Chapter 28: Pounce

Looking at Xiao Fen’s back, a cruel smile floated on the corner of the Trialist’s mouth. He raised his hand and made a signal in the air, then quickly walked a few steps, walked to Xiao Fen’s side, and said in a low voice, “Considering that the task of Lux is being constantly triggered by you, our Young Master wants to express some apologies to Mr. Palin, and also wants to discuss the next cooperation matters with you. I hope Mr. Palin will not refuse.”

Xiao Fen’s body paused for a moment. He looked at the other party and said, “I do not intend any cooperation.”

“No, no, no, sir, don’t make an answer so immediately. I think we have enough time for you to consider more. The premise is that you need a safer place to think alone, and then make a decision.”

Xiao Fen sneered in his heart. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly heard another burst of footsteps rapidly approaching from behind.

The target was two people, not one!

Xiao Fen immediately overturned the previous plan to kill one person and immediately turned to new thinking.

Just as the footsteps from behind were about to reach his back and form a pincer attack with the first person, Xiao Fen suddenly said, “I have already completed the Radiance of Lux task and obtained a Gemini Golden Key as the first reward. The second reward will be delivered in a while ahead. Before getting these rewards, I am not going anywhere, unless you kill me and drag my corpse away.”

The two Trialists of the Li Family paused when they heard the Gemini Golden Key. The person walking beside Xiao Fen seemed to be considering something. The three of them walked silently for a few steps before that person said, “I am equally curious about your second reward. How about we go with you to see over there? If possible, I want to see your Gemini Golden Key. I have never seen the real thing. Could you let me and my companion admire it? I will return it to you immediately.”

Fish are lured by bait because of hunger, and humans seek their own death because of greed.

The first reward was the Gemini Golden Key, and the second reward could only be better, not worse. More importantly, the second reward was not like the touch screen, which could only be seen by the owner, but could be seen by everyone.

That meant the Trialists of the Li Family could also see the second reward, and of course, they could also snatch the second reward from Xiao Fen’s hands.

Greed made the Trialist beside Xiao Fen make the first wrong decision.

Xiao Fen smiled faintly, opened the small leather bag, and took out his Gemini Golden Key. In the gradually thinning mist, the two keys were shining with incomparable beautiful light.

The body of the Trialist beside him suddenly froze, as if he used great effort to restrain himself from snatching the two keys from Xiao Fen’s hands. Xiao Fen could even hear the slight trembling sound coming from this Trialist’s body.

“It’s truly beautiful.”

The Trialist praised sincerely, his eyes never leaving the two keys.

In the Trial World, Trialists killing each other, or even just harming each other, would result in severe punishment.

Therefore, unless necessary, every Trialist avoided directly harming another Trialist.

What Xiao Fen needed to do was to make the two Trialists behind him completely lose the determination to kill him. After that, he could succeed more easily.

Compared to those unknown threats, Xiao Fen was more willing to choose to accept the punishment of the World Tree.

After all, the other party was a disciple from a large family. If he just let them take him out of the Trial World, what Xiao Fen faced would be a true disaster of destruction.

Letting the other party’s two people see the Gemini Golden Key was Xiao Fen’s second step.

Although the Gemini Golden Key was precious, it was not yet to the point where the other party would kill for money.

Moreover, there was only one set key crystal, but there were two people on the other side, so inevitably there would be selfish thoughts between them.

Even if there was no discord between the two, they would definitely want to get the better second reward because of greed, so they would inevitably follow behind Xiao Fen.

It took less than 5 minutes to walk from here to the small building where Lux once stayed. This time was already enough for Xiao Fen, as long as his other judgment from before was correct.

After seeing the Gemini Golden Key, the two people on the other side did not speak, but glanced at each other. They both hid the greed in their eyes deeply, and nodded at the same time, agreeing to continue following Xiao Fen to the place to receive the second reward.

At the same time, Xiao Fen vaguely heard a rustling sound coming from above his head. That was a sound very familiar to him. Besides these sounds, Xiao Fen could vaguely see that the black Projection on the ground was quietly moving.

Sure enough, the corner of his mouth raised slightly. He pretended to want to take back the Gemini Golden Key. How could those two be willing to let such a good thing leave them? They held it tightly at the same time without speaking, just refusing to give it to Xiao Fen.

The silent dispute in the darkness lasted for a few seconds. Xiao Fen finally let go, turned around, and walked into the darkness.

The two looked at each other again. Neither trusted the other to keep the set key, so after thinking about it, they simply let the person in front hold it in his hand without putting it in the leather bag. They monitored each other, and then followed Xiao Fen’s steps again.

This action did not last long, and the noise was not too loud, but Xiao Fen’s mumbling made the two ignore the strange movement from above their heads again.

In fact, it was not uncommon for some strange sounds to appear at this time.

After midnight, the Web that sealed the entire block would slowly close up. This process was not very fast, but even walking under the Web at this time would not result in an attack.

This information had long been circulated in the Trialist circle. As Trialists from a large family, the two had naturally heard of it, so although they were alert to the sounds from above, they did not take it completely to heart.

Xiao Fen walked faster and faster, suddenly using his running Skill to flash continuously. The two people’s attention was focused on the Gemini Golden Key again, and they were negligent for a moment. Coupled with the fact that the mist had not completely dissipated, they lost sight of Xiao Fen in the blink of an eye, and could only vaguely hear the sound of Xiao Fen running coming from ahead.

The two were not in a hurry. They smiled at each other, seemingly disapproving of Xiao Fen’s action.

“He runs fast, but in a place like this, how could we let him escape so easily?”

The other person also smiled and said: “If he wasn’t so agile, he might not have been able to escape the Web’s attack last time. But this time, we have left a mark on his body. No matter how agile he is, he can’t escape.”

Although the two talked and laughed like this, there was no smile in their eyes, and half of their attention was focused on the Gemini Golden Key.