Chapter 1677 - 424: Sorry, You’ll Be Disappointed

Chapter 1677: Chapter 424: Sorry, You’ll Be Disappointed

Ranked first is the Horror Black Tide, and ranked third is what’s called: the Player Clan.

The related description is exactly the same as this bunch in front of him.

The database contains a whole series of notes on this race: unreasonable, behavior impossible to predict, possessing all kinds of bizarre abilities, and most importantly... extremely dangerous.

How could they appear here?!

It’s over.

This thought tolled like a death bell, roaring in his head.

Almost at the very instant he realized something was wrong, that dense army of players below moved.

Like a tide they surged in from all sides, in a flash surrounding the Bengshan Team that had just landed.

But what made Chong Yue’s eyes almost split was that these players seemed to ignore the Life Soul Squad right at arm’s length.

Right at this moment, Qi-Blood roared and exploded from the side.

A figure shot in like a cannonball, its Speed pushed to the extreme.

Roar!

Facing danger, Chong Yue swung his Battle Axe, pouring all his Strength into a chop at the onrushing figure.

Clang!

The blast of clashing metal rang out, deafening.

The figure neither dodged nor avoided, a fist blasted out, the fist edge wrapped in crimson gale-force wind, overtaking the axe to smash heavily onto the blade.

Crack!

Chong Yue was stunned to find that his Epic Quality giant axe that had made his name actually shattered inch by inch like glass.

The terrifying force of the punch passed through the broken axe body, numbing his arms, roiling his Qi-Blood; he couldn’t help but open his mouth and cough blood as his body flew backward.

Shattering a Divine Weapon bare-handed?!

Chong Yue’s heart instantly sank to the bottom; bone-deep chill shot from his soles straight to the top of his skull.

He and his squad members, before these incomprehensible Player Clan beings, were simply lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

Defeat and death were already inevitable.

He had thought that hunting down the Life Soul Squad and seizing third place in the rankings would be the glorious starting point for the Bengshan Team’s climb to the Peak.

For this, he’d spent a fortune to exchange for a Tracking Order, and started half a year in advance snapping up the limited-release Space Items.

Careful preparation, certain victory.

Yet he’d never imagined that a hunt that looked like a sure thing would turn into a dead-end road leading straight to Hell.

They had run into the Player Clan.

In this moment, Chong Yue suddenly realized.

In the face of luck, all meticulous planning looks pale and ridiculous.

He had calculated everything, yet missed the one thing: that he would encounter the Player Clan during the pursuit.

Thinking it through, it made sense. The Life Soul Squad was doing Space Jumps across Monster World; hunting them down meant taking huge risks too.

The next stop could very well be a dead end.

But regretting it now was already too late.

The teammates beside him were falling like weeds, completely unable to resist the Player Clan.

Despair and madness devoured Chong Yue’s reason in an instant.

He snapped his head up, bloodshot eyes locking tightly onto Yang Xiu not far away.

"If I die... you die with me!"

He let out a hysterical Roar, pulling out the life-betting "Jile Burning Rune." Instantly a surge of Frenzy Energy gathered in his palm, forming a huge purple hand that tore the air apart, lunging for Yang Xiu.

He was going to drag this culprit down into Hell with him.

It came too suddenly.

Yang Xiu had never expected Chong Yue to be hiding a top-tier item that required 380,000 Jile Points to exchange.

By the time he tried to react, the purple Energy giant hand was already right in front of him.

"Boss!" The cries of Black Snake and the other teammates were drowned out by the howling Energy.

They threw everything they had into trying to stop it, but it was already too late.

Yang Xiu was grabbed hard around the waist and abdomen by the purple giant hand; the terrifying Strength instantly Bound his movements.

In the next moment, the giant hand snapped back, yanking Yang Xiu straight out of the Life Soul Squad’s formation, dragging him toward Chong Yue’s position.

Poof!

Yang Xiu spat out a mouthful of fresh blood; Chong Yue’s life-betting strike had injured him badly.

In the blink of an eye, he was hauled right in front of Chong Yue, the two of them together falling into the very center of the player army’s encirclement.

"Hahaha... cough cough."

Chong Yue looked at Yang Xiu, whom he’d dragged into the water with him, and let out crazed laughter; blood kept spilling from his mouth, his Life aura like a candle flickering in the wind, but the resentment and savage satisfaction in his eyes were crystal clear.

Being able to pull this culprit who caused the Bengshan Team’s annihilation along for the ride, that was at least not a loss.

But what confused him was that Yang Xiu, who had been slammed down at his side, now got up, wiping the red from the corner of his mouth.

His expression was calm, with not the slightest fear you’d expect from someone facing death.

Chong Yue even saw a relaxed smile on his face.

Then Yang Xiu just looked at the frenzied Chong Yue with that same calm, even a hint of pity in his eyes.

"What are you laughing at?!" Chong Yue was stabbed by that abnormal smile and screamed hoarsely.

Yang Xiu didn’t answer directly; his gaze slipped past Chong Yue, sweeping over the Player Clan members who were still slaughtering the Bengshan Squad members.

Finally, his sight returned to Chong Yue’s face, twisted by madness, and he said flatly:

"I’m laughing because... all that effort of yours is just useless. You’re going to die, but I’m not."

"What do you mean?"

"You really haven’t noticed?"

He jerked his head around, looking at the Player Clan members surrounding them on all sides, who, bizarrely, were completely ignoring Yang Xiu.

Right then, a figure appeared beside Yang Xiu and slapped a hand down hard on Yang Xiu’s shoulder.

"Yang, you’re in a sorry state, getting chased and hacked all the way to the Frosty Winter Snowfield. This what you called your big money-making plan?"

Yang Xiu bared his teeth from the slap and irritably shook off the man’s hand:

"Get lost. I’m deep behind enemy lines gathering intel, you don’t know shit."

"Yeah right. If you were really doing great you’d have begged the boss for backup. If our sub-squad hadn’t come lie in ambush here, we’d all be celebrating in Imperial Tomb Village tonight."

Their casual conversation was like a Heavy Hammer, slamming hard into Chong Yue’s heart.

He stared fixedly at the Player Clan member who had suddenly appeared, then at Yang Xiu’s composed face; the crazed look on his own features was gradually replaced by a swelling sense of absurdity.

They seemed to have known each other for a long time?

"Impossible!" Chong Yue screamed, the Rune’s backlash making blood spill from his nose and mouth, yet still not matching the storm raging inside him.

Hearing his cry, Yang Xiu slowly turned around, a brilliant smile blooming on his face:

"I told you, you’re going to be disappointed... I’m not dying."