, he has never demonstrated that he can apply his "heretical abilities" to the point of controlling the blood in other people's bodies.

Looking at his corpse, the only woman among the three chewed bubble gum and asked in confusion:

"Is this the fifth one already?"

This person was none other than Peanut, the female heretic who had been in contact with Wu Wang.

Among the other two men, there was also a young man with blond hair whom Wu Wang had seen in the sewers.

They are also investigating something very strange at the time.

It started yesterday afternoon with a heretic in the organization named Haier.

In just one night, four heretics have been killed without cause in the Eternal City.

Li Qin is now one of the few outliers among them who has decided to personally participate in the "Suicide Show".

After all, Li Qin was once the champion of a certain program.

He wanted to defeat Yan Shuangying fair and square on the show.

This was to prove to the White Tower that the organization didn't need this kind of guy, and that they could handle any difficulty on their own.

Unfortunately, he is now dead here, unable to even have a chance to fight his opponent in person.

"This is really strange. Are there heretics in the Eternal City that we don't know about? And there seem to be quite a few of them."

The blond-haired young man looked puzzled.

In his view, this kind of thing could never have been done by a normal resident of the Eternal City.

It couldn't even have been something done by law enforcement.

Putting aside the fact that, under normal circumstances, law enforcement officers have almost no way to quietly and independently deal with heresy.

The key point is that law enforcement officers generally choose to arrest them rather than shoot them on the spot.

Moreover, the manner of death of these heretical companions all seemed to be related to their own "heretical abilities".

This is clearly not a method that law enforcement officers possess.

The only explanation is that they were killed by some heretics with similar abilities to themselves.

Upon hearing this, Peanut frowned and slowly said, "Among us heretics, there has been a heretic."

This sentence sounds a bit difficult.

The other two also found it somewhat absurd.

"But...why are they chasing us?" the third man in work clothes asked, puzzled.

Yes, he was an employee of the "Suicide Show" venue and also a heretic.

After White Tower became the leader of the heretics, the heretics he selected had already quietly hidden among the various identities in the city.

He simply couldn't understand why the other side would make things difficult for them, even though they were both heretics.

Upon hearing this, Peanut happened to pop a bubble gum.

With a sharp gaze, he said, "Perhaps it's not them, but only him."

"The person who killed Haier and Li Qin may have been the same person."

The energetic young man immediately retorted, "What nonsense are you talking about! Who could possess so many [heretical abilities]? Even we couldn't handle it!"

This is something only these self-awakened heretics know—

The heretical abilities granted by the White Tower actually have an upper limit.

Under normal circumstances, heretics who go to the White Tower for awakening will carry at most two special items.

Even heretics like Peanut and Yellow Hair, who awakened on their own initiative, only carried one extra special item.

However, there are now five different [heretical abilities] that can kill one's companions.

If it really was done by one person...

What kind of heresy could possibly accomplish that?

“Yes, there is one person who possesses this number of [heretical abilities],” Peanut said.

The blond-haired man immediately exclaimed in surprise, "Who!?"

Unexpectedly, the name that came out of Peanut's mouth made him nervous.

"White Pagoda, can't our boss do that?"

This remark made the man in work clothes next to him roll his eyes.

He retorted, "What are you talking about? If the White Tower leader really wanted to kill us, he wouldn't need to go through all this trouble. We only gathered together because of him!"

Peanut's face turned extremely pale.

He slowly said, "Yes, the White Tower leader doesn't need to do this, which means that a heretic has emerged who has the opposite ideology but is equally powerful."

"We are being hunted!"

Most importantly, the special items on the bodies of those who were killed were all missing.

The other party seems to be intentionally probing something.

Thinking of this, Peanut subconsciously clenched his fist.

Because only she knows how these special items are made.

This also involves how the heretics actually bypass the [Immortality Field] to kill people within the city.

It is a secret that must never be known to anyone else.

"Go and investigate the people Li Qin has been in contact with recently."

"I'll go find someone."

An image of a frivolous, somewhat unserious face involuntarily surfaced in her mind.

That was Yan Shuangying, who had just given a wonderful performance.

For some reason, she felt that this whole thing was too coincidental.

Before this guy was awakened from his dormant state, these heretics had never encountered such a bizarre situation in the Eternal City.

But everything seemed to change from the day he brought it back to the mini-city to see the white tower.

Perhaps Yan Shuangying knows something?
Peanut suddenly wanted to disobey Bai Ta's instructions and secretly ask Yan Shuangying some questions.

Anyway, he's just a law enforcer.

He doesn't have any heretical abilities.

I have nothing to be afraid of... (End of Chapter)