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Chapter 6: The Darkness of the Heart

November 11, the third round of preliminary round.

Ma Mingyang's asymptotic entity is the Rubik's Cube. He entered the first level in July, and since then, he has signed up for a Rubik's Cube training class, practiced diligently, and benefited a lot.

When darkness fell, he could neither read books, do homework, watch TV, nor play with his phone. He was bored and took out the Rubik's Cube that he had kept in the bottom of the box for the first time in a long time. In the dark world, he could not see the color of the Rubik's Cube, so he twisted the Rubik's Cube a few times based on his feeling.

He thought his asymptotic entity was related to the movement of his Rubik's Cube, but later he realized that he had oversimplified it.

On that morning many years ago, he pestered his parents to buy him a Rubik's Cube. He was curious about and loved the Rubik's Cube, but his original intention was to show off, to show off his complicated toy and "superb skills" in front of his friends and classmates.

Ma Mingyang's skills were always poor until three months ago, when he turned this interest into a specialty. At this time, he thought he probably understood why his asymptote entity was a Rubik's Cube: Because, in the past, I had strong expectations. After the "darkness" came, reality took on the appearance of expectations.

On the field, Ma Mingyang twisted the Rubik's Cube while running, until one side of the Rubik's Cube became five red and four black, and the five red squares formed a cross. A blood-red cross flashed from the Rubik's Cube, and each stroke of the cross was about two meters long, quickly crossing the field. This move was the basic of the basics, the cross split.

Shang Yu was watching the game from the sidelines, he was dumbfounded: Such a fierce opponent appeared in the third round? Using the Rubik's Cube to release rays, your ability is very different from ours!

Mu Zhengguang was stunned for a moment: How can there be long-range attacks? If I get hit by the red light, I won't be cut into pieces, right? I have to find something to try.

The oncoming red light did not allow him to think too much. The speed of the red light was much faster than that of a human, but it was not difficult to avoid it because it would not deviate from its original direction.

Mu Zhengguang ran away, and the red light completely dissipated before it could reach the place where he was at the beginning. He estimated the distance of the radius of the competition field and found that the range of the red light was 20 meters. It was slightly smaller than his domain radius, so there was an opportunity!

Mu Zhengguang's estimate was slightly wrong. Ma Mingyang's domain radius was 38 meters, and the range of the shimmering light was 1/2 of the domain radius, or 19 meters.

Ma Mingyang continued to turn the Rubik's Cube, changing the five reds and four blacks to nine reds. This move was called: Stand Alone. The grating composed of three horizontal and three vertical lines flashed a dazzling red light, and it crossed the entire arena in almost an instant. This was the first move in the combo.

He knew that it was unlikely that the scattered cross rays would hit the opponent, and that he would have to use multiple combos to hit him once. After all, you have advanced to the third round, so you must not be too weak.

Ma Mingyang turned the Rubik's Cube smoothly, as if there was no resistance. But after he turned out the cross, he still had to aim manually, and this process took a second. The cross flash and the grating were released alternately, and the cycle lasted more than ten times.

Mu Zhengguang always carries tissues with him to wipe his sweat and the screen of his mobile phone. He originally wanted to use the tissue to touch the red light to estimate its power, but he was not sure whether this behavior would be judged as a violation, so he did not take action.

No matter how powerful the red light is, you must try to avoid it and not take it lightly.

Mu Zhengguang moved to the middle of the arena while avoiding the red light and put down the hourglass.

In the plane where the arena is located, the scope of the hourglass and the arena can be roughly regarded as concentric circles. The scope of action is equal to the asymptotic domain, which is larger than the arena. No matter where you are, you will be affected by the countdown. Your red light is a line rather than a plane, and there is a large gap between the rays, making it almost impossible to hit the hourglass. If you want to destroy the hourglass, you have to get close to it, but this is an unnecessary action and will lead to your defeat.

Ma Mingyang noticed the hourglass, but it was too small to hit. The cross split was two 1.9-meter-long rays, and the single-handed attack had six rays, which were denser, but the length remained the same, and the attack range did not increase significantly.

He carefully considered the opponent's intention of putting down the hourglass: your hourglass is on the ground, while I am standing, we are not at the same height, which greatly increases the difficulty of aiming. But think about it the other way around, you put down the hourglass, isn't it to distract me? If I can't aim accurately, then I won't aim! Ma Mingyang's guess was not too wrong, but he underestimated the "harm" of the hourglass.

The acceleration timer took away 10% of his attributes, and as time passed, it took away some of his attributes again, and his defeat gradually took shape.

Mu Zhengguang became more and more skilled in dodging the red light.

Ma Mingyang's nervousness was growing: All my shimmering lights missed, this is abnormal. Am I too far away from you? Can I get closer? If it's within ten meters... It only takes 0.3 seconds for the shimmering light to cross ten meters, just a blink of an eye, can you still dodge? However, a single hit by the shimmering light cannot determine the outcome... But if all attacks fail to hit, then you will definitely lose.

Ma Mingyang accelerated towards his opponent, he turned the Rubik's Cube but no longer aimed. He wanted to use dense flashes of light to disrupt the opponent's rhythm and slow him down, so that he could launch an accurate attack at a closer distance.

Mu Zhengguang saw two attacks with large errors. Before the third attack came, he slowed down and prepared to turn around. The third attack arrived! He heard the sound of slowing footsteps! The opportunity has come!

Ma Mingyang slowed down to concentrate on aiming, his mind was extremely tense. He had to hit the target this time!

Mu Zhengguang turned around, returned, and took away the Rubik's Cube.

Ma Mingyang immediately chased after him. He encouraged himself and wanted to fight to the death: Without the magic cube, my strength has weakened a lot, but I am a modern person! I account for 0.4% of the modern people!
Mu Zhengguang did not fight with his opponent: "With the Rubik's Cube out of your hand, your means of killing are close to zero. Your attack, defense, and speed are far inferior to mine, you will definitely lose!"
Mu Zhengguang came to the center of the arena, picked up the hourglass, and rushed to the edge of the arena. At this time, his opponent just caught up. He threw the Rubik's Cube out of the arena, and while the man was stunned, he pushed it casually, and the victory was decided.

After the game, Shang Yu asked him, "How does it feel to fight against someone who can shoot lasers?"

Mu Zhengguang was throwing the hourglass. He saw the man hurriedly pick up the Rubik's Cube after he was eliminated, and replied nonchalantly: "My feeling is that we can't rely too much on asymptotic entities, especially entities that can only appear once in a short period of time."

Shang Yu said proudly: "My entity can appear many times, as long as it does not exceed the maximum mass."

Shang Yu's entity can appear many times, but he is also the kind of person who relies too much on the entity. Mu Zhengguang doesn't want to talk more about this topic: "I don't know how powerful his laser is."

"Can you at least cut off the leaves?"

"Ah."

Shang Yu's match was in the fourth round. His opponent held a folding fan with flames flowing on it. Moreover, the man could draw fire from the fan. The flames leaped in the air, and the paper boomerang was swallowed up before it could get close to him, and it turned into a little dust and floated away.

Shang Yu lost without a doubt, but fortunately he gave up in time and was not injured, which was a blessing in disguise. He left the field with a gloomy face and sighed: "These people who use light and fire should make perpetual motion machines instead of participating in the competition."

Mu Zhengguang didn't want to run into the people holding the flaming fans for the time being. He also fully supported letting these people be the "perpetual motion machines": "Forget it, the competition is over, don't think about it anymore. What do you want to eat for lunch? I'll treat you. Pick anything you want within fifty yuan."

After lunch, Shang Yu left the city.

(End of this chapter)