NOVEL NEXT Chapter 224 Simulation: One Against a Hundred
"Since you're here, don't be in such a hurry to leave."
Zhang Manman slowly straightened her body, one hand on her hip, the corner of her mouth curling into an almost imperceptible smirk.
"It's the enemy!"
"Other players!"
Tang Rou shouted, "This is a bit troublesome now."
"Just a bit?"
Jos's towering figure descended from the sky, "Isn't that underestimating us? We are big trouble."
Chen Tian Yuzi followed close behind, circling from the rear and including the skeleton in their encirclement.
Su Jie was the last to appear.
"It's you despicable servants!" The skeleton, upon seeing Su Jie and the others, seemed to explode with anger, roaring up at the sky as if in fury at the damage they had inflicted upon it.
Utterly forgetting that the direct culprit whose actions had shattered his armor was Ye Xiu.
"You handle those four; I'll take care of this skeleton." Su Jie ordered, then opened his mouth and spat out thirty-six flying swords in unison, instantly slicing the skeleton into hundreds of pieces.
Just as Su Jie had expected, the creature's bones were just for show, seemingly brittle.
However, as long as the ghost fire on its body did not extinguish, all was in vain.
But in an instant, the skeleton reassembled itself, though the ghost fire on its body dimmed slightly.
This was mainly because Su Jie's Qingping Sword could absorb the life energy of the enemy while killing, after all, its predecessor the Blood Carnage Sword was a demonic blade.
"These Mother-Child Swords are indeed thirty-six fine blades," Su Jie casually remarked, then once again controlled the thirty-six flying swords, continuously weakening the skeleton's pale blue flame.
Only, this process was a bit slow.
Now, Su Jie could definitely confirm his guess that, if this skeleton were in its heyday, it certainly wouldn't be something he could compare to; otherwise, he would have been able to destroy it in the instant of the sword strike, rather than, as now, only being able to chip off little bits.
However, it could be that the skeleton, having been grievously injured and then injured again, had its spirit twisted somehow, with its attention drawn to the flying swords, the skeleton tried to grab them with its arms instead of dealing with Su Jie, the controller.
"We can take our time..." Su Jie's gaze fell upon Zhang Manman and the others, noting with surprise and yet not surprisingly that they had not yet defeated Ye Xiu's group.
Ye Xiu and the others were gaming masters, capable of showing off their skills in myriad ways.
Although Zhang Manman and her group started with higher physical life forces, after the enhancement of various cultivation techniques, skills, and medicines, the life force limits of these seven people weren't much different, all around 3.
However, due to Zhang Manman and her group's higher initial life force, after being enhanced by cultivation techniques, skills, and equipment, their life force was typically around 3.4 or 3.5.
And Ye Xiu's group only had 3.
In theory, Zhang Manman and her group should have been able to easily take them down, as every 0.1 increase in life force before reaching 10 represented a qualitative leap.
Nevertheless, the teamwork of Ye Xiu's group was impeccable. Four people, two men and two women, operated like one entity, employing their various skills to just the right effect.
This caused Zhang Manman, Jos, and Chen Tian Yuzi to feel somewhat uncomfortable.
Although the three had some coordination, it wasn't much, which made it easy for the other four to find opportunities.
Correspondingly, Zhang Manman's group possessed extremely strong individual combat abilities, and with their strengths surpassing the other four, it was only a matter of time before they would prevail.
Three minutes later, Ye Xiu's group had used up all their medicines and were covered in injuries.
"We can't win," Fang Rui looked at Ye Xiu with a mentality nearing collapse, "Compared to real martial artists, we are still far too lacking. Their physical stamina and spirit are beyond our reach."
Tang Rou, gasping for breath, said, "Although we are real gaming powerhouses and have a very strong reputation in the gaming world, even being touted as undefeated, the rumors are not false. When facing students of Ming Lun, we only have a certain degree of capability to fight back at best."
Su Mucheng was also catching her breath, "Yeah, ha... It shows that every student of Ming Lun is an excellent game master, it's just that they don't focus their energy on gaming."
Ye Xiu smiled, "Sorry everyone, it seems we might be getting eliminated this round."
"There's no need for that, captain. Didn't we join this round to see the gap between us and the students of Ming Lun?" Fang Rui laughed carelessly, "As much as it's unwilling, losing to Ming Lun is not shameful."
"Exactly!"
Tang Rou also laughed, "Ye Xiu, we've done our best."
Su Mucheng agreed, "It's been a worthwhile trip."
Zhang Manman, witnessing Ye Xiu and his team's readiness to face their end bravely, actually felt a hint of heroism, then immediately had a face full of black lines. This is part of a series from My Virtual Library Empire (M|V|L1EMPYR).
"I'm telling you—"
"Don't make us out to be the villains!"
Buzz!
At that moment, the desert began to tremble, as if thousands of troops were closing in from all directions.
"Damn it!"
Looking around at the yellow sand swirling in the sky and the approaching army of nearly seventy people, Zhang Manman couldn't help but explode, "Why is illegal teaming so brazen?"
So many people gathered together, and they haven't started fighting; it's definitely illegal teaming.
Too bad you can't report this in the game fantasy world.
Jos and Chen Tian Yuzi hurried to Zhang Manman's side, a trace of cold sweat involuntarily appearing on their foreheads.
"They have too many people; if each one of them releases a remote skill, we simply can't dodge," Jos's pupils contracted as he asked in the team channel, "Su Jie, what should we do now?"
"I predicted people would team up, but I didn't expect so many to unite together," Chen Tian Yuzi spoke first, "Class monitor, should we retreat first?"
Zhang Manman looked around; people were closing in from all sides and asked, "Where can we retreat to?"
This indeed was a problem.
"It seems our lives are not meant to end here," Su Mucheng's lips curled into a smile, her expression slightly relaxed, "Although it's not very honorable, this is a competition. You seem to have angered everyone, and they want to besiege you. Perhaps this is what they mean by 'those who lose the Way have little support.'
Zhang Manman was speechless.
What does 'those who lose the Way have little support' mean?
They probably knew that Su Jie was in the same field with them, and coupled with the previous explosion, they realized the crisis and decided to eliminate their team first.
The three of them didn't care too much, after all, the treasures they obtained were stored in the library's meeting room and weren't brought in.
But it was different for Su Jie.
He had already refined thirty-six Energy Swords, carrying them with him, and entered the fantasy world along with his spirit. If he were eliminated, these thirty-six Energy Swords would also be lost.
"They will take a few seconds to run over here. Grab hold of one person in front of you as the final 'nail,' and come to me," Su Jie commanded in the channel, "As for the others gathering around, it's the perfect chance for me to catch them all. My big move is in preparation."
Zhang Manman immediately thought of the previous 'Sea Dragon Twister' and her heart steadied.
Then, her gaze fell on Su Mucheng. She stepped over fifty meters, kicked Ye Xiu, who was healing beside Su Mucheng, away, grabbed Su Mucheng, and carried her toward Su Jie.
"Why are you capturing me?" Su Mucheng asked, puzzled, "Do you want to use me as a hostage? This isn't reality. Even if Ye Xiu and the others won't attack, the others won't hold back."
"You'll know in a moment," Zhang Manman replied, meeting up with Jos and the others, rushing to Su Jie's side.
By then, the Skeleton Sub-boss was still playing with the Energy Swords, like a child.
"Su Jie, the brain of this Skeleton Sub-boss definitely isn't functioning properly," Jos showed a face as if looking at an idiot, "Maybe it got stupefied by the arrow I shot earlier."
"Perhaps," Su Jie's hands moved in quick succession, leaving only three swords to deal with the Skeleton Sub-boss. The remaining thirty-three, under Su Jie's manipulation, turned into thirty-three streaks of white light, entering the ground below.
The surrounding players, although they saw the white light, didn't pay much mind to it, as they had already set their sights on Su Jie and the others, deciding to attack together.
After all, they had so many people.
"Ye..."
Just as Su Mucheng was about to speak in the team channel, Zhang Manman covered her mouth and said, "Snitching is not what prisoners are supposed to do."
Su Mucheng: "..."
When the remaining players entered the range, the thirty-three Energy Swords quickly shuttled underground, stirring up the sand within a thousand meters, causing it to surge like an unpredictable sea surface.
Once the sand began to flow, it turned into quicksand.
In an instant, all the players fell into the sand, and although some players tried to use the bodies of others to stay afloat, falling into the quicksand was only a matter of time.
The game.
Ended.
When not a single player's body remained on the yellow sands, Su Jie twisted his hands in the void.
Humming!
The vast sea of sand instantly formed into a huge vortex, even engulfing the Skeleton Sub-boss.
A portion of players not yet eliminated struggled desperately within the massive vortex.
But inside the vortex, with the addition of the Skeleton Sub-boss, the Energy Swords increased to thirty-six, shuttling fast through it, harvesting the lives of the players, turning them into various boxes.
When all returned to calm, a giant spiral-shaped pattern emerged centered around the vortex, with scattered boxes lying on the surface, telling of their bravery and determination.
By then, Su Mucheng was able to speak again, but her teammates had already been eliminated, leaving her with no one to talk to.
"Whoosh!"
The thirty-six Energy Swords turned into light and moved, reverting to sword spheres, sucked into Su Jie's abdomen.
The Skeleton Sub-boss was also buried within the vortex of the sand sea—
Physically buried.
That is to say, the Skeleton Sub-boss was not yet dead; it was just buried under the desert.
The main reason was that although the creature was gravely injured, its origin was not weak, and Su Jie could not kill it, only temporarily seal it this way, allowing it to reset with the end of the game.
(ps: Monsters in the game fantasy world also enter with their spiritual and physical bodies. If they are not dead when the game ends, they will return to their original dimension; if they are killed, they will also return, but being killed in this way will cause these exotic creatures to truly lose their origins, magical treasures, pills, etc.)