What He Had Forgotten

After seeing this player's condition, Liu Zhi understood why he had suddenly risen from Level 1 to Level 3.

Players like this were the hardest to judge. Before Level 5, they could change their level at any time.

Liu Zhi wasn't sure whether this player had been targeted by the other player.

After thinking it over, Liu Zhi didn't approach him directly. Instead, he used Soul Extraction on him.

From the perspective of the soul, Liu Zhi could see that although nearly 75% of the mechanical man's body had been converted into machinery, his soul remained intact.

That confirmed the mechanical man's condition.

Liu Zhi examined the mechanical man from head to toe through his soul's perspective, searching for anything unusual.

In the end, Liu Zhi could only shake his head helplessly. There were no other souls, and not even any other clues.

It was clear that this man wasn't the other player's final plan.

That surprised Liu Zhi. The person most likely to be the other player's final trump card turned out not to be it.

Now he had his work cut out for him. Could one of the remaining twelve really be the other player's final contingency? Or had the opportunity planted in a player been assigned at random?

Instead of hurrying to find the next player, Liu Zhi found a quiet place and seriously considered the problem.

The other player had been able to guide the minds of every player in this plane. That meant that as soon as players entered this place, their minds formed a certain connection with him.

In other words, the groundwork for a backup plan had already been laid.

There was no way to break the method the other player used to connect with all the players. In fact, it could be