"Is this the reason for your confidence?"

Huangfu Zhu nodded, picked up the cocktail glass in front of him, and shook it a few times, but didn’t actually drink it.

"But I still don’t think we can genuinely cooperate, just like I can’t even be sure if you’re a clone right now."

"Since everyone is sitting here, I suppose you all have this in mind, don’t you?"

The tall woman did not answer directly, but smiled alluringly: "The advantage of that Smiling Face is unbelievably large. If we don’t join forces, we’ll only be defeated one by one by him.

Under the current circumstances, does it matter so much whether the partner is a Death Fighter or a clone?"

Huangfu Zhu responded with a noncommittal smile.

In the bar, only the two of them were talking, while the other Death Fighters sat around, maintaining silence, the atmosphere felt a bit oppressive.

Chang Hu rubbed his mouth unhappily, glanced around, and finally set his gaze on a slender young man dressed in the Oshima High School uniform.

"Brother, you haven’t said a word since you came in, just listening to us sharing our ability information. As a Death Fighter, you should know this is quite a rude provocation, right?

However, I’m a gentleman, as long as you come over and kowtow to your Brother Hu, we’ll let it go, how about that?"

Facing the sudden provocation from Chang Hu, Guanjin was neither angry nor overly surprised.

He simply replied expressionlessly: "If you want to test the abilities of our friends present, you might as well just take action instead of finding such a boring excuse."

Chang Hu grinned: "Haha, I was being presumptuous.

I must remind everyone, as the only one among us who has faced Smiling Face and survived, I believe I have a significant say in how terrifying Smiling Face is.

If some brainless guys infiltrate the team, we’re just giving points to Smiling Face for nothing. In that case, it would be better to give them to me first."

He paused and continued to add: "I must reiterate, only by uniting the true elites can we hope to contend with Smiling Face."

After Chang Hu finished speaking, no one inside the bar stood up to refute or agree, maintaining the silence.

The tall woman slightly raised her red lips, pouted in Chang Hu’s direction, then turned to Huangfu Zhu and said: "It seems your partner has already decided to join forces."

"We came here with the intention of collaboration."

After saying that, Huangfu Zhu actually picked up the glass in front of him and drank it in one gulp: "Let’s get straight to the point, tell me, how do you plan to tap into the power of the ’Node’?"

...

Pat, pat~

A dense sound of feet hitting the ground echoed on the street.

Before long, the non-human monsters causing these sounds became visible.

They were roughly human-sized, entirely skinned and blood-red, with curved spines, crawling quickly on all fours.

A rough count revealed about twenty or thirty of them.

"Oh, Crawlers."

Lv Bai blinked, not really feeling threatened by these fast-crawling monsters.

Golden Level abilities are like this—they’re generally somewhat useful, but to say that any single Golden Ability is incredibly strong would be an exaggeration.

If these monsters aren’t contagious, then any Postnatal Martial Artist with fully refined Inner Strength could easily take out these dozens of crawling monsters.

Lv Bai didn’t think much of the ability to transform bodies into crawling monsters, not even bothering to read it.

He quickly located the Death Fighter hiding behind, controlling the monsters with his floating title, and in a flash, punched him into mincemeat.

[Ding!]

[Points +1, Current Points: 98, Current Rank: 1/39]

After doing all this, Lv Bai stopped in his tracks to check the information in the upper left corner of his personal interface.

The temporary slot bar retained three abilities: [Power Bank (Gold)], [Sixth Sense Enhancement (Gold)], and [Electronic Enchantress (Silver)].

The first two abilities were ones he had saved earlier, while the last one was an interesting ability Lv Bai had recently read.

[Electronic Enchantress (Silver): When you become a video game designer, the more you torment the players, the more they become obsessed with you.]

During this time, Bear Chief Warden didn’t catch up again, perhaps as he said, he went to take revenge on Thirteen Orphans, Xiao Fengze, and the others.

To accomplish the target mission, whatever the choice, it couldn’t be done solo.

The subordinates in Chikan Bay need to be preserved somewhat.

Speaking of which...

The ability [Electronic Enchantress]...

When Lv Bai actually uses it, it feels a bit abstract.

This is mainly because the definition of video games in this ability is somewhat too broad.

From his actual tests.

Yes, indeed, as long as it uses electricity, it can be deemed a video game.

Frankly speaking, Lv Bai feels a bit embarrassed to use this ability group, so during this period, he hunted several Death Fighters, trying to find more suitable abilities.

Unfortunately, things didn’t go as he wished; the abilities he subsequently read were either useless or hard to synergize with his current ability set.

Lv Bai sighed softly, turning his head toward the direction of Nanxing Street.

"I’ll just make do with it."

...

Nanxing Street.

The originally brutal battlefield now has only one area that stands out.

It’s the battlefield of no less than ten Grandmasters.

It’s called a battlefield because, within a radius of nearly half a kilometer, not a single building is intact—all reduced to rubble.

The combatants are vastly unequal in number, a scenario of one against nine.

Ironically, the side with more people is not gaining the upper hand. The nine Grandmasters from different factions are, in fact, getting beaten down by Bear Chief Warden.

The scene looks utterly exaggerated.

The Grandmasters from Oshima High School and Chikan Bay still retain some combat power.

Only Thirteen Orphans, Crow Captain, Noah Zorro, and Ah She are left, along with the veteran Grandmasters Brother Kong and Liu the Third.

These powerhouses, who usually cut imposing figures in their respective factions, seem as fragile as children before Bear Chief Warden.

Add to that, Bear Chief Warden’s attacks are clearly fueled by a sense of revenge, making it incredibly difficult for the Grandmasters to defend against.

If it weren’t for the other Grandmasters helping to maneuver the situation, Bear Chief Warden would’ve probably taken them out one by one by now.

Boom!

Simba crossed his arms to shield his chest, but was sent flying by a punch from Bear Chief Warden.

He slowly managed to steady himself, feeling a surge of blood rushing within.

His tone was full of reluctance and envy: "Is this the power of the next realm?"

After experiencing Bear Chief Warden’s power firsthand, Thirteen Orphans made a quick judgment: "Lv Bai is probably already dead."

"We can’t win; let’s retreat quickly."

Noah Zorro looked grim: "Anyway, I’m planning to make a run for it. Whatever you decide to do is none of my business."