San Tian Liang Jiao
Chapter 889 The War of Bai Kingdom
“Hey… you ‘Lingguai’ over there…” The smoke and dust from the explosion had not yet settled, but the Blood Corpse God turned to look at Melongtix and said, “I don’t know what grudges you have with these two guys, but…” He glanced at Xiaoxue Gou and Lonely, “…they are my prey now.”
Melongtix heard this and also looked at the Blood Corpse God: “You…” He hadn’t noticed it when he was in the sky, but he realized something when he got closer, “…what are you?” Out of doubt, Melongtix asked this question.
“Heh…” The Blood Corpse God sneered, “What do you think?”
As a monster with the word “God” in its name, the Blood Corpse God was extremely powerful both physically and spiritually. Even if he had come to a different world, he was still considered a very high-level being. Therefore… he could see that Melongtix was a “Lingguai” (supernatural monster) who had lived longer than himself, but Melongtix could not see the depth of the Blood Corpse God.
“No matter what you are…” Melongtix thought for a few seconds, “If your purpose is to eliminate these two…” He paused and looked at the two players, “I have no objections at all… I can even assist you.”
“No need.” The Blood Corpse God smiled, “It will be over soon…”
Listening to the conversation between these two great immortals, Gou Ge and Lonely felt their blood run cold.
Just as the thought of “escape” sprouted in their hearts…
“Looks like… I don’t need to take action.” A cold voice suddenly appeared in the direction opposite Xiao Ling and Huajian.
The two members of the Corn Fruit Team turned their heads when they heard the sound and saw a female swordsman with a blurred face.
Ruo Yu’s appearance directly overturned Xiaoxue Gou’s previous assumption. It seemed that… Liu Sanfeng had only taken out one of the opponent’s teammates at most…
“Damn… this is terrible…” Gou Ge stood stiffly on the spot, thinking to himself, “There are two enemies blocking the front, and a super-powerful summoned creature and an enemy are blocking the back. Next to us… there’s also an NPC who wants to kill us and is helping the other side…”
“Captain!” Lonely shouted at Xiaoxue Gou, “It’s come to this… let’s fight!”
“Fight?” Xiaoxue Gou thought, “Is there any point? Isn’t ‘fighting’ just struggling one last time when you know you’re going to be wiped out?”
“Captain! Don’t hesitate any longer!” Lonely said immediately when he saw that Xiaoxue Gou didn’t respond, “Even if we lose, we should fight to the end!”
As he spoke, Lonely no longer waited for the captain’s order, but took out his weapon and rushed towards the Blood Corpse God.
At this moment, something suddenly flashed in Xiaoxue Gou’s mind…
He seemed to see something in Lonely that he didn’t have, or rather… something he once had and had now discarded.
Seven years ago… wasn’t the teenager who had just entered the professional circle like this?
Xiaoxue Gou still remembered… at that time, he was not afraid of any opponent. Even if the opponent was a world champion, he didn’t think he had no chance of winning. Even if he was completely abused, he would not be discouraged.
But… as time went by and he grew older… the frustration of not being able to reach the front line, the pressure of real life, and the face of being a senior, made the high-spirited teenager disappear, replaced by… an artificial, pretentiously indifferent young man.
When he had an advantage, he would only use safe methods to maintain it, never taking risks; and when faced with adversity, he would easily choose to give up and pretend that he didn’t care much after failing.
He hid behind the ID [Xiaoxue Gou], which had self-deprecating and sarcastic meanings, but in fact… he was just a man who couldn’t afford to lose.
The superiority and confidence when facing the weak, and the nervousness and retreat when facing the strong… all stemmed from his character of being afraid of losing but also competitive.
He didn’t have the courage to “advance” or the awareness to “retreat”; “waiting” was the option he would prioritize in most cases. Therefore, he stayed before the threshold of a star-level player and never took that step.
However… at this moment, in this desperate situation, he suddenly realized…
“So what if there’s no point?”
Maybe this dying resistance cannot change the final result, but even if it’s a defeat… a defeat where you have tried your best and fought to the last moment, and a defeat where you give up early and pretend… are different.
Facing a loser who fights to the end, a respectable opponent will show respect, while a ridiculous opponent will laugh.
When Xiaoxue Gou looked at Lonely’s reaction from the perspective of an outsider, he finally understood this. He finally understood… what he had lost was just that stubborn, foolish, never-say-die fighting spirit.
“Okay! Let’s fight them!” A few seconds later, Gou Ge’s expression also changed. His eyes were filled with unprecedented fighting spirit, “Killing one is not a loss, killing two is a sure win!”
As he spoke, his figure moved, and his axe shadow went straight to Ruo Yu, who was more than ten meters away.
“Not bad.”
“Not bad.”
When Lonely and Xiaoxue Gou launched their attacks, the Blood Corpse God and Li Ruo Yu made the same evaluation… in different tones.
These two members of the Corn Fruit Team had indeed tried their best, but unfortunately…
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At the same time, in the stone chamber where the Eye of Amosoth was located.
“Ah! I found it!” Xiao Tan stared at the eyeball for a while before shouting, “She’s trapped inside the statue of King Safinos!”
“What?” Tupareth and his younger brother Amosoth both exclaimed in surprise.
“Where?” Amosoth said, “Which statue?”
“It’s the giant statue located in the center of the White Kingdom ruins, the one that’s severely tilted,” Xiao Tan said.
“How is that possible?” Tupareth said, “We’ve searched those ruins countless times and couldn’t sense a trace of the goddess’s power… We even moved some stones from the temple there and used murals to announce to mortals what we were doing. But until the survivors of the White Kingdom were all gone, no one could…”
“It’s because of the curse, right.” This time, it was Xiao Tan’s turn to interrupt the other party. He could tell that these old men didn’t know about the “curse” in the script introduction, so he continued, “King Safinos placed a ‘curse’ on the goddess before he died, imprisoning her in a place you would never find, and she can’t escape on her own… In this way, you…”
[Main Quest Completed] Suddenly, the system voice sounded in Xiao Tan’s ears.
[All Main Quests Completed]
[You have completed this scenario, automatically teleporting in 180 seconds]
The series of prompts caused Xiao Tan’s brain to short-circuit. Five seconds later, he realized… that his side quests were not finished, but his teammates had already killed all four members of the opposing team.
“Time is of the essence! Brother, go and rescue our master…” Tupareth did not ask any further questions because of Xiao Tan’s pause. He spoke directly to Amosoth.
Amosoth nodded in agreement and hurried out.
Xiao Tan didn’t try to stop him. He knew that even if these two acted as quickly as possible, the chances of successfully rescuing the goddess and allowing him to complete the quest within three minutes were very low. His side quest was destined to be incomplete. So, he simply relaxed and turned his attention to his teammates through the Eye of Amosoth…
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“Damn… it disappeared.” The Blood Corpse God was just about to tear apart Lonely’s corpse when the latter turned into white light and disappeared.
On the other side, as Ruo Yu sheathed her sword, Xiaoxue Gou’s corpse had also turned into light and scattered: “Didn’t I tell you?” She looked at the Blood Corpse God and said, “Our kind, the ‘players’, appear in these multiverse as projections, so you can’t eat them.”
“Hmm?” The Blood Corpse God muttered, “Is that so?” He immediately felt that he had been tricked, “That bastard… in that case… wouldn’t I be forever…”
“That won’t happen.” Ruo Yu knew what he was going to say, so she interjected, “Besides ‘players’, there are many other creatures in the multiverse that may become our enemies. When that time comes… it will depend on whether you have the ability to eat them all.”
“Hmph… I hope you’re telling the truth.” The Blood Corpse God snorted coldly, “Otherwise… I will definitely settle the score with that kid Feng Bujue.”
“Ha! You actually said you want to settle the score with me…” Brother Jue, who was watching from the side, laughed, “If it wasn’t for this daddy coming up with a win-win transaction, you would have been made into a roujiamo (meat sandwich) by a galaxy-level hero, right?”
“Eh?” For some reason, the Blood Corpse God shrank his neck at this moment, “Strange… what’s this feeling of being on pins and needles…”
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Three minutes later, in Wang Tanzhi’s conference room.
“Yo, everyone, you’re here so fast.” When Feng Bujue walked in, his teammates were already there.
“You’re too slow.” Huajian, who was already sitting on the sofa, replied, “This mode doesn’t have any item rewards. How long does it take to glance at the settlement screen?”
“Okay…” Feng Bujue said, “Actually, I was just standing in front of the touch screen, mentally calculating the reward ratio of this mode… You forgive me for not learning middle school math well, so I calculated a little slow.” He paused for a moment, “But speaking of which… the rewards in this mode are really small.”
“We already said it’s a ‘practice mode,’ so can we level up and get equipment like in a normal scenario?” Xiao Ling replied, “Also… this mode doesn’t seem very fair… judging from the strength of that team just now, the system should be using a random distribution principle, rather than a principle like in the Killing Game where it matches as closely as possible based on strength.”
“Tsk tsk tsk…” When Feng Bujue heard this, he swayed his finger and put on a beatable expression, “Don’t be complacent just because you won. You guys have a lot of problems…” He said in a profound tone, “Fortunately… there are still twenty days before the official competition starts. I have enough time to point out and correct them one by one…”