Chapter 70

Bai Xuechao, with a one-in-three chance, surprisingly succeeded, and now he was left with only two system ropes.

Xiao 6 gasped nervously and started taking cyber oxygen.

【Player C's current game coin amount: 1,891,666,670】

Perhaps luck had truly smiled upon him.

The 26th question was a long one. Bai Xuechao casually guessed "A," his answering speed faster than Zhou Chenhao's, and once again gained 50 million game coins.

【Player C's current game coin amount: 1,941,666,670】

Ling Feng had already figured out Bai Xuechao's pattern of answering and guessing, but he didn't know if Zhou Chenhao had noticed. He couldn't say it out loud either; if he did, Bai Xuechao might change his strategy.

He did some calculations. The number of game coins left in the prize pool wasn't that much anymore.

【Question 27: In folklore, who is the ancestor of agriculture?】

【A. Houji】

【B. Shennong】

A short question!

Bai Xuechao was concentrating intensely. The moment the question appeared, he completed the entire process of reading it and thinking of the answer, and quickly replied, "A."

Shouting out the answer at the same time as him was Zhou Chenhao, who had been consistently choosing A.

After shouting the answer, Zhou Chenhao's expression froze. He abruptly turned to look at Bai Xuechao, who was sitting calmly on the swing, his eyes slightly widened. He had actually had a vague intuition that as long as the question was short enough to be read at a glance, Bai Xuechao would answer it normally. If the question was longer, Bai Xuechao's answer would be faster, which was obviously a guess.

But now, Bai Xuechao's answering speed had actually caught up to his!

Perhaps because this time Bai Xuechao and Zhou Chenhao were truly simultaneous, the system didn't know who to judge. The big screen froze again.

During this brief moment, Bai Xuechao lowered his eyes and glanced at Gong Ting below.

Gong Ting lay motionless at the bottom of the pit with his eyes closed. The bloodstains on his body and the ground were half-dry, and his face was pale from blood loss. He had already fallen into a coma.

After a while, the big screen played a video of them answering the question just now. The perspective was from the big screen's position, as if a circle of eyes had grown around it, constantly watching them.

The video was slowed down by an unknown number of times. It could be clearly seen and heard that Bai Xuechao spoke first, closely followed by Zhou Chenhao. According to the time progress bar displayed below, the time difference between the two was already down to the third decimal place.

【Player C answered correctly. Current game coin amount: 1,991,666,670】

Zhou Chenhao and Ling Feng both thought in unison: It's over.

The next three questions happened to be relatively short ones.

Bai Xuechao took all three, pocketing another 150 million game coins.

Each time, he was only a few milliseconds faster than Zhou Chenhao, and this gap of a few milliseconds was gradually shrinking. By the time the 30th question was answered, they were only 2 milliseconds apart.

Now, it was truly a battle of milliseconds.

Zhou Chenhao could no longer think clearly whether he hoped for a long question or a short one. His reaction speed was getting faster and faster. Perhaps he could catch up with Bai Xuechao's normal answering on the next one. But if it was a long question, Bai Xuechao would definitely be faster than him, and he could only hope that Bai Xuechao would guess wrong.

Hey, speaking of which, how could Bai Xuechao's reaction speed be so fast? It was much faster than his.

His natural reaction speed was already a bit faster than others, and the degree of physical enhancement he received during level-ups was also higher than other special ability users.

With both combined, his reaction speed was already quite terrifying.

After leveling up to level 4 at the Marine amusement park, he had been tested back at the bureau. His physical enhancement level was already comparable to that of a level 7 special ability user.

Even if Bai Xuechao was hiding his special ability level from them, he shouldn't be that much faster, right? You had to know that when the enhancement approached the human limit of 0.1 seconds, every tiny difference in enhancement from leveling up was particularly obvious.

He had just been pushing his own limits to catch up with Bai Xuechao's answering speed, and had already reached within 0.11 seconds, which was Bai Xuechao's normal answering speed.

Bai Xuechao's level was definitely not just level 7. What level was he?

When Zhou Chenhao's brain questioned Bai Xuechao's level, he paused for a moment, and just like that, missed the opportunity to answer.

Fortunately, this question was a long one, and Bai Xuechao failed to guess the answer correctly.

He hadn't expected Zhou Chenhao to suddenly stop answering.

【Incorrect Answer】

【Player C must pull off one rope within ten seconds.】

【Countdown 10...】

Bai Xuechao grabbed the nearby hemp rope and stood up on the swing. His body seemed to sway unsteadily for a moment. He gently rested his head on the rope to his side and reached out to grab a system rope hanging in front of him.

As the system bound to Bai Xuechao, Xiao 6 noticed that Bai Xuechao wasn't unsteady, but seemed a bit unwell, and asked, "Host, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, just a little dizzy." Bai Xuechao pulled down the system rope.

As the saying goes, extreme intelligence can be self-destructive. People who are too clever are prone to overthinking and worrying, which in turn affects their bodies.

And just now, in order to answer the question before Zhou Chenhao, Bai Xuechao's brain had been operating at a speed unimaginable to ordinary people. He had overexerted his brain, and now his body's energy was running low. The moment he stood up, he felt dizzy and his vision blurred. He urgently needed to eat something sweet to replenish his sugar levels.

The big screen turned red, and the hemp rope on one side of the swing came loose.

Bai Xuechao reacted quickly, shifting his feet as if nothing had happened, and stood on the upright edge of the swing board, holding onto the only remaining hemp rope.

His expression was composed. If he hadn't just said he was a little dizzy, Xiao 6 would have thought he was fine.

On the other side, Ling Feng was also talking to Zhou Chenhao.

He asked with a calm expression, "Were you spacing out just now?"

"Ah? Uhm..." Zhou Chenhao held the hemp rope with one hand and touched his head with the other, feeling that he couldn't think of the answer to this question. "I have a question I want to ask."

He directed his gaze directly at Bai Xuechao, who had just steadied himself on the swing, and asked in a loud voice, "You're not just level 6, are you?"

Noticing the gaze on him, Bai Xuechao calmly looked back, "Me?"

Zhou Chenhao nodded seriously, "Yes."

"No, I'm not," Bai Xuechao replied lightly.

This statement was like a clap of thunder on a clear day, causing both Zhou Chenhao and Ling Feng to be unable to suppress a hint of astonishment.

So Bai Xuechao's real special ability level was over level 6!

A high-level special ability user without a doubt!

Ling Feng's first reaction was: a special ability user of such a high level, why was he so friendly to them? Was he doing it on purpose? What was his purpose?

Bai Xuechao enjoyed their surprised and somewhat dazed expressions for a moment before slowly saying, "I'm a level 7 special ability user."

He was still lying.

"Impossible!" Zhou Chenhao subconsciously retorted, "Your reaction speed is even faster than mine. Your enhancement level has already surpassed that of a level 7 special ability user."

Bai Xuechao's expression didn't change even when his lie was exposed. He turned the tables and asked, "You guys should be able to see that my body isn't very good, right?"

That was true.

Bai Xuechao's face was so pale that it was completely bloodless. To use an idiom, his face was ashen. Yet, his eyes were the color of pigeon's blood rubies, which always made people think of the vampires of Western fantasy, as if he had never been touched by the sun.

His body was very thin. Even through his clothes, one could feel his thinness. His exposed wrists and fingers were also very slender, with prominent finger bones, and the pale skin on the back of his hands revealed light blue veins.

—He was a young man whose frailty could be easily seen even with the naked eye.

"Actually, my body is very weak," Bai Xuechao spoke about his own body without any hesitation, explaining with a smile, "Perhaps because it's so weak, every time my special ability levels up and enhances my body, it ignores strength and just madly increases my speed. So, my speed is gained at the expense of strength."

Zhou Chenhao was stunned for a moment, "It can be like that?"

"Yes," the person who answered him was Ling Feng. "There are cases like that, they're just quite rare."

"Mm-hmm," Bai Xuechao nodded. "You have an example right in front of you."

He then asked Zhou Chenhao, "Do you have any more questions?"

"Uh, no." Zhou Chenhao slapped half of his own face. With Ling Feng's confirmation, he no longer doubted the truth of Bai Xuechao's answer.

He thought, so that's why Bai Xuechao's reaction speed is so exaggerated. Could he really compete?

But he had to compete even if he couldn't!

【Question 31: On the fifteenth day of the sixth lunar month every year, which ethnic group's traditional festival is the "Liutou Festival," where women pray for a good harvest and health?】

【A. Mongolian】

【B. Korean】

It was a long question!

The moment he realized Bai Xuechao would be guessing the answer to this question, Zhou Chenhao had already quickly shouted, "A!"

"B." Unexpectedly, Bai Xuechao was only a little bit faster than him, the gap having shrunk to just over ten milliseconds, whereas at the beginning, Bai Xuechao was 50 milliseconds faster than him.

This indicated that Bai Xuechao's condition was declining and his speed was slowing down.

【Correct Answer】

【Player C's current game coin amount: 2,191,666,670】

But even so, they no longer had a chance.

The remaining game coins in the prize pool were only 280,000,001. Even if they were lucky enough to answer five consecutive questions correctly and get the remaining 30 million, they would still be short of over 80,660,000 game coins to redeem all the things they had exchanged.

The winner of this game was undoubtedly Bai Xuechao.

It seemed that after the game ended, they would have to brazenly borrow game coins from Bai Xuechao, or invite him to continue playing other games.

At this moment, Xiao 6 suddenly said, "Host, there's a new side quest!"

Bai Xuechao was a little surprised, "At this time?"

"Mm-hmm!" Xiao 6 was also a little surprised, but when it opened the side quest, its code was shocked, "Huh? Huh??"

【Side Quest 2: Let my son go!】

【QAQ let my son go! Let my son go! Woo-woo let my son go! I'm begging you, let my son go ahhhhh!】

【Countdown: None】

Xiao 6 had crashed.

As everyone knows, side quests are issued by the author.

In fact, there was a rule that Bai Xuechao didn't know, but Xiao 6 as a system did: authors couldn't just issue side quests casually. Each time a side quest was issued, it cost points, and points had to be exchanged for money.

In other words, Bai Guzi had spent money to issue this.

The author would rather spend money to issue a side quest with no binding force whatsoever. It was clear what kind of state the Host had driven the author into.

Bai Xuechao, his amazing Host, had made history in the system world—

Becoming the first person to be called out by the author from across the void.

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