Hu Die Lan

Chapter 267 Clearing the Battlefield

Chapter 149 Perfect?

The mountaintop had been cleared, and the Han Family Young Master and the other two quickly reached the summit.

"Comrades, you've worked hard!" the Han Family Young Master said with a smile.

"Tch!" No one paid him any attention. Gu Fei really wanted to push him off the mountain, seeing his smug look. They were the ones who had been fighting hard all along, but this guy came up and acted like a boss. Look at him standing on the edge of the mountain, his priest's robe flapping in the wind, looking like a visionary leader.

Just as he was thinking this, the Han Family Young Master raised his arm and, with the air of commanding an army, pointed at a group of people and said, "Qian Li, that group is yours."

"Hmm?" Gu Fei glanced at them, took out an apple, and started munching on it again.

"Yu Tian, go harass that group!" the Han Family Young Master pointed at another group.

Yu Tian Shen Ming's eyes were firm, and he slung his bow over his shoulder. "Let's go!" With that, he headed down the mountain.

"Jian Gui, you harass that group!" the Han Family Young Master pointed to the third group.

"Isn't Jian Gui going to have some trouble?" You Ge said. After all, Jian Gui wasn't an archer. Although he had a speed advantage, he had to get close to attack, which was much riskier than Yu Tian Shen Ming's approach.

"No problem," Jian Gui said calmly and followed Yu Tian Shen Ming down the mountain.

"So, I'm not needed again?" Zhan Wu Shang was quite depressed. A warrior's fighting style was based on high defense and high health to fight head-on with opponents. Skirmishing wasn't his specialty. Fighting outnumbered required a significant advantage in equipment level to withstand the attacks. The Black Hand people were all level 39-40. Even if Zhan Wu Shang's equipment was better, it wasn't that much stronger.

"You don't have anything to do. Just stay here!" the Han Family Young Master said, then bent down and sat cross-legged by the edge of the mountain. He reached into his pocket and pulled out two bottles of wine. "Want some?"

The two shook their heads. The Han Family Young Master placed one bottle beside him, held the other, and muttered, "Not cold enough." Then he popped it open with a bang, tilted his head back, and took a swig. Afterward, he looked down the mountain with a contented expression.

"Um, there are a total of four teams. You've harassed three. What about the last one?" You Ge said worriedly.

"The fourth team? That's Qian Li's too," the Han Family Young Master said.

"Hmm? You didn't tell him!" You Ge muttered.

"No need. They'll find him themselves," the Han Family Young Master said confidently.

You Ge looked at the situation down the mountain and immediately understood.

The three small figures were each heading toward the opposing teams. Even though they couldn't clearly see who was who, they could easily distinguish them by their fighting styles.

The one who never got close to the opponents, maintaining a distance as if taking a leisurely stroll, was of course Yu Tian Shen Ming. From the mountaintop, they couldn't see the arrows being shot, but they could see the opposing ten-man team moving east and west, led around by the nose by Yu Tian Shen Ming.

Then there was the one who suddenly disappeared while walking, only to reappear in front of the enemy formation, then turn around and run away quickly, looking both dangerous and pathetic. That was undoubtedly Jian Gui.

These two groups had been advancing in an orderly fashion, but after encountering these two, they began to stir. But they were only stirring. The third squad, after Gu Fei suddenly disappeared, completely exploded. From the mountaintop, the three could see flames rising from their team, followed by a circle of white light. Then, a blank space appeared in the middle of the well-formed team.

Gu Fei charged left and right, showing no mercy. The range of his Twin Flames Slash had been honed to such a large area that it was like a warrior's Whirlwind Slash. In a short while, the ten-man team had been slaughtered, and only one person fled in panic. But he didn't run far before a thunderclap sounded, and a bolt of lightning exploded on top of his head, right on his forehead, instantly turning him into white light as well.

The three on the mountain were dumbfounded. The Han Family Young Master, holding his bottle of wine, repeatedly exclaimed, "I didn't expect that viewing it from this angle would make this guy seem even more abnormal!"

After clearing out a team, Gu Fei stood alone in the wilderness, seemingly motionless. The three on the mountaintop laughed. "The idiot is eating an apple again, right?"

And that fourth team, which hadn't been assigned a target, had already changed direction and headed that way during the fight between Gu Fei and the other team. This was the Han Family Young Master's calculation: the people who encountered Gu Fei would definitely call for help immediately, so without needing to arrange it, the fourth team would rush over.

Who would have thought that Gu Fei would be so strong and clear out the team so quickly? The team that sent out the distress signal, the fourth team, had only just reached halfway when they learned that the others had been wiped out. Anyone with a normal brain would naturally think that sending ten people there would be sending them to their deaths, so they immediately stopped.

Even though Gu Fei was standing alone in the wilderness, these ten people who were not far from him looked even more lost.

"Have you finished your apple?" the Han Family Young Master asked in a private chat.

"Despise you. I'm eating a banana," Gu Fei said.

"Finished eating? 267, 324. There's another team there," the Han Family Young Master said.

"Roger that." Gu Fei didn't stay in the wilderness for long before heading toward that team. Having less mana actually had its benefits. It took less time to recover from zero to full, didn't it?

This fourth team hesitated for a while before taking action, but they weren't heading toward Gu Fei, but toward the other two teams. The other two teams had obviously received unified instructions and were starting to pay less attention to Yu Tian Shen Ming and Jian Gui's harassment, wanting to merge the three teams into one. Unfortunately, their movements were completely under the Han Family Young Master's bird's-eye view from the high point. The speed at which the three teams merged couldn't compare to Gu Fei's pursuit…

In the blink of an eye, Gu Fei had caught up with a team, and then the previous scene repeated itself. A flash and an explosion, a circle to the left, a circle to the right, leaving a circle of empty space around him. Then he chased after and killed one person who fled in panic. *Bang*, a lightning bolt, electrocuted… Another ten people were wiped out just like that.

The Black Hand Mercenary Group had a total of 87 participants.

On the mountaintop, Piao Liu and the other two were ambushed by Gu Fei and died heroically.

Xiao Ying, who was exploring in the small forest, was ambushed by Jian Gui and Yu Tian Shen Ming and died.

Afterward, Gu Fei ambushed the small hill again, eliminating three people.

Afterward, a ten-man squad encountered the Han Family Young Master and the other five in the depression and was wiped out.

The twenty-man squad, Moonlight Serenade, on the mountaintop was wiped out by Gu Fei.

Hei Se Shi Zhi personally led a group of four. With wolves in front and tigers behind, they were lost and helpless and jumped into the fire pit, akin to self-immolation.

After this, the Young Master Elite Team completely controlled the situation. The Han Family Young Master and the other three were stationed at the highest point, while the other three went down the mountain to harass. Gu Fei personally destroyed two teams, twenty people. Jian Gui and Yu Tian Shen Ming killed a total of five people during the harassment.

At this point, 66 members of the Black Hand Mercenary Group had died heroically, leaving only 21 people.

Of these 21, six had previously gone out to various forests to wait for rabbits. Unexpectedly, the rabbits had bitten the hunters to the point where they were almost finished. After receiving the call to assemble, they were coming out of the forest and running toward the assembly point. As a result, they saw the other side's score soaring and their own numbers dwindling. Before long, besides the six of them, there were only 15 people left.

These 15 people were barely scraped together from two teams. At this time, they looked at each other, terrified. The mercenary group channel was also silent. Before the battle, everyone had been thinking about how to find these hiding rats and how to encircle and suppress them as they fled in all directions. Who would have thought that they would end up in this state? If this situation continued, the other side wouldn't just win, but would win completely.

Hei Se Shi Zhi, who had already been eliminated, gritted his teeth. "Scatter! Let them find us! Drag it out until the end of the match! Don't let them get a 'perfect'!!!"

According to the rules of the contest, obtaining a "perfect" required that the other side be completely defeated without a single loss on their own side within the time limit of the match. If they dragged it out until the end of the match, the system would determine the winner based on points, and it would obviously be impossible to obtain a "perfect."

Obtaining a "perfect" not only gave the winning side more generous experience and gold rewards, but what made the losing side suffer was that the system would broadcast this as an honor in the system channel. Mercenary groups could be said to be business groups that sought profits based on their own strength. Losing to the Young Master Elite Team, this six-person small team, was already embarrassing enough. If they were also given a "perfect," how could the Black Hand Mercenary Group have the face to use the title of the number one mercenary group in Cloud City to solicit business in the future?

The people still in the map immediately scattered, running wildly across the map. They thought that the other side only had six people in total, while they had 21. If they scattered into 21 corners, it would take the other side some time to find them one by one. Let them taste their own disgusting kiting tactic!

The Black Hand Mercenary Group had now fallen to the point where they could only find joy in preventing their opponents from getting a "perfect."

Unfortunately, the Han Family Young Master, a map-wide killing machine, was sitting at the highest point on the map, taking a sip of wine and issuing coordinate commands. The three people down the mountain were chasing after their opponents using the most concise and effective routes. Even Zhan Wu Shang had a chance to show off his skills. He ran down the mountain with a *thud* and followed a slow-moving target that the Han Family Young Master had pointed out for him.

The initial goal of the Black Hand Mercenary Group was to try not to scatter and to unite as a single group. By the end of the match, they had become completely divided, with each person acting as a single unit. This couldn't be said to be a great irony.

Everyone down the mountain was running around like headless flies, but the pursuers had the Han Family Young Master's effective command. They first intercepted and killed those who were trying to hide back in the forest, and then chased after those who were running around randomly.

With clear command and outstanding speed, how could the chase not be smooth? The Young Master Elite Team's score rose all the way, finally reaching 86, just one point away from perfection.

"Uh, there's still one who hasn't shown up. Based on the fact that they have people in every forest, this person should be in the forest around 145, 421," the Han Family Young Master said.

Gu Fei, who had been charging and killing all night, realized that something seemed to be missing. With a thought, he opened his friend list and sent a message to Xi Xiao Tian: "Hey, there's one left. It's not you, is it?"

"Hehe, you guys are pretty good!"

"Where are you? Come out yourself. Don't waste time."

"Okay, you come over here. I'll duel you!" Xi Xiao Tian said.

"There's a conspiracy!" Gu Fei said.

"Are you afraid?"

"Where are you?"

"398, 137!" Xi Xiao Tian said.

"Tsk tsk, even the Young Master can be wrong sometimes. This is completely on the opposite corner from the direction you said!" Gu Fei muttered and headed in that direction.