Chapter 1

The two squads of the Mu Yun Mercenary Group plunged into the mountain forest, heading straight for the summit.

With the dense foliage, it wasn't easy to spot someone hiding in the trees with the naked eye. But Yun Zhong Mudi had already confirmed the location of their hiding spot, so he naturally wouldn't give up easily. Several archers and mages had already begun climbing the trees.

Han Jia Gongzi remained calm and collected, paying little attention to his surroundings. He continued to focus on Gu Fei's situation, as he weaved through the six squads. After a series of instructions, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"The position you're currently in is in the blind spot of that small hill, plus remember these other places," Han Jia Gongzi quickly rattled off several coordinates.

"Move according to the order of these coordinates for a while, it will help you hold out longer, but after that, you'll have to rely on yourself," Han Jia Gongzi said. "Also... 11 minutes, hold on."

"What's going on?" Gu Fei sensed that something was wrong. Han Jia Gongzi's words sounded like he was saying his last words.

"I've been discovered, but even if I die, we're still leading 6 to 5. You absolutely cannot die, survive these 11 minutes!" Han Jia Gongzi said quickly to Gu Fei. Out of the corner of his eye, he already spotted two archers climbing to the top of the tree, looking around.

"There!" Soon, an archer pointed to Han Jia Gongzi's location.

"Run, keep running, use your speed, and definitely don't engage them," Han Jia Gongzi said his last words. Fireballs and arrows rained down on him. Although Han Jia Gongzi's priest skills were excellent, his stat allocation was unorthodox. He wasn't a popular constitution-based priest, and his health was limited. Under the combined attack of several people, he only lasted two rounds with his healing spells before turning into white light.

The score was changed again, 6 to 5. Victory or defeat rested on the final point. As long as they grabbed this point, the Mu Yun Mercenary Group wouldn't care how great the sacrifice was. The Gongzi Elite Team was only missing one person, and it would be a total annihilation.

Yun Zhong Mudi breathed a sigh of relief. No wonder the previous encirclement operation hadn't gone smoothly. He had thought it was because his command was too vague, making precise encirclement impossible. He should have realized that the other side also had someone secretly directing them. Yun Zhong Mudi felt a bit annoyed, but fortunately, there were still ten minutes left, and the opponent only had one person left. Now, he'd like to see where he could escape.

In the distance, Gu Fei had just crossed a small hill. Yun Zhong Mudi couldn't see him at this moment, but he still knew the general direction, and quickly guided the squad to move in that direction.

"Fourth and fifth squads, go around the left side of the hillside. First and second squads, go around the right side of the hillside. Sixth and eighth squads, go straight and cross the hillside. Third and seventh squads, exit the forest and move towards four o'clock," Yun Zhong Mudi issued the instructions, thinking that there should be no more problems this time. He was feeling good, when suddenly, he saw that the black figure had clearly crossed the hillside, but then suddenly flipped back to the top of the small hill.

"The opponent is on the hilltop! Surround the hill!" Yun Zhong Mudi quickly ordered.

"Understood," the members responded. Gu Fei, standing on the top of the small hill, could be seen by more than just Yun Zhong Mudi alone. Everyone spread out in a scattered formation, advancing towards the hilltop in an encirclement.

"Listen to Gongzi's commands..." The message that Jian Gui left after saving him still echoed in Gu Fei's ears.

"Since that's the case..." Gu Fei squeezed the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword in his hand. He needed to remind himself that at this moment, it wasn't a sharp weapon for cutting people, but a booster providing 20 points of agility to enhance his escape.

Waving goodbye to the people below the mountain, Gu Fei turned around and retreated to the other side of the hillside, striding away at a frantic pace. In the mercenary channel, the coordinates listed by Han Jia Gongzi were clearly displayed.

"The first one..." Gu Fei ran towards the target. Although the Mu Yun Mercenary Group was already closing in from both sides, it was ultimately a step too slow. The four fastest archers realized that it was too late to stop Gu Fei, and quickly nocked their arrows and fired at Gu Fei.

Four tracking arrows chased after Gu Fei. Gu Fei held the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword in one hand, and pulled out the Baptism of Fire in the other, watching the distance of the tracking arrows, and when the time was right, he suddenly stopped and turned around, knocking down all four arrows with a few swipes.

This harassment did affect Gu Fei's speed, and the opponents took the opportunity to close the distance. It was a pity that all skills had cooldown times, and the four couldn't release tracking arrows for the time being. Gu Fei didn't block skills like Snipe at all, dodging them with a few changes in direction.

The four were greatly remorseful. They should have known not to release tracking arrows together. If they had cycled through them to interfere with Gu Fei's progress, they could have definitely caught up with him in the end. But who could have expected that there was such an abnormal existence who could knock down four tracking arrows at once? At the moment when the four released their arrows, they all thought Gu Fei was a dead man.

It was too late to regret it now. Gu Fei had already left them far behind. Professions like warriors and priests had no belief in chasing at all, he was going too fast.

Gu Fei, breaking out of the encirclement, left all his opponents behind. In this way, with his speed, it was impossible to form an encirclement around him. Yun Zhong Mudi, who was far away, noticed that Gu Fei suddenly circled out from behind the hillside, and that all of his members were following behind him. He immediately realized that something was wrong.

To surround such a speedster, it was necessary to cast a wide net, squeeze his space, and then gradually shrink it. Like the encirclement operation on the small hill just now, once he broke out, it would be like a fish returning to the sea or a bird escaping its cage. Wanting to circle him up again... Ten minutes, was that enough? No, now there were only nine minutes left.

Yun Zhong Mudi's forehead began to sweat. This time, he didn't dare to redeploy his subordinates casually. While estimating Gu Fei's direction of movement, he quickly regrouped the mercenary members according to their speed. The slower ones squeezed forward, cutting off Gu Fei's retreat, and the faster ones went around the flanks, trying to get ahead. In short, they wanted to wrap Gu Fei in this big pocket.

Who knew that Gu Fei, after rushing out for a while, suddenly changed direction again. At this time, the two wings of the pocket hadn't yet formed, and this change of direction immediately disrupted Yun Zhong Mudi's original deployment.

"How is this possible! Is there someone secretly directing him?" Yun Zhong Mudi was greatly shocked. But the score counted by the system was undeniable. The opponent really only had this one person left.

Yun Zhong Mudi was busy reorganizing the formation, but just as things were starting to improve slightly, Gu Fei suddenly changed direction again.

Yun Zhong Mudi was completely speechless. He was clearly the one trying to cast a net, but at this moment, he had a feeling that an even bigger net had already circled him inside, and if he wanted to implement his tactics, he had to break through this net.

It wasn't impossible to break through this net, but there wasn't enough time at this moment. There were only six minutes left until the end of this match.

The entire mercenary group was in a panic. At first, no one had taken the six-person mercenary group seriously. Everyone thought it would be like the first round yesterday, coming in for a tour, getting a "perfect" score, and then leaving. Who would have thought that they would be reduced to such a sad situation? If the other side just held on for another six minutes, they would win.

No, it was five minutes.

Gu Fei ran while paying attention to his surroundings. Occasionally, he could see a few heads. On a small hill in the distance, someone was still standing there, presumably that warrior. Gu Fei restrained the urge to rush over and fight him, and continued to move unswervingly according to the coordinates given by Han Jia Gongzi.

Although he was a little confused and unhappy about Han Jia Gongzi's methods. But, for the sake of Jian Gui's words, he would restrain his desires!

Time passed by, minute by minute. When there were two minutes left in the match, Gu Fei finished running through the coordinates left by Han Jia Gongzi. At this moment, he was on another small hill, and Yun Zhong Mudi's people were rushing towards this direction in a chaotic manner.

Gu Fei was a little nervous at this moment... There were only two minutes left, he couldn't be reckless again. If he rushed out and encountered the same situation as before and sacrificed himself, it would be too disrespectful to the audience. If it was just him alone, he would have killed to his heart's content, regardless of the outcome. But at this moment, the victory or defeat of the mercenary group was actually all on his shoulders... Damn, could it be that I was also schemed against by Gongzi? Gu Fei thought to himself, turning around and running in a direction where there was no one in his line of sight.

One minute... Thirty seconds... Ten seconds...

Yun Zhong Mudi finally slumped to the ground in despair. They lost... But this loss was really frustrating! All the members of Yun Zhong Mudi were teleported out of the battlefield amidst roaring. The result of the second round of the match was that the Gongzi Elite Team eliminated Yun Zhong Mudi with a score of 6 to 5.

"Damn, where are all the shrinking turtles of the Gongzi Elite Team?"

Outside the mercenary guild's teleportation array, the members of Yun Zhong Mudi gathered together and collectively cursed.

As soon as Gu Fei came out of the teleportation array, he was dragged aside by Jian Gui. The six members of the Gongzi Elite Team were huddled in a corner to the side. Listening to the bursts of curses over there, their faces were unsightly, especially Yu Tian Shen Ming.

Han Jia Gongzi listened for a while, then shook his head and said, "This operation was still not perfect. We should have covered our faces."

"..."

"Damn it, this counts as winning!!?" Yu Tian Shen Ming finally couldn't hold back. He erupted.

"With your command, coupled with Qian Li, we were fully capable of annihilating them all. Why did we have to do this!" Yu Tian Shen Ming questioned Han Jia Gongzi.

They won, but they didn't win beautifully, and they couldn't convince others. The endless cursing from the Mu Yun guild was the best proof.

Han Jia Gongzi sneered and said unhurriedly, "What we want to win is the entire competition, and that depends on a strategy that affects the overall situation, not just winning a single match."

Yu Tian Shen Ming was stunned, "What strategy?"

"You'll know soon enough," Han Jia Gongzi said.

"What's the point of running around like this to delay time? There's no challenge at all!" Yu Tian Shen Ming said.

"Challenge? Why don't you go eat ice cream in a blizzard while pissing into the wind? That's very challenging," Han Jia Gongzi said.

"What's the point of that!" Yu Tian Shen Ming shouted.

"Which would you choose, a meaningful result or a meaningless challenge?" Han Jia Gongzi asked.

"Some challenges themselves are very meaningful to me..." Gu Fei suddenly said coldly.

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