Everyone froze at Ye Lin's furious question to Lin Yu, their eyes filling with horror.
"Ye Lin!? What do you mean!? What do you mean, the Starshatterers are tracking Lin Yu!?"
He Zheng was stunned. Before he could process it, Lin Yu answered Ye Lin's call just a few seconds later.
On the other end, Lin Yu seemed to have expected this. After a brief silence, his calm voice came through:
"Yes."
"They'll enter this examination in another 3 minutes and 3 seconds."
Everyone froze at the time Lin Yu gave them, then stood rooted to the spot as though struck by a bolt from the blue.
Ye Lin clenched his fists tightly.
Even though he had already suspected it, Lin Yu's confirmation brought an immense pressure crashing down on him like a mountain weighing tens of thousands of tons, leaving him unable to breathe.
A deathly silence fell over the Control Center. He Zheng staggered back two steps, while An Ke and Huang Liang froze, their faces deathly pale.
Three minutes!?
The Starshatterer Team would be here in just three minutes!
Unlike He Zheng, who had yet to process any of this and could not understand what had happened, An Ke and Huang Liang instantly realized what the Starshatterers had done.
Deception. They had been deceiving them all along!
Lin Yu was far stronger than they were, so the Starshatterer Team only needed to lock onto him to bypass the strength restriction and enter this examination sooner!
The twenty-four-hour countdown had only been meant to lull them into complacency. If Ye Lin had not noticed something was wrong, they would not have realized the Starshatterers had already entered the examination until they came charging at them!
On the other end of the call, the scarlet countdown on Lin Yu's