Chapter 35
◎ Number Five on the Ranking ◎
The man’s arm was burned to a stump. He lay on the ground unconsciously, his body still twitching from time to time, covered in burns of all sizes.
He was still wearing a black mask. Yu Chi couldn’t see if his eyes were closed. She returned to her human form and drew the Silver Moon Scimitar from her waist.
Worried that the man was feigning, she had the [Treant Guardian] walk in front. It wasn’t until the Silver Moon Scimitar was only an inch from the man’s heart that the other party still had no reaction.
Yu Chi calmly sent the Silver Moon Scimitar in and pulled it out.
【You have killed the player Ming Yehuo. The body will disappear in three minutes.】
[Ming Yehuo], the ninth player on the strength ranking. Yu Chi was currently ranked sixth.
For a moment, Yu Chi didn’t know what expression to make. She had had a brief contact with this player. When she was selling information about the natural disaster, the other party had specifically asked about Cold Moon Island.
Their communication had been friendly, and there was nothing that could be called rude.
But the other party wanted to kill him.
Oh, it was also possible that he wanted to kill the number one, number two on the ranking… but to kill those two with this level of strength, he was taking himself a little too seriously.
【A masterless boat has been detected nearby. Choose to fuse?】
Yu Chi’s eyelashes trembled slightly. No matter how the other party had gotten here, the moment he was killed, she would have the first right to dispose of his small boat.
If she chose not to, it would then ask the other players nearby.
From this point of view, killing players to expand one’s small boat was much easier than upgrading step by step.
Yu Chi chose to fuse and did not look at the body on the ground again. She was not even interested in what the man looked like.
Compared to the first time she had killed someone, her heart was calmer this time, as if it was expected.
Yu Chi summoned the cloud, flew up, and soon arrived at the other side of the battlefield.
Both men looked to be seriously injured. When Yu Chi arrived, she happened to see Zuo He move the suona away from his mouth.
Those calm and indifferent eyes swept over her, a picture of cold and otherworldly detachment… it was just that the suona in his hand had a huge presence.
Yu Chi: “…”
It really is you, big brother. My horizons have been broadened again—a cool guy playing the suona.
“Fuck, I can’t stand him anymore,” Li Feng flashed to Yu Chi’s side, blood still hanging from the corner of his mouth. “Can you make him shut up?”
He had no problem with the suona… well, maybe a little now, but who the hell could stand it?
Several times, several times he had been hit by this large snake because he was caught off guard by the sound of the suona.
Could he be a little more cautious before using this attack method that hurts the enemy a thousand and the ally eight hundred!
Zuo He’s eyes looked at the two of them indifferently. His eyes were a very light silver-gray. When they swept over without emotion, there was an inexplicable obscurity and danger.
A smile instantly appeared on Yu Chi’s face. She said to Li Feng with great righteousness, “We good babies don’t do that discrimination thing!”
Li Feng: “…”
Li Feng: “I’m fucked.”
Li Feng didn’t want to say another word and rushed straight towards the silver snake. His movements were clean and neat. The long spear drew a sharp arc in the air, like a swimming dragon, as if it could split the air.
Well… he is indeed the most handsome on the battlefield. Yu Chi looked at Zuo He with a subtle gaze. The number one on the ranking had already lost the qualification to compete.
Zuo He lowered his eyes without a word. His posture was upright, like an immortal in the chaotic battlefield… he put his mouth to the suona, his fingers dancing nimbly on the sound holes. Soon, a passionate and loud sound echoed throughout the snow mountain.
When Yu Chi heard it, she only felt a surge of heat. Her eyes lit up, and her heart was pounding with excitement. She wished she could pick up her Silver Moon Scimitar and rush into battle immediately…
Her head was suddenly hit. Yu Chi came back to her senses and saw Li Feng looking at her with drooping eyelids. “Wake up. Don’t be played like a dog.”
“…”
Zuo He is indeed dangerous. It was the first time Yu Chi had seen a mental attack. She subconsciously looked over. Zuo He had already finished playing a song and said calmly, “I’ll prepare earplugs for you guys in the future.”
Specially made earplugs were needed to prevent the sound of the suona from entering the ears. Otherwise, he would be the only one on the entire battlefield who would not be affected.
The effect of the suona was different for everyone. The only commonality was the loss of reason and the extreme fragility of the mind. He could even completely kill a person’s spirit just by playing the suona.
Yu Chi looked at the silver snake. It had clearly entered a brutal state and began to dance wildly in the snow mountain without any regard. There were no small humans in the large snake’s eyes. The whole world was its enemy.
Zuo He put away the suona. The familiar ice spikes appeared in his hand again. Yu Chi did not hesitate and directly transformed into a Cinnabar Finch—she knew that these two could sense the previous movement.
Li Feng: “You’re really a bird!”
Yu Chi: …I’m really worried Li Feng will ask if he can eat her.
Zuo He also looked over at Yu Chi, his eyes flashing.
—The large bird was covered in brilliant crimson feathers, like burning flames. Its body was well-proportioned and slender, its crimson wings broad and strong. Every time it flapped its wings, it seemed to be able to stir up a scorching whirlwind.
Zuo He also noticed a strange rune engraved on her forehead, which made her look more like a legendary divine bird.
In ancient mythology, the Cinnabar Finch was the embodiment of auspiciousness and would bring people harvests and hope.
However, the Cinnabar Finch that Yu Chi had transformed into did not care about harvests. She flapped her wings in the air. The strength of her Cinnabar Finch form was very strong. Although she could not exert more due to her own strength, it also reduced a lot of burden for Li Feng and Zuo He.
The large silver-white snake had thrown the entire area into chaos. Yu Chi spat several mouthfuls of fire in the air and circled around the large snake.
The cold wind howled. From a distance, this ice field seemed to have been forgotten by time, looking particularly quiet and harsh.
Only when the camera zoomed in could one momentarily sense the cruelty. The large snake was a unique species nurtured by the snow mountain. It was entrenched in the wind and snow. Even if it had lost its reason, it was not to be underestimated by humans.
Li Feng held the long spear tightly in his hand, his eyebrows raised, his dark eyes full of excitement. His clothes were soaked in blood, but his expression was still high-spirited, as if he could not feel the pain.
Yu Chi only felt that she had turned around in the air. When she looked back, she saw Li Feng being sent flying by a snake’s tail. At the same time, the large snake’s coiled body let out a hoarse roar and quickly moved towards Li Feng.
Her heart skipped a beat. She quickly dived down and pounced on its side. The sharp tips of her claws scraped against the large snake’s hard scales. A piercing sound of friction was heard. In the end, her claws were sharper, and blood spurted from the side of the large silver-white snake.
After a successful hit, Yu Chi quickly retreated. After repeating this twice, she successfully blocked the large snake in the middle.
Li Feng stared at this scene, clutching his stomach and leaning against the corner of the snow mountain, letting out a muffled laugh.
“Don’t play dead there,” Zuo He cast a cold glance at him.
Li Feng did not answer. He got up from the ground. His entire right arm had been broken by the snake’s tail just now. When he held the long spear, his muscles were trembling uncontrollably.
However, even so, when he raised the long spear and pointed the tip at the large snake’s head, the long spear still seemed to come alive, and there was no sense of stagnation when he brandished it.
Yu Chi was relieved when she saw this from above. They had no time to heal and had to keep their spirits tense at all times.
Compared to Li Feng, Zuo He’s fighting rhythm was calmer, just like the feeling he gave to others.
He used his ice-attribute skills to the extreme. The ice spikes in his hand converged into a blade in his palm, piercing into the large snake’s scales. The next second, they turned into countless tiny ice needles, piercing towards the large snake’s eyes and various soft parts.
The large snake was driven mad by the piercing. Its speed suddenly exploded and became extremely fast. It bit Zuo He without any regard. He hastily dodged the fatal injury, but a deep bite mark was left on his shoulder. However, the large snake opened its gaping maw again…
Yu Chi gasped. The body of the Cinnabar Finch fell from the air and turned into a human form. She controlled the cloud and quickly moved Zuo He out of the large snake’s attack range.
The two of them dodged the bite, but were hit by the large snake’s tail at the same time. Yu Chi’s head went blank from the pain, but in her urgency, she first checked her own HP… then she put Zuo He in front of her and used her own back to hit the iceberg.
The piercing pain had already crawled all over her body before she could react. Yu Chi felt as if her internal organs had been knocked out, and her eyes were seeing stars.
Zuo He’s thin lips were pursed tightly. After realizing something, he tried to stand up without any regard.
Yu Chi: “Don’t move.”
Even her lips were trembling. She had never suffered such terrible pain in her life. Li Feng was still holding on for them not far away. Yu Chi applied a lot of bandages to herself and Zuo He, barely pulling their HP back.
However, the physical pain and wounds could not disappear in an instant and could only be endured.
Zuo He frowned and placed her by the iceberg, his eyes extremely cold. “Stay here and don’t move.”
Yu Chi’s face was pale. She handed him the bandages and signaled him to pay attention to his and Li Feng’s HP.
Under the continuous attacks, the battle finally came to an end. The large silver-white snake began to roar, and the fatal wounds on its body gradually worsened. Its huge body also became weaker and weaker.
After a while, Yu Chi still got up from the ground, transformed back into a Cinnabar Finch, and cooperated with the other two. She also secretly pulled out the iceberg snow lotus.
Zuo He didn’t say anything when he saw her enter the battle, but when Yu Chi was attacked, the ice spikes would inexplicably turn into a shield to block her.
Yu Chi’s reaction was not as fast as his, and she never had time to take out her own shield.
As time went on, the three of them cooperated more and more tacitly. Yu Chi almost thought that she had changed from a life-skill player to a combat player.
It was not until the large snake’s huge body fell with a crash that she landed on the ground again and returned to her human form.
Yu Chi checked the wounds on her body. They were of all sizes and very scary, but compared to the other two, they were not serious.
“Your skill is really amazing.”
Li Feng lay on the ground, baring his teeth. He looked up and smiled brightly at her. His arm was hanging at a strange angle, and there was not a single good piece of flesh on his body.
Zuo He next to him was not much better. His clothes were tattered and hung on his body, and his eyes were lifeless, as if he had been completely drained.
Both of them were in such a fragile state. Yu Chi felt that if someone were to launch a sneak attack at this time, these two would still have the strength to fight.
Yu Chi felt that combat players were really terrifying.
“You…” Zuo He suddenly said.
Yu Chi was stunned for two seconds, thinking that he was going to mention her saving him just now, so she leaned closer—
“…Can you transform again for me to see?”
Zuo He’s face was pale, his tone weak, as if he was about to die in the next second, and this was his dying wish.
Yu Chi: “?”
She looked down at him and only saw a hidden expectation on the man’s face.
“Puhahahahahaha.”
Li Feng on the side laughed very happily, but he accidentally pulled on his wound and coughed up another mouthful of blood, which spurted out.
Yu Chi: “…”
After slowly pulling the two of them back to full health, there was only half an hour left before they left the island.
Although the wounds could not be healed, no matter how painful it was, as long as the HP did not drop to zero, you would not die.
Yu Chi took out the Moonlight Grass from her space and crushed it. This herb was only of the excellent grade, but it could accelerate the healing of wounds.
The two big men lay on the ground like dead people, motionless, but their mouths did not stop.
Li Feng said he was very hungry now and asked Yu Chi to get him some food. The wounds were not important.
Zuo He chattered on about his love for all kinds of birds, and then begged her to take another look with a perverted tone.
The two previous war gods seemed to be an illusion.
Yu Chi applied the crushed Moonlight Grass to the two wounded people with a blank expression. Li Feng cried out in pain again and again, and then said that he had to eat five demonic beasts to make up for it.
Zuo He endured it with a pale face, but the way he looked at her was as if she were a scumbag who had abandoned his wife and children.
Yu Chi ignored the two men’s performance, casually applied the herbs to their wounds, and then slowly applied the herbs to her own wounds.
After finishing her serious business, she took out a large black pot, and then, in Li Feng’s expectant eyes, threw in ten grains of rice.
It was relatively simple to steam the rice quickly, but it was not so easy to roast the meat in such a short time.
“What is this?” Li Feng struggled to sit up, craning his neck to look into the pot.
Yu Chi: “Rice.”
The two of them had not had rice for a long time, and they had never seen such large rice before. For a moment, they did not clamor for meat or to see birds, but all looked at the large pot with expectant eyes.
After hours of fighting, everyone was starving.
Yu Chi felt very sorry for the number one and number two on the ranking who had never seen the world. After the rice was cooked, she gave each of them four grains and only took two for herself.
It wasn’t because she couldn’t eat.
Li Feng’s right hand had been broken by the large snake’s tail, but his left hand was not much better. He tremblingly raised both hands together, and Yu Chi carefully placed the rice in his hands.
Li Feng held the white rice, took a bite, and instantly looked up excitedly, his eyes shining with a green light.
He had been a little hesitant at first, thinking that it would definitely not be as delicious as meat, but now he was holding the rice and burying his head in it, and for a moment, only the back of his head with its close-cropped hair could be seen.
Zuo He ate more elegantly, but his speed was not slow at all. The rice disappeared into his mouth at a rapid speed.
Yu Chi poured a cup of water for the two of them and found that there were only ten minutes left.
“…Do you know who that person came to assassinate?” Yu Chi chatted casually.
The number nine on the ranking had attacked her as soon as they met, but this did not prove that the other party had come specifically to assassinate her.
“The number one on the ranking, I guess,” Li Feng swallowed a mouthful of rice. “He’s more hated.”
Zuo He ignored this. He looked at Yu Chi calmly. “It should be specifically for you.”
Yu Chi’s heart skipped a beat. This was consistent with her speculation.
Zuo He and Li Feng were the number one and number two on the ranking. The people who came to assassinate them were usually just probing. But now that the number nine on the ranking had come, it must be for a one-hit kill, so the possibility of him killing her was greater.
Yu Chi pursed her lips, a little anxious. Even if the assassin’s strength was not as good as hers, she did not like the feeling of having her life targeted.
“Who the hell is selling teleportation items in private?” Yu Chi always felt that there was something fishy about this.
If this person who was selling teleportation items was a normal transaction, why was the person who had come to assassinate him for the first time so weak? He didn’t look like a player who could afford a teleportation item.
And the others… Yu Chi couldn’t think of anyone she had a grudge with. Although the number one on the wealth ranking was a target for everyone, she was also famous on the strength ranking.
Compared to her, the number two on the ranking was obviously much easier to bully.
She had previously speculated that someone had specially bought a teleportation item to have someone else assassinate her, but the people with this kind of financial resources were usually on the ranking, and now the number nine on the ranking himself had come out…
But then again, there was also unprovoked malice in this world.
“That,” Li Feng said as if he had known all along, struggling to lower his head and take a sip of water. “Isn’t it that number three on the ranking? I bought it from him.”
Number three on the ranking? Yu Chi was stunned. She opened the rankings and found that the name on it was [TroubledTimes].
Li Feng suddenly remembered something and added, “No, he seems to have dropped two places now. He’s number five on the ranking.”
Yu Chi’s eyelashes trembled. She saw that the fifth on the ranking was clearly written—[SurfingTheSea].
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【Author’s Note】
Why do I feel so good writing battle scenes? [Sunglasses]
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