For the spectators outside the arena, the fight was exciting, but also baffling. They could only see the action, not hear the sound, so they couldn't understand why she surrendered. Many were also speculating about why Asahi didn't die despite the attack.
In any case, this match is over.
There will be a half-hour break, after which the final competition will begin.
Dumb Baymax vs. expressionless man.
After exiting the game instance, Qianwen immediately ran out of the inn, waited for a while, and saw her younger sister running towards her from a distance. She quickly waved and beckoned her to come over.
Qianwen wanted to know what had happened to her during this time, when exactly the competition had been controlled, and all the unusual circumstances.
Qianlin's wings had not recovered, but there were no visible wounds. Her long green hair covered her back, and the blue hair clip on her head had disappeared because she had lost it.
After finding a place to sit down at the hotel, Qianlin said, "I was too slow to realize that there was something wrong with these two pieces of equipment."
"Don't rush, tell me slowly."
She opened her mouth, but Qianlin didn't know where to begin.
"Then listen to me first." Seeing that she didn't know what to say, Qianwen spoke first. Qianwen repeated what Xiaobai had said to her sister. She was a pawn, and her sister was undoubtedly a pawn as well. She just didn't know if the person manipulating her and her sister was the same person.
The player provides cheat codes to their pieces to compete for the championship and make the pieces the chosen ones. However, there are certain limitations to this. Not just any cheat code can be provided. Therefore, the player should rely on the power of the game itself. Furthermore, the player cannot directly control the consciousness of the pieces.
It can be determined from AI. If consciousness can be directly manipulated, why make things so complicated? The younger sister's situation is probably not directly manipulated either. She should also have an indirect consciousness entity, just like AI.
The situation is now clear: both she and her sister have defied the manipulator's will. Qianwen fears that they will be disposed of like trash, since traitors are useless. But this isn't absolute, because whether he kills her or not might be meaningless to him, since she knows nothing.
Qianwen certainly wouldn't sit idly by and wait for his fate, but he wasn't sure what to do. He decided to wait and see how things went after the World Championship ended.
Chapter 330 The Mastermind Reveals
Qianwen and her sister talked a lot, trying to find some clues through their respective gaming experiences, but they didn't find any more information. For the time being, they only knew that Linlin was controlled by an item drawn during the server launch celebration. It didn't control her consciousness, but directly controlled her body, just like an AI.
But how does this explain what happened in reality? What happened on the rooftop that day, and everything I saw?
The final competition was about to begin, and Qianwen considered simply forfeiting and returning to Earth. But then she suddenly wondered what might happen if she suddenly disappeared. Qianwen used to be a programmer, and now her name was on the world championship match list, with the finals about to start. Disappearing at this point gave her the feeling that her program might crash. But hadn't she just suddenly appeared herself?
Qianwen hesitated for a long time about whether to go or not.
Just then, another AI appeared at the door and walked in. She was expressionless and mechanically said, "Can I talk to you?"
His gaze was fixed on the simple text.
There was no one else in the room except for Qianwen and her younger sister.
"Talking is certainly possible."
What is AI nowadays? Just a behind-the-scenes player?
After sitting down, the AI meticulously placed its tail on its lap, maintaining an upright posture, and then directly asked, "Why do you all refuse the opportunity to gain power and enter higher worlds? Are you afraid of being controlled and losing your freedom?"
"Yes."
Qianwen answered without hesitation, and Qianlin nodded as well.
"But are you really free now?" the AI asked directly. "You seem free, but because you have no power, you are constantly forced to do all sorts of things. In your words, working for someone else is still working for someone else. You all have to watch the boss's face and follow the superior's orders."
After a pause, the AI continued, "Wouldn't it be better to work for me? Or have I not offered clear benefits? I can give you detailed data later. Trust me, you won't regret it if you follow me."
Qianlin said, "But you control our bodies."
"Can you defeat those people if you don't do this?"
AI pointed at Qian Lin: "What do you think you relied on to get into the finals?"
Qianlin exclaimed, "I don't need this!"
AI turned its gaze to Qianwen and continued, "I have gone to great lengths to provide you with power and protect your lives until now, and now we have finally reached this point, but things still went wrong in the end. The Book of Divine Runes only allows one wish, and what you wished for is no longer important. I have broken the rules to negotiate with you just to tell you one thing: either win the next match, or watch the Earth be destroyed. My opponent is not so merciful."
After saying that, the AI closed its eyes and stopped moving.
Qianwen's heart was filled with turmoil. Was it real? Either win the game or watch the earth be destroyed. Was this a threat or was it true?
Time doesn't stop for anyone. The final match was about to begin. Qianwen was teleported into the competition instance. Only one prominent pair of names remained on the match list.
Qianwen was a little confused, unable to tell whether what the AI said was true or just a scare tactic, and whether she should win or lose the match.
The match begins, and you are teleported to a random map.
When Qianwen came to her senses, she found herself on a sand dune.
About 500 meters away from Asahi, on another sand dune stood Asahi's final opponent, a man nicknamed "Stabbing Man," whose real ID was "Three Minutes of Sleeplessness."
He made no opening remarks, nor did he intend to chat with Qianwen for a few words. After the system announced the start of the match, the expressionless man simply disappeared.
The sand beneath his feet remained completely still.
Time slowed down to within 0.5 seconds.
Before the match started, Qianwen tried to swap the Azure Wolf Armor off the AI for his own, but it didn't work; the equipment seemed to be bound to that body.
Xiao Bai probably didn't anticipate what would happen next. She just needed to make sure she defeated the AI and prevented her own account from winning, so that she wouldn't be qualified to become a Chosen One.
I'm using a real body now, so even if I win the championship, it probably won't matter. This account will disappear when I leave the game.
Xiao Bai's original intention was probably to defeat the AI and then leave, not participating in the later matches, since the later matches were no longer relevant to him.
But now, if someone suddenly pops up and tells you that you must win, and that if you let him win, the earth will be destroyed, can you take that as a malicious joke?
In reality, many malicious threats can be effective because you can't determine whether what they say is true or not. What if what they say is true?
Therefore, Qianwen can only participate in the competition.
Without the Azure Wolf Armor, or even the Candy Armor, the combat suit Xiaobai gave them offered no attributes and only interfered with the effects of soul equipment.
Qianwen is currently playing with almost no equipment. Apart from her weapon, she has no armor attributes. It's not that she can't temporarily replace it with ordinary blue high-level armor, but can ordinary equipment really compare to the effect of the Soul Interference equipment? It doesn't add much attribute, so it's better not to use it at all.
How can we win this battle?
In a mere 0.5 seconds, the expressionless man traversed a distance of 500 meters, instantly appearing behind Qianwen and launching a probing punch.
Asahi took a punch without moving and was sent flying like a sandbag. (-6211) His body scraped a furrow in the sand.
The punch actually hit, which surprised the expressionless man for a moment.
So weak?
Impossible, this is the finals.
However, after waiting for several seconds, the person lying in the sandpit did not stand up.
With more than half of its health remaining and still recovering, is it lying on the ground preparing to use some kind of move?
The expressionless man couldn't help but adopt a defensive stance, but a few seconds later...
It seemed as if a few crows flew by in the sky.
Tens of millions of viewers outside held their breath, afraid to even exhale, lest they miss some incredibly fast move.
Suddenly, the wolf girl dug through the sand and disappeared.
The terrain for this competition is a desert, with the scorching sun hanging directly in the sky and the sand on the ground reaching temperatures of seventy or eighty degrees Celsius.
The man with the facial paralysis remained expressionless, and no one could discern his inner turmoil.
He sensed the approximate location of the shallow text beneath the sand using his magic, but did not come towards his location.
Even if she wanted to attack from underground, the expressionless man was confident he could dodge the attack.
What tricks are they playing?
Chapter 331 Hide and Seek in the Sand
“Yihai, he can sense your location.”
"Ah, very good."
"Also, his aura is a bit strange, unlike a human's, you can't sense his soul."
"How to say?"
I have a guess.
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The Spirit Blooming Sword was actually left on the surface by Qianwen, buried in the shallow sand. Ahri used her spiritual sense to observe his movements and sense the aura of power. She could see that he subconsciously followed the direction Qianwen was moving in, which was an instinctive action of locking onto a target, just like the eyeballs following the focus of a point.
Qianwen had also studied his past competitions. His fighting style was simple and straightforward, just three words: fast, ruthless, and accurate. Under absolute speed and power, all fancy tricks were meaningless.
His speed was beyond reason, almost like teleportation, but there were no magical fluctuations. It's possible that he achieved this effect with the help of some kind of prop, since we haven't seen his weapon yet.
Asahi knew he couldn't compete with him in speed, so he didn't try to outrun him. Judging from the probing attacks earlier, he could tell that Asahi was also fighting very cautiously. If he fought in a conventional way and immediately switched moves, Asahi would probably figure out his weaknesses and kill him in no time.
The final match took place in a desert, where sand is neither rock nor concrete. So, Qianwen came up with a plan on the spot: to burrow into the ground first.
With her petite frame and wolfish ferocity, Qianwen constantly dug through the sand in front of her and moved like a snake. Although she would continuously lose health due to suffocation, she would not suffocate thanks to her passive high health regeneration. The downside was that her health would drop to a dangerous level.
By the way, Qianwen has a passive ability that increases defense and automatically regenerates health as her health decreases. This passive ability cancels out the continuous health loss effect of suffocation, but her health bar will remain at a low level.
Is there any benefit to this?
Of course, there's no benefit to it.
Because Asahi can also transform; when he turns into a mushroom, he doesn't need to breathe.
Furthermore, turning into a mushroom has another unique characteristic: it can disappear.
They didn't really disappear; they disappeared from the senses of those who used magic to perceive living things.
In addition to the two points mentioned above, there is an even more important point: in the mushroom state, the mind becomes calm and agile, allowing for the elimination of distractions to further conceive battle plans and understand the AI's combat methods.
What AI can do with this body, it can theoretically do as well.
The battle has begun.
The man with the facial paralysis couldn't understand what Qianwen was doing. Was she committing suicide by burrowing into the sand?
The high sand temperature isn't a big deal; the lack of air is the key issue. Suffocation causes rapid health loss, and consumables can't be used during the match. Even if she could breathe or withstand the rate of health loss from suffocation, what difference would it make?
The expressionless man had already collected almost all the information he could find, and thoroughly analyzed Qianwen's fighting style and skills. She simply didn't have that kind of fighting style.
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