Chapter 1 Talking About Us...

Mason restrained the urge to look around. Eyes fixed forward, he followed his senior brothers and sisters on the way to the mall.

This was actually the first time the Syndicate disciples had collectively appeared before the outside world.

Previously, the top fifty players on the leaderboard, Shi Kong, Tai Hao, An Boli, and Kuang Ran Huo, had made their IDs public.

The witches, Wang Hu, and others from fifty to one hundred had remained anonymous until recently, when they finally revealed their IDs, instantly igniting the entire forum.

All the players were discussing what the Syndicate was and why it had nine seats in the top 100. Major forces were also on high alert.

"Uh... is it really okay for us to parade around like this?"

Mason hesitated for a moment before asking softly.

Lu Yu, wearing an anime shirt, gave him a strange look. "What's wrong with that? Isn't it normal for players to go to the game mall to buy equipment?"

But your levels are too high! So many top 100 players walking on the road, even a medium-sized guild would tremble in fear!

Mason smiled awkwardly, then suddenly noticed something and looked up ahead.

Two teams were walking side by side, chatting and laughing, heading towards them.

Leading the opposing team was a golden-haired youth with distinct facial features, handsome and rugged like a statue. It was David from the FBI's Special Incidents Division, ranked tenth.

Walking alongside him was Xiao, ranked seventeenth from the European Heavy Industries Group—a beautiful girl with short pink hair, wearing a black dress.

Both were handsome men and beautiful women by universal aesthetic standards. Just standing there, they exuded the aura of a youth idol drama, and it wouldn't be strange to see them in an advertisement or music video.

But what was even more striking was the luxurious lineup behind the two of them.

"Abel in eighth place, Agares in twelfth, Cain in thirteenth, Zhezhuang Tong Gou in nineteenth, Aim in twentieth, Da Hei Tian in forty-second..."

A passerby player not far from Li Ang couldn't help but gasp, his eyes full of excitement, and whispered in amazement, "This is too awesome."

"This is called a gathering of stars, the return of the gods."

Another passerby's eyes gleamed as he muttered, "These people aren't on the same side as the Syndicate.

Zhezhuang Tong Gou was eliminated by Shi Kong in the Boundary Corridor.

Aim was eliminated by Tai Hao.

David himself also queued up against Shi Kong in the Sky Arena. The two sides fought fiercely for hundreds of rounds, purely close combat, flattening the arena with punches and kicks, but in the end, he lost to Shi Kong.

Are these two groups going to fight today?"

"Oh ho."

Wanli Feng Dao raised an eyebrow, looking at the approaching two sides, pulling his Mammoth-head little brother back a few steps.

Li Ang also retreated a distance, with a flick of his hand, took out half a frozen watermelon from his sodium ring, and alchemically divided it into two pieces, cutting one piece and handing it to Little Dao's Mammoth-head brother.

While eating watermelon, he watched the two teams and muttered softly, "Fight, fight!"

The onlookers didn't mind the excitement. David, the center of attention, didn't care much. He smiled and told the pink-haired girl Xiao a joke, making her smile.

As the distance gradually narrowed, he turned his head and looked at the Syndicate members in front of him.

"Good afternoon, everyone."

David showed a perfect and elegant smile, and said lightly, "We meet again."

Tai Hao narrowed his eyes and returned a gentle smile. Shi Kong glanced at him coldly, saying nothing, being very unaccommodating.

How arrogant.

That was what the passersby and Mason thought. Lu Yu seemed to notice the expression on Mason's face, grinned, leaned slightly closer to Mason, and explained in a low voice, "Second Senior Brother is a martial arts maniac. He was very good at fighting even before he became a player, and he trains even more desperately after becoming a player.

As he became stronger and stronger, no one could beat him. Even the teacher found him annoying, so he simulated battles in his mind.

He imagined himself fighting himself with different weapons, in different venues, in different states.

He had to carry out hundreds of imaginary life-and-death battles every day, and after the battles, he had to carefully review them to see where he went wrong.

His mind is full of combat data, and he is indifferent to the outside world.

So he can only remember particularly important and recent events.

In short, our Second Senior Brother he..."

"Forgetful?"

Mason subconsciously added. Lu Yu quickly took half a step back, waving his hand guiltily, "You said that yourself, be careful not to let Second Senior Brother hear him.

Well... but it doesn't matter if he hears it, as long as you run fast enough, he'll forget about it in four or five days..."

The passersby only thought that Shi Kong was arrogant.

Mason was dumbfounded. The witch, lizard-headed Nesser, white-shirted youth LAn, and others who knew the inside story looked away awkwardly or scratched their heads—

Needless to say, Second Senior Brother must have forgotten about David, forgotten that he had beaten him up before. He was probably slowly recalling it now.

How embarrassing...

The scene fell silent for a while. In the end, the optimist An Boli broke the silence, looked at David and the others, and said with a smile, "Are you here to buy something?"

"Yes."

The beautiful girl with short pink hair, Xiao, nodded and smiled gently, "The penultimate round of the competition is coming soon. If you don't prepare in advance, you may be eliminated immediately.

[Lost World] is broadcast globally. If you fail to advance under the spotlight, it would be too embarrassing.

It would disappoint my fans."

Normally, adding the word "ne" at the end of a sentence would seem contrived.

But Xiao's speech with "ne" didn't make people uncomfortable—maybe her appearance and temperament were really innocent and gentle...

Of course, this innocence and gentleness are limited to appearance.

Only a fool would think that a player ranked seventeenth would be a weak girl with no strength.

As the saying goes, the pinker the hair, the harder the hit.

Xiao, whose power system is based on summoning and piloting mechas, is a top combat force of the European Heavy Industries Group and has proven herself in the Sky Arena and Boundary Corridor stages.

As for her fans...

In the real world, Xiao is also a YouTuber who often uploads vlogs of herself piloting mechas, and her fans have exceeded ten million.

Most of them are here to see the cute girl, and only a small part are real mecha fans, drooling over the mechas she drives.

Girls and mechas, wouldn't anyone choose mechas? What good are women when compared to Gundams?

Piloting giant bipedal humanoid mechas, dashing through space at high speed, and blasting strangely shaped alien creatures with beam sabers and railguns, is a man's romance!