"Okay, this is more or less the place. Let's get off."
Bringing Fang Ran along, Si A drove to a brightly-lit pedestrian street. Stopping the Alto which belonged to some unknown person, he ditched it by the side of the road and walked towards the pedestrian street.
"Wow!!!"
Fang Ran got out of the car as well, and was astounded by the scenery before his eyes!
Along both sides of the spacious and flat pedestrian street were high-rise buildings shooting up towards the night sky. The huge screens on the building were showing advertisements with celebrities, and the dazzling lineup of storefronts on both sides were all English brands that Fang Ran had never seen or had briefly heard about before. They were all sparkling with merchandise in there.
The ring-shaped fountain was spraying jets of water into air, and golden lights flooded every corner. After living for so long, it was Fang Ran's first time in the place called CBD that his teacher had talked about in class. It was the first time that he was at the sea of lights that he had gazed at from the distance countless times.
This was the kind of place where only the untouchable upper-class people hung out. It was not a place where there would be people like a mother holding her child's hand, a company employee frantically rushing for fear of being late, a middle-aged man riding a scooter to purchase some groceries.
Fang Ran felt a little restless and a little excited. It was not because of his pride of being able to come to such a place with his chest puffed out.
He was just thinking that if he went into the shop selling diamond rings on his right and stole one, he would…
'Be able to get my own phone!'
Fang Ran thought excitedly.
…*Wipes sweat*
Fine, let's forgive this pauper who has never seen the world.
This was the kind of "cowardly" view that Fang Ran had, which Ling had been wanting to correct but could not. It was this kind of ambitionless attitude like still wanting to find a computer science job after gaining superpowers, and this coward who aimed for a 5000RMB salary mustering up all his courage to only think about stealing a diamond ring, but the only thing he could come up with was to exchange it for a phone!
"There are a total of twelve participants this time. Besides the both of us, there are ten other participants. That is to say, there are ten enemies." Stuffing his hands in his pockets, Si A led Fang Ran forward, perfectly enacting the scene of a wild and unruly young mafia boss leading his good-for-nothing lackey.
Si A suddenly turned his head back and smiled as he said to Fang Ran, "Of course, if you want to be my enemy. Then, counting me in, you have eleven enemies."
Fang Ran immediately shook his head like a rattle drum.
'An E-grade worm like me fighting an unknown rank like you…? Spare me!'
Fang Ran still felt that his life was still very precious.
After all, this was a deadly infinite-style mode.
"By the way, Big Brother A, why do we have to come to this kind of CBD?"
"Oh, this is a habit of mine. Why not go to a fun place when visiting a strange city for a night,"
Si A said with a shrug. Realization immediately dawned on Fang Ran and he nodded in all seriousness. 'Yup, yup, yup. That makes sense. All the snacks that Impetuous and I ate in the supermarket might not even be as expensive as a cup of coffee here.'
'Eh?! In that case, won't I be making a huge profit from coming here in the future?'
Fang Ran's expression suddenly became austere. He felt like he had mastered a new skill of eating and taking things for free!
Seeing the expression on Fang Ran's face that was basically saying, 'there are so many things to look at', Si A smiled as he recalled the time when he was a novice. He had that same expression every time he went to a big city.
Smiling as he reminisced about his youth, he looked up at the night sky and the illuminated city.
However, Si A's expression changed all of a sudden, and he quickly shoved Fang Ran away!
Fang Ran felt like he had been knocked into by a massive truck, and was thrown out a few meters!
'Can it be that Big Brother A is going to finally lay his hands on me?!'
Just as Fang Ran was thinking this, he looked up in Si A's direction, only to see…
Boom!
Several streaks of light flashed across the night sky and stabbed into the ground like javelins. Then, they exploded with a loud boom!
The place where Si A had been standing suddenly exploded!
However, amidst the explosion from various unknown forces, a flame ignited within the crackling lightning!
Whoosh!
Boom!
The flames soared wildly, causing the air to rise with a whoosh! The next moment, the ferocious flame suddenly combusted!
From the blaze, Si Ai's figure slowly stepped out. His jacket was covered in flames, the soles of his shoes were burned, and every step he took left footprints. He said nothing as he stared coldly at the figures under the vibrant lights on the pedestrian streets on both sides.
The next moment, several figures leapt down from the skyscrapers in all directions!
There were also some who came out from the streets behind and crossed over the shops. Some others directly walked out from the buildings opposite.
As for the number of people in the opposing party…
No more, no less, exactly ten people.
"Hey yo, a big scene. To think that it is actually directed at me?"
Tilting his chin up, Si A smiled and said arrogantly to the people who had surrounded them.
The ten people each stood at different positions. Some were standing as straight as a ramrod, some were casual, some wore suits and ties, some were decked in trench coats and long pants. Aside from these people, the others were all dressed in all black.
The only similarity between them was that they were all staring at Si A with hostility.
"Haha, what can we do when you, Si A, are the only B-grade in such an important special scenario?"
Standing at the forefront was a man in a suit and tie with thin-framed glasses, looking refined and polite.
"Seems like all of you have talked it over?"
Looking at the ten people who had subtly surrounded him, he still said in contempt. However, in his mind, his brows were knitted tightly together as he thought, 'Did they find out my habit?'
"Si A, don't resist. You're done for!"
A 20-year-old young man sneered maliciously.
"I remember you. In the previous scenario, I met you in the capital. I remember that I lit your a*s the last time."
Si A mocked with a sneer as he looked at the punkish youth, directly exposing the youth's scar in public.
"You!"
Instantly, the youth's face fell. He did not expect Si A to remember that and what more to expose it in public. All at once, he could feel a few people around him casting mocking glances at him!
"Compared to a buffoon like you, I am more interested in the identities of the rest of you. We don't seem to have met before?"
With the flame on the ring in his right hand glimmering, Si A narrowed his eyes and stared at the man in the suit standing at the forefront before him, as well as at the young man with a hood covering his face and a woman dressed in a professional attire, to the suited man's right.
These three geniuses should be the ones who initiated this plan!
"Incandescence - Si A, nice to meet you. As for my origin, this is hard to explain."
The man in the suit introduced himself, but said his identity in a vague way.
"Actually, we have invited you many times, but it's a pity that you seem not to appreciate Adversity's kindness."
The gaze of the woman in the professional attire gradually turned cold as she said this.
'Someone from Adversity?' Si A's gaze stilled. Then, he scoffed. Looking at the last of the three, the young man, he sneered in disdain.
"Oh? This is the first time I'm hearing about officials from the authorities cooperating with Adversity."
"Personally, I think that in order to get the Night Equipment, I must kill you first. As for her, I will fight her to death afterwards,"
The young man with the hood covering his face said lightly.
Seeing that Si A was only talking to these three people, the other seven people, especially that youth, shot daggers at Si A impatiently, as if they would attack at any time.
"Looks like there is nothing left to discuss!" Si A said in a low voice as a violent aura suddenly appeared around him! Even the air began to heat up!
But unexpectedly, even when confronted with such an imposing manner, the ten people's expression did not change in the slightest degree. The man in the suit even said with a smile on his face,
"Si A, we know your strength and the power of that arm guard of yours. We also know about the confidence you have right now, but…"
The man in the suit flashed a mysterious smile. He continued speaking with a hint of mockery in his tone,
"Do you think that we will be unprepared?"
Si A's eyes widened at once! He saw a man standing behind the man in the suit. A man who seemed to have a slightly stiff expression on his face, swiftly took out a wand and began reciting an incomprehensible incantation.
"In the extreme north of the extreme north, the budding morning dew, the momentary tears of the Goddess on the lake."
"Sipping the second bisection of the bitter river water."
"The unexpected cage."
"The Malice of the Lord."
"As the third chariot of the God of the Sea emerges from the sea."
"With my authority, you shall be imprisoned here in this water prison!"
Then, that man swiftly raised his wand and placed it in front of him, aiming straight at Si A who was surrounded by ten people!
Crash!
The man in a suit raised his shoulders and abruptly disrupted Si A's attempt to interrupt the incantation the man was chanting. All of a sudden, he leapt and rushed towards Si A!
At the same time!
On the ground of the pedestrian street!
A huge blue circle suddenly formed around Si A!
The blue circle suddenly shone brilliantly. A blue water curtain rose up from the magic circle, and a hemispherical water cage enveloped Si A!
Water vapor filled the air. Although the flames on his body were still burning, Si A had a solemn expression on his face as he could feel that the temperature around him began gradually dropping.
With ten people surrounding him, a meticulous murder conspiracy had already taken shape!