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Chapter 60 - Pocket watch

The "Unproductive Projector" has a special ability and can be used as a monitor, but its effect is not particularly strong because it is a one-time prop and it only lasts for 10 minutes. It is possible that you don't even see the key information before 10 minutes pass.

However, with the support of Xing Ye's initial skills, even if 50 points are used to exchange for 5 minutes, this ability is quite terrifying because it can be used continuously.

And as long as Xing Ye can remember this QR code, he can use it repeatedly in every world. The opposing players he has come into contact with will become his spies, helping him enter dangerous areas for investigation.

As long as the members of Xing Ye's team hide in the corner and watch the projection, they can get the key information.

After hearing Xing Ye's initial skill, Guan Ling's mouth opened wide enough to fit a goose egg. He blinked and asked, "Doesn't that mean the more QR codes you see, the stronger your power will be? Can you use QR codes infinitely?"

No matter how precious the QR code is, no matter how special the ability is, Xing Ye can use it repeatedly once, twice, or three times. His power will not weaken with the consumption of the world's battles, but will become stronger and stronger.

The most convenient thing is that other people don't know the purpose of the special QR code in their hands and can only use it by luck, but Xing Ye can use it in advance and he can fully control the situation.

No wonder Di Kuang lost so badly? It wasn't unfair at all!

Guan Ling kissed the stone he had just picked up and said happily, "Shunming's luck is amazing. He has such good luck even with just a few stones."

After kissing the stone, he knelt down in front of Xing Ye and said to him sincerely, "Big Brother, I am willing to live and die for you. I only ask that you always take me in. All the QR codes I find in the future will be distributed to you. I don't need any more QR codes. I can just focus on using my initial skills to assist and serve you! When the time comes, just give me some soup."

Cao Qian and Xing Ye were both speechless. Guan Ling was really too servile.

"Boss, I've put all my chips on you. I'm determined to win. Please lead me!" Guan Ling said.

Pinocchio said expressionlessly, "This is just the present world. We will go our separate ways in the next one."

"No, how could that be!" Guan Ling said, "Although different factions can't team up, we can activate the linkage function and adjust the real-time time when the three people enter the game to be consistent. This will increase the probability of entering the same game world. Of course, if you follow your fate and want to be in the same world as someone who goes against it, it's easy. If you go against your fate, unless you have a binding item like Di Kuang, there's no way."

It turns out there are bound props. Xing Ye nodded secretly in his heart, but still said: "This world depends on your performance."

Guan Ling was very excited and asked, "What do we want next? How about installing the raw ore?"

Xing Ye: "Of course not. Even if we knew how to recharge, we don't have the ore. Besides, this energy can be replenished in the city. Why waste precious energy?"

"But...if we run out of energy here with you guys, I'm afraid I can't do it alone..." Guan Ling said worriedly.

Xing Ye: "No, I don't think we'll lose our life force. It's just Randy's threats that have us thinking we'll definitely lose our energy this time and have to obey his orders in the mines. And the feeling of lack of energy he said might not be real. What if he can find a way to make the puppet experience that feeling in the mines? In order to get him to help us, we might end up signing an unequal treaty with him. What if his initial skill happens to be the ability to control a person through a contract?"

Guan Ling was stunned. When he heard about the lack of energy, he was just worried and didn't consider this matter at all.

Randy first shows goodwill, making everyone think that he has no hostility, and then uses psychological warfare step by step to make everyone slowly trust him. If you encounter a crisis at this time and accept his help, you may fall into a trap.

"But what if the energy source is really lost? I don't have any hope for the luck of the anti-fate camp." Cao Qian said worriedly.

"But you want to trust Old Nick," Xing Ye said, "He's the one who asked us to take this risk. He's checked you and me. He wouldn't let us lose our soul energy without even being able to enter the mine, would he?"

Guan Ling suddenly realized that it was no wonder that Xing Ye had been so calm. It turned out that he had already made up his mind.

"Let's find a corner close to the mine to rest for a while. After Randy and the others enter for half an hour, we can use the projector to review their experiences so that we can keep abreast of the situation at all times." Xing Ye ordered.

The reason they didn't leave the mine was to disguise themselves, making Randy think that they were a group of timid and greedy people who were guarding outside the door and didn't dare to go in, but still wanted to get information from them.

The three of them and the mirror walked to a position out of sight of the mine. After resting for a while, Xing Ye used the projector.

He chose the footage from twenty minutes after Randy and the city lord's son entered the mine. The projector worked best in the dark, and the image on the stone wall was very clear.

Randy's flashlight was bright enough to clearly see the scene inside the mine. He saw transparent rocks piled on both sides of the mine. "They're all raw ore, and the purest kind," he said. "One rock is worth ten times the energy of an official mine."

"Wow, there's a sound!" Guan Ling said excitedly. It feels so good to spy on others and enjoy the fruits of their labor.

The city lord's son: "The narration said that the entire land near the city belongs to Benedict. It seems that he owns two mineral veins. He gave the inferior one to Puppet City and keeps the better one for himself."

The two of them went deeper while talking, without picking up the raw ore on the ground. The feeling of being rich is really enviable.

As they continued to go deeper into the mine, they found more and more puppet remains on the ground, with large holes on their heads, chests or waists.

"The core has been taken away, and these puppets are completely dead." Randy said after examining the bodies of the puppets.

"They have the emblem of the city lord's private soldiers on them. They were sent by my father." said the city lord's son. He seemed to be very good at playing the role. Even if there were no outsiders around him, he would maintain his character in the plot and call the city lord father.

"Be careful," Randy said cautiously. "Look, there are almost no other wounds near the wounds on these puppets. This means the enemy is very familiar with the structure of the puppets, knows where the core is, and can kill them with a single blow."

The scene ends here, but this five-minute scene contains a huge amount of information.

If Benedict is hiding in this mine, the armed forces and energy he possesses are not weak, enough to consume Puppet City.

Xing Ye used the projector again, but this time he did not continue playing the video from the previous time. Instead, he delayed the time by another 20 minutes, almost to the current time.

This time the scene became chaotic. A fully armed robot-like puppet was attacking Randy and the city lord's son, and they were struggling to avoid the attack.

At this time, Xing Ye and others saw the whole picture of the mine clearly. It didn't look like an illegal mine at all. It was supported by steel bars. Even if Randy and the city lord's son made great efforts to dodge inside, it would not collapse.

The technological level of the buildings in the mine is far superior to that of Puppet City, and the puppets that attacked the two people are more advanced than the latest puppets that Xing Ye and others have seen.

The two men were carrying weapons and were using them to fight back with difficulty, and were reluctant to use their initial skills and QR codes for the time being.

However, the penetration power of firearms in this era was very poor, which is the □□ often mentioned in fairy tales. It could only shoot down birds flying in the sky, but it could not hurt the body of a robot at all.

"Is this Benedict?" Guan Ling asked.

"Unlike..." Xing Ye pointed out the difference for Guan Ling. "Benedict is a craftsman. Even if he becomes a puppeteer, his fingers must be extremely flexible so that he can continue to make puppets. But look at this robot. Its arms are completely used for attack. One hand shoots, and the other shoots a hook. It's unlikely to be Benedict himself. It's an inhuman robot he created to protect himself."

Cao Qian: "And there's more than one."

Just as the city lord's son and Randy avoided the robot's hook, another robot came out from the dark corner, stabbed a hook into the city lord's son's chest, and pulled out a white and somewhat transparent block. Countless white silk threads were released from the block, and at the end of the silk threads was the body of the puppet man, exactly the same as the core thread exposed when Xing Ye connected his arms.

The core line of the city lord's son has not been broken and has been connected to the core. He let out a miserable scream, which sounded very painful.

His wrist was cut off by another robot using a cutting machine, preventing the city lord's son from using the QR code.

Guan Ling clenched his fists nervously. Even if they wanted to save people, they could only watch.

The city lord's son shouted, "Help, help me! My initial skills are not suitable for this kind of battle! Help!"

Randy was also surrounded by three or four robots, but he was very agile, as if he had eyes on the back of his head. While dodging the attacks, he still had time to respond to the city lord's son: "I saved you, how are you going to thank me?"

"I will cooperate with you, and everything in this world is up to you!" The pain of the core being pulled made the city lord's son shout incoherently.

"As you wish." Randy's puppet showed a big smile. His mouth was very big and his entire jaw opened when he laughed, looking very scary.

He did not click on the bracelet, but a pocket watch appeared out of thin air in his hand. He gently pressed the button on the pocket watch, and several robots stopped instantly.

Not only did the robot stop, but even the flame of the kerosene lamp in the corner of the mine stopped flickering.

Time stopped the moment Randy pressed the button on his pocket watch.

Randy landed leisurely on the ground, but did not go to save the city lord's son. Instead, he placed the pocket watch on the core of the city lord's son. The hour and minute hands on the pocket watch rotated wildly, and the core of the city lord's son became smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared.

Randy smiled and said, "Since you promised me, give me the rest of your time."

With a "click", the body of the city lord's son fell to the ground and turned into an empty shell.

The projection ended here, and the four people watching the video shuddered.

"Luckily I didn't go in with him," Guan Ling rubbed his arms. He could feel goose bumps forming on his arms. "What do you think? Did that player who obeyed his fate fail the game, or did he..."

Xing Ye and Cao Qian didn't say anything, they had the same idea as Guan Ling.

If we just want to get rid of an opponent, it won't be so troublesome!

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