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Ignoring the matter of tier, under what circumstances might one contestant be unable to come, and the other contestant also unable to come?
It sounds strange, but if you think about it carefully, it's not impossible—for instance, if the second contestant's leg was broken and they could only be carried.
Of course, this is just a metaphor; not to mention the chances of a Second Phase having their leg broken, even if they were reduced to just a head, I suppose it wouldn't affect their mobility too much.
In any case, some special reason has made it this way, requiring reliance on another person to act, or even to exist—
Fu Qian suddenly thought of an explanation for why he and Su Gao were being treated differently.
And how the other was able to reduce their presence.
The method of concealment by the hidden figure in the shadows might be quite unusual.
He had previously speculated that the way the other prevented him from detecting them might be by not discovering themselves.
