193: Chapter 192 He Won't Lose

Chapter 192: He Will Not Lose

[Central Laboratory].

"Professor Zhou, go get some sleep! How long has it been since you closed your eyes?"

Professor Zhou Gongdan waved his hand and said, "Bring me the [S-001] reagent, immediately!!"

The surrounding researchers dared not persuade him further; a young man wearing a white lab coat hurriedly walked over carrying a silver-white briefcase and handed it to Professor Zhou Gongdan.

Professor Zhou Gongdan took the briefcase and pressed the switch with his finger.

A burst of metallic mechanical vibration sounded, and a faint green light flashed—it actually used fingerprint unlocking.

Inside the briefcase, a light red reagent lay quietly.

This was the fruit of Professor Zhou Gongdan and a group of researchers toiling for many days, and it was also the Yanhuang Ancient Country's first combat reagent that could act upon [Divine Power]. The main source of its production idea was none other than that portion of tianhe exclusive shadow beef slices.

However, it was a pity that this [S-001] had a relatively single function. It could only, like that portion of tianhe exclusive shadow beef slices, add explosive attributes to the [Divine Power] of [deity card]s within a certain time limit. While it was certainly effective for enhancing the total combat power of the Yanhuang Ancient Country's army, it was merely icing on the cake rather than providing timely help.

Currently, the biggest problem faced by the [Celestial Soldiers] and [Celestial Generals] in the army was a lack of staying power. In the basic card sequence rankings of the Five Great Kingdoms, the combat power of the [Celestial General] sequence was not inferior to the first-ranked [Angel] sequence.

The reason it ranked second was precisely because, compared to the [Holy Water] of the [Angels], the [Celestial Generals] had nothing at all and could only rely on individual comrades who possessed recovery-type Daoist magic.

Once the [Celestial Generals] had standard-issue recovery supplies, it was really hard to say who would be first.

As the head of the Central Laboratory, Professor Zhou Gongdan was well aware of this.

He had also wondered if Sun Po might have other spirit meals that could act upon [Divine Power], but he had never expected the verification to come so quickly.

Perhaps others could not confirm what that was, but Professor Zhou Gongdan, who had been studying the tianhe exclusive shadow beef slices for so many days, recognized at a glance that it was also a spirit meal—a spirit meal that could act upon [Divine Power]!!

Meanwhile, in the extraterritorial region, within a starlit and glittering river of stars.

Coachman Ranger Xuanyuan was driving the south-pointing chariot, looking at the light screen in front of him, which displayed the combat footage of various contestants.

When he saw Sun Po recall Wuzhiqi, he chuckled and said, "You brat, does cramming at the last minute have any use?"

From the back seat of the south-pointing chariot carriage came a voice as pleasant as tinkling spring water; it was a girl's voice, sounding somewhat timid.

"Second Uncle, he will win."

Ranger Xuanyuan turned back and smiled, "It's rare for our Qingqing to think so highly of someone. Truly unusual."

The girl called Qingqing replied, "I have seen this future many times, in many ways. This time, he will not lose."

Surprise flashed in Ranger Xuanyuan's eyes: "You can reach his future?"

The girl called Qingqing, as if her secret had been poked at, said with a trace of panic in her tone, "I cannot! I didn't!"

Ranger Xuanyuan's expression turned solemn, and he stopped the south-pointing chariot.

He turned the small wooden figure in the middle of the south-pointing chariot a few times to the left and right. An earth-yellow curtain materialized out of thin air from the top of the south-pointing chariot, and immediately afterwards, the carriage body was tightly enveloped by this curtain.

Ranger Xuanyuan turned back and looked at his niece in the carriage, who looked as pitiful as a little white rabbit, and said, "Qingqing, do not mention this matter to anyone, not even your father and brothers."

The girl named Xuanyuan Qingqing was somewhat frightened by her second uncle's seriousness. She did not dare to make a sound, and only nodded heavily.

Worldwide, almost all Card Makers were paying attention to this competition, especially those young commoner Card Makers.

They could see more than the ordinary masses. After watching for so long, a Card Maker finally asked a question that lingered in everyone's minds.

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"Why does this extraterritorial Secret Realm exploration feel a bit... odd?"

The Secret Realms where all contestants were located exuded a sense of oddness.

Entering the same rift entrance, each contestant seemed to have entered a different Secret Realm. Once inside these Secret Realms, it also felt as if someone was manipulating things: monsters either swarmed out all at once or were completely untraceable, and the order in which the monsters appeared went from strong to weak.

Just like how a monster horde of purple combat power appeared at the very beginning, and after the contestants survived or even repelled them, there was a vacuum period of several hours.

Except for Sun Po, who did not play according to common sense and "allied" with the Wind-Roaring Giant Ape, the other contestants truly could not find where the monsters were at all.

And now the monsters suddenly all popped out again, and they were all uniformly of orange combat power. Even the public who were not Card Makers felt that this Secret Realm was not right: "Can these hundreds of Secret Realms be so unified? Monsters appear together and disappear together? Is the official trying to play with us?"

"Hey, don't talk nonsense. If the security team takes you away for tea later, don't blame me for not warning you."

"I feel it might be a wave of trials put together by the Five Great Kingdoms for the young seeds, so those casualties just now might also be fake."

"But this is an extraterritorial Secret Realm. Perhaps there is something special about it?"

Meanwhile, in Shangjing City, at the headquarters of the Secret Realm Management Center.

[Glutton] Mancang was sitting inside a huge holographic office, listening to what a three-dimensional light-and-shadow portrait projected on the table was saying.

This office was filled with a contradictory feeling of the collision between retro and future. [Glutton] Mancang had never really liked this place.

The entire office was pure white on all four sides and spotless. Except for an old-style mahogany desk placed right in the middle, there were only countless light dots scattered all around.

One of the light dots projected outward, displaying the combat scenes of various contestants in the Secret Realm.

And [Glutton] Mancang looked somewhat absent-minded, seemingly not listening to what the three-dimensional light-and-shadow portrait was saying.

Finally, after the three-dimensional light-and-shadow portrait finished its report, [Glutton] Mancang still didn't shift his eyes to it, but calmly asked, "So you mean that the [time slot intervals] of this Secret Realm cannot be determined?"

The mechanical voice of the light-and-shadow portrait sounded: "Yes."

[Glutton] Mancang finally stood up, looked at the light-and-shadow portrait, and said, "You are the [mirror spirit] of the great tianji mirror! Even you cannot calculate the [time slot intervals] of this Secret Realm region?"

But the [mirror spirit] of the great tianji mirror said, "My computing power is insufficient to calculate all the [time slot intervals] in this Secret Realm."

[Glutton] Mancang looked at a few more screens stained red and sighed, "Then it can only be true that life and death are determined by fate, and wealth is up to heaven—"