Bai Ye followed the street and soon arrived at the door of the miscellaneous food store that Gao Ming had mentioned.
There were four people in total, and Gao Ming was among them.
Bai Ye looked at Gao Ming in surprise and asked, "You're going too?"
Before Gao Ming could answer, a young man with a somewhat arrogant expression stepped forward and said, "We've been waiting for half a day for this guy? I don't see anything special about him."
As the young man spoke, he circled Bai Ye once, then suddenly reached out and patted Bai Ye's cheek.
"You do look quite good. I heard the leader from the Hidden Dragon Society is a woman, so are you planning to seduce her with your handsome face?"
Bai Ye looked at Gao Ming and said, "Get someone else."
Gao Ming said awkwardly, "Sorry."
The young man was displeased. "Replace me? On what grounds? Gao Ming, I was invited by Lin Jiaye. Are you telling me to leave now? Do you believe I'll quit the Evil Spirit Group?"
Bai Ye said, "You've misunderstood."
The young man looked at Bai Ye. "Hm?"
Bai Ye said, "When I said 'get someone else,' I didn't mean for you to leave."
*Zzzt!*
The moment Bai Ye spoke, a large amount of electricity surged from his body.
In the next instant, the lightning struck the young man. An intense stinging sensation and impact swept through his entire body. Following that, the young man's body was sent flying and crashed heavily onto the ground.
*Zzzt!*
The sound of electricity surged again. Bai Ye transformed into a bolt of lightning and appeared beside the young man. Before the latter could get up, Bai Ye stomped on his chest.
"What I meant by 'get someone else' is..." Bai Ye reached out and conjured a lightsaber with his Steel Slime, saying, "After one dies, a position naturally becomes vacant."
*Pfft!*
The young man quickly drew a long saber, but before he could raise it, Bai Ye's lightsaber had already swept past his throat.
Immediately after, a head rolled to the side.
Gao Ming was greatly alarmed. "Bai Ye, you..."
Bai Ye looked at Gao Ming, his gaze turning cold. "Do you have a problem with that?"
"No, no..." Gao Ming quickly shook his head. "Isn't this an absolute safe zone? You told me it was!"
Bai Ye said, "Yes, this area is protected by the World Battlefield."
Gao Ming was confused. "But, you..."
Bai Ye explained, "The premise for being protected by the World Battlefield is entering a virtual game no-go zone. Since it's consciousness entering, the physical body remains in this area, thus the body is protected by the World Battlefield. No one can kill someone whose consciousness has entered a virtual game no-go zone."
Gao Ming asked, "Then what about now?"
Bai Ye spread his hands. "Just a general neutral safe zone."
Gao Ming said, "Then you won't get in trouble for killing someone?"
Gao Ming glanced at the headless corpse, feeling a pang of regret.
It was true that the guy was arrogant, but he was still a top-tier expert in the Evil Spirit Group, so his death was a bit of a pity.
The first tier experts were trapped in the virtual game, and the others were still within the Primal Domain.
However, more than this incident, Gao Ming was truly worried about Bai Ye. Killing someone in a neutral zone would cause significant trouble.
"It's fine," Bai Ye said indifferently. "Don't worry about me. Prepare to enter the virtual game."
Gao Ming said, "Are you sure..."
Before Gao Ming could finish his sentence, he felt that something was about to go wrong. Combat robots had already appeared around them and were heading in their direction.
Despite the lack of a technological atmosphere in this small town, it was actually a futuristic technological area.
Technological development had many different paths, and the technology in this area primarily leaned towards life and entertainment.
Therefore, the futuristic technological feel was not as strong.
But that didn't mean there was no military power. Combat robots were used for defense, and although they were entry-level, their quality was not low among entry-level models.
However...
Bai Ye turned his head to look at the robots, and then...
*Crash!*
The more than a dozen combat robots that were approaching Bai Ye suddenly shattered into pieces, scattering on the ground as a pile of parts.
The members of the Evil Spirit Group were instantly dumbfounded.
Gao Ming, in particular, was contemplating whether to quickly pull people and escape, but then...
It was over?
Just like that, it was over?
"Let's go!" Bai Ye said to Gao Ming. "Quickly call another person over, it's time to get down to business."
Safe zone?
There was no truly safe place in the World Battlefield.
The so-called safe zones were merely protected by powerful native inhabitants, which deterred the chosen ones from acting rashly, thus forming the so-called safe zones.
When the chosen ones' strength could crush the native inhabitants maintaining order in a safe zone, the so-called safe zone would no longer be a safe zone.
If Bai Ye could currently crush all safe zones, that would be nonsense, but in a futuristic technological area where combat robots maintained law and order, Bai Ye truly didn't take them seriously.
Mechanical Reconstruction could directly teach them a lesson.
Gao Ming's mood was indescribable. Although it wasn't the first time he had seen Bai Ye in action, and he indeed knew Bai Ye was very strong, but...
Disregarding safe zones, this was simply too perverted.
Bai Ye urged again, "Let's go, what are you still standing there for?"
Gao Ming snapped back to attention and quickly said, "Let's go, let's go, this way."
Even though a group of combat robots had been eliminated, this was clearly not the end, so they should naturally leave as quickly as possible.
Although...
Bai Ye might not have cared much.
Leading the way quickly, Gao Ming took everyone into a detached villa-style townhouse and said to Bai Ye, "This is our temporary base. We've rented this place temporarily."
As Gao Ming spoke, he pushed the door open.
Walking past the entrance into the living room, there were virtual reality devices everywhere. There were also five men and two women, along with some empty devices.
It was obvious that the vacant devices were because the users had already died.
Gao Ming instructed, "Put on the helmet, connect the device to your wrist veins, and then place this pad on your chest."
Bai Ye would definitely know how to use it, so Gao Ming wasn't worried, but he needed to explain it to the remaining two.
Bai Ye sat down on the sofa and looked at Gao Ming. "Are you going too?"
Gao Ming nodded. "Yes!"
Bai Ye asked, "Aren't you a cadre?"
Gao Ming chuckled. "Don't underestimate me, I can fight very well."
Bai Ye shrugged, then said, "We're one person short."
Gao Ming shook his head. "There's not enough time for someone to get here now, and besides..."
Gao Ming gave a wry smile.
"We really can't find any more experts."
"Ah?" Bai Ye asked. "No way?"
Gao Ming asked, "What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
Bai Ye said, "So, you called that guy just now an expert?"
Gao Ming's forehead instantly broke out in black lines.
The others were speechless.
Don't you know that bragging will bring misfortune?
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