"This... this... this... Xiaowen, look at our dorm points."

On the tenth-floor corridor, Yan Xiaoli tugged on Jiang Xiaowen's sleeve, her lowered voice trembling violently as if she'd been electrocuted.

Jiang Xiaowen opened the ranking list and instantly widened her eyes.

Dorm 195 was ranked second!

Who would believe it, who would dare believe it?!

Kui Zi alone had single-handedly carried the entire dorm's ranking!

"Let's go, we need to get back to the dorm right now!" Jiang Xiaowen glanced around nervously and said urgently.

Whether someone was secretly plotting against them was another matter; being ranked so high at a critical moment, if they accidentally died now, what a waste that would be!

Yan Xiaoli took one last look in the direction where Kui Zi had disappeared and prepared to leave.

The next second.

She seemed to have been hit by a paralysis spell, her body frozen rigidly in place!

In the area her gaze was fixed on, the space suddenly vanished, like a piece of white paper being pressed, creating a wrinkle.

Moreover, this wrinkle was continuously expanding outward!

The cause of this strange phenomenon was a black-red energy sphere that kept spiraling inward!

The Black Emperor was holding a large gun four to five meters long, and this black energy sphere was at its front end. Space itself seemed to be torn and distorted, continuously being drawn toward the energy sphere, crushed into dust.

Kui Zi was exposed in the air!

Everyone could see she wanted to escape, but she was being pulled by the powerful gravitational force of the energy sphere.

"The area behind the gravity gun isn't affected by the gravity!"

Kui Zi instantly made a judgment and flew forward along the gravitational pull.

And right at that moment, the Black Emperor sneered coldly, the black-red energy sphere was released, surging toward Kui Zi!

Rumble rumble rumble~

—BOOM!

The black-red energy sphere rolled over Kui Zi for dozens of meters before exploding violently!

Immediately after, a swarm of military robots rushed forward, directly arresting Kui Zi.

Witnessing this scene, the players were dumbfounded, completely stunned.

Everyone had thought the battle between the two mechanical powerhouses would involve earth-shattering artillery exchanges.

Yet the outcome was decided in less than three minutes!

And Kui Zi was captured alive!

...

"What the hell is going on."

Xu Lang was speechless.

He had finally managed to lie down for a bit, and now there was trouble again.

Kui Zi: Save me, save me, save me!

After Kui Zi got into trouble, the first thing she thought of was Dorm 200. She sent private messages to Xu Lang, Wang Yazhi, and the others, contacting every single one of them.

According to her, the Black Emperor had used some kind of anti-tank cannon that specifically countered her.

Furthermore, the Black Emperor's energy was now rapidly depleting, making it the perfect opportunity to defeat him.

"Maybe Ruyan and I should go. The robots were wiped out a lot by Kui Zi, and the Black Emperor's military formation is broken, so we don't have to worry about him hiding." Wang Yazhi could tell Xu Lang really wanted to just lie flat.

"Alright." Xu Lang thought it would be good to let Wang Yazhi and the others gain some experience. If he handled everything himself, he'd feel like a Pal.

Right then, someone initiated a Judgment, naturally targeting the Black Emperor who had just shown his might.

Xu Lang hadn't even used Judgment when killing the Apocalypse Fighter Jets, so how could he possibly use that ultimate move now? He directly vetoed it with one vote.

Even with anonymous voting, no one dared to continue voting, mainly fearing that Xu Lang might destroy the building and use players as emergency aid packages.

Players analyzed Xu Lang's past behaviors and felt this was a very real possibility.

He killed people for fun even when nothing was happening; if pushed to the brink... who knew what might happen!

...

"Truly marvelous... once you shed that mechanical exoskeleton, even your life essence changes, becoming like that of a carbon-based lifeform." In a simple single-story house, the Black Emperor looked at Kui Zi, pinned to the ground by a steel spear, with great interest.

Kui Zi's pure white battle armor was gone. Now she was just flesh and blood, blood flowing from her wounds, twitching occasionally, like a captured mermaid, looking utterly pitiful.

The Black Emperor's eyes held no mercy. His index finger gathered a light of data, which finally formed a spiral-shaped mouthpart: "Let me see what's inside your head."

"I said, it's the power of a Sequence!" Kui Zi shouted.

The Black Emperor ignored her completely, stepping forward until he stood before Kui Zi.

At that moment, the sound of intense fighting came from outside.

The Black Emperor remained unmoved. He crouched down, and when his index finger was just a few centimeters from Kui Zi's glabella, he stopped.

"Only one target... a player from Dorm 200. Indeed, very strong..." the Black Emperor murmured to himself. He pulled the spear from Kui Zi's body, intending to take her elsewhere.

The sounds of battle grew closer and closer.

And reading Kui Zi's life information would require some time.

Swoosh~!

Right then, a black shadow suddenly appeared.

A dagger stabbed out from the shadows.

Before the Black Emperor's head could even turn, a steel sphere automatically rose, blocking the path to the back of his neck.

However, this dagger suddenly turned intangible for a moment, passing right through the steel sphere!

Just as the dagger was about to strike the Black Emperor's neck, an overwhelming gravitational force suddenly enveloped the space!

—Pfft!

Kui Zi spat out a mouthful of blood. The battle between the Black Emperor and Xu Ruyan almost got her killed.

The way of the assassin changes in an instant!

A power completely incomprehensible to the Black Emperor erupted from within Xu Ruyan!

The gravity field was directly sliced apart by the sharp edge stirred up by the dagger. Everything in front of the dagger that was taller than it was cleanly cut in two, including the Black Emperor's head!

The dust settled.

Xu Ruyan was already prepared to collect the spoils.

"It's not over yet!" Kui Zi screamed hoarsely, simultaneously taking out Minor Holy Spring Water to heal her injuries.

The sounds of the robots' fierce battle hadn't changed; they were still coordinating their attacks. There was definitely something wrong here.

Xu Ruyan had just used Instant Kill and was in a weakened state. Hearing this, she didn't hesitate, immediately wanting to retreat into the shadows.

However, a gravitational force more than ten times stronger than before suddenly pressed down!

The ground itself was pressed into a depression, and Xu Ruyan's feet were firmly stomped into the earth!

"Clap, clap, clap~"

A robot walked over while clapping.

As it walked, its armor retracted, revealing a man wearing a great cloak.

It was the Black Emperor!

"When did that happen?!" Kui Zi found it hard to believe.

The Black Emperor had actually used a substitute at some point, and she hadn't detected it at all.

"Why did you think your sneak attack would succeed? Your schemes are full of holes in my eyes... completely transparent!" The Black Emperor's smile was domineering, radiating a confidence that carbon-based life could never surpass mechanical life in intelligence.

He raised his hand, and a metal sphere flew out from his cloak, reshaping into a steel spear.

Whoosh!

The spear shot through the air, seemingly unaffected by the gravity, grazing past Xu Ruyan's waist and abdomen.

At the critical moment, Xu Ruyan twisted her body.

Seeing this, the Black Emperor placed his hand on a weapon case, which rapidly transformed into an anti-tank cannon. However, the cannon's muzzle wasn't aimed at Xu Ruyan or the others.

Wang Yazhi broke through the encirclement!

Three Night Vision Deities, elegant and swift as startled swans, charged out first, like a white flying rainbow.

The Black Emperor frowned. Wang Yazhi's main body was too far away, not yet within the anti-tank cannon's gravitational influence range.

Rat-a-tat-tat~

Gunfire erupted from all directions. The military robots opened fire on the Night Vision Deities, unleashing a torrent of steel!

The Night Vision Deities were substantial yet formless. Amidst dispersing light and shadows, they dodged all attacks and continued their charge.

Meanwhile, Wang Yazhi herself suddenly changed direction, charging toward a heavily armored robot in the farthest distance!

The Black Emperor's expression suddenly turned extremely ugly. He whirled around to look at Kui Zi, hurling his spear: "You told her?!"

Clang!

Kui Zi raised her arm, forcefully blocking this attack, her gaze cold and heavy as she stared at the Black Emperor.

If the Black Emperor could create one fake body, he could create two. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

After being tricked once, Kui Zi had allocated all her energy consumption to detection abilities. She then discovered that the Black Emperor before her was fake, and the real body was the heavily armored robot Wang Yazhi was currently fighting.

Seeing he hadn't instantly killed Kui Zi, the Black Emperor's fake body turned and headed toward the main battlefield.