359: Chapter 359 The worst that can happen is being eliminated! I'll just go for it!

Boom!

As soon as that name was mentioned, the few people in the great hall felt as if they had been struck by lightning, their faces changing instantly.

"How is that possible?!"

Xiang Batian's eyes widened, and he gasped, "Isn't that guy always active in the Magic City region? How did he suddenly spawn in the Imperial Capital's competition secret realm?"

"Is this guy some kind of wild Big Boss? Does he just dive into wherever there's a high-tier dungeon?" Lu Xingye was also stunned, his grip tightening on his sword.

Among the F-Class members present, Senior Ji Youyou, who had personally fought the Faceless Man, was even more aware of how terrifying his strength was.

And the three brothers from Dorm 201—Lu Xingye, Gou Fugui, and Xiang Batian—had also felt that suffocating pressure in the Mist Swamp that could trigger heavenly lightning.

This was simply not an existence they could contend with at their current stage!

Qiu Yunan had never dealt with that legendary weirdo, so she appeared relatively calm.

She frowned and questioned:

"Fugui, are you sure you didn't see wrong?"

"Could it be Qin Zhuo from the Imperial Capital, having changed her outfit again today? That person has always liked to cover her face."

"There's absolutely no way I saw wrong!"

Gou Fugui retorted decisively, his voice cracking with excitement:

"That black trench coat, that same Faceless Man mask, and that oppressive aura that makes one's soul tremble just by standing there! I dare to bet everything I own that it is absolutely the real Faceless Man!"

Speaking of this, Gou Fugui patted his chest and let out a long breath, still feeling lingering fear:

"It's a good thing the invisibility I paid for hadn't worn off yet. He walked through the woods less than fifty meters away from me, and even turned his head to look in my direction!"

"Really, just that one look, I felt my Heart stop beating!"

"Fortunately, the invisibility effect was reliable; he didn't seem to notice me, didn't make a move, and just floated away..."

After finishing these words, Gou Fugui originally thought everyone would breathe a sigh of relief.

But.

Standing to the side, Senior Ji Youyou's cold and beautiful face instantly sank.

An unprecedented seriousness erupted in her beautiful eyes:

"What did you say? He looked at the place where you were hiding?"

Gou Fugui was startled by Senior Ji Youyou's man-eating expression, subconsciously shrinking his neck, and nodded dumbly:

"Ye... Yes."

"But I was in an invisible state at the time, my blood energy and physical form were completely masked, he definitely didn't see me..."

"There is absolutely something wrong!"

Senior Ji Youyou forcefully interrupted Gou Fugui, her voice also becoming urgent:

"That level of monster can kill a Tier 5 Grandmaster with a casual wave of his hand!"

"Do you really think your amateur Supernatural Ability for invisibility can escape his perception?"

"He didn't make a move, it's very likely he was deliberately letting out a long line to catch a big fish, following your trail to find our main group!"

Senior Ji Youyou's words were like a basin of bone-chilling ice water, instantly drenching the Heart of everyone present.

"Go quickly! This place is no longer safe! Run!"

The instinct for survival overcame everything. Senior Ji Youyou couldn't bother to explain more, grabbed the poison needles on the table, turned around, and rushed toward the half-ajar wooden door of the great hall.

She had to lead the team to break out a path for survival before that monster surrounded them!

"Bang!"

However, as soon as her front foot stepped over the threshold, she crashed head-on into a chest as hard as an iron tower, radiating a bone-chilling cold.

The powerful recoil made her stagger, retreating several steps, nearly falling to the ground.

"Who?"

Senior Ji Youyou lifted her head in shock and anger, the poison needles in her hand already poised for action.

However, when she looked up, the first thing that caught her eyes was a Faceless Man mask with no expression whatsoever.

"Hum!"

Senior Ji Youyou's Brain instantly went blank, her blood seemingly drained of its warmth in that split second, and a bone-chilling cold rushed from the soles of her feet straight to her crown.

Faceless Man!

It was actually him!

That abyss-like pressure, that oppressive feeling as if one glance could strip away a person's soul, was even several times more terrifying than when she was at Magic City Martial Arts University!

"Run!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Senior Ji Youyou couldn't even summon the thought of resistance.

The chasm in strength was so great that it was despair-inducing; if the opponent wanted to kill her, he wouldn't even need to move a finger.

She turned her head abruptly, her beautiful eyes red, and let out a hoarse roar at the group of still-dazed teammates in the room behind her:

"Go quickly!!! I'll hold him off!!!"

Before the words had faded, Senior Ji Youyou bit her tongue, directly unleashing all her power, a thick purple poison mist erupting around her, and she spread her arms to block the dilapidated wooden door firmly.

Inside the room.

The four of them—Gou Fugui, Xiang Batian, Lu Xingye, and Qiu Yunan—looked at the black-robed figure outside the door, who was like the Grim Reaper, and were all dumbfounded with fear.

But unexpectedly, this group of F-Class freaks, who usually seemed unreliable and often undermined each other, did not choose to move a step to run away when facing this desperate situation of certain death.

"Senior Ji Youyou! We aren't leaving; the worst that can happen is we all die together!"

Xiang Batian roared, his muscles bulging like inflated balloons, and he strode forward to stand side-by-side with Senior Ji Youyou.

Qiu Yunan pushed up her reflective glasses, lightning flashing all around her, not giving an inch: "Magic City Martial Arts University's F-Class has never had the habit of abandoning teammates."

Gou Fugui, although scared so that his Legs were shaking and tears were welling up in his eyes, gritted his teeth and took out all the Great Xia coins in his pocket: "Let's fight! The worst that can happen is getting eliminated! Let's go all out against him!"

Lu Xingye even drew his long sword with a "clang," his slicked-back hair motionless in the wind: "Abyss dragon, step over my corpse before..."

Just as blood energy was surging inside and outside the room, creating a tragic atmosphere reminiscent of "The wind howls, the Yi River is cold, the brave man leaves and never returns."

The Faceless Man standing outside the door suddenly tilted his head slightly.

Beneath the mask, a cold, hoarse, and indifferent voice broke the tense standoff without warning:

"Don't waste your effort."

"In consideration that we are all acquaintances, hand over your storage rings. Then, I will send you out of the secret realm."

"..."

The tragic atmosphere instantly stalled.

The few people in the room looked at each other, their expressions changing from ready-to-die to total confusion.

Acquaintances?

What acquaintances?

Who the hell is an acquaintance with you!

You, an old monster who can kill a Tier 5 Great Demon with a casual wave of your hand, what kind of friendship are you trying to strike up with a bunch of college students here?

But putting aside this baffling opening line, the other party's intention had been expressed very clearly. Robbery, pay up, get out.

Everyone's expressions immediately became uncertain, and their Hearts were as conflicted as if a bottle of five flavors had been overturned.

Fight?

That is definitely not winnable.

They had seen this great master's illustrious reputation of ferocity with their own eyes; let alone these few nobodies, even if all the competitors in the entire secret realm were tied together, it probably wouldn't be enough for the other party to slap them away.

However, to just hand over all their belongings so cowardly, and then be eliminated in such a dejected way, they really couldn't swallow this anger!

After all, the competition had just begun, they hadn't even touched the final circle! And the other party actually wanted to rob them!

Just when everyone was clutching the death-immunity jade tablets in their pockets, wondering whether to take advantage of the other party's inattention to directly crush the jade tablets to summon an invincible shield for a life-saving teleportation.

The Faceless Man seemed to see through their thoughts and unhurriedly added a sentence that directly pronounced their death sentence:

"Friendly reminder, do not attempt to crush the life-saving jade tablets in your pockets to escape. Because that thing is useless against me!"