ITGR Chapter 80 Part 1

The original setting of the basement core area was not designed for the slaves to enter. The maze was extremely complex, not to mention the many forks, there was one and only one fatal path that led to the center. Most importantly, a death checkpoint is placed at the end of this key road. Two masked killers are waiting outside the door, traps under the feet everywhere, and attacking mechanisms in the walls.

Even if you have great skills, to enter the door requires a struggle that costs half a life. However, the hacker’s group has no way of knowing. When they finally pushed open the door of the core area after much hardship, the door was even installed with a poison gas sensor by the Slave Market. Once pushed open, the core area’s exhaust system immediately emits chronic poison gas inside the room. The poison gas took effect slowly and would suddenly burst in effect when the slave pressed down the controller thinking they had wiped out all the other slaves except themselves and victory was in sight.

The joy of pushing the ecstatic ants down from the top is something that people cannot refuse.

But who could have thought? There are also termites among ants who love to drill into walls, and these four “termites” relied on their perfect wall-breaking skills to forcibly open up another road, and enter the core area with a magical route from a strange angle.

After confirming that behind the wall was the place they were looking for, ShouHe punched the interfering wall without a word. Fortunately, YaoJin had been prepared and lowered his hearing in advance.

But he didn’t expect that as the wall fell apart, overwhelming bright light poured out instantly. Even ShouHe, who had been in darkness for a long time, squinted his eyes due to the dazzling light. YaoJin squatted down painfully, and his poor eyes were blinded by the light.

“It is truly hard to be Sentinels.” ShouHe looked at YaoJin who was on the ground and couldn’t move due to the pain. However, he changed his mind after he saw Lian Yu. Also a Sentinel, why could he adjust his eyes to adapt to the light the moment the first crack appeared in the wall?

ShouHe hesitated about why. Was it because ‘Lian Yu had his Guide, but YaoJin didn’t’? Finally, he chose the less hurtful reasoning that ‘YaoJin’s skill level and experience were insufficient’.

Suddenly, Cen Zhen hummed obscurely, and the hand intertwined with Lian Yu’s pinched signaling, reminding him that he sensed the three were ready to make a move.

First, he stretched out all his mental tentacles wantonly and built a huge mental network. At that time, Cen Zhen could detect every move and every word of the people in the network completely, just like having an omnipotent God’s viewpoint. However, what followed was the rapid consumption of mental power, which almost sucked Cen Zhen dry in just a few minutes.

He had to thin out the mental network and reduce the number of mental tentacles, but when it was reduced to a certain critical value, Cen Zhen was surprised to find that he had entered a mysterious state. The sound and loud pictures disappeared, but emotions and thoughts flew into his net like moths being captured, and then tightly bound.

For example right now, although Cen Zhen didn’t know what the hacker, electrician, and network repairman behind them were doing, he could sense the malice tempting to spread. Very closeby, so he judged that the three people behind him likely had taken action already.

Lian Yu and YaoJin’s reactions confirmed his thoughts. No matter how cautious the three men were, the sound of their soles stepping on the ground was not much different from tap dancing in the ears of the sensitive Sentinels.

Instead, their slow pace would irritate the Sentinels, locking the Sentinels’ desire to beat them up stronger.

The three people thought they were doing it secretly, but Lian Yu became increasingly impatient waiting for their attack. Cen Zhen figured he would not be needed for the fight coming up, so he took a step forward, stepped into the core area, and started observing the furnishings inside the room.

Unconsciously, it was this action of his that greatly stimulated the three people who were following them. They were probably afraid that Cen Zhen, who was gifted with the ability, would see through the mechanism in seconds and kill all the slaves before them. As soon as Cen Zhen got into the room, a man jumped out silently from behind Lian Yu, aiming directly at his throat.

The electrician thought everything was going smoothly. Since he was strong and fast, he planned to press Lian Yu’s head with one hand and his shoulder with the other, then with a slight twist, this long-haired person, no clue men or women, in front of him would die on the spot.

In fact, up to the point he put one hand on Lian Yu’s head and one hand on his shoulder, it was going smoothly. Just when the electrician was secretly happy, he suddenly found that… he could not twist it at all. The necks of this person were as solid as steel.

Because he was nervous, he almost used all his strength in this attack. Normally, he would have broken one’s throat and even pulled his head off, but the person in front of him didn’t move a bit. He even laughed coldly when the electrician was at a loss.

“What’s your plan?” Lian Yu reached behind and grabbed the electrician’s throat. His movements were too fast. The electrician wanted to escape the moment he sensed something was wrong, but how could he escape from a Sentinel?

“You want to twist apart my neck, right?” Lian Yu was very familiar with the aura typical in a death match, which excites him. The electrician made a sound in horror, and his face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye. He slapped Lian Yu’s arm with all he could, but it was completely useless. The other party’s arm didn’t even tremble a bit for his hard performance.

Lian Yu lifted the electrician in front of him and put his thumb on his throat. The electrician was twice as wide as Lian Yu and taller than Lian Yu, but with his fatal body part under threat, the trembling electrician seemed so small.

“Actually, I rarely kill people with my own hands,” Lian Yu said with a smile, “I’m not a pervert, and blood won’t make me feel anything.”

The electrician was strangled to the point of being unable to breathe, and a whisper came out of his half-open mouth. Lian Yu didn’t care if he was listening or not, and continued on his own: “But you did go a little too far this time… What do you mean by killing the short-haired bastard first?”

“Who allowed you to scold him?”

“Who allowed you to plot against him?”

“Who allowed you?!”

With every word he said, Lian Yu’s hands increased in strength, and the electrician’s struggle became weaker and weaker, his eyeballs bulged like a goldfish, and finally, after Lian Yu completely squinted his neck, the electrician’s hands dropped and there was no movement at all.

His body was thrown to the ground. Except for the sound of his limbs hitting the ground, behind Lian Yu was as quiet as death, and even the lingering breathing sound that the Sentinels always hated disappeared completely.

In the long silence, Lian Yu walked steadily against the light. He suddenly said coldly to the left and behind: “Get out now!”

The remaining two people following crawled and rolled away in the dark as if they had finally found where their legs were.

Lian Yu was quite satisfied with this result. He resumed humming an unknown tune and was the last to enter the core area.

In this ridiculously large room, the actual useful things were piled up on the leftmost wall only. Some floating screens filled the entire wall. Each floating screen showed an area of the Slave Arena. The moving green dots on the screen represented a slave chip and a war slave. The red dots represented dead war slaves. 

This information was learned through analysis before Lian Yu returned to the party, by the other three members. As for the platform positioned right in front of these floating screens, Cen Zhen was standing on it, looking down at the instructions manual left on the table.

The instructions were very simple. The slave with the hacker role needed to scan his code cracker, aka the “mobile phone” Cen Zhen was given at the beginning of the game, through the recognition system of the platform. Then a floating option box would pop up ahead, and the operator could checkmark the chips they wish to start the death program.

Lian Yu symbolically placed Cen Zhen’s hacker “code cracker” on the operating table, then touched his neck strap and revealed the real code cracker. He greeted without raising his head: “ShouHe, come here.”

ShouHe, who had nothing to do, immediately came to Lian Yu’s side. He watched the Sentinel knocking left and right on the operation platform, and suddenly decided on a place and drew a small door on it with his fingers.

“Please break through here, be gentle, don’t damage the things inside.”

Shouhe: “……” Be careful that I charge you for service.

Although it was unknown why the Sentinel could not break such a metal plate, since the hands of technicians were always precious, Master Shou worked tirelessly without complaint. He swung his ‘mighty hammer’ and smashed the panel of the operation desk with one punch. The reserved Lian Yu beside him dared to look down on him, “Oh, didn’t I tell you to be gentle…”

“Stop talking nonsense.” Cen Zhen patted his head lightly, urging him to work quickly. Lian Yu sighed again, broke the fragments around the hole, then picked up his code cracker and stuck his upper body into the gap.

Not even thirty seconds later, the Sentinel retreated his body and stood back in front of the operation desk. He used the invisible terminal on his wrist to scan the identification system, opened the input interface, and entered a series of passwords; exactly eighty asterisks. The sight stunned ShouHe, who rarely works with technicians.

“Pay attention, the loser of the Slave Market probably can’t remain calmly seated.” Lian Yu pressed the confirmation button, the progress bar quickly filled up, and a green pop-up window showed, “They can’t cut off the network here because I locked the network. I guess they will come to suppress us by force soon.” 

ShouHe curiously guarded Lian Yu. Although he couldn’t understand a word on the screen, he just felt that he was very capable. Cen Zhen’s mind moved, and YaoJin, who was also listening, discovered the movement outside the door at the same time as him.