[? Leaving already, not going to investigate further?]
[The leather-clad woman is baffled, I'm baffled too hahaha]
[So what exactly is Xu Xi's goal?]
The viewers were quite puzzled. They had seen the creature attack the leather-clad woman, but since Xu Xi was also a player, he obviously hadn't witnessed it, yet he showed no interest in probing the incident at all.
Jiang Jin was similarly baffled. "Xu Xi has returned to that exhibition hall and is browsing that photo wall again," he said.
Yao Han asked, puzzled, "Did he find something new?"
Lin Miao and Luo Zongyun both frowned slightly, clearly thinking about the young man's motives.
They did not have to ponder for long before he began to move again.
The four of them, along with everyone in the live stream, watched as the young man, facing a maze of intersecting corridors, chose one path almost without hesitation, as if he had already plotted a route in his mind.
And the direction he walked toward…
Was where the leather-clad woman Polina was.
"Is it a coincidence?" Yao Han asked softly, though she already had her answer in mind.
"Not a coincidence," Luo Zongyun shook his head. "He must have anticipated Polina's movement pattern, and he's deliberately following that trajectory to look for her."
"This…" Jiang Jin sounded incredulous. "How could he do that?"
Even though he had long acknowledged that this player was stranger than the other elite contestants, and even had professional confirmation from the two experts beside him, witnessing this kind of uncanny insight and prediction again still hit him on a cognitive level.
Lin Miao pondered for two seconds and said, "As I mentioned before, what makes this contestant different from ordinary players is that he can link all observed points into a chain of logic, then use that chain to simulate and deduce different scenarios."
Luo Zongyun laughed and added, "Put simply, his precise 'prediction' is actually just forming his own inference by picking up traces and details we've overlooked."
[What a casual "just," maybe consider our feelings?]
[Blabbering away, I'll just watch what the master does]
[So what's the question: why is Xu Xi looking for the leather-clad woman? To kill her?]
[No way, Xu Xi never takes action himself]
Everyone debated the young man's purpose, and soon they learned the reason.
Polina, the leather-clad woman, and Dana, the short-haired artistic woman from Maple Nation, had both been attacked in their respective rooms.
From the start, the young man merely stood in the shadow of a corner and quietly observed everything, neither intervening nor leaving.
[…So Xu Xi predicted that the leather-clad woman would be attacked again?]
[Probably. Man, that leather-clad woman is unlucky, like she's been singled out]
"It seems Xu Xi already anticipated this scene," Yao Han marveled. "He must be collecting information about that supernatural creature."
Luo Zongyun nodded lightly. "Possible."
But he felt that the young man might have known about the supernatural beings even before entering the camp.
It felt more like a verification than mere information gathering.
After all, the look in the youth's eyes—an expression of recognition and inspection, as if he had finally seen the true face—was too conspicuous.
*
Xu Xi stood on the second floor, using the dim environment to hide his figure.
When he saw that pale green figure trailing the short-haired woman, he finally understood what the invisible thing in the surveillance footage had been.
Long limbs, tangled, seaweed-like messy hair, moving nimbly and lightly, clinging to the short-haired woman.
He tilted his head slightly to the left.
The bearded Winifred, who claimed to be from Prettyland, was leaning on the edge of the corridor railing, grinning as he waved a flashlight in this direction.
"Bang—"
The short-haired woman stumbled out of the room in a mess.
Winifred, who had been drawn by the noise, glanced reflexively toward the young man on the other side, but only saw his back.
"…" He couldn't help rubbing his sleeve, thinking for a moment, then turned on his flashlight and shone it downward.
