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Many people who had been keeping an eye on the Ranking List were suddenly surprised to see Gu Ding and Futu's names disappear from the Ranking List, replaced by Si Kao Er and Miniana. Many immediately realized that these two must have taken advantage of Gu Ding and Futu's exhaustion, killing Gu Ding and stealing their points.
"Damn it!" Liliath was furious. She led the rest of the Gu Ding Team and rushed to the location of the two's battle. Many other powerful figures also rushed over, wanting to know what had happened.
On an open space, the corpses of Gu Ding and Fu Tu fell to the ground and began to slowly disintegrate into energy fragments.
"So you're from the Dark Magic Domain. I always thought you were from the Crimson Moon Magic Domain. Your weapon is quite misleading." Miniana sheathed her dagger and her gaze fell on the other person.
"No one says close-quarters assassination must be done with short weapons." Si Kao Er pulled his longsword from Gu Ding's chest, his gaze towards Miniana wary. "Miniana of the Zia Assassin Family, I've heard of you for a long time. Compared to you, I'm just a nobody." "Under normal circumstances, I would indeed have such concerns, but now, you've taken down Futu, you might be too busy to take care of yourself." Although Si Kao Er said this, he didn't dare to relax his guard in the slightest.
"So, you think you can get away unscathed after taking advantage of me?" Miniana blinked her big eyes twice when she heard what the other party said. "If I hadn't attacked Futu, Gu Ding wouldn't have revealed a weakness that allowed you to succeed."
"So what do you want?" Si Kao Er frowned slightly. What Miniana said was indeed true. If Gu Ding hadn't tried to help because the Buddha was being attacked, he wouldn't have been able to succeed.
"Your points. I want half of them. You know what to do." Miniana appeared very assertive.
"Are you dreaming?" Si Kao Er suddenly retreated and then fled frantically along the predetermined route.
Miniana unleashed a dagger, aiming straight for her opponent's back.
With a twist of his body, Si Kao Er swung his blade at the dagger, using the rebound to propel himself even further away.
The dagger flew back and landed in Miniana's hand. She glanced at Si Kao Er's departing figure but didn't chase after him. Instead, she chose to leave in another direction. After recovering, Futu frowned slightly, looked up at the direction Si Kao Er and Miniana had fled, and then looked down at the almost vanished corpse of Gu Ding.
"What a bunch of troublemakers. Looks like I'll have to give up the identity of Futu."
After Futu finished speaking, he placed one hand on Gu Ding's still partially dissipated corpse, and Gu Ding's body began to rapidly reform. In just a few seconds, it was fully restored.
After completing this task, the Buddha's figure gradually faded away and quickly disappeared from the spot.
Before long, Liliath and the others finally arrived at the scene. Upon seeing Gu Ding lying on the ground, they immediately surrounded him.
Dokter placed two fingers on the artery in Gu Ding's neck and nodded. "He's fine."
"Then why did his name disappear from the Ranking List?" Liliath said, reopening Ranking List, only to see Gu Ding's name reappear. However, his points were now zero. "His name has reappeared?!"...
"It seems Futu is completely out of the running; his name hasn't appeared again." Elsa glanced at the Ranking List, but still couldn't find Futu's name.
"To find out what happened, we have to ask Gu Ding. Let's wake him up first!" Miko only roughly guess what had just happened, but there were some details he couldn't explain clearly, so he could only wait for Gu Ding's answer.
After Dokter injected Gu Ding with several vials of God Source Replenishment Potion, Gu Ding finally slowly regained consciousness.
"Is the game over?" Gu Ding opened his eyes and saw everyone. He couldn't help but ask, because he knew he had been ambushed and eliminated. But he quickly realized that he seemed to still be in the game. "Huh? I wasn't eliminated?"
"What exactly happened?" Liliath asked with a serious expression.
Gu Ding glanced at everyone present. Although he still had doubts, he recounted the whole story.
"What a despicable guy! He actually attacked you when you weren't paying attention, and when you were at your weakest." Elsa and the others were furious after hearing this.
"But if you didn't die, why did that guy named Si Kao Er get all your points?" Miko found this rather strange.
"I should have been killed, but I don't know why I came back to life, and my points were reset to zero, so I reappeared on the Ranking List." Gu Ding himself didn't know what had happened, and he secretly asked the Sea Emperor, "Sea Emperor, do you know what happened?"
"I don't know either. After you were killed, my consciousness was also expelled from this world by SkyNet. My consciousness only returned after you woke up, and I don't know what happened during your sleep. I find this very strange, because normally, even if you are unconscious, my consciousness would not be affected. But this time, during your unconsciousness, my consciousness was also suppressed and fell into a state of sleep. Based on the information I currently have, only SkyNet should be able to do this. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that other powerful unknown entities could suppress me."
After hearing SkyNet's explanation, Gu Ding became even more confused. After a moment, he finally asked, "What about Futu? Has he come back to life?"
"No, he should be completely eliminated. We didn't see his body when we came here, and his name has completely disappeared from the Ranking List and hasn't reappeared," Liliath shook her head.
"I wonder if that little girl named Miniana is with Si Kao Er." Gu Ding frowned slightly. She had helped Miko before, and Gu Ding had a pretty good impression of her.
"Whether they're in cahoots or not, I don't know, but I do know they escaped separately," the Sea Emperor's voice came to Gu Ding's ear. "I just checked your body, and you're completely unharmed, basically in peak condition. Moreover, the items in your Storage Space are as if they've never been used, looking exactly as they were when you first entered the game twenty-five days ago."
Gu Ding got up and checked himself over; indeed, just as the Sea Emperor had said, he was perfectly fine. He turned to Liliath and the others, "I'm going to chase after Si Kao Er and get the points back."
"There's less than an hour left in the game, isn't it a bit late?" Liliath frowned slightly. "How about we challenge you and guarantee your elimination first?"
"No need, I can get those points back." Gu Ding was very confident and ran away at the coordinates given by the Sea Emperor.
"Since Gu Ding has gone after Si Kao Er, we'll go after Miniana. She has a considerable number of points." Liliath's previous contest with Miniana ended in a draw, and she had never liked the woman before. After Miniana killed Futu and stole the points that should have belonged to Gu Ding, her dislike for her only intensified.
"If you can avoid killing her, try not to. After all, she helped me," Miko after a moment's hesitation.
"We will try our best to capture her alive." Liliath.
In less than twenty minutes, Gu Ding caught up with Si Kao Er, who had concealed himself inside a volcano. Clearly, he intended to remain hidden until the game ended.
He thought he wouldn't be discovered, but little did he know that with the Sea Emperor around, Gu Ding had seen all his movements.
On the summit of a volcano, Gu Ding looked down and shouted in one direction, "Si Kao Er, no need to hide anymore, I've already found you."
"You're not dead?!" Si Kao Er was startled at first, but then his face was full of surprise. He found it very strange that the other party's points had already become his, yet the other party was still alive and well.
"Of course he's not dead." Gu Ding leaped down from the top of the volcano and then walked step by step toward Si Kao Er.
"How is that possible? And how did you find this place? You must have cheated!" The only explanation Si Kao Er could think of was that Gu Ding had cheated.
"Cheating? Which eye did you see that with? Do you have any evidence? If you're slandering me without evidence, I can sue you for defamation in the Federal Government," Gu Ding grinned.
As Gu Ding drew closer, Si Kao Er's palms sweated as he gripped the knife. He had witnessed Gu Ding's battles before; Gu Ding at his peak was far beyond his capabilities, and could potentially kill him in a single move.
Si Kao Er was an assassin, and under normal circumstances, he was very calm. But this spot was very important to him; if he lost it, he would face extremely severe punishment from the organization, punishment that could make life worse than death. "I can admit defeat three times in a row, as long as you're willing to let me go. This spot is really important to me."
"You should have thought about the consequences when you ambushed me." Gu Ding was not a soft-hearted person. Since the other party had ambushed and killed him, there was absolutely no possibility of letting the other party go.
Si Kao Er's face immediately contorted into a ferocious expression. "You've eliminated me, but the Dark Magic Domain will not let you get away with it!"
"So you're from the Dark Magic Domain, then you deserve to die even more!" Gu Ding said, raising one hand and a burst of azure flame erupted from his palm, instantly engulfing the entire interior of the volcano.
Si Kao Er didn't even have time to put up a fight before he was reduced to ashes by the Destruction Flame. Gu Ding's name once again replaced Si Kao Er's, and he returned to the top of the leaderboard with 4 billion points.