274: Chapter 274 Keyboard Warrior Meets Real Sister!

However, these two had an extremely clear sense of self-awareness.

In this secret realm, which was crawling with high-level spirit beasts and even the top-tier 'grinders' of all Great Xia, if these two 'noobs' dared to strut around openly, they definitely wouldn't last five minutes!

If they ran into the main team of any random school, they would likely be one-shot, forced to crush their death-immunity jade tablet on the spot, and sent home to write a self-criticism.

"Fugui, what do we do now? We need to hurry up and find Brother Jiang, or meet up with Senior Xie and the others!"

Xiang Batian clenched his fists nervously, watching the white elimination lights flashing in the distance from time to time, and swallowed hard. "With our skill level, if we run into someone tough, my muscles won't be able to withstand the abuse from those perverts!"

Gou Fugui adjusted his crooked gold-rimmed glasses, patted the dirt off his clothes with great heartache, and gritted his teeth. "What are you panicking for? Brother Jiang is so ferocious; with his peerless demon king temperament, he must be wreaking havoc at the very center of the map right now! As long as we sneak toward the place with the most intense fighting and the biggest commotion, we'll definitely be able to find him and cling to his thighs!"

The two hit it off immediately and decided to sneak along the commotion to find Jiang You.

As a result, they had barely crept along the dried-up riverbed for very long when they saw the sky in the distance scorched white by pure golden flames!

"Holy crap! Fugui, get down!"

Xiang Batian shoved Gou Fugui behind a huge rock, wiped the sweat from his forehead caused by the scorching heatwave, and trembled with lingering fear. "The grinders out there are fighting too damn fiercely! That woman covered in golden fire, dressed like a masked bandit, just flew over the forest ahead of us! That temperature almost roasted my perfect muscles on the spot!"

Gou Fugui poked half his head out, looking through a crack in the rock at the terrifying scene in the distance where "every blade of grass was scorched, and even the ground was burned red," so scared that his glasses almost fell off. "Don't make a sound! Absolutely do not make a sound!"

Gou Fugui covered his mouth tightly, his soul almost leaving his body. "This pure golden flame... this perverted, high temperature that could boil the rivers and seas... isn't this the SSS-grade Divine Phoenix Undying Fire from Imperial Capital Martial Arts University?"

"This crazy woman dressed like a bandit is definitely Qin Zhuo, the captain of the Imperial Capital team one who made an excuse about having a cold and didn't attend the opening ceremony!"

Gou Fugui felt his throat go dry, and his Legs turned as soft as noodles.

This was one of the most formidable contenders for the championship of this year's Hundred Schools League!

With her current earth-shattering, rampaging state, let alone these two five-combat-power scrubs, even Brother Jiang, the "peerless demon king" who was invincible in their eyes, might not necessarily win if he encountered her!

However, compared to the fear of her strength, what made Gou Fugui feel a fatal sense of guilt at this moment was that he suddenly remembered a life-threatening incident from the past!

"Holy crap... wait!"

Cold sweat instantly poured down Gou Fugui's forehead, even more profusely than when he was being scorched by the fire earlier.

He clearly remembered that just the night before last, in order to defend Brother Jiang's glorious image, he had transformed into an "esports pianist" on the martial arts forum and spent three whole hours aggressively flaming Qin Zhuo's "brain-dead fans"!

He had also said a lot of bad things about Qin Zhuo online...

"Gulp." Gou Fugui swallowed hard and began to frantically self-hypnotize in his heart, forcefully comforting himself. "Don't panic, don't panic. I, Gou Fugui, have been extremely cautious in all my dealings throughout my life! I used a screen name on the forum; how could she possibly know it was me who insulted her?"

"Besides, a peerless genius like her, looking down from on high, must spend all her time in the gravity chamber in closed-door cultivation; how could she have time to surf the internet every day? She definitely didn't see my comments, and even if she did, she would absolutely never associate them with me..."

Gou Fugui's Ah Q-style mental gymnastics had only just begun when his expression suddenly froze abruptly.

A biting, chilling wind instantly blew through his skull.

"Wait... my screen name... it seems to be 'Honest Boss Gou'?"

"Although it fits my temperament very well, is this name a bit too direct, a bit too indicative?"

The pupils of Gou Fugui's eyes, hidden behind his gold-rimmed glasses, began to tremble violently.

It was as if he were possessed, as his mind played back the last ten seconds before he entered the portal to [Forbidden Zone No. 009] with extreme clarity.

At that time, in order to advertise his second-hand resale business, he had shamelessly shoved himself in front of the national high-definition live broadcast camera and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Please look for the 'Honest Boss Gou' brand! Place an order now and mention Brother Jiang's name for a 2% discount..."

Then, "Get in there, you!!!" Accompanied by an extremely irritable and sharp shout, he was brutally kicked into the light gate by that woman wearing a mask and sunglasses, dressed like a masked bandit!

In Gou Fugui's mind, it was as if a bolt of lightning had struck, perfectly connecting all the clues together to form an impeccable yet despair-inducing logical loop.

Case closed! It's all freaking solved!!!

Qin Zhuo not only liked to surf the internet and saw him calling her a "roasted chicken," but she had even recognized that he was that "Honest Boss Gou"!

"Ba... Batian..." Gou Fugui's voice was already thick with a heavy crying tone. He gripped Xiang Batian's shiny, oily biceps tightly, trembling like a patient in the late stages of Parkinson's.

"What's wrong, Fugui? Are you cold?" Xiang Batian asked with a blank face.

"It's over... it's all over..." Gou Fugui looked at the sea of golden flames still burning crazily in the distance, all hope lost in his eyes, and two lines of clear tears burst from his eyes. "She isn't killing indiscriminately... she is clearly searching the entire map for me, this keyboard warrior!!!"

"This isn't a competition; this is a large-scale, real-life revenge scene where she tracked me down through the internet!!!"

Gou Fugui now only hated himself for not having a zipper on his mouth.

He couldn't stay in this S-rank secret realm for another second; he even reached for the death-immunity jade tablet in his pocket, ready to crush it at any moment to end his short and sinful life prematurely.

Just as Gou Fugui was so scared that his soul was about to fly away, "Huh?" Xiang Batian next to him suddenly scratched his head like a curious baby, pointed to a bush not far ahead in the riverbed, and said foolishly, "Hey? Fugui, look, what is that thing shining? It looks like a round formation? How could there be this thing in this desolate mountain and wild ridge?"

Gou Fugui was immersed in the extreme fear of "being single-handedly killed offline by a female bandit who tracked him through the internet." Hearing this, he subconsciously looked in the direction Xiang Batian was pointing.

Through the sparse branches and leaves, he saw a miniature formation about two meters in diameter, emitting a silvery-white glimmer, shining on the ground.

"A spatial formation?!" Although Gou Fugui was a total scrub in terms of combat power, as a legendary scalper from Magic City Martial Arts University, his eye for identifying treasures was absolutely expert-level.

He could see at a glance that this thing was extraordinary!

"This is definitely a small one-way teleportation formation! And looking at the traces of spiritual energy fluctuations, it was clearly set up not long ago!"

Gou Fugui's brain raced. In this S-rank secret realm filled with danger at every turn, the first reaction of a normal person to an unknown teleportation formation would definitely be "It's a trap! Run!"

This was highly likely a trap set by some insidious camper!

However, in the 0.01 seconds that Gou Fugui hesitated, "BOOM!!!" A shrill scream of a spirit beast suddenly erupted from the forest less than 500 meters behind them!

Immediately after, a terrifying golden heatwave that could ignite even the air swept across the dried-up riverbed like a tsunami!

"You surnamed Gou! You actually dare to appear in my vicinity... Die!!!" Faintly, Qin Zhuo's roar, which was slightly out of tune due to extreme rage, even drifted through the air!

"Holy crap! She's chasing after us! She really heard me reciting my advertisement slogan!!!"

Gou Fugui was so scared that his crotch was almost wet, and the hair all over his body stood on end.

What trap? What danger?

In front of this peerless Divine Phoenix who had lost her mind and was hunting him across the entire map, Gou Fugui would dare to jump into the entrance of the eighteenth level of hell with his eyes closed right now!

"Batian! Forget about biomechanics! Jump in quickly! This is our only way to survive!"

Gou Fugui grabbed onto Xiang Batian's thick, muscular thigh with all his might, bursting with a powerful desire to survive, and dragged him as he lunged toward the silvery-white teleportation formation!