That's a lot more reassuring...

Hearing the other party's final remarks, Who Doesn't Bow Their Head and Mo Gan Recklessly Admit that these two were much more courageous than they thought. With eight pairs of socks in their possession, instead of fleeing, they desperately fought to the death against two sockless players. Ordinary players would never do something like that.

To put it bluntly, ordinary players simply lack that kind of confidence. The mistake they made was treating this duo as ordinary players. Would people who form a duo to participate in a team competition be lacking in confidence?

The two of them, lost in thought, were sent to the respawn point, where a 20-second countdown began.

"You guys really came."

Before the two could recover, a voice rang out. They turned their perspective and immediately saw a figure they had separated from not long ago: Ling Fengwu.

They were all eliminated at the same location, so it was not surprising that they were sent to the same respawn point. But it had only been a minute since Ling Fengwu was eliminated, and this guy was still guarding here. If he hadn't died before and accumulated a longer respawn time, then he was here specifically to wait for them. And what he said proved just that.

"Are you serious?" Who Doesn't Bow Their Head and Mo Gan Recklessly both showed extreme disdain.

Waiting at the respawn point, of course, wasn't for the socks. Did this guy actually intend to take revenge for being killed just now? He was supposed to be a top-tier大神 (dàshén, expert) in the pro circle, yet he was so petty?

"Waiting here is just to prove something," Sun Xiang said smugly.

"It seems you guys really aren't with those two," Sun Xiang said.

"Nonsense." Who Doesn't Bow Their Head and Mo Gan Recklessly rolled their eyes. What others needed to analyze and ponder was extremely simple for them. So they didn't admire Sun Xiang's smug act of pretending he knew all along.

"That's not a good attitude," Sun Xiang said, looking like he had plenty of time. "Because I might make you squat here for another 40 seconds."

Who Doesn't Bow Their Head and Mo Gan Recklessly were extremely frustrated. According to their personalities, they absolutely didn't want to put up with this. So what if they were delayed from grabbing socks? It was just an event reward, not something truly irreplaceable. But for them, this was an extremely important thing that they had to fight for.

Because they had entered the public eye through this event. Their performance on the first day was amazing, but if it dropped too much on the second day, wouldn't they be seen as a flash in the pan?

The duo who got zero socks in the previous round thanks to Lord Grim and Steamed Bun Invasion were already destined not to repeat their glory from yesterday. In this round, they unfortunately ran into a strong enemy again. If they got another egg, their performance today would only be one-third of yesterday's, which would inevitably affect the impressions the major teams had of them. This was something they didn't want to happen.

Whenever this aspect was involved, the two of them would become very rational. In this round, they didn't want to gain nothing again.

"What do you want?" Who Doesn't Bow Their Head asked, while also paying attention to the time. If the negotiation wasn't going well, they would grab the initiative as soon as the 20 seconds ended. Ling Fengwu certainly didn't have their 20-second system timer. They could only calculate it themselves, and there would inevitably be deviations. This was a detail that could determine the first move.

"Mm, that tone sounds much better. Hahahaha," Sun Xiang said. He then controlled Ling Fengwu to turn around and leave. Who Doesn't Bow Their Head and Mo Gan Recklessly were dumbfounded. This idiot was actually so superficial that he wasted time here just for a matter of tone?

When the 20-second countdown ended, Ling Fengwu's figure was completely out of sight. Who Doesn't Bow Their Head and Mo Gan Recklessly, filled with disdain for this大神 (dàshén, expert), headed in roughly the same direction as Ling Fengwu.

This time, they couldn't just fight recklessly, because this was a three-way contest. The side that rashly attacked would be giving the third party an opportunity to take advantage of the situation with the help of the second party. However, among these three parties, one party's strength was overwhelmingly dominant. Who Doesn't Bow Their Head and Mo Gan Recklessly were only evenly matched with Sun Xiang. If the entire Excellent Era team gathered, even if the two of them were confident, they had to admit that they weren't invincible.

Fighting head-on wasn't the solution. They had known this for a long time, which was why they had been silent for so long before, waiting until Sun Xiang's Ling Fengwu was alone before making a move. And now, they also needed an opportunity. The best-case scenario would be if that duo could escape from Excellent Era and then run into them...

Don't die too quickly...

As they traveled, the two of them kept an eye on the system messages, fearing that a string of sock acquisition messages would suddenly appear.

"Nothing found here."

"Nothing here either."

"Nothing here either."

From Excellent Era's team, Xiao Shiqin continuously received messages from the others. The entire team was acting separately, including the cleric, with the goal of finding that duo first. They weren't afraid of encountering ordinary players. Right now, they were only running and not fighting. Even if they were alone, they were confident.

"Still nothing?" Including Xiao Shiqin himself, four people, spiraling inwards from four directions. This was the limit of the range they could control. But still, nothing was found. Was the other party too lucky, or were they prepared for this kind of search?

It had been a minute since Who Doesn't Bow Their Head and Mo Gan Recklessly respawned, meaning that the two of them had finished fighting and had been fleeing for a minute. Currently, the search range could still control their movement space. If another minute passed, the four of them would no longer be able to handle such a large area...

Sun Xiang's Ling Fengwu waiting at the respawn point wasn't just being an idiot, as Who Doesn't Bow Their Head and Mo Gan Recklessly had imagined. The purpose of waiting there was to clearly grasp the time. Only by knowing the time could he calculate the range in which the two could be active, and only then could he conduct the search more efficiently. Now that he had grasped the time perfectly, he naturally understood the other party's possible range of activity. It was just that the time was too short to arrange a search method that compressed the space. Now that the spiral search had yielded nothing, continuing would require further expansion of the range.

Enlarging the search area while keeping the number of people the same meant that the other party's escape space would also increase, and their chances of getting away would be higher. Should they just continue like this, or...?

Xiao Shiqin fell into thought, but the ever-changing professional arena had already ingrained in him the habit of making instant decisions. The thinking only lasted for three seconds before Xiao Shiqin had made a decision.

Compress inwards!

This was the message Xiao Shiqin sent to the other three. The three were stunned when they received the message. They had already prepared to expand outwards, but instead they were compressing inwards? Because they had grasped the time information, they could basically deduce the other party's distance from the center. The only thing they didn't know was the direction, so they used a spiral search.

Judging from the time, if the other party had left in a straight line, they might already be outside their spiral circumference. Wouldn't shrinking instead of expanding be going in the opposite direction?

"Let's gamble, they're still in the original location!" Xiao Shiqin then sent a message explaining his decision.

The three of them were taken aback after reading it.

Staying in the original location without moving. If they continued the spiral search, they would only get further and further away. But having the guts to stay in the original location after taking eight pairs of socks was truly extraordinary!

While the three were astonished, they also followed Xiao Shiqin's instructions and began to compress inwards. As the spiral circumference shortened and the space became smaller, even if they couldn't block them, they could clearly determine the direction in which the characters were leaving this circle. But this time, Excellent Era's team discovered that they might be able to end the battle directly within the circle. The gradual compression allowed two figures to gradually enter their field of vision.

Mechanic Yinuo, Desperado Here, these two actually hadn't left. They had really stayed in the original location.

The original location was the center defined by the spiral compression, of course, not so precise. Now it seemed that it was closer to Excellent Era's Shen Jian's Striker.

"I'll go hold them back first, you guys hurry," Shen Jian messaged in the team.

"Have you found them!" Sun Xiang, who hadn't arrived yet, was the first to get excited.

"Go!" Xiao Shiqin had no objections. At this point, they had found the other party, and as long as the other party wasn't asleep, they would have found them too. Hiding was meaningless. The correct plan was to have the closest person go up and stall for time.

Shen Jian's Striker moved lightly and quickly. With a few jumps, he blocked the two who were preparing to escape.

"I really can't help but praise you guys. What courage," Shen Jian said, while also typing a thumbs-up emoticon.

"Being praised by you... this feeling is really strange..." The other party smiled and said this.

Shen Jian's body sitting in front of the computer shook. This voice, this tone, wasn't that person...?

In that moment of hesitation, Shen Jian had already been hit by a brick.

"Whoa! How did I hit?" Steamed Bun accurately hit someone with a brick, but he still sounded dissatisfied, obviously surprised that he could hit the other party so easily. Shen Jian was hit by this brick and came back to his senses. Fortunately, it hit him head-on and didn't stun him. Seeing that Desperado Here was pushing closer, he swayed his body and used Tyrannical Crush directly.

"Ah yo! He's gotten even stronger!" Steamed Bun knew this punch was powerful, so he dodged while exclaiming in alarm.

Boom!

The Striker who had become stronger was enveloped in thick smoke. Lord Grim had already used a skill when he was speaking. Shen Jian had been absentminded after his daze, only paying attention to Steamed Bun. He was ambushed head-on by Lord Grim. A grenade was thrown, followed by a compressed air launcher. With a bang, it sounded like opening champagne. The poor Striker was immediately blasted away.

"Tsk tsk, he just left like that!" Steamed Bun said with great regret.

"Let's go too!" Lord Grim called out and quickly flashed away.