The Lost Land of Gold

"Georgia and the others are at the palace now, the location Mu Sicheng reported to me earlier is also near there, let's go there first." Bai Liu tilted his head, looking towards the top of the mine, "Let's go out through the mine, and the specific clues I've found, I'll talk to you about them while I'm there."

Bai Liu looked down at the time he had recorded, looked up at Tang Er and typed, "In short, be sure to leave this game before the gold is sculpted."

"If either of you and Mu Sicheng start sculpting gold, I'll kill you myself and send you out."

Tang Er hit took a deep breath, "...... I know."

Gurrolon Palace.

The palace of this long-standing golden kingdom is an elegant and dignified white domed complex, the interior of the palace is scattered with large and small sub-palaces, on both sides of the road are spacious garden beds and spaced out beautifully hollowed iron street lamps, the plants in the flower beds are all withered, all over the place there are fallen leaves, which should have been quite a dilapidated palace, but after a thick layer of gold dust fell on the top of the palace, the palace looks mysterious and magnificent. But after a thick layer of gold dust fell on it, the palace looked mysterious and luxurious.

Possibly from the human instinct to crave for gold, this gleaming palace has a mysterious, magic that draws people in.

Down the center of the palace, the largest, tallest and longest white staircase, is the largest hall of the entire palace - once the king of Gurolum in this hall to receive the ministers, priests and messengers, and with the people of the country to celebrate the Gurolum every year to open the spring of the mine, to welcome the sky falling down the joy of the gold dust.

As Bai Liu and the others walked up the first steps to the main hall, Georgia, in the king's sitting room on the high floor behind the main hall, stared in silence at the golden statue of the king sitting on a long table, his head propped up with a tired hand, his eyes half-closed.

--This was the king, his father, at the moment of Ancient Loren's fall.

There was a picture on the long table, a family portrait like the one on his bedroom cupboard, and the butterfly on Georgia's shoulder looked at it and gradually became extremely slow in its flapping.

"This is you as a child." Georgia lowered her eyes, her voice so soft that only the butterflies could hear, "...... This is where you grew up."

"...... I'm sorry Armand, for modifying your memories and deceiving you, we're not some poor brothers in a distant town, we're the Wang Zi of Ancient Loren, and it's our duty to save and protect this place."

"I just got even a little emotional with my insistence on getting a way to fill my eyes with tears from Mu Ke, and not just because it's a game, but also because of that."

"You think I made an emotional tactical error by disregarding my team and not going to save Kris and the others, " Georgia lowers his head as he removes the uniform glove from his right hand and explains calmly, "You think I should have gone back to their aid and provided them with aids, don't you? "

The butterfly flapped violently at the sight of Georgia's right hand, fluttering down to rest on Georgia's fingertips, which had already begun to golden.

"The game is fair to both sides, our team gets the home game and is the first to get the hourglass, so naturally, accordingly, there will be something to limit us." Georgia took out that hourglass and lowered her eyes to look at the flowing sands in the hourglass, "These sands in the hourglass are actually made of point stone."

"No wonder father buried the hourglass in the vein, he should have known that the sands in the hourglass would continue to affect the vein and keep the gold producing."

"From the beginning, he never gave up the idea of seeking a deal from God."

Georgia paused, then continued:

"Having gotten the home field advantage, the first to get the hourglass will naturally be more susceptible to the pointing golden sands in the hourglass, and more susceptible to gold sculpting, which is our first limitation, and I will not easily prolong the game at the expense of my teammates' lives when it's not clear how this gold sculpting that doesn't reduce life or spirit values actually affects the players. "

"Victory at the expense of sacrifice is meaningless to Golden Dawn, so I chose to let Bai Liu clear them out of the game."

"I still can't understand what exactly happened to Gurolum in that moment, and I don't understand what this gold sculpturization really means." Georgia raised his eyes, he gently waved his left hand, and a shining golden golden leaf bow appeared in front of him, he gently held it and whispered, "...... I can't involve these innocent team members and let them stay in this barren Gurolun, experiencing the same thing as the members of the three bureaus in the beginning. "

"But I chose to keep you, Armand."

"Winning this game and winning the league at the end is not Golden Dawn's mission, but it is yours and mine."

"The ancient kingdom of Loren has been sinking under the sea for ten years, and I have been guarding it by the sea for ten years." Georgia looked at the butterfly in her palm and tapped the butterfly's wings very lightly with her left hand, "A human life is but a short moment compared to this ancient kingdom of gold, I am not sure how much longer I will be able to keep watch over it, and how many agonizing tears will it take to be worth a thousand years' worth of gold before I can fill up this sandy funnel of time and terminate my father's dealings with the Evil God. "

"[The Seer] told me that heretical copies corresponding to reality can all be found within the game, and I've sunk so far in the game in order to find the corresponding copy of Ancient Loren and get clues in the middle of this copy to find the solution to the [Sands of Time Funnel]."

"I've finally found this copy now."

Georgia raised his eyes, and he looked to his father, who was sitting at the long table with a sad and bitter look on his face, "But in this replica, in addition to looking at the people around me once again, I watched myself sculpted in gold, and actually did the same thing as I did ten years ago-"

"-without any ability to protect them."

"My pain, still, cannot fill this hourglass."

The butterflies flapped their wings and the wind blew past Georgia's ears, ruffling his long, light brown hair, but he didn't even notice, just whispered:

"...... Now I can't even shed a tear."

--like the tears he shed the moment he saw the sunken Gurrolon ten years ago, had shed all his pain.

The sound of unhurried footsteps came from behind Georgia as he gripped his golden leaf bow, turned and drew it full back, building up his strength, and raised his eyes to fire a no-holds-barred arrow at Bai Liu, who had come up behind him.

The arrow traveled through the air and was grasped by Bai Liu's right hand as he smiled at Georgia, who was on top of the high dais, raising his hands in a teasing gesture of harmlessness:

"It seems that Wang Zi, of this country, does not welcome me as a guest."

"I'm just here to talk to you about a deal, I don't need to start out with a knife to me, do I?"

[It seems that your country, it seems, does not welcome me as a businessman.]

Georgia's pupils contracted very lightly as he gripped his golden bow, his right hand, which was about to turn to gold, slightly loosened the arrow.

...... The same condescending perspective, the same smiling voice, the same black gloved hands, the same arrows wrapped in harshness and murderous intent shot within the high walls of Gurolen.

The same uninvited guests who came from afar with mysterious powers.

Lu Yizhan Complicated attitude towards this man, rules skills that can trade souls, bad tactics, almost the same size and height ......

The golden arrow traveled through the space between Georgia and Bai Liu as if it were time travel, taking him back ten years in a flash.

If it wasn't for the fact that Bai Liu only looked bad, but in fact had always acted in a principled manner, had always done good deeds, and was not even like the Bai Liu in Georgia's dream, and did not resemble the core of that god at all, Georgia would have questioned Bai Liu from the first moment she met him with the words, "What is your relationship with the god? What is your relationship with God?"

"That sharp?" Bai Liu maintains his posture with his hands held high, grinning, "As much as I personally don't want to admit it, I'll answer you honestly as a sign of the trader's sincerity."

"I should be considered the unilaterally chosen successor of that Evil God Lord who is too idle to die."

"Heir ......" Georgia lifted his eyelids, his long light-colored lashes gilded with gold dust, and the bow lowered in his hand was once again raised levelly, its head aimed at Bai Liu's heart, "So you've come to fulfill a deal and collect the pain of your citizens?"

"No." Bai Liu smiled, "I'm here to terminate the deal."

"I know the way to fill the Funnel of Time."

Tang Er, who was standing guard in front of Bai Liu, was alarmed when he realized that Bai Liu was continuing to lie in front of Georgia, and whispered, "Georgia is the Director of the Third Bureau of Interrogations and Investigations, so she'll definitely recognize that you're lying!"

Georgia's narrow eyes narrowed very lightly, and his raised arrow paused.

...... It's not like this guy is lying.

The butterfly on his shoulder flapped its wings very gently, the wind ruffled the long hair on the back of Georgia's head, and Georgia's stalled arrow rose and lifted again, those tiny ripples of emotion in his eyes returning to a calm that was no longer traceable, "I know, Armand."

"I will not fall into the trap of a lying heir to an evil god again."

The Mu Ke that Bai Liu had thrown out earlier had passed his lie prop test, but hadn't spit out any useful information until the very last moment, so that could only mean one thing - Bai Liu, the shameless tactician, had lied along with his own team members just so he could stall them for a while.

"Tsk." Bai Liu looked regretfully at Georgia, who had drawn her bow to full strength, and the butterfly that had begun to flap its wings, "You don't trust me after being tricked once, huh?"

"No one in their right mind would be fooled by the same trap twice in a row, right?" Tang Er hit helplessly blocked in front of Bai Liu, "Georgia should have quickly reacted to the fact that you were tricking him with Mu Ke before, but since he was tricked, he might as well clear the Mu Ke out before it took so long."

Bai Liu rubbed his chin and sounded innocent, "But I really wasn't lying to him this time, Team Tang."

"I really know how to fill an hourglass this time."

"...... What?!" Tang Er hit turned back in consternation.

Bai Liu looked up at Georgia high above him and said in a calm tone, "It's true that you get what you pay for, Georgia won't believe us this time."

"It's going to take a fight before we can talk properly."

Tang Er hit his temples jutting out, "Bai Liu, if you're ready to tell the truth next time, don't engage in this kind of wolf game playing with each other!"

"Okay Team Tang." Bai Liu smiled and drew the whip pinned to his waist, "Next time for sure."

Georgia lowered his eyes, the moment he released the arrow, the butterfly flew down from his shoulder and landed on the edge of the golden leaf arrow that was shot, instantly being attached with a layer of golden light, the butterfly quickly flapped its wings, and the arrow was aimed at Bai Liu below in a blistering manner.

[System Alert: Player Georgia used his skill to reverse the time of (Hurricane Butterfly), and the (Hurricane Butterfly) skill is reset].

[System Alert: Monster Book Form player Armand uses skill (Chained Hurricane)]

Countless twisting golden hurricanes rose up in the sky, chains surged madly in them, intertwining a big flowing net, blocking the front of the palace, the winds that covered this big net flowed furiously, wanting to stir up and twist the predators that entered the hurricanes.

Hurricane winds rolled the ground's debris and ruins high, forming an inward wind vortex, and all the gold dust in the entire country began to suck this way, forming a huge and sticky, curling up almost like some kind of solid golden storm, and in such a high-density golden storm, with visibility so low as to be terrifying, and with constant vigilance against the chains that would come at any time from all directions, like a dragnet, one had to be constantly Keep moving--

-- Tang Er trotted, gripping his gun with clenched teeth.

Poor visibility, unknown targets, high interference, the need for the shooter to be distracted and to keep moving at high speeds - it's literally the worst possible situation for shooting.

Almost only in an instant, the entire huge open space in front of the palace was swept by the hurricane, and not a single thing could be seen.

In the meantime, the viewing pool big screen.

The only thing that could be seen on the screen was a curling golden storm, almost like some kind of top-strength sandstorm, and only vaguely a, snake-like twisting chain could be seen flying out from time to time, and some items that were being rolled up, and even the player's silhouette couldn't be seen.

The audience in such an urgent situation, each of them opened their eyes wide, trying to seek out the specific figures of the two players from the golden big screen, but saw that the dizzy eyes did not see anything.

The host even applied for the use of a magnifying glass prop in an attempt to find a little trace of both players from the big screen for commentary, but in the end, he could only give up helplessly and dryly analyze the battle situation on the big screen:

"After Bai Liu sent away one of his own team members earlier, he struck in succession, sending away three of his opponent's players in a row, and just when we thought that Golden Dawn, a veteran team, was the first to be reduced to two players and was about to fall into a disadvantage, Armand, a newcomer to their team, struck strong!"

"Look at this golden storm all over the screen!"

"Armand's skills have both high cover and high offense, and can actually fight on both sides of the battlefield. With Georgia's strong assistance, Armand's skills can have unlimited cd, which is equivalent to a person in the whole field that can offset the role of two people, that is to say, on the surface, the Golden Dawn has been reduced to two players, falling into a disadvantage, but in reality, because of Armand's existence, they still have the equivalent of three players, there is no attrition disadvantage. Armand's presence, they still have the equivalent of three players, and there is no disadvantage of attrition."

"--The reality is exactly the same, Bai Liu's side's roaming player Mu Sicheng was dragged by Armand's body, and is now not able to return to the team, at the same time, Armand himself guarded the tactician Georgia's side, and continued to fight, and with Georgia's cooperation, stopped the circus side's main attack and tactician by himself, causing a lot of pressure on the opponent. With Georgia's cooperation, he stopped the main attacker and tactician of the circus side by himself, putting a lot of pressure on the other side."

"It can be said that Armand, the Golden Dawn rookie who carried the name of a vase to this point in the playoffs because of his overly flashy butterfly skills and not strong league performances, finally cleared his vase title in this battle, and can be said to have become famous in one battle!"

The host looked at the golden storm that hadn't subsided on the big screen, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and continued his commentary, "The circus side is in a different situation, their situation is not optimistic!"

"First, the tactician went crazy and sent away his side's healing room in a bizarre maneuver, then the main attacking gunner hunter, who had absolutely no way to fight in such a storm, and lastly, the roaming player who was dragged down - it was clear that when I watched the tactician's attitude in the arena, he placed so much importance on the roaming player, but up to now so far, none of the roaming players have manifested their roles."

"It's safe to say that in this game, both the tactician's command and the coordination between the players can only be described in four words - and that's [a mess]."

"Although there are only two players left in Golden Dawn's party, they work together quite well, it can be said that they are really worthy of being brothers, it's almost as if they have the same feeling, just with the help of some simple communication tools, Georgia can accurately locate the position of the butterflies that Armand transformed into in such a golden storm that can't be seen by the fingers, and shoot arrows to reset the opponent's skills, and keep the Hurricane's offensive momentum going... It's a delightful combination. ......"

The host was still blathering, but Wang Shun couldn't listen to a word of it, and he was as anxious as an ant in a hot pot, circling around Mu Ke and Jiayi, who had withdrawn from the match: "Did Bai Liu tell you about the next tactics?!"

Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi looked at each other and honestly shook their heads, "I should have been tricked by Bai Liu."

"But deceiving me should be part of Bai Liu's tactics, but the rest, I'm not sure."

"Bai Liu is not going to tell you what's next in his plan so that you can muddle through Georgia and the others." Liu Jiayi spoke in a deep tone, crossing his arms against his jaw, his eyes looking straight at the big screen, looking as if he knew everything, "Bai Liu This guy's tactics are still as messed up as ever."

Wang Shun's eyes lit up, "So little witch do you know Bai Liu's next plan?"

Liu Jiayi A pause: "...... don't know."

Mu Ke: "......"

Wang Shun: "......"

If you don't know, say you don't know! Don't act like you know everything!

"But this host is right, we are indeed at a disadvantage." Liu Jiayi shrugged his shoulders, "It's not just the two points of Tang Er Hit's skills being limited and Mu Sicheng not returning to the team, there's also an even more fatal point, if I'm not wrong, soon Tang Er Hit's attacks are going to be limited."

"Bai Liu will order him not to hurt Georgia."

Wang Shun's eyes widened, "What? Don't allow Team Tang to injure Georgia?!"

During the game, Tang Er strikes his eyes reddened by the blowing of gold dust as he raises his gun and stares out into the storm repeatedly searching for a target.

With Armand transformed into a butterfly and almost completely invisible in a storm like this, Tang Er has only one target to look for, and that's Georgia - as soon as he clears Georgia out of the game, Armand will go into cd without assistance, and then it's just a matter of clearing out the last player in Armand's game and they'll win! All that's left to do is clear Armand out of the game, and they'll win!

"Team Tang." The comms instrument Tang Er was playing rang, and Bai Liu's calm voice came from it, "I know what you're thinking, but Georgia can't be cleared out of the game."

"I can honestly tell you that he is the core of this copy, the solution to this copy has to be found in Georgia's body, we all know that the copy will land in reality, if we don't find the solution in the game, the copy will cause a lot of casualties when it lands in reality, when I traded souls with you I promised that I would try to solve every copy and safeguard the reality. "

"Team Tang, calm down, there's scale powder that lowers spirit value in the middle of this storm."

Tang Er Fight instantly came to his senses, he took a deep breath and lowered his gun, tapping the system panel to take out the mental bleach, after restoring his endangered mental value above the safety line, Tang Er Fight replied, "I know, I won't move Georgia."

"Is there anything you need me to do?"

"There is, and it's still a very difficult thing to do." Bai Liu paused, "Can I please ask Team Don to shoot the butterfly Armand has transformed into in fifteen minutes during this storm?"

Tang Er was stunned.

--To shoot a fragile butterfly, only a few centimeters in size and still using the storm to constantly cover itself, in such a completely abnormal, artificially manipulated storm, with less than a meter of visibility, is arguably impossible for any shooter in this world.

Georgia's ability to direct her arrows to Armand's bearing and reset Armand's skills during the storm is a completely bizarre maneuver that could be called telepathic communication between brothers - and that's even if they're teammates and can communicate, and Armand has the back of the room completely cleared out. Georgia's visibility for archery is maintained.

Tang Er fights from the front, facing the highest concentration of gold dust, with arguably no visibility, and has to watch out for Armand's chains and scale powder, and has to use a more precise implement like bullets to shoot butterflies, with arguably ten times as much interference as Georgia.

And still within fifteen minutes.

Heart, looking at the big screen, rested his jaw in a languid tone, "I don't know anything about shooting, but I was greatly shocked when I heard the request."

"Phoebe, you're a professional, do you analyze the possibility of this request being completed?"

Phoebe's face went numb for a moment the moment she heard Bai Liu's request, "Bai Liu's request for a hunter to be able to shoot a butterfly in a storm of this magnitude is the equivalent of asking a fisherman to kill a fish no longer than thirty centimeters in length with a needle in a boat in the middle of a stormy sea, and with a time limit. "

"There's no way a fisherman with any kind of precision can fulfill the requirements, at least I can't."

"I have quite a few marksmen in my family." Phoebe spread her hands, "If they get a request like that, they are going to be pissed off enough to assassinate the head of the house in turn - that's teasing them."

"Instead of going through with this unreasonable request, I think it would be simpler for Mr. Hunter to simply kill Bai Liu, the egregious tactician, and change his name."

Phoebe smiled sweetly as she cupped her face and looked at the deep-eyed Tang Er with yearning in her eyes as she typed, "The King's Guild would be more than happy to welcome such a powerful lead attacker."

"Empress, how much do you think I'd offer to potentially scoop up Jiayi along with Hunter?"

Heart was delicately silent for a moment.

He could completely understand Phoebe's thoughts, after he left, the King's Guild lost an ace card, it was the time when they were short of people, and Tang Er fight this kind of high-intensity main attack just fit Phoebe's strong tactics, it was normal that she wanted to dig Tang Er fight's corner.

"It depends on how much Bai Liu is willing to sell you." Heart's eyes smiled, "It's unlikely that you'd expect someone from the Wandering Circus to switch to another guild on their own."

"But if you drive a little higher, Bai Liu should be perfectly willing to sell his players to you."

"On the island, I assume you contacted them privately? No one wanted to go, did they? I've been pulling strings and creating opportunities for you, oh."

Phoebe lapsed into an eerie silence, her face grimacing as she gave her leg a whack, "...... I just can't figure out how a no-nonsense and egotistical tactician like Bai Liu can get these people to follow him so much."

"Hunters have several guilds digging, I know that the highest one guild Ka Bala has already opened up to six million points a month, and the highest right to use the props library--this is basically equivalent to taking the vice president level authority in digging, and also is not asking for the other party to leave right now, but rather is willing to Waiting until next year, this sincerity is already sufficient."

"The hunter balked on the spot!"

"...... And Jiayi ......" Phoebe took a deep breath to control her gradual grimace, "As long as Jiayi is willing to come over , I'm willing to be her secondary control position and primary attacker. She'll be the tactician."

"She's clearly no worse than Bai Liu anywhere, and has all the ability to dominate a battle team, but just turned me down!"

Heart looked thoughtfully at Jiayi, who was sitting on the bench next to the big screen.

...... The guilds that had a premonition that they were about to lose this year, and the guilds that had already lost were starting to make preparations for next year's league, and these guilds were like hungry and crazy wolves that were starting to keep a close eye on the fat meat that was the Wandering Circus.

The Wandering Circus guild did not have enough members, the structure was special, and the guild props inventory was average, there was nothing worth grabbing, the most valuable thing about the entire guild was the members in the tournament group, especially Liu Jiayi and Tang Er fight, they not only had precious skills, but their performance in the tournament was really outstanding, and it made a lot of teams who felt that they were only one good player away from being the champions crave for it The team is not only precious in terms of skills, but also in terms of performance.

These guilds were eyeing the Wandering Circus, only waiting for the moment it was eliminated to carve up the players inside.

--Sometimes they don't even wait to be eliminated before these guilds step in. Last year's Killer Sequence had a lot of player changes midway through, all poached by other guilds, and the only three regulars that stayed were Spades, Bai Yi, and Bai Jiamu.

I wonder if Bai Liu, the ego guy, can stabilize his members ......

"I find it odd though." Phoebe calmed down quickly after venting her frustration and anger, she looked to the big screen and inquired thoughtfully, "Bai Liu this guy has a pretty good eye for picking his players, highly in line with you."

"But this thief, Mu Sicheng, I remember the measurements you made when you dug him up, it was upper middle, wasn't it?"

"Bai Liu actually let this guy serve as an ace in the first game of the playoffs ......" Phoebe frowned, "He doesn't have the ability to serve as an ace, does he?"

Heart flicked her eyes up at Phoebe, "Why do you say that?"

"Because there aren't many guilds digging him." Phoebe spread her hands, "Mu Ke although there are not many guilds digging, but this I can understand, as an assassin, he seeks a low presence and a one-hit kill, so his popularity is low, it's normal that not many guilds pay attention to him, and it's true that there are not many guilds that can eat up this kind of special skill."

"But Mu Sicheng is a roamer, the player who should be drawing the most attention to himself, and yet there's still not much digging for him, which can only mean one thing -"

Phoebe hit the nail on the head, "He's not strong enough to keep everyone's attention."

"As a roamer, the cooperation between him and his teammates is not advanced, and the instinct of hanging away from the main attack is also a bit green, because the intelligence panel is not high, so analyzing the intelligence when running the map is all dependent on the rear, as a roamer, his basic qualities as a whole are mediocre to medium-low, and there are not many other points of brightness except for the high attack speed and high movement speed. "

"And in this crucial tournament, in which he took a major part, high attack speed and high movement speed, two traits he rarely gets to play, did not play a single one of them."

"Also a newcomer, he was hung by Armand who signed up for the league at almost the same time as himself, and also encountering opponents that restrained his skills, the Hunter was able to put pressure on the opponent's core [Shield] player, Kris, under the protection of the three Golden Dawns, to give the Tactician time for a change, whereas Mu Sicheng, due to a drop in his Spirit Value, hadn't escaped from the Chained Storm, causing the pressure to move all the way to the main attacker and Bai Liu."

"I don't understand why Bai Liu is letting him assume the ace position, Jiayi with his double-sided monster book and the strong Mr. Hunter are both better suited to be the ace in this game, and he's not much of a quality roamer."

"And you were in the last game." Heart returned nonchalantly, "It's the one where you got hung up on three players by such a not-so-quality roam and wore out Liu Ji."

Phoebe was stunned.

"Watching the game is not only about the result, but also about the process." Heart raised his eyes, and he said calmly, "Don't be so hasty in doing things, Phoebe, and don't easily judge an enemy until the last moment."

"It's true that I gave Mu Sicheng an upper-middle rating, but that was before Mu Sicheng met Bai Liu."

"The Mu Sicheng of now is not the Mu Sicheng of three months."

"Bai Liu has brought out the strongest desires of this thief's heart."

In-Game.

Inside and outside the palace were raging, brutal hurricanes, and the twisting chains inside trapped Tang Er almost to within an inch of his life as he gritted his teeth and gripped the gun in his hand.

To attack a butterfly with a bullet in such a storm ...... Bai Liu can really give him a problem.

But the tactician gives the lead offender a difficult problem and the lead offender has only one choice - to do it with all his might.

Fifteen minutes, almost exactly the time it takes Armand to cd a skill, during which there is bound to be a skill break, and although Georgia will shoot arrows to Armand to renew the skill, there is a very slight gap between the two skills.

Within this void, the hurricane will break for a moment and weaken, and if there is any moment when it is most likely to hit a butterfly hiding in the middle of the hurricane, it is in this moment.

There's only one chance.

Almost fifteen minutes had passed since the last break, and it was about to come to the next one, when Tang Er hit slowly clenched the gun in his hand and raised it smoothly, aiming it somewhere in the air, and he took a deep breath, resisting the itch and the urge to choke on the cough that bubbled up from his throat, and counted down mentally-

Ten, nine ......

Tang Er hit with some sweat seeping from his palms, his back tightening as he stared somewhat dazedly at the wall of gold dust in front of him - the last time he'd been this nervous about shooting was the first time he'd made it into the third round of that gun target test.

What grade did he get that time ......?

It seems like--

First.

Outside the palace.

Mu Sicheng, who was trapped in the hurricane by the chains, lowered his head, he had held on until now by the antidote Jiayi had left behind, but the mannequin's attack hadn't slowed down, instead it had gotten stronger and stronger, and the hurricane had lasted - that could only be because the guy's main body had gotten a skill reset.

But now he'd run out of antidote and was basically at the bottom of his life value.

It's not really that you can't fight back, it's just that ......

Not waiting for the command to resist.

A noisy current murmur came from the headset, and Bai Liu's gentle voice came out from it, "Hard work."

"It's time for us to harvest."

"By the time Captain Tang hits the butterfly, it will briefly interrupt Georgia's coordination with Armand, preventing him from resetting his skills, and the butterfly on this side will disappear, at which point Armand on your side will revert back to to normal player."

"Remember your mission before the game started?"

Mu Sicheng slowly raised his head, covered in blood, his hands and feet trapped in chains in the wind, and snorted, his voice raspy, "No need to remind me, I don't have that bad of a memory."

"--killed Golden Dawn's ace rookie, lead attacker Armand, didn't he?"

"Uh-huh." Bai Liu's voice carries a smile, "Go ahead, our team's ace thief."

Tang Er hit to slow down the frequency of breathing, both hands holding the gun, raised to the side of the ear, the pupils of his eyes as if frozen in a certain place, in a high degree of attention to hit the situation, Tang Er hit the field of vision of everything is like a slow-motion replay become stagnant, the wind of the golden debris become clearly audible, the sound of chains interlocking friction in his ears rhythmically ringing, his afterimage through the gradually stopping the golden storm to see the whip towards the Georgia fast moving above the palace Bai Liu, to see the butterfly hidden in the slow fall of gold dust, flap their wings. The golden storm that had stopped, he saw Bai Liu, who had drawn out his whip and was moving quickly towards Georgia above the palace, and saw the butterfly that was hiding in the slowly falling gold dust, flapping its wings.

He could almost see the butterfly's wings flapping through the air, spreading out ripples of gold dust.

The hurricane is about to stop.

Four, Three, Two ......

Georgia drew the bow to full capacity, he looked straight ahead at Armand, about to let go, the butterfly that Armand had transformed into flew back sideways, closing in on the direction Georgia's arrow had come from, Tang Er's breath stopped, he gripped his rifle and aimed it at the fluttering butterfly, and there was only one thing in his head-- -

-Hit it.

If he misses Armand and allows Armand to continue his skill, Bai Liu, who is close to the center of the eye of the wind to stop Georgia, will be instantly shut down by Armand's chains.

He has to hit it!

One!

The hurricane stopped.

"Bang--!!!"

"Shoo--!!!"

The moment Tang Er hit the trigger, Georgia let go of the arrow, and the silver rose bullet and the golden arrow shot off the string almost simultaneously, the bullet and arrow spiraling through the wind field of the falling curtain towards the butterflies, tracing two strange orbits in the air.

Hit it!

Tang Er grits her teeth, Georgia stares blankly.

The bullets struck the arrows that came at the same time, grazing the butterfly's nimble feathers by only a narrow margin and knocking them away.

It didn't hit!

Neither side hits!