I am the king of fighting!

Chapter 280 Testing
"If you want to join me, go to Hong Kong Island and join the Lin Group."

After Lin Xi replied to Sarah and her brother, she checked Hanzo Shiranui who was still in a coma again, said goodbye to Andy and left the orphanage.

The car from Yinchao had been waiting outside for a long time. It arrived at Yinchao Building in about ten minutes. After getting off the car, before the driver who came to pick him up could say anything, he saw a blond, blue-eyed man with two crossed 'X'-shaped scars on his cheeks and wearing a cloak walking out of the door. He looked at Lin Xi at the bottom of the stairs and said in a bad tone, "Are you the 'Great Devil'?"

"Come, with me--" He was stopped before he could finish his words.

"Fuck!" The woman in the red sleeveless coat shouted indifferently. Her long blond hair was wrapped in black and white coarse cloth. It could be vaguely identified that the coarse cloth was the sound nest flag hanging high on the building. She had a rapier hanging on her waist that was almost hanging to the ground. She turned her head and looked at Lin Xi, and said in a calm tone:
"Mr. Lin, Lord Ignis has been waiting for you for a long time."

The man called X lowered his head, his body trembling.

Lin Xi passed by him, feeling the violent aura in this guy's body, thinking about his familiar eyebrows and eyes, and had some guesses in her mind.

"Foxie, why don't you let me kill him?!" X raised his head and growled after Lin Xi walked into the building. The expression on his face was very distorted, his eyes seemed to be squeezed out, the corners of his eyes were cracked, and the blood evaporated before it could flow out. After the wound healed, it was torn open again. He seemed to not care about the pain at all and twisted the muscles on his face casually.

The woman named Foxy glanced at him, and placed her lowered hand near the rapier, ready to strike at any time. X was a madman who had undergone a failed transformation. The overpowering force had damaged his brain, and it was common for him to kill people everywhere if he disagreed with something.

If it weren't for the strange brain that strengthened its loyalty to the Nest, it would have become an experimental subject that was destroyed long ago.

"Ho~ho~ho~" X hunched his body, releasing a powerful and frantic breath, and kept roaring. It took a long time to calm down. He stood up straight with a sunny and cheerful smile on his face. He said with a little excitement: "Foxie, do you feel it? Lin Xi, that 'big devil', is super strong!"

"I will definitely kill him and eat him bite by bite." He said cruelly in an innocent tone, "Since Lord Ignis values ​​me so much, if I eat him, I will definitely become a mid-level cadre like you."

Foxy ignored him and looked sideways at the white-haired girl who was leaning against the wall in the shadows without saying a word and wearing a headset. "Angel, I leave him to you." After that, she turned and left.

"Hey, hey, hey, look at her acting like a middle-level cadre and she thinks she's so great!" X shouted, "If I become a middle-level cadre one day, I will definitely..." He fantasized for a while and said dissatisfiedly, "Angel, are you listening?"

"Hmm~" The white-haired girl in black hot pants and a tube top stretched out her hot body, took off one of her earphones, and smiled playfully, "Hey, whatever~"

"How can useless people like you build a good sound nest for Master Igniz?" X shouted in anguish.

Foxy, who was hiding in the dark and observing, shook her head, wondering if it would be a problem for her to take two problem children to the King of Boxing tournament.
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"Ding~" After the elevator door opened, before Lin Xi stepped out, he felt more than ten powerful auras hidden in every corner of the top floor.

13, no, 14, and there is also a guy who is very good at hiding his breath...

His eyes moved, sweeping across all the hidden guards, and finally fell on the real boss.

Igniz was lying on a long-back chair, holding a Persian cat in his arms. Misty was standing on the other side, wearing a long dress that exposed her shoulders and waist, with her eyebrows lowered and her eyes humbled.

"Lin Xi." He smiled gently, "Mr. Lin, nice to meet you. I'm Igniz, and I'm temporarily responsible for helping my father manage the Nest."

"I invited you here this time because I wanted to get to know a hero like you."

What's more, he speaks Chinese quite well and in a very elegant manner. Apart from his foreign appearance, he looks like a complete Chinese.

"I never interfere in the business cooperation between Lin Group and Yinchao. If you have anything to say, go and discuss it with Vanessa." Lin Xi slowly walked into the floor that was decorated like a huge living room. He noticed that hundreds of probes were scanning and testing his body.

The magnetic field in his body is always there, causing great interference to electronic products. It is impossible for anything to use infrared, electromagnetic or other means to secretly explore his body without his consent.

"Zizi~Pah!" When he walked to the center of the field and closed the distance between the three people to less than ten meters, a slight explosion sound suddenly came from Igniz's right ear, and burnt smoke and flat electronic parts popped out together.

Igniz's expression became dull, and he stood there motionless.

"Ah."

Lin Xi chuckled to express her emotions, then looked up at the camera in the corner and said, "Is this how Mr. Igniz entertains guests?"

It was already very rude to let a stand-in entertain guests. Igniz's strong desire for control made him unwilling to even use a stand-in. He actually made a clone after plastic surgery and used technology to control the conversation. It was useful for others, but it was really useless when facing a person with a strong magnetic field who could paralyze all electronic equipment on a large scale at any time.

"Buzz~" After the wall turned transparent for a short time, Igniz's smiling face appeared. He said with a smile: "Meeting a powerful fighter like you, I naturally have to be careful."

Lin Xi turned and entered the elevator. He was not interested in continuing the conversation. The reason he agreed to the invitation was that he wanted to see how magnanimous the man who was trying to become a god was.

Now it seems, very disappointing.

Come to think of it, in the game, Igniz clearly claims to be a god, but he lets True Zero fight against the protagonist team first. After testing their level, he immediately asks True Zero to lead the protagonist team up and he wants to bully them.

He can't even beat the weak ones with his high-tech gadgets. After failing, he was still talking nonsense and calling himself a god at first, but then he went crazy and wanted to destroy humanity. The only reason was that he couldn't beat the protagonist team because he was wearing a high-tech combat suit.

He is a narrow-minded, ambitious, and not very smart person.

"Ding~" the elevator door closed.

“Hahahahahahaha.” Igniz, who was projected on the wall, was not angry about the guest’s departure. He even laughed out loud. His laughter made his combat suit tremble. Dots of golden light bloomed and were squeezed to annihilation. The scene looked extremely gorgeous. He looked at Misty and said, “Yes, he is qualified, Lin Xi. He is qualified to be the original body of God’s plan.”

"The power to control magnetism... is so powerful."

"The foolish lamb, even if he holds the key to the throne of God, can only use it to crack a walnut."

"How stupid."

"Yes, Lord Igniz." Misty answered with her head down, quietly listening to the madman on the screen talking to himself. She didn't raise her head until the communication was cut off. Her expression became extremely cold. She put her hand on the back of the clone's head, and a dark purple light flashed by.

"Bang~" The clone fell to the ground, completely dead. [You still can't trust me completely? ]

She knew that there were definitely no less than ten pairs of eyes staring at her at this moment, but she still couldn't help but kill the clone with Igniz's face. She worked so hard to become a secretary, but she was played like this and stayed in South Town with a clone for a month.

Such humiliation almost made her tremble all over.

[I will... make you regret it. ]

Misty's eyes were deep, and in her red pupils, dirty, muddy darkness flickered. The person looking at her seemed to hear the cries and screams of millions of people at once.
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[Rather than saying you want to meet me, it’s more like a test? A temptation?]

Lin Xi stood in the elevator, looking at her face reflected on the smooth steel, thinking thoughtfully.

Misdi is absolutely real, and that is the real body. That dark and fetid spiritual aura cannot be faked. He once used magnetism to see the source of power behind the other party's aura.

If he hadn't considered the dark god Abrosha, he would have killed the woman just now.

As we all know, villains who are related to the power of the Dark God are basically impossible to kill completely. His biggest killer against those with strong psychic powers is to throw the spiritual body into the Earth's consciousness by adding points.

But with the Dark God here, anyone who is thrown in will probably be able to come out alive.

According to the setting of Samurai Shodown, the Dark God is a real negative god created by the collection of all negative emotions of mankind. According to the setting, it is very easy for him to rescue people from the Earth's consciousness.

Of course, it is also possible that Lin Xi overestimated the Dark God. Maybe he is not that strong. But he doesn't want to gamble. One big snake is enough for him to deal with. There is no need to create trouble at the current stage.

Speaking of Echo Nest, it is very unusual for Igniz to jump out so early. As a god with chuunibyou syndrome, he held back even when Orochi was about to descend in the game, and only jumped out after his final battle suit was completely formed and he felt invincible. However, he still didn't dare to come to the earth, but just hid in a base in outer space.

He said that he was ready to accept the challenge of the strongest fighter in human history and test his new power, but his actual behavior seemed quite cautious. Or maybe, cowardly?
It is easy for Nest to come out to resolve the nuclear war and clean up the mess for human society. After all, Nest was a kind and positive organization before Igniz completely defected. It has reason to come out to provide disaster relief without exposing anything, and it can also leave a relatively complete human society for the gods to rule.

It is completely different for Yinchao to come forward and for Yinchao to jump out personally.

unless……

[Unless he just wants to see me? ]

Lin Xi's intuition suddenly gave this answer. He could not infer it from the known information, but he instinctively believed that his guess was not wrong.

[You're treating me as a replacement for Kyo Kusanagi in the game? No, to be more precise, I'm the first target? ]

"Ding~" The elevator door opened again, and he put the guesses in his mind behind him. He was about to fight the big snake, so why should he care whether the sound nest jumped or not?
The most impressive thing about Yinchao in the game is its technological level. However, no matter how high the technological level is, it is still helpless against a real monster like the giant snake. After all, in the game, as long as the giant snake defeats the three sacred artifacts, humans will definitely become extinct. It can be seen that without reaching a certain level of technology, it is ultimately impossible to face the giant snake.

He has so many troubles to face, so who is Yinchao? Just put it in the back.

Lin Xi didn't pay much attention to Igniz's plan. After leaving the Nest Building, he went straight to the Howard Federation's headquarters. He wanted to find out how Maxima, or the future K, disappeared from his memory and whether there were any other traces left.

As people who have participated in the King of Fighters tournament, the Howard Consortium should theoretically have kept certain records, such as the number of invitations sent out, the number of participants, fight videos, etc.

After all, it involves things related to the future and is much more important than the sound nest.

The Howard Consortium's headquarters is quite far from Gist. It is a complex of five buildings, one of which is the headquarters building of the International Fighting Fans Association, which Lin Xi has dealt with countless times. It contains information on almost all previous competitions in which the International Fighting Fans Association has participated.

The King of Fighters tournament is no exception.

Lin Xi arrived at the door of the building, and before he could break in, someone came out to greet him. His face was too familiar to the International Fighting Fans Association, so he could not play the role of keeping a low profile or pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger at all.

After hearing the purpose of his visit, they readily agreed to open the database for him to check.

"1991 King of Boxing Tournament..." The technician responsible for helping with the search quickly retrieved the information on the supercomputer, with rows of data flowing out.

【Number of participants: ▇】

【Issuing invitation letter: ▇】

[Participants: Wolfgang Krauser-Stroheim, Billy Kane, Lin Xi, Ryo Sakazaki, Terry Bogard, Andy Bogar, ▇▇, ▇]

【▇▇▇▇▇▇】

Large patches of tangled text and black blocks covered the screen. The technician immediately broke out in a sweat, and his hands were clacking away. After a while, he said with sweat dripping down his back, "Sorry, the relevant data seems to be damaged. There are a lot of unrecognizable error messages about the data of that competition..."

"What do you mean?!" The middle-aged man who brought Lin Xi here turned pale. He knew the bad reputation of the man next to him. He couldn't afford it if he was thought to be deliberately disgusting the other person. His voice unconsciously became a little sharp: "Take a closer look!"

If he makes a fuss, he is just an ordinary person and can go to heaven in no time.

The technician certainly understood his boss's pressure, racked his brains and fiddled with the computer for a while, then suddenly said: "I remember there is a paper backup in the basement. The computer is damaged. We can go to the data room on the first floor of the basement to check!"

"Don't be nervous." Lin Xi was not as angry as they imagined. Instead, she patted the technician's shoulder and said, "How about taking me to the data room?"

At this point, how could the middle-aged man refuse? He could only obey and take the others downstairs.

(End of this chapter)