When the third wave of attacks ended, everyone except Li Zheng was baffled.
Why did it feel like there were fewer monsters?
Zhan Zhouzhou quickly recounted the number of three-tailed wolves during the brief respite.
"Indeed, a sixth of them are gone, what happened?"
Not only did she not understand, but neither did Chu Xiao and the others.
During the rest period, all the corpses would be covered by a sudden dust and dissolve swiftly.
Everyone else was looking at the missing wolf corpses, utterly perplexed.
Why did this round of prey decrease in number?
Given everyone’s strength, it was impossible to have casualties in the third round, right?
Only Li Zheng ignored the wailing three-tailed wolves everywhere and scolded Xiaoying.
"Why are you learning both good and bad, kid?" He pointed at the little one’s nose, "From now on, you’re not allowed to kick the crotch, understand?
If you really want to find a weak spot, in the future, you can poke the eyes, hit the adam’s apple, or kick the shin, but you’re absolutely not to hit the groin again, got it?"
"Ow ow..."
Xiaoying was very aggrieved, wasn’t this all what you taught ?
Learning creatively, with standard actions, not an ounce extra, why wasn’t there any praise but just a scolding?
Li Zheng was also helpless, he just spoke without thinking, who knew that the little one only used those steps once, while particularly favoring hitting the groin...
It could be said that he completely absorbed the dross and left out the essence, mastering the least appropriate skills proficiently.
Look at these nearly a hundred three-tailed wolves lying around, whoever had so many eggs to practice kicking on wouldn’t beco this proficient?
Looking at the dying three-tailed wolves, Li Zheng felt a toothache, this scene... what a sin!
Since the three-tailed wolves were not dead yet, the unknown dust had no effect on them.
Just in ti, the fourth wave of attacks was about to begin, according to the plan, Xiaoying should step down in this round, hand off to Li Zheng for a relay.
"Alright then, you can’t really help in the upcoming battle, find a place to stay, leave the rest to ."
He waved his hand, letting Xiaoying retreat, Li Zheng picked up his weapon and started finishing off the wolves one by one.
Letting these three-tailed wolves go unchecked?
As a fellow male creature, Li Zheng felt it was too cruel, to prolong pain is worse than ending it quickly, better settle it early.
"...Ow." Xiaoying flapped its wings, clutching the two cheering sticks Li Zheng had just given it, and flew to a corner of the battlefield.
At this mont, the five arc grills overhead vanished.
The fourth wave of attack began.
This ti, it was airstrike beasts.
Seeing this, Li Zheng relaxed a bit; if the flying monsters were left for the final round, this competition would beco too difficult.
Soon, the first Gold Level creature fell from one of the doors.
Li Zheng took a mont to glance up.
It was a creature with a dog’s head, snake’s body, eagle’s wings, and a fish’s tail, very bizarre.
Like the previous three rounds, its belly was gaunt, it had clearly suffered prolonged starvation, and was now ravenous.
Upon seeing Li Zheng, the chira folded its wings, dove, and spat a fireball at him.
"Extre Isolation!"
Casually covering himself with his ability, Li Zheng sped up his finishing moves, when the chira lunged at him, he’d killed fifteen three-tailed wolves.
Among them, thirteen were released after others had slain their prey on their respective battlefields.
So... over there, not only did they have to face the flying chira, but also endure the ground harassnt of two three-tailed wolves.
While Li Zheng was leisurely dealing with the Gold Level creature.
The others were indeed in a bit of a panic.
Especially Chu Xiao.
His entire strength lay in gigantification transformation, but this ability’s consumption was terribly high, and once activated, the original force couldn’t stop, it was akin to a one-off strategic ability.
For the first three rounds, he relied on a Gold Level lee weapon paired with firearms, responding with relative ease.
But when faced with the flying monster in the fourth round, his response was sowhat strained.
In lee combat, not to ntion Zhan Zhouzhou, he was slightly inferior even to Li Zheng.
In firearms shooting ability, he was no match for Xiao Siyuan and Ye Yuan.
The forr had undergone a period of military training, the latter lived long with a Gatling, when they went berserk, the barrage directly taught lessons.
This resulted in Chu Xiao being just alright in both lee and ranged attack abilities... and not exceedingly well.
Soon, Chu Xiao, a ranking mber of the combat strength list, was the first to fall behind.
Particularly, less than ten seconds after the first chira was released, two more descended from the air.
Moreover, from the door of the third round, suddenly two more three-tailed wolves erged.
For a mont, he was flustered, and could only use transformation to clear the field.
After gigantification, the chira and the three-tailed wolves were instantly obliterated in his presence.
Seizing the opportunity, he grabbed a chira by the tail and smashed it as a weapon, the field imdiately filled with gore.
In just three seconds, three chiras and two three-tailed wolves turned into a field of minced at.
The remaining seven seconds...
He spent them in a daze.
Two minutes later, Chu Xiao appeared in the preparation space with several fang-pierced holes on his face, looking bad.
He took out a set of clothes to put on, then used disinfectant spray to treat his wounds, feeling more and more frustrated.
"Who the hell is it? Playing strategies in this kind of friendly match among acquaintances, that’s too dirty, right?"
At this mont, the system prompt asked whether to leave the competition room.
If you don’t want to leave, it very "considerately" offered the option to watch the battle.
"Watch!"
Of course, Chu Xiao refused to leave; he wanted to see who was playing these dirty tactics, deliberately leaving the third-round monsters for the fourth round to cause trouble for others.
The next second, four holographic projections appeared in front of him, corresponding to the remaining few players.
Looking through them one by one, he saw the following scene on Li Zheng’s battlefield.
Li Zheng, holding a Tachi in one hand and a Salted Fish Spear in the other, was dragged by the Flying Device to maneuver in the air, directly charging at the scorching fireball, swiftly slashing the Golden Monster to death, while the Salted Fish Spear kept shooting at the ground, finishing off the few Three-tailed Wolves lying there.
Chu Xiao: "..."
What the hell!
Is Li Zheng using hacks?
It’s fine if you can instantly kill Gold Level monsters; I admit your weapon quality is superior, and I’ve had no luck in acquiring similar ones.
But what’s with your reckless charge through a fireball?
Even Ye Kai, sitting in a cha, has to carefully dodge those high-temperature fireballs, yet you barreled through unhard?
This is too buggy, isn’t it?
"Terminal, I want to report, there’s a cheater here!"
On the other side, Li Zheng finally took care of all the Three-tailed Wolves on the ground and could focus on the Gold Level Golden Monster.
Suddenly, he felt a jolt in his heart, sensing sothing awry.
"That’s strange, why have so few Golden Monsters appeared after fighting for so long?"
Checking the ti, the fourth round had been going on for almost nine minutes, and Li Zheng clearly rembered that the gate releasing the first Golden Monster on his side had already released seven monsters.
Yet, adding up the total number of monsters killed by others, it didn’t exceed fifteen.
"Is it because I kill too fast and they can’t keep up?"
At that mont, he noticed the corpses of the Three-tailed Wolves on the ground, and a troubling thought erged.
"Damn it, did I unintentionally leave fifteen Silver Monsters for others? So that ans..."
Li Zheng suddenly realized why others were killing monsters so slowly.
In the preparation hall, Chu Xiao watched the other three cooperatively only kill the Golden Monsters released by others, doing their best to cripple the monsters released on their own battlefields and avoid killing them if possible.
Zhan Zhouzhou stood out especially, with six Golden Monsters already lying on the ground, all of which had wings cut off and lost their flying ability.
To prevent these Golden Monsters from moving around like snakes, Zhan Zhouzhou even chopped off half their bodies to preserve their Life Force to keep them alive longer.
As for the dense fireballs in the arena, under the extre maneuvering of her family-inherited steps...
Oh, Chu Xiao zood in the view and noticed that her clothes’ edge was still slightly burned.
Ye Kai and Liu Jiale were much worse off; their best efforts could only manage to leave two alive on their side. With an increasing number, it would beco overwhelming for them when dodging fireballs.
Chu Xiao scratched his head and sighed, "So this is how the competition room is played!"
The fourth round ended, giving the remaining four a brief respite.
At this mont, Zhan Zhouzhou still had seven living Golden Monsters on her side, so even during the break, she had to stay active to avoid getting hit by fireballs.
Liu Jiale still had three, all gathered in one corner of the battlefield under his intentional guidance, allowing him to ignore all fireballs by running to the other side during the break.
As for Ye Kai...
He was watching the battle alongside Chu Xiao in the preparation hall.
This guy ssed up at the end, getting hit by a fireball on his cha. Unfortunately, it hit the energy compartnt, causing damage.
He spaced out during the repair, letting a Golden Monster entangle his cha, leaving him immobilized.
With the fireball attacks from the earlier Golden Monsters, he, feeling sorry for his cha, simply jumped out of it to sacrifice himself.
So after returning to the preparation hall, like Chu Xiao, he had to change clothes, but first, he needed to treat his burns.
Li Zheng also left two Gold Level monsters. During his break, he was the most relaxed.
Sitting nearby with Sakura, directly bathing in the fireballs...
It’s not that he didn’t want to save more, but when he realized it, the fourth round was already halfway through, and during his attempt to disable those Golden Monsters, he accidentally killed a few...
Ye Kai, after treating his burns, took out two bottles of juice to watch the battle with Chu Xiao.
Guzzling down half a bottle, he finally sighed, "This last round, it’s all about who can endure the longest, right?"
Fifteen minutes, releasing a Platinum Level monster every three minutes. Compared to the current player strength, no one can solve it in such a short ti.
Moreover, there are still several golden creatures deliberately left by people in the field... just waiting to add pressure on others at the end.
Chu Xiao, intrigued, asked, "Who do you think will last till the end this ti?"
Without a second thought, Ye Kai said, "It has to be Zhan Zhouzhou. She has the most Golden Monsters left from the fourth round, so the pressure will be less compared to Li Zheng and the others."
Chu Xiao thought about it, changing the question, "And who do you think will be the first player to be taken out in the fifth round?"
"It must be Li Zheng!" Ye Kai pointed at the holographic projection, full of resentnt, "If he doesn’t et a miserable end, I won’t be satisfied!"
He already knew that the Three-tailed Wolves were Li Zheng’s doing.
After all, if he couldn’t get the final reward here, not only would his ammunition materials be wasted for nothing, but even the materials consud for repairing his cha would go down the drain.
Just in this fourth round, the materials he used were enough for Ye Yuan to craft ten thousand rounds of Gatling ammo.
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