Chapter 732: Chapter 487: Change of Mindset
After the last round of testing, it was proven that the transformed hiders could not be detected by Dong Tianyu’s Divine Sense, so currently, Dong Tianyu actually doesn’t have any good method of searching.
In fact, most of the capturers are also grouping together in threes or fives, using the most foolish method of demolishing every area with a carpet-style approach, hoping to find all of the hiders.
A day had passed, including Dong Tianyu, all capturers had discovered that in this competition venue, not only was their Cultivation Level and physical quality suppressed.
Even the body’s senses were manipulated by the competition venue, with the most obvious being the overwhelming hunger they felt every time mealtime approached.
They had to eat a compressed biscuit and drink a bottle of water to relieve this negative state.
There was a capturer with relatively strong willpower—he wanted to try and see if he could endure this period relying on his unwavering determination.
But what he didn’t expect was that, as time slipped away, he could clearly feel his body’s condition deteriorating, and even sensed death approaching.
Yet when he could no longer bear it, ate a compressed biscuit and drank a bottle of water, his body, which had become extremely weak from hunger, miraculously became full of energy the moment he had his fill.
This experience made everyone around him once again understand another unspoken rule of the competition.
As night fell, the spirits of all capturers began to fade, and most of them couldn’t resist this condition and randomly found a place to fall asleep.
Some capturers with slightly stronger willpower, like Dong Tianyu, became much more vigilant after noticing a change in their mental state.
When Dong Tianyu heard sounds coming closer from afar, he closed his eyes and pretended to fall asleep, but in reality, he was using his Divine Sense to carefully observe his surroundings.
Suddenly, Dong Tianyu felt his body become somewhat numb, indicating that the other party’s actions were likely premeditated.
Because of his current physical condition, Dong Tianyu, despite having detected something off about those people, had to pretend to be asleep and unaware of anything.
Perhaps due to the limitations of the competition venue’s rules, even though Dong Tianyu and the other capturers lay on the ground without resistance after falling into a stupor, those people only glanced at them from afar and did not take any extra actions.
Under Dong Tianyu’s Divine Sense observation, those outside the house should be the hiders. Having transformed through Witchcraft during the day, nightfall gave them another opportunity to change their disguise.
Taking advantage of the night when all the unconscious had entered dreamland, the hiders began to change their hiding areas, even altering their original transformation targets.
If there were no capturers like Dong Tianyu who, despite being extremely exhausted, withstood the fatigue and remained alert,
then as long as the hiders changed their disguise and hid in an area already combed through, Dong Tianyu and the other capturers wouldn’t dream of catching another hider in the following days, no matter how exhausted they become.
Unfortunately for the hiders, among the capturers were not only those with unwavering determination who didn’t succumb to unconsciousness but also Dong Tianyu, an exceptional figure like "Cheating Dong".
Though Divine Sense could not detect the transformed hiders, now that the hiders had come out, all hiders that appeared within Dong Tianyu’s Divine Sense coverage were marked by him.
This mark was usually insignificant, lacking even the purpose of tracking, but if the marked individuals appeared within the coverage of Dong Tianyu’s Divine Sense, no matter how well they hid or what they turned into, there would be a clear alert in the Divine Sense.
Watching the hiders come over to see the commotion, Dong Tianyu remained expressionless on the surface, pretending to be asleep, yet he was very pleased, silently counting in his heart.
Dong Tianyu hadn’t expected that in just one night, he would mark more than thirty hiders with Divine Sense; barring any accidents, the next day should yield a bountiful harvest.
When the sunlight spilled onto the land, all the capturers who had fallen into a deep sleep woke up simultaneously, while the determination of those like Dong Tianyu, who had fought against unconsciousness, strangely dissipated with the dawn.
At this moment, all the capturers inside the manor had their physical and mental strength restored to the optimal condition.
Having just shed his fatigue, Dong Tianyu, not minding the hunger emerging in his stomach, couldn’t wait to walk up to a nearby rockery.
He then took out a folding shovel and in just a few strokes, reduced the rockery to its original form, successfully capturing a hider.
Apart from Dong Tianyu, several other capturers who had resisted sleep during the night also started their morning with a stroke of luck.
Those hiders thought that last night all the capturers had succumbed to unconsciousness, believing that the most dangerous places were the safest, hence they decided to try hiding under the lamp.
But they forgot that the most dangerous places are not a name of a place but a fact.
Since it’s called the most dangerous place, it cannot be safe. There’s no place in the world that is both dangerous and safe at the same time. This saying, when translated, is actually about gambling, even that kind of desperate gamble without a safety net.
