Chapter 266
Ji Nanqing was bewildered by her warm and friendly face. "What?"
"Come here." Xu Jintang put away the token and snapped his fingers. "Give her a full-body massage."
"Yes!" Gao Xinran and the others immediately surrounded her with smiles.
Ji Nanqing blankly enjoyed the massage services from Gao Xinran and the others, and even began to wonder if she was hallucinating.
She only regained consciousness after the massage ended and the feeling of comfort from her body disappeared.
"What exactly do you want?!"
Anger flashed across Ji Nanqing's face, probably feeling that she had been toyed with.
Xu Jintang immediately explained, "Don't misunderstand, I just want to collaborate with you."
"Cooperate?" A stubborn glint flashed in Ji Nanqing's eyes. "Either eliminate me directly, or let me go. Cooperating with you is absolutely out of the question!"
Seeing her resolute attitude, Gao Xinran turned to Xu Jintang for instructions. "Should we just eliminate her? Otherwise, her constant nagging could easily cause trouble."
Xu Jintang glanced at Ji Nanqing, then lowered his head and pondered for a moment, "Never mind, let's take her with us."
"But she keeps calling me that..." Gao Xinran said worriedly.
Suddenly, Yan Yuting, who was standing nearby, produced a custard bun and stuffed it into Ji Nanqing's mouth.
Ji Nanqing, who had been chattering incessantly, suddenly fell silent, and only her constant "woofing" sounds of struggling could be heard.
Seeing that the trouble had been resolved, Gao Xinran shut her mouth and said nothing more.
[Even Lian Xihe Alliance Military Academy couldn't withstand Xu Jintang and his team; the league championship this year is probably already a foregone conclusion.]
[Aren't there other teams? If the Xihe Alliance Military Academy, the Imperial Military Academy, and the Quiet Moon Military Academy join forces, they might be able to defeat Leikedasi.]
[Furthermore, given the current situation, if Leikedasi continues to dominate, Clifford could easily choose to join forces with another team. That would put Leikedasi at a disadvantage.]
Viewers had differing opinions, and arguments began to erupt between those in the live stream and those at the venue.
At this moment, several bigwigs in the VIP seats also began to chat casually.
"It's truly hard to imagine Leikedasi resorting to such tactics as turning other teams against each other. However, it also demonstrates that your school's cultivation of students' thinking is indeed a cut above the rest." Several leaders from the Federation Branch Bureau looked at Miao Mingzhi with smiles, their tone filled with both admiration and envy.
Miao Mingzhi smiled without saying a word, appearing unreadable, but in reality, he was also slightly surprised by Xu Jintang and the others' behavior.
The only two people on the field who didn't speak were Jing Hongyi and Gu Xiuwen, who kept their eyes glued to the broadcast screen.
For some reason, both of them looked rather serious.
Within a simulated battlefield.
"Supplies successfully delivered." The notification sound repeated three times before disappearing.
The flashing red light has stopped and switched to a constant light mode.
When Xu Jintang and his group arrived at the scene, the supply boxes that had been dropped were still untouched on the ground.
"There are energy stones in the supplies!" Song Tianqi was the first to rush forward to search the supplies, shouted.
On the other side, Xue Zhongqi made a new discovery. "There are also many light-bullet inscriptions and recovery-type inscriptions."
Soon, the others rushed forward and began to open the remaining supply boxes.
"This supply replenishment is quite complete, with all kinds of supplies, enough for our three teams," Gao Xinran reported to Xu Jintang after summarizing the supply situation.
"Let's collect the supplies first. We need to move to a new location quickly, otherwise we'll easily be surrounded by other teams," Xu Jintang said cautiously, observing the surrounding environment.
The supplies were deployed to a plain.
Surrounded by dense forests, it was easy to hide and conceal themselves. If someone were lying in ambush, Xu Jintang and his group would easily become easy targets.
"Yes!"
Gao Xinran and the others quickened their pace and soon stored all the supplies in their storage space.
A few minutes later, Xu Jintang and his group safely evacuated the scene.
Not long after, Shi Anyu led Grande Military Academy and two other teams to the supply drop-off point.
After the supplies were taken away, the constantly lit red light disappeared.
The site has become an ordinary, unremarkable empty space.
"It seems the supplies have already been taken," Wang Qian said calmly.
Shi Anyu's gaze swept around, and his originally calm expression suddenly changed after landing on a certain spot.
He came to a large tree near the woods, squatted down, and his gaze fell on a stone beside the tree roots. A star pattern was carved on the uneven stone surface.
This pattern was the secret code he and Xu Jintang had agreed upon beforehand.
It seems everything is going according to plan on her end as well.
Shi Anyu withdrew his gaze, pretending nothing had happened, and stood up to look at his team members. "The team that took the supplies is probably already far away, and it will be difficult for us to catch up. But the next round of shrinking survival zones should begin soon. To be on the safe side, let's stick to the original plan and continue moving along the direction of the green barrier."
The survival zone has already shrunk twice. Each time the green barrier shrinks, it moves in a northwest direction. Therefore, it can be roughly estimated that the new survival zone in the next round will also continue to shrink in a northwest direction.
To avoid falling behind when the survival zone shrinks in the next round, they headed northwest ahead of time.
Chapter 266
"Quick! There's a wooden house over there!" Song Tianqi shouted, pointing to a small wooden house not far away.
At this moment, the sky was overcast, with dense clouds blocking out the sunlight. The atmosphere of the overcast day was particularly oppressive, with a sense of oppressive tightness.
With a loud "boom".
A thunderclap struck from the sky, followed by a torrential downpour like a waterfall.
"Quick, quick, let's get inside and take shelter from the rain!" Song Tianqi led the way, rushing towards the wooden house.
Before long, Xu Jintang and his group all took shelter in the wooden house to avoid the rain.
The rain poured down, so dense that it formed patches of mist that obscured people's vision.
Xu Jintang stood by the window, gazing at the torrential rain outside. "It seems this natural disaster is indeed caused by torrential rain. We need to prepare for potential flooding and landslides in the mountains."
Gao Xinran nodded, "I'll arrange for someone to reinforce the wooden house right away."
The rain started and never stopped, continuing until the sun went down.
Night fell, but the intensity of the downpour showed no signs of abating.
The area outside the wooden house had been washed into a muddy mess by the rain, and many tree branches were swaying back and forth in the rain.
It was late at night.
Inside the wooden cabin, Xu Jintang and the others sat together, about to discuss their next steps, when a police siren sounded.
"The core system of the simulated battlefield has been suspected of being invaded by an enemy. Alert mode is about to be activated. All survivors will be forcibly ejected from the battlefield in ten seconds. Please be prepared."
The indifferent machine prompts came from all directions, layer upon layer.
Song Tianqi looked up in bewilderment, "What's going on? Is the battlefield simulation system malfunctioning?"
"It's not a malfunction; the message just now said it was hacked," Yan Yuting corrected him.
After regaining their senses, Gao Xinran and the others all had expressions of disbelief on their faces.
"How is that possible? This is a league organized by the Federation. Who could possibly hack into the Federation's system?"
The Federation is synonymous with the highest combat power in the entire star system, and no one would have thought that they would dare to cause trouble in a league of this level.
Ten-second countdown begins.
All the survivors looked completely bewildered.
No one knew what had happened, except for Xu Jintang, who already knew the truth, who frowned.
The plan she and Shi Anyu discussed was to wait until their two teams had recruited and subdued all the other teams before taking the next step.
But why has it suddenly been brought forward?
"Three, two, one." As the countdown ended, an invisible force rapidly spread throughout the entire simulated battlefield.
Then, an accident occurred.
The people who should have been ejected from the simulated battlefield as instructed remained standing in place, perfectly fine.
"How am I still here?" Song Tianqi scratched his head in confusion.
Xue Zhongqi, who was next door, was the first to realize something was wrong. "Damn it, didn't the system just say there was an external invasion? Could it be malfunctioning?"
Yan Yuting, his eyes glazed, speculated, "If the system has malfunctioned, and we haven't been successfully ejected from the simulated battlefield, then doesn't that mean... we might all be stuck here forever?"
Upon hearing this, the bewildered team members instantly panicked.
"I think my teacher once said that if the core system of the simulated battlefield malfunctions, everyone on the battlefield could potentially suffer brain death!"
"My God, what's going on?! This is a league organized by the Federation, how could anyone dare to provoke the Federation?"
"So what do we do now? Just stay here and wait to die?"
The previously orderly queue descended into chaos.
Xu Jintang stood calmly in place, his mind racing as he searched for a solution.
Shi Anyu had told her long ago that the simulated battlefield had been bugged when they entered, meaning that from that moment on, they would not be able to leave the simulated battlefield smoothly.
The reason she chose to recruit the team instead of eliminating them was to cover up the fact that she had just encountered them.
If other teams find out that even if they are eliminated, they cannot leave the simulated battlefield, it will definitely cause widespread panic.
This is clearly the most unfavorable situation for them.
[Is this a test from the league, or is there a real malfunction?]
[How dare someone cause trouble in such a high-level league? Are they crazy?]
[The Reform Society! It must be the Reform Society causing trouble again! The Federation needs to deal with these thieves quickly, we can't take it anymore.]
[Holy crap! The live stream signal dropped! Something really happened.]
At the same time, a scream suddenly erupted from inside the league stadium, "Ah--"