After AFK for five years, I returned to be number one in the entire server.

Chen Yue and Lin shared the same thought: this was ultimately just a competition. If someone died, the school would definitely hold them accountable, and he would inevitably be punished.

A person running at full speed cannot stop immediately, but can if they are walking slowly, and the same applies to him.

To achieve victory without losing your life, you need to slow down slightly in exchange for absolute control.

Chen Yue slightly reduced his strength, and his speed began to drop from the speed of sound.

Even outside the realm of sound, the surrounding world still appears as if it were a nearly still picture.

In the front row of the audience, a boy's mouth was wide open, and all his movements became very slow.

A girl next to me was so excited that the cola in her plastic cup was squeezed and splashed out.

The brown liquid, mixed with transparent ice, resembled amber beads suspended in mid-air, falling at a very slow speed.

Chen Yue strolled leisurely towards the center of the arena.

The new student from Ningda University remained in the same standing posture as before, and his eyes did not shift as he moved.

The average monthly-level player's neural reaction limit is like that of a mindless puppet when they are at their maximum speed.

One step, two steps...

Chen Yue came up behind Lin Ye, and he stretched out his right hand, his palm ready to put on Lin Ye's shoulder.

As long as you place your hand on them and apply a little force to disrupt their balance, it will be enough to throw them to the ground.

A bloodless and overwhelming victory has come to an end.

The moment he had this thought, Lin turned around smoothly.

Eyes facing each other.

Chen Yue's outstretched hand froze in mid-air. How could this be?

Pure instinct overwhelmed all thought; Chen Yue withdrew his hand, and his abilities erupted instantly.

boom!

A deafening white shockwave erupted once again in the center of the arena.

Chen Yue didn't even bother to maintain his balance, and like a wildcat with its fur standing on end, he frantically retreated backward, creating a distance of tens of meters in 0.1 seconds.

Chen Yue was incredulous and glanced around.

The Coke ice cube hovering in mid-air remained unchanged, and the boy in the front row still had his mouth wide open.

Everything and everyone in the world moves at a slow speed, and his abilities function perfectly.

Speed-oriented players.

The person opposite me is also a speed-based player.

Since that's the case, Chen Yue no longer had many concerns. He stopped holding back and pushed himself to the limit.

He transformed into a sound-barrier-breaking projectile, carrying devastating kinetic energy, and hurtled straight toward Lin Ye.

A violent gust of air rose above the arena, and the hard alloy surface beneath his feet emitted a series of mournful groans as it succumbed to the immense pressure.

This relentless and destructive collision, in the eyes of the thousands of spectators, was a white trail of death, hurtling toward Lin Ye at a speed too fast for the naked eye to react to.

Everyone thought that the Ningda freshman who was standing still would be smashed into a cloud of blood mist by this blow.

Just as the white trajectory was about to collide with Lin Ye, Lin Ye's body blurred for a moment.

This feeling is extremely strange, like a video that was playing smoothly suddenly losing a frame.

In the residual images on the retina of ordinary people, Lin did not make any movement at all.

He simply stood there, his body flashing for an extremely brief moment, before Chen Yue's phantom, carrying terrifying kinetic energy, passed right through his location.

Chen Yue steadied himself at the edge of the ring, a hint of disbelief flashing in his eyes.

Without pausing, he exerted his strength again, his body transforming into countless white streaks, launching an attack on Lin Ye from all directions. Viewed from above, it looked like countless blades slashing across the table.

Lin also stood on the arena, and whenever the white afterimages crashed into him at various tricky and ruthless angles, his figure would exhibit that strange "frame skipping".

Extreme stillness and extreme movement, and the movements in between are completely beyond the human eye's ability to perceive.

He only managed to burst out with a speed slightly faster than Chen Yue for a fleeting moment while dodging the attack, before returning to normal speed afterward.

Therefore, in the eyes of the entire audience, on the huge stage, only Lin Ye could be clearly seen.

He didn't make any extra movements, only occasionally his body would flicker slightly.

The once bustling and noisy stadium gradually quieted down.

The students from Bailing Polytechnic, whose faces were flushed and who had been shouting "surrender" at the top of their lungs, seemed to have their throats choked, and their voices grew softer and softer.

"What...is that person doing?"

In the audience, someone finally noticed something amiss, quickly igniting a buzz of discussion.

"He seems to have avoided everything..."

"With Chen Yue's speed, how come he didn't even touch him once?"

The gazes of the audience gradually shifted, and those who had initially looked down on Ningda because of Pei Xiao's absence were now shaken.

Looking at the Ningchuan student standing casually on the stage, everyone suddenly felt a weight pressing down on their hearts.

Even without their top aces, any freshman they send out can still possess such remarkable strength.

Sure enough, even a starved camel is bigger than a horse.

The raging winds on the alloy arena gradually subsided.

The dust stirred up by the wind pressure in mid-air slowly settled down, and the afterimage that had been frantically moving like white lightning finally stopped, revealing Chen Yue's figure at the edge of the arena.

He rested his hands on his knees, his chest heaving violently like a broken bellows, greedily inhaling large gulps of air into his lungs.

The continuous supersonic changes of direction and extreme impacts brought his heart rate and muscle strain to their peak, and sweat slid down his forehead and dripped onto the alloy floor.

He raised his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Lin Ye in the center of the field, dozens of meters away.

The freshman from Ningchuan University maintained his original posture, without even losing his breath.

The lights from the dome poured down onto Lin Ye, and he finally moved.

He started walking slowly towards Chen Yue, and then raised one hand.

Just as Lin Ye was less than half a meter away from him, and that hand was about to touch him.

The sonic boom cloud exploded again beneath Chen Yue's feet. He squeezed his body, transforming into a streak of white light, flying almost close to the ground along the edge of the arena, and in an instant, he escaped to the farthest end of the arena.

Chen Yue's feet plowed two shallow friction marks on the alloy tabletop. He stopped and gasped for breath.

Safe.

The thought had barely crossed his mind when the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end.

Chen Yue quickly turned his head, and Lin stood quietly behind him.

The hand remained in the same outstretched position, now a little closer to his shoulder.

Chen Yue's breathing completely stopped. He frantically activated his power again, and the alloy floor of the arena emitted a teeth-grinding twisting sound. He rushed towards the opposite corner of the arena at an even faster speed than before.

The wind howled fiercely, and the scenery in sight was blurred into patches of color.

When he stopped again, his leg muscles twitched and ached from the overwork.

He turned around abruptly, overwhelmed by a tide of despair.

Lin was standing behind him again at some point.

The distance between the two was brought infinitely closer, and that fair hand was already hovering above his shoulder.

No matter where he ran, no matter how fast he ran, the other party was like a ghost, relentlessly chasing after him, with no way to avoid it or escape it.

Chen Yue slammed his right foot into the ground, attempting a third escape.

Lin Ye's palm landed.

"what!"

A piercing scream tore through the air in the stadium. A sharp pain shot through his shoulder, and Chen Yue's knees buckled, causing him to collapse to the ground with a thud, losing consciousness.

In the indoor gymnasium with thousands of people, the students from Bailing Polytechnic who were just shouting and discussing had all fallen silent, leaving only a deathly stillness.