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Soon, Bai Chen saw what the antivirus plugin that Luo Dali had mentioned looked like.

Inside the not-so-large factory, a steel behemoth, about five or six meters long and resembling a lion, stood quietly in the center.

"I guess your thing should be called Rising Antivirus."

Looking at the lion in front of him that looked strangely familiar, Bai Chen had a subtle expression on his face.

"What, you're in the habit of naming your tools?"

After glancing at him, Luo Dali walked up to the lion.

"Once you get here, the rest is simple: defeat it, and the antivirus plugin will start automatically. There will be a five-minute window in town, and the system will automatically determine that you have completed the mission."

"It's like this again... Where's the background information and the underlying logic?"

With his arms crossed, Bai Chen looked disgusted.

"Logic? Not needed."

Turning around, Luo Dali looked at him coldly.

"Here, I am God, and you are here to please me, the god. In my eyes, you are nothing but toys."

"What, you're breaking the contract?"

Bai Chen frowned as he looked at Luo Dali in front of him.

"Putting aside the fact that breaking the contract now is a bit too early, do you really think you can take me down with just that iron thing behind you?"

"To be honest, you make me feel very insecure."

After staring at him for a while, Luo Dali suddenly laughed.

"I don't fully understand your confidence yet. Once you've grown stronger, I might become your first trophy. Threats should be nipped in the bud, don't you agree?"

"In each 'game' that a player participates in, the number of viruses you can inject should be limited, right?"

Without intending to answer the other party's question, Bai Chen stared thoughtfully at the steel lion behind the other party for a while before suddenly asking a question.

"There's more than one way to complete the game. Eliminating all the viruses is also a way to complete it, but because you, as the game administrator, are involved personally, this way of completing the game is often not necessary."

"Don't treat people like fools. Look at the timeline, your companion should have regained his mobility by now, right?"

Luo Dali let out a cold laugh.

"You prepared all the potions, and you determined their effects. If I had been able to kill him just now, I might have believed in your sincerity, but unfortunately, you weren't ruthless enough. Besides that [Zombie Potion], you also added an extra potion that can temporarily enhance the opponent's single ability? That guy was already tough, and with the enhancement of your potion, I couldn't have killed him in a short time."

"That's strange. If you were going to make a move, you could have done it on the street earlier. There was no need to wait until here... The antivirus plugin might really exist, but its location isn't here?"

Bai Chen looked around and raised an eyebrow.

"This is actually where you temporarily store and deploy virus plugins, isn't it?"

"Although your level is low, your strength is surprisingly powerful. However, it is understandable that you were able to successfully awaken your talent at such a low level. But your talent is definitely not some kind of Void Medicine [Pharmacopoeia], but rather leans towards the Mystic Summoning category."

Luo Dali's face remained expressionless.

"I can sense the presence of your mysterious helper, but I can't define it. Its data here is quite strange. Besides that, what other trump cards do you have?"

"If it were just about releasing a new virus, you wouldn't have needed to lure me here. You could have done it in the living room. A little delay would have been enough for the lion to get there... What are you worried about?"

Bai Chen narrowed his eyes as he looked at Luo Dali in front of him.

"Hey, actually, Xiao Qi isn't as insignificant as you think, right? In fact, to be bold, she might be the real key person here, and you're just being cautious..."

Before Bai Chen could finish speaking, a biting gale tore through the air and rushed towards him. In a very short time, the steel lion that had been standing there motionless transformed from extreme stillness to extreme movement, and its massive form arrived almost instantly.

"What's wrong? Why are you in such a hurry?"

Bai Chen instantly concentrated his inner energy into his legs, unleashing unimaginable speed in a short period of time. He narrowly avoided the lion's pounce, demonstrating far greater agility compared to the lion's massive body.

...He even had the leisure to turn his head and look at Luo Dali's direction.

"Think about it carefully. In this game, she is one of only two people, along with you, who have retained their memories. From this point of view alone, she is not just one of the NPCs in town, but someone who is equal to you in some way... In other words, she has authority equivalent to yours?"

"..."

With a stiff, pale face, Luo Dali didn't reply, but instead directed the lion to launch a new attack.

The other party's reasoning ability is terrifying. As long as he reveals even the slightest clue, the other party can follow the trail and pull out a whole bunch of things. Although those things are all guesses made out of thin air, the key point is that the other party's accuracy rate is extremely high.

...He suddenly regretted saying so much nonsense in an attempt to get back at them.

"Hey, this stuff won't work on me. Bring out something new."

With a kick to the face of the steel lion, Bai Chen leaped onto the crossbeam above the factory building, looking down at Luo Dali below.

This lion is indeed terrifyingly strong, to the point that if it touches him even once, he will be seriously injured and on the verge of death. However, it is unfortunately not very agile and can pose no threat to him until his internal energy is exhausted.

"What, not going to talk? If you don't talk, I'll keep guessing. Although Xiao Qi has the same level of authority as you, that authority should be very limited, otherwise she wouldn't have used it, otherwise she wouldn't have died so badly... By the way, she can be killed, so whether she has authority or not doesn't really matter, but you still chose this location..."

Raising an eyebrow, Bai Chen asked in that direction.

"Hey, Xiao Qi should be able to manipulate these 'viruses,' right? Are you worried that if we transfer this lion over there, it might unexpectedly turn against us and become an asset?"

"...I admit, you've completely infuriated me."

After a brief silence, Luo Dali raised his hand to stop the lion's movements and looked up in his direction.

"From now on, I will not give you any more chances. Even if this [nest] needs major repairs later, I will keep you here."

"Really? Let me guess, what can you do?"

Bai Chen glanced at the lion that had stopped in the distance and curled his lip.

"Since it's just a major overhaul, not a crash, it means you still won't choose to get involved personally, but will instead use your authority to change the logic here. We're still missing a day's worth of maps; are you planning to tamper with that?"

"..."

"Not going to say anything? It's fine if you don't say anything, since you've already missed your chance anyway."

Somewhat listless, Bai Chen leaned against the railing and yawned.

"Why don't you guess why I'm willing to stay here and chat with you?"

"To be honest, I don't have that much free time."