The moment that voice appeared, everyone instinctively looked toward its source. This game's background prompt was quite unusual.
It wasn't even pretending anymore - directly presenting a very emotional voice that clearly wasn't the game's default AI audio.
As everyone's gazes lifted upward, a very tall phantom figure appeared out of thin air in the sky.
The guy's face was unclear, but he had a thick beard.
His upper body was bare, with armor-like muscles resembling sculptures, while his lower body didn't exist at all, instead appearing as a flowing cloud of gas.
This thing looked somewhat familiar at first glance.
Lu Ce looked up at this guy, also somewhat stunned, stammering:
"A... Aladdin's magic lamp?"
"Alright, my first wish is..."
The bearded referee: ?
Where the hell did this lunatic come from?
His entire voice instantly became enraged, his gaseous body diving down from high above, staring straight down at Lu Ce beneath him.
"You!"
"Oh... it's you~"
"You person, are even more heinous!"
"You should have gone to hell long ago! You should have come here long ago!"
The person before him was extremely close - at this distance, it seemed like just sticking out a tongue could directly lick him.
But even at this distance, Lu Ce still couldn't clearly see the appearance of the person before him, as if the other's face was covered in a layer of mist.
"My first wish is, to make my bank card balance..."
"What wish are you making!?" The bearded phantom roared angrily again, gritting his teeth as he spoke, "I'm not the genie from Aladdin's magic lamp!"
"Oh..." Lu Ce responded somewhat dazedly, looking at the other's feet - indeed, there was no lamp.
"Is that so..." Lu Ce nodded, "Then where did your lamp go?"
"I... what?" The bearded phantom became completely speechless, then very helplessly lightly patted his forehead.
Muttering to himself: "Why am I bothering with a lunatic..."
Then, he pressed close again, his enormous face almost as large as Lu Ce's entire body.
"You..."
But at that moment, something completely unexpected by him happened.
What makes a madman terrifying isn't his powerful strength, but his unpredictability.
This originally somewhat dazed person before him suddenly pounced violently!
His body remained standing in place, but his head stretched forward like a spring, a large mouth spanning the entire mask splitting open, fiercely biting toward the phantom before him!
He was too close!
Lu Ce had felt something was wrong from the beginning - why was his spirit so chaotic, as if he hadn't woken up properly.
Was his condition this bad?
But in the repeatedly approaching phantom, he saw that thick, blood-like red color.
In that instant, he knew what mask he was wearing, and understood what he needed to do.
—Gluttony!
What happened next didn't require his rationality to control.
Crunch!
That unnaturally large mouth suddenly closed, like a great white shark hunting, emitting a loud sound!
The bearded phantom's face instantly had a gaping hole!
"Ahhhhhh!"
Instantly, the entire space violently shook, as if a special earthquake had occurred.
The bearded phantom jerked upward, his ten-meter tall body erupting with astonishing fury. At this moment, he gave the feeling that his face had become much clearer.
Everyone was shocked, looking unexpectedly at this bearded phantom and the seemingly tiny "Sin" beneath him.
The game hadn't officially started yet, no rules had been explained...
And this guy was already pulling this move on us?
Though it did fit his character...
The deep red mask was full of calm and satisfaction, maintaining its composure under the furious gaze.
He chewed quietly. Although the phantom clearly seemed to have no physical substance, he appeared to have genuinely eaten something, savoring the taste.
"Tha... thank you."
After who knows how long, he said while shaking his head, his mental chaos directly escalating to another level, beginning to ramble incoherently as he spoke.
Xie Antong in the crowd instantly realized his abnormality - she had seen the Gluttony mask before.
Although that guy was crazy, his mental chaos increased gradually. Now, with his suddenly increased chaos level...
He might have genuinely eaten something!
"You! Truly deserve to die ten thousand deaths!"
The phantom erupted with earth-shaking fury, but didn't lean down again.
He could feel that this deep red-masked guy before him was filled to the brim with overflowing desire.
That was, voracious appetite!
"You, won't get any chance for redemption!"
"I'll make you suffer the deepest hardships in this world, then die painfully for the crimes you've committed!"
He roared words that held no intimidation in Lu Ce's ears. On the red mask, the chewing sounds finally stopped.
Even a crimson tongue stretched out to lick his lips.
"Thank you."
"Any more?"
"Did you, give me something to eat."
"I, am so hungry!"
The more you eat, the hungrier you get?!
Terrifying energy fluctuated continuously before them, but for some reason, He didn't strike at "Sin".
In the crowd, at this point, someone finally couldn't sit still any longer.
A guy with a distinctive British accent laughed and said:
"Hahaha! The game hasn't even started yet, is this about who's intimidating who?"
"Since things have already reached this point, how about we discuss the rules?"
His voice was natural, flippant, and carried no sense of fear.
Even though "Sin's" actions were so earth-shattering, he remained relatively calm, clearly someone confident in his own strength.
Xie Antong's All-Seeing Eye scanned him and knew she had definitely never seen this person before.
The other wasn't hiding his appearance either - deep-set eye sockets, high nose bridge, eagle-like features that matched general prejudices about Westerners.
—An old player!
And on the upper right corner of his forehead, there was a tattoo of a Club Ace.
As Club Ace's voice faded, the furious bearded man fell silent for a moment, finally speaking while suppressing his anger.
"I presume all of you who have come here have the resolve for redemption."
"But I have some news to tell everyone."
"Among you, only one person can successfully achieve redemption!"