Under the dim yellow streetlights, battle broke out between the players, and the "crowd" scattered in panic.
On the ground, the corpse split in two looked as though it had been cut by a precision lathe. The halves were perfectly even, the cut surfaces smooth.
Silence fell around them. Xiao Hai and the other four remaining high-powered players all involuntarily took several steps back.
Ren Ye's feat of cleaving a man in two with one sword strike had certainly given these players a vicious fright.
After all, that player had already mobilized his Star Source and defended with all his strength.
Yet he had... had actually been split so easily into two human-shaped sanitary pads. This guy sticking his neck out was as strong as Brother Dong.
That was what Xiao Hai thought...
Beside him, a female player stared at Ren Ye. "Oh, so that's why you dared to stick your neck out. You've been hiding your strength all along."
Tap, tap.
A jumble of footsteps rang out as players approached against the fleeing crowd from several directions around the street.
Earlier, Ren Ye had offered Xiao Hai a minute to call for help, but that much time was unnecessary. This area had the highest concentration of quest locations.
Wang Dong's subordinates had split into several groups to rob people everywhere. Now that they sensed violent Star Source Fluctuations here, with Remnant Souls fleeing in all directions, they naturally knew a fight had broken out.
"Let me see what's going on here."
"Huh? Those two halves on the ground... is that Xiao Langhun? Who killed him?"
"...!"
In just a few dozen seconds, eleven players had gathered in front of and behind Xiao Hai.
"Someone's sticking his neck out to back those suckers up." The female player stared at Ren