Chapter 61- Workshop Battle Part 9

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Hearing the sudden words coming from Liu Guanyi, his eyes grew wide as he tried to speak. "Wait you've promi-"

Before he was forced to stop as his windpipe was filled with blood and he choked in it. He looked down and found that two fingers had pierced his chest, right into his heart.

His vision suddenly became blurry and he started to lose the feeling of his limbs as his heart stopped to pump blood into them, depriving the oxygen that should be fueling them.

As he was dying and he knew that he was, he took a look at the face of his killer for the last time, staring at the black abyss-like eyes, and spoke his last word. "H-how?"

Looking at the confused dead man, Liu Guanyi shook his head.

He was strong, almost physically as strong as Xin after all of his constant training over the years. And in terms of body resilience, he was much better than Xin, as even the leopard's bite on his neck didn't even manage to pierce his skin.

However, his martial skills and techniques were garbage. Even Xin was much better after ten years of training. Ten years might seem a lot, but in the tower, it wasn't. Liu Guanyi was sure that he was around a few decades old at the very least.

If he trained his body and skills seriously, he might be able to scratch him.

Unfortunately, he wasted his time and gift that and when he met a true opponent like Liu Guanyi, he couldn't do anything with his garbage skills and if his resilient body was countered, he would be a fish on a chopping block.

'It seems that these ten great families' descendants are only amounted to this extent.' Liu Guanyi let out a sigh of disappointment.

He was truly disappointed by them. He thought he would and could have many challenges even when he went low-key. However, it seemed that only Adori could give him the challenge to improve.

'Well, at least I got some important information. Let's relay this to Xin and Adori, hopefully, they could find the correct tunnels quickly.' Liu Guanyi quickly revealed his pocket and wrote a message for both Adori and Xin to look for and follow the damp tunnels, the damper they were, the better.

Yes, Liu Guanyi realized that it was all about the level of moisture in the tunnels to find the correct escape tunnels. The more humid the tunnel was, the more likely it was the correct one.

How could Liu Guanyi know, and how he could be sure that his assumption was correct?

It was simple, actually, since it was already given at the beginning. However, at the time, Liu Guanyi only thought that Uno said that to emphasize the time limit and the danger of dying if the regulars went past the time limit.

Yes, it was when Uno said that the fish tank would be filled with water to drown all the regulars left inside it after sixty minutes. Now, the question was, how the Workshop would pour the water into the fish tank to drown them?

Or to be more precise, where were the channels located for the water would be able to pass, flow, and eventually fill the fish tank?

The answer was obvious…

It was the tunnels!

So in short, there were dozens of tunnels in the fish tank, which most of them weren't connected to the outside of the fish tank and only stretched inside the fish tank to confuse the regulars.

On the other hand, some of the tunnels stretched until the edge of the fish tank and had open ends for the water to pass into the fish tank.

When the time limit came, the host would pour the water into these openings to drown the fish tank with water.

However, those openings in the tunnels could also be used for another purpose, it was easy…

To get out from the fish tank before the water was poured into them!

At least that was what Liu Guanyi deducted from all of the clues he had obtained so far. He could be wrong on some of the details but he was confident that he got the big picture right.

Those openings did exist and the host had created more moisture in the correct tunnels to give the regulars a direction.

'However, the light bearer from the top team has already deducted the answer even sooner than me. It seems that he is the genius and mastermind behind their success, huh?' Liu Guanyi pondered the situation.

'Because of that, it's unlikely that we would be able to overtake him since he already has the head start and only one person is needed to escape first to get Gray Stingray.'

Liu Guanyi pondered deeply to think of a solution.

Even if he was much faster than them and could determine the humidity easily with his senses, it still wasn't guaranteed that he could overtake them with only these two advantages.

He… needed more…

'I need to make a shortcut to the correct tunnel!' Liu Guanyi's eyes shined brightly as realization dawned on him.

Without wasting any more time, he punched the tunnel' walls he was in. As his fist sank inside it, he maximized his sense of touch to determine the thickness of the wall as he calculated the time he needed to break it.

'It's not too hard, so it's should be easy as long as I use Martial Arts.'

Liu Guanyi kicked off the ground as he started to sprint again using the Galloping Horse technique. After a while, he finally arrived at the end of the tunnel.

As usual, there were a few tunnels to choose from again.

This time, he didn't hurry to go into one of them, and instead, he stood still as he focused on his skin to feel the direction of the wind that carried a higher amount of water substance.

After Liu Guanyi finished to determine which one was the most humid from the winds coming from them, he went into it and quickly ran to the end of the tunnel.

Once again, there were many tunnels to confuse him. He determined which one was the most humid and went into it, but this time, he didn't run to the end of the tunnel.

Liu Guanyi smirked as he faced the east. 'It's from the east, gotcha!'

Blue color painted his right hand as shinsu converged on it. The veins looked almost pooping out as a large amount of inner energy flowed into them, giving his right hand an immense power that was begging to be unleashed.

Martial Art & Shinsu Control Style: Tiger's Roar!

Booooooooomm!!

A thunderous roar reverberated and echoed in the tunnel as his right fist connected and crashed into the wall, crushing it into pieces!