Hearing Lu Ce’s questioning, Jiu Tian unconsciously stepped back a little, positioning Kirk in front of him.

What this foreigner was saying didn’t make sense, his own comrades had far more reasonable points!

Meanwhile, Kirk’s body seemed like it had turned to stone, his gaze dark and unmoving.

He didn’t want to accept it, didn’t want to admit that he had been outwitted on the intellectual puzzle level by the guy in front of him, who had been mentally unstable from the very beginning.

And now, looking back, it seemed like what he said made sense!

He even felt that, aside from the problem with the medicine, everything else was not that complicated!

F***!

But now, he didn’t need to think about it anymore.

“Ah? You’re talking about me?”

But now, all three people present had noticed that his voice had changed!

It no longer had the mechanical tone from before, now it was sharp and hoarse—like someone whose throat had been destroyed.

“Oh, so that’s how it is. If you hadn’t said anything, I might have actually forgotten, hehehe.”

“How did you figure it out?”

Kirk: ?

Didn’t you just admit it, big guy?!

Shouldn’t there be some kind of resistance here?

“This is hard?” Lu Ce spread his arms as if mocking him. “From the very start, this game felt inexplicably simple.”

“Finding the one most seriously ill—this is something that could be done with enough time, right?”

“No matter who the final answer is—whether it’s someone here, me, you, or anything, even a cockroach on the floor—if there’s enough time, the algorithm would find it in such a small area.”

“Heroes everywhere, like fish in a river, I’m sure someone must have pointed you out before.”

Tom now turned around, his iron-skin head’s eyes flashing with light, and spoke:

“Before you all, there were four groups of people who came here.”

“Among them, only one person made such an identification, believing that I was the final target.”

Lu Ce laughed: “The rest of them couldn’t handle it before they even thought about it, right?”

Tom didn’t deny it, simply continuing: “Guess, what happened to the person who successfully identified me?”

“…You came a little late, if you were earlier, you probably could have tasted what he left behind…”

These words made everyone in the room, and even the spectators, feel a wave of disgust.

But to Lu Ce, it was no big deal. He actually appeared somewhat excited (╹ڡ╹), and spoke:

“Oh, that’s a bit of a shame.”

“If I end up as minced meat later, make sure to feed that guy named Wang Ao a bit more, he probably hates me, hehe.”

This made Tom fall silent for a moment, unable to respond.

It seemed like he had never encountered someone like this, and even suspected that the other’s mental condition was far from ordinary.

“Looks like you’re ready to accept your fate, kekekeke...”

“Hehehe...”

Lu Ce also smiled, slowly taking a step forward.

But that single step caused a sound of something heavy being compressed in the space.

Jiu Tian caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye and saw that with Lu Ce’s step, an actual footprint had appeared on the ground!

There was a mark about the thickness of a finger, like it had been run over by a road roller.

“I told you, the first part of this game mission sounds too simple.”

“So the difficulty must be in the latter half, right? Solving you, Tom, probably isn’t going to be that simple.”

“But I know, you must have many limitations, like you can’t act unless players break the rules, like how I gave you a chop to the head but you couldn’t respond, and all the other possibilities I haven’t thought of yet.”

As Lu Ce spoke these words, Tom’s body stiffened slightly, as if something he had just said hit a nerve.

“But don’t worry about those things, I don’t plan to waste time on them.”

“Who told you? I’m an intellectual player?”

“Inference and schemes are just stopgap measures when strength is lacking, but now, I think it’s time to start...”

“Time to make a move?! The Great Tom!”

Before he even finished his sentence, almost at the same time as saying “make a move,” his fist had already flown out!

Totally against the rules of martial ethics!

Boom! Boom!

Two loud crashes rang out simultaneously, and both bodies were sent flying backward.

A large fist imprint appeared in the middle of Tom’s special helmet, and due to Lu Ce’s sneak attack, Tom didn’t even have time to dodge before being sent flying by a single punch!

Since it was against an enemy, Lu Ce could finally go all out for the first time, powered by the energy he had consumed!

So satisfying!

Of course, at the same time, he was hit with a huge injury. The thick iron door to the initial room, for some unknown reason, suddenly fell and slammed straight toward Lu Ce.

He didn’t know why it didn’t need any acceleration over distance, but the terrifying impact caused the iron door to explode into a shower of iron fragments on Lu Ce’s body. Lu Ce was sent flying like a cannonball.

The violent explosion caused half of the wall to collapse, and Lu Ce lay amidst the rubble, yet was unusually happy.

He had no idea how many iron fragments had lodged into his body, and his bones didn’t seem fully healed, but his Pain Points immediately jumped by ten!

“Hahahaha! You’re much more useful than that Wang Ao!”

In the room at the end of the prison, Wang Ao: ?

As he spoke, feeling the surge of power flowing through him like a tide, Lu Ce felt so exhilarated he almost wanted to scream.

It didn’t hurt—just pure pleasure!

He raised one hand and pressed it against the nearby iron door, which happened to be Long Liu’s ward! His room was more towards the front.

With a firm grip, his fingers actually sank into the iron door, then with a powerful clockwise twist!

The ten-centimeter-thick iron door creaked violently, sending iron shavings flying out as the entire door seemed to soften.

It wrinkled like fabric around Lu Ce’s hand, twisting into a large vortex that looked very beautiful.

With a final move, he tore the door off and threw it toward where Tom had been sent flying, like a thrown dart!

The giant iron door whooshed through the air, creating a powerful gust of wind that shook Kirk’s body, nearly making him lose his balance as his face turned pale with shock.

Is this guy really that terrifying?!

“Hehehe...” The expression on Lu Ce’s mask showed pure enjoyment.

This wasn’t his own power, but he could use it freely for the time being. This feeling was the best—he hadn’t exploded all this time for nothing.

It was like spending someone else’s money—so much better.

Not his own woman...