Chapter 496: Chapter 496: The Craziest, the Most Sober

A herd of demonic bulls charged across the arena. Even though no figures were visible, the game's notification sound had already reached everyone's ears.

That marked the first death in this game.

Moreover, it was an old player!

The situation just now happened too quickly. The sudden increase in execution difficulty caught everyone off guard, leaving them psychologically unprepared.

Therefore, in that moment, there simply wasn't enough time - desperate measures, life-preserving techniques, none of them could be deployed in time.

He died just like that.

Chiyo Ming, Club Ace, and others watched the screen before them, listening to that sudden announcement, their bodies tensing slightly.

Old players - in the mouths of Dragon Group and the Council of Elders, they called themselves failures.

But in reality, they could also be called survivors.

In fact, in many corners of the world, people more commonly believed that those who survived disasters were the strong ones!

The old players who had survived until now were no simple characters either.

Now, with this new game just starting and nothing much having happened yet, one had died so quickly.

In Club Ace's room, he frowned with a serious expression, raising his hand to touch the shoulder that "Sin" had bitten off earlier.

Although it had healed through medication treatment, for some reason, watching the situation in the video, he could feel...

His shoulder seemed to be aching faintly.

Most old players wore grave expressions at this moment, watching that video disappear before their eyes.

This was a new world, a new challenge!

Anyone who dared to be careless would truly die.

Additionally, worth mentioning was that since they were products of the previous era, the game's content hadn't been updated as comprehensively as it was now.

Many people didn't have items like "Exit Coins."

These monsters from the previous era had no retreat path from the very beginning!

Unlike their sentiments, Xie Antong hadn't paid attention to the other players from the start.

Just deploying one All-Seeing Eye to keep watch was enough.

Most of her attention remained focused on Lu Ce.

......

At this moment, Gluttony had pressed a gray button.

As expected, with the announcement of special mode activation, those pillar-like structures came crashing down even more rapidly, pounding relentlessly from above.

This was precisely "Sin" - at the current stage, only "Sin's" body could truly withstand such intensity.

If anyone else were in his place, they would probably have been smashed to pulp by now.

His figure appeared quite disheveled, seeming barely able to withstand the pounding, even finding it exceptionally difficult to stand.

Yet, the terrifying impacts striking his body produced sounds unlike collisions with flesh, more like clashing refined metals.

His bones began showing slight deformations and twists, while blood trickled from his ferocious large mouth.

But he could still endure it!

Like a madman, under the constant hammering of these heavy blows, he attacked frantically in all directions, shattering the concrete coating the pillars, causing large chunks to fall to the ground.

He even seemed desperate enough to throw those hard stone fragments into his stomach.

What became exposed were heavy tungsten pillars emitting a dark golden glow.

The density of those things was absolutely abnormal - even Gluttony in his current state couldn't bite through them, only leaving extensive tooth marks.

At this moment, "Sin" was completely hugging the crashing pillars, biting into them like a madman, appearing to have no clear purpose, behaving utterly insane.

This made many players watching him feel there was no reference value and they began looking at other screens.

......

But after watching for so long, Xie Antong still felt something was very wrong.

She was multitasking extensively - watching different screens, dividing her attention to read live stream comments, searching for any useful information.

When Lu Ce's screen appeared before her with all the red lights lit above his head, her first reaction was actually disbelief.

In Mortar and Pestle Hell, with Lu Ce in his Gluttony state, it was impossible for him to be successfully convicted!

Had he made a mistake?

Mental loss of control, had he missed something?

When that screen appeared, she quickly noticed that the walls and floor in that room seemed somewhat pitted and damaged, currently self-repairing.

Xie Antong immediately took out a gun and fired at the wall - only a small mark appeared on it!

Therefore, something was wrong in Lu Ce's room!

Before this video was publicly selected, had he... fought with someone?

Who had he fought with?!

What could have forced him to use that level of power?

This question lingered in her mind, and soon she saw a scene that shocked her.

In the footage before her, Lu Ce had already pressed the gray button twice consecutively.

Of course, two consecutive times didn't mean much - it could just be coincidence.

But the next time, the positions where the two buttons appeared changed!

Normally, both buttons would appear directly beside the player's hands, allowing immediate selection.

But this time, when "Sin" was about to make his third selection, she was shocked to see that the two buttons had actually separated, positioned in different locations throughout the room.

The red button was right at the edge of the large crater on the ground, while the gray button - she couldn't even spot it at first.

This...?

Immediately after, another scene that pleasantly surprised her appeared - the red Gluttony suddenly performed a rebound jump from the ground, shooting toward the heights.

Only with the perspective shift could she finally see that the gray button was hidden among the dense stone pillars above!

This meant his button selection wasn't random, but quite deliberate.

This meant he knew what he was doing - even in this state, he had always known what he was doing!

Even when plunged into madness, with energy scattering everywhere, suffering hurricane-like attacks, he still maintained self-control on the most critical issues.

It seemed he had long grown accustomed to staring into the abyss - could his self-control reach such levels?

And this simultaneously proved that his earlier conviction couldn't have been his mistake.

The room's damage indicated intense combat must have occurred - something must have happened earlier.

What had happened?

The corners of Xie Antong's mouth lifted slightly, her eyes fixed intently on "Sin's" screen.

"This time, the slip-up seems to have been revealed rather early..."