Even blind box hunters don't choose their partners? I got Su Daji from my blind box!

Lin Xiao's brain was like a supercomputer burning red, with its CPU temperature off the charts.

The excruciating pain surged like a tidal wave, but he didn't even flinch.

In his view, the world has changed.

No longer is it a sky full of flames and flying shrapnel.

Instead, it was countless crisscrossing red death lines—

That's the ballistic trajectory.

And interspersed among the red lines of death, there was a fleeting glimmer of green life, more delicate than a strand of hair.

[35 degrees to the left front, shrapnel A, arriving in 0.01 seconds.]

[Shockwave from the right rear, peaking 0.03 seconds later.]

A 45kg rock fell overhead, landing after 0.05 seconds.

"Oh."

Lin Xiao grinned wildly.

Since we can't avoid it, then we won't try to avoid it.

As long as I don't get hit, this isn't a guaranteed kill situation.

Moved.

Amidst the smoke and dust that appeared to outsiders as blasted to ashes, Lin Xiao moved.

He didn't flee in a panic, nor did he run around aimlessly like a headless fly.

He took a gentle half-step to the left, his body slightly tilted to the side, the movement incredibly soft.

"call out--!"

A sharp shrapnel flew past the tip of his nose, even severing one of his eyelashes.

Immediately afterwards, his waist twisted backward in a strange way, and his whole body slid limply along the ground.

boom!

A violent shockwave grazed his scalp and blew away the boulders behind him, but it did not harm him in the slightest.

Spin, jump, turn sideways, dive.

In this impenetrable metal storm, Lin Xiao strolled leisurely, as if he were in his own backyard.

He is an elegant dancer who dances on the edge of a knife.

Every movement was precise down to the millimeter.

Each pause was caught in the gap between the swings of Death's scythe.

This is not a reaction that a human being could make.

This is a miracle!

……

Thirty seconds later.

The smoke of battle has cleared.

All eyes in the world were fixed on the center of the screen.

Xing Zhantian's maniacal laughter was still lingering on his lips, Lei Zhen's eyes were already red, and Gu Qinghe was preparing to deliver his reflections on "The Tragedy of Zhong Yong".

then.

Everyone was petrified.

The scene froze instantly.

In the center of that charred, steaming, cratered ruin.

A slightly thin figure stood quietly.

Lin Xiao casually patted a speck of dust off his shoulder, the movement as nonchalant as if he had just swatted a mosquito.

Then, he raised his head and looked into the void.

His face was somewhat pale, and his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat.

But his eyes remained calm in a way that was unsettling.

He faced the camera and slowly raised a thumb.

Then, he flipped his wrist.

Reverse and downward.

"..."

Dead silence.

Absolute silence lasting ten seconds.

Immediately afterwards, the global live stream chat exploded!

The barrage of comments exploded like a burst dam, flooding the screen!

Holy crap!!!

"Am I seeing things? Am I seeing things?!"

"Is this some kind of special effects? Newton must be turning in his grave!"

"Completely unharmed? Completely unharmed under that kind of firepower? Is that scientifically sound? Is that reasonable?!"

"Is this the real value of colorful blind boxes? My mom asked me why I was kneeling while watching the live stream..."

"God! This is God! Please accept my deepest respect!"

……

Ministry of Education conference room.

"belch……"

Xing Zhantian made a strange sound from his throat.

His eyes were wide open as he stared intently at the boy on the screen who was giving a thumbs-down gesture, his whole body trembling.

"This...this is impossible..."

"Even high-level martial artists cannot completely avoid shrapnel of this density..."

"He's cheating! System! He's definitely using cheats!"

"Screw you!"

A loud shout rang out.

Lei Zhen slammed his hand on the table, and the solid wood conference table was completely destroyed, splitting in two.

The military leader was so excited that his face turned red, and he pointed at Xing Zhantian's nose and laughed loudly.

"Old Xing! It seems your Valkyrie's artistry can't even scratch Lin Xiao's oily skin!"

"What is a gap? This is a gap!"

"That's firepower coverage, that's god-like micro-management! Do you even know what 'masterful precision' means? Do you even know what 'prediction' means?!"

Qin Weiguo was also trembling with excitement. He took a deep breath, suppressed the shock in his heart, and looked coldly at Gu Qinghe.

"Director Gu, the teacup broke again?"

"It seems Lin Xiao's life is much tougher than you imagined."

Gu Qinghe's face was ashen, and as he looked at the shattered porcelain shards at his feet, he felt a burning pain in his cheeks.

She couldn't understand it.

What's wrong with this world?

What right does that lowly commoner have?

……

The Dark Forest.

Lin Xiao maintained that cool pose until the drone flew away.

The next second, he swayed violently and almost fell to his knees.

"hiss……"

Lin Xiao covered his head and gasped.

pain.

It felt like countless steel needles were churning wildly in my mind, the pain was so intense it felt like my brain was boiling.

[Warning: Mental energy is severely depleted.]

[The All-Seeing Eye is currently on cooldown...]

That last wave of knife-wielding appeared graceful, but in reality, it was a life-or-death struggle.

Activating the All-Seeing Eye at full power consumes an astonishing amount of mental energy.

Now, let alone fighting, even a slightly stronger ordinary person could easily crush him.

However, he was already quite satisfied with the result.

If he didn't have the all-seeing eye and the speed of a third-tier martial artist, he would have been dead long ago.

The only cost now is CPU overheating.

"This is too much..."

Lin Xiao gave a wry smile, forced himself to stand up, and quickly squeezed into a crevice in the rocks that had not yet completely collapsed.

He must recover immediately.

Otherwise, every second from now on will be a death sentence.

……

Outside the pure white space.

Su Daji looked at the swaying figure on the screen, her once beautiful face now devoid of its former allure.

Only the chilling cold that makes one's heart pound.

In those fox-like eyes, there were no tears, only an uncontrollable madness.

"The Temple of War... Zhao Xiaotang..."

Su Daji's voice was soft, yet it carried a chillingly sickly quality.

The nine phantom fox tails behind her danced wildly, and the surrounding space was distorted by her emotional fluctuations.

"How dare you make my master look so pathetic..."

"Unforgivable..."

"The day I lift the seal, I will tear you all to pieces, piece by piece!"

……

Meanwhile, throughout the Dark Forest.

Ye Chen, Bai Ling, Zhang Xuan, and the others looked at the lingering smoke in the sky with different expressions.

"All talk and no action."

Ye Chen snorted coldly and sheathed his sword.

"It seems Zhao Xiaotang's aim isn't all that great. With such a commotion, she probably missed."

In his view, Lin Xiao survived only because Zhao Xiaotang missed.

After all, nobody believed anyone could actually survive in that barrage of fire.

Except for... Zhao Xiaotang herself.

The other end of the map.

Zhao Xiaotang hid behind cover, clutching the scorching hot heavy machine gun, looking as if she had just been pulled out of the water.

Cold sweat soaked her back.

As the person involved, she knows better than anyone else.

She didn't miss.

That area was the one she had meticulously calculated, the area where Lin Xiao was absolutely hiding.

The landing point of each shell was precisely calculated by her.

That death matrix was perfect.

But... Lin Xiao didn't die.

He was like a ghost, forcefully emerging from her perfect calculations.

"This is impossible..."

Zhao Xiaotang's hands were trembling, and her confident Valkyrie aura had completely vanished.

She swallowed hard, fear showing in her eyes.

"How could humans... possibly achieve this?"

"Is he really human?"

"Or have I been fighting a monster in human skin from the very beginning?"

His Daoist heart collapsed.

At this moment, this proud daughter of the War God Temple developed a deep psychological shadow on Lin Xiao.

Her pride was shattered by Lin Xiao's upside-down thumbs-up.

However, the nightmare had only just begun.

Just as Zhao Xiaotang was falling into self-doubt.

Suddenly, a blinding red light shone in the night sky above her head!

That's a system punishment!

Because she used a blind box item, her coordinates were forcibly highlighted!

At the same time, the cold, ruthless system voice echoed throughout the map, breaking the brief stalemate.

[Announcement: The first round of matches has ended.]

[Illegal level firepower detected; coordinates exposed!]

[Random supply crates are now being dropped!]

Wow!

At that moment, Ye Chen, Bai Ling, Zhang Xuan, and Nalan Qing, who had been lurking in the shadows, all raised their heads at the same time.

Four pairs of eyes, filled with greed and murderous intent, were fixed on the direction from which the red light shot into the sky.

Feng Shui turns.

The roles of hunter and prey are instantly reversed at this moment.