Who wants to become a god? Aren't you all forcing me?

"Wasn't Xue Dayong following Brother Xu? How... how did he end up like this?"

"Could something have happened to Brother Xu?!"

"Impossible, Brother Xu is a Fourth Forbidden!"

The crowd discussed in a somewhat panicked manner, their already timid hearts growing more uneasy.

Xue Dayong's footsteps grew closer and closer, the distance between him and the crowd shrinking. When only a few dozen meters remained, whether he tripped or was simply exhausted, he suddenly lunged forward, his entire face slamming into a rock.

*Crack!*

The crisp sound of bone breaking mingled with the sickening squelch of flesh. When Xue Dayong shakily propped himself up with his hands, his face was already a bloody mess, blood flowing freely.

However, in just a few seconds, these injuries slowly healed before everyone's eyes, leaving nothing but bloodstains on his face.

"Help, help!" Xue Dayong reached out to Zhang Tong, who was standing at the front.

Seeing this, Zhang Tong swiftly moved in front of Xue Dayong and dragged him up. "Weren't you following Brother Xu? How did you get yourself into this state? Where's Brother Xu?"

After recovering for a while, Xue Dayong recounted what had happened, but only the first part was true; the rest was completely fabricated by Li Chenqiu.

That's right, the current Xue Dayong was actually Li Chenqiu in disguise.

"Just as the three of us were guarding the underwear according to Brother Xu's instructions, the person who was traveling with Li Chenqiu suddenly jumped down from a tree and attacked me without a word.

He was a Second Forbidden Destiny Awakened, and the three of us combined were no match for him. Later... later... I was the only one who escaped with my life."

As he said this, Li Chenqiu lowered his head in shame, after all, being a deserter was not something to be proud of.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Tong angrily kicked Li Chenqiu to the ground. "Idiot! Didn't you have a walkie-talkie and signal flare?"

"I..." Li Chenqiu pointed at his clothes with a wronged expression. "By the time I could break away from the fight to use them... they were broken. I had no choice but to run back for help."

"Lead the way, everyone else follow!" Zhang Tong shouted loudly, and seeing Li Chenqiu still sitting on the ground, he cursed, "What are you spacing out for? Lead the way!"

Li Chenqiu seemed to be startled, his body trembled, and he nodded like a chick pecking at rice. "Oh... oh... okay, okay, I'll lead the way!"

With that, Li Chenqiu staggered to his feet and led the way for the group.

The stream wasn't far from here, but that was only if they went in a straight line. If Li Chenqiu hadn't intervened, it would have taken this group three times as long to find the stream.

This was something Li Chenqiu couldn't allow. He needed to defeat this group one by one before Xu Yuan noticed anything amiss, awaken his third ability, and then he might have a chance to fight.

Under Li Chenqiu's guidance, the group quickly arrived at the stream. Even after nearly twenty minutes, the air here still carried a faint smell of blood.

Zhang Tong walked to the stream and surveyed the surroundings, a hint of doubt appearing in his eyes. "Didn't you say there was a fierce battle here? Why isn't there any sign of fighting?"

"I..."

Just as Li Chenqiu was about to say something, a drop of water suddenly condensed in the air out of nowhere, and with a *swoosh*, it pierced through his forehead.

With a *thud*, Li Chenqiu's eyes widened and he fell stiffly to the ground.

The sudden turn of events shocked everyone present, including Zhang Tong.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Zhang Tong kicked Li Chenqiu with his foot, but Li Chenqiu didn't respond.

At this moment, an Awakened squatted down and brushed away the hair from Li Chenqiu's forehead, finally discovering a small hole in his brow.

Seeing this, the Awakened's pupils shrank, and he raised his head and stammered, "He... he seems to be dead?!"

"Dead?" Zhang Tong squatted down, and when he saw the small hole in Li Chenqiu's forehead, his pupils suddenly shrank to the size of a needlepoint.

To kill someone right in front of his eyes without him even noticing, how was that possible?

The next second, Zhang Tong shouted nervously, "Be alert, defensive formation!"

The fifty-plus Awakened immediately split into ten teams, each team spaced about fifteen meters apart, a distance that could take care of each team and also avoid total annihilation.

But for Li Chenqiu, this was useless. He didn't need to fight up close. He could just lie on the ground, condense the moisture in the air into water droplets, and then aim and fire. He could get the job done lying down.

The atmosphere in the arena became more and more oppressive, and the rustling of the wind blowing through the leaves made everyone's nerves suddenly tense.

Silence at this moment was like the silence of the Grim Reaper. The longer it dragged on, the more panicked everyone became. They didn't know when someone would die again, and every second was extremely tormenting.

A minute later, someone finally couldn't take it anymore and whispered to Zhang Tong, "Brother Zhang, why don't we leave first? It doesn't feel like anyone's here!"

Zhang Tong frowned and hesitated for a moment, then nodded. "Yes, let's leave here first and continue searching according to the original plan."

As soon as he said this, the hearts of the crowd that had been hanging in their throats instinctively relaxed, and at that moment, Li Chenqiu struck.

*Swoosh!*

A barely perceptible sound of air being sliced open rang out, lightly taking away a few drops of crimson.

The smiles of several Awakened hadn't yet faded when they were forever unable to make another expression, falling onto the moist soil.

"Dead, someone else is dead..."

Before that person could finish speaking, a dense rain of water droplets shot towards the crowd, and the sound of flesh being pierced rang out continuously in the arena. Fresh red blood, like red ribbons, fluttered in the night wind.

Some people tried to block the water droplets with their arms, but it was all in vain. The water droplets were all-penetrating, and only Zhang Tong, a Third Forbidden, could skillfully resist them.

"This attack method, it's... it's that high-risk disaster 096 Disaster Water!!!"

"Brother Zhang, save me, Brother Zhang, save me!!!"

"How is Disaster Water here? Isn't he also an Awakened?!"

"We're doomed, we can't resist high-risk disasters at all!"

For a time, wails echoed throughout the arena, and emotions of despair and fear spread through the crowd like a plague.

Watching the people around him fall one by one, Zhang Tong's eyes were bloodshot, and just as he was about to pull the signal flare from his chest, a half-meter-wide column of water erupted from the water's surface, rushing towards Zhang Tong like a giant dragon.

Caught off guard, Zhang Tong had no time to dodge, and the water column sent him flying with a *bang*, and the signal flare and walkie-talkie on his body were destroyed.

"Bastard!!!" Zhang Tong shouted in exasperation, getting up and trying to snatch the signal flares from others, but he soon realized helplessly that the signal flares and walkie-talkies on the others were all destroyed by the water droplets.

A deep sense of powerlessness shot straight to the top of his head.

At this moment, Zhang Tong only had one question in his mind.

"Why, why would a high-risk disaster be here, and ambush me here? Does that make sense?!"