352: Chapter 352 Attacking His Own People, Has Zhao Zhenlei Gone Mad?

Speaking of this, Gu Changfeng took care to add a detail:

"To show my sincerity, I figured that Big Brother might be lacking a handy weapon, so I casually gifted him the spare titanium alloy sword from my bag as a bonus."

The entire venue fell into deathly silence.

Hundreds of eyes stared fixedly at this glib-talking guy, their jaws hitting the floor.

Gu Changfeng didn't seem to notice the strange gazes around him and continued to summarize blissfully:

"Big Brother saw how sensible I was and his attitude was great! Not only did he not hit me, but when I left, he even nodded at me, politely opened the door, and sent me right out!"

"This level of service deserves a five-star review!"

"..."

On the plaza, there was only the sound of the wind blowing across the flags.

Those prodigies from various schools who had just woken up from comas, lying on stretchers wrapped in bandages, nearly coughed up blood collectively upon hearing Gu Changfeng's smooth "surrender experience sharing."

You can even play it like this?

When the other party reaches out, you f*cking don't even resist, just erase your mark and hand it over with both hands?

Where is your backbone as a main force of a top university?

Where is your dignity as a sword cultivator?

Everyone turned to look at the wretched Yan Qinghuan, then back at the refreshed Gu Changfeng.

Their Dao hearts were completely crushed into powder in that instant.

So, as long as you don't act tough, don't resist, and obediently pay the protection fee, you can avoid physical pain and leave the field directly!

If they had known this, what was the point of them fighting desperately in the black fog earlier, and even killing each other?!

At this moment, the prodigies and mentors of all the schools in the venue reached a unanimous consensus in their hearts.

This bunch from Magic City Martial Arts University... from Jiang You who leads by sleeping, to the chuunibyou-acting Lu Xingye, to this smoothly-surrendering Gu Changfeng.

They really are one more slippery than the other!!!

Meanwhile, deep within Forbidden Zone No. 009, which had completely lost official monitoring and was quietly shrouded by dark laws.

Another massive sweeping army was traveling across a desolate Gobi Desert.

This team was led by the Peerless Divine Phoenix Qin Zhuo and the Northern Border War Machine Zhao Zhenlei, gathering over fifty elite prodigies.

Their original mission was to conduct a dragnet search from the other end of the map to completely eliminate the team members of Magic City Martial Arts University.

However, as time passed, the high morale originally present in the team was unknowingly tainted by a trace of irritability and unease.

"This damn secret realm, why does it feel a bit off?"

Zhao Zhenlei was shirtless, his knotted muscles shimmering with a faint spiritual luster.

He suddenly stopped, looked up at the sky, and a flash of doubt and gravity passed through his large, bronze-bell-like eyes.

Hearing Zhao Zhenlei's words, Qin Zhuo, who was walking beside him, also stopped.

Today, she was still dressed in her full "anti-peeping" gear. Although she had taken off her mask because of the heat, her sunglasses and baseball cap were still firmly fixed on her head.

Qin Zhuo looked in the direction of Zhao Zhenlei's gaze, her delicate brows slightly furrowed:

"It's indeed not right. The sky... seems to have gotten dark."

As soon as these words were spoken, the fifty-plus team members behind them also looked up one after another.

Looking closely, they discovered that the secret realm's canopy, which originally simulated the midday sun and should have been bright and blinding, was now covered as if by a gray filter.

The surrounding light became dim and oppressive, as if a storm were approaching.

But the problem was, this was a competitive secret realm specially built by the Great Xia authorities for the Hundred Schools League!

To ensure the fairness of the competition and the clarity of the broadcast, natural phenomena like day-night alternation and weather changes did not exist in the underlying laws of this artificial secret realm!

It should always be a constant daytime!

"The sky getting dark... could it be that the hole burned out by that fox in the last round hasn't been fixed yet?"

Zhao Zhenlei rubbed his bald head, his tone filled with dissatisfaction and suspicion:

"Are those people in the Organizing Committee eating rice for nothing? How could they be so careless, daring to stuff us into a dungeon that still has loopholes?"

Qin Zhuo was also full of resentment, her arms crossed over her chest:

"Heh, the quality of this year's competition is really trash to the extreme!"

"In the first round, even the safe evacuation mechanism collapsed, nearly burning this lady to death. Now, this damn sky is starting to leak light again..."

"This world is really just a huge amateur production!"

"Forget it, ignore this damn sky. Hurry up and find those guys from Magic City Martial Arts University!"

Qin Zhuo waved her hand impatiently and turned around, ready to continue leading the team forward.

"Wait!"

Zhao Zhenlei suddenly shouted, causing Qin Zhuo to frown.

"What are you freaking out about?" Qin Zhuo said with an unfriendly tone.

"No... it's absolutely not right!"

Zhao Zhenlei ignored Qin Zhuo's temper; his formidable cultivation belonging to the early Fifth Stage granted him a sharp intuition far beyond anyone else present.

This was definitely not a simple dungeon loophole!

The oppressive feeling permeating the air that made breathing difficult, a sense of trembling as if being watched by some terrifying prehistoric beast, crawled slowly up Zhao Zhenlei's spine.

To verify the terrible conjecture in his mind, Zhao Zhenlei turned around abruptly, his eyes like torches locking onto a thin, small-statured boy in the team.

"Xiao Li! Come here!"

Zhao Zhenlei pointed at the Northern Border Military Academy member named Xiao Li and ordered in an unquestionable tone: "Take out your death-immunity jade tablet immediately and crush it!"

"Huh?"

Xiao Li, who was called out, was stunned.

He looked at his captain, who was filled with murderous aura, and then at the surrounding teammates who were equally confused, his face full of astonishment and reluctance.

"Captain, this... the competition only started an hour ago, I haven't even fought a single monster, and you want me to be eliminated now?"

Xiao Li still wanted to fight for his competition experience, muttering in protest: "Even if there's a tactical arrangement, you can't..."

"Less talk! I told you to crush it, so crush it!"

Zhao Zhenlei didn't give him a chance to babble.

Seeing Xiao Li dilly-dallying, Zhao Zhenlei roared, his body leaning forward instantly!

His sandbag-sized iron fist, carrying the force of a thousand jun, slammed fiercely toward Xiao Li's face without warning!

"Boom!"

The terrifying fist wind instantly drained the air in front of Xiao Li, and the suffocating pressure scared Xiao Li so much that his legs went weak on the spot.

"Crack!"

At the critical moment of life and death, the death-immunity jade tablet on Xiao Li's chest extremely sensitively detected this fatal Fifth Stage strike.

Accompanied by a crisp sound, the jade tablet shattered.

A brilliant white light shield instantly rose from the ground, completely enclosing Xiao Li, narrowly blocking Zhao Zhenlei's fist.

"Zhao Zhenlei! Are you f*cking crazy? Why are you attacking your own people!"

The other team members were startled by this sudden turn of events and drew their weapons, the scene instantly descending into chaos.

No one expected that their own captain would suddenly erupt and try to kill a teammate!

However, faced with everyone's questioning and the chaos.

Zhao Zhenlei did not explain; he just stared fixedly at the light shield in front of him, his face instantly turning as pale as paper.

Beside him, Qin Zhuo, who had originally wanted to get angry, looked in the direction of Zhao Zhenlei's gaze, and that arrogant, pretty face of hers also froze instantly.

Under her sunglasses, her pupils contracted violently, and she blurted out:

"Why... wasn't he teleported out?"