Xu Zheng’s mind went blank, his expression twisted in disbelief as he asked, “Why?!”
Zhao Wudi sighed, “Who told you to offend someone you shouldn’t have?”
“Compared to you, their price is much higher…”
Xu Zheng, pale with fear, trembled uncontrollably, “Price? The price isn’t enough?!”
“Then I’ll offer five times! Five times, okay?!”
“If five times isn’t enough, then ten times! If ten times isn’t enough, then twenty times!”
“As long as you help me, I’m willing to pay any price!”
Honestly speaking, Xu Zheng’s personal guards were generally of higher quality than Zhao Wudi’s Grizzly Special Forces.
Among them alone, there were more than a dozen awakened ones at the sixth tier.
The only disadvantage they had compared to Zhao Wudi’s men was that Xu Zheng, their leader, was much weaker than Zhao Wudi, who was at the sixth tier.
But they never expected Zhao Wudi to resort to a dirty trick and ambushed them so thoroughly.
It had even been planned for more than two months, the cunning foresight was truly outrageous!
Zhao Wudi sighed, “Hmm, not bad, your offer is quite high!”
“If it were any other time, I might have been tempted.”
Seeing that Zhao Wudi seemed to be wavering, Xu Zheng went completely mad, “One hundred times! I’ll offer one hundred times the original price!”
“As long as you can help me ascend to the position of Xu family patriarch, one hundred times is fine!”
“The Xu family is immensely wealthy. Once I’m in power, I will certainly not mistreat you!”
“No one in this world other than me would be willing to pay you so much!”
“Captain Zhao! Captain Zhao! You must think clearly!”
Zhao Wudi laughed even harder, “Think clearly? I’ve always thought very clearly!”
“Your offer is indeed incredibly tempting…”
“It’s just a pity that the person on the other side has made an offer I absolutely cannot refuse!”
“Grizzly team, receive my order! Leave no one alive!”
“My order is to execute them all…”
“Remember the order of that esteemed person!”
Zhao Wudi said, patting his empty chest, and then pulled out a compressed magic energy gun, pressing it against Xu Zheng’s temple.
Seeing that Zhao Wudi was determined to kill him, Xu Zheng, consumed by fear and despair, finally cursed, “Bastard!”
“You traitor, and you beasts of Nightfall, even as a vengeful ghost, I, Xu Zheng, will not let you go!”
“Ahhhhhhhh!”
*Bang!*
As Zhao Wudi pulled the trigger, Xu Zheng’s skull, still cursing, was blown apart by the compressed magic energy gun, dying a thorough death.
And Xu Zheng’s nearly one hundred personal guards met an even more tragic fate, their lives ended while they were still in a dazed sleep.
Seeing that all the work was done, Zhao Wudi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He took out the trigger activator Lin Ran had given him earlier, which was connected to the Divine Might Space, and while doing so, he ordered his subordinates to bury the bodies with dirt.
“Let’s go! We’ll proceed along the edge of the City of Ruins now! Don’t rush in.”
“Wait until we detect the adult’s signal before entering the City of Ruins.”
…
Inside the arena.
Lin Ran was speeding towards the central area of the entire City of Ruins.
Zhao Wudi had already dealt with Xu Zheng. Now, there should be two more waves of enemies remaining.
They were Su Lie, the ancestor of the Su family, and the mysterious assassins from Nightfall.
According to Lin Ran’s deduction, this major disturbance in the competition was likely caused by one of them.
Or perhaps by even more mysterious forces.
After all, it was no easy feat to cause the entire Xiangchu competition network to be temporarily paralyzed and restrict the rescue of high-level experts within the fortress.
As for their motives, Lin Ran couldn’t quite figure them out yet.
Did they go to such lengths just to kill him? That seemed too exaggerated!
Lin Ran didn’t think he was worth that much.
Now that he didn’t know when the competition system would be restored, and whether those two waves of enemies had infiltrated, he decided to simply hide in the central area.
The guide mentioned that the final safe zone would be located there, so he could go in early and wait for them.
This way, even if the pursuers arrived, he could set up formations in advance and have the advantage of terrain.
If the competition restarted, he could also obtain the secret treasures in the central area to maintain his leading score and oversee the overall situation.
Additionally, Lin Ran could use the trigger device in the Divine Might Space to have Zhao Wudi and his team cut in from the outside at any time,
To coordinate with him from the inside.
Or to wait outside and hunt down escaping enemies.
No matter how he thought about it, this was a quite reliable and foolproof plan.
The only problem was that the real-time map was no longer usable, so Lin Ran had to rely on his instincts to navigate.
Fortunately, there was still a static map, and by gradually referencing it, identifying directions wasn’t particularly difficult.
However, before Lin Ran could go too far, a gust of wind suddenly swept past his ear.
So fast!
Lin Ran was startled by the surprise attack and instantly activated his intangibility.
Due to his intangibility, the attacker’s blow missed, passing straight through Lin Ran’s body.
Lin Ran snorted and turned to look at the approaching figure.
It was a slender man dressed in dark night clothes, with a dark cloak on his back and a large bamboo hat on his head.
He was not holding any weapons. The recent sneak attack seemed to have been a punch.
The man, due to the strange experience of passing through Lin Ran’s body, couldn’t help but exclaim.
Looking at Lin Ran’s heterochromatic eyes, he licked his lips.
“I like your eyes very much…”
Lin Ran smiled gently, “Then I’ll claim your life force for myself…”
The man burst into laughter, “You know who I am? How dare you speak such arrogant words?”
Lin Ran also smiled, the tomoe in his right Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan spinning rapidly, locking onto the man, “Does that matter? Just another soul under my blade!”
The man sighed and took out three paper talismans from his sleeve, “My name is Yaofeng, a special-grade executor of the Nightfall organization…”
“Our organization has issued a bounty on you.”
“Originally, someone of your level wouldn’t require my personal intervention.”
“However, after studying your profile, I became quite interested in your eyes, so I intercepted this mission…”
“Therefore, if you are willing to offer your eyes, I might consider letting you go.”
Lin Ran narrowed his eyes, “Coincidentally, I really didn’t want to bother with annoying little flies like you.”
“However, your blood makes my eyes very excited…”
“They are already impatient to use your life force to trigger an evolution!”