Thus, Zhang Tinglei, who had been plagued by various trivial matters and felt exceptionally irritable at the time, had directly used his opportunity to set the third rule.
And the rule he set was:
【Those who are guilty, though far away, shall be executed!】
Originally, he had thought that this rule he set would not succeed. After all, the rules of his talent only allowed him to judge whether others were guilty, not to expand the range of his talent's activation.
But to his surprise, after setting this rule, it actually succeeded!
He was shocked at the time, but even more so, pleasantly surprised!
This meant that as long as someone was judged guilty by him, even if he could not kill them on the spot due to his own lack of life force, he could still execute them from a distance after his life force recovered.
However, although the third rule had succeeded, he could only trigger his talent from a distance once a day.
Fortunately, this was enough.
After all, every time he used his talent, he would be deducted one-fifth of his life force, and recovering this one-fifth required waiting for five days.
Over time, the title of "Heavenly Master of Divine Punishment" that he had originally given himself gradually became a true title.
“Sigh...”
Zhang Tinglei sighed softly.
These three rules of his, combined with his strength of the Xiantian Rank, could even be called invincible to a certain extent.
But there was a prerequisite.
That was, the target he wanted to deal with had to violate his first two rules and be judged guilty!
Yet now, the biggest problem lay right here!
The specter had been concealing its figure and suppressing its aura.
Even if he used others' talents or the special effects of certain specter items to find out the specter's exact location, it would still be useless!
While the opponent was in a state of concealment, he could not see it at all. Since he could not see it, he could not judge the specter guilty.
The first rule could easily be avoided by the opponent.
And when the specter respawned three days later, it certainly would not remain concealed forever. If his guess was correct, the opponent would still secretly manufacture unsolvable specters.
In that case, it would still look for opportunities to attack other players.
Given the opponent's high intelligence, it would surely hide the bodies after killing players, never giving him another chance to touch a corpse.
In this way, his second rule would also be avoided.
Zhang Tinglei's gaze swept over Liu Baixu not far away. In fact, in his eyes, the 【Perception】 talent was completely useless!
Keeping her around earlier was only because he wanted to try it out three days later.
But he felt the probability of success was less than ten percent.
For him, the only opportunity to see the specter would be when it attacked a player.
Once the specter acted to execute its rules, it would have to deactivate its concealment state.
But...
He did not know who the specter would target first after respawning.
Unless he gathered all the surviving players in the dungeon within his field of vision.
But if he did that, he would still face a very severe problem.
What if the specter sensed danger and remained hidden without showing itself? What should he do then?
The longer this dragged on, the more disadvantageous it would be for him.
After all... food and water were major problems!
Yes, Zhang Tinglei had already realized this from the very beginning.
There was truly very little food in the dungeon.
According to that sole native, the only edible things in the entire dungeon were ten rabbits and ten chickens.
And on the first day, they had already eaten several of them.
If all the players were gathered here, the consumption of food and water would double.
Perhaps they wouldn't even last three days; before the specter even respawned, they would end up killing each other.
That way, the specter wouldn't even need to make a move to obtain an unsolvable specter.
“An unsolvable specter... The specter in this dungeon is manufacturing an unsolvable specter...”
He still couldn't figure out why on earth this was.
Wait!
At this moment, he suddenly thought of someone—someone he had consistently overlooked, but who was actually quite important.
He looked at the other people nearby and asked.
“Where is that native?”
Hearing this, Zhong Cheng frowned slightly. Because of Zhang Tinglei, he had left the mountaintop early. He was subsequently hunted down by Zhang Tinglei, and they only recently reached a compromise.
Up until now, he had not gone back up there again.
As for Liu Baixu's group of five and those few ordinary male players, they had also left the mountaintop last night.
When they left, the native was still on the mountaintop.
As for now, they naturally had no idea either.
However, remembering that Jin Qianwen was still on the mountain before she left, Liu Baixu spoke up.
“Perhaps he's still on the mountaintop?”
Wu Zhao denied this, saying, “Before coming here, I stopped by the mountaintop on my way, but I didn't see anyone, including the native.”
Liu Baixu asked, “Then... was he taken away by the other master martial artists?”
Zhong Cheng pondered, “Then it could only be Jin Youwu and Zhou Shan. Since Jin Qianwen was still on the mountain back then, Jin Youwu would definitely have returned to the mountaintop.”
Zhang Tinglei looked at Zhong Cheng. “Go search over by Jin Youwu's side. They are over there, not too far away.”
Zhong Cheng replied, “Alright.”
Although he was unwilling to be ordered around by this man,
the circumstances forced his hand.
Currently, the other was strong while he was weak, so he naturally had to endure to preserve his life.
As for other matters, he would consider them in the future.
Zhong Cheng grumbled inwardly but did not dare to speak it aloud, lest he needlessly provoke a beating.
He headed in the direction of Jin Youwu and the others' campfire, and returned a short while later.
“The native is not over there.”
“I asked them, and they said they invited the native when they went down the mountain, but he said he wanted to stay on the mountain forever.”
Obviously, the native had lied.
Not only did he descend the mountain, but his whereabouts were now unknown.
Zhong Cheng sat on the ground.
“Senior, is there some issue you're looking for the native to address?”
Zhang Tinglei hesitated for a moment before giving a somewhat vague answer.
“It's nothing, I just wanted to ask him a few things.”
Standing to the side, Liu Baixu suddenly thought of something and spoke up.
“Sirs, this humble girl has something to say, and it concerns the native.”
Zhang Tinglei looked at her.
“Oh? Let's hear it then.”
Liu Baixu said, “Earlier on the mountaintop, I had some brief exchanges with this native young master. I asked him a few questions, and although his attitude was cold, he answered them one by one.”
“However, Zhang Xiaoya, the girl with the 【Lie Detection】 talent who was with me at the time, discovered that he was lying. She appraised him three times, and all three answers were lies.”
“And the three questions I asked at the time were...”
Liu Baixu thought for a moment, organizing her words before continuing.
“The first question was asking if he knew about the specter's situation here. He said he had been thrown in here by someone and that it was his first time here, so he wasn't familiar with the place.”
“This was the first lie.”
“The second question was asking if he knew about the specter of this place. He shook his head and said he only knew that those thrown here never made it out alive, but knew absolutely nothing else.”
“This was the second lie.”
“The third question was regarding the novice benefits 【Time】. I asked him if he knew what the word 'time' meant, but he still claimed he didn't know.”
“This was the third lie.”
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