"Boss! Should I kill him first?"

The muscular man closest to the enemy seemed a bit hesitant. He felt he could easily kill the guy in front, but the boss's words made him realize that things might not be that simple.

"Hold on for now!"

The leader immediately stopped him, then stepped forward a few paces, positioning himself two meters behind the muscular player.

"Friend, although this is our first meeting under such circumstances, I hope you can recognize the current situation."

The leader, bathed in the golden light emanating from his magic staff, spoke to the young man struggling on the ground ahead.

"I don't know how badly you're actually hurt right now, but regardless, today marks your end... However, if you obediently hand over all the equipment from your backpack, I promise to give you a swift end without additional pain... Otherwise, we will try to heal you only to torment you until you yield. I believe you wouldn't want to endure such agony..."

Apparently, the leader's intention was to maximize his gain, coercing the surrounded target to hand over everything in his personal space voluntarily, which would obviously be most beneficial to them if it worked.

"Why... did you... betray... me..."

The young man, disfigured by a special explosive to the point where his face could no longer be seen, didn't answer but instead asked intermittently why he was being treated this way.

"Why? Heh..."

The middle-stature but charismatic leader sneered at this.

"You refused to cooperate with us, making you our enemy. Is that concept hard to understand?"

He looked down at the miserable young man lying on the ground as if viewing an idiot, his face showing mockery.

"Don't blame us for being unscrupulous... Choosing to be a lone wolf player means you have to bear additional risks. If being a lone wolf were so easy, what would we team players be needed for? Did you really think being strong meant no one could do anything about you?"

The leader's words were filled with contempt for the person possibly being Wang Zhifan on the ground, indicating he had been too arrogant in the past to refuse their group's partnership proposal, and now this outcome was his just deserts.

"And don't think I don't know you're faking it right now, still keeping some combat strength... So don't entertain any delusions; we didn't just prepare a few bombs to take you down! I can guarantee that even if you were at your fullest strength now, you'd still fall here!"

The youth, leader of the player group, sternly admonished the existence on the ground who was presumably Wang Zhifan, exposing the potential counterattack plan he might be brewing.

"Enough, I've wasted enough words... Quickly throw out the equipment in your space now, and considering you're a fellow compatriot of Xia Country, I'll spare you a lot of pain... Just say whether you agree or not..."

After a few exchanges, the head player continued to threaten the miserable young man on the ground ahead, believing that no matter how the other disguised, the outcome wouldn't change. His group consisted of elite players, all working in perfect coordination and well-prepared for this hunt; it was impossible for the other to break this siege.

Yet, contrary to his expectations, after his confident speech, the miserable young man lying on the ground suddenly vanished into thin air. Then, a young man's voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Have you seen my full power status?"

With a calm, questioning tone, a powerful hand pressed onto the leader's left shoulder, causing him intense pain from his shoulder blade. Meanwhile, a sharp sensation appeared on the right side of his neck.

"What's happening!"

At that moment, the leader youth was filled with sheer terror, unable to comprehend how the enemy, whom he anticipated had backup plans, could appear behind him without any sign and effortlessly breach the force field defense he'd been maintaining, placing a blade at his neck.

"Boss!"

The muscular player standing a few meters ahead immediately turned and lunged, aiming to take out the enemy who had suddenly appeared, with a steel-gloved punch.

Although he also couldn't comprehend why this enemy suddenly appeared behind his leader and seemed to completely suppress him in an instant, those details didn't matter to him. As a warrior, all he needed to do was go through everything head-on!

"Die!"

As Wang Zhifan, holding the leader youth from behind with his left hand, didn't even glance at the lunging muscular player. He casually flicked his Ocean Envoy Curved Saber with his right hand towards the opponent, letting a magnificent Dream Splendor Blade Light vertically pierce through the warrior player, splitting his moving body into left and right halves, with internal organs scattering everywhere.

Bang bang bang bang~

Then several gunshots fired almost simultaneously from the surroundings, with multiple bullets targeting him from various directions and angles, aimed at places like his head, heart, arms, and knees, hoping to force him to dodge and let go of his hold on the leader youth.

However, Wang Zhifan's response was so simple it baffled his opponents. He seemed entirely unconcerned about the incoming bullets, just standing there unfazed and absorbing all the shots, while the curved saber blade returned to the leader youth's neck, gripped by a single hand.

"Damn... My body can't move... Why isn't the resistance potion working..."

The leader of the player group, despite being full of fear internally, first realized he'd been subdued in an instant without even a chance to react, then watched his formidable warrior class comrade ahead get effortlessly cleaved in two by the person controlling him. This person also took the team's gunfire head-on without any dodging while attaching some cold power onto him, leaving him unable to execute any resistance tactics.

The fact that the target possessed ice powers was something they had known from investigations, prompting them to make corresponding preparations where each consumed an Elemental Resistance Potion. This selection was also to counteract another form of thunder attribute damage the target possessed, but the result was dismal with no apparent effectiveness, leaving him immobile.

While the group leader struggled futilely, his teammates hadn't abandoned efforts to rescue him. Gunmen at the perimeter continued shooting at Wang Zhifan, a giant pangolin-like beast emerged from underground, launching a teapot-sized claw attack at Wang Zhifan's leg, multiple sharp rock spikes arose from nearby grounds seeking to restrict his movements, and a hazy ethereal figure appeared not far from Wang Zhifan, silently flinging a dark green triangular poison dart...

"Is this your strength? I must say I'm very disappointed..."

Having withstood the siege of nearly ten players, Wang Zhifan was evaluating how capable this player group truly was, whether they could pose any real threat, but the conclusion did nothing to convince him. It all felt like they were just tickling him, a complete waste of his time.

"Source power of ice, maximum intensity."

In an instant, he unleashed his masterfully honed freezing ability, instantly suppressing the players besieging him like he did with the leader in front.

The reason for using the maximum intensity of his ice source power, aside from feeling these bodies were peculiarly consuming much ice to freeze, was also that he'd noticed another twenty or thirty Zutao Giants nearby beginning to advance, uncertain whether they were coming to aid the player group or planning to sweep them along with him altogether.

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