Ji Jue suddenly felt that something was off.
It was not intuition or anything like that, but a clear sensation—the world seemed far more real!
It was like watching a 1080P screen through five-hundred-degree prescription glasses: everything seemed perfectly clear, but then he suddenly swapped them for eyes with 2.0 vision and looked at a huge 4K display, only to realize that the old resolution and frame rate had been outrageously low!
Had the simulation been upgraded? Did they replace the graphics card?
At a time like this?
Why?
It was like during an exam, when someone suddenly appeared at the door and said something to the examiner with a grave expression. You did not know who that person was, nor what they had said to the examiner, but the atmosphere was completely different from before.
You knew that some unknown change was taking place, yet you knew nothing at all.
That feeling was truly unpleasant.
Perhaps he was being paranoid and overly suspicious, but as an examinee being manipulated at will, having some preparation—even if it was only mental preparation—was better than having nothing.
[13]
After another round of eliminations, the original thirty-two contestants had somehow dwindled to just thirteen.
Some had been taken out by their opponents' Heaven and Earth Live Together, while others had used their own Heaven and Earth Live Together to take out their opponents... The records showed all manner of situations.
And under such circumstances, Lou Da Shao had actually managed to hang on!
Although he had failed to do anything to his opponent, he had climbed to ninth place through a strategy of scraping by for points.
After experiencing the intensity of the life and death struggles among the examinees, he had poured all his resources into constructing his Workshop. Within the Workshop's