The note appeared.

The clock showed 00:12.

Mule looked at the yellow paper slowly falling from mid-air, took a deep breath, and reached out to pinch it.

There was only one line on the paper.

[Don't get killed]

What does this mean...?

Mule's hair stood on end. He immediately activated his detection skill, releasing invisible waves that filled Room 0408.

The Havoc Remnant Sun golem standing next to him also seemed to sense its summoner's fear. Its already tall and sturdy figure grew even taller.

The smooth metal arms caved in at the ends.

In the recessed holes, scorching energy gathered that even the [Invisible Cloak] couldn't completely conceal.

"Hee—"

A child's laughter inexplicably sounded in the room, clear, ethereal, and pleasant.

Mule turned his head abruptly, looking in the direction of the sound.

The last image remaining on his retina

was a small, pale child, reaching up on tiptoe to press the light switch next to the door, while rotating his head 180 degrees, looking at Mule, laughing silently.

The light in Room 0408 went out.

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Trust no one, believe no one.

In a room on the eighth floor, 13mArk cracked his fingers, a gloomy look flashing across his dark face.

During the day, he used Yu Yi’s heart to accuse Black Saint of conspiring with Li Ang to murder Bob, offending several companions in one fell swoop.

This wasn't because he had low EQ.

On the contrary, 13mArk's brain was far smarter than he appeared.

The person he was loyal to was the "Ant King," one of the Seven Martial Seas of Brazil.

The "Ant King" was born into an extremely prominent criminal family in Rio de Janeiro, the Avaro family.

His family once controlled a quarter of Rio's underground contraband market,

and successfully penetrated Rio de Janeiro's upper class through bribery, marriage, and buying off officials.

The family members' reputation among the people was even higher than that of the local mayor.

However, the good times didn't last. Due to the turbulent situation in Brazil in the last century, new gangs rose.

These new gang members who rose to power during the turbulent times weren't as "disciplined" and "careful" as the Avaro family.

In order to clear obstacles, several regional gangs, together with criminal groups from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, formulated an assassination plan targeting all members of the Avaro family.

In one day, dozens of core members of the Avaro family were eliminated. The huge criminal family collapsed overnight.

At that time, the Ant King, who was still a teenager, was fortunately traveling abroad, and escaped the disaster.

He saw the news of his family's destruction in the newspaper, immediately changed his name, modified his appearance,

and killed a peer with a similar physique, disfiguring and burning him, disguising it as an accident, in order to completely erase his existence.

In the following years, the Ant King relied on the vast wealth in the Avaro family's overseas accounts, transformed into a local European business tycoon, and began to dabble in underground industries, recruit troops, and accumulate strength.

Until he had accumulated enough power, the Ant King returned to Brazil, under the guise of transnational cooperation between criminal groups,

and met with the heads of the emerging criminal groups in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

The representatives of both sides negotiated a deal worth hundreds of millions in a hotel penthouse. The other party, with a face full of smiles, had just hugged the Ant King when his phone rang.

Answering the phone, he heard the pleas and screams of the criminal group leader's family.

Just like what the Avaro family had experienced, the Ant King eliminated all members of the opposing families overnight, leaving no one behind.

And 13mArk was the Ant King's closest and most trusted right-hand man.

His mother was the Ant King's nanny, and died in the liquidation of the Avaro family by the opposing forces that year.

The two of them grew up under the same roof, as master and servant, friends, and even brothers in life and death.

For the past ten years, he and the Ant King had drifted overseas, working hard to assist the latter, step by step to the top, kill their way back to their homeland, and rebuild the glory of the Avaro family.

If calculated based on the achievements of the real world, then 13mArk, who was young, murderous, and assisted a tycoon in establishing a gang empire, was undoubtedly a top-notch talent.

However, the special nature of the Killing Game lies in its ability to provide "ordinary people" with a stage to release their potential—most people are bound by factors such as life pressure, social environment, current opportunities, and their own knowledge structure.

They have never had the opportunity to explore their potential.

A natural warrior with extremely high nerve reflexes and muscle fibers far superior to ordinary people may be driving a taxi, never having touched a knife or sword in his life.

A calm and composed natural shooter with steady arms, keen dynamic vision, and extraordinary calculation ability may be teaching with chalk on a platform, never thinking that he could become the world's top sniper.

The Killing Game doesn't randomly select human individuals.

Those who can become eligibles must have some amazing potential, and are not truly useless trash in the real sense.

13mArk was convinced of this, because his own potential was to see through people's hearts.

This wasn't as simple and crude as mind reading, nor was it full of rational analysis like micro-expression psychology.

What 13mArk possessed was an intuition close to biological instinct.

He could faintly feel some thoughts deep in the hearts of other creatures.

Joy, anger, fear, panic, guilt, resentment...

Even if the other party stood motionless in front of 13mArk with a blank expression, he could vaguely feel some emotions "emanating" from the other party's body.

This ability was only known to his closest friend, the Ant King, who jokingly called it "the loyal dog's sense of smell"—this ability was indeed certified by the system, confirming the specific scope of the ability through a title skill.

During the day, 13mArk could feel the indifference in Black Saint's heart when he mentioned Bob's death.

This indifference wasn't the indifference of being indifferent to one's own affairs,

but the disregard and indifference to the lives of others.

Before that, Black Saint had been shaken when he heard the news of Kafi and Dan Fei's deaths.

Especially after the death of the Blind Oni, his heart was filled with anger, unease, fear, and hesitation.

This was completely opposite to his indifference when he mentioned Bob's death.

"There are only two explanations.

Either something happened to that Black Saint, causing major changes in his physiology and psychology, and he suddenly became indifferent and cold.

Or, he knows some inside information, he already knew that Bob would die, knew that Bob had to die,

so he wouldn't have any emotional fluctuations in his heart."

13mArk narrowed his eyes and thought silently: "No matter which situation it is, Black Saint's condition is definitely abnormal...

Maybe, I should strike first..."