“Hmm?” Liu Sanfeng was immediately surprised when the attack bounced back, but he still managed to react in time.

He quickly moved his feet and dodged the reversed flame spear.

“Whew… that was close.” Liu Sanfeng thought, “Looks like he’s got some skill after all…” Even now, he still hadn’t realized anything was amiss. In the brief time it took him to regain his posture, he was already planning a counterattack. “Looks like the other guy is a specialist in spiritual arts… then I’ll switch to close combat…”

His idea was too naive in the end, or rather… he was overthinking things.

The next second, just as he hadn't stabilized himself, Li Ruoyu’s figure was already behind him.

Liu Sanfeng didn't even see how she moved because their speed and reaction were on completely different levels.

It wasn’t until the sword’s edge, carrying the aura of death, touched the back of his neck that he realized… he was the one who couldn’t see the difference in their strength.

…………

A minute later, at another part of the ruins…

“What’s going on?” Xiaoxue Gou quickly noticed the death of his teammate through the team interface, which made him very surprised. “Liu Sanfeng actually died… what did he encounter?”

“Captain!” Two seconds later, Gudu Xiaoge, a few meters away, also shouted to Gou Ge, “Look at the team interface!”

“I saw it…” Xiaoxue Gou replied, “Liu Sanfeng is dead…”

“Captain…” Gudu seemed to have fallen into despair. The situation in front of them was simply terrible. “If this goes on… I’m afraid we…”

“Don’t panic… let me think.” Xiaoxue Gou forced himself to remain calm and replied.

“Okay…” Gudu Xiaoge could only respond like this.

At this time, both of them were actually in a state of panic. The only difference was that… as the captain, Xiaoxue Gou couldn’t break down. Even if he really had no solution, he had to act like he could still do something in front of his teammates…

Two hundred meters away from them, Xiao Ling, who had re-selected a shooting spot, seemed particularly relaxed at this moment, because Hua Jian’s figure had appeared in her sight.

“Here she comes…” Xiao Ling murmured to herself when she saw Hua Jian, “But… where did elder sister go…”

It didn’t take long for Hua Jian to find Xiao Ling’s location and quickly approach her. Although Xiaoxue Gou and Xiangni Shizuigudu discovered Hua Jian’s trail, they couldn’t step forward to stop the reunion of the two from Hell Front because of Xiao Ling’s firepower deterrence.

“Xiao Ling, are you okay?” Hua Jian asked immediately after arriving next to Xiao Ling. As a medical specialist player, the first thing she thought of was whether her teammate needed healing.

“I’m fine.” Xiao Ling replied, “Not even a scratch.” As she spoke, her eyes never left the enemy’s cover, and the gun in her hand was held steadily. “One of them is already dead, and two others are hiding over there… and there’s a ‘fourth person’… whereabouts unknown.”

“As for the fourth person… Ruoyu and I saw him on the way here.” Hua Jian listened to Xiao Ling’s words and quickly digested the information. She quickly responded, “Ruoyu should be fighting him now.”

“Oh?” Xiao Ling was slightly stunned when she heard this, and then… she chuckled softly, “Heh… then I’m relieved.” She asked again, “How long ago did you encounter that fourth person?”

“About five minutes ago.” Hua Jian replied.

As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Ling shouted loudly in front of her: “Hey—your teammate in another place has already died, right? Waiting any longer is futile.”

Xiao Ling’s speed of "receiving information," "analyzing it," and then "making predictions and plans" was extremely fast. When she heard the sentence "Ruoyu should be fighting him now," the "fourth person" of the Yumi Guozi team… was already a dead man in Xiao Ling’s mind. Because she believed that Ruoyu was almost unbeatable in a one-on-one battle.

Perhaps her idea was somewhat subjective, or a bit arrogant. But from later stories… this was indeed the truth.

With this thought in mind, Xiao Ling asked about the time again. She estimated that… it would take Ruoyu one to three minutes to kill someone in a one-on-one fight. Now that five minutes had passed, the other party must have died.

At this time, they should make good use of this point and use words to stimulate the opponent. On the one hand, they could create the illusion that "we know everything about your side"; on the other hand, it could also have a mocking effect…

With both approaches, the opponent’s emotions could be easily affected, and it was possible that they would come out to die with a "gambler’s mentality."

“Captain… they…” On the other side, Gudu Xiaoge was indeed fooled, and he looked at Xiaoxue Gou in a panic, at a loss for words.

“I understand…” Xiaoxue Gou said in a deep voice, “But… we can’t be impulsive…” He paused and continued, “We must stay calm. The current situation may not be unfavorable to us…” He gestured with his eyes in the direction of the enemy and lowered his voice, “Think about it carefully… there was only one person who ambushed us at the beginning. And now, there is only one person who came after seeing the signal flare. What does this mean?” He was obviously asking a rhetorical question and answering it himself, “In my opinion, the situation is likely… Sanfeng encountered the other three members of the enemy team on the way here, and he exchanged his life for two kills…”

“Is… is that so…” After hearing this, Gudu Xiaoge really calmed down.

“That’s right… it must be like this.” Xiaoxue Gou was quite confident in his reasoning, “Otherwise, why would only one person come?” He became more and more excited as he spoke, “Right now, that shooting specialist is using words to provoke us… this makes me even more certain… that the other side only has two people left. The ones who are really anxious are them… so they chose to bluff.”

“That’s right!” Regardless of whether others believed it or not, Gudu Xiaoge believed it, “I almost fell for it again.”

“Hmph…” Gou Ge snorted coldly, “I basically figured it out. The guy who ambushed us is probably the captain of the enemy team, the strongest in both strength and strategy… We did lose one person in her ambush. But…” He changed the subject, “This ‘one kill’ difference no longer exists. We are now two against two. Except for a slight loss of survival value, there is no major disadvantage. Besides… the teammate who came to support her may have been injured by Sanfeng?”

After his calculation, it seemed that they had a slight advantage…

“Yes…” Gudu replied, “Worthy of being the captain, I almost lost my composure…”

“Heh… it’s okay.” Gou Ge smiled, “Listen to me, stay calm. We are both melee combat specialists. Once we get close, the shooting specialist on the other side is no match for us. What we need to do now… is to continue to stall and see who can last longer. Once the other side loses patience and attacks first, our chance will come.”

…………

Leaving aside what kind of results Xiaoxue Gou’s god-like battle analysis and tactical thinking ultimately brought them, let’s take a look at Xiao Tan’s situation.

After looking at the Tupa Leisong’s Eye for a long time, Xiao Tan still couldn’t figure anything out.

“Uncle, I’ve observed at many different points in time, but…” As Xiao Tan said this, he moved his gaze away from the giant eye, “Since the goddess descended the heavenly punishment, her ‘past’ has disappeared.”

“I know this…” Tupa Leisong replied.

“Huh?” Xiao Tan was stunned when he heard this.

“If I could directly see that kind of ‘past’…” Tupa Leisong continued, “I would have found the goddess long ago.”

What he said was right. If he could directly see those things from the giant eye, why would he need someone else’s help?

“Eh? Then what do you want me to see?” Xiao Tan asked again.

“I want you to write down what you just saw, and then…” Tupa Leisong replied, “Go look at the Amosuos’s Eye.”

“Oh… I see, use the comparison between ‘past’ and ‘present’ to find it…” Feng Bujue said from the side.

“Uh…” Xiao Tan didn’t understand again, “Uncle… you should have looked at that ‘Amosuos’s Eye’ many times, right?”

“No…” Tupa Leisong replied, “The three of us brothers can only look at the eye that we are ‘guarding,’ but you… don’t have this restriction. As long as you can withstand the intersecting mental impact, you can…”

“Hey hey hey…” Xiao Tan interrupted the other party and repeated the keywords, “Intersecting mental impact?”

“It’s the kind of pain you experienced before.” Tupa Leisong replied, “Don’t worry, after connecting with one eye, the communication with the second eye and the impact of the ‘first sight’ will be much smaller. The difficulty lies in the first contact. If you’re unlucky… you’ll directly suffer a mental breakdown or die.”

“Hey!” Xiao Tan was shocked, “You should have told me about this before I looked!”

“What an idiot… would you still look if I told you?” Feng Bujue laughed from the side.

Objectively speaking, Jue Ge thought that Tupa Leisong’s approach was very correct, but rationally, he naturally stood on Xiao Tan’s side.

“Young man, you are not an ordinary person. I believe you can do it… that’s why I brought you back to the temple.” Tupa Leisong’s answer sounded reasonable, but upon closer inspection… it was a rogue behavior of betting other people’s lives.

“Forget it, forget it…” Xiao Tan still had a good temper, “Anyway, I survived…”

Xiao Tan was really not good at getting angry, because these NPCs looked quite strong. If they became enemies, it would not be good for him; it would not be good for his teammates in the ruins either.

“Then… please come with me.” Tupa Leisong said, “Amosuos is already waiting for you at the door of another stone room…”