Gu Ding Team Ambushed
In the virtual world, the game continues.
By the end of the second day, out of more than 11 million people, over a million had been eliminated, leaving only 10 million. Many failed to survive the changing environment; after all, the survival conditions in this virtual world were indeed harsh.
Liliath remains in first place with a high score of 1.47 million, while Karrot remains in second place with 920,000 points. Dokter and Elsa are third and fourth with 810,000 and 800,000 points respectively, Scarlet. Their scores are very close, and it's possible for anyone to surpass the others.
Gu Ding's points also reached 590,000. Due to his previous advantage of more than 150,000 points, he still did not fall out of the top ten and remained in tenth place.
Miko, with the help of Miniana, also gained a lot, with a score of 280,000, ranking in the seventies, one place lower than before.
Some noticed his soaring points and naturally, they also noticed that the little boy was a member of Gu Ding Team. They didn't doubt Miko's strength, because for many, it wouldn't be surprising to see any kind of monster in Gu Ding Team. Furthermore, with Gu Ding's strength as a deterrent, no one dared to target Miko. Of course, this was only the second day of the game; Miko's true strength would be revealed sooner or later. Meanwhile, Fa Te successfully infiltrated a team. As a member of Gu Ding Team, he was quite popular, and influenced by his family genes or upbringing, he was very good at communicating with people, thus gaining a considerable number of points, raising his score to over 80,000. His ranking rose to over 700.
Futu, however, maintained its ranking, with a total score of around 400,000, remaining in 25th place.
Miniana, who helped Miko points, had a total score of less than 100,000. Ranked in the 600s, almost no one noticed her existence. Her formidable strength—killing a four-star Peak-rank God in half an hour—was also well hidden.
The third day arrived quickly, and everyone was teleported to a new map again.
Gu Ding was teleported to the Purple Lightning Zone, and the others were also teleported to a new environment they had never experienced before.
This time, Miko was unexpectedly assigned to the same area as Miniana again— the Flame Zone. Miniana noticed him immediately and dragged him along on another adventure.
By the end of the third day, Gu Ding's points reached 800,000, but he still fell out of the top ten, dropping to twelfth place. Liliath remained at the top with a whopping 2.21 million points. The top five rankings remained largely unchanged, with all five exceeding one million points. Fa Te had over 120,000 points, and his ranking didn't fluctuate much, never breaking into the top 700. However, his strength Miko's; he earned his position through sheer hard work.
Miko 520,000, and his ranking improved again, entering the top 50. This further confirmed the "strength" of those who were already paying attention to him. Miniana, on the other hand, had less than 150,000 points and remained in a ranking that went unnoticed.
"Miniana, you're giving me all these points, what are you going to do with them?" Miko asked.
"Don't worry about me, this game has only just begun, and the current rankings are only temporary." Miniana said, toying with her dagger. "Before the game ends, I should have no problem getting into the top ten. With a bit of luck, getting into the top three is not impossible."
"You mean to steal other people's points?" Miko easily guess Miniana's plan.
"Do you have a better way?" Miniana countered. "Plundering is the fastest way to gain points, but I won't do it now. I'll wait until the final round of the game begins."...
"But being in the top 1,000 is enough; there's no difference in the order of ranking. The Federal Government's rewards are for everyone in the top 1,000." Miko smart, but he couldn't figure out the purpose of competing for rankings. "Or do you have inside information that the rewards differ depending on the ranking?"
"That's not how it works. For many, this virtual world is a hellish Trial Arena where their only requirement is to persevere until the very last day. Others simply hope to receive rewards and make it into the top 1,000. But there's another group, like me, who yearn to clash with true powerhouses. Such a clash might yield something that will benefit us for a lifetime. I don't care about winning or losing; I just want to encounter a strong enough opponent and have a real showdown."
Miniana's words led Miko to guess that Gu Ding had come to this virtual world for the same reason.
In the virtual world, time passes day by day. Every day, everyone is transported to an unfamiliar environment, and every day, some people are eliminated because they cannot adapt to the environment.
When five days had passed and the first round of the game ended, the number of players in the virtual world had dwindled from over 15.8 million at the beginning to just over 8 million, almost half of them had been eliminated.
Liliath remains firmly in first place, the top five rankings remain unchanged, while Gu Ding has dropped to seventeenth.
Without Miniana's help, Miko's points didn't improve much, falling out of the top 50 and dropping to outside the top 80. Fa Te is still struggling around 700th place.
On the sixth day, the second round of the game began, and everyone was transported to a new environment once again. This time, the game was more difficult, and by the end of the day, out of more than eight million participants, only four million remained—half of them were eliminated in one fell swoop.
Then, on the seventh day, more than a million more of the four million people were eliminated.
By the end of the tenth day, only 1.5 million players remained in the game, just one-tenth of the total number of participants, resulting in a terrifyingly high elimination rate.
On the eleventh day, the game entered the third round. At the start of the third round, out of 1.5 million players, nearly one million were eliminated, leaving less than 500,000 players.
By the end of the third round of the game, only 160,000 out of 500,000 players remained.
On the sixteenth day of the game, the first day of the fourth round, more than 30,000 out of 160,000 players were eliminated, leaving less than 130,000.
On the twentieth day, when the fourth round of the game ended, only 100,000 people remained out of the original 130,000.
On the same day, in the Real World, the Gu Ding Pirate Crew's spaceship also docked on a planet called Step for resupply.
Bigge and Robert went their separate ways to shop. As was their usual practice, they worked in pairs: Bigge with Blue, while Robert was with Tagore.
On his way to buy ingredients, Bigge was stopped by three men. All three were dressed in long red robes with two crossed long-handled Curved Saber printed on their chests.
The leader was a fat, middle-aged man about the same height as Bigge, covered in flabby flesh. He looked like a mountain of flesh, with a greasy face, small, beady eyes, and very little hair on his head. When he spoke, a mouthful of black, rotten teeth was clearly visible.
"You must be Bigge from the Gu Ding Pirate Crew?"
Bigge could easily tell that these people were here to cause trouble; he could also sense the powerful aura emanating from them, but he had no intention of backing down. "What do you want?"
"Looks like our intelligence was right. Besides their two pets, the Gu Ding Pirate Crew only has two members left. That saves me a lot of trouble..." the fat man muttered to himself, then looked up at Bigge, scrutinizing him carefully. "You Big Guy must have a big heart. Maybe the Princess will like you."
Bigge gripped the hilt of his knife, his gaze fixed coldly on his opponent.
"Babari, take him down." The fat man turned to look at the young man to his right.
"Yes, sir!" The young man removed the hood of his cloak, revealing a handsome young face, but with a strange, eerie quality. He licked his lips, leaped into the air, and charged towards Bigge.
Bigge drew his sword, and a semi-transparent blade of light, like a crescent moon, struck the young man squarely in the abdomen, instantly tearing him in two.
But almost instantly, Bigge's expression changed, and he swung his sword again, unleashing another burst of semi-transparent blade light that shot out in another direction.
"Hehe, quite alert indeed." A red figure gracefully retreated, easily dodging Bigge's strike, while the first red figure that had been hit by Bigge gradually disappeared without a trace.
Bigge sheathed his sword and turned to look at the fat man.
"What do you mean? How dare you ignore me!" the strange young man roared angrily.
"If this is all your men are capable of, then don't waste your time. Go do it yourself." Bigge ignored the young man's shouts.
"Impressive," the fat man clapped his hands. "No wonder people say you are the strongest member of the Gu Ding Team. Your Blade Intent has reached the perfect Spiritual Affinity Realm. This is the first time I have ever seen anyone reach that level."
"We haven't decided who's going to win yet..." The strange young man's shout was abruptly interrupted by a curse.
"Idiot, you're already dead, what are you still yelling about?" The fat man looked at his subordinate with disdain. "For a powerful martial arts master with sufficient Martial Dao Intent, most Clone Technique and other escape skills are completely ineffective. When the clone is killed, the Martial Dao Intent will directly affect the real body. You don't even understand this basic principle, you deserve to be killed!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the eerie young man was instantly split in two, dying in the same manner as the phantom from before.
"I have a question. He was already dead after the first stab, so why did you have to stab him a second time?" The fat man looked at Bigge with a smile, appearing very amiable.
"Because my knife was too fast, he was already behind me before he died, and he might have launched a counterattack. So I used my second strike to block his path to attack me," Bigge explained quite frankly.
"What a formidable opponent. You don't mind if I call in a few reinforcements..." the fat man said, pressing a button on his wristwatch. A soft beeping sound rang out, and two more men in red robes appeared beside him...