Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 865 - 864: Fairness (4K)

"So these are the Otherworldly Monks..."

Li Ang looked at Dann Chenzi and the others in front of him, rubbed his dragon-shaped chin, and pondered, "They seem quite normal, no extra appendages on their bodies."

"Don't underestimate them."

Tai Hao said gravely, "Their power system is quite complete, forming their own school.

The leaders among them have at least the top seven personal combat strength on Earth.

The Qing Qiuhu, even comparable to Cold Waterstone and Hoenhem..."

"That strong?"

Li Ang raised a brow, no wonder even players at the level of Life-Killing Hospital and Breeding Homomorph retreated.

He pondered for a moment, stepped forward, and said loudly in perfect Chinese to the sullen-faced Dann Chenzi and others, "I don't quite agree with your point because while I was on the plane to Mars from the United States, you were fighting kangaroos underwater in Uruguay, while aliens wore purple hats, do you think I'm weak? You definitely do, the mackerel's phone calculus turned into yogurt, yes, I have a daughter."

???

Was that incoherent rambling, babbling nonsense?

Zhan Lu, Nebula, and others beside Li Ang looked bewildered, wondering if the dragon-headed white lab coat had suddenly gone mad, or perhaps fell under some control skill,

they instinctively took a half-step back, retrieving skill scrolls or purification potions from their inventory, preparing to remove any control effect on Li Ang.

"He's testing."

Wu Dai's eyes flashed with insight, guessing Li Ang's intention, immediately explained, "Through rambling, he's observing the expressions on the other side's faces, to guess whether they have the [All Language Mastery] skill, and the level of that skill."

In most storyline missions, the system in Kill Field games would provide players with passive assistance, allowing them to listen, speak, read otherworldly languages, and communicate normally with the storyline world's natives.

However, this passive assistance is not stable, in some storyline missions, the system would deliberately remove it, increasing difficulty.

Therefore, if conditions allow, many players would want to buy language-type skill scrolls on the market—there are many types of language skills, the lower ones only allow listening and reading, the higher ones can integrate thoughts into language, or quickly learn a language after hearing it once.

Some advanced language skills even allow communication with animals—like a skill named [Druidic Expert Examination], which lets the user freely communicate with animals, magical beasts, and demons, and gain innate favorability bonuses, considered a god-tier skill in charm pet genres,

The [Beast of Thousand Throats] guild leader, Parasitic Mistletoe, standing here earlier, possessed that skill.

Li Ang had always wanted to buy one, but couldn't acquire it, though that didn't affect his way to test the opponent's abilities.

"..."

Dann Chenzi, the scholar, and the monk exchanged glances, stepped forward, and responded, "There's no room for negotiation on this matter."

Did they really understand?

Tai Hao twitched at the corner of his eye, couldn't help but ask Li Ang, "It seems the opponent's language skills translate meaning directly from words....

By the way, what did you say just now?"

"I said we've captured a dozen of the other side's Otherworldly Monks, hoping to exchange prisoners with them."

Li Ang said casually, "One-for-one, you won't suffer, you won't be deceived."

Tai Hao asked in surprise, "You have prisoners?"

"Yes, but not here."

Li Ang said meaningfully, exchanging a glance with Liu Wu Dai and others.

When they drove down earlier, they first contacted the scout units of the insect nest, learning about the situation of the otherworldly players,

Then they encountered the Demon Scientist Alliance's vice president, Tian Jinghutu, who informed them about Tai Hao and others being trapped,

Taking a shortcut, they rushed here at high speed.

The insect nest still coming below indeed captured thirteen otherworldly players and is interrogating them—Otherworldly Monks generally deploy brain protection spells, capable of resisting illusion techniques and cognitive bias curses,

However, the insect nest can directly inject various drugs into their brains, transmit neural signals, and, through gradual attempts, extract some information.

"They don't even care about the lives of their own..."

Li Ang turned to look at Dann Chenzi and asked loudly, "Around the eleventh hour of our entering the Lost World, you appeared and began hunting and kidnapping Earth players.

Your hunt was premeditated, whether it was special ropes capable of sealing abilities, or tokens that could quickly summon other members, all restrained the intelligence-lacking, unaware Earth's players thinking the Lost World was an internal competition dark forest.

With premeditation against no forethought, plus overall strength a tier higher, you gained the advantage, so what is the purpose of all this?"

Li Ang paused, then slowly said, "Through information gathering, we know the players killed were all strong-willed and resistant,

while those captured were generally weaker players.

Clearly, this doesn't align with the speculation 'you captured players for sacrifice or body snatching.'

Capturing so many players without using them to threaten remaining Earth's players to quit, nor agreeing to return our hostages,

proves that those captives must play some very critical role for you."

Li Ang squinted his eyes, changing his tone with a faint smile, "Considering that the floor collapse accelerated shortly after your arrival,

we can hypothesize that you used some means to cause the upper collapse to happen earlier.

This was to compress our activity space, making it easier for you to hunt."

Tai Hao felt a stir at these words. Previously, Geleluo Star escaped, letting him know there were Otherworldly Players on the tenth floor of the Lost World, and shared footage of the Otherworldly Monks taken by Whale Song and the others using miniature surveillance cameras with Tai Hao.

(Geleluo Star himself used special skills to evade the pursuit of the demon general Evil Hornless Dragon, causing continuous consumption of his stamina and spiritual power, and withdrew from the competition shortly after Tai Hao found Amber and others)

Tai Hao then passed the information to Tian Jinghutu, thinking Li Rising also learned about Dann Chenzi and others' arrival from Tian Jinghutu.

Actually, Li Ang first got the information from interrogating Otherworldly Monks captured by the insect nest, but in Tai Hao and others' eyes, the players' gathered intelligence was finally summarized.

"All of this should be for the portals perhaps."

Li Ang said blandly, "The hunting operation was to reduce numbers,

Kidnapping Earth players was to control quota, to get the final fifty places, or even the top twenty rewards.

Thinking about it that way, there are two possibilities.

First, in the portal competition between Earth and Otherworldly Players, the final reward is calculated jointly. Twenty portals competed between players of the two worlds, hence selecting the weak."

Second, the portal rewards are calculated separately, you kidnapped Earth players to get more portals beyond your allotted quota."

Bai Haozheng brightened up, whispered, "The second possibility is higher."

"Hmm?"

Arlina, releasing dispel skills to free Amber from control, instinctively looked up and asked, "Why do you say that?"

"Because Michael, out of control, Special Affairs Bureau Zhongli Mieming, Bell Tower's Selcius, Tribunal Uriel, Witch Alliance Diræ, Demon Scientist Alliance Death Soul and others, all still alive."

Bai Haozheng explained, "These seven are all first-tier players, according to Tian Jinghutu, they are sealed in stasis below.

If it were a joint calculation of final rewards, requiring players from Earth and the Otherworldly to compete, there would be no need to leave Michael and others, leaving hidden dangers."

"If it's separate calculations..."

Tai Hao squinted his eyes, mused, "The system wouldn't have double standards.

Assuming there are only fifty people left on Earth, entering the portal contest phase, then these Otherworldly Players are likely in the same situation.

That's why they've kept a group of people on the lowest level to prevent being captured and the portal falling into the hands of the opposing side unexpectedly.

As for the others, even their deaths do not matter, since dying early won't earn them any rewards."

"That makes sense..."

Ju Zi took a deep breath, "But this contest system is still unfair.

The opposing side is generally stronger than us, and they arrived more than ten hours later, taking advantage of our internal conflicts to launch a surprise attack.

Most importantly, they seem to fully understand the value of the portal and are already prepared to unite and confront us together.

Even if rewards are separately calculated, this system does have some bias."

"Well, however, our advance of more than ten hours is actually an advantage."

Li Ang casually said, "This time should be used for gathering intelligence and harvesting the amber-like energy resources from the Lost World's edge walls."

He took out several colorful comics of "When the Stars Return" from the inner pocket of his white lab coat.

Tai Hao and Dawn also took out the comics they had collected.

"With this, it's all complete..."

Li Ang flipped through the comics,

but then heard Dann Chenzi sigh deeply and speak in a gloomy voice, "Fairness...

Do you truly understand what fairness is?

The mothers among hungry residents, selling their Spiritual Roots or spinal nerves to the Immortal Door due to lack of food and inability to support their children;

The Spirit Vein Mine City residents, living in areas around Spirit Vein Ore mining, forced to consume polluted water, breathe filthy air, and watch their bodies gradually mutate, receiving the Immortal Door's purification by the age of forty;

The Immortal Door Monks who voluntarily practiced "Plant Body Universe" for food production, transforming into flesh plants to provide food for the city's populace.

In the world of Magic Sunflower, hundreds of nest colonies, and billions of people, all have more qualification to discuss the term 'fairness' than you do."

Dann Chenzi calmly said, "Survival is beyond good and evil."

He gripped his longsword tightly as the Lotus Sword Array rose again behind him.

Words are useless, neither side is willing to back down, resulting in only the victor being entitled to discuss fairness and justice.

Dann Chenzi's Lotus Sword Array appeared to serve as some kind of signal,

as the Closed-eye Monk performed a hand sign, causing Buddha's light to flash behind him,

the Book-holding Scholar's lips moved, releasing a spell,

while Qing Qiuhu disappeared from where he stood.

"Scatter!"

Tai Hao's expression slightly changed, shouting out loud,

Everyone instinctively dodged to the side, Raging Fire incidentally pulling Amber along with Arlina who was assisting in freeing Amber from being controlled.

The next second, the position where everyone had stood exploded with a boom,

a massive amount of sand rose from the soil, forming a pair of large hand shapes.

The Book-holding Scholar chanted incantations, directing the sand hands towards the nearest Ju Zi,

Ju Zi had no time to dodge and could only throw out a beautifully carved piece of wood, summoning a nearly forty-meter-long wooden Serpentine Puppet.

Snap.

One sand hand pinched the snake at its vital spot, stopping its movement,

while the other hand continued towards Ju Zi.

The sand hand, seemingly slow but actually fast, had a whirlpool of gale swirling in its palm, firmly sucking onto Ju Zi, preventing escape.

Tai Hao summoned the Air Dragon, attempting rescue, but was blocked by a longsword.

Buzz——

Five more flying swords swiftly arrived, intercepting Zhan Lu, Bai Haozheng, and others trying to assist Ju Zi.

Everyone turned to look,

seeing Dann Chenzi's hair disheveled, his Taoist Robe ruffled by the wind, floating in the air, with sparkling light deep within his eyes.

His energy sea seemed endless, continuously drawing abundant Spiritual Power from his body,

Correspondingly, the speed, strength, and lethality of all six flying swords elevated several grades from before.

Blood Burning Technique...

The Closed-eye Monk sighed inwardly, this Sacred Skill from the Mountain of Separation, akin to Heavenly Devil Detachment, allowed a surge of potential in a short time, dramatically increasing power,

but the cost of employing the Sacred Skill...

Could result in shattered meridians, severe life drains, rendering future cultivation impossible, and in worse scenarios, complete annihilation of God Soul, barred from reincarnation.

Six flying swords of varying shapes each engaged Tai Hao, Zhan Lu, Bai Haozheng, Strange-faced Sky-whirl, Nebula, and Liu Wu Dai.

As sword blades cut through the sky, each bark of cutting echoed with sonic barriers breaking and air bursting.

Tai Hao summoned the Air Dragon to attempt biting the flying sword,

however, the sword's previously light body was now weighed tons after being infused with massive Spiritual Energy,

It disregarded the Air Dragon's breath as non-existent, rapidly slicing, effortlessly gutting the Air Dragon and heading for Tai Hao's throat.

He retreated abruptly, driving "Ten Stems Twelve Branches," transforming the Air Dragon into a sea of clouds, raining down to become snow, finally condensing into a thick ice shield like a city wall, barely deflecting the flying sword.

Zhan Lu and Bai Haozheng faced the flying sword assaults, each drawing a sword defensively,

For a while, the clashing of gold and iron, "ding ding dong dong," never ceased.

Both of them were certainly skilled, with the former being the Guild Leader of Sword King Court, and the latter being ranked within the top 100,

but the flying swords controlled by Dann Chenzi wielding Blood Stained Technique were incomparably superior to before,

Weakened Zhan Lu eventually faltered, a split-second delay resulted in a long wound across his chest and back, seemingly seconds from life's end,

Cheng Yin dashed in, swinging his broken-shadow-like straight sword, cleaving the flying sword to shield Zhan Lu from that deadly strike.

"Guild Leader, catch this..."

Cheng Yin tossed a Life Potion to Zhan Lu, intending to say something more, but was abruptly struck on the left shoulder by a rotating, returning, flashing flying sword,

From his left shoulder to the right side of his waist, a robe-like incision appeared across his chest.

Cheng Yin looked down at his chest, the next second, his entire body split in two and vanished from the spot.