Pfft!
Before Jemmas could understand Bai Ye's intention, he suddenly felt a pain in his abdomen. Then, looking down, Bai Ye's broadsword had already pierced his body.
"You..."
Jemmas opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything. The blood gushing out blocked his words.
"It seems you, like them, didn't understand my meaning. These are two different things." Bai Ye smiled and said, "I really didn't intend to save you."
The moment he finished speaking, Bai Ye yanked his broadsword out, drawing a splash of blood.
Jemmas's eyes gradually glazed over, his body swayed, and he finally fell to the ground with a thud. Blood flowed from beneath him, forming a pool.
"You have killed a participant (Fantasy World)."
"As the first to successfully kill a participant in the Fantasy World, you have been rewarded with: Fairy's Horn x1."
"You have obtained a God Stone fragment."
"You have obtained an Entry Ticket to the City of Sin (Gotham) (Item) x1."
Bai Ye didn't understand why those three people thought he was killing them to save Jemmas, nor why Jemmas thought he was killing people to save him.
He was just 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 screen.
Killed four, obtained two God Stone fragments. Not bad.
"Wait a moment!" Bai Ye looked at his inventory and casually took out a piece of paper. "What is this?"
Bai Ye unfolded the paper. It was black on both sides, with a few large characters on one side: Welcome to the City of Sin (Gotham).
Entry Ticket to the City of Sin (Gotham): An entry ticket that allows entry into the City of Sin, Gotham. When the number of participants reaches three hundred, the ticket can be used for teleportation. This item will be automatically transferred to the hunter's possession upon the holder's death. Current participants: 172/300.
"An item to enter a hidden restricted area?" Bai Ye's lips curled. "Unexpected bonus."
Obtaining an entry ticket to a hidden restricted area was definitely a joyous occasion. Just look at how much Bai Ye and Jin Sha obtained in the chaotic restricted area of the entire city.
If they didn't split the spoils, with black-grade items starting at a minimum of fifty million, one hundred million could be exchanged for two black-grade 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 instance, he had never been to the Jura Great Forest in his previous life.
As for places like hidden restricted areas that required items to enter, it was even less likely that Bai Ye would obtain items for all of them.
However, the City of Sin...
It just happened to be a hidden restricted area Bai Ye had visited.
After storing the Entry Ticket to the City of Sin (Gotham), Bai Ye glanced again at the reward for the first kill of a chosen one in the Fantasy World.
Fairy's Horn (Item) (Green): Can randomly summon a fairy to assist in battle. Different fairies possess different abilities.
A green-grade trinket. Nothing much to say.
In fact, first kill rewards were mostly green-grade, with a small chance of blue-grade.
Of course, there were occasional exceptions, like...
The Sunflower Manual!
That was a golden-grade 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 from the Wuxia world!
Rewards of green or blue grade for first kills were immensely valuable when one first entered the World Battlefield, instantly boosting combat power and increasing the chances of survival. But now, their value was just so-so.
Casually putting the items away, Bai Ye waved to Gengar and continued walking deeper into the forest.
As Bai Ye's figure gradually disappeared, a person suddenly leaped down from a large tree behind him. It was Li Jiayi.
"Tsk tsk..." Li Jiayi approached Jemmas, pinched his chin, and looked at him. "I really didn't want to save an idiot like you. It's purely a waste of my item."
Li Jiayi complained, but still took out a palm-sized straw doll with a yellow talisman attached. The talisman had Jemmas's name written on it.
As Li Jiayi tore off the talisman...
"Ugh!"
Jemmas suddenly moaned. The wound in his abdomen, pierced by Bai Ye, healed at a visible rate, and his pale complexion gradually regained its color.
"Damn it!" Jemmas suddenly opened his eyes and cursed, "That bastard really went for it, didn't give me any chance!"
Li Jiayi stood up and looked at Jemmas. "I told you long ago that your idiotic plan wouldn't work. How could someone like him have mercy? Nor would he have any friends. Besides, did you have any prior acquaintance with him?"
Jemmas gritted his teeth. "I often chatted with him in the Land of Monsters. Even if we're not friends, we at least have a good relationship, right?"
"To him, there are only two types of people in the World Battlefield: those with interests, with whom he can cooperate, and those without interests, whom he can kill. Hey, what is 'good relationship'?" Li Jiayi said dismissively, looking at the corpse beside them. "Because of your naive idea, I lost three people and used a substitute puppet on you!"
Jemmas regretted it. "We shouldn't have planned anything. I should have just ambushed him with a sniper rifle."
"It's useless. Didn't you fire during the previous battle? Did you succeed in sniping him? You're no match for him!" Li Jiayi said. "I didn't stop you because I knew that no amount of words could be more convincing than failing once. Don't provoke him anymore. The best outcome is that we don't meet again and don't interfere with each other. If we really happen to run into him again, then we'll find a way to try and kill him then."
After Li Jiayi finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the forest, but in the opposite direction of Bai Ye.
Jemmas clenched his fist and punched the ground unwillingly, then got up and followed Li Jiayi. "Since you know him so well, it means you've seen through him. Don't you know how to deal with him? You know, Crummit didn't die at the hands of the Pig-Head Emperor, but at his, which means our mission is only half complete. It will be difficult to find the Demon King this way. Moreover, counting this time, he has disrupted things three times. Aren't you angry?"
"Of course I'm angry, but anger isn't a reason for me to lose my mind."
Li Jiayi glanced at Jemmas, his gaze suddenly turning cold.
In that instant, Jemmas felt intense pressure. Li Jiayi's gaze made him feel fear.
The reason I understand him isn't 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 Jemmas's face.
"Let's put this matter to rest. Don't think about it anymore." Li Jiayi walked forward. "The Entry Ticket to the City of Sin (Gotham) you have should have been transferred to him, right?"
Jemmas lowered his head guiltily. "Yes, I forgot about that. 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 Jemmas. "Find someone to trade it with."
"Huh?" Jemmas said, "Aren't we going?"
Li Jiayi said, "I told you, not meeting again is the best outcome. He definitely will go since he has the entry ticket, so we won't."
Jemmas was still unwilling. "Is it necessary to avoid him like this?"
Li Jiayi's face gradually showed impatience. He looked at Jemmas and said, "Clarify who is in charge here? Have I been too polite to you usually?"
"Sorry!"
Jemmas quickly apologized, but his right hand, clutching the entry ticket, unconsciously clenched into a fist.
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