Pfft!
Before Jemas could understand what Bai Ye meant, he suddenly felt a pain in his abdomen. He looked down to see that the broadsword in Bai Ye's hand had already pierced his body.
"You..."
Jemas opened his mouth but couldn't say anything. The large amount of blood flowing out blocked his words.
"It seems you, like them, didn't understand me. These are two separate matters," Bai Ye said with a smile. "I really didn't intend to save you."
The moment he finished speaking, Bai Ye sharply withdrew the broadsword, bringing with it a spray of blood.
Jemas's eyes gradually blurred, his body swayed, and he finally fell to the ground, the blood flowing from beneath him forming a pool.
"You have killed a participant (Fantasy World)."
"As the first to kill a participant in the Fantasy World, you have received a reward: Fairy Horn x1."
"You have obtained a fragment of a God Stone."
"You have obtained an entry ticket (item) to City of Sin (Gotham) x1."
Bai Ye didn't understand why those three people thought he was killing them to save Jemas, nor why Jemas thought he was killing people to save him.
He was merely killing people on the side to see if he could get a God Stone fragment.
Or...
Bai Ye touched his face.
Did he look like a kind person?
Bai Ye shrugged and looked at the light screen.
Killed four, obtained two God Stone fragments. Not bad.
"Wait a moment!" Bai Ye looked at his item inventory and casually took out a piece of paper. "What is this?"
Bai Ye unfolded the paper. It was black on both sides. One side had several large characters: "Welcome to the City of Sin (Gotham)."
Entry Ticket to the City of Sin (Gotham): An entry ticket that allows one to enter the City of Sin, Gotham. When the number of participants reaches three hundred, entry can be made via teleportation. This item will automatically transfer to the hunter's possession upon the holder's death. Current number of participants: 172/300.
"An entry item for a hidden forbidden zone?" Bai Ye curled his lips. "I didn't expect such a pleasant surprise."
Obtaining an entry ticket to a hidden forbidden zone was definitely a cause for joy. Just look at how much Bai Ye and Jin Sha had obtained in the chaotic forbidden zone of the entire city.
If they hadn't split the spoils, at a starting price of at least fifty million for black-quality items, one hundred million could have been exchanged for two black-quality items!
And...
City of Sin?
Bai Ye couldn't help but chuckle. He was familiar with this place!
The World Battlefield was vast. Even though Bai Ye had reached the end in his previous life, he hadn't visited every corner of it. For example, in his previous life, he had never been to the Jura Great Forest.
As for places like hidden forbidden zones that could only be entered with items, how could Bai Ye possibly have obtained items for all of them?
But, the City of Sin...
It happened to be a hidden forbidden zone that Bai Ye had visited.
After carefully putting away the Entry Ticket to the City of Sin (Gotham), Bai Ye glanced again at the rewards for the first kill of a Chosen One in the Fantasy World.
Fairy Horn (Item) (Green): Can randomly summon a fairy to assist in battle. Different fairies possess different abilities.
A green-quality trinket. Nothing much to say.
In fact, first kill rewards were mostly green quality, with a small chance of blue quality.
Of course, there were occasional exceptions, such as...
Sunflower Manual!
That was a golden-quality martial art, but the first kill reward was only a fragment, and it required castration...
Bai Ye decided to pretend he had never killed anyone in the martial arts world!
As for green or blue quality first kill rewards, they were extremely valuable when first entering the World Battlefield, capable of instantly boosting combat power and increasing the chance of survival. However, their value now was just so-so.
Casually putting away the items, Bai Ye waved to Gengar and continued walking deeper into the forest.
As Bai Ye's figure slowly disappeared, a person suddenly leaped down from a large tree behind him. It was Li Jiayi.
"Tsk tsk..." Li Jiayi approached Jemas, pinched his chin, and looked at him. "I really didn't want to save you, you idiot. It's a pure waste of my items."
Li Jiayi complained, but still took out a palm-sized straw doll with a yellow talisman attached to it. The talisman had Jemas's name written on it.
As Li Jiayi tore off the yellow talisman...
"Ugh!"
Jemas suddenly groaned. The wound in his abdomen, pierced by Bai Ye, healed at a visible speed, and his pale complexion gradually regained its color.
"Damn it!" Jemas suddenly opened his eyes and cursed. "This bastard really went for it, didn't give me any chance at all!"
Li Jiayi stood up and looked at Jemas. "I told you long ago that your idiotic plan wouldn't work. How could someone like him have mercy? Nor would he have so-called friends. Besides, did you have any prior connection?"
Jemas gritted his teeth. "I often chatted with him in the Land of Monsters. Even if we weren't friends, we were at least on good terms, right?"
"To him, there are only two types of people on the World Battlefield: those with benefits, who can cooperate, and those without benefits, who can be killed. Hey, what is 'good terms'?" Li Jiayi said contemptuously, looking at the corpse nearby. "Because of your naive idea, I lost three people, and I used a substitute puppet on you!"
Jemas regretted it. "I shouldn't have planned anything. I should have just attacked him directly with a sniper rifle."
"It's useless. Didn't you shoot during the previous battle? Did you succeed in sniping him? You are no match for him!" Li Jiayi said. "I didn't stop you because I knew that any words would be less convincing than failing once. Don't provoke him anymore. The best outcome is for us to never meet again and for neither of us to interfere with the other. If by chance we encounter him again, we'll try to kill him then."
After Li Jiayi finished speaking, he turned and walked into the forest, but in the opposite direction of Bai Ye.
Jemas clenched his fist and hit the ground in frustration. Then, he stood up and followed Li Jiayi. "Since you understand him so well, it means you've seen through him. Don't you know how to deal with him? You know, Krumpitt didn't die at the hands of Pig-Head Emperor in the end, but at his hands, which caused our mission to be only half-completed. It's now difficult to find the Demon King this way. Moreover, including this time, he has disrupted things three times. Aren't you angry?"
"Of course, I'm angry, but anger is not a reason for me to lose my mind."
Li Jiayi glanced at Jemas, and his gaze suddenly turned cold.
At that moment, Jemas felt intense pressure. Li Jiayi's gaze made him feel terrified.
The reason I understand him is not because I've seen through him!
It's because...
I'm the same kind of person as him!
If you weren't still useful to me, do you think you'd be alive?
Li Jiayi sneered inwardly and slowly shifted his gaze away from Jemas's face.
"Let's put this matter to rest. Don't think about it anymore," Li Jiayi said as he walked forward. "The Entry Ticket to the City of Sin (Gotham) in your hand should have been transferred to him, right?"
Jemas lowered his head guiltily. "Yes, I forgot about it. I should have given it to you earlier."
"Forget it," Li Jiayi took out an Entry Ticket to the City of Sin (Gotham) and handed it to Jemas. "Find someone to trade it with."
"Ah?" Jemas asked. "Aren't we going?"
Li Jiayi said, "I told you, the best outcome is for us to never meet again. Since he got the entry ticket, he will definitely go. So, we won't go."
Jemas was still unwilling. "Is it necessary to avoid him like this?"
Li Jiayi's face gradually showed impatience. He looked at Jemas and said, "Clarify who is in charge here. Have I been too polite to you usually?"
"Sorry!"
Jemas quickly apologized, but his right hand, clutching the entry ticket, unconsciously clenched into a fist.
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