When system cheat becomes rampant!

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"That means Xiang Beifei is nearby."

"It seems that Xiang Beifei has slowed down. We must not let him go!"

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These were the words recently said by the teams from Yanzhou University and Qingzhou University while they were tracking Xiang Beifei!

The blonde girl sucked her little finger, licking the fresh blood from her thumb clean, and then chuckled lightly, saying, "This is getting interesting; it seems that humans are not very united after all!"

Broken Throat's throat gurgled with blood as he stared at the blonde girl.

The blonde girl didn't care, but leaned against a tree, propping her chin in thought, before saying, "We have eaten so many desolate beast brains killed by humans, it seems that there indeed is a competition for freshmen from elite universities taking place here. This is a golden opportunity for our plan!"

"So?"

Broken Throat frowned, his cloudy eyes full of blood vessels, and he seemed to become excited too.

"Just now in that gorge, after the little white skeleton was killed, a little golden toad saw students from Qingzhou University and Yanzhou University. However, the golden toad's memory was incomplete. I only managed to discern that about ten people seemed to plan to join forces to deal with Liangzhou University—are they not, Xiang Beifei's school?" the blonde girl asked.

Broken Throat shook his head.

"So you don't know either?"

The blonde girl held the corpse of a power ant in her hand, as if pondering, and then smiled again after a while, "No worries, we will find out. They will be here for five days. We can keep eating along the way; we are bound to figure it out."

She revealed a sinister smile, and as she smiled, her teeth were stained with red and white plasma, the remains of the power ant's brain.

She stuck out her tongue and licked off the brain matter.

"Perhaps we can even find a new shell for you; you look quite spooked like this," the blonde girl giggled.

Broken Throat didn't mind the blonde girl's ridicule, as something dark squirmed underneath the muscles of his face.

"Trouble."

Broken Throat spat out another word.

Hearing Broken Throat's word, the blonde girl's casual demeanor tightened slightly, saying, "Indeed it's a bit troublesome, there are many powerful humans patrolling, not so easy to provoke; they are protecting these freshmen."

She looked up toward the distant stone forest where, ten kilometers away in that stone forest, she could remotely sense the presence of a human lurking, steady and calm. The person only roamed that area, not taking action to kill desolate beasts, just waiting for the students' call for help.

That was a referee from the alliance!

Very powerful!

"But fortunately, they do not recognize our aura, and they shouldn't notice us here."

The slender-waisted blonde girl snapped her fingers!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The branches of the forest quickly crawled with dense tentacles from all directions, intertwining and merging with each other, swiftly solidifying into eerie human figures.

These figures were not as complete as the blonde girl; their skin was extremely pale, and they bore various wounds. Some wounds were even terrifyingly visible.

Missing arms or legs were common, and it was not unusual for eyes to reveal gaping holes. Some had half their face smashed in, exposing the congealed white blood and brain.

"You lot of dimwits, how can you find such shells to be acceptable?"

The blonde girl looked disdainfully at her wounded and disabled companions.

These were humans killed in the outer desolation, then parasitized by them, but they could only maintain the state prior to their death, unable to fully heal their wounds.

"You."

Broken Throat looked at the blonde girl with some confusion.

Among these Ghosts of Remnant Visage, only the blonde girl's body was the most complete; even in a crowd, no one would notice her anomaly.

The blonde girl smiled mysteriously and said, "There's a knack to killing humans; you don't necessarily have to be brutal, opening their guts. That's just cruel."

Broken Throat seemed not to understand, but he didn't inquire further, instead mumbling, "Mission."

"Understood."

The blonde girl waved her hand to those who resembled zombies hanging from the branches and said, "Remember, do not provoke those called 'referees', and leave immediately if you encounter them. Xiang Beifei is not our main target this time, but he could be a key factor in hindering our mission. So, even if you find someone named Xiang Beifei, do not attack, inform us to handle it."

"Wuuu!"

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"Ah!"

"Uh!"

"Yes!"

The heap of figures behind her did not seem very intelligent, answering unevenly; some were without mouths and could not speak, so they could only shake their heads to indicate their response.

Afterward, these incomplete figures transformed back into tendrils of black shadow and disappeared among the trees.

The golden-haired woman looked in another direction and smiled warmly, "There are students coming this way, I will go have a chat with them."

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"You're back!"

Seeing Xiang Beifei return, Xi Keyao was also quite pleased; the three of them had been waiting by the stones so long they almost grew grass.

"Yes, I'm back." Xiang Beifei nodded slightly.

"Are those tailing pests taken care of?" Long Guocheng asked.

"More or less." Xiang Beifei nodded again.

Originally, Long Guocheng and the others were supposed to go help, but Xiang Beifei had them wait there instead, as too many people might get in the way.

Truth be told, Xiang Beifei wasn't very afraid of facing off against Meridian Opening students from Qingzhou University and Yanzhou University.

Even if he faced five Meridian Opening students, it wouldn't matter much to him; with one "Stand Aside," he could keep other Meridian Opening SSRs from intervening and then deal with them one by one.

However, if Hou Chengwu and the others couldn't join the fight, they would turn to seek out Xi Keyao and the rest. Being taken as hostages would be troublesome, so he took Li Zimu with him and had the others wait there.

"We also took care of a desolate beast here," Ma Ziqian said, tossing over a Beast Pill, "It was a Wood pigeon, just what was listed in the mission."

Long Guocheng emphasized, "We did it by working together while you two were away!"

The desolate beasts listed in the mission were all equivalent in strength to Meridian Opening students, and the three of them were only late-stage Qi-Controling. Killing it without Xiang Beifei's assistance was quite an achievement for Long Guocheng.

The Wood pigeon itself was stronger than any of the three, adept at hiding in the forest and blending into the trees, with a powerful ability to ambush, but they managed to take it down as a team, which was effectively punching above their weight.

"Fine." Xiang Beifei responded.

"That's so perfunctory! After all, we killed it without your leadership!" Long Guocheng huffed.

He wanted to prove that they could complete tasks even without Xiang Beifei.

Though the Wood pigeon was indeed the weakest among those on the mission list.

But it was also at the early-stage Meridian Opening!

"Didn't you rely on 'Withered Meteor' to slow down the Wood pigeon before killing it?" Xiang Beifei asked.

Long Guocheng's face twitched.

Indeed, they had made use of a tool from the black technology department. During their previous outdoor training session, they had learned how to exploit this weakness when fighting desolate beasts.

As long as they knew enough about desolate beasts and grasped the fundamental knowledge, relying on technology invented by others, they could generally manage to kill these beasts wasn't too difficult.

"Won't you die if you praise a teammate!" Long Guocheng said.

Xiang Beifei ignored Long Guocheng and looked at Xi Keyao's clothes, noticing the scorched marks on her shoulder. He asked, "Are you hurt?"

"No, almost; that Wood pigeon spit black fire at me. I dodged it, only my clothes got burned." Xi Keyao touched the damaged part of her shoulder then said happily, "But eventually, we managed to handle it, and I diverted its attack."

"Be careful next time; protecting yourself is the most important thing. But you've improved a lot since before, well done, keep it up," Xiang Beifei told Xi Keyao.

"Thank you, I surely will," Xi Keyao nodded gladly.

Long Guocheng on the side: "..."

Darn, I was the main force in the attack, ok! I glared it to death!

Long Guocheng rolled his eyes.

"We should leave this place; something about the situation nearby feels off. Let's move somewhere else," Xiang Beifei said, then reached out and killed a sixteen-clawed spider above on a branch by shattering its brain with his Spiritual Power, before signaling the others to follow.