CHAPTER 1694: CHAPTER 12 PERFECT CLEARANCE

Under the Gravity Meteor Burst, several Vietnamese men were blown to pieces, blood mixed with rotten flesh splattering onto the surrounding walls, slowly sliding down, leaving behind trails of red that looked utterly disgusting.

The newbies were too dull to notice Tang Zheng’s changes, they really believed it was the Indian man’s last burst before perishing together with them.

"Only eight newbies left, seems a bit too few to use as cannon fodder!" Tang Zheng frowned. The newbies’ survival ability was too poor, and he predicted that they would soon be dead, but he didn’t regret killing the Conquerors.

This absolute massacre in a limited ability state was a rare occurrence. Tang Zheng estimated that the Trojan would definitely not allow his existence as a balance-breaking bug.

"Ah, great, my ability has recovered!" The Japanese woman who had retreated suddenly felt a surge of power fill her body, instantly delighted. Then she quickly restrained her expression, falling into a dilemma, "Should I pretend to be limited and ambush him?"

There wasn’t a single weakling among the Conquerors who survived; given the chance, they would ponder killing their opponents.

"Hmph, this woman is really ruthless, actually wanting to kill me. I shouldn’t have spared her earlier!" Tang Zheng’s face remained unchanged, purposely not looking at the Japanese woman, but rather reassuring the newbies, "Don’t worry, the bad guys are dead. Let’s get out now."

The newbies, already scared silly, nodded mechanically.

"Judging by the fleeting joyful smile on the Japanese woman’s face, she should have regained her ability!" Tang Zheng decided to hold back, first showing goodwill to numb the opponent.

Tang Zheng’s speculation was correct. If he hadn’t gone full firepower to instant-kill several Conquerors, thereby not giving the Trojan a chance to lift the restrictions, he would certainly be facing everyone’s siege.

"I have no ill intentions!" The Japanese woman put on an ugly smile, assuming a fearful demeanor, and gave up on the ambush. In fact, she didn’t have absolute confidence either, as Tang Zheng’s performance had been too outstanding during this time.

"Pass me the RC Unit!" Tang Zheng reached out, simultaneously putting on an act of worry over her refusal, intending to deceive her into inputting the wrong command, causing injury even if not killed.

The Japanese woman fell for it, gripping the RC Unit tightly with both hands, then hesitated. Given Tang Zheng’s treachery, she wasn’t sure if it was a trick.

"Since you don’t trust me, how about handing it over to a newbie?" As the other party suspects him, which is inevitable and not foolish, she would soon think of having a newbie do it. Proposing it actively now would make her hesitate instead.

The more cautious a person is, the more they ponder the enemy’s intent, leading to a state of hesitation.

"Others have already progressed to ninety-eight percent, there’s no time to waste, plus the first place has a huge reward." Tang Zheng kept talking to disrupt the Japanese woman’s judgment.

"Let the newbie do it." The Japanese woman didn’t want to touch the RC Unit herself, fearing a penalty for incorrect command entry.

"That should have been done earlier, the newbies don’t trust us anyway!" Tang Zheng’s seemingly casual remark made the Japanese woman waver again.

"Wrong, Tang Zheng’s performance has already won the goodwill of the newbies." Knowing that Tang Zheng killed the Indian man to protect the newbies, everyone would trust him just for that.

"What do you really want to do? Time is tight, if you won’t do it, give it to me." Tang Zheng showed an exasperated expression, cursing loudly, "Do you want to drag everyone to death with you?"

The newbies, being provoked, looked at the Japanese woman with dissatisfaction and began to criticize her.

"Tell me the door opening instruction, I’ll press it!" The Japanese woman took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down, "Don’t be afraid, you’re a Conqueror, even if there’s a threat, you can defend!"

"Just waiting for you." Tang Zheng waved a piece of paper with bold characters written by the Indian man, "Password 5, 3, 1, 7."

"Are you sure?" The Japanese woman hesitated.

"Should be no problem, press it quickly, I can’t wait to get the reward." Tang Zheng urged.

"Here goes!" The Japanese woman pressed the button, immediately struck by a massive electric current that made her hair stand on end and black smoke rise from her skin.

"You tricked me?" The Japanese woman screamed, readying for combat.

"What went wrong?" Tang Zheng deliberately ignored the Japanese woman, touching his chin in thought, cursing himself inwardly.

Tang Zheng was being too smart for his own good. If he hadn’t killed the Conquerors to have the Trojan lift restrictions and protective clothing, the strong electric power would have been enough to char her into cinders.

"Did I overthink things?" The Japanese woman looked at Tang Zheng, seemingly disbelieving.

"It’s a puzzle game, making a mistake once is nothing strange?" The newbies spoke for Tang Zheng, whose earlier efforts to gain favor were working at that moment.

Tang Zheng had good character and performed excellently, so the newbies, wanting to get out, were certainly going to cling to him.

"9, 8, 1, 6, try again!"

Tang Zheng urged, and the Japanese woman, having no choice, got shocked again.

"If you don’t trust me, give me the RC Unit." Tang Zheng rolled his eyes.

"No." The Japanese woman refused, pointing at the wristwatch, "Why has our progress stopped at ninety-five percent?"

"I see!" Tang Zheng had a realization.

The Silver Trojan was inherently fair, and the game’s cruelty had never changed. Killing was always the main theme. Putting people from so many countries into the same room was clearly for a team battle.

If this round stripped away abilities, making it an escape room game, then the team battle must depend on intelligence rather than brute melee.

"What is it?" The Japanese woman pressed, hating the situation, feeling that Tang Zheng was playing her like a puppet.

"That ninety-five percent progress bar is likely fake!" Tang Zheng replied, while actually considering another possibility.

When the progress bar increased just as the Vietnamese men died, this indicated that killing one person would increase progress.

"Do we have to kill them all?" Tang Zheng pondered, weighing the pros and cons.

"What have you thought of? Speak up!" The Japanese woman urged.

"Don’t disturb him!" The newbies now stood by Tang Zheng’s side, their support clear without words.

"No, if we have to kill all the newbies, then bringing them in as the Trojan’s doing would be rather pointless?" The only thing Tang Zheng was sure of was that the Conquerors must die, and among the veteran players who get out, only one can survive!

"Speak!" The Japanese woman screamed, unconcerned about threats from the newbies.

Tang Zheng’s speculation was about to reach the truth!

The first round of the Holy Land War, a secret room survival game, the perfect clearance standard is to kill at least seventeen contestants in the room and leave with no more than three newbies.

Only one Conqueror surviving was too easy, and the Trojan wouldn’t allow such a scenario, hence ensuring there’s at least one burden.

The toys gathered all the clues, located the RC Unit, cracked the door-opening instructions, and when the progress bar reached eighty percent, it was already possible to leave. However, this wasn’t a perfect clearance.

After the players escaped the secret room, the Trojan arranged a mini-game. The closer the progress bar is to a hundred percent, the less the difficulty encountered.

"How to kill the Japanese woman, do I have to go head-to-head?" The Japanese woman was on full alert. Ambushing her was too difficult, and direct conflict might result in injury, plus Tang Zheng wasn’t arrogant enough to think he could crush all the heroes under heaven.

"Ding-dong, Toys, it seems you haven’t been working hard enough. This took too long, the second round of the referendum game begins, countdown starts, please vote!"

"Great opportunity!" Tang Zheng immediately pointed at the Japanese woman, "I choose her!"

The newbies didn’t want to die, and upon seeing Tang Zheng’s actions, they almost instinctively pointed at the Japanese woman.

"You’re asking for death!" The Japanese woman was stunned, then furious, immediately activating Hero Mode, attacking everyone.

Buzz, buzz, like a laser emitter, beams of light shot out from the Japanese woman’s body, sweeping through the secret room without dead angles.

Above Tang Zheng’s head appeared a White Dwarf Star, the Gravity Abyss fully engaged, bending light beams, while he grabbed hold of a newbie to protect them.

"At least protect one!" Tang Zheng used a Gravity Gun to thrust at the Japanese woman, shouting, "Trojan, aren’t you going to sanction her!"

"Another unlucky guy must be voted out!" The Trojan refused.

The warrior, invisible behind the Japanese woman, was blasted out.

"Haha, your trick fell through." Hearing the Trojan’s response, the Japanese woman laughed complacently, but the next second, her expression froze.

"Only three left, referendum result effective, execution begins!"

The Japanese woman laughed herself into misfortune. Her beams were simply a harbinger of death for the newbies, completely unavoidable, directly slicing them into tiny pieces of flesh.

"No!" The Japanese woman screamed with a twisted face, but it was useless, like a smashed tomato, the red and white brain pulp splattered, with the skull spinning away.

With the Japanese woman’s death, the rampaging beams disappeared.

Tang Zheng removed the gravity field but didn’t let go of the female newbie in his grasp, fearing more trouble might arise.

The secret room fell completely silent, like a ghostly realm.

Ugh, the entire house was filled with severed limbs and a thick blood stench, causing the female newbie to vomit.

Tang Zheng took a few steps, picked up the blood-stained RC Unit, and flashed a smile.

In the end, the Japanese woman, in a crisis of execution, lost her composure, intent only on killing to save herself, completely forgetting to destroy the RC Unit or use it as leverage.

Still, even then, Tang Zheng wasn’t worried. The warrior was in stealth to prevent the Japanese woman from doing so, but since she didn’t even consider breaking the RC Unit, he wouldn’t let the warrior act. Otherwise, it might remind her.

"No, maybe she considered destroying the RC Unit, but it was the key to getting out, she didn’t want to give up that slim chance of survival."

Tang Zheng pressed the numeric keys, entering the command.

Wheeze, a sound of venting air arose, then the electronic iron lock clicked open, and the heavy Iron Gate slowly slid to the right.

"The door is open!" The female newbie cried tears of joy, without any hesitation, she ran out, desperately not wanting to stay in the secret room any longer.

"Great, saved me the trouble of persuading." Tang Zheng needed a cannon fodder to scout ahead, leaving one newbie was indeed the right choice.

After pausing for a few seconds, Tang Zheng walked out. The anticipated trap didn’t appear. (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)