Pfft!
Before Jemmas could even grasp what Bai Ye meant, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his abdomen. He looked down to see Bai Ye's broadsword piercing through his body.
"You..."
Jemmas opened his mouth, but no words came out. The blood gushing out blocked his subsequent utterance.
"It seems you, like them, didn't understand my meaning. These are two separate matters," Bai Ye said with a smile. "I truly had no intention of saving you."
The moment he finished speaking, Bai Ye yanked his broadsword out, a spray of blood following.
Jemmas's eyes grew vacant. His body swayed, and he finally collapsed onto the ground, blood flowing from beneath him, forming a pool.
"You have killed a participant (Fantasy World)."
"As this is your first elimination of a Fantasy World participant, you have been rewarded with: Fairy Horn x1."
"You have obtained a fragment of a God Stone."
"You have received an entry pass to the City of Sin (Gotham) (Item) x1."
Bai Ye couldn't understand why those three people thought he was killing them to save Jemmas, nor why Jemmas believed his killing was to save him.
He was merely killing people on the side, hoping to get a God Stone fragment.
Or perhaps...
Bai Ye touched his face.
Did he look like a kind person?
Bai Ye shrugged and looked at the screen.
Four kills, 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. One side had several large characters: "Welcome to the City of Sin (Gotham)."
City of Sin (Gotham) Entry Pass: An entry pass to the City of Sin, Gotham. When the number of participants reaches three hundred, entry pass teleportation can be initiated. If the holder of this item dies, it will automatically transfer to the hunter. Current number: 172/300.
"An entry item for a hidden forbidden zone?" Bai Ye's lips curled into a smile. "An unexpected bonus."
Obtaining an entry pass to a hidden forbidden zone was undoubtedly cause for celebration. One only needed to consider how much Bai Ye and Jin Sha had acquired in the chaotic forbidden zone city.
If they hadn't split their loot, at the base price of fifty million for black-grade items, one hundred million could have bought 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 example, he had never been to the Jura Great Forest.
As for hidden forbidden zones entered via items, it was even less likely he would have acquired entry items for all of them.
But, the City of Sin...
It happened to be a hidden forbidden zone Bai Ye had visited.
After putting away the City of Sin (Gotham) Entry Pass, Bai Ye glanced again at the reward for the first kill of a Chosen One in the Fantasy World.
Fairy Horn (Item) (Green): Allows the random summoning of 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. However, the first kill reward only provided a fragment, and it came with castration...
Bai Ye decided to pretend he had never killed anyone from the Wuxia world!
While green or blue-grade first kill rewards were incredibly valuable when one first entered the World Battlefield, instantly boosting combat power and increasing survival chances, their value now was somewhat diminished.
Casually stowing his items, Bai Ye waved to Gengar and continued deeper into the forest.
As Bai Ye's figure slowly disappeared, a person leaped down from a large tree behind him. It was Li Jia Yi.
"Tsk tsk..." Li Jia Yi approached Jemmas, pinched his chin, and examined him. "I really didn't want to save an idiot like you. It's a complete waste of my items."
Li Jia Yi grumbled, but still produced a palm-sized straw doll with a yellow talisman attached. The talisman bore Jemmas's name.
As Li Jia Yi tore off the talisman...
"Urgh!"
Jemmas suddenly groaned. The wound on his abdomen, pierced by Bai Ye, began to heal at a visible rate, and his pale complexion gradually regained its color.
"Damn it!" Jemmas's eyes snapped open, and he cursed. "That bastard actually went through with it, didn't give me any chance at all!"
Li Jia Yi 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? He doesn't have friends, and you certainly didn't have any prior relationship!"
Jemmas gritted his teeth. "I often talked with him in the Demon Kingdom. Even if not friends, at least we had a good relationship, right?"
"To him, there are only two kinds of people on the World Battlefield: those with benefits, with whom he can cooperate, and those without, whom he can kill. Hey, what is 'good relationship'?" Li Jia Yi said contemptuously, glancing 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 try to shoot him on the battlefield before? Did you succeed? You are no match for him!" Li Jia Yi said. "I didn't stop you because I knew any words would be less convincing than failing once. Don't provoke him anymore. It's best if we never meet again and don't interfere with each other. If, by some chance, we encounter him again, then we'll figure out how to kill him then."
After speaking, Li Jia Yi turned and walked into the forest, heading in the opposite direction of Bai Ye.
Jemmas clenched his fist and punched the ground in frustration. He then got up and followed Li Jia Yi. "Since you understand him so well, it means you've seen through him. Don't you know how to deal with him? You know, Krument didn't die by the Pig-head Emperor's hand, but by his, which means our mission is only half complete. It will be harder to find the Demon King this way. And, including this time, he has disrupted things three times already. Aren't you angry?"
"I am angry, of course, but anger isn't a reason for me to lose my mind."
Li Jia Yi glanced at Jemmas, his gaze suddenly turning cold.
In that instant, Jemmas felt an intense pressure. Li Jia Yi's gaze filled him with dread.
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 Jia Yi sneered inwardly and slowly shifted his gaze away from Jemmas's face.
"Let's put this matter to rest. Don't dwell on it anymore," Li Jia Yi said as he walked forward. "The City of Sin (Gotham) Entry Pass you had should have been transferred to him, right?"
Jemmas looked down guiltily. "Yes, I forgot about that. I should have given it to you earlier."
"Never mind," Li Jia Yi took out another City of Sin (Gotham) Entry Pass and handed it to Jemmas. "Find someone to trade it with."
"Huh?" Jemmas asked. "Aren't we going?"
Li Jia Yi replied, "I said, it's best if we never meet again. He'll definitely go since he has the entry pass, so we won't."
Jemmas remained unconvinced. "Is there really a need to avoid him like this?"
Li Jia Yi's expression gradually became impatient. He looked at Jemmas and said, "Clarify this. Who is in charge now? Have I been too polite to you usually?"
"Sorry!"
Jemmas quickly apologized, but his right hand, clutching the entry pass, involuntarily clenched into a fist.
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