“Is this the cultivator from another world...”

Li Ang looked at Dan Chenzi and the others in front of him, rubbed his dragon chin, and pondered, "They look pretty normal. They don't seem to have any extra parts on them."

"Don't underestimate them."

Tai Hao said in a deep voice, "These people have a very complete power system, a school of their own.

The leaders are at least in the top seven of individual combat power on Earth.

Qingqiu Fox might even be comparable to Hansuishi and Hohenheim..."

"That strong?"

Li Ang raised an eyebrow, no wonder even players of Killing Intent and Colossi's level were defeated and left.

He thought for a moment, stepped forward, and shouted loudly in fluent Chinese to Dan Chenzi and the others who looked gloomy, "I don't quite agree with your point of view, because I was on a plane from America to Mars, but you were fighting kangaroos in Uruguay under the sea. Aliens are wearing purple hats, so you think I'm very bad? You definitely will, the ribbonfish's mobile phone calculus turned into yogurt, yes, I have a daughter."

???

Wasn't that just nonsense, incoherent, and completely irrelevant?

Zhan Lu, Nebula, and the others next to Li Ang looked dumbfounded, wondering if this dragon-headed white coat had suddenly gone mad, or if he had been hit by some kind of control skill.

They subconsciously took half a step back and took out skill scrolls or purification potions from their backpack bar, ready to remove the control effect on Li Ang.

"He's testing."

Liu Wudai's eyes flashed, guessing Li Ang's intention, and immediately explained, "By talking nonsense, he is observing the expressions on their faces to guess whether the other party has the [Understand Languages] skill, and how high the skill level is."

In most script missions, the arena game system provides passive assistance to players, allowing them to hear, speak, and read foreign languages, and communicate normally with the natives of the script mission world.

However, this passive assistance is not stable. In some script missions, the system will deliberately cancel it to increase the difficulty.

Therefore, many players, if they have the conditions, will want to buy language-type skill scrolls on the market—there are many types of language skills. Low-level ones can only understand what they hear and see. Advanced ones can integrate what they think into the language, or quickly learn a language after hearing it once.

Some advanced language skills can even communicate with animals—for example, a skill called [Dr. Dolittle's Expertise] allows the user to freely communicate with animals, beasts, and monsters, and gain innate favorability bonuses. It is considered a god-tier skill for charm pet builds.

The president of the [Thousand-Throated Beast] guild, Mistletoe, who stood here before, possessed this skill.

Li Ang had always wanted to buy one, but he couldn't acquire it, but this didn't prevent him from using this method to test the other party's abilities.

"..."

Dan Chenzi, the scholar, and the monk looked at each other, stepped forward half a step, and responded, "There is no room for negotiation on this matter."

They really understood?

Tai Hao's eyes twitched, and he couldn't help but ask Li Ang, "It seems that the other party's language skills don't care about the words, but directly understand the meaning in the language...

By the way, what did you say just now?"

"I said that we have captured more than a dozen alien cultivators from the other side, and we hope to exchange prisoners with them."

Li Ang said casually, "A one-for-one trade is a good deal."

Tai Hao said in surprise, "You have prisoners?"

"Yes, but not here."

Li Ang said meaningfully, exchanging glances with Liu Wudai and the others.

When they drove down before, they first came into contact with the Zerg's reconnaissance units, learned about the situation of the alien players,

Then they encountered the vice president of the Demon Scientist Alliance, Tian Jiao Huo Tu's guidance, and learned about the predicament of Tai Hao and others.

They took a shortcut all the way, rushing here at lightning speed.

The Zerg, who are still rushing down below, did capture thirteen alien players and are interrogating them—alien cultivators generally have brain protection spells, which can resist illusions and cognitive bias curses,

However, the Zerg can directly inject various potions into their brains, transmit nerve signals, and after gradually trying multiple times, they can still extract some information.

"They don't even care about the lives of their own people..."

Li Ang turned to look at Dan Chenzi and asked loudly, "Around the eleventh hour of our entry into the Lost World, you appeared and began to hunt and kidnap Earth players.

The hunting operation was prepared in advance. Whether it was the special rope that could seal abilities or the token that could quickly summon other members, they were very effective against Earth players who lacked information and still thought the Lost World was a dark forest of internal competition.

With planning against the unprepared, coupled with overall strength being one level higher, it led to you gaining the advantage. So, what is the purpose of all this?"

Li Ang paused and said slowly, "Through information aggregation, it can be known that the players who were killed were all strong and had a firm will to resist,

On the other hand, those who were captured were all players with lower strength.

Obviously, this does not conform to the conjecture that 'you are capturing players for sacrifice or to seize their bodies'.

Capturing so many players, without threatening the remaining Earth players to withdraw from the competition, and refusing to return the hostages to us,

Proves that those prisoners must be able to play some very crucial role for you."

Li Ang narrowed his eyes, changed the subject, and said lightly, "Considering that the accelerated collapse of the floors occurred not long after you appeared,

It can be assumed that you used some means to advance the collapse above.

The purpose is to compress our activity space, so that it is convenient for you to come and hunt."

Tai Hao's heart moved upon hearing this. Before, Ge Jianluo Xing escaped and told him that there were alien players on the tenth floor of the Lost World, and played the video of the alien players taken by Whale Song and the others using miniature surveillance cameras to Tai Hao.

(Ge Jianluo Xing himself, in order to escape the pursuit of the demon general Evil Flood Dragon, used special skills, causing his stamina and spiritual power to continue burning. Not long after Tai Hao found Amberly and others, he voluntarily withdrew from the competition)

Tai Hao then passed the message to Tian Jiao Huo Tu. It seemed that Li Risheng also learned the time point of Dan Chenzi's arrival from Tian Jiao Huo Tu.

In fact, Li Ang first obtained the information from the alien players interrogated by the Zerg, but in the eyes of Tai Hao and others, the information mastered by the players was finally aggregated.

"All of this should be for the Door, right."

Li Ang said lightly, "The hunting operation is to reduce the number of people,

Kidnapping Earth players is to control the quota, to get the final fifty, or even the twenty rewards.

Thinking this way, there are two possibilities.

First, the final rewards for the Earth and alien players' Door battle are calculated together. The twenty Doors are competed for by players from both worlds, so the weak must be selected.

Second, the Door rewards are calculated separately. You kidnap Earth players in order to get more Doors in addition to your own share."

Bai Haozheng's eyes lit up and he said softly, "The second possibility is higher."

"Hmm?"

Arina, who was releasing a dispel curse skill to help Amberly remove her controlled state, subconsciously looked up and asked, "Why do you say that?"

"Because Michael, Out of Control, Special Affairs Bureau's Zhong Liming, Clock Tower's Celsus, Tribunal's Uriel, Witch Alliance's Dir?, Demon Scientist Alliance's Requiem, and others are still alive."

Bai Haozheng explained, "These seven are all first-tier players. According to Tian Jiao Huo Tu, they have all been sealed by the stasis field and are currently downstairs.

If the final rewards are calculated together, requiring Earth and alien players to compete with each other, then there is absolutely no need to leave Michael and others behind, leaving hidden dangers."

"But if the rewards are calculated separately..."

Tai Hao narrowed his eyes and pondered, "The system won't have double standards.

Assuming that there are only fifty people left on Earth's side, and they automatically enter the Door competition stage, then these alien players are very likely to be the same.

That's why they have always kept a group of people on the bottom floor to prevent accidents such as being captured and causing the Door to fall into the hands of the other party.

As for the others, they don't care even if they die, anyway, dying early won't get any rewards."

"That makes sense..."

Ju Zi took a deep breath, "But this competition system is still very unfair.

The other party's overall strength is stronger than ours, and they arrived more than ten hours later than us, launching a surprise attack while we were fighting internally.

The most crucial thing is that they seem to fully know the value of the Door and have long been prepared to unite and resist foreign enemies.

Even if the rewards are calculated separately, this system is biased, right?"

"Yeah. But the ten hours we arrived earlier are actually an advantage."

Li Ang said casually, "This period of time should be for us to collect information and harvest the amber-like energy from the walls on the edge of the Lost World."

He took out a few colored comics of When the Stars Return from the inside pocket of his white coat.

Tai Hao and Fuxiao also took out the comics they had collected.

"That way, they'll all be complete..."

Li Ang flipped through the comics,

But he heard Dan Chenzi sigh and say quietly, "Fairness...

Do you really know what fairness is?

A hungry mother who chooses to sell her spiritual roots, or rather, her spinal cord, to the 'Immortal Sect' because she lacks food and cannot afford to raise her children;

Residents of spiritual vein mining cities who live in spiritual vein ore mining areas, work hard to mine spirit stones for the Immortal Sect, are forced to drink sewage, breathe turbid air, and watch their bodies gradually mutate, accepting 'Immortal Sect' purification before the age of forty;

'Immortal Sect cultivators' who voluntarily cultivate the 'Plant Body Heaven and Earth' technique in order to produce food, transforming their bodies into flesh and blood plants, cutting their own flesh to feed the people of the whole city.

The hundreds of hive cities and billions of people in the Demonic Sunflower World are more qualified than you to talk about the word 'fairness'."

Dan Chenzi said calmly, "For survival, regardless of good or evil."

He clenched the long sword in his hand, and the lotus sword formation behind him rose again.

It was useless to say more. Neither side was willing to give in, so only the victor was qualified to talk about fairness and justice.

Dan Chenzi's lotus sword formation seemed to be some kind of signal,

The closed-eyed monk formed a hand seal, and Buddha light flickered behind him,

The scholar holding the scroll moved his lips, releasing a spell,

And Qingqiu disappeared from the spot.

"Scatter!"

Tai Hao's expression changed slightly, and he shouted,

Everyone instinctively dodged to the side, Kuangran Huo also dragged Amberly, and Arina, who was helping Amberly remove her controlled state.

The next second, the position where everyone was standing exploded with a bang,

A large amount of sand and dust rose from the soil, turning into a pair of large hands.

The scholar holding the scroll recited a spell, manipulating the pair of sand and dust hands to grab Ju Zi, who was the closest,

Ju Zi had no time to dodge, so he had to throw out a piece of exquisitely carved wood, summoning a wooden snake-shaped puppet nearly forty meters long.

Click.

The sand and dust giant hand grabbed the snake's seven inches with one hand, making it unable to move,

The other hand continued to grab Ju Zi.

The sand hand seemed slow but was actually fast, and a strong wind surged in the palm, forming a vortex wind eye, firmly sucking Ju Zi, making him unable to escape.

Tai Hao summoned a qi dragon, trying to rescue him, but was blocked by a long sword.

Buzzing——

The other five flying swords sped over, intercepting Zhan Lu, Bai Haozheng, and others who were trying to rescue Ju Zi.

Everyone turned their heads to look,

Only to see Dan Chenzi's hair disheveled, his Daoist robe fluttering, his whole body suspended in the air, his eyes glowing brightly.

His qi sea seemed to be endless, constantly squeezing out majestic spiritual power from his body,

Correspondingly, the speed, power, and lethality of all six flying swords had been improved several levels compared to before

Blood Burning Technique...

The closed-eyed monk sighed silently in his heart. This Liwei Mountain technique could, like the Heavenly Demon Disintegration, allow the user to squeeze out their potential in a short period of time, and their power would suddenly increase by one or even several times,

But the cost of using the technique...

The meridians would be completely broken, the vitality would be greatly damaged, and there would be no possibility of further cultivation. In the unfortunate case, the soul would even be completely destroyed and unable to enter reincarnation.

Six flying swords of different shapes entangled Tai Hao, Zhan Lu, Bai Haozheng, Qimian Xuantian, Nebula, and Liu Wudai respectively,

The sword blades cut through the sky, accompanied by a loud crackling sound that broke the sound barrier and burst the air, slashing at the players one sword at a time.

Tai Hao summoned a qi dragon, trying to bite the flying sword,

However, the previously light sword body, after being infused with a huge amount of spiritual energy, became as heavy as a thousand pounds,

Treating the qi dragon's breath as nothing, it flew quickly, easily tearing the qi dragon open and slashing at Tai Hao's neck.

The latter retreated violently, driving the Ten Heavenly Stems and Twelve Earthly Branches, turning the qi dragon into a sea of clouds, descending sweet dew, turning into ice and snow, and finally condensing into an ice shield as thick as a city wall, barely blocking the flying sword.

Zhan Lu and Bai Haozheng faced the flying sword slashing, each drawing their swords to block,

For a time, the sound of metal clashing, "ding ding dang dang", was endless.

Their strength was not bad, the former was the president of the Sword King's Court guild, and the latter was also in the top 100 of the rankings,

However, the flying sword controlled by Dan Chenzi, who had used the blood dyeing technique, was far from comparable to just now,

Zhan Lu, who was in poor condition, couldn't hold on first, reacting half a beat slower, and was slashed by the sword blade with long wounds on his chest and back, and was about to be killed with one sword,

Chengying sped over, wielding the straight sword like a broken shadow, splitting the flying sword and blocking the blow for Zhan Lu.

"President, take this..."

Chengying threw a bottle of life potion towards Zhan Lu, and was about to say something,

The flying sword that had been split open rotated in the air, turned back, and instantly appeared behind Chengying, hitting Chengying's left shoulder.

From the left shoulder to the right side of the waist, a kasaya-like cutting mark appeared on the chest,

Chengying lowered his head to look at his chest. The next second, his entire body was divided into two and disappeared from the spot.