Bai Ye proceeded down the street and soon arrived at the entrance of the eatery Gao Ming had mentioned.
There were four people in total, and Gao Ming was among them.
Bai Ye shot Gao Ming a surprised glance and asked, "You're going too?"
Before Gao Ming could reply, a young man with a somewhat perverse expression stepped forward and said, "We've been waiting all this time for this guy? I don't see anything special about him."
As he spoke, the youth circled Bai Ye once, then suddenly reached out and patted Bai Ye's cheek.
"You're quite good-looking. I heard the leader from the Cang Long Association is a woman, so are you planning to use your handsome face to seduce her?"
Bai Ye looked at Gao Ming and said, "Find someone else."
Gao Ming said apologetically, "Sorry."
The youth grumbled, "Replace me? On what grounds? Gao Ming, I was invited by Lin Jia Ye. Now you want me to leave? Do you believe I'll quit the Evil Spirit Group?"
Bai Ye said, "You've misunderstood."
The youth looked at Bai Ye and asked, "Huh?"
Bai Ye continued, "When I said 'find someone else,' I didn't mean for you to leave."
*Zzzt!*
The moment Bai Ye spoke, a large amount of lightning surged from his body.
In the next instant, the lightning struck the youth. A sharp stinging sensation and a powerful impact swept through the youth's entire body. Immediately after, the youth's body was flung backward, crashing heavily onto the ground.
*Zzzt!*
The sound of electricity coursing through the air arose again. Bai Ye transformed into a bolt of lightning and appeared beside the youth. Before the youth could get up, Bai Ye stepped on his chest.
"What I meant by 'find someone else' is..." Bai Ye reached out with his Steel Slime to condense a lightsaber and said, "Once one person is dead, a position will naturally become vacant."
*Swoosh!*
The youth quickly drew a long saber, but before he could raise it, Bai Ye's lightsaber streaked across his throat.
Following that, a head rolled to the side.
Gao Ming's eyes widened in shock. "Bai Ye, you..."
Bai Ye looked at Gao Ming, his gaze turning cold. "Do you have a problem with that?"
"No, no..." Gao Ming quickly shook his head. "Isn't this an absolutely safe zone? You told me so!"
Bai Ye replied, "Yes, it's protected by the World Battlefield."
Gao Ming asked, puzzled, "But, you..."
Bai Ye explained, "The condition for being protected by the World Battlefield is entering a virtual game restricted zone. Since it's consciousness entering, the physical body remains in this area, thus the body is protected by the World Battlefield, and no one can kill someone whose consciousness has entered a virtual game restricted zone."
Gao Ming asked, "Then now?"
Bai Ye spread his hands. "It's a normal neutral safe zone."
Gao Ming asked, "Then you won't have any trouble for killing someone?"
Gao Ming glanced at the headless corpse, feeling a pang of regret.
It was true the guy was arrogant, but he was still a high-tier expert in the Evil Spirit Group. It was a bit of a shame for him to die like this.
The top-tier members were trapped in the virtual game, and the others were still in the Origin Domain.
But more than that, Gao Ming was genuinely worried about Bai Ye. Killing someone in a neutral zone could lead to big trouble.
"It's fine," Bai Ye said nonchalantly. "Don't worry about me. Prepare to enter the virtual game."
Gao Ming began, "Are you sure..."
Before Gao Ming could finish his sentence, he felt a sense of impending doom. Combat robots had already appeared around them and were heading their way.
Despite the town having no obvious technological flair, it was, in reality, a futuristic technological area.
Technological development could take many paths. The technology in this area primarily leaned towards lifestyle and entertainment.
Therefore, the futuristic feel of this world wasn't as pronounced.
But that didn't mean there was no military power. There were combat robots for defense, and although they were entry-level, their quality wasn't low among their kind.
However...
Bai Ye turned his head to look at the robots, and then...
*Crash!*
The more than a dozen combat robots that were approaching Bai Ye suddenly shattered into pieces, scattering on the ground as a pile of components.
The members of the Evil Spirit Group were instantly stunned.
Especially Gao Ming, who had been contemplating whether to quickly pull people away and run, but then...
It was over?
It was over just like that?
"Let's go!" Bai Ye looked at Gao Ming. "Quickly call another person. We have important business to attend to."
Safe zone?
There was no truly safe place in the World Battlefield.
The so-called safe zones were merely protected by powerful indigenous inhabitants, preventing the Chosen from acting recklessly, thus forming these "safe zones."
When the Chosen's strength could overwhelm the indigenous inhabitants maintaining order in a safe zone, that safe zone would cease to be safe.
If one were to claim that Bai Ye could currently overwhelm all safe zones, it would be pure nonsense. But in a futuristic technological area, where law and order were maintained by combat robots, Bai Ye truly didn't take them seriously.
Mechanical Reconstruction was enough to teach them a lesson.
Gao Ming's emotions were indescribable. Although it wasn't the first time he had seen Bai Ye in action and he knew Bai Ye was very strong, disregarding a safe zone was truly monstrous.
Bai Ye urged again, "Let's go, what are you waiting for?"
Gao Ming snapped back to reality and quickly said, "Go, go, go, this way."
Even though a squad of combat robots had been dealt with, this was clearly not the end, so it was natural to evacuate as quickly as possible.
Although...
Bai Ye probably didn't care much either.
Leading the way quickly, Gao Ming guided everyone into a detached villa and said to Bai Ye, "This is our temporary base. We've rented this place for now."
As Gao Ming spoke, he pushed the door open.
Walking past the entrance into the living room, they saw several virtual reality devices, along with five men and two women, and some empty devices.
It was obvious that the vacant devices were for those who had already died.
Gao Ming instructed, "Put on the helmet, connect the device to the vein in your wrist, and then place this pad over your heart."
Bai Ye would certainly know how to use it, so Gao Ming wasn't worried, but he needed to explain to the remaining two.
Bai Ye sat down on the sofa and looked at Gao Ming. "You're going too?"
Gao Ming nodded. "Yes!"
Bai Ye asked, "Aren't you a cadre?"
Gao Ming chuckled. "Don't underestimate me. I'm quite capable of fighting."
Bai Ye spread his hands. "We're still one person short."
Gao Ming shook his head. "There's no time to get someone here now, and besides..."
Gao Ming gave a wry smile.
"We really can't scrape up any more experts."
"Ah?" Bai Ye exclaimed. "No way?"
Gao Ming asked, "What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
Bai Ye replied, "So, you called him an expert just now?"
Gao Ming's face darkened.
The others were speechless.
Didn't they know about tempting fate?