Ye Ling in the hall didn't know that in the central control room not far away, there was a pair of eyes staring at him. He came to the AI ​​robot and picked up a backpack.

"This is your supplies."

The AI ​​robot made a sound without any fluctuations. This was the first batch of supplies for all contestants. Ye Ling was shaking her backpack and was a little heavy. In addition to the necessary nutritional capsules, there should be some other things inside.

But now Ye Ling has not confirmed the supplies now, because the robot has continued to say to him: "Please choose the area you want to enter."

Then, a virtual screen appeared in front of Ye Ling. The screen was divided into 99 areas, each area showed the difficulty level. Area 1 was the lowest difficulty, but the most people were selected.

“No. 99.”

Almost without hesitation, Ye Ling chose Area No. 99, which is currently unsuccessful.

"Player Ye Ling, Area 99."

The AI ​​robot said without emotion, and it went to the side, and a door appeared at the place where it stood before it.

"Good luck."

With this sentence, Ye Ling walked through the door and came to the 99th area of ​​the arena.

Area No. 99 is a dense forest. Ye Ling looked around. Everything seemed quiet and peaceful, but he did not take it lightly. He carefully avoided the poisonous insects on the ground and found a tree that could drink juice. He put a part of it in the bottle in his backpack, and then found a wet ground, where he dug some food to satisfy his hunger.

In the control room, the staff who were ready to provide Ye Ling with support at any time were stunned.

Indeed, for most children who grew up in the Imperial Capital Star, just how to tell which plant is poisonous is enough to stump them, but this player is probably too skilled.

He seemed to be able to foresee all the dangers hidden in the unknown in advance, and then easily cracked them. Even in the area No. 99, where the most dangerous level was, he calmly seemed to be walking in his own living room.

But in fact, Ye Ling was not as relaxed and calm as outside. The reason why he could do this was not only his excellent wild survival ability, but also because he was finally able to release and use his mental power with confidence at this time.

Just now in the arena, Ye Ling felt an unusual but familiar aura, and in this seemingly ordinary dense forest, there were fluctuations in the mental power field from time to time.

Could it be that besides him, someone else chose Area 99?

Thinking of this in his heart, Ye Ling had to be vigilant to deal with it, but what appeared were just some ordinary poisonous insects and swamps.

At present, there is no indication of the next step on the communicator. Ye Ling simply followed the breath, but suddenly felt that someone seemed to be behind him.

Finally an enemy appeared!

Ye Ling was already bored by herself. When he felt the person behind him, he turned around immediately, grabbed the man's arm, and pressed the man to the ground like a chicken.

"Ye, Ye Ling, it's me!"

The people on the ground widened their eyes in horror, and Ye Ling also saw clearly the man's appearance. It turned out to be Ben Clay.

"It's you."

Ye Ling originally thought that he was encountering an enemy, but he didn't expect that he was half an acquaintance.

According to the rules of the game, the players could not eliminate each other on the first day. In addition, he felt that Ben Clay had no malice towards him, so he let him go.

Ben Clay climbed up from the ground, but his eyes couldn't help but look at the boy in front of him.

When facing Loss, although Ben Clay chose to lie to hide it for Ye Ling, in fact he was not very sure whether Ye Ling was the one who stopped him at that time.

Now that I meet Ye Ling again, Ben Clay can now fully confirm that the extremely powerful mental power field at that time did come from Ye Ling, but Ben Clay cannot confirm why Ye Ling chose to suppress his mental power before.

At this moment, the two of them had a match communicator sounded almost at the same time. On the screen showing the match information, the location of the first batch of mechas was announced, and the countdown was still 12 hours long.

According to the rules of the rematch, all contestants must find the mecha within 12 hours, and those who do not find the mecha will be directly eliminated and teleported out of the arena.

It was actually a countdown again.

Ben Clay seemed to recall the fear of being dominated by the countdown in the previous preliminary round, but he forced a smile to Ye Ling and stretched out his hand friendly: "Student Ye Ling, meeting is fate. Why not let us go together? One more person and one more strength, and we can also quickly go to the designated location to activate the mecha."

From Ben Clay's smile, Ye Ling also saw something wrong, and he said regretfully:

"Sorry, Clay, I'm not going to go to the designated location, so..."

The reason why Ye Ling said this was just to simply find an excuse to refuse Ben Clay's invitation. Unexpectedly, before Ye Ling finished speaking, Ben Clay's eyes lit up.

"Are you talking about those hidden places? I think so too!"

"I'm not sure, either."

Ye Ling hesitated and answered that he could not tell Ben Clay about his feelings, and he didn't know if the so-called hidden place really existed.

Ben Clay's tone was extremely confident: "I believe in you!"

Since Ben Clay said so, Ye Ling did not reject Ben Clay anymore. The two of them headed towards the other direction that did not show the existence of the mecha at all.

The staff responsible for monitoring did not expect that there would be players who would not follow the rules at all, and they did not expect to stop them for a while. Anyway, when the prescribed time came, all players who did not find the mecha would be eliminated.

Time passed by little by little, and in a blink of an eye, only one hour was left in 12 hours, but Ye Ling still couldn't find the place that made him feel unusual and familiar, until the two of them came to a cave.

The cave in front of Ye Ling's eyes was pitch black and unfathomable, but the familiar feeling became stronger and stronger. He was about to walk forward, but a warning sound came from the communicator:

"Two players, your front is already out of the scope of this competitive competition. Please stop moving forward immediately, stand in the same place, and repeat again, your front is already..."

Suddenly, a strong mental force attacked Ye Ling's communicator, and the sound stopped abruptly. The person who took action was—

"Ben Clay."

Ye Ling looked at the people around her and didn't seem surprised. Instead, Ben Clay lowered his head and a little apology was added to his tone.

"Sorry, Ye Ling, this is my mission."

The place where the two are now is just on the edge of the arena, which is a blind spot in the monitoring room. Ben Clay is not worried that his words will be heard by the staff.

Ye Ling had already vaguely guessed something, and he asked Ben Clay: "Is Loss who asked you to do this? What exactly does he want to do?"

Ben Clay's eyes became frightened. Even though he had learned from Lin Feiyu several days ago what His Highness's plan was, he still couldn't help but shivered.

"Your Highness is to resurrect General Ye Ling, and my mission is to lead you to the designated place."

This time it was Ye Ling's turn to be shocked. It took him a long time to realize something was wrong.

He found this place himself, and from beginning to end, Ben Clay did not make any move to guide him where he went.

Sure enough, he heard Ben Clay continue, "Later, Dean Lin found me, and he hoped that I could protect you and let you be eliminated on the first day.

With Ben Clay's words, the countdown on Ye Ling's communicator has become the last ten seconds.

This means that in ten seconds, Ye Ling will be eliminated and leave the arena.

Ye Ling: “…”

Thank you really, Lin Feiyu.

"But just now, I changed my mind. Maybe you can stop Your Highness."

The countdown was seven seconds left, but Ben Clay's words suddenly turned around. He looked into the dark cave, and a smile appeared on his face.

Six, Five, Four...

Ben Clay took something out of his hand and threw it to Ye Ling.

"Go to the Black Knight."

Three, two, one!

The moment Ye Ling caught such a thing, a light flashed by, Ben Clay was eliminated, and then, with a loud bang, the communications of the entire arena were interrupted. The arena, which was originally during the day, instantly fell into darkness.

Ye Ling looked at his hand. It was a black obsidian with a glimmer of light. The mecha inside should be Ben Clay's Black Knight.

Thinking back to Ben Clay's words before, Ye Ling held the mecha pendant in his hand tightly, his eyes flashing, as if filled with thousands of emotions and thousands of words. After a long time, Ye Ling wailed out a wailing voice-

"Ben Clay, you forgot to tell me how to activate your mecha!!"

At the same time, the control room that had lost contact with the arena had already become a mess. After Lin Feiyu discovered that the person who left the arena was not Ye Ling at all, he rushed to the control room as soon as possible.

"What the hell is Loss trying to do!"

However, the man who reported to Los before was also confused.

"Dean Lin, we don't know what happened."

The man still remembered that after learning that there were nutritional capsules containing peanuts in the supplies, His Highness Los was silent for a long time, and finally stopped the plan. Then, he locked himself in the central control room and had not come out yet.

Therefore, it was simply a situation they expected that the arena would lose contact with the control room temporarily.

Thinking that Ye Ling was still in the arena at this time, Lin Feiyu was extremely anxious at this time. He ignored the man's obstruction and walked quickly towards the central control room where Los was.

"I want to see Los."

"Director Lin, you can't do this! You are committing this crime!"

The man tried hard to stop him, but Lin Feiyu ignored the man's obstruction and kicked open the door of the central control room.

Then, Lin Feiyu's face darkened, and even the man's eyes widened.

There was not a single person in the central control room. Not only did Los disappear, but even Nirvana, who was the prize for this mecha league, disappeared.

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"Black Knight, activate."

"Black Knight, wake up."

Holding the pendant left to him by Ben Clay, Ye Ling used various methods to try to activate the Black Knight. He tried to communicate with the Black Knight with his mental power, but the obsidian in his hand had no reaction at all.

Ye Ling went to the cave in front of him, and the familiar and uneasy feeling became stronger and stronger. He finally lost all his patience and told the truth directly:
To be continued...