"We surrender, we surrender, we won’t fight anymore."
The two remaining men in this team watched their captain get disabled with a slap, and their strongest long-range female archer was also knocked unconscious with a slap. They had long lost the will to fight and crouched down to signal their surrender.
Then, one of the men took out a silver feather they had confiscated when they entered and handed it over with both hands, looking terrified.
"This... this is the silver feather we seized earlier, we’re handing it over now."
Su Chen looked at the two men who had obediently conceded, and without saying much, he just waved his hand and said.
"Alright, Bai Jing, collect their silver feather and take the feather from that brown bear. Let’s continue deeper."
Bai Jing nodded and then took the silver feather from the man’s hand.
The two men quickly pressed the emergency red button on their hands, and soon, staff from the martial arts competition arrived to take them out of Wilderness Gorge.
Neither Su Chen’s Moon God Squad nor other teams in the gorge would naturally conflict with the tournament staff.
The martial arts competition staff wore a unified uniform, and they were all members of the Linjiang City Martial Artist Alliance. In this world, they represented the city’s highest official force, and no one would be foolish enough to oppose the Alliance.
On the next part of the journey, Su Chen’s Moon God Squad had already seen many contestants being taken away by staff, some surrendered out of fear of beast attacks, while others surrendered hurriedly after being injured in conflicts with other teams.
Of course, these were relatively good scenarios. The worst cases were those who hadn’t pressed the emergency red button in time or hadn’t waited for the staff to arrive and became corpses.
In just a few kilometers from the outer to the inner areas of Wilderness Gorge, Su Chen’s Moon God Squad had already seen three bodies being carried out.
There were also heavily injured contestants being carried on stretchers, their blood all over the place.
Missing arms and legs, or even being cut in half with just the upper body remaining, were not uncommon sights in Wilderness Gorge.
Just those scenes along the road had already made the five people in Su Chen’s squad turn pale with fright.
Especially the so-called rich second-generation Zhang Weidong, who was so scared that he vomited on the spot, and halfway through, his pants were already wet. Bai Jing, Liu Yang, and the others couldn’t help but cover their noses, but in such a dangerous place, no one had the mind to loathe that guy.
No one knew if in a moment, they might end up like those contestants carried on stretchers as well.
Even Su Chen couldn’t help but feel a bit nervous at this moment.
Although Su Chen knew he had the Nine Yang Divine Skill protecting his body and had mastered the Great Shifting, he still hadn’t spent enough time in this world and found it hard to adapt to its brutal rules.
Seeing the staff carrying the injured or dead contestants out of Wilderness Gorge, they all had expressionless, businesslike faces.
Even if they arrived late and caused contestant deaths, they seemed to feel no guilt at all.
Even though this was written in the safety agreement as an indemnity clause, where all consequences were borne by the contestants themselves, witnessing such scenes firsthand, Su Chen felt that those martial arts competition instructors and staff seemed too detached.
At this moment, Su Chen couldn’t help but wryly smile in his heart.
"Maybe I still don’t quite understand this world, maybe they’ve just experienced too many battles and have become indifferent to life and death."
Then, Su Chen’s team found another beast with a silver feather on it, a black leopard with very nimble movements. However, it was much larger than Su Chen’s past life’s impression of leopards, its tail alone was over two meters long, and when it opened its mouth, its teeth were scarier than a crocodile’s.
If placed in Su Chen’s past life, such a leopard could easily hunt even an elephant.
At this moment, Su Chen realized that not only monsters above the first tier but even ordinary wild beasts in this world were much more formidable than those in his past life.
Facing this fierce leopard, Su Chen still chose to take the lead.
Facing the leopard head-on, Su Chen immediately released his True Qi from the Nine Yang Divine Skill to protect his body. Then, using the Divine Shadow Step, he narrowly avoided the leopard’s sharp fangs. Leaping, he directly sat on the leopard’s neck.
The leopard let out an angry roar, lifted its paw trying to push Su Chen off, but was heavily hit on the left by Li Kang.
Li Kang was quite smart, landing a punch right in the leopard’s eye, its most vulnerable spot. The leopard immediately staggered and leaned to the left, unable to keep its balance.
Then, the chubby Liu Yang and Bai Jing launched attacks from behind, each stabbing into the leopard’s rear with a dagger and a spear.
"Roar... Roar... Roar..."
The leopard let out another pitiful roar and finally spat out a mouthful of blood, collapsing to the ground, completely silent.
Seeing the four of them work together seamlessly, Su Chen couldn’t help but praise them, then jumped off the leopard’s body, casually taking the silver feather.
As for Zhang Weidong, at this point, he wasn’t even worth considering as a person. It was already a blessing that he could keep up with the team.
After taking the silver feather, Su Chen casually tossed it to Bai Jing.
However, just as Bai Jing was gathering the silver feather and the two previous ones, a few sharp gazes suddenly shot over.
"Hehe, you seem to have quite a few silver feathers in your hands? That’s impressive."
The speaker was a short, fat young man, followed by seven other burly men like him.
"Looks like some stray dogs are here to snatch food again, everyone be careful."
Su Chen quickly warned the others, then dashed to the front, coldly watching the seven fat men before him with a steely gaze.
A team of seven was quite numerous in Wilderness Gorge, and considering their robust physiques, even without powerful martial artists among them, their combat capability was definitely formidable. No wonder they survived until now.
Su Chen glanced at the black bag in the hands of the fat man at the back of the team, speculating that it was likely filled with confiscated silver feathers.
"Looks like we’ll profit a lot from this, saving us the effort of continuing to fight those fierce beasts."
Thinking of this, a confident smile appeared at the corner of Su Chen’s mouth.
However, his smile didn’t put the opposite seven fat men on alert. The leading stout man gazed greedily at the three silver feathers in Bai Jing’s hand and viciously said.
"If we snatch those three silver feathers from you, our team should make it into the top 15, hehe... If you don’t want your bones broken, just press the red surrender button, drop your stuff, and run."
"Hehe, how could we let them go just like that? Wouldn’t that be too boring? You Jiang Univ trash better not surrender, brother here wants to enjoy this for a bit."
Another fat guy chimed in, raising a fist the size of a clay pot and clenching it hard, eyes fierce as he eagerly eyed Bai Jing’s white legs under her short skirt.
Indeed, Bai Jing not quite reaching 160 cm tall fit the epitome of a loli.
To such rough men, a loli girl was obviously their most enticing prey.
"You dare to court death..."
Hearing these guys insult his classmate, the chubby Liu Yang was the first to charge, directly grappling with one of them.
Then Li Kang joined in the fight.
Following that, Su Chen employed the Great Shifting, taking on four at once...
As the four fat men witnessed Su Chen’s terrifying power, the little loli Bai Jin took advantage of the opening and directly stabbed the lead fat man’s leg with her dagger.
The fat man who had just insulted Bai Jing let out a miserable howl, blood gushing out from his leg.
For a martial artist assessment, such an injury was relatively light. As a student at Jiang University Martial School, Bai Jing’s mental fortitude far surpassed an ordinary girl.
Hence, instead of being afraid at this moment, she felt immensely satisfied.
After all, the leading fat man had spoken those vile words earlier. He deserved his fate, naturally.
The events that followed were simple. The seven-member team, seeing their leader injured, immediately pressed the red emergency button and surrendered.
When the martial arts competition staff arrived, they voluntarily handed over the silver feathers they had seized to Su Chen.
After confiscating the silver feathers from this seven-man team, the Moon God Squad now possessed a total of twelve silver feathers...
Coincidentally, it was already late night, around ten o’clock.