After Li Chen finished speaking, he looked calmly at Conqueror No. 1.
In truth, playing this kind of psychological game also carried considerable risk.
If Conqueror No. 1 was truly shameless enough,
or if he was a little quicker-witted,
then Li Chen's words might not have had any effect at all.
The other party would still cheat if he wanted to.
After all, he genuinely had the power to act domineeringly and deny everything.
Li Chen was gambling right now.
Many powerful people were often especially arrogant.
Blindly believing their own strength to be invincible, they easily looked down on their opponents.
Especially when facing opponents far weaker than themselves.
That blind arrogance would be magnified without limit.
It would replace their rationality with conceit, often causing them to make the wrong decisions.
They did not believe they could be defeated by someone weaker than themselves.
Nor did they believe they could be tricked by weaker beings.
Even if they truly realized that something was wrong,
or truly realized that they had been deceived and set up,
the other party was still far weaker than them.
If they admitted it, it would be equivalent to proving that they were inferior even to these weaklings.
Therefore, those arrogant fools often refused to admit their mistakes.
And Li Chen had won this gamble.
Conqueror No. 1 was exactly that kind of person.
Faced with Li Chen's repeated provocations, mockery, and contempt,
Conqueror No. 1 finally could no longer save face.
Moreover, Li Chen had been right about one thing.
Even if they had truly hidden nanobots inside the Star-Level Shelter,
or concealed them within the Space Shelter,
he was an advanced Evolutionist from a Level 3 Civilization.
A lofty Lord Conqueror.
Yet he could not even break through the externally reinforced Protective