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Chapter 263 Finals

Three core principles for employees of the underworld.

First, you must not reveal any information about the underworld.

Second, life and death are irreversible.

Third, one must not blaspheme the gods.

This is a hard and fast rule.

Those who disobey, regardless of their status or achievements, will be obliterated, their soul and body simultaneously reduced to nothingness, never to be reborn, with no one to save them and nowhere to escape.

Unless another god intervenes.

Xia Sheng stood there, his gaze fixed on Yu Wanyin, whose throat was being tightly gripped by Mo Li.

Her face had turned purplish-red, and that almost inaudible yet heart-wrenching cry of "Brother..." was like a red-hot iron rod, burning his very soul.

Although Gilsu's soul has departed, the special feelings he had for his "sister" remained deeply ingrained in his subconscious, like a leech clinging to his bones.

He couldn't bear to see any creature called "sister" suffer such pain in front of him.

Xia Sheng's gaze turned cold. He lowered his voice and turned to look at Mickey: "Saving her, does that count as... reversing life and death?"

Mickey blurted out, as if by reflex: "Whether saving someone is considered a life-or-death situation depends on how the world rules determine the probability of that person's survival."

His speech was steady and devoid of any emotion, as if he were reciting a rule he already knew by heart.

"The practical assessment has a special barrier that greatly reduces the theoretical probability of death of the target during the assessment. Even if the target is in danger, it is generally not counted as a near-death experience."

Therefore, rescue efforts during this period should not be considered as reversing life and death.

As soon as he finished speaking, Mickey was taken aback. He opened his mouth slightly, his face showing obvious confusion and bewilderment.

"I am..."

What am I talking about?
What the hell?

Why do I know this so clearly?

Why should I answer him?
Instinct? Muscle memory?
Before Mickey could recover from his own shock, Xia Sheng smiled slightly.

"Thanks!"

He exerted force with his feet, and his whole body pounced out like a cheetah that had been waiting for a long time!
Before the words were even finished, the person was already several meters away.

Mickey instinctively raised his hand to stop him, but halfway up, his astonishment deepened, and then his hand fell limply to the ground.

Why should I stop him?
The invigilator's duty is to record and observe to ensure the fairness of the assessment. Unless there is a serious violation, the invigilator shall not interfere with the actions of the normal candidates.

Mo Li was immersed in the pleasure of strangling her prey, and Yu Wanyin's weak struggles in her hands only intensified her morbid excitement.

She didn't even realize the danger approaching until a sharp gust of wind rushed towards her.

Xia Sheng's figure rapidly magnified in Mo Li's pupils, so fast that she had no time to react.

Without any fancy moves, his left hand gripped Mo Li's wrist, which was holding Yu Wanyin's neck, with the precision of an iron clamp.

A crisp "crack!" was heard, accompanied by a short cry of pain from Mo Li.

That was the sound of a wrist joint being forcibly dislocated.

"Uh-ah!"

Mo Li felt an irresistible force coming from her wrist. The intense pain made her vision go black, and she involuntarily loosened her grip on Yu Wanyin's hand.

Xia Sheng didn't even glance at her. His right hand, fingers together, palm edge like a knife, slashed towards Mo Li's neck with a low whistling sound.

"Bang!" A dull thud.

Mo Li felt stars flashing before her eyes, a strong sense of dizziness rushed to her head, and then the whole world began to spin. Her consciousness, like a kite with a broken string, quickly fell into boundless darkness.

Xia Sheng struck successfully and then caught the limp Yu Wanyin, gently placing her on the ground.

The whole process was smooth and fast, taking only two or three breaths from start to finish.

"Cough...cough cough..." Yu Wanyin covered her throat and coughed violently, breathing heavily, her pale face flushed with a sickly redness.

She looked at Xia Sheng, still in shock, then glanced at Mo Li, who was slumped to the side, unconscious, her eyes filled with disbelief.

"You, you are—" She raised the gun at Xia Sheng, but dared not fire.

This person... what a monster!

The suffocating despair of being unable to break free, caused by Mo Li's chokehold, still lingered in her heart.

Unexpectedly, the situation took such a dramatic turn in the blink of an eye.

Nanyang Ming was also stunned. He had fought fiercely with Yu Wancha and his sister for a long time and knew how difficult these two were to deal with.

Mo Li, who launched the sneak attack, was definitely not weak, but in front of Xia Sheng, she couldn't even withstand a single move and was dealt with cleanly and decisively.

Mickey opened his mouth slightly and muttered to himself, "What does he do for a living?"

"Are you really here for vacation?"

With such effortless combat skills, and a written test score of 299, does he really treat the Spirit Control Division's assessment like a vacation?

The surrounding examinees were dumbfounded, standing there speechless.

Just then, high above, the cold electronic announcement once again resounded throughout the entire island and the supercomputing rings of every examinee.

Attention all candidates!

The repetitive prompts made the more than 700 surviving candidates subconsciously pay close attention, stop what they were doing, and prick up their ears, no matter what they were doing.

The fourth safe zone will begin to shrink in three minutes.

All candidates are requested to immediately proceed to the designated safe area for shelter.

As soon as he finished speaking, a virtual map projection appeared simultaneously in the sky and on the supercomputing ring screens of all the examinees.

On the map, a new white circle appears, clearly marked on a small area of sea between Middle Finger Island and Palm Island.

The area of that sea is pitifully small, less than a kilometer in diameter.

"What?!" Yu Wanyin exclaimed in shock. Having just caught her breath, she turned even paler when she saw the safe zone area on the map. "The safe zone... is at sea?"

The candidates frowned deeply: "Is this all the space we need? Two hundred people have to stand here?!"

"The key issue isn't its size, it's that it's at sea!"

How are we supposed to get across?!

"Is this forcing us to fight each other to the very end on the island?"

Across the islands, shouts of astonishment, anger, and despair from the examinees echoed one after another.

At the edge of the crowd on both islands, Li Guanqi and Lin Chen, upon seeing the extent of the safe zone, simultaneously muttered to themselves, "Just as I expected." "Wasn't it supposed to be a random shrinking zone?"

The final showdown was destined from the very beginning of the practical assessment.

Xia Sheng was slightly taken aback when he heard the announcement.

Three minutes? That's too tight a timeframe.

He slowly turned around, the gentleness on his face fading, and his calm gaze fell upon Nanyang Ming.

“There’s no time,” Xia Sheng said softly, his tone flat. “I’m sorry.”

"Sorry?" Nan Yangming hadn't come to his senses yet and subconsciously asked, not understanding the meaning of Xia Sheng's apology.

The next second, his question was answered.

An indescribable, excruciating pain suddenly exploded from his lower abdomen!

"Thud!" That was the dull thud of a fist sinking deep into flesh.

Nan Yangming's eyes widened suddenly, becoming bloodshot, and his body arched abruptly.

He looked down in disbelief at Xia Sheng's fist, which was deeply embedded in his abdomen.

The excruciating pain swept over all his senses like a tidal wave, preventing him from even screaming; all he could manage was a wheezing sound coming from his throat.

Xia Sheng withdrew his fist expressionlessly, looked at Nanyang Ming who had collapsed in pain, and nodded slightly again: "I'm sorry."

This series of changes happened so fast it was dizzying.

Yu Wanyin covered her mouth, and Yu Wancha struggled to stand up. The two looked at Xia Sheng in horror, their bodies involuntarily shrinking back.

Mickey's eyes widened, a hint of fear in them.

The four team leaders in the monitoring room were amazed.

"Even Ah Ming couldn't withstand a single blow."

"A promising talent, no wonder he was recommended by Professor Shen Shen."

"He's not as fast as Li Guanqi, but he's very strong."

"What a pity, we just came here to have fun."

Xia Sheng is a classic example of a combination of power and speed.

Li Guanqi is classified as having a Strength rating of B, but a Speed rating of S.

Under the astonished, confused, or fearful gazes of the crowd, Xia Sheng strode towards the airdrop crate.

He reached out, opened the airdrop crate without hesitation, took out the domain card, weighed it in his hand, and then casually put it into his supercomputing ring.

He glanced around at Yu Wanyin and Mickey, who were stunned by his actions, and at the candidates in the distance who were casting glances at him, and said coldly.

"It's too dangerous for you to have this kind of thing in your hands."

Then, he added in a matter-of-fact tone:

"It's safer for me to keep it."

Yu Wanyin: "..."

Mickey: "..."

The other test takers who heard this from a distance were speechless.

Almost simultaneously, a silent roar rose in everyone's hearts: "You're the one who's in even more danger! You're the most dangerous one here!"

"The poison is coming."

Yu Wanyin helped her brother Yu Wancha up. His ribcage was broken, and the blood seeping out stained his combat uniform in patches of dark and light.

The backlash from the forced transformation into a land shark appeared, and Yu Wancha's face turned ashen.

Yu Wanyin turned her head and looked at Xia Sheng, who was casually rummaging through the airdrop crate, his expression as calm as if he had just gone out to buy a pound of cabbage.

This guy… Yu Wanyin bit her lower lip lightly, her heart filled with mixed feelings.

There's no hope of snatching the domain card from this person; the most urgent thing is to escape the poison gas.

But in this current state...
"Brother, let's go!" Yu Wanyin helped Yu Wancha up and was about to take a step.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—Bang! Bang bang!"

A sharp, piercing sound tore through the air, like the scythe of death being swung.

The bullet, carrying a scorching shockwave, whistled from the rooftops of distant residential buildings, precise and deadly.

Several candidates, still immersed in the aftermath of the battle and slightly distracted, suddenly stiffened, their chests bursting with countless blood-red pigments, which were particularly eye-catching.

"Deng deng deng-"

One by one, pale golden barriers rose up, and several candidates were eliminated one after another, their faces still showing shock and confusion, as if they hadn't quite reacted yet.

"Take them down!" From the balcony and fourth floor of a residential building two hundred meters away, more than a dozen people simultaneously sniped at the prison wasteland, all firing deadly bullets.

Yu Wanyin was shot twice. She felt a tingling sensation on her scalp and her body hair stood on end.

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The shadow of elimination loomed so vividly over her that she almost forgot to breathe.

In a flash, a hand suddenly reached out from the side and grabbed her and Yu Wancha's arms like an iron clamp. The force was so great that it lifted her and the already weakened Yu Wancha off the ground.

"Whoa!" Yu Wanyin let out a short cry of surprise, her vision spinning.

The next moment, she and her brother were forcefully pulled into the airdrop crate by a tremendous force. Xia Sheng's movements were incredibly fast, almost inhuman.

"Puff puff!"

Bullets pounded into the airdrop crate's shell, splattering bright paint and making a sickening thud.

Yu Wanyin was still in shock, her back pressed tightly against the cold airdrop crate, her chest heaving violently.

Xia Sheng squatted down beside her, and to make the most of the cover, the two of them were almost pressed chest to back, squeezed together.

She could clearly feel his body heat, mixed with the smell of gunpowder and a faint metallic rust, clearly transmitted through the thin fabric of his clothes. His breathing was steady and strong, brushing against her earlobe, bringing a strange tingling sensation.

This is the second time.

She was saved a second time by this seemingly cold and eccentric man.

Her cheeks began to burn uncontrollably, and her heart skipped a beat, whether from the near-death experience or from the excessively intimate distance between them.

"You..." Her throat was dry, her voice barely audible, trembling slightly without her even realizing it, "You, are you saving me...?"

Xia Sheng, who was listening intently to the distant gunfire, paused slightly upon hearing this, turned to look at her, and asked with his characteristically expressionless face, "Huh? Huh?"

To be honest, his actions just now were largely driven by combat instinct. Seeing her in danger, he instinctively helped her up, which was as natural to him as breathing, without much thought.

But at this moment, looking at Yu Wanyin's watery eyes and the unusual blush on her face, he belatedly sensed that she seemed to have... misunderstood something.
It was true that I should save her, but...
That's not what I meant.
(End of this chapter)