Chapter 181: The Rose Factory

What Tang Erda wanted to do with the King's Guild was simply to allow them to "fill" the rest of the game and prevent Bai Liu from escaping, which the King's Guild had done before entering the game, but after entering the game the King's Guild and his aims were different.

On the issue of the Little Witch, there was clearly a disagreement - presumably this was why Hearts insisted on inserting people into the game with Tang Erda, a woman who could see that the Little Witch's injuries were related to him, so these people were sent in by Hearts for more of a purpose than to kill Bai Liu. So the men were sent in by Hearts to protect the Little Witch under Tang Erda's command.

This is the reason why Tang Erda did not take the initiative to move with Qi Yifang from the beginning to the end.

We can work together for a short time for a common purpose, but there is no need to remain united - sooner or later a union with different purposes will fall apart.

Qi Yifang, with one hand on Tang Erda's arm, and Tang Erda, with her dark eyes, confronted each other silently, cold sweat oozing from the tips of their noses and backs, while the other two men surrounded Tang Erda nervously, but Tang Erda's face remained emotionless and her gun raised.

Qi Yifang gritted his teeth, fully understanding why Tang Erda hadn't dropped his gun in this three-man siege and siege situation.

Because they couldn't beat him, it was an absolute oppression of strength, Tang Erda only needed three shots, and they were all down - the man's gun skills were fast and accurate, and his physical fighting skills were top notch.

Qi Yifang's right arm now clenched around Tang Erda's arm, with his entire body weight hanging on it, trying to push down on Tang Erda's right hand, which was holding the gun.

With Qi Yifang's own right arm a little sore from hanging, Tang Erda caught his body weight with her right hand still, steady as a monster, still holding the gun up to Liu Jiayi.

The processor who was weighing it next to him was on the verge of looking dumb.

Liu Jiayi takes a step forward with the gun pointed at her, while Tang Erda's right hand, with Qi Yifang on her arm, follows a steady step forward, still aimed at her.

But Liu Jiayi didn't panic, and instead reminded the dumbfounded processor, "Could you please weigh the food quickly?"

"...... Oh, oh yes." The processor responded in a delirious trance as he lowered his head and weighed in muddled and somewhat fearful.

Liu Jiayi turned her head, the cold, dark muzzle of the gun less than a centimetre from her brow, a distance that in reality would have killed her with a single bullet from this gun.

But in the game, even if she was shot in the head, as long as Liu Jiayi's life was not wiped out by Tang Erda's shot, there was still room for manoeuvre.

She is the little witch, and as long as she cannot be killed once and for all, she can rise again by the antidote.

Liu Jiayi looks up as she pulls off her black hood to reveal her thin, obedient little girl's face.

She wore a large anachronistic translucent giant goggle on her face, on which the sunlight refracted into a dense film of black light that intertwined with the silvery light scattered from the barrel of the gun before her eyes.

Liu Jiayi looked at Tang Erda, and with a sudden, eerie smile, she quickly reached out and took hold of Tang Erda's gun, digging her tiny, slim finger into Tang Erda's trigger.

In the midst of Tang Erda's stunned expression, Liu Jiayi's face was calm and collected to the extreme, his fingers snapping down without hesitation.

At the same time a completely different, incredibly frightened shriek escaped her throat than her expression, "...... Don't shoot me! Don't-!"

"Bang-!"

The muzzle sparked with a muffled sound of hitting flesh and blood, and the bright silver bullet passed swiftly through the little girl's skull, erupting in a dry line of bright red blood that hit the ground and scattered.

As the girl fell back slowly, weak and dying, everyone's movements faded and slowed down as if frozen in a small three-person enclosure.

Tang Erda looks on in dismay as Liu Jiayi is struck to the ground behind Qi Yihang, bleeding all over the floor.

Qi Yihang, who had his back to Liu Jiayi, had his pupils tighten incredibly the moment he heard the shot, and he turned back quickly, sweat flopping off his jaw from the movement.

The goggles on Liu Jiayi's eyes slid helplessly off, and the last vestiges of her grey eyes were lost, dead as two balls of second-hand wax embedded in them, a small bloodshot wound in the middle of her brow, blood flowing into her pale lips, which had opened slightly in shock before she died.

She looked near death, not even able to get up and use her skills on her own, and there was no one to save her but herself.

The little witch, who had saved his life more than once ...... just wasn't protected by him and was hit by Tang Erda...

She would probably die in front of him.

Qi Yifang's pupils spread after tightening, cold sweat curdling down his chin, his face an expression bordering on dazed, dazed, and unreturned, as if his soul had briefly gone out of his body and been forcibly pulled back in by a stabbing pain in his temple.

[System warning: Qi Yifang's spirit level has trembled! Please ask player Qi Yifang to quickly recover his spirit level!

His breathing became oddly fast and ragged after a brief stop, and was again calmed by his own forced control.

Qi Yihang slowly turns his head to gaze at Tang Erda, the steering wheel in his hand swivelling rapidly from side to side, so fast that only a streak of the wind vane can be seen, his lax pupils reflecting Tang Erda's rare expression of disorientation.

Qi Yifang took two deep breaths as he gripped the steering wheel in his hand with a death grip.

Calm down - Qi Yifang - you can't beat him! Unless you fight to the death and drop your spirit level to explode, you might barely be able to fight this hunter, but right now you're the one leading the group, don't lose control! The little witch's debt can be remembered for now and avenged later... Make sure you avenge her!

But the key now is getting through, and you can't get carried away by emotion - ! The primary objective now is to protect the little witch in her retreat!

Liu Jiayi, lying on the ground, curled his lips in triumph as Qi Yifang was less than halfway to calming himself.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu uses Player Muke's Personal Panel to mobilize Player Muke's Personal Skill (Flashing Strike)]

A blurred figure, almost torn apart by the speed of its appearance, appears abruptly between Qi Yifang and a briefly disoriented Tang Erda.

Bai Liu, with a whip in one hand and a dagger in the other, jumped with his legs curled up at the knees and plunged into the air between Tang Erda and Qi Yifang, a surprise move that caused Tang Erda, who had sharp combat reflexes, to pull her gun out from under Qi Yifang's arm and shoot.

Bai Liu throws a whip at Tang Erda's face. Tang Erda is very quick and dodges it with a slant of her shoulder and a quick side-step, while her left hand becomes a fist and slams Bai Liu's face down with full force.

Bai Liu spun his body around and dropped to one knee on Qi Yifang's shoulder to avoid it, but Tang Erda's fist came after him and it was already at the tip of Bai Liu's nose.

Bai Liu clips Qi Yifang's head and bends backwards at the waist, avoiding Tang Erda's fist and taking his kneeling, panicked Qi Yifang backwards with him.

Tang Erda, whose arm was caught in the crook of Qi Yifang's arm, was also carried forward.

Tang Erda gritted her teeth and crouched down, trying to pull the gun out with her hand, while Liu Jiayi, who was playing dead behind Qi Yifang, rolled on one knee and then turned around and kicked the gun out of Tang Erda's hand with a swift and powerful sweep of one leg.

While Qi Yifang was being ridden by Bai Liu on his head, crushed on his buttocks and kneeling on the ground, still dumbfounded, Liu Jiayi, who had gotten out from behind him, propped his hands on the ground and looked up with a bloodied face to the two King's Guild members beside him who had been watching him since just now and yelled in a stern voice, "What are you doing? Attack before he recalls his gun!"

Tang Erda's gun shattered into points of light as soon as it was kicked out, and then he pulled his pinned hand out from under Qi Yifang's arm with a ruthless look, and the gun reappeared from his hand with five fingers.

But that's enough time for the other two to build up their strength to hold their skills to trap Tang Erda, but only for a dozen seconds or so.

-- Here's the scariest part of Tang Erda's skill, he's a fast type, and if they don't kill Tang Erda once and for all, their side will just keep delaying Tang Erda from killing them back.

And that's what Bai Liu wants.

Bai Liu raises his dagger, and Tang Erda sweeps it up and prepares to deal with it, but Bai Liu smiles at him lightly -

--then backhandedly stabbed the dagger into Qi Yifang's shoulder.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu attacked Player Qi Yifang with (Flash Attack), causing Player Qi Yifang's Spirit Level to drop by 27 points]

[System Warning: Player Qi Yifang's Spirit Level has dropped to 13 points, entering Panel Berserk Phase!

[Player Qi Yifang Personal Panel (Berserker Status)

[Spiritual Value: 40→13]

[Strength value: 1339→1873]

[Agility: 1795→2010]

[Attack: 2700→6100]

[Resistance: 1840→2100]

[Combined Defence Attack Power increased, total panel attribute points over 10000, rated as S player, player Qi Yifang level increased, from S- to Brass S level]

[Congratulations to player Qi Yifang, whose potential panel value has reached S level and unlocked the brass pseudo-god rating number, please actively collect faith value to become a god!

Qi Yifang's pupils shrank to the size of a pinpoint, and the directional sign in his hand went from wobbling to spinning so fast that it looked like a single-bladed fan that was oscillating due to excessive speed, so fast that it was almost impossible to see the sign itself.

He looks up at Tang Erda with a blank, frozen expression almost as if his soul has been drained from his face, and a subtle curling wind continues to blow around him, a seemingly subtle wind that tears at Qi Yifang's trousers.

[System Alert: Player Qi Yifang opens the personal skill Identity Form Change "Monster Book: Announcer of Extreme Weather"]