Chapter 290: The Gaze of the One Who Kills the Abyss, the Choice of the One Who Kills the Devil

Xing Kai lowered his head slightly, then frowned, raised his head, and looked at Li Nuo, whose face was covered with thick fog.

"I said... you just said it like that?"

"Because I might become my opponent, I have to say it." Li Nuo pointed at Xing Kai's body and said, "There is a saying that only the dead will not lie, because the characteristics of the dead reflect the truth that can no longer be concealed. Let's think about it from another perspective. What if I treat all the living as dead?"

Xing Kai stepped back: "Wait, I don't dare to chat with you..."

Li Nuo continued: "I said it, and then I got the facts from your reaction. I didn't guess wrong. As for whether I let you know that I know it, it doesn't matter. When the opponent we may face is a person who can predict the future, any truth we think and think about is already nakedly displayed in front of him. 's eyes."

"Ha, ha ha..." Xing Kai put out his cigarette and said with a smile: "I came to see you, [Critical Person] didn't know, that guy should be waiting for me in the space."

"He didn't know you met me, and he was still waiting for you... That is to say, excluding the fact that he can't see my future, only from your perspective, the verified information is... [Critical Person]'s predictive dream can only see a certain time period, not all, for example..." Li Nuo paused, pondered for a while and said: "I know tomorrow's blind date one day in advance whether it looks good, but I can't predict what to eat next, because blind dates are important to me, but what to eat is not important to me."

Xing Kai: "No."

Li Nuo: "It seems so."

For a long time.

Xing Kai shook his head slightly and said in an incredible tone: "Brother, you are really scary."

Really... Li Nuo stared with dead fish eyes, isn't it a normal point to infer the whole...

"You came to me privately."

Xing Kai didn't hide it anymore.

"Yes, it wasn't [Critical Person] who asked me to come here, I wanted to come out on my own, even though I knew it wasn't wise to meet you now."

Xing Kai shrugged.

"I have only two purposes for meeting you. First, the three of you are too powerful. Second, I have a deal with him (Critical) and signed a contract. I can't quit halfway, but I really don't want you and her, who Annabelle has saved, to be involved in this dispute."

"Xing Kai, is [Critical] so strong that you think we and Gasolen can't fight it?"

"If you can solve the high-dimensional demon, someone can kill the abyss."

"Is that so... No wonder you are wearing a full set of Artorius armor." Li Nuo also noticed another thing: "You just said 'save'?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Only people in Japanese comics or Japanese games would talk like this? You guys... You don't all come from the 'other' games that we know, right?"

Xing Kai narrowed his eyes. He finally knew that no matter how Gunter O'Dimm was killed, at least when he was targeted by Li Nuo, the high-dimensional demon was doomed to die.

The insight of this demon hunter is too exaggerated.

"If I continue talking to you, will you even take off my underwear?"

"That depends on whether you are wearing anything."

The four looked at each other in silence for a few seconds.

Xing Kai said, "I will try my best to satisfy you with whatever you want. How about a deal?"

Li Nuo clenched his cane: "This is not a matter of trade. If you have the confidence to defeat Sauron, I really don't have the capital to fight you."

"You're kidding." Xing Kai recalled the scenes in Night City and said, "It's not a matter of whether the person who killed the Mirror Master has the capital or not."

"Who said I was the one who killed the Mirror Master?"

"Hmm?"

"Anyway." Li Nuo nodded his head and tilted his head and said, "Half a year ago, I would fight you to death. Now I just want a stable life, but I will not feel comfortable if I don't pay back what I owe to Sauron, and I have to pay back what I owe to Annabelle, so you have to give me a reason now, a reason that I can't refuse at all. Xing Kai, you know what I mean. If I care about money or other external things, the story of the Demon Hunter and the Mirror Master would have spread all over the streets of Basel."

Xing Kai hasn't felt the elusive sense of oppression from others for a long time.

He lowered his head and looked at the purple mucus oozing from his fingers.

"Strength?"

"Yes."

"What do you want to verify with me?"

"It's to give you a chance to make me give up."

As soon as Li Nuo finished speaking, he saw purple particles bursting out of Xing Kai's body.

The particles, like energy fountains, swept the entire fighting field like a plague, and the protective shield that isolated the audience seats was dyed purple in an instant.

Only the security personnel inside the shield made a hoarse roar.

In the purple mist, strange parasites drilled into the bodies of these hired interstellar hunters, and their bodies began to swell, turning into tall, terrifying creatures in the blink of an eye.

Li Nuo looked up at the purple color that was thicker than the magic factor. The outer coat of the cult blocked the invasion of the parasites with cursed power.

His heart beat wildly twice, but his face remained expressionless.

"The [Rescuer] is actually the disease that spreads the plague."

"Are you surprised?"

"No, living towards death is your essence, right?"

"In essence, the [Rescuer] and the [Rescuer] are exactly the same."

Xing Kai's voice accompanied his footsteps through the purple fog.

As he approached, Li Nuo felt that the air he breathed was being held by something, and he felt very uncomfortable.

Nanami once said that Xing Kai's ability to face the explosion of [Critical] in Night City was comparable to Li Nuo's at first glance, but personal experience was another matter.

If the assistance of Uncle Cairo was excluded, Li Nuo was now very sure of one thing: "You were at least at the same level as me at that time."

"Let's stop here." Xing Kai did not make any moves, and the purple mist dissipated.

Li Nuo felt as if the air was hitting his brain. After a second of paralysis, the things in front of him had a fleeting double image. Only the contestant code name tag hanging on Xing Kai's chest could be seen clearly.

—— Prime Minister.

The host Riluo Riluo had no idea how to explain this game.

These two people just talked, but did not fight. Then it seemed that they fought, but in fact nothing happened.

"I say... contestants... do you want to consider fighting? No one will die in a fight here anyway..."

"I say... fight... I'll lose my job if I don't!"

Li Nuo looked at the broadcast camera. He wanted to fulfill the host's wish. His pupils became sharp instantly. In an instant, a blue fire burst out from his left arm. The flames rolled on the cane. With a violent swing, the flames dyed half of the venue cold.

At the moment when he burst out with murderous intent.

The creatures that Xing Kai turned into monsters rushed over. There were five security guards in total. They were all selected interstellar hunters with good combat power. After turning into monsters, they were even more powerful.

In an instant, Li Nuo's shield was broken. After two hits, he was left with blood. Finally, a big guy smashed him with a hammer that turned into flesh and blood.

The ground sank nearly one meter!

The power of this blow was extremely terrible!

"You really are..."

Xing Kai took back the virus placed on the monster. The monster recovered and fell to the ground and fell into a coma.

Looking back, he saw Li Nuo lying on the ground with his door wide open, his eyes pointed at the high ceiling.

"Okay, I won't participate."

Xing Kai said nothing and turned to the door.

"What are you doing! Don't lose like this, you bastard!" Riloril shouted anxiously: "Hey, hey, hey! I was screwed by you today, lose beautifully!"

Hearing the host's shout, Xing Kai paused and looked back at Li Nuo, his eyes cold and emotionless.

"Li Nuo, I'm very unhappy."

"Then I wish you to meet Annabell soon."

Xing Kai turned around, silently recited the number of returning to the Endless Corridor, and then left a sentence before disappearing.

"Don't come."

"I want to thank you, Xing Kai."

When Xing Kai disappeared.

Riloril said: "Dear audience...ah, it seems to be over. According to the rules...one party escapes and the other party cannot fight, it is considered a draw, so the cowardly player has to start again from the first round."

Li Nuo suddenly sat up.

Riluo Riluo: "Damn... Coward won."

There was a lot of booing at the scene.

Li Nuo turned a deaf ear to it. He had just deliberately let the creatures around Xing Kai attack him for one thing.

Triggering [Bloodline].

In short, he used Xing Kai to verify [Bloodline].

"I was hit six times in total. The first three hits left me with low blood. I can only activate [Bloodline] after triggering [Identity]. But only high damage can make [Bloodline] effective."

He gritted his teeth.

"In other words, this move seems invincible, but in fact you need to judge which attacks are threatening enough to make the skill effective, and you need early warning of insight. Also... you can only activate [Bloodline] after [Low Blood] is triggered."

Finally, he tried to wake up the alchemy formation again.

No response.

"It takes some time to recover after use. The cooldown time should be determined by the power of the damage resistance... So it can't be used continuously, but when facing large-scale attacks and large damage, this move is the key to breaking the game."

He summed up a lot in his mind, and the conclusion is that [Bloodline], [Pixel Slash] and [Ether Ray] are the top three in his skill pool.

Ikaros's harvest is enough to make people satisfied.

Xing Kai is really unhappy.

He finally realized that Li Nuo was just using him to test his moves.

Li Nuo's last thank you was not for Xing Kai's kindness, but because the magic factor in the purple mist was secretly pulled into his body by his crystal magic. After returning, it was released, maybe it was another bottle of medicine for decoction.

He has a kind of pleasure of opening a blind box for medicine making recently.

"The only thing left is the Millennium Killing School Biotechnique of gun counterattack that has not been used yet."

While he was complaining, the venue changed, and he was teleported to a new arena and opened the door to go in.

This is the last game.

After the end, Wenke's mission was completed. Li Nuo's idea was not to waste time today, to deal with Wenke's affairs first, and to discuss with the two about Soran and [Critical] after returning.

While thinking, the door opposite also opened.

The person who came in was none other than Mark, who was stabbed with a mop by Li Nuo in the first round...

Mark.

Level 55.

A member of a certain team, he got a ticket to the arena because of his contact with Cairo Jun in reality.

As the group of players experience more and more weirdness and killing, most people's three views will gradually become distorted, indifferent to life, morality, and no bottom line.

But Mark is different.

Put him in the Middle Ages, he is the only template for a brave man.

Mark takes things extremely seriously, is serious, hard-working, and passionate. He follows the principle of getting up wherever he loses. After he lost to Li Nuo, it took him more than three hours to finally win four games in a row.

It can be seen that this guy is quite weak.

And in this fifth game, he met Li Nuo again.

"A fateful duel..."

Mark murmured and pulled out his long knife.

"This time, I can't support you anymore."

Li Nuo listened to the voice of this guy brainwashing him, and silently took out a broken gun that he snatched from the gangsters.

Fifteen seconds later.

Mark lay on the ground in the shape of a maggot, with pain in his back. Li Nuo penetrated the back of his head with a cane, ending the fifth game.

This time, Li Nuo was satisfied. He also tried the last skill [Millennium Kill]. The 30% trigger probability is a bit difficult for a dark-faced person like him, but as long as he uses it, he has a top-notch mentality. Strike ability.

The best part is that when he uses his cane to hit the opponent's back, if the cane is enchanted with blue fire, it can directly send the flames into the opponent's body, causing sustainable internal burning damage.

A player's skills can't just be seen in the explanation of the effect bar. How to use them in combination and how to exert greater effectiveness is the benchmark that determines the upper limit of a player.

Rewards can be collected from the cabinet in the waiting room.

Use the winning matches to redeem rewards. In other words, if Li Nuo redeems the badge, the first five consecutive wins will be cleared.

But it doesn’t matter.

Having been playing high-end games, he now understands that among current players, he is indeed the best among the best.

Things have to be looked at this way. First of all, in the "NieR" script, the actual player opponent is the "Corridor of Immortality" invader, whose strength was comparable to a small BOSS for him at that time.

Later, when racing in Cairo, the selected contestants were about the same strength. Later in "Cyberpunk", the players of the "Arctic Circle Guild" were actually very powerful in combat. With their coordinated play, Li Nuo suffered a loss at that time. , the immediate combat power of people like Nieke and Zasu is superior among players of the same level in "Endless Corridor".

Finally, there is Icarus' "Corridor of the Sky". Brupp's group is really strong.

And the blind girl in the [Critical] team is stronger than Brupp. She made Li Nuo feel that even if he exerts his full strength, he may not be sure of success.

To sum up, he really played on nightmare difficulty from beginning to end.

Only after arriving at the arena did Li Nuo realize that he had long been separated from most people by playing difficult battles.

Not a good thing.

At least he felt so.

Because...sooner or later, more dangerous eyes will be staring at him.

Just like what happened with [Critical Person] this time.

Li Nuo stood in front of the cabinet and lost his mind for a long time. He recovered his thoughts and redeemed the badge.

[Coat of arms of the old nobility]

[Brief description: A symbol of Basel's upper class society, for non-Basel natives, it is just a waste. If it were the Basel of "The End of Eternity", its role may be greater, but it is a pity that , that was already a story hundreds of years ago]

"It's really rubbish."

Li Nuo murmured, flicked the badge up with his thumb, caught it and held it in his palm.

"I remember that the reward for winning 100 games in a row is a kiss from Cairo Ji. Will being kissed by her induce any explosive skills?"

When he was thinking this, blue eyes suddenly flashed before his eyes.

"never mind……"

"Cha Bai will probably kill me..."

Li Nuo took off the name tag on his chest and put it on the chair. Before he was about to leave, Xing Kai's name tag suddenly popped into his mind.

"Prime Minister."

"What do you mean..."

…

"So... ah, today's competition ends here..."

"Dear viewers, please turn on the TV on time tomorrow to watch. I am Hiro Hiro..."

"Yes, that's the former emcee of Cairo Racing, Zhi Luo Zhi Luo. I was sent to the border area recently. If you are still nostalgic for me, please vote for me. My website address is..."

beep——

Harry, the Cairo man, turned off the TV.

Its little grandson turned his head and asked: "Grandpa, is that guy in black the big brother?"

The uncle said: "Don't imitate that brat."

The little grandson asked, "I saw he was beaten."

"That kid is so arrogant. He's not getting beaten. He's just testing himself. If he really fights, the other side won't get any advantage." The uncle paused and said, "There's something wrong with that guy... There's something wrong with that guy."

The little grandson looked over curiously.

The uncle pointed at the desk: "Finish your homework within an hour. Grandpa, I will take you to the casino tomorrow."

"Okay!" The little grandson went to do his homework happily.

The desk lamp is on.

The room was half dark.

The uncle was sitting on the sofa, smoking a cigar made of strip worms.

It can see that Li Nuo has grown up and can deal with more problems without even summoning its power.

As a legendary warrior who has experienced many battles, it can see two things at a glance.

The person opposite (Xing Kai) is so weird that it makes him feel confused.

That thick purple mist seemed to be a power that had existed in this person for thousands of years and was completely out of this world.

And... the subtle relationship between Li Nuo and Xing Kai was also seen through.

"I really want to see this brat crumble."

The uncle muttered to himself, cut the cigar into noodles, put them on a plate and ate a late-night snack, and then went to the hospital due to excessive nicotine intake.

…

[The "Basel" side mission has been completed]

【arena】

[Task requirements: Fight through the arena battle requested by Wenke, and get what the employer requires, the red badge]

[Task reward: a cargo list handed to Wenke, and a blind box]

The panel flashed in front of Li Nuo.

The red badge sat on Wink's desk.

A sack of gold coins lay on the ground.

Wenke helped Li Nuo exchange Icarus's gold coins. Including the amount of gems exchanged, the total was 40,000 gold coins.

Li Nuo transferred another 1,000 gold coins to Wen Ke as a tip for helping out with errands.

As for the things Wenke promised to bring him, he needed to give them a day or two to prepare.

Li Nuo took what he should take and left the tavern box.

"You found a good woman."

Wenke suddenly left such a sentence.

Li Nuo stopped and looked back at the president, who was sitting on the sofa drinking low-quality wine, with an uncontrollable murderous intent in his eyes.

"Wink, can you say that again?"

Wen Ke didn't know about a very serious problem, Li Nuo was protecting the food.

Such vague words can often arouse his jumping brain grooves, so at this moment, Wenke saw for the first time the murderous energy in Li Nuo's eyes.

"Ah... no... I mean, your woman came here today and chatted with me and Miss Jian for a while."

Li Nuo was stunned.

"She came to see me?"

Wenke nodded tentatively.

"Well, yes."

"It's over!"

Li Nuo turned around and ran away.

"Thank you Mr. Wink! See you tomorrow!"

Wenke stared at the empty doorframe with a confused look on his face. His face changed too quickly.

But he realized one thing.

"This kid can't kill me...I'm so scared!"

…

After Li Nuo returned to the courtyard, he immediately told Xing Kai's story in detail.

"So?" Marger moved the dining table into the yard, frowned at him, and asked, "Do you think Sauron will lose?"

"More than 80% of them will lose." Li Nuo said: "Intelligence determines the situation of the battle, and the ability to predict the situation can grasp the information in advance."

Cha Bai, who was taking the dishes and chopsticks, said doubtfully: "But... [The Explorer] is also engaged in intelligence."

"Control the problem." Li Nuo opened the kitchen door.

"Why does this involve restraint?" Mr. Victor muttered as he walked out of the kitchen with a pot of stew and placed the hot dish on the table.

The three of them sat down and didn't move their chopsticks in a hurry.

Marjie translated on behalf of Li Nuo: "[Secret Explorer] masters the existing strategy information and obtains resources through the strategy to quickly pass the level. [Critical Person]'s known ability is to directly know the result of the level, or even the process. It is actually a two-way restriction." relationship, so it depends on who takes the lead.”

"According to what you said, it is possible for the person who has the upper hand to have the winning rate soar to the point where it is almost impossible to lose." Chabai used his floating hand to bring the rice pot three meters away and filled bowls of rice.

Li Nuo took the rice and said with a smile: "Just like backgammon, going first does not mean victory, but there are some specific opening methods to ensure that you have the commanding heights. I dare to bet you that if Sauron and the others lose..."

Chabai smiled like spring water and asked in a warm voice: "Should I let you rest for a month?"

Li Nuo's hands shook: "I was just kidding."

[Dongzhou HW team suffered heavy losses]

[Please prepare the "Humph" team to become reinforcements. The captain will decide within one hour whether to accept entry into the script]

After hearing the system prompts, the three people's emotions did not fluctuate at all.

"You're right." Chabai put the last bowl of rice in front of his table: "Then what information do they have for us?"

Li Nuo filled a bowl of soup and handed it to Cha Bai, and said at the same time: "The blind girl tested me and Lao Ma in advance, so she has a clearer understanding of our information."

Chabai gulped down the hot soup, let out a happy "ha", and then said indifferently: "So the initiative at the beginning was taken away by the [critical person]."

Victor brought a stool and sat among them. He picked up the empty bowl and served the food while saying: "Even if you know the information, strength is the factor that determines the outcome."

"But they are really strong." Li Nuo chewed the meat, swallowed it, and said: "I tried Xing Kai's skills, and they were amazing. And so was the blind girl. She could bring them together." "The Critical One" is definitely more powerful. Besides, Sauron knows that they are using us as reinforcements, so who knows what means they have prepared behind the scenes."

He gave the fat meat to Victor and the lean meat to Cha Bai. He used a move to catch flies in the air, caught a fly and threw it into Marger's bowl.

Marjie picked out a fly and threw it to Dou Long who was walking aside, and then said with a pretentious smile: "Humph, are there still things we can't handle?"

Cha Bai picked up his rice and puffed out his cheeks and said: "Sauron's group of elites and Brupp's large army are actually theoretically stronger in total combat power than us, but... if we risk our lives, the three of us are stronger than anyone else. But I’m afraid…”

Li Nuo glared with dead eyes and continued: "Well...it doesn't seem like he has any fighting spirit..."

Cha Bai: "This matter is not easy to handle. Annabel and Sauron are on both sides. We have to find a reason to act or not to act."

The three of them looked at the [Magic Mirror, Magic Mirror] placed in the corner of the room.

Marger: "I'm thinking about something."

Li Nuo: "Well..."

Cha Bai: "What impact will the overall situation have on the three of us?"

The three of them nodded together.

Mr. Victor knocked on the table and said as if scolding his own child: "Don't think about killing people until you finish eating."

"oh."

"Um."

"snort."

Li Nuo saw Victor eating steak. He glanced at the pitiful amount of meat in his bowl, raised his eyes and asked, "Mr. Victor, why are you eating steak?"

Victor chewed the medium-rare steak and said calmly: "I am half American."

Li Nuo was unhappy: "Mr. Victor, are you treating us differently? Are the American people not human beings?"

Marger said: "Theoretically, except for me, none of you are human."

Cha Bai bit his chopsticks and said, "According to you, the lower limit of human beings is really low..."

After experiencing the baptism of high-dimensional demons, these three people can no longer be nervous about anything and feel like they are facing an enemy.

At least there needs to be an opponent at the same level as Gunter O'Dimm, and he must keep an eye on their lives to inspire the fighting spirit of these guys.

If what Xing Kai said is true, [Critical One] can kill Abyss, then it can be regarded as a potential enemy close to Gunter Odim.

After this,

They moved [Magic Mirror, Magic Mirror] to the yard.

Cha Bai sat on Li Nuo's folding stool. Only she could tame the naughty folding stool.

She looked at Li Nuo and said, "While you were away, Marjie used the magic mirror."

"Ah?" Li Nuo was curious: "What did you ask? Use your sphincter to eat..."

Marjie took out a piece of shit and bumped it in his hand. Li Nuo was so frightened that he shut his mouth.

"Soren reminded me that Xiao Wu's disappearance in 'Icarus' may have something to do with Miss Chabai's ancient blood." Marjie stuffed the piece of shit back into the doctor's coat while Chabai used cleaning magic to wash his hands. , he continued: "The magic mirror gave a 50% answer."

Li Nuo looked at the ordinary mirror.

Most of the things Wenke got from there were scraps, but if used correctly, they were magical tools that could reverse cause and effect.

[Magic Mirror, Magic Mirror] In the same way, this thing can predict the unknown, but the results it gives are often relatively general.

Chabai reminded.

"There are still two opportunities to use it. Think about it."

"Let me think about it..."

Li Nuo looked at the direction of the tombstone.

"How many more coins are there to increase the luck value?"

Marger took out a small bag of coins from the safe and gave it to him.

"Sauron said your damn luck needs this. There are ten in total, which is enough for you."

Li Nuo picked up three coins and crushed them.

[Luck value +3]

What to ask was spinning in his mind... Let's restrain him. If it were me, if there were similar opponents, I would either make friends with them or kill them before they become a problem.

"After [Explorer] fails, will [Critical One] point the finger at us?"

"Is the [Critical] team more dangerous than the opponents we have encountered before?"

Li Nuo on the mirror suddenly raised his head and showed a cold smile.

"The probability of pointing the finger at you is..."

Just when he was about to tell the answer in the mirror.

Li Nuo triggered [Seal of Arden].

Turning on [Aether Blood], a [Blood Explosion Bomb] popped out from his fingertips and poured into himself in the materialized mirror.

He was penetrated by blood bullets in the mirror, and the entire mirror was stained by a thin layer of blood mist.

The voice in the mirror also paused.

[Blood Mage] was triggered, and the derived [Seal of Yaksi] was instantly used, and the dice popped out of his hand.

"to be honest."

[Difficulty Judgment: 10]

[Blood Mage Bonus: 6]

[Luck value +3 bonus: 9]

The dice rolled out a number of 7.

[Judgment Passed]

His expression in the mirror was startled, and his cold smile turned into a dull expression.

"The probability of pointing the finger at you is 95%."

"The probability that the [Critical Ones] team is more dangerous than all of your previous opponents is over 80%, which cannot be accurately estimated."

After the sound ended, he returned to his original appearance in the mirror.

Li Nuo and Cha Bai looked at Marjie together.

"Captain Ma?"

Brother Ma has already clicked on the "Invitation Notification" panel.

[Reinforcement invitation accepted]

[This script is quite special]

[Please go to the airport in half a month and take the aerial rail to the scenario world]

Marjie withdrew his gaze and looked at the two people in front of him.

"The reinforcements have half a month to prepare."

Li Nuo picked up the teapot and took a big sip, his throat rolling and he nodded slowly:

"Well, go fuck them."