chapter 159 part 1
Chapter 159: The Last Masked Killer, 9/10!
Inside the police station, all members of Team China were present.
Everyone frowned as they looked at Hu Yong, who was lying on the ground, half-dead from the pain.
Ren Arakawa pulled Chu Xuan aside. "Five newcomers, and besides you, there's only one left who can still move."
Chu Xuan remained expressionless. "I merely gave them a reasonable test. Some simply couldn't handle it, and some made mistakes."
"For instance, if Li Shuaixi and Fei Hao hadn't spoken ill of the team behind their backs, their survival rate in this film would have been seventy-two percent. But since they bad-mouthed the team and formed a clique, even when I had you take them to be bait, their survival rate was still six percent. They just failed to grasp the opportunity."
Ren Arakawa gave a helpless, bitter smile. Just like in the original story, Li Shuaixi still didn't survive under Chu Xuan's watch.
This time, however, with a captain like him whose combat power was off the charts, Li Shuaixi couldn't stir up any trouble and could only wait for death.
"Right." Chu Xuan suddenly looked toward Zheng Shuang, who was shivering in a distant corner. "That woman didn't pass the test either. She watched me set up the hand grenades. I had unintentionally revealed to her that if too many team members survive, the difficulty of the next horror movie will increase."
Ren Arakawa scratched his itchy neck. "Alright, alright, that was a truly ruthless move. So now, all the newcomers besides you are just waiting to die, is that it?"
Chu Xuan shrugged. "Not necessarily. Human nature is uncontrollable; situations that I don't expect are bound to happen. At the very least, from this point on, I won't actively plot against those two newcomers."
Ren Arakawa asked curiously, "What about that Zheng Zha? He keeps challenging you. It seems he's not very convinced of your intelligence."
Chu Xuan studied Ren Arakawa seriously. "I don't know why, but you always give me a strange feeling... Anyway, the issue with Zheng Zha isn't hard to understand. You are old teammates who have worked together and experienced life-and-death situations. It's perfectly normal for him to distrust me."
He paused for a moment before continuing, "In the eyes of a mortal, it's natural to want to survive as long as possible and be as safe as possible. He hasn't fully integrated into the Main God Space yet. Therefore, I can ignore his opinions of me. I won't hold a grudge."
"On the contrary, because he protects his companions and teammates, I can even give him extra points. After all, I am not a marshal, and he is not my soldier. There are no consequences for disobeying my orders."
"Then," Ren Arakawa pressed on, "what do you think of the other teammates? Are they all qualified? I mean, including me?"
Chu Xuan looked at Ren Arakawa. "You represent the indispensable 'strength' of the team. Even if you had a thousand flaws, I wouldn't do anything to you."
"As for the others... Xiaoye Hui won't do. I'm still observing Nuowa."
"The rest are acceptable."
"Pfft!"
Ren Arakawa was left completely speechless by Chu Xuan's way of putting things.
With him laying it out like that, isn't that just...
Zhang Jie, Zheng Zha, Zhao Yingkong, Zhan Lan, plus Chu Xuan himself... aren't those the standard cornerstones for building Team China!
Ren Arakawa really wanted to ask: behind this far-fetched explanation, are you, Chu Xuan, just conning us by checking names against a list of main and supporting characters?
The other members saw that Chu Xuan was still chatting with Ren Arakawa and sent Zhang Jie over as their representative.
Zhang Jie organized his words and spoke up: "Um... what should we do now? We launched a surprise attack on the North Arctic Team, and now they don't have their group of newcomers anymore. We discussed it, and our conclusion is to finish the mission as soon as possible, and then return..."
Chu Xuan glanced at Zhang Jie. "Then go ahead and do it."
"Uh..." Zhang Jie looked awkward. If they could find the last two killers, they obviously wouldn't have needed to come ask Chu Xuan for help.
It was precisely because the last two killers had yet to be captured that after the battle at the abandoned factory, the members of Team China returned to the police station, discussed the matter, and realized that without Chu Xuan's help, they couldn't return to the Main God Plaza at all.
So they could only send the good-natured Zhang Jie to plead with him.
Ren Arakawa laughed out loud. "You guys... in the end, you still have to beg this emotionless AI."
Zhang Jie wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into and could only offer an apologetic smile.
Chu Xuan, however, showed no signs of schadenfreude. He maintained his usual expression of disinterest in everything as he spoke: "Then, let me conduct the final experiment."
Inside the police station, the pale lights made one's head spin, and the oppressive atmosphere made it hard to breathe.
Chu Xuan walked with steady steps, moving one step at a time toward the heavily injured Teacher Cang.
At this moment, Teacher Cang's clothes were tattered and stained with blood. Her face was filled with terror and despair. She huddled in a corner, her body trembling uncontrollably, her eyes wide as she stared fixedly at the approaching Chu Xuan. Her gaze seemed to say that she was certain this man was here to end her life.
However, Chu Xuan's actions were beyond everyone's expectations.