Good-faith Blocking vs Malicious Teaming

On the second floor platform of the Blue Pavilion.

At this moment, people were gradually gathering around this area.

On one hand, it was because players deeply hated bridge campers.

On the other hand, the team behind Dusk had more than one person in this match.

Dusk looked at the scene before him with immense pride.

This is the power of teamwork!

Though it seemed like they were just exchanging signals, the members of their team had deliberately brought a handgun into the match to communicate.

With the gunshots, they could identify who was on their side.

Aside from himself, there were three others!

He knew exactly how this was going to play out.

Once they took down the bridge-camping squad, one of them would start a riot and stab their own teammates in the back;

By then, chaos would erupt like a boiling pot of porridge!

He could then smoothly backstab the other teams, and even if his own allies fell, that was one less mouth to feed from the loot!

With this level of competition, clearing the map once would net an easy ten million. There was no way Li Moran could ever catch up to him!

With that thought, he fired another signal shot into the sky.

"Da da… da da da!"

"Da da… da da da!"

Soon, cultivators gathered one by one on the blue-black platform…

"Junior Brother Lu… are we really going to do that?"

Zhong Yi swallowed his saliva, facing an extremely difficult decision.

"Of course? If he shows no mercy, I won't either."

Lu Ze said boldly, raising his [Plum Blossom Needles] high and firing a signal into the sky.

By now, ten people had gathered on the blue-black platform. Their leader returned the signal symbolically, and no one noticed anything unusual.

Lu Ze casually blended into the crowd.

"This… this is…"

Zhou Yue felt like countless ants were crawling through his heart.

He knew Lu Ze was ruthless, but he never imagined he'd be this heartless!

He even came up with the shameless trick of using signal codes to infiltrate the enemy's ranks!

And…

It worked brilliantly!

Just thinking about the saintly deeds Lu was about to commit, Zhou Yue couldn't resist waving his hands, trying to shield his own ID.

He was about to become an accomplice to this saint-in-the-making!!!

Lu Ze grinned warmly as he blended into the center of the crowd.

"We're just kindly camping the bridge, while they're maliciously teaming up. It's perfectly reasonable to teach them a lesson, right?"

…

The Heavenly Dao livestream.

The audience, watching from an omniscient perspective, naturally spotted Lu Ze's movements immediately.

Everyone couldn't help but gasp.

The barrage of comments in the sky exploded instantly.

[Is this guy even human???]

[He infiltrated the allied forces, you say??]

[Dusk, man—count the heads… Four teams, thirteen people. You seriously don't sense anything off??]

[No wonder the game doesn't let enemies talk to each other mid-match… Old Demon Lu must have foreseen this all along!!!]

[Too saintly…]

[Top three saintly moments of the year, for sure!!]

[How can he just walk in so casually???]

[Old Demon Lu, you have no heart!!]

…

Immortal Bridge.

"Old Zhong, is there still a way out for us now…"

Zhou Yue's eyes were dazed.

This was too insane—even if he cultivated another three hundred years, he'd never come up with such a sinister trick.

"There probably… isn't anymore…"

Zhong Yi also covered his face.

Even though everyone displayed their character's default appearance in match mode, he still felt like he'd lost all face.

"Let's just hope Junior Brother Lu gets caught by the people below soon…"

Zhong Yi muttered under his breath.

Just then,

"Beep beep beep—!"

A red detection arrow flew over their heads.

Right after,

Triple fireballs, tiger crouch cannons, electric arrows, psychic boomerangs…

Countless items cascaded nonstop toward the bridge…

…

Garden.

At this moment, the main force of the Immortal Bridge Punitive Expedition was advancing menacingly toward the Immortal Bridge.

With Dusk leading and firing a detection arrow, everyone seemed to share a silent understanding, launching skills at the bridge one after another before charging forward in unison.

In the midst of such a grand charge, no one noticed that only two figures had been illuminated on the Immortal Bridge.

"Charge! Charge! Slaughter them all!!!"

Dusk roared with unmatched passion.

Two random bystanders caught up in the heat of the moment surged forward into the frontlines.

'Heh, idiots…'

Dusk sneered inwardly.

He subtly slowed his pace, drifting from the front of the formation bit by bit to the back.

He wasn't about to do the dying.

Once the bridge-camping squad was eliminated, the real battle would begin.

What he needed to do now was conserve his strength.

Dusk slowed down more and more, step by step.

'This should be the very back of the formation, right? Now I just…'

He thought to himself, when he suddenly heard a faint footstep behind him.

Dusk turned around and saw another player wearing shabby gear and holding a [Plum Blossom Needles] as Loona, hanging back even farther than him.

"Hey, you should be rushing forward…"

Dusk pointed at the Immortal Bridge, ready to remind him.

But before he could finish, a sharp pain shot through his ankle!

[Landscape Master Lu Ze has downed Dusk!]

Lu Ze shook his head helplessly. "Ah, why did you have to turn around…"

With that, he raised his [Plum Blossom Needles], aiming the muzzle at the feet of the main force ahead.

Talk to my 60-round drum magazine instead!

…

…

"Da da da da da da!!"

Dense, crisp gunfire echoed across the entire battlefield.

The formation of the Immortal Bridge Punitive Expedition collapsed from within.

Screams erupted from every team.

"Screw it!! It's Old Demon Lu… Old Demon Lu!!"

"One of Old Demon Lu's men has infiltrated our ranks!!!"

"Screw it?? Which one is him??"

"That red wolf with the skin!! It must be him!!!"

"Kill!!"

"Whoa?? Why is everyone ganging up on me??"

…

The Immortal Bridge Punitive Expedition was in total chaos.

Lu Ze's black-skinned red wolf had left too deep an impression on the players. In such a chaotic scene, the red-wolf player was the first to be shot dead by mistake.

Some players knew Lu Ze had infiltrated, while others thought someone was backstabbing.

The chaos only grew.

Lu Ze hugged his drum-magazine [Plum Blossom Needles] and went to town shooting at everyone's feet…

…

…

The Heavenly Dao livestream.

[Saintly… Too saintly!!!]

[Shooting feet while looting packs—absolute ghost hands!!]

[If Old Demon Lu were born in a chaotic era, he'd be a legendary conqueror!]

[It'd be fine if he turned to the righteous path, but if he went demonic… that would really rewrite history!]

[Even the demons would get played to death by him!]

[Too shameless—one man throwing an entire army into disarray!]

[From now on, you can't even use signal codes to stop bridge campers…]

[Don't worry, True Disciple Li is still around!]

[Good thing True Disciple Li didn't answer the signal, or Old Demon Lu would have had a field day!]

[True Disciple Li's marksmanship and movement are peerless! He'll surely take down Old Demon Lu!!]

…

Top floor of the core zone, Hall of Governance.

"Senior Sister, what's going on down there? Why did they suddenly turn on each other?"

Zhou Qiaoling asked curiously.

"With four teams, it's inevitable that some have ulterior motives…"

Shen Yan sighed.

He was the inheritor of the Heavenly Gate Sect, knowing well that the human heart was the most difficult thing to calculate.

"No."

Li Moran shook her head, her gaze fixed on Luna hiding behind the flower bed, her fists clenched.

"It's Lu Ze..."

The moment she realized one person was missing from the bridge, she had already guessed how events would unfold.

So even without seeing a kill notification or the names of others, she picked Lu Ze out from the crowd at a glance.

This kind of thing—only he could pull it off...

"Let's go."

Li Moran turned, gripping the [Soldier of Heaven, Type Seven] tightly in her hand, the corners of her mouth curling up slightly.

"Let's go meet them."