Chapter 133: Recruitment Plaza
By the time Bai Yi's team left Gary's place, it was already the second day. How Gary went about accomplishing Bai Yi's suggestion wasn't Bai Yi's problem anymore. Bai Yi might personally reveal himself a few times, but just that like that woman had said, this matter was entirely under Gary's authority. Bai Yi couldn't help it either, hatred had consumed him in the period before. Although he had a good reputation among evolved humans, he still didn't have any power under him.
Normally speaking, people who had just arrived at the snow valley would find a place to stay first. But since it was Bai Yi, Gary would definitely arrange something for him. Bai Yi rejected the suggestion to stay at the Snow Valley Guards Residence. Instead, he let Gary settle them into a small house outside. No matter what, it would be quite inconvenient in many ways if they stayed together.
"Normally if the team goes out, it's best to leave somebody inside the house since the order here isn't that good. Of course, there shouldn't be any problems here since the Guards Residence is nearby, but you should still be cautious." The 6-legged crawling half-human Snow Valley Guard brought them to the house and reminded.
"En, got it, thanks." Bai Yi nodded.
"Then I'll take my leave first." After this guy nodded, he turned around and walked out as heavy footsteps continuous rang from his 6 legs. He splattered the snow and broke the ice with every step.
"What a waste, it's like giving a giant present to that black bear," Woolf muttered after the guard left.
"Why does it matter? As long as they do it well, it doesn't matter who does it. We don't have any organizations under us, and don't forget about our main goal of coming to this snow valley…finding teammates. Unless, you would like to have a big bunch of people under you, where a 100 people respond to a single call from you?" Bai Yi asked.
"Of course! Wealth and power are what every man can't help but dream and talk about."
"That isn't for certain, some people like to live a simpler life."
"Hehe, that's because those people don't have the resources or ability to achieve everything, so they can only pose as being indifferent to worldly desires, acting like they are noble and virtuous," Woolf suddenly retorted.
Bai Yi and Heloise immediately looked at Woolf dumbly. Did this guy get swapped for someone else? When was he able to talk about something so deep? However, his next sentence revealed his true colors.
"I saw this in a book a few days ago and just happened to remember it."
"Ah hahaha!" Bai Yi and Heloise immediately started laughing. They actually thought that Woolf had become smarter! Although the book that Woolf read was something very one-sided, they could only treat it as a joke now.
After they laughed, and they left their things in this spacious room. Then, they headed toward the recruitment plaza mentioned by Melvin. The snow valley wasn't too big, and the plaza wasn't too difficult to find. The closer they got to that place, the more crowded it became. There were people looking for teammates and teams at the center, and there were various temporary booths that sold things by the sides. Looking at this wide variety of monsters that walked together, they felt like they had come across a monster carnival.
Bai Yi's team attracted the attention of the people around them because they looked mostly human. After all, they had injected themselves with the Prototy original form drug. Of course, the 4 meters tall Woolf, Heloise with wings, and the brightly colored patterned fur on Bai Yi's face still differentiated them from normal humans easily, so nobody really bothered them about this.
"How do we pick teammates?"
"We can just wait and watch."
After they looked around for a while, the people that hung around this plaza in the long term were all solo individuals, and there weren't many teams here. After they thought about it a bit, it wasn't possible for a team to stay in this place for the long term. There were probably a few hundred solo individuals sparsely distributed over the entire plaza, while there were only 8 teams here that occupied a square each. At the front of every team, there was basically a sign that wrote down the requirements for new teammates.
Bai Yi looked around. Although this place was indeed messy, there was still some order to it. The entire plaza was roughly split into 2 areas. One area was for the recruitment of team members where the teams stayed at; the other area was where the solo individuals stayed.
The area where the teams stayed was split into a few small squares, and there was a table inside each square used for receiving applicants. Bai Yi's team looked around for a while and walked in after they chose an empty spot. There was a small blackboard inside their square, and a few pieces of chalk left on the side. After they saw these, they finally figured out what was going on and what they were supposed to do.
Bai Yi picked up the small board and wrote his criteria for new team members.
Medicinal Maker, Weapon Armor Maker, Biological Researcher, Teachers…!
3 people from another team beside Bai Yi's square were initially quite curious about them, but they immediately started to laugh when they saw Bai Yi's signboard.
"What's so funny?"
"I'm sorry, my friend didn't laugh on purpose." Another guy seemed to feel that his friend was offending people by laughing like this and immediately stood out to mediate the situation.
"But your signboard is really pretty useless. Medicinal Makers and Weapon Armor Makers are all in high demand, everybody knows who these people are in the snow valley. Normally, the team leader has to personally go up to them to invite them into the team, and it is still up to them if they want to join or not. Normally speaking, you would only be able to find some teammates with decent personalities and fighting strength here. It was good enough as long as they weren't a burden to the team. As for the biological researchers and teachers, what use are they?" the guy explained.
"Oh, thanks. My daughter should be beginning her education, but none of us here know how to teach well."
This was really a headache, Momo really didn't like studying and there wasn't much use in forcing her to study either. Bai Yi didn't change the contents and placed the signboard on top of the wood pile outside. After doing all this, Bai Yi looked at the rest of them. There must definitely be a few people that remained here, in case there were people who saw the signboard. After all, they needed someone here to receive them. They also needed a few people to go pick from the talent pool at the other areas. Perhaps, they would find some people who satisfied their requirements there.
Bai Yi looked at the members of his team. Although there were 7 members, only 4 were humans. As such, he didn't need to put much thought into splitting them up.
"Choose, do you want to stay here to receive anybody coming up for application, or go around picking suitable people in the plaza?" Bai Yi asked although he had practically guessed their answers long ago. Woolf was totally a guy who couldn't sit still for a long time. Bai Yi waved his hand and sure enough, Woolf chuckled and walked off with Heloise. Then, Bai Yi sat behind the table, and let out a slight breath of air.
Bai Yi's eyes flashed, and he saw the two Snow Valley Guards leaving in the distance. He knew that they were reporting their movements to Gary.
They could report all they wanted, Bai Yi knew that it was impossible to hide from Gary. This was very normal anyway, they naturally had to recruit new members when the number of members in their team were insufficient. However, Bai Yi only hoped that Gary didn't try to be too clever and arrange for his people to enter Bai Yi's team. He did not wish for there to be some spy in his team.
After a while, Momo also seemed to be very curious and kept glancing around in the crowd.
"Go. If you want to, you can follow Heloise and Woolf. Remember not to make conflict with other people," Bai Yi said. Momo was no longer the young girl he protected and pampered in his hands anymore, even if she was only slightly more than 5 years old now. Moreover, this plaza wasn't too big either, with the current Bai Yi's vision, he could see everything with just a look.
"En!" Momo replied happily and walked away with Sharpei. Chinchilla stood on the table and looked around for a while before jumping down and running after them as well.
Chinchilla caught up with Sharpei and wanted to jump onto Sharpei's back, but Sharpei's tail swept at Chinchilla and knocked him firmly on the head the moment Chinchilla jumped. Sharpei didn't like this little noisy guy climbing on top of his head. Chinchilla was taught a small lesson and immediately meowed pitifully, seeking help from Momo.
"It's useless to ask me to save you~. If Sharpei isn't willing I wouldn't force him either," Momo smiled and said. Although Chinchilla was very cute, Sharpei was the real special friend in Momo's heart. Moreover, Bai Yi said last time as well to not make use of Sharpei's obedience to her to make him do things that he didn't want to do.
"Meow~!"
Chinchilla was apparently still trying to act cute; it didn't understand Momo's words fully. But after a while, it also seemed to understand that Momo wasn't going to help itself.
The Chinchilla who understood this became a bit depressed, but within half a minute, it became extremely hyper again. It jumped on top of Sharpei's body. Sharpei had to swing its long tail every time to chase Chinchilla away, who continuously tried to climb onto his back. Along the way, the palm-sized chinchilla ran around and disturbed the sinister Sharpei, causing all of them to laugh at this scene.
After a while, Sharpei was seemingly unable to bear Chinchilla's persistent attitude anymore and finally allowed Chinchilla to climb onto its head.
After Chinchilla climbed onto Sharpei's head, it immediately raised its head and gave a melodious cry, seemingly very pleased with itself. Sharpei yawned below her and squinted his eyes. He would never admit that he let Chinchilla up because he was helpless before its persistence. Moreover, he was wary of hurting it too. No matter what, they were still on the same team, so it wasn't good to make their relationship too sour.
"Pupu isn't following us?"
"Oink oink, oink oink oink!" Pupu oinked a few times and found a comfortable place behind Bai Yi to lie down and sleep. He was a pig after all, and he couldn't change his slovenly nature. However, other than this aspect, Pupu was still quite likable.
In the end, there was only Bai Yi left, and he didn't know when would somebody finally show up.
"This pig, is he your pet?" The 3 people from another team beside him were quite bored too, so they couldn't help but chit-chat with Bai Yi.
"En, Pupu, he was a pet pot-bellied pig before." Bai Yi wasn't hard to approach like an ice mountain, and also started to chat idly with them.
Chapter 134: Berserker
After they chatted for a while, Bai Yi got to learn more about the snow valley from these 3 people. It was still clearer to get this on-the-ground information from the common people. Suddenly, Bai Yi saw somebody among the crowd walk toward the platform at the center. Everyone else also seemed very curious, and slowly gathered toward there.
"What's this now?"
"Oh, one of the teams probably picked a new member. They are preparing to do a battle test of the new guy." These 3 people were apparently very interested too, but their duty was to stay here so they couldn't go over.
"Battle test?"
"That's right, battle test! You should know what people are most afraid of now, that is falling into the berserk state. No matter how powerful a teammate is, if the person can't control their emotions once they enter battle and fall into the berserk state easily, then it is unlikely for any team to dare to accept this person. These tests aren't considered real battles, but just to let the surrounding people judge if the two sides battling can control themselves in battle," the other guy seemed to like to talk a lot and explained everything to Bai Yi.
"Oh really, what happens if somebody falls into the berserk state then?"
"We can only capture that person and see if they can recover from the berserk state by themselves. However, even though normally we would capture and restrain the guy, it is actually allowed to kill the person straightaway once they fall into the berserk state."
"Kill the person straightaway?"
"There's no other choice. If their strength is low and it is easy to subdue, then it won't be a problem. But if their strength is high, and if they have anything deadly on them such as poison, who would be willing to risk their lives to subdue the berserk guy? So killing the berserk guy straightaway is the best solution. Hence, if the person has no confidence, it is best to not battle on the stage. The snow valley has a rule that if anybody falls into the berserk state inside the snow valley, then everyone else has the freedom to kill that person. This is regardless of who he or she is. Of course, people aren't that ruthless normally, it's an extreme measure only used after determining that the other side is too dangerous." It was rare to see a new guy like Bai Yi, so the 3 of them said a lot of things in detail to him.
"Oh right, there's somebody who became famous in the snow valley because of this, the berserker!"
"Berserker?"
"Yeah, that guy is called Raymond. He would rather die than acknowledge the berserk state and refers to himself as a berserker like in games. He would enter the berserk state the moment he started battling, and scare everyone to death every time. However, he really didn't seem to fall into the berserk state every time, and he could still maintain some level of rationality. He would always stop when other people finally decide to kill him. This guy indeed has decent strength, but all along nobody wanted a ticking time bomb like him on their team," the other guy said.
"Berserker huh?" Bai Yi was actually quite interested. The other teams may be helpless when it came to the berserk state, but it wasn't a problem for Bai Yi's team.
"What's his personality like usually?" Bai Yi asked again.
"It's still ok, a bit reckless, but I haven't heard of him conflicting with anybody before. No team wants him, so he will go and hunt some small-sized prey sometimes. He got injured in the process a few times, but he managed to come back alive every time, so his life seems to be quite tough."
"Is it? Which one is the berserker, is he in this plaza?"
"Oh, that one!"
The other guy immediately pointed to the side of the stage at a werewolf-like guy that was more than 3 meters tall. He looked extremely sturdy, and an unknown monster leather covered the lower half of his body. He carried a giant bone club on his back, and he looked to be very excited. He was even more excited than the 2 people that battled on the stage. The people beside him all seemed to know this guy, and they kept a distance away from him.
"Thanks for the information. I'll go take a look."
Bai Yi said as he took out 3 pieces of palm-sized jerky from the bag beside Pupu. This jerky was made by Bai Yi himself, so the taste was quite good. The 3 of them saw the jerky that Bai Yi passed to them and didn't reject it. Although by now they wouldn't starve anymore, meat was still harder to come by.
"Pupu, get up. Let's go take a look."
"Oink oink~ oink!" Pupu's ears twitched and he ignored Bai Yi. Then, Bai Yi kicked Pupu's butt, but that guy still lied there lazily and did not want to move.
"I really can't do anything about you. Please help me to look after this guy, he won't cause any trouble," Bai Yi said to the 3 people from the other team.
"Ok ok, no problem!" The 3 of them had just received 3 pieces of jerky from Bai Yi, so naturally, they wouldn't reject his request. However, the 3 of them were quite curious, this team seemed to be doing quite well and even had 3 pets, including such a fat pig. If it were in other teams, this pig would have become food long ago.
Of course, Bai Yi was interested in that berserker Raymond. If the guy's personality wasn't bad, then Bai Yi could try to pull him into the team.
Bai Yi directly walked up to Raymond, since there wasn't anybody else around him anyway. When Bai Yi approached, Raymond's body tensed slightly. He was somewhat famous inside this snow valley; those idiots would never dare to come close to him. However, when he saw Bai Yi's unfamiliar face, Raymond didn't bother about him. He's probably a newcomer to the snow valley and came close to me because he doesn't know about my reputation.
"What do you think about this battle?" Bai Yi asked Raymond beside him.
"En?"
"I said, what do you think about this battle?" Bai Yi raised his voice inside this noisily cheering crowd.
"Tch, just clowning around. How can this kind of show be compared to the battle outside? This completely lacks the feeling of your blood vessels bursting in a life and death battle." Raymond's breathing quickened briefly before it became stable again. He seemed uninterested in the battle that had made him hot-blooded before.
"You actually dare to come beside me? You must be new here and don't recognize me." Raymond looked at Bai Yi who was shorter than him by more than a meter.
"En, I'm indeed new here. But I know you, I asked about you from those people just now." Bai Yi pointed at the 3 people he talked to a short while ago. "I wanted to see how you're like. If you're suitable, then I want to invite you to join my team."
"HAHAHAHA!" Raymond was immediately stunned for a moment after he heard these words and started to laugh loudly. "Invite me to your team, you think you are qualified?" Raymond looked at Bai Yi from top to bottom. Other than the colored soft fur on his face, Bai Yi wasn't too different from a normal human. Raymond couldn't see the characteristics of any other lifeforms on him.
"Why can't I?" Bai Yi looked at Raymond without the slightest trace of fear.
"HA!" Raymond laughed sinisterly. "Of course you can, you just have to beat me on stage. But I must remind you, I won't clown around like those 2 guys on stage right now. If you do not have enough strength, I will kill you." Raymond's appearance now was indeed very ferocious, but Bai Yi could more or less tell that he was actually quite a frank and candid guy. This man was not the type to scheme against others.
"Sure!" Bai Yi nodded.
"Are you for real?" Raymond's face changed, and he looked at Bai Yi.
"Of course I'm for real, unless you think I came here just to joke with you?" Bai Yi said and walked up the stage. At this time, the battle on stage had already ended. Both sides seemed to be very satisfied with each other. One side because they found a good teammate, and the other side because he found a good team.
At this time, the crowd that had gradually calmed down saw somebody walk up the stage and focused again.
"Come!" Bai Yi looked at Raymond below the stage and uttered a single word.
"Ha~!" Raymond seemed to be very entertained by Bai Yi's actions and his mouth cracked open into a terrifying smile. This guy, I'll let you see what is called a berserker. The crowd initially didn't pay too much attention to Bai Yi, but after they saw Raymond walk up the stage, all of them were instantly stunned for a moment. Then, they became extremely excited. There was actually somebody who wanted to fight with Raymond? Just who was he?
Below the stage, Heloise and the rest were quite surprised as well, wasn't Bai Yi sitting there peacefully? Why did he suddenly go up here? And who is that werewolf, he seems to be quite famous?
After Raymond went up on stage, he took out the bone club from behind his back and heavily slammed it against the ground with a dull 'boom!'. It was easy to imagine just how much strength was behind that blow. However, Bai Yi wasn't affected by this. Raymond's physical strength was quite similar to Woolf's; he had probably fused with ant genes as well.
Bai Yi drew his fang sword and held it diagonally beside him. His eyes abruptly changed in an instant. Reverse Flower Eyes, first level!
Although the crowd that noisily cheered and shouted were still very excited, Raymond who stood opposite Bai Yi suddenly felt his heart tense. This feeling was just like how he felt when facing those powerful evolved lifeforms, and he mysteriously felt a sense of nervousness and pressure inside his heart. This guy seemed to be stronger than what his appearance suggested.
But that was what made it exciting!
"AOOO~!" Raymond suddenly raised his head and howled. His eyes turned blood-shot and all the hair on his body slowly rose up. He now looked just like a real werewolf that had gone crazy. Raymond didn't give any signals but immediately grabbed his bone club and charged toward Bai Yi.
In everyone's eyes, Raymond practically crossed the 20-meter distance between him and Bai Yi in the blink of an eye.
A soft 'ding!' rang out!
Bai Yi's fang sword collided with the bone club and twisted slightly. Raymond instantly felt that his bone club was moved by a force that shifted his club's initial trajectory. At this time, Bai Yi's body had already slipped passed his bone club and the fang sword instantly stabbed toward his abdomen. That calm killing intent immediately caused goosebumps to rise on Raymond's body, and he felt an electrifying sensation on his skin. In that moment, Raymond almost thought that Bai Yi intentionally came here to kill him.
His body instinctively felt the danger, and Raymond hurriedly used his left hand to grab the fang sword and jump backward at the same time.
'Ding!', and the two opponents split apart from each other!
Blood slowly fell from Raymond's left hand and he looked at Bai Yi heavily. In that last moment, Bai Yi had held back his strength by a lot. If not, Raymond wouldn't be just bleeding now but lost his entire left hand.
Chapter 135: Gradually Perfecting Sword Technique
While his left hand bled, Raymond was not only unafraid but revealed a maniacal smile on his face. This was interesting, only this would interest me! This is definitely a guy that has experienced life and death battles before! That kind of calm killing intent suppressed at the bottom of his heart completely came from his body's instincts. The moment he enters battle, it naturally flows out from his body!
HAHAHA~!
Raymond licked the blood on his left hand. His body abruptly tensed and all his muscles y bulged. He grew by another size instantly, and claws that were more than 10 centimeters long shot out from his hands. At the same time, his eyes became even more savage. This change immediately gave the surrounding people a fright. Although Raymond's appearance while he fought before was maniacal, he hadn't revealed this form before. Everyone knew with a look that Raymond's battle power now was multiple times stronger than before.
Just like a giant wolf crouched on the ground, Raymond used force in his legs and instantly shot out.
Immediately, the sounds of multiple collisions rang out continuously. The audience could only see their shadows clashing together frenziedly. Raymond had completely abandoned his bone club and only used his claws to battle with Bai Yi. These claws were apparently incredibly hard and didn't break even when it clashed head-on with Bai Yi's fang sword. On the contrary, sparks continuously flashed as they collided with each other.
The surrounding crowd stared blankly at them. Was this kind of battle really just a test?
The team that thought that they had chosen a good teammate felt quite embarrassed now. With the battle on stage right now, their battle before felt like a joke. However, at this time, the crowd didn't bother about them, as they were all fixated on the battle on stage.
This was the use of true battle techniques!
There was a rhythm to Bai Yi's steps. Although it was very fast, it also had some order to it. This was apparently the sword technique that he had developed. It was not like other normal people who only knew how to randomly swing their sword around. Although Raymond's movements were wild and crude, he also seemed to have his own rhythm. He had probably tried to develop his own battle techniques before as well.
After more than 10 clashes with Raymond, Bai Yi had to admit as well that this guy's strength was indeed astounding.
Ba Yi borrowed the force of one of their clashes and shot out backward. At this time, both sides stabilized themselves again.
Bai Yi calmed down the blood that had almost started to burn in his body. During that period of time, Bai Yi could only clash with Raymond head on because of the temporary burst of power from his blood boiling. Bai Yi was different from Woolf and the others. After all, he hadn't fused with ant genes, so he was at a disadvantage when dealing with powerful physical strength. However, Bai Yi was already very satisfied with his powers now, he didn't dream of obtaining everything.
"Why, don't want to fight anymore? I won't agree to it!" Raymond saw Bai Yi stop and couldn't but shout boisterously.
"You sure you want to continue fighting? I can't guarantee that you can survive this," Bai Yi said calmly.
"What does it matter! In New Zealand now, the more scared of death you are the faster you will die!" Raymond said as he grabbed the bone club that he stabbed into the ground and pounced toward Bai Yi again. At this time, Bai Yi also grabbed his fang sword and held it tightly in his hands.
"ZHENG~~!"
A long and clear sound of impact rang out, and Bai Yi's Reverse Flower Eyes captured every movement perfectly as his body slipped past Raymond by a hair's breadth. Behind Bai Yi, Raymond's bone club immediately broke and the top half spun in the air. A giant wound had appeared on Raymond's waist and blood spurted out unceasingly.
Gliding Strike…Sword Technique!
Bai Yi's knife skills were not bad all along. After New Zealand changed, he meticulously looked through various practical fighting styles. In the battle with Bentham in the research facility, he had truly broken through and his knife skills that were used for culinary arts had truly started to transform. After such a long time of traveling and training, the basic sword technique had already been developed into an organized system in Bai Yi's team. Of course, it was still very crude, but they were already miles ahead of many other clueless people.
Everyone that watched instantly became stunned!
That was a sword technique?
New Zealand wasn't some third world country, and its internet was very well-developed. Although they had never seen it in person, there were still many types of sword techniques in movies or novels. However, even if New Zealand turned into this state, nobody really went to research and study things like this. But after witnessing Bai Yi's sword technique, a bomb seemed to explode in all of their hearts, so battles can actually be like this! They weren't normal people anymore, they were evolved humans now.
Raymond was also stunned for a moment, as he suddenly fell onto the floor.
The broken bone club directly stabbed into the ground, and Raymond continuously tried to suppress the brutal emotions and killing intent inside his heart. Shit! At this time, even Raymond had a bad feeling inside his heart. This wasn't like how he acted crazy normally, but he was really starting to lose control. Raymond's pupils gradually diluted and shrank, and at the last moment, his eyes became completely berserk.
After Bai Yi used his sword technique, he stopped and wanted to wait for Raymond to respond. Bai Yi had calculated his strength just now. He had not actually wanted to harm Raymond, but Bai Yi still couldn't reach the stage where he could control his strength freely. Hence, the excess strength from breaking the bone club still cut open a giant wound on Raymond's body.
This feeling!
Bai Yi looked at Raymond's mildly trembling body and the maniacal air coming from him. He immediately knew that this was bad. Raymond had probably really entered the berserk state.
Sure enough, in the next moment, Raymond suddenly roared loudly. Then, he picked up the broken bone club and threw it at Bai Yi. With a 'sou!', the bone club arrived in front of Bai Yi's face and right behind the bone club was Raymond's ferocious jaws and claws. It was just like a wolf pouncing on its prey.
Bai Yi instantly avoided the bone club and with his left hand supporting the back of the sword, he blocked Raymond's claws with his blade.
'Dang!', the enormous force from Raymond's body sent Ba Yi flying.
No matter how dense the people in the crowd might be normally, all of them could tell that Raymond had really fallen into the berserk state this time. He was completely different from how he looked like normally. The bone club that he threw out stabbed into the thigh of an unlucky guy that didn't manage to dodge in time and a painful cry immediately sounded. This immediately made the surrounding people extremely nervous, and most of them had already grabbed their weapons. Once somebody made a move, all of them would try and subdue Raymond or kill him directly.
This immense force pushed Ba Yi a distance away, and he finally landed on the ground. The powerful strength pushed him along and Bai Yi's feet left two deep gashes on the ground that wasn't too sturdy to begin with.
What enormous strength!
Bai Yi pushed the fang sword with all his strength, resisting Raymond's claws. At this time, the fang sword stuck between the two trembled violently and 'kakaka' sounds came from it continuously. The crowd saw Bai Yi's state and immediately wanted to go up and deal with Raymond. However, at this time, Woolf and the rest of Bai Yi's team immediately stepped forward and stopped everyone. Although they didn't know what Bai Yi had planned, it was obvious that they couldn't let these people interrupt him.
Reverse Flower Eyes!
Bai Yi's eyes immediately changed again, like a flower blooming in reverse, and it immediately sucked Raymond's mind into it. Even those people who happened to be in front of Bai Yi felt a slight haziness in their consciousness. Even if Bai Yi didn't target them, they still got a full view of his eyes.
Raymond's expression gradually calmed down as his strength slowly receded. Finally, he fell to the ground motionless.
Bai Yi's eyes went back to normal when Raymond fell to the ground. At this time, those people who had fallen into a slight daze suddenly felt stunned and amazed in their hearts. Just what had happened just now?
"Are there any doctors here? Can somebody help to treat Raymond," Bai Yi said to the people below.
"Are there any doctors?" Bai Yi saw that nobody replied from the crowd below and asked again.
"Is he really ok like that? He fell into the berserk state just now," somebody finally asked.
"It's fine, he's already asleep. He will regain his clarity once he wakes up," Bai Yi smiled and answered.
After hearing Bai Yi's words, a girl about 1.5meters tall that looked like a little sheep raised her hand. "Can I do it? I'm a doctor."
"Of course, sorry to trouble you," Bai Yi said to this girl.
"No, no problem." This little girl jogged over and let Bai Yi flip Raymond around. Then, she proficiently took out a sharp dagger, cut away the fur around Raymond's wound, and washed the wound with clear water. After that, she poured some powder that she ground from some plant and carefully bandaged him up.
"This clear water is distilled water. I normally prepare some since it isn't convenient to make it on the spot while doing emergency treatment. I made this medicinal powder myself, and it's very effective as well." This little sheep girl explained as she bandaged Raymond up. Apparently, she was afraid that Bai Yi would misunderstand her.
"Thank you." Bai Yi nodded. This was apparently a very prepared little doctor. It may be better to clean the wound with strong alcohol, but it wasn't easy to find these supplies in New Zealand now.
"Ok then, he just has to lie in bed for a week. He can remove the bandages after a week," the little sheep girl said and nodded to Bai Yi. Then, she ran away with her medical tools afterward. Bai Yi saw that on the other side there was a group of people that waited for her. When they saw Bai Yi look over, the leader of the group nodded to Bai Yi.
Bai Yi nodded too in order to express his thanks.
As expected, this little girl already had a team. After all, a doctor was a very important profession in a team in New Zealand now. Even if it was a shoddy doctor, many teams would fight over such a person, needless to say about such an adorable sheep girl. It was really a pity. Otherwise, Bai Yi had wanted to invite this little girl to join his team.
However, it was already quite good like this. Raymond probably couldn't run away from this, and there was still the Weapon Armor Maker Melvin from before. It was probably enough to get 2 more people. It was troublesome to have too many people on the team as well. At this point in time, Bai Yi didn't know that 2 people really came to the recruitment spot that he had set up. However, when the 2 of them saw Pupu lying on the ground and sleeping behind the table, they were both quite speechless.
A pig?
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TN: I know most people won't read the announcement posts, so i'll repeat and summarize things here. I finally fulfilled my promise of 3 chaps a day for the month of december since it's my holidays, and starting from january onwards it will go back to 1 chap a day since school is starting and 3 chaps a day really isn't sustainable. Thanks to everyone for all the support i've received this month! Hope you guys will continue to enjoy this story! Also, i'm going on holiday from 4th to 10th Jan so no chapters on those days, but i'll make it up to you guys don't worry.
Chapter 133: Recruitment Plaza
By the time Bai Yi's team left Gary's place, it was already the second day. How Gary went about accomplishing Bai Yi's suggestion wasn't Bai Yi's problem anymore. Bai Yi might personally reveal himself a few times, but just that like that woman had said, this matter was entirely under Gary's authority. Bai Yi couldn't help it either, hatred had consumed him in the period before. Although he had a good reputation among evolved humans, he still didn't have any power under him.
Normally speaking, people who had just arrived at the snow valley would find a place to stay first. But since it was Bai Yi, Gary would definitely arrange something for him. Bai Yi rejected the suggestion to stay at the Snow Valley Guards Residence. Instead, he let Gary settle them into a small house outside. No matter what, it would be quite inconvenient in many ways if they stayed together.
"Normally if the team goes out, it's best to leave somebody inside the house since the order here isn't that good. Of course, there shouldn't be any problems here since the Guards Residence is nearby, but you should still be cautious." The 6-legged crawling half-human Snow Valley Guard brought them to the house and reminded.
"En, got it, thanks." Bai Yi nodded.
"Then I'll take my leave first." After this guy nodded, he turned around and walked out as heavy footsteps continuous rang from his 6 legs. He splattered the snow and broke the ice with every step.
"What a waste, it's like giving a giant present to that black bear," Woolf muttered after the guard left.
"Why does it matter? As long as they do it well, it doesn't matter who does it. We don't have any organizations under us, and don't forget about our main goal of coming to this snow valley…finding teammates. Unless, you would like to have a big bunch of people under you, where a 100 people respond to a single call from you?" Bai Yi asked.
"Of course! Wealth and power are what every man can't help but dream and talk about."
"That isn't for certain, some people like to live a simpler life."
"Hehe, that's because those people don't have the resources or ability to achieve everything, so they can only pose as being indifferent to worldly desires, acting like they are noble and virtuous," Woolf suddenly retorted.
Bai Yi and Heloise immediately looked at Woolf dumbly. Did this guy get swapped for someone else? When was he able to talk about something so deep? However, his next sentence revealed his true colors.
"I saw this in a book a few days ago and just happened to remember it."
"Ah hahaha!" Bai Yi and Heloise immediately started laughing. They actually thought that Woolf had become smarter! Although the book that Woolf read was something very one-sided, they could only treat it as a joke now.
After they laughed, and they left their things in this spacious room. Then, they headed toward the recruitment plaza mentioned by Melvin. The snow valley wasn't too big, and the plaza wasn't too difficult to find. The closer they got to that place, the more crowded it became. There were people looking for teammates and teams at the center, and there were various temporary booths that sold things by the sides. Looking at this wide variety of monsters that walked together, they felt like they had come across a monster carnival.
Bai Yi's team attracted the attention of the people around them because they looked mostly human. After all, they had injected themselves with the Prototy original form drug. Of course, the 4 meters tall Woolf, Heloise with wings, and the brightly colored patterned fur on Bai Yi's face still differentiated them from normal humans easily, so nobody really bothered them about this.
"How do we pick teammates?"
"We can just wait and watch."
After they looked around for a while, the people that hung around this plaza in the long term were all solo individuals, and there weren't many teams here. After they thought about it a bit, it wasn't possible for a team to stay in this place for the long term. There were probably a few hundred solo individuals sparsely distributed over the entire plaza, while there were only 8 teams here that occupied a square each. At the front of every team, there was basically a sign that wrote down the requirements for new teammates.
Bai Yi looked around. Although this place was indeed messy, there was still some order to it. The entire plaza was roughly split into 2 areas. One area was for the recruitment of team members where the teams stayed at; the other area was where the solo individuals stayed.
The area where the teams stayed was split into a few small squares, and there was a table inside each square used for receiving applicants. Bai Yi's team looked around for a while and walked in after they chose an empty spot. There was a small blackboard inside their square, and a few pieces of chalk left on the side. After they saw these, they finally figured out what was going on and what they were supposed to do.
Bai Yi picked up the small board and wrote his criteria for new team members.
Medicinal Maker, Weapon Armor Maker, Biological Researcher, Teachers…!
3 people from another team beside Bai Yi's square were initially quite curious about them, but they immediately started to laugh when they saw Bai Yi's signboard.
"What's so funny?"
"I'm sorry, my friend didn't laugh on purpose." Another guy seemed to feel that his friend was offending people by laughing like this and immediately stood out to mediate the situation.
"But your signboard is really pretty useless. Medicinal Makers and Weapon Armor Makers are all in high demand, everybody knows who these people are in the snow valley. Normally, the team leader has to personally go up to them to invite them into the team, and it is still up to them if they want to join or not. Normally speaking, you would only be able to find some teammates with decent personalities and fighting strength here. It was good enough as long as they weren't a burden to the team. As for the biological researchers and teachers, what use are they?" the guy explained.
"Oh, thanks. My daughter should be beginning her education, but none of us here know how to teach well."
This was really a headache, Momo really didn't like studying and there wasn't much use in forcing her to study either. Bai Yi didn't change the contents and placed the signboard on top of the wood pile outside. After doing all this, Bai Yi looked at the rest of them. There must definitely be a few people that remained here, in case there were people who saw the signboard. After all, they needed someone here to receive them. They also needed a few people to go pick from the talent pool at the other areas. Perhaps, they would find some people who satisfied their requirements there.
Bai Yi looked at the members of his team. Although there were 7 members, only 4 were humans. As such, he didn't need to put much thought into splitting them up.
"Choose, do you want to stay here to receive anybody coming up for application, or go around picking suitable people in the plaza?" Bai Yi asked although he had practically guessed their answers long ago. Woolf was totally a guy who couldn't sit still for a long time. Bai Yi waved his hand and sure enough, Woolf chuckled and walked off with Heloise. Then, Bai Yi sat behind the table, and let out a slight breath of air.
Bai Yi's eyes flashed, and he saw the two Snow Valley Guards leaving in the distance. He knew that they were reporting their movements to Gary.
They could report all they wanted, Bai Yi knew that it was impossible to hide from Gary. This was very normal anyway, they naturally had to recruit new members when the number of members in their team were insufficient. However, Bai Yi only hoped that Gary didn't try to be too clever and arrange for his people to enter Bai Yi's team. He did not wish for there to be some spy in his team.
After a while, Momo also seemed to be very curious and kept glancing around in the crowd.
"Go. If you want to, you can follow Heloise and Woolf. Remember not to make conflict with other people," Bai Yi said. Momo was no longer the young girl he protected and pampered in his hands anymore, even if she was only slightly more than 5 years old now. Moreover, this plaza wasn't too big either, with the current Bai Yi's vision, he could see everything with just a look.
"En!" Momo replied happily and walked away with Sharpei. Chinchilla stood on the table and looked around for a while before jumping down and running after them as well.
Chinchilla caught up with Sharpei and wanted to jump onto Sharpei's back, but Sharpei's tail swept at Chinchilla and knocked him firmly on the head the moment Chinchilla jumped. Sharpei didn't like this little noisy guy climbing on top of his head. Chinchilla was taught a small lesson and immediately meowed pitifully, seeking help from Momo.
"It's useless to ask me to save you~. If Sharpei isn't willing I wouldn't force him either," Momo smiled and said. Although Chinchilla was very cute, Sharpei was the real special friend in Momo's heart. Moreover, Bai Yi said last time as well to not make use of Sharpei's obedience to her to make him do things that he didn't want to do.
"Meow~!"
Chinchilla was apparently still trying to act cute; it didn't understand Momo's words fully. But after a while, it also seemed to understand that Momo wasn't going to help itself.
The Chinchilla who understood this became a bit depressed, but within half a minute, it became extremely hyper again. It jumped on top of Sharpei's body. Sharpei had to swing its long tail every time to chase Chinchilla away, who continuously tried to climb onto his back. Along the way, the palm-sized chinchilla ran around and disturbed the sinister Sharpei, causing all of them to laugh at this scene.
After a while, Sharpei was seemingly unable to bear Chinchilla's persistent attitude anymore and finally allowed Chinchilla to climb onto its head.
After Chinchilla climbed onto Sharpei's head, it immediately raised its head and gave a melodious cry, seemingly very pleased with itself. Sharpei yawned below her and squinted his eyes. He would never admit that he let Chinchilla up because he was helpless before its persistence. Moreover, he was wary of hurting it too. No matter what, they were still on the same team, so it wasn't good to make their relationship too sour.
"Pupu isn't following us?"
"Oink oink, oink oink oink!" Pupu oinked a few times and found a comfortable place behind Bai Yi to lie down and sleep. He was a pig after all, and he couldn't change his slovenly nature. However, other than this aspect, Pupu was still quite likable.
In the end, there was only Bai Yi left, and he didn't know when would somebody finally show up.
"This pig, is he your pet?" The 3 people from another team beside him were quite bored too, so they couldn't help but chit-chat with Bai Yi.
"En, Pupu, he was a pet pot-bellied pig before." Bai Yi wasn't hard to approach like an ice mountain, and also started to chat idly with them.
Chapter 134: Berserker
After they chatted for a while, Bai Yi got to learn more about the snow valley from these 3 people. It was still clearer to get this on-the-ground information from the common people. Suddenly, Bai Yi saw somebody among the crowd walk toward the platform at the center. Everyone else also seemed very curious, and slowly gathered toward there.
"What's this now?"
"Oh, one of the teams probably picked a new member. They are preparing to do a battle test of the new guy." These 3 people were apparently very interested too, but their duty was to stay here so they couldn't go over.
"Battle test?"
"That's right, battle test! You should know what people are most afraid of now, that is falling into the berserk state. No matter how powerful a teammate is, if the person can't control their emotions once they enter battle and fall into the berserk state easily, then it is unlikely for any team to dare to accept this person. These tests aren't considered real battles, but just to let the surrounding people judge if the two sides battling can control themselves in battle," the other guy seemed to like to talk a lot and explained everything to Bai Yi.
"Oh really, what happens if somebody falls into the berserk state then?"
"We can only capture that person and see if they can recover from the berserk state by themselves. However, even though normally we would capture and restrain the guy, it is actually allowed to kill the person straightaway once they fall into the berserk state."
"Kill the person straightaway?"
"There's no other choice. If their strength is low and it is easy to subdue, then it won't be a problem. But if their strength is high, and if they have anything deadly on them such as poison, who would be willing to risk their lives to subdue the berserk guy? So killing the berserk guy straightaway is the best solution. Hence, if the person has no confidence, it is best to not battle on the stage. The snow valley has a rule that if anybody falls into the berserk state inside the snow valley, then everyone else has the freedom to kill that person. This is regardless of who he or she is. Of course, people aren't that ruthless normally, it's an extreme measure only used after determining that the other side is too dangerous." It was rare to see a new guy like Bai Yi, so the 3 of them said a lot of things in detail to him.
"Oh right, there's somebody who became famous in the snow valley because of this, the berserker!"
"Berserker?"
"Yeah, that guy is called Raymond. He would rather die than acknowledge the berserk state and refers to himself as a berserker like in games. He would enter the berserk state the moment he started battling, and scare everyone to death every time. However, he really didn't seem to fall into the berserk state every time, and he could still maintain some level of rationality. He would always stop when other people finally decide to kill him. This guy indeed has decent strength, but all along nobody wanted a ticking time bomb like him on their team," the other guy said.
"Berserker huh?" Bai Yi was actually quite interested. The other teams may be helpless when it came to the berserk state, but it wasn't a problem for Bai Yi's team.
"What's his personality like usually?" Bai Yi asked again.
"It's still ok, a bit reckless, but I haven't heard of him conflicting with anybody before. No team wants him, so he will go and hunt some small-sized prey sometimes. He got injured in the process a few times, but he managed to come back alive every time, so his life seems to be quite tough."
"Is it? Which one is the berserker, is he in this plaza?"
"Oh, that one!"
The other guy immediately pointed to the side of the stage at a werewolf-like guy that was more than 3 meters tall. He looked extremely sturdy, and an unknown monster leather covered the lower half of his body. He carried a giant bone club on his back, and he looked to be very excited. He was even more excited than the 2 people that battled on the stage. The people beside him all seemed to know this guy, and they kept a distance away from him.
"Thanks for the information. I'll go take a look."
Bai Yi said as he took out 3 pieces of palm-sized jerky from the bag beside Pupu. This jerky was made by Bai Yi himself, so the taste was quite good. The 3 of them saw the jerky that Bai Yi passed to them and didn't reject it. Although by now they wouldn't starve anymore, meat was still harder to come by.
"Pupu, get up. Let's go take a look."
"Oink oink~ oink!" Pupu's ears twitched and he ignored Bai Yi. Then, Bai Yi kicked Pupu's butt, but that guy still lied there lazily and did not want to move.
"I really can't do anything about you. Please help me to look after this guy, he won't cause any trouble," Bai Yi said to the 3 people from the other team.
"Ok ok, no problem!" The 3 of them had just received 3 pieces of jerky from Bai Yi, so naturally, they wouldn't reject his request. However, the 3 of them were quite curious, this team seemed to be doing quite well and even had 3 pets, including such a fat pig. If it were in other teams, this pig would have become food long ago.
Of course, Bai Yi was interested in that berserker Raymond. If the guy's personality wasn't bad, then Bai Yi could try to pull him into the team.
Bai Yi directly walked up to Raymond, since there wasn't anybody else around him anyway. When Bai Yi approached, Raymond's body tensed slightly. He was somewhat famous inside this snow valley; those idiots would never dare to come close to him. However, when he saw Bai Yi's unfamiliar face, Raymond didn't bother about him. He's probably a newcomer to the snow valley and came close to me because he doesn't know about my reputation.
"What do you think about this battle?" Bai Yi asked Raymond beside him.
"En?"
"I said, what do you think about this battle?" Bai Yi raised his voice inside this noisily cheering crowd.
"Tch, just clowning around. How can this kind of show be compared to the battle outside? This completely lacks the feeling of your blood vessels bursting in a life and death battle." Raymond's breathing quickened briefly before it became stable again. He seemed uninterested in the battle that had made him hot-blooded before.
"You actually dare to come beside me? You must be new here and don't recognize me." Raymond looked at Bai Yi who was shorter than him by more than a meter.
"En, I'm indeed new here. But I know you, I asked about you from those people just now." Bai Yi pointed at the 3 people he talked to a short while ago. "I wanted to see how you're like. If you're suitable, then I want to invite you to join my team."
"HAHAHAHA!" Raymond was immediately stunned for a moment after he heard these words and started to laugh loudly. "Invite me to your team, you think you are qualified?" Raymond looked at Bai Yi from top to bottom. Other than the colored soft fur on his face, Bai Yi wasn't too different from a normal human. Raymond couldn't see the characteristics of any other lifeforms on him.
"Why can't I?" Bai Yi looked at Raymond without the slightest trace of fear.
"HA!" Raymond laughed sinisterly. "Of course you can, you just have to beat me on stage. But I must remind you, I won't clown around like those 2 guys on stage right now. If you do not have enough strength, I will kill you." Raymond's appearance now was indeed very ferocious, but Bai Yi could more or less tell that he was actually quite a frank and candid guy. This man was not the type to scheme against others.
"Sure!" Bai Yi nodded.
"Are you for real?" Raymond's face changed, and he looked at Bai Yi.
"Of course I'm for real, unless you think I came here just to joke with you?" Bai Yi said and walked up the stage. At this time, the battle on stage had already ended. Both sides seemed to be very satisfied with each other. One side because they found a good teammate, and the other side because he found a good team.
At this time, the crowd that had gradually calmed down saw somebody walk up the stage and focused again.
"Come!" Bai Yi looked at Raymond below the stage and uttered a single word.
"Ha~!" Raymond seemed to be very entertained by Bai Yi's actions and his mouth cracked open into a terrifying smile. This guy, I'll let you see what is called a berserker. The crowd initially didn't pay too much attention to Bai Yi, but after they saw Raymond walk up the stage, all of them were instantly stunned for a moment. Then, they became extremely excited. There was actually somebody who wanted to fight with Raymond? Just who was he?
Below the stage, Heloise and the rest were quite surprised as well, wasn't Bai Yi sitting there peacefully? Why did he suddenly go up here? And who is that werewolf, he seems to be quite famous?
After Raymond went up on stage, he took out the bone club from behind his back and heavily slammed it against the ground with a dull 'boom!'. It was easy to imagine just how much strength was behind that blow. However, Bai Yi wasn't affected by this. Raymond's physical strength was quite similar to Woolf's; he had probably fused with ant genes as well.
Bai Yi drew his fang sword and held it diagonally beside him. His eyes abruptly changed in an instant. Reverse Flower Eyes, first level!
Although the crowd that noisily cheered and shouted were still very excited, Raymond who stood opposite Bai Yi suddenly felt his heart tense. This feeling was just like how he felt when facing those powerful evolved lifeforms, and he mysteriously felt a sense of nervousness and pressure inside his heart. This guy seemed to be stronger than what his appearance suggested.
But that was what made it exciting!
"AOOO~!" Raymond suddenly raised his head and howled. His eyes turned blood-shot and all the hair on his body slowly rose up. He now looked just like a real werewolf that had gone crazy. Raymond didn't give any signals but immediately grabbed his bone club and charged toward Bai Yi.
In everyone's eyes, Raymond practically crossed the 20-meter distance between him and Bai Yi in the blink of an eye.
A soft 'ding!' rang out!
Bai Yi's fang sword collided with the bone club and twisted slightly. Raymond instantly felt that his bone club was moved by a force that shifted his club's initial trajectory. At this time, Bai Yi's body had already slipped passed his bone club and the fang sword instantly stabbed toward his abdomen. That calm killing intent immediately caused goosebumps to rise on Raymond's body, and he felt an electrifying sensation on his skin. In that moment, Raymond almost thought that Bai Yi intentionally came here to kill him.
His body instinctively felt the danger, and Raymond hurriedly used his left hand to grab the fang sword and jump backward at the same time.
'Ding!', and the two opponents split apart from each other!
Blood slowly fell from Raymond's left hand and he looked at Bai Yi heavily. In that last moment, Bai Yi had held back his strength by a lot. If not, Raymond wouldn't be just bleeding now but lost his entire left hand.
Chapter 135: Gradually Perfecting Sword Technique
While his left hand bled, Raymond was not only unafraid but revealed a maniacal smile on his face. This was interesting, only this would interest me! This is definitely a guy that has experienced life and death battles before! That kind of calm killing intent suppressed at the bottom of his heart completely came from his body's instincts. The moment he enters battle, it naturally flows out from his body!
HAHAHA~!
Raymond licked the blood on his left hand. His body abruptly tensed and all his muscles y bulged. He grew by another size instantly, and claws that were more than 10 centimeters long shot out from his hands. At the same time, his eyes became even more savage. This change immediately gave the surrounding people a fright. Although Raymond's appearance while he fought before was maniacal, he hadn't revealed this form before. Everyone knew with a look that Raymond's battle power now was multiple times stronger than before.
Just like a giant wolf crouched on the ground, Raymond used force in his legs and instantly shot out.
Immediately, the sounds of multiple collisions rang out continuously. The audience could only see their shadows clashing together frenziedly. Raymond had completely abandoned his bone club and only used his claws to battle with Bai Yi. These claws were apparently incredibly hard and didn't break even when it clashed head-on with Bai Yi's fang sword. On the contrary, sparks continuously flashed as they collided with each other.
The surrounding crowd stared blankly at them. Was this kind of battle really just a test?
The team that thought that they had chosen a good teammate felt quite embarrassed now. With the battle on stage right now, their battle before felt like a joke. However, at this time, the crowd didn't bother about them, as they were all fixated on the battle on stage.
This was the use of true battle techniques!
There was a rhythm to Bai Yi's steps. Although it was very fast, it also had some order to it. This was apparently the sword technique that he had developed. It was not like other normal people who only knew how to randomly swing their sword around. Although Raymond's movements were wild and crude, he also seemed to have his own rhythm. He had probably tried to develop his own battle techniques before as well.
After more than 10 clashes with Raymond, Bai Yi had to admit as well that this guy's strength was indeed astounding.
Ba Yi borrowed the force of one of their clashes and shot out backward. At this time, both sides stabilized themselves again.
Bai Yi calmed down the blood that had almost started to burn in his body. During that period of time, Bai Yi could only clash with Raymond head on because of the temporary burst of power from his blood boiling. Bai Yi was different from Woolf and the others. After all, he hadn't fused with ant genes, so he was at a disadvantage when dealing with powerful physical strength. However, Bai Yi was already very satisfied with his powers now, he didn't dream of obtaining everything.
"Why, don't want to fight anymore? I won't agree to it!" Raymond saw Bai Yi stop and couldn't but shout boisterously.
"You sure you want to continue fighting? I can't guarantee that you can survive this," Bai Yi said calmly.
"What does it matter! In New Zealand now, the more scared of death you are the faster you will die!" Raymond said as he grabbed the bone club that he stabbed into the ground and pounced toward Bai Yi again. At this time, Bai Yi also grabbed his fang sword and held it tightly in his hands.
"ZHENG~~!"
A long and clear sound of impact rang out, and Bai Yi's Reverse Flower Eyes captured every movement perfectly as his body slipped past Raymond by a hair's breadth. Behind Bai Yi, Raymond's bone club immediately broke and the top half spun in the air. A giant wound had appeared on Raymond's waist and blood spurted out unceasingly.
Gliding Strike…Sword Technique!
Bai Yi's knife skills were not bad all along. After New Zealand changed, he meticulously looked through various practical fighting styles. In the battle with Bentham in the research facility, he had truly broken through and his knife skills that were used for culinary arts had truly started to transform. After such a long time of traveling and training, the basic sword technique had already been developed into an organized system in Bai Yi's team. Of course, it was still very crude, but they were already miles ahead of many other clueless people.
Everyone that watched instantly became stunned!
That was a sword technique?
New Zealand wasn't some third world country, and its internet was very well-developed. Although they had never seen it in person, there were still many types of sword techniques in movies or novels. However, even if New Zealand turned into this state, nobody really went to research and study things like this. But after witnessing Bai Yi's sword technique, a bomb seemed to explode in all of their hearts, so battles can actually be like this! They weren't normal people anymore, they were evolved humans now.
Raymond was also stunned for a moment, as he suddenly fell onto the floor.
The broken bone club directly stabbed into the ground, and Raymond continuously tried to suppress the brutal emotions and killing intent inside his heart. Shit! At this time, even Raymond had a bad feeling inside his heart. This wasn't like how he acted crazy normally, but he was really starting to lose control. Raymond's pupils gradually diluted and shrank, and at the last moment, his eyes became completely berserk.
After Bai Yi used his sword technique, he stopped and wanted to wait for Raymond to respond. Bai Yi had calculated his strength just now. He had not actually wanted to harm Raymond, but Bai Yi still couldn't reach the stage where he could control his strength freely. Hence, the excess strength from breaking the bone club still cut open a giant wound on Raymond's body.
This feeling!
Bai Yi looked at Raymond's mildly trembling body and the maniacal air coming from him. He immediately knew that this was bad. Raymond had probably really entered the berserk state.
Sure enough, in the next moment, Raymond suddenly roared loudly. Then, he picked up the broken bone club and threw it at Bai Yi. With a 'sou!', the bone club arrived in front of Bai Yi's face and right behind the bone club was Raymond's ferocious jaws and claws. It was just like a wolf pouncing on its prey.
Bai Yi instantly avoided the bone club and with his left hand supporting the back of the sword, he blocked Raymond's claws with his blade.
'Dang!', the enormous force from Raymond's body sent Ba Yi flying.
No matter how dense the people in the crowd might be normally, all of them could tell that Raymond had really fallen into the berserk state this time. He was completely different from how he looked like normally. The bone club that he threw out stabbed into the thigh of an unlucky guy that didn't manage to dodge in time and a painful cry immediately sounded. This immediately made the surrounding people extremely nervous, and most of them had already grabbed their weapons. Once somebody made a move, all of them would try and subdue Raymond or kill him directly.
This immense force pushed Ba Yi a distance away, and he finally landed on the ground. The powerful strength pushed him along and Bai Yi's feet left two deep gashes on the ground that wasn't too sturdy to begin with.
What enormous strength!
Bai Yi pushed the fang sword with all his strength, resisting Raymond's claws. At this time, the fang sword stuck between the two trembled violently and 'kakaka' sounds came from it continuously. The crowd saw Bai Yi's state and immediately wanted to go up and deal with Raymond. However, at this time, Woolf and the rest of Bai Yi's team immediately stepped forward and stopped everyone. Although they didn't know what Bai Yi had planned, it was obvious that they couldn't let these people interrupt him.
Reverse Flower Eyes!
Bai Yi's eyes immediately changed again, like a flower blooming in reverse, and it immediately sucked Raymond's mind into it. Even those people who happened to be in front of Bai Yi felt a slight haziness in their consciousness. Even if Bai Yi didn't target them, they still got a full view of his eyes.
Raymond's expression gradually calmed down as his strength slowly receded. Finally, he fell to the ground motionless.
Bai Yi's eyes went back to normal when Raymond fell to the ground. At this time, those people who had fallen into a slight daze suddenly felt stunned and amazed in their hearts. Just what had happened just now?
"Are there any doctors here? Can somebody help to treat Raymond," Bai Yi said to the people below.
"Are there any doctors?" Bai Yi saw that nobody replied from the crowd below and asked again.
"Is he really ok like that? He fell into the berserk state just now," somebody finally asked.
"It's fine, he's already asleep. He will regain his clarity once he wakes up," Bai Yi smiled and answered.
After hearing Bai Yi's words, a girl about 1.5meters tall that looked like a little sheep raised her hand. "Can I do it? I'm a doctor."
"Of course, sorry to trouble you," Bai Yi said to this girl.
"No, no problem." This little girl jogged over and let Bai Yi flip Raymond around. Then, she proficiently took out a sharp dagger, cut away the fur around Raymond's wound, and washed the wound with clear water. After that, she poured some powder that she ground from some plant and carefully bandaged him up.
"This clear water is distilled water. I normally prepare some since it isn't convenient to make it on the spot while doing emergency treatment. I made this medicinal powder myself, and it's very effective as well." This little sheep girl explained as she bandaged Raymond up. Apparently, she was afraid that Bai Yi would misunderstand her.
"Thank you." Bai Yi nodded. This was apparently a very prepared little doctor. It may be better to clean the wound with strong alcohol, but it wasn't easy to find these supplies in New Zealand now.
"Ok then, he just has to lie in bed for a week. He can remove the bandages after a week," the little sheep girl said and nodded to Bai Yi. Then, she ran away with her medical tools afterward. Bai Yi saw that on the other side there was a group of people that waited for her. When they saw Bai Yi look over, the leader of the group nodded to Bai Yi.
Bai Yi nodded too in order to express his thanks.
As expected, this little girl already had a team. After all, a doctor was a very important profession in a team in New Zealand now. Even if it was a shoddy doctor, many teams would fight over such a person, needless to say about such an adorable sheep girl. It was really a pity. Otherwise, Bai Yi had wanted to invite this little girl to join his team.
However, it was already quite good like this. Raymond probably couldn't run away from this, and there was still the Weapon Armor Maker Melvin from before. It was probably enough to get 2 more people. It was troublesome to have too many people on the team as well. At this point in time, Bai Yi didn't know that 2 people really came to the recruitment spot that he had set up. However, when the 2 of them saw Pupu lying on the ground and sleeping behind the table, they were both quite speechless.
A pig?
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TN: I know most people won't read the announcement posts, so i'll repeat and summarize things here. I finally fulfilled my promise of 3 chaps a day for the month of december since it's my holidays, and starting from january onwards it will go back to 1 chap a day since school is starting and 3 chaps a day really isn't sustainable. Thanks to everyone for all the support i've received this month! Hope you guys will continue to enjoy this story! Also, i'm going on holiday from 4th to 10th Jan so no chapters on those days, but i'll make it up to you guys don't worry.
