Chapter 2172: Eager for a Try! The Challenge Begins!

"Vortex Ice, is it?"

Qin Feng's lips curled up slightly. Seeing this name reminded him of 'Vortex Bei Dou' from the Temple of Destiny whom he had met when he first stepped onto the Time Light Ship.

That fellow had wanted to invite Qin Feng to join, only to be rebuffed by Qin Feng…

Whether this Vortex Ice in front of him and that Vortex Bei Dou came from the same civilization was hard to say, but they were definitely of the same race. After all, both had featureless, cylinder-like faces similar to black holes.

Hearing the other party's words, Qin Feng said with keen interest: "Want to withdraw from this challenge? But I checked, as long as one has already signed up for this challenge, there is no way to withdraw."

Disguised as Shadow 007, he spoke the Ancient God Language in an androgynous voice, refusing to give any information that could define Qin Feng.

Hearing Qin Feng's words, Vortex Ice did not feel any embarrassment at all, but instead bowed respectfully: "It's very simple, Your Highness Shadow. After I enter the challenge, no matter who I encounter, I will not launch any attacks. Therefore, no matter the final outcome, it will be as if I never participated, and I can even give away points to Your Highness Shadow…"

"Giving away points? Then you are just so wonderful."

Qin Feng smiled faintly.

Perhaps these fellows thought that after everyone entered the challenge, it would be impossible to distinguish the identity of anyone else.

Regardless of whether Vortex Ice actively launched an attack, Qin Feng wouldn't know.

In other words…

This fellow was simply moving his lips casually to make Qin Feng owe a favor to the Temple of Destiny!

But in reality, how could there be such a good thing?

Qin Feng had completely memorized the oath line conditions and player worship conditions of everyone present in his heart!

Once inside the challenge, there was a great possibility that Qin Feng would still be able to see these oath lines and player worship conditions.

Therefore, for Qin Feng, it would naturally be possible to distinguish who was who.

When the time came to truly encounter this Vortex Ice, whether the other party made a move or not would naturally be crystal clear!

Right at this moment.

"Your Highness Shadow, we meet again. On behalf of our God-Machine Race, I extend my greetings to you."

The Mechanical Rubiks Cube · Aksh Watzinger, whom Qin Feng had just noticed, actually flew towards Qin Feng as well. The entire Rubiks Cube scattered a green light, which in its affiliated civilization represented respect.

"We meet again?"

Qin Feng was somewhat surprised: "What is your relationship with Helga Watzinger?"

The mechanical current voice of the Mechanical Rubiks Cube continued to come over: "We belong to the same cluster, sharing information and resources… Please convey my greetings to Mr. Shadow on my behalf!"

Prior to this, Qin Feng's relationship with the God-Machine Race was not very friendly.

Because back then when Qin Feng wanted to conquer the Divine Machinery Civilization of the Blueprint World, the other party chose to withdraw from the Source of Chaos · Spacetime Maze. Until now, to avoid alerting the enemy, Qin Feng had not yet dealt with the Divine Machinery Civilization.

After all, the information sharing among individual players of this civilization was a bit bizarre.

'Clusters, within the God-Machine Race, are perhaps similar to the concepts of nations or populations.'

'The Mechanical Rubiks Cube belongs to a branch of the God-Machine Race, and within this branch, there are distinctions of clusters…'

Although they were all machine-intelligent life forms, their structures, raw materials, and versions were all different from one another.

Previously, Qin Feng had encountered "Brother YG", who possessed a High-tier Minor Authority of the God-Machine Race. Mechanical thinking was extremely important to him, and all his actions were based on the results of probability calculations.

However, the Mechanical Rubiks Cube clusters generally possessed a certain degree of emotion and personality.

However, Qin Feng discovered that the Mechanical Rubiks Cube before him also possessed oath lines, except that it had no object of worship!

Prior to this, Qin Feng had already deduced through observation that the oath lines of God-Machine Race players ultimately did not converge on the Great Authority Inheritor of the God-Machine Race, but instead reported upward level by level according to a hierarchical system.

Therefore, the oath lines were also very structured, converging layer by layer. If all members of the God-Machine Race were arranged together according to their status and position, the oath lines between them would form a layered multi-way tree pattern.

Under such circumstances, Qin Feng couldn't even use this to determine which layer a particular God-Machine Race member belonged to within the group, nor could he distinguish where the Great Authority Inheritor of the God-Machine Race was located.

'A bit interesting.'

Qin Feng did not continue to respond.

He observed the composition of the thousands of players in the arena and found that there were players from the Alien Civilization, teams from the Zerg Civilization, and teams from the God-Machine Race. As for the Angel Race and Demon Race, there were even more of them.

The specific mechanics of the Goddess of Hope's challenge were not yet clear.

But Qin Feng could judge from the emotions of the thousands of players around him that most players were somewhat eager to try regarding his and Little Tail's participation!

On the surface, almost no players revealed their thoughts.

But Qin Feng didn't need to look at their expressions to judge their emotions.

Joy?

Sorrow?

Anger?

Curiosity?

All of these would be keenly sensed by Qin Feng!

Admittedly, Qin Feng did not possess all the Great Authorities related to emotions, but he possessed the Great Authority of Desirelessness!

The Great Authority of Desirelessness itself could check the proportion of various emotions of the target…

Nowadays, with just a glance at a person, Qin Feng could obtain a massive amount of information and data.

'They don't all think that in a challenge like this, they can defeat a Great Authority Inheritor, do they?'

Qin Feng remained calm and collected.

You must know that besides meeting the inheritance conditions for the Great Authority itself, a Great Authority Inheritor also possessed the strongest adaptability, reaction speed, and combat instinct among the batch!

Even if everyone's combat abilities were leveled out, the final winner would still most likely be a Great Authority Inheritor.

However, since the rules of this challenge were not yet known, the advantages of a Great Authority Inheritor might indeed be smoothed out…

'That being said, why hasn't this challenge started yet?'

Qin Feng felt it was a bit of a waste of time. According to convention, the initiation of this type of challenge either depended on the number of registered participants or started based on time.

There was no countdown on the scene, so it should be initiated based on the number of people.

Therefore, Qin Feng directly gave the order for the Soul Projections of everyone around to gather toward this galaxy. About two and a half hours later, not only the Soul Projection Legion, but also quite a few players from other races arrived upon hearing the news.

Learning that a Great Authority Inheritor was going to participate in this challenge, they all wanted to come and get a share of the pie!

The more people there were and the more chaotic the scene, the less daring a Great Authority Inheritor would be to retaliate afterward!

But…

Was the truth really like this?

When the registered participants for this challenge finally reached 12,288 people, Qin Feng finally received the system prompt that the Goddess of Hope's challenge was about to begin!

'12,288? What kind of number is this?'

Qin Feng quickly made a conversion in his mind and easily discovered that this number originally shouldn't have been in decimal.

If it were octal, this number would be 30,000; if it were hexadecimal, this number would be 3,000…

From this, it could be seen that the numbers used by the Goddess of Hope's own civilization probably were not decimal.