Chapter 63: Magnetic Field Flaw

Chapter 63: Chapter 63: Magnetic Field Flaw

"Impossible. I’ve seen footage of your previous fights."

"There have to be prerequisites for you to activate your ability to control others."

"Based on my deductions, it must be related to the strength of one’s Life Magnet Field."

"I’m not injured, and my Life Magnet Field hasn’t fluctuated violently at all. How could I have fallen for it?"

Feng Xingyun didn’t believe a single word of the "explanation" Chen Qi gave him.

As someone so naturally proud, how could he admit he had fallen into someone else’s scheme so early on?

He had long been well aware of Chen Qi’s abilities and was even on guard against them. To be caught now—wouldn’t that just prove he was an idiot?

"It’s true. There’s no need to lie to you."

"Besides, actions speak louder than words."

Chen Qi casually manipulated the three Puppet Threads inside Feng Xingyun’s body, and the latter was immediately convinced.

He had no choice but to believe it; his own left hand was uncontrollably trying to slap him across the face.

Feng Xingyun finally realized with a start that his life was now completely in Chen Qi’s hands.

"You really brought this on yourself, you know."

"Before my encounter with Kolos, I really wouldn’t have been able to do anything to you. I might have even been blown to smithereens by one of your blasts."

"But poor Kolos didn’t kill me. Instead, he made me even stronger."

"You thought you were kicking me while I was down, but you had no idea you were running headfirst into a steel plate!"

The reason Chen Qi was able to bypass Feng Xingyun’s Life Magnet Field without a sound was entirely thanks to the selfless contribution of Kolos.

Before devouring the Nuclear Iron, Chen Qi’s Biological Radar couldn’t directly detect the Life Magnet Field at all.

It only detected the disturbances the Life Magnet Field caused in the surrounding natural fields.

But after devouring the Nuclear Iron, everything was completely different.

Although the Life Magnet Field around Feng Xingyun wasn’t clearly visible, it did show a rough outline.

Given enough time to collect sufficient observation data and combine it with some imaging algorithms, Chen Qi could eventually map out a crude diagram of the Life Magnet Field.

You could say that from the very moment they met, Chen Qi had already launched his attack on Feng Xingyun.

However, Chen Qi’s "battle preparations" had started even before the two made contact.

After his battle with Carlos, Chen Qi rushed to repair his body while simultaneously collecting Life Magnet Field data on [ordinary humans].

Felix had moved the ordinary humans out of the battle zone and gathered them together in one location.

This actually made data collection easier for Chen Qi. Perhaps in the eyes of the spying Felix, Chen Qi was merely heading to the residential area to replenish his food and water.

But Chen Qi’s Biological Radar was frantically collecting data.

Finally, after spending ten minutes collecting the Life Magnet Field data of 10,000 people, Chen Qi came to a rather strange conclusion.

The Life Magnet Field strength of ordinary people mostly hovered between levels 2 and 3, which was normal.

But their Life Magnet Fields weren’t perfect; on the contrary, they contained a varying number of loopholes.

It was just that these loopholes were minuscule, hidden within the fluctuations of the Life Magnet Field.

Chen Qi didn’t even directly observe these so-called loopholes. He had merely discovered anomalous fluctuations within the Life Magnet Field.

"Loopholes" was a conclusion he reached through data calculation and simulation.

If the Life Magnet Field were compared to a harmonious rhythm, then those anomalous fluctuations were like small bits of static.

They disrupted the stability and perfection of the Life Magnet Field, so they could naturally be considered [loopholes].

The strange conclusion Chen Qi had discovered was related to the number of [loopholes].

More precisely, the number of loopholes was equal to a person’s age.

For example, if a person was 27 years old, they would have 27 minuscule loopholes in their Life Magnet Field.

The younger the person, the fewer the loopholes; the older the person, the more riddled with holes their Life Magnet Field became.

In any case, the 10,000 samples Chen Qi had analyzed all perfectly matched this pattern.

The Life Form with the fewest loopholes he found was a newborn baby, with only one.

The one with the most loopholes was a 99-year-old man, whose Life Magnet Field was like a wooden house eaten hollow by termites, ready to collapse at the slightest fluctuation.

It was precisely because of this prior preparation that Chen Qi was able to accurately grasp the loopholes in Feng Xingyun’s Life Magnet Field during their brief battle.

In fact, if not for the fact that players’ Life Magnet Fields were so powerful—which made the anomalous fluctuations from the loopholes easier to conceal—they would have been even easier for Chen Qi to find [openings] in than ordinary people.

Because Chen Qi had discovered a "terrifying" phenomenon in both himself and Feng Xingyun.

The number of loopholes in their Life Magnet Fields was "greater"!

For instance, Chen Qi was 23 years old. According to the pattern he had discovered, he should have had 23 openings in his Life Magnet Field.

However, Chen Qi’s Life Magnet Field had two extra "major loopholes"!

The anomalous fluctuations they emitted were dozens of times stronger than those from ordinary loopholes.

Such terrifyingly large loopholes, if they were on an ordinary person, would be as obvious as two worm-bites on an apple.

But because players’ Life Magnet Fields were so powerful, the loopholes weren’t as conspicuous.

But compared to the ordinary loopholes caused by [age], they were still far too noticeable.

Chen Qi suspected that these two loopholes originated from his two skill upgrades.

More precisely, the two times his Card had used Devour.

And this theory was confirmed by Feng Xingyun.

Chen Qi had been puzzled at first as to why the guy had three major loopholes.

But after learning that he had once promoted to LV3, it all made sense.

It seemed that even if the promotion was interrupted, the body still paid a price.

It was also because this guy had three major loopholes that Chen Qi’s data calculation workload was significantly reduced.

This allowed Chen Qi to lock in his victory before the tides of battle could truly turn.

That was the long and short of how Chen Qi won!

...

"Seven of Hearts, I’ve told you what you wanted to know."

"What is it that you want?"

Although he was extremely unwilling, Feng Xingyun had no choice but to start accepting his fate.

Now, Chen Qi was the cleaver and he was the fish on the chopping block. His life or death depended entirely on the other man.

He had a vague feeling that Chen Qi didn’t intend to kill him directly, which gave him a sliver of hope.

"Heh, wouldn’t killing you be too much of a waste?"

"Of course, letting you go is even more impossible."

"Why don’t we cooperate for a bit? We can go probe Felix’s true strength together."

"If that guy is up to some tricks behind the scenes, this Compass alone might not be enough to escape the Chaotic City."

As the victor, the [Compass] had naturally fallen into Chen Qi’s hands long ago.

’This thing can actually observe changes in magnetic fields. It really is a Treasure!’

With this item in hand, if Chen Qi previously only had a forty percent chance of survival, now it had increased to seventy percent.

With the addition of Feng Xingyun as a cannon-fodder puppet, his odds of success would increase by another ten percent.

Since that was the case, it was, of course, time for revenge.

That old bastard Felix really thought he could just sit back and watch the show, playing everyone like fiddles.

What did a second-rate artist like him know about games?

Chen Qi decided it was time to go all out!