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As he spoke, he suddenly looked at Shi Chuanyu and the others and said:
"You guys really aren't trustworthy..."
"I should have fed you all to the zombies sooner."
"It really was you!" Shi Chuanyu's eyes suddenly widened in fury, and veins bulged on his forehead.
"You scumbag!"
"What right do you have to criticize me?" Liu Chengyuan's face immediately showed a disdainful expression, and he continued:
"Didn't you guys use that thing too?"
"You think you can just walk away with a few words?"
"Shut up!" Shi Chuanyu roared, interrupting the other person. His fists were clenched so tightly they turned blue, and his voice trembled slightly from his intense emotions.
"If I had known that you created it using such cruel methods, I would never have used it!"
In Nie Qingyun's view, it was pointless to waste words at this time, but he did not stop Shi Chuanyu. Instead, he quietly used a drone to contact Han Zheng.
"Take a few people to the location I just mentioned, find the [Primal Crystal], and then retreat immediately."
Han Zheng was far more composed than Shi Chuanyu. Upon hearing the order, he immediately and quietly led a few people back into the passageway.
Seeing that Liu Chengyuan's attention was drawn in, Nie Qingyun was in no hurry to interrupt. Naturally, the longer the better.
This would give Han Zheng and his men ample time to retreat.
Seeing Shi Chuanyu's righteous and stern expression, Liu Chengyuan seemed truly enraged. He ripped his tattered clothes and shouted:
Stop pretending with me!
"Does he really think of himself as a champion of justice?"
Then, his tone suddenly changed, and he continued:
"This world is inherently painful, precisely because of that."
"People hurt each other and constantly transfer their pain to others."
"Everyone is doing the same thing to some extent, so what's wrong with me?"
"Who would believe your twisted logic!" Cheng Yuqiu couldn't take it anymore and suddenly interrupted Liu Chengyuan. Liu Chengyuan glanced at Cheng Yuqiu and gave her a strange smile:
"Oh, isn't this the young lady from the Security Bureau?"
"Are you going to criticize me too?"
Cheng Yuqiu widened her almond-shaped eyes and said:
"Intentional homicide is illegal, what's wrong with that?"
"The law?" Liu Chengyuan was taken aback, then immediately clutched his stomach and burst into exaggerated laughter, as if he had actually heard a funny joke. After several seconds, he finally gasped for breath and said:
"Then go call the police and have me arrested."
"And you guys, you should all leave now."
"The law requires evidence. What evidence do you have to prove that I did it?"
“If not, your current actions constitute ‘extrajudicial sanctions’.”
"Well, shall we call it a day?"
"You won't?"
"You, the daughter of the Linjiangtai Security Bureau, don't even set a good example, so what right do you have to criticize me?"
Cheng Yuqiu was furious and almost rushed forward, gritting her teeth as she said:
"You've hurt so many innocent people, don't you feel even a little bit guilty?"
"What do humans mean to you?!"
"Ah..." Upon hearing this, Liu Chengyuan showed a rather indifferent expression and said calmly:
Do you even remember how many loaves of bread you've eaten?
"Liu Chengyuan!!!!!!!!!!" Shi Chuanyu was completely ignited by these words and charged out like a cannonball that had exploded.
However, the next second, his body was easily pulled back by Nie Qingyun.
Liu Chengyuan's gaze sharpened instantly.
Because he discovered that, at some point, Nie Qingyun's injured arm had actually recovered.
As if he had never been hurt.
Nie Qingyun quietly shielded Ling Yuan Ai Li, who was standing behind him, then reached out and ruffled Cheng Yuqiu's hair, giving Liu Chengyuan a cold look:
"Let's end this small talk here."
"Liu Chengyuan..."
"I've seen through your abilities!"
Chapter 114: The Battle of Perspectives
"what!"
Liu Chengyuan exclaimed in surprise, his eyes filled with undisguised shock, and then quickly said:
"impossible!"
【Illusory Vision】Unlike spells and enhancement skills, it is a permanent passive skill and has no obvious external manifestation.
No matter how skilled the other party is, they will never be able to tell.
Unless the other party has the ability to read other people's minds.
But if Nie Qingyun had such ability, there would be no need for him to go to such lengths to trick him into revealing where he hid the [Primordial Crystal].
Wouldn't it be easier to know everything by simply activating the skill?
Thinking of this, Liu Chengyuan's expression returned to normal, and he smiled contemptuously:
"Stop bluffing."
However, the next second, Nie Qingyun's words made his eyes widen.
"Your ability is to foresee the future, isn't it?"
"And it is limited to the area within your sight."
"The time is two seconds."
Upon hearing this, Liu Chengyuan froze on the spot, his heart filled with turmoil.
Because the other party said the score was exactly the same.
But how is this possible? !
Could it be that the other party really has the ability to read minds?
Liu Chengyuan's suspicions were not unfounded.
Because the description of the skill [Illusory Vision] does not explicitly state how far into the future it can be observed.
Even he himself didn't know it at first, and only gradually adapted after countless experiments.
He and Nie Qingyun have only fought twice since they met, so how could the other party have such a clear understanding of him?
Even if the other party could guess that I might have some kind of ability to predict the future, it's impossible for them to be so precise about the timing.
Just then, Nie Qingyun suddenly raised his right hand, which glowed with a blue light.
Liu Chengyuan immediately adopted a defensive posture, his eyes serious.
Nie Qingyun did not take any further action, but instead spoke calmly:
"This is not a skill that 'steals others' [Primal Crystal]', but an ice spell. I'm sure you've already guessed it."
With that, Nie Qingyun waved his hand, dispelling the light, and continued:
"And I can control the 'pre-cast time' of this spell."
Upon hearing this, Liu Chengyuan suddenly had a look of realization.
"So when I ambushed you, you didn't retaliate immediately, but deliberately slowed down your casting time to gauge my reaction time..."
"No, this is not enough..."
“Of course not,” Nie Qingyun said, a slight smile playing on his lips, as he shook his finger.
"This only confirms two of my conjectures."
"First, at that time, you were no longer afraid of having your [Primal Crystal] stolen, as a large number of [Primal Crystals] had already been removed from your [Data Space]."
"Otherwise, you should have dodged before you saw the light on my hand, instead of waiting until the skill was about to be launched."
"Therefore, we can deduce the second point from the time it took me to cast the spell and the time it took you to dodge: your ability to observe the future is limited to within three seconds."
"Although you dodged the direct impact of the [Fireball] spell, you didn't completely escape the blast radius, which further reduces my estimate to 2.5 seconds."
Upon hearing this, Liu Chengyuan's expression changed, and he began to consider retreating. He never expected that Nie Qingyun would be so meticulous, with every action filled with calculation.
But now that he was retreating, Liu Chengyuan was somewhat unwilling. Firstly, Nie Qingyun had already guessed the location of all his belongings. Secondly, he really wanted to know how the other party had timed it to within 2 seconds, and where he had given himself away...
Don't underestimate those 0.5 seconds. In a battle between transcendent beings, even the slightest mistake can mean the difference between life and death.
So Liu Chengyuan pretended to be calm and followed Nie Qingyun's words:
"Even so, you still haven't been able to accurately deduce the specific observation time of my skill."
As he spoke, his eyes were already glancing at the exit of the tennis court behind him, ready to run away at any moment.
Upon hearing this, Nie Qingyun did not rush to launch an attack, because up to this point, everything was still within his plan.
The next second, his left hand, hidden behind his back, twitched slightly, almost imperceptibly.
A crisp gunshot suddenly rang out from deep within the passageway behind them.
Liu Chengyuan, however, casually tilted his head and dodged the incoming bullet.
A mocking expression appeared on his face, as if to say: Is this your sneak attack strategy?
Nie Qingyun chuckled lightly, unmoved, and raised his left hand in front of him.
It was clear that a very fine thread had been wrapped around his index finger at some point, which would be difficult to notice without careful observation.
The silk thread extended all the way to a wall deep inside the passageway.
A black handgun was fixed to the wall with duct tape, and the trigger was wrapped with thread.
“This kind of attack is obviously ineffective against you,” Nie Qingyun said with a flick of his hand, the silk thread on his finger coming off.
“When you burst out of the black smoke, I fired four shots at you. Including the one hidden in the shadows, that makes five shots in total.”
"By the time you got right in front of me, you had already dodged the first three shots."
"Normally, you should still choose to dodge my final blow."
"But you didn't. Instead, you chose to be shot rather than give up and attack me."
"This means that before I fired the last shot, you had already been hit in the 'future' and realized that the gun in my hand was fake."
"That's why they dared to take such a risky action, risking their lives for injury."
"In other words..." Liu Chengyuan muttered, his face blank.
"If I dodged your last shot, it would mean that I wasn't hit in the 'future' and that I could observe the 'future' beyond my line of sight."
"The fact that I didn't dodge means I've already been shot, so you can accurately deduce the upper limit of my observation time of the 'future' from the time I was shot..."
Liu Chengyuan snapped back to his senses in an instant, his face turning deathly pale with fright. He took several steps back and looked at Nie Qingyun:
"Are you... a monster?!"
Yes, at this moment, Liu Chengyuan was truly afraid.
He couldn't help but begin to doubt whether the handsome young man in front of him was really human.
That terrifying calculation ability was beyond his comprehension.
As Liu Chengyuan backed away, he observed the crowd in front of him.
Let's not even talk about the rabble led by Shi Chuanyu and the unfathomable strength of Nie Qingyun.
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