Chapter 224: Young Man, Congratulations on Your Pregnancy_4
"Okay, then let's get going, and talk about the rest after we return," Zhou Wen said.
"Alright." Mu Rufeng nodded, then lay straight down on the ground, and in the blink of an eye, he entered a deep sleep.
As he fell asleep, the Fire Clothes automatically transformed into Flame Armor, wrapping him up perfectly.
In this state, even a Level 30 Lord-level Monster would not be able to break through Mu Rufeng's defenses.
Without delay, Zhou Wen took the two of them and flew into the sky, and soon they left the area.
...
In the blink of an eye, six hours had passed.
Mu Rufeng woke up from his deep sleep.
"Ha~~!" Mu Rufeng yawned and propped himself up into a sitting position.
He glanced around, and there were not many changes.
"Gurgle~~!" At that moment, his stomach suddenly growled.
Mu Rufeng immediately took out some food, and after eating his fill, he quickly figured out the direction and headed towards the safe zone.
In just a few minutes, Mu Rufeng returned to the safe zone.
On the way there, Mu Rufeng had not seen a single monster.
There also seemed to be no Contractors visible in the safe zone.
Clearly, the monsters had been completely eliminated, and these Contractors had either returned or gone to other areas to hunt.
"Mr. Zombie King, I have been waiting for you," Mei Tong, who had her eyes closed, suddenly opened them and looked towards Mu Rufeng.
"Waiting for me? What for?" Mu Rufeng asked.
"You should know Zhou Wen and the other two, their Equipment should really be thanking you, shouldn't it?" Mei Tong said.
"Oh, that thing, I have plenty to spare, so I handed some over since they asked," said Mu Rufeng.
"Regardless, I still have to thank you. Consider this Skill Card my compensation," Mei Tong said and promptly handed Mu Rufeng a card.
After taking it, Mu Rufeng saw that it was a random game Skill Card.
This made for nine he had in his possession.
"Quite generous. Well, I won't be polite then. If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave," Mu Rufeng said.
"Safe travels," Mei Tong said with a slight smile, respectfully seeing Mu Rufeng off.
After Mu Rufeng stepped into the Transmission Array and left, Mei Tong still had a smile on her face.
It was clear that she made quite a profit from this round.
In just six hours, Zhou Wen and his group, along with a team of others, had swept through other areas, overpowering everything in their path.
Inside their statues were actually two leaderboards: a points leaderboard and a power ranking leaderboard.
Currently, in first place was the giant statue from Mu Rufeng's 008 area.
This guy had created a gap with the second place that was simply astronomical.
In second place was the Tian Xiang from area 1000.
And she had climbed to the tenth place.
Before that, she barely ranked in the six-hundreds.
In just six short hours, her ranking skyrocketed, passing one challenge after another, to break into the top ten.
Moreover, she felt that it was more than that; first place was utterly impossible, but second place seemed quite likely to fall into her lap.
Thinking of this, she grew increasingly excited.
...
Inside the safe zone of Wilderness Area 854.
A Magic Array slowly appeared, and afterwards, Mu Rufeng stepped out of it.
Inside the safe zone, not a single Contractor was in sight, although the statue stood erect on one side.
Upon seeing Mu Rufeng's arrival, it hurriedly said, "Mr. Zombie King..."
Mu Rufeng glanced at it, ignored it, and sped off into the distance.
Seeing this, the statue didn't say anything else and just sighed softly.
Each area's statue could use the power gained from players killing monsters to condense random Skill Cards.
But it required a cost of thirty percent—of course, only from the total power of all monsters in your area.
This consumption of power was significant and could even lead to being the bottom-ranked place in the final rankings because of losing this thirty percent.
However, at the beginning of Mu Rufeng's sweeping campaign, those statues thought Mu Rufeng aimed to kill every monster.
To prevent the 008 area from stealing all the power, they had no choice but to bribe Mu Rufeng with card condensations.
The first one to go for it was naturally area 1000.
The few that followed also imitated this approach, but soon the statues from the areas further back realized Mu Rufeng didn't have the time to kill all monsters, only the Lord Monsters.
So, one after another, they all ignored Mu Rufeng.
They even urged Mu Rufeng to quickly kill all the Bosses, so the statues could take action and train their Contractors to hunt in other areas.
The front-ranking wilderness areas were basically the ones with larger numbers.
...
Ten minutes later, Mu Rufeng killed the Lord Boss and cleared an additional instance, returning to the safe zone.
Not giving a glance at the Contractors gathering in the safe zone, Mu Rufeng walked straight into the Transmission Array.
Soon, Mu Rufeng arrived at area 853.
The moment Mu Rufeng stepped out of the Magic Array, he saw the Magic Array forcibly interrupted by a surge of power.
Mu Rufeng frowned, about to take action, when a force of Rule power enveloped him and bound him in place instantly.
[You have been hit by a Rule Item, forcibly bound for one second.]
[Ding! The Guide of area 853 has spent all of their power to forcibly shut down the Teleportation Magic Array, restricting your return to the real world for one minute.]
At the same time, the safe zone also vanished in an instant, with mist slowly creeping in from all around.