When system cheat becomes rampant!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Countless ice knives densely shot from all directions off the ground, with Xiang Beifei and Lu Zhiwei firing at them, only to quickly realize that their target wasn't them, but rather the large pine tree they were standing on!

Crack!

The ice knives of the Extreme Ice Tiger were powerful and sharp. A few sweeps of the blades, and the pine tree on which Xiang Beifei and his group stood was severed in the middle!

"Not good!"

Lu Zhiwei was enjoying her shooting too much and forgot about this. As the pine tree fell, they fell too. Xiang Beifei and Lu Zhiwei could only stop shooting, quickly grabbed He Yun and Liu Gui, and jumped out, landing on the ground.

But now, the four of them lost the high ground advantage. They swept again with the machine gun, but those Extreme Ice Tigers seemed to have learned and collectively conjured a wall of ice in front of them.

Zhiwei, stop shooting, or those bullets will probably bounce back at us.

By now, they were completely surrounded by four ice walls, firmly bonded together, blocking all their paths of escape.

The ice walls continuously moved, creating a cage to trap them.

"It's over, we can't escape." Liu Gui muttered to himself.

"What do we do? What do we do? We can't stop these desolate beasts." He Yun also spoke in a rushed tone.

"It's okay, it's okay, they must have a way." Liu Gui comforted He Yun.

"Beifei, I am out of ideas."

Lu Zhiwei tried to melt the ice walls with a laser gun, but it was deflected back by the wall, almost hitting her. The ice walls created by countless Qi-Controlling late-stage Extreme Ice Tigers were now able to stop Lu Zhiwei's firepower.

Amongst this chaos, Xiaohei scratched Xiang Beifei's ear and barked twice.

Xiang Beifei was surprised and turned to ask Xiaohei on his shoulder, "Do you have a way to get them out of this space?"

Xiaohei barked and nodded.

Beifei had forgotten that this was a space created by the World Control System, which could render any system ability ineffective.

Not to mention this virtual space, even if Lu Zhiwei fired a rocket at him from the system, Xiaohei would intercept it.

Xiaohei was specifically designed to counter all kinds of fancy systems.

"You should have said so earlier, then we wouldn't have been in such a predicament. Let's get out first."

Xiang Beifei scanned the surroundings. This space was artificially created, but he still hadn't seen where the person controlling it was hiding. Their enemy was using the Extreme Ice Tigers to push them to the brink, so there was no point in staying any longer.

Xiang Beifei was about to send Liu Gui and He Yun out of this place and back to reality, but at that moment, a scream suddenly came from behind!

Liu Gui looked at He Yun in disbelief, with an ice knife embedded in his abdomen, clearly the blade of an Extreme Ice Tiger.

Blood soaked through Liu Gui's clothes and dripped onto the ground.

"Xiao Yun, how... how could you..." Liu Gui looked at He Yun in horror.

Lu Zhiwei was shocked and exclaimed, "He Yun, what have you done!"

He Yun's hands shook as she said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's the only way! He said it's the game rule, only women can survive, I have to kill you, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..."

Liu Gui's face went deathly pale, "He told you? He told me too, but he said only men could survive here. But I like you so much, I really can't bring myself to do it, I thought you liked me too, why could you be so heartless..."

He had no intention of attacking He Yun and had thrown away his ice knife long ago.

"I want to live!" He Yun seemed on the verge of tears, "I'm sorry, I want to live, I have to survive, I still have a sister to take care of, and my parents to look after..."

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"Is this your excuse for killing?" Xiang Beifei looked at He Yun coldly, "Why bother finding excuses? Just say you're greedy for life and fear death."

He Yun began to sob.

Lu Zhiwei said, "He Yun, have you lost your mind! You believed what that person said? You took his nonsense seriously! After I just tried to save you too!"

He Yun, looking frenzied as the ice walls closed in around them, shouted desperately at Lu Zhiwei, "He said it's part of the game rules, the men have to die! If you want to escape, you have to kill your boyfriend too! You must kill him!"

She seemed to be urgently hoping Lu Zhiwei would make the same choice as her, to strike at Xiang Beifei. Only then would she feel some relief, sparing herself from too much torment.

"How does it matter if I heard it? Do you think everyone is as foolish as you are! Can you live with yourself after killing the person you care about just to escape?" Lu Zhiwei retorted angrily.

"Don't you dare blame me! You were instructed too, if you don't kill your boyfriend, you can't leave either!" He Yun shrieked at Lu Zhiwei.

Lu Zhiwei, hands on her hips and furious, declared, "I am a law enforcer, not a murderer! You idiot!"

That man's voice had also appeared in her mind, but she hadn't taken his threats seriously, not even believing his words were true, always intending to catch this person and confront him.

"I thought you liked me, you weren't supposed to attack me..." Liu Gui's face grew paler.

"You promised to protect me at all costs, if only one of us could live, you'd certainly want me to survive, so I had no choice! You won't blame me, will you...?"

He Yun looked like she was about to collapse. She was truly scared, especially when the Extreme Ice Tiger pinned her down, and the chilling breath made her feel utterly hopeless. She wanted to live, even seeing the slightest chance.

But then the Extreme Ice Tiger really let her go, leaving behind an ice knife. She was too scared, accepting the rules of the killer on the highway cruise line in utter despair, she had to kill Liu Gui.

She couldn't reconcile it with her conscience, so she desperately searched for excuses, hoping that Lu Zhiwei would do the same to lessen her guilt.

Liu Gui looked at He Yun with a bitter expression, "I did hope you would survive...live a good life...I'm sorry I couldn't protect you..."

He was heartbroken; the girl he had loved for so long could treat him like this. He thought he found the one to share his life with, had even thought about proposing to her in the future, but the knife felt so cold, piercingly cold.

"Don't blame me...I'm sorry...it's the game's rules he set, I'm just an N-level Awakener, I can't resist, I just want to live..."

He Yun stood up and kept backing away, retreating to the corner of the ice wall, away from Xiang Beifei and the others.

Liu Gui passed out, and Lu Zhiwei quickly used her police medical supplies to stop his bleeding.

"You fool, if it's the game rules, then why can't you leave?" Lu Zhiwei said while treating Liu Gui.

He Yun, in panic, started banging on the ice wall, yelling into the air, "I killed him, why won't you let me leave!"

"Because he's not dead yet!"

A lazy voice came from the woods.

Xiang Beifei heard it too this time, and he searched for the source of the voice, soon spotting a figure sitting on a tree branch, watching them with mockery.

Through the thick ice wall, Xiang Beifei couldn't see the person's face clearly, only sensing the figure seemed to be wearing a mask, but he did make out the person's system—

[Host: Zhu Xinjue]

[SR-level, World Control System]

[Realm: Early Meridian Opening]

"This guy, indeed, is an SR-level Awakener!"

Xiang Beifei watched warily. Uncle Lu's crows couldn't scan this person, simply because he wasn't ordinary.

Not only that, but the law enforcers seemed to have mistakenly estimated the "Highway Cruise Killer"'s strength. The person was not at the Late Qi-Controlling stage but at the Early Meridian Opening stage!

"Or perhaps, this guy has just stepped into the Meridian Opening stage?"

Xiang Beifei was pondering in his mind. An SR-level system actually had very strong innate talent too, increasing its holder's strength very rapidly, only a fine line weaker than SSR, but reaching Early Meridian Opening in one year of awakening.

That meant that this person could very likely still be a student!

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