Raiding the Circus

Her fortune had slightly declined... This was clearly a curse.

For some reason, however, it had not triggered the protection talisman's effect Ling Chu wore, and she had been directly afflicted by the curse.

This curse could not be removed with ordinary purification skills. It seemed she would have to wait until she was out of this challenge before figuring out how to get rid of it.

Ling Chu put her things away, unfolded the map again, and fixed her gaze on the green evacuation point in the center.

Fei Ye had said that the Circus was intercepting ordinary players there...

If her entry into Death God's Game had been a coincidence, then the Circus being here definitely was not.

The timing of their entry into this challenge was far too abnormal.

The Circus had also just failed the Lighthouse challenge, and their core members were all injured. Entering a Public Challenge at a time like this was not Smiley's style.

He was most likely waiting for her to fail the challenge. Either he intended to hijack the Ghost Ship, or he was likely planning to raid her island.

So there was only one possibility: he knew she would enter the Public Challenge, which was why he had brought his crew in with him to camp at the evacuation point. Most likely, they were waiting for her too.

But... her entry into the Public Challenge had happened suddenly. Even her own crew had been caught off guard, so how could the Circus have known in advance?

Ling Chu bit her lip in thought. Then, she suddenly recalled Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows's Fate Trickster skill, and her eyes lit up.

Could it be that they had entered "Death God's Game" first, and then Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows had activated