Nina raised her hands slightly. "Looks like I asked too many questions... I'm not your enemy. You can rest assured of that."
"Why should I believe you? And do you know anything about my biological parents?" Gu Ding looked ready to strike at any moment.
"There are many things I can't tell you. For now, I can only tell you that my boss is a friend of your parents—more precisely, a friend of your mother. So I bear you no ill will. I approached you purely out of curiosity, with no other intentions." Nina slowly stepped back, and Gu Ding made no move to pursue her.
"Oh, right. A bald uncle once told me that meeting is fate. Let me offer you a piece of advice as well: be careful of the Gu Family!" Nina's figure gradually faded. "We should have another chance to meet, if you don't fall along the way... Goodbye, little Gu Ding..."
"Sea Emperor!" Gu Ding frowned slightly and quickly called out to the Sea Emperor.
"That woman disappeared..." The Sea Emperor's voice soon came through.
Over the next few days, Gu Ding descended into a frenzy of slaughter. Whenever he thought of Nina's words, he felt inexplicably irritated. His Merit Points rose at the terrifying rate of two hundred thousand per day.
In just a few days, Gu Ding's Merit Points exceeded three million, and his ranking rose to 121st place.
"Gu Ding, you need to slow down your slaughter. Your ranking can't rise any higher," the Sea Emperor warned. "How about this? There's a ruin near Elizabeth. Go meet up with her and explore it together. Besides the two of you, several other teams are also heading toward those ruins."
"How many people? What are their strength levels?" Gu Ding immediately asked.
"There are