High Martial Arts 2077: I Rely on Beast Taming to Cultivate While Lying Down

Chapter 111 Video Replay - Puppet Target

As night deepened, the bright moon hung high in the sky.

The East 17 rest area, though dimly lit, is like a beacon for this area.

Moonlight streamed through the broken ceiling and fell onto the sixth-floor corridor floor.

Inside single room 604.

The dim yellow light illuminated the space, which was about twenty square meters.

Su Chen sat at the desk by the bed, holding a tablet computer horizontally in his left hand, and slowly sliding his right index finger across the screen.

The video shows many figures intertwined.

He pressed the pause button, dragged forward three frames, and then pressed pause again.

The screen froze on the moment when the bearded man clenched his fists and his face contorted in a ferocious expression.

Huang Cheng, standing behind Su Chen, was turning his head to look at him!

Su Chen glanced down at the time in the upper left corner of his phone.

20: 57.

He let out a soft breath and muttered to himself, "Currently, there are four suspected targets!"

He had already flipped through the images on the screen more than ten times.

The entire conflict, which occurred an hour earlier, was recorded by the Energy Guardian's camera.

From Zhang Yan's perspective, hands on hips in anger; Lin Xiyue slightly behind; and... from Wang Yichuan's perspective, ready to pick up a weapon and fight at any moment.

From Wang Yichuan's perspective, one can see the vast majority of people.

Su Chen clicked on the first marked segment.

In the center of the image, just as he uttered the phrase "What I possess is the Book of Earthly Origin"...

At the edge of the shot, Huang Cheng's face is half-lit and half-shadowed by the campfire.

He turned his head to look at Su Chen, but there was no smile on his lips.

His expression of shock, with a slight change in his pupils... looked very strange.

Su Chen zoomed in on the image and dragged it to a close-up position.

Huang Cheng's pupils contracted slightly, his brows furrowed, and his lips pressed into a thin line.

This was completely different from Zhang He's dumbfounded reaction of "Holy crap, you're so awesome."

He watched Zhang He's reaction several times. First, he was shocked, then he burst out laughing. He relaxed completely, leaned back on the sofa, as if he had suddenly unloaded some burden.

This reaction is so clean!

Even without an affinity panel, they can be excluded.

But Huang Cheng is not.

After his initial shock, he didn't laugh. His expression was serious, and his eyes seemed to be calculating something!

Su Chen dragged it forward a little further.

That's an earlier scene.

Zhang Yan sat on the ground, still muttering about Su Chen's grades.

When she said "jumped straight from over 100th place to the top ten in the grade," Zhang He's jaw nearly dropped. He leaned back halfway and blurted out, "Holy crap!"

Huang Cheng was also listening.

He was neither shocked nor surprised.

He lowered his head slightly, placed his right hand on his knee, and slowly and rhythmically tapped his leg bone with his five fingers.

This action was captured perfectly!

Su Chen saw his reaction immediately and felt that his exaggerated improvement in grades would indeed make people suspicious and think deeply.

Looking at it more closely now, something just doesn't feel right!

He placed the two clips side by side on the same screen.

This feeling that something was wrong became even stronger!

"However, people always have two sides."

Su Chen placed the tablet on the bedside table, leaned back in his chair, and thought to himself, "Some people sometimes seem carefree and easygoing in public, but in reality, they are very calculating and shrewd!"

"This does not necessarily mean that Huang Cheng is a puppet."

After all, Su Chen himself is that kind of person.

He jokes and laughs in front of his classmates, but behind closed doors he plans out a whole scheme.

Therefore, Huang Cheng is only a "suspected target".

He picked up the tablet again and opened the second set of marked segments.

The person in the picture is a female student from the Nanhu University team.

Su Chen remembered her.

During the previous campfire chat, this girl was quite talkative, liked to toss her hair while talking, and had a rather boisterous laugh.

She's good-looking! Baby face, slightly chubby, quite plump, and looks very sunny.

However, in the scene, when Lin Xiyue's spiritual phantom condenses.

The girl's first reaction was shock; her mouth gaped open and her eyebrows rose.

But the shock lasted less than a second.

Then... her eyes changed.

Su Chen dragged the screen frame by frame.

Her eyes narrowed slightly, her lips changed from being open to being pursed, and her fists clenched slightly.

It's a restrained yet still subtly ruthless quality.

It felt like jealousy, or perhaps a long-suppressed resentment.

Su Chen put down the tablet.

Having lived two lives, he has seen countless people!

He had seen girls like that before.

In her past life, during elementary school, this type of girl initially had quite good grades.

During student days, grades are the greatest attraction and a bonus.

Girls who are fun to play with and have good grades are easily dragged into playing with a group of good-for-nothings and become the leader of the group, so that wherever they go, people will call them "sister".

But when they get to junior high and high school, they go through a rebellious phase. The learning becomes more difficult, and if they don't put in the effort, they will find that their grades are getting lower and lower, and they will find that there are people who are better looking, more talented, and receive more attention than them.

The contrast between being "the center of attention" and "becoming just another face in the crowd" can be very disconcerting.

Lin Xiyue's behavior may have triggered her emotional reaction.

"Little delinquent girl..."

"Whether it's before or after the apocalypse, the types of people will never change."

Good-looking "bad girls" are definitely more competitive than ordinary girls.

Many female live streamers in my past life switched from this industry, didn't they?

Su Chen was dragged to the back again.

The girl's expression changed again the moment she revealed information such as the Earthly Element Book.

Her eyes lit up.

Then she glanced at Lin Xiyue, her fists unconsciously clenching tighter.

The following shots didn't capture her full face due to the angle.

She turned her head away, as if she was thinking about something.

"Nanhu University is a second-tier university, so it's normal for people like her to appear there. Therefore, we can't confirm that she is a puppet."

The third segment.

Another female student from Nanhu University.

Su Chen didn't have a strong impression of this girl.

He's of average appearance and doesn't talk much. He sits in the corner when we chat, occasionally chiming in, and has a very low profile.

In the scene, Su Chen had just finished firing a magazine of bullets and was shouting his first harsh words at the bearded man.

The girl had her head down, her hands clenched into fists, and her shoulders trembling slightly.

Facial expressions are not visible.

"To be honest, this person's reaction is beyond my comprehension."

"Perhaps the Rat Immortal is not human-like, so it's normal for him to react this way."

The fourth target was a male student from the Beihe University team.

Su Chen didn't have a deep impression of this person. He wasn't very tall, had an ordinary appearance, and wore half-rimmed glasses.

There is only one suspicious point about him: after Lin Xiyue released the phantom of the spirit god, his self-light always fell on Lin Xiyue.

Su Chen dragged out this scene for almost three minutes.

In the video, the boy's eyes almost never left Lin Xiyue.

It was a very focused gaze, but it was completely different from Zhang He's kind of "Wow, that's awesome" worship.

The man's gaze towards Lin Xiyue was more complex, as if he were sizing her up, or perhaps... coveting her?

This kind of mentality can easily become distorted.

Moreover, what kind of strength and talent does he have to come up with such thoughts?

If he truly understands himself, he should figure it out and accept reality.

Unless... he has acquired a power that doesn't belong to him, there should be higher expectations.

Later, when Su Chen revealed information such as the Earthly Origin Book and took control of the conversation, the boy finally shifted his gaze away from Lin Xiyue.

He glanced at Su Chen, but his gaze was brief.

This is a deeply suppressed hostility!

Seeing this, Su Chen chuckled helplessly, "Are they treating me like a love rival?"

He thought for a while and roughly figured out some of the clues.

Lin Xiyue's appearance, in her previous assessment, was indeed "quiet, not talkative, quite pretty, but not quite there, the kind of virtuous wife suitable for a peaceful life."

But everyone has their own interpretation of Hamlet.

Alluring, sexy, innocent, sweet... beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Su Chen prefers sweet, cute, and petite women, so he's not likely to give Lin Xiyue a perfect score.

But things are different now.

Knowing Lin Xiyue's level of affection for him, and experiencing the fusion of the Spirit Pearl and the Spirit God Phantom, as well as the unique temperament after the fusion, are all plus points!

Su Chen began to observe seriously...

Moreover, Su Chen's strength has improved dramatically, and with this new advantage, his confidence has also grown!

"Ahem~ You're thinking too far ahead."

"Anyway, we've identified four targets now."

He stood up and took a few steps around the room.

"However, I cannot be too confident in my judgment."

He then remembered the system notification: the puppet of the Rat Immortal.

To be chosen as a puppet by a hidden demon clan leader.

What qualities did the Rat Immortal see in this person? Strength? Potential? Or some special temperament?

He knew nothing about the Rat Immortal's behavior patterns. He didn't even know if this so-called "puppet" knew he had been chosen.

If the puppet itself is unaware of this, then all micro-expression analysis will be greatly diminished.

Because all of the other party's reactions were genuine; they weren't "acting" at all!

What Su Chen was most worried about was actually the City Hunters team.

They were all incredibly powerful, and judging from their brief conversation earlier, they had been involved in quests related to the Abyss Magic Stone.

People who deal with the power of the abyss year-round are the most likely to encounter the Rat Immortal.

However, I had too little contact with the city hunters, and the energy guardian device was unable to capture close-up shots of them.

Based on the information we have so far, we can't find anything at all.

"Phew~"

Su Chen let out a long breath.

The four suspicious images on the tablet have all been marked with folders.

I watched it repeatedly for an hour, and every frame of every segment was etched into my mind.

He placed the tablet on the bedside table and took the opportunity to check his internal state.

Before watching the video, he added another psionic crystal to the learning machine.

The pure spiritual energy released by the spiritual crystal was still slowly circulating in the meridians, continuously expanding the meridians and acupoints.

The results were better than he had expected!

"The results were pretty good in this hour."

Su Chen nodded in satisfaction, then swallowed a Dragon Elephant Bone Strengthening Pill that he had obtained today!

He felt that he could now use the pills to stimulate the next acupoint!

Before swallowing the pill, in the brief interval before its effects took hold, he picked up his phone and opened his chat with Lin Xiyue.

Su Chen: Send me the temporary recording of the energy protection device.

Lin Xiyue: "What's the use?"

Su Chen: "Look at my handsome figure, I'll keep this as a souvenir, haha~"

Lin Xiyue: "Hmph~"

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Have you noticed anything unusual?

Su Chen: "Being too smart isn't a good thing~"

Lin Xiyue: "[A cute little cat sitting upright.jpg]"

This is a chat log from an hour ago.

Meanwhile, the videos from Wang Yichuan and Zhang Yan were also sent over.

Wang Yichuan's camera angles are the best! Most of the information is gleaned from his shots.

After thinking for a moment, Su Chen paused his finger on the screen, then a mischievous smile appeared on his lips as he began to type.

[Su Chen: That camera on your shoulder seems to be missing something.]