Chapter 201 You've Discovered It, Human Player

The color drained from Zheng Siyuan's face in an instant!

His pupils suddenly contracted into dangerous pinpricks, and a chill shot from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head!

Shi... Yetang?

Combat power... three question marks?!

What the hell does this mean?!

Zheng Siyuan's heart felt as if it were being squeezed hard by an invisible hand, nearly stopping its beat.

He knew better than anyone what those three question marks represented.

The [combat power reconnaissance glasses] on the bridge of his nose had a limit: they could only detect targets whose comprehensive combat power was no more than ten times his own!

His current base combat power was 50 points.

Ten times that would be 500 points!

This meant that the ordinary-looking, even somewhat disheveled woman before him had a base combat power exceeding a terrifying 500 points!

This... how is this possible?!

That freak Su Ze only had a base combat power of 230 points in his normal state!

This woman was actually more than twice as strong as Su Ze?!

What made his skin crawl even more was...

When did this woman named Shi Yetang sneak in? What was her purpose in masquerading as Professor Qin all this time?

Then the real Professor Qin... had she already...

Countless terrifying thoughts exploded in his mind, leaving him cold all over as his limbs began to go numb uncontrollably.

"What's wrong?"

Professor Qin—no, she should be called Shi Yetang now.

She looked at Zheng Siyuan's suddenly frozen body and pale face, tilting her head in confusion, her tone as flat as ever.

This simple movement nearly scared the wits out of Zheng Siyuan!

He snapped back to his senses and, relying almost entirely on instinct, forced out a smile that looked worse than crying.

"No... it's nothing!"

He waved his hands hurriedly, cold sweat already pouring uncontrollably from his forehead.

"It's just... I suddenly realized you're actually willing to help me, and I got too excited! I just didn't react in time!"

"Oh? Is that so?"

Shi Yetang's gaze lingered on his face for a moment, her eyes seemingly able to pierce through his skin and see all the panic in his heart.

Zheng Siyuan felt his heart was about to leap out of his throat; he could only nod frantically like a piston.

"Of... Of course! I... I'll go find a way right now to help you contact the people at Jinghai University!"

All he wanted now was to leave this place immediately, the further away from this terrifying woman, the better!

"Mm." Shi Yetang nodded, seemingly accepting his explanation.

She picked up a test tube again and asked casually, as if by chance, "By the way, you seem to know a lot about that leader of Jinghai University? You even know his name is Su Ze and his base combat power."

Thump!

Zheng Siyuan's heart skipped a beat.

Cold sweat instantly drenched his back, and his brain began working at an unprecedented speed.

He knew that if he didn't answer this question well, he might not make it out of this lab today!

"This... This was actually told to me by an old acquaintance."

Zheng Siyuan forced himself to stay calm.

"Her name is Li Xinran, the fiancée I mentioned to Boss Lu before. She happens to be at Jinghai University."

"Actually... she's my fiancée, but she's sided with Su Ze now, which is why I'm unwilling to join him."

"Oh? So that's how it is."

Shi Yetang nodded as if realizing something and didn't press further.

Zheng Siyuan breathed a secret sigh of relief, feeling as though he had just walked past the gates of hell.

"Alright, go take care of it then."

Shi Yetang waved her hand as if shooing away a fly.

"It's best to get it done within a day. The rest period will be over soon, and I don't want to waste time in the next round of the game."

"Yes! Yes! I'll do it as soon as possible! Don't worry!"

Zheng Siyuan felt like he had been granted a grand pardon and scrambled out of the Research Center.

Watching his panicked departure, Shi Yetang put down the test tube in her hand.

She slowly took off the heavy black-rimmed glasses, revealing a pair of long, narrow, and deep eyes that flickered with an eerie light completely at odds with her ordinary appearance.

"This guy... there's something wrong with him."

She whispered to herself, the corner of her mouth curling into a playful arc.

"Could it be that he used some special item to see through my anomaly?"

She turned and instructed the other lab personnel who were buried in their work, "Continue for now. I'm going out for a bit and will be back soon."

With that, she walked toward the lab exit.

The moment she stepped into the shadows of a corner, her entire figure suddenly seemed to merge into the air, vanishing into thin air without leaving a trace.

...

On the other side.

Zheng Siyuan sprinted all the way, using the fastest speed of his life to rush back to his luxury suite.

*Bang!*

He slammed the door shut, locked it, and then, as if drained of all strength, slid down against the cold door panel to sit on the floor.

"Huff... huff... huff..."

He gasped for air, his face as pale as paper, his chest heaving violently, and his heart pounding as if it were about to explode.

Lingering fear!

An incomparable sense of lingering fear washed over him like a tide!

"No... something is completely wrong..."

He clutched his chest, his voice trembling uncontrollably with fear.

"I scouted everyone here before! That female professor's name was clearly Qin Yue! Her combat power was only 34 points! How... how did she suddenly become some Shi Yetang?!"

A chilling suspicion rose in his mind.

The real Professor Qin is probably long dead!

This one in front of me is an imposter!

A terrifying monster with a base combat power exceeding 500 points had, at some unknown time and by some unknown method, replaced Professor Qin and lurked within the Global Financial Center!

What exactly is her goal?

When did she arrive?

Everything was unknown!

At the thought of how he had been prancing around such a terrifying existence lately, even attempting to win her over, Zheng Siyuan felt his world spin, nearly fainting on the spot.

He was like a clown dancing madly on the edge of a cliff, and beneath the cliff was a bottomless abyss!

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

He cursed under his breath, hands buried in his hair, sinking into unprecedented chaos and despair.

However, just as he was muttering to himself, his body suddenly froze.

An indescribable chill rose from behind him without warning.

It was as if... a pair of eyes were quietly watching him from the darkness.

Every hair on Zheng Siyuan's body stood on end!

He swallowed hard, his neck moving like a rusty gear making "creak-creak" sounds as he turned his head with extreme difficulty, inch by inch, to look into the room.

On the living room sofa.

The woman he had just desperately fled from was already sitting there, though he didn't know when she had arrived.

She had taken off her glasses and was sitting with her legs crossed, one hand supporting her chin, looking at him with a beaming smile.

In the dimly lit room, that smile appeared incredibly eerie.

"It seems..."

Shi Yetang's red lips parted slightly, her voice carrying a hint of playful amusement.

"You've discovered me after all..."

"Human Player."