Chapter 1629 - 521: Collective Madness_2

Chapter 1629: Chapter 521: Collective Madness_2

"So, the audience assumed it was me who initiated it, and they all started speculating about me."

"Right, I can’t ignore this point, not only do Liu Jianxin and I have to solve the ’perform three superpowers’ problem, others have this dilemma too."

"It looks like someone is using me as bait to draw audience focus, not bad."

Wen Xishu glanced around, although he had strong observational skills, everyone present was an actor. Just scanning around wouldn’t reveal anything.

However, he wasn’t nervous at all, not because he believed his mind was better than everyone else’s, but because he and Liu Jianxin were the numbers that others needed to use all their brains to deal with.

When I’m weak, I compare brains with you; when I’m strong, should I still compare brains with you? Am I just messing around?

Thinking of this, Wen Xishu decided to use some tough means:

"Alright, now that everyone has gotten to know each other, I’ll announce something."

No contestants speculated about Wen Xishu earlier, which made Wen Xishu fairly satisfied; his impression of Team Two was obviously better than Team One.

Seeing everyone gathered around, Wen Xishu said:

"You should be clear about my ability and my partner’s ability, right? I’m not talking about superpowers, but actual strength."

"I don’t mean to look down on anyone, I myself am not someone who enjoys fighting, and I think everyone has felt that I’m friendly enough."

Everyone nodded.

Whether from Team One or Team Two, everyone thought Wen Xishu was a person who was "extremely kind." Even Liu Jianxin thought the same.

Wen Xishu was very satisfied with everyone’s expressions:

"So, I also hope everyone can respond to my friendliness."

Gu Yu asked:

"How to respond? I’m very willing to respond!"

The other two girls from Team Two felt the same.

Wen Xishu raised his hand to gesture for silence:

"Listen to me first, we have two tasks. The first is to find an exit and leave the Dark Forest. I can lead everyone to do that."

"The second task is we have to use our abilities. Everyone shouldn’t have forgotten, we need to use our abilities three times."

"Of course, I won’t force everyone to use their abilities because some people’s abilities might carry exposure risks."

"For example, if my superpower results in a certain visual effect, then although the audience doesn’t know who activated the superpower, they might assume we’re all holders of that ability based on that and eliminate us one by one."

"So next, I need holders of superpowers that don’t show any visual effects to cooperate with each other."

"Like Mind Reading Technique, hypnosis, or super vision, or... allowing the speaker to communicate without speaking—all these superpowers with unseen effects will be used together."

Wen Xishu judged that Gu Yu in Team One must have a ’visual-related’ superpower.

And one of the other four could simplify the guessing ritual; Wen Xishu later thought perhaps the opponent’s ability allows tasks that usually require vocalization to be performed silently.

He guessed correctly.

The hoarse-voiced Deng Feng, not good at speaking, possessed a kind of ability—silent yet effective.

This was the name of the ability; once activated, anything that needed ’to be vocalized’ could be changed to silent mode and still be effective.

For example, guessing the opponent’s ability required saying it out loud, but after Deng Feng activated his ability, it could be done silently.

"I hope we’re open with each other. Like I said, if I wanted to harm you, you wouldn’t be here."

"It’s best not to do things that harm unity."

This sentence reminded everyone that Wen Xishu was not someone to mess with.

With Gu Yu already having a favorable impression of Wen Xishu, she came to stand beside him. Deng Feng said in a hoarse voice:

"If we have to use our abilities... shouldn’t we first form an alliance contract with those seven?"

This made Lei Gang a bit unhappy, thinking if an alliance contract was formed, how could he eliminate them?

Soon, Song Xiaoxiao from Team Two also stood beside Wen Xishu.

Wen Xishu responded:

"No alliance contract. With me here, you don’t need to worry about safety issues."

Deng Feng was stunned:

"No alliance contract? Then if my ability gets exposed, and I get guessed out, you wouldn’t know who eliminated me."

Wen Xishu responded:

"I indeed wouldn’t know, but I would impose collective punishment. As I said, any action that harms unity would result in a direct consequence for the entire team."

"As for why I don’t agree to an alliance contract, don’t ask, you just need to remember, if we wanted to eliminate you, we could have done so from the start."

"I hope we walk together because of unity of heart, not because rules force us to be together."

Liu Jianxin as always, coordinated with Wen Xishu by yawning, the Inconstant Sword seemed to release a murderous intent, shining coldly and reminding everyone.

After this intimidation by the two, everyone dared not speak further.

Actually, people from Team Two were happy inside because they had a strange thought—

"Wen Xishu didn’t eliminate us from the start, instead he saved us. Yet he doesn’t form an alliance contract with us... could it be he’s using our hand to get rid of people from Team One?"

A few of the guys couldn’t help but think this way.

And the leader of Team One, Lei Gang, thought:

"Okay, Wen Xishu is trustworthy, not forming an alliance contract seems convenient for me to eliminate them later."