Doomsday Roulette

“If you think this can buy you time, then you are mistaken. I won’t give you that chance.”

The voice from the mechanical puppet answered two seconds after Ye Zhongming finished speaking.

As he spoke, his mechanical puppet army began to move as a whole. Those few imposing battle dolls stepped forward, clearly ready to engage in battle.

“It’s actually quite a pity. If your puppet had no real-time connection with you, then you would be the one staying here today.”

Ye Zhongming’s tone at this moment was very similar to that of his opponent earlier, making the person inside the mechanical puppet feel a bit uneasy.

“You damn person, you…”

He didn’t finish his words, as they abruptly cut off.

Those moving machines… the iron chains still grappling with the cloud summit warriors… were all frozen at this moment, along with the two strange battle dolls ready to attack Ye Zhongming.

“You… how did you…”

The person only managed to ask half a question before falling silent, as the reason dawned on him and he found he had nothing more to say.

“You set up this trap, and I must say, it was quite clever. To see through the situation so quickly, to place yourself in an unassailable position, and then confidently challenge us… If this isn’t the work of a genius, a confident genius, then I don’t know what is.”

“Some of your words are true while others are false, making it difficult to judge. For example, when you say you’ve killed four thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine people, that’s a lie; you haven’t killed that many. You’re just trying to create an atmosphere of tension, hoping to throw us into disarray.”

Ye Zhongming was speaking the truth.

This force, this young man who had only been heard but not seen, had stood at a commanding height from the beginning of this trial. While others were still thinking about how to pass, he was already considering how to control others to pass.

The roulette space provided four ways to proceed, and this person had instantly figured all of them out. While others were desperately trying to advance through the first two methods, he had already planned everything out, becoming both the ‘player’ and the ‘banker’ here.

Moreover, this person was not only smart but also highly confident. Since he had been monitoring everything here, he undoubtedly knew the strength of Cloud Summit. In such a situation, he still dared to challenge Cloud Summit Villa, showcasing a courage that others lacked.

However, geniuses often have various flaws, and this person was no exception. Ye Zhongming wasn’t clear on what his flaw was, but one thing was certain: this person was very confident, or rather, very self-assured. His words revealed that he was quite pleased with himself.

Such individuals are the easiest to make mistakes, and they are often the most likely to be overturned.

Now, this person had been overturned.

Because he overlooked a fundamental fact: the circular path was round!

The young man’s confidence went too far; he thought he had absolute initiative, believing that all that was left was to toy with Cloud Summit at his fingertips, forgetting the peculiar nature of the terrain here.

Being able to consider everything well made him a genius, but forgetting the simplest things made him a fool.

During the battle with Cloud Summit, the earth yellow pill had never shown its shadow. It had quietly left long before the two sides started to confront each other, when the young man boasted about his achievements and announced that Cloud Summit had been played.

Perhaps Ye Zhongming didn’t appear as ‘far-sighted’ as this young man today, but by the time he realized everything, the countermeasures had already been implemented.

Now, the earth yellow pill had taken down the first mechanical puppet dispatched by the young man, and had also eliminated that evolver. The young man had lost his first trump card.

Soon, the earth yellow pill would reach the second platform and resolve the second card of the mechanical puppet army.