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At the very front, a short, stocky man lay supine, his chest pierced through by something, his face covered in dried blood. Not far from him, scattered fragments of the talisman, now reduced to powder.

"Is this the Ishikawa Yu you were talking about? He's been camping out at the teleportation point under our cable for a long time, killing quite a few people. Tonight I was passing by there and happened to see them lying in ambush, so I thought I'd go and fight them. But when I got there, I found they were all dead. I don't know who did it."

This passage is followed by coordinates.

The cherry blossom cable line is now quiet.

The silence was so profound that you could almost hear the ice cracking.

Several seconds passed before someone typed out a line of text, their fingers trembling.

"Ishikawa... Captain?"

"That's Ishikawa-kun? How could that be! He's a core member of our Self-Defense Forces!"

"He was guarding the teleportation point with over thirty men, how could he possibly die in a place like that? Wasn't the core team of the Great Xia people already trapped in the forest? Who could kill them?!"

"Could it be that there are still hidden experts in the Great Xia?"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Ishikawa-kun is a level nine! And he has a life-saving amulet on him!"

Some people went to look at the photo again, and the more they looked, the more horrified they became.

"Look at that wound, a bullet went right through... This kind of wound can't be caused by ordinary firearms. And Ishikawa-kun's amulet was shattered, which means that the first shot should have triggered his life-saving ability, but he still couldn't escape."

"This means that the person who killed him was at least level twelve, or even thirteen or higher..."

At this point, they themselves fell silent.

Just minutes before, they were mocking "Level 13".

Now, reality has pinned them to the sand.

......

Inside Su Mu's cable car, Lin Yuwei was also watching the channel.

She zoomed in on the photo, then zoomed out again, and then turned to look at Su Mu.

"You killed Ishikawa Yu and the others...?"

Su Mu was drinking water when he heard this. He put down the bottle and nodded casually: "They were blocking the teleportation point. I just happened to be passing by and cleared them out."

Lin Yuwei was taken aback for a moment, then understood.

Right.

Who else could it be but him?

"Good job," she said, her tone tinged with satisfaction. "Those people killed a lot of lone wolves under our cable lines. You even cleared out the spot they were blocking, which is like opening a way back to the city for everyone."

Su Mu hummed in agreement.

Lin Yuwei then remembered something: "The channel said the announcement said 'experience satisfied,' not 'level reached.' What's going on? Aren't you already level 13?"

Su Mu put down the mineral water bottle and, no longer hiding it, said, "I have indeed surpassed level 13."

When the challenge began, the system detected that my personal level already met the winning requirements and gave me two options: win immediately, or gain the total experience needed to level up from 9 to 13 before my opponent wins, which would give me an extra 2% experience. I chose the second option.

Lin Yuwei blinked: "So you were actually level 13 a long time ago?"

"We arrived a long time ago," Su Mu said.

She opened her mouth, as if digesting the weight of those words.

"So what level are you at now?" She looked straight at him.

Su Mu thought for a moment, then decided to tell the truth: "Level 19."

Lin Yuwei's expression changed instantly.

She felt as if she had been gently pushed by something, and leaned back slightly.

"Ten...nine?" she repeated, her voice very soft, as if afraid she had misheard.

Su Mu nodded.

She stared at his face for a long time without saying a word.

The cable car was quiet, with only a few tiny lights flashing silently on the control panel.

Lin Yuwei slowly exhaled, her fingers hanging at her sides unconsciously curling up.

She quickly did the math in her head.

Level 8 and Level 19.

There's more than one short.

She had previously thought that by reaching level eight, she could barely see his back. But now she realized that his back was much farther away than she had imagined.

But strangely, she didn't feel frustrated.

She only felt safe.

An extremely strong sense of security, as if protected by some immense force.

"So your current strength..." She stopped halfway through her sentence, and finally just said softly, "Never mind, the stronger you are, the more at ease I feel."

Su Mu looked at her, said nothing more, and only whispered, "So you don't need to rush. I'm here."

Lin Yuwei turned her face away and gave a very soft "hmm".

......