Celica felt pain that she had never experienced before. First, his companion, Bina, who had never left him, died to protect him. Then, he found out that the person he had always secretly liked treated him as a burden.
She ran aimlessly on the grassland, wanting to get as far away from him as possible. When she came back to her senses, she did not even know where she had run off to, nor did she meet Kirito and the others.
Seeing that the sky was already dark, the range of her vision was getting smaller and smaller. Darkness gradually enveloped her. The sense of security in her heart was getting lower and lower. She felt as if the sky was about to collapse. The cold corroded her body and panic corroded her heart. Suddenly, a strange cry came from somewhere, scaring her so much that her heart instantly rose to her throat and she almost screamed.
She forced herself not to cry out, but tears involuntarily flowed down her face. She squatted on the ground and hugged her arms tightly, as if this would be warmer and safer. However, her heart ached even more. She had never known that a person's heart could hurt to such an extent, making one wish they were dead.
"Is this how it feels to be heartbroken?" She thought bitterly in her heart. She didn't want to suffer this kind of pain that went deep into her soul a second time.
A gust of cold wind blew at her, and she shivered. It was as if she was at a loss. Since Xia Feng did not like her, how could she continue to stay by his side?
"Future, where are you?”Silika whined like a wounded animal.
A series of footsteps suddenly sounded from behind, and Celica's heart tightened.
"Who could it be at this time? Or…something?”Celica trembled and did not dare to think about it anymore. She did not even dare to turn around to look at it.
"Can't see me, can't see me." She shrank back and prayed in her heart.
However, the footsteps behind him were getting closer. Furthermore, she could tell that there was more than one 'thing', which made her even more afraid.
"What should we do?" Celica was at a loss. "If only Brother Xiafeng was here."
"Players." A man's voice suddenly came from behind.
Cecilia felt relieved,'He must be a player too.' NPCs and monsters would not use the term " player ".
She did not know that sometimes, players were more dangerous than monsters.
"I knew it. How could it be a ghost?”Another player's voice sounded.
"Hey, little girl, it's so late. Why aren't you back to the city? It's not safe outside." The man behind him spoke again.
Celica ignored him. She had just been frightened by these people and did not want to talk to them at all.
The man behind him sighed helplessly.
"Hey, Rosalia, you do it. Looks like I really can't handle girls.”
Another set of footsteps approached.
"Little girl, what's wrong with you? Why aren't you back to the city so late? The wilderness was not safe, especially at night.”A woman's voice came from a very close distance behind him.
Celica calmed down. She remembered that she had something to ask them, such as her current location and the way back.
"I'm lost." Celica replied.
"Then do you want to come with us? We're heading back to the city, so it's safer for everyone to stay together.”the woman named Rosalia asked.
Celica had the same thought, so she agreed without any hesitation. The few of them set off together. Rosalia accompanied Celica along the way and chatted with her to make her feel better. As a result, Celica lost her guard even more and was tricked into revealing the truth.
She didn't notice the look Rosalia exchanged with the others behind her when she found out that she was wearing Rare equipment (given by Xia Feng). It was the look of a hunter looking at his prey.
After walking for a long time, Celica felt that something was wrong. The surroundings were getting more and more desolate. It didn't look like a place close to the town at all. Instead, it looked like a remote place far away from the town.
"Are we going in the wrong direction? Why haven't we reached the town yet?" Silika asked Rosalia.
"Soon." Rosalia said. However, Celica felt that her tone was not as gentle as before. Instead, it was a little cold.
"Big Sister, this should be enough!”A player behind him suddenly spoke. "It's far enough from the town. No one will come.”
Hearing this, Celica suddenly had a bad feeling.
Rosalia turned around and glared at the person who spoke behind her with dissatisfaction. She suddenly quickened her pace and stood in front of Celica. The people behind her also rushed forward and surrounded Celica.
"What are you doing?" By now, no matter how na?ve Celica was, she should have known that these people were up to no good.
"What are you doing?" Rosalia stuck out her tongue and licked her lips. "I just feel that a little girl like you doesn't look like she knows how to fight. It would be a waste to give you the equipment you have. Why don't you give it to us? That way, we can still use the value of the equipment when we're exploring the game.”
"You!" Celica finally understood that these people were after her equipment. "You don't dare to fight the monsters, but you do such a thing. Don't you feel ashamed?”
Celica was furious, but she didn't know that similar phenomena were becoming more and more common among the players. After all, compared to fighting monsters, robbing alone players was much safer. Even worse cases of murder had occurred.
"Hahaha!" Rosalia sneered. "It's just a game. Why bother? Even if he killed someone, he couldn't be sure that the person would really die, let alone rob them of equipment. Even if he was dead, the culprit should be that Kazuhiko Hayaba. What I hate the most are those who bring justice and law into this world. Alright, little girl, hand over the equipment obediently.”
"No, no, this place is so far from the town. If we don't have any equipment, we'll die if we encounter monsters.”Celica shook her head desperately.
"If you don't cooperate, we'll kill you and drop your equipment.”Rosalia's face suddenly became extremely ferocious. "Die later or die now, choose for yourself!”
" No…No…" Cecilia was frightened by Rosalia's cruel expression. She trembled and retreated, but was stopped by the others with their weapons.
"You guys…My, my brother is Xia Feng. If you treat me like this, my brother won't let you off.”Celica said in a panic.
Everyone's expression changed.
"Stop trying to scare me. I've never heard of Xia Feng having a sister.”Rosalia said.
"I'm not lying to you. I'm the fourth member of the Utopia Guild. Many people who come to our guild have seen me.”Celica tried her best to explain, trying to make them believe her. Little did she know that this would only make her more dangerous.
Rosalia's expression kept changing until it turned cold.
"I originally planned to spare your life, but now it seems that I have to kill you to silence you.”
Silika felt as if she had been struck by lightning.
"Big Sister, are we really going to kill her? If Xia Feng finds out, we're dead.”One of his subordinates asked hesitantly.
"As long as we kill her, no one will know about what happened today if you don't tell me. But if we let her go, who knows if she will be lucky enough to return alive and find Xia Feng to deal with us.”Rosalia reprimanded.
"No, Big Sister." The subordinate shook his head. "Shouldn't we trick her into giving us everything before killing her? If we kill her directly, she won't drop everything, right?”
Rosalia was stunned. She had been frightened by Xia Feng's name and hadn't thought of this. Thinking about it again, this kid was really a talent. Not only was he smart enough, but he was also calm enough. More importantly, he was ruthless enough.
"Now that this little girl knows our purpose, we can't trick her into handing over everything. Just kill her and go back early.”Rosalia said cruelly.
The people surrounding Celica raised their weapons. Death was about to descend. Celica closed her eyes in despair and lost all light. At this moment, she felt as if time had been frozen and slowed down. She thought of her parents, thought of the real world, and thought of Xia Feng. She thought of every moment she spent with Xia Feng. The last memory stopped at the scene where Xia Feng was surrounded by assassins and told her to run. At this moment, she finally understood that Xia Feng only wanted her to leave. Unfortunately, it was too late.
At this moment.
"You're courting death!"
An angry voice sounded. Celika opened her eyes in surprise. It was Xia Feng's voice.
A shadow streaked through the air like a bolt of lightning. It pierced through one of the people surrounding Celica and stabbed into the ground. At this moment, everyone saw clearly that it was a long spear. Everyone turned around. In the darkness, two figures quickly rushed towards them.
"Kill them." Rosalia immediately ordered before she could save the people who had been shot. Everyone turned around and aimed their weapons at the two attackers. In a moment, the two of them rushed in front of everyone. However, before the two sides could make contact, one of the two attackers disappeared. In the next moment, a young man with a baleful expression appeared in the middle of the crowd, with a posture of drawing his sword.
In a flash.
Everyone was shocked and didn't react until Xia Feng broke free from the stun and drew his sword again. The sword light tore through the darkness.
Full Moon Slash.
In just one move, everyone's HP fell below the yellow line or even the red line. This was the level suppression. Xia Feng, who was Level 50, could instantly kill the monsters on this floor with a single move. Naturally, he could also cripple the players on this floor with a single move.
"Brother Xia Feng." Seeing Xiafeng, Celika could no longer suppress the urge in her heart and threw herself into his arms with tears streaming down her face.
"It's alright now." Xia Feng hugged her and comforted her.
"I know, I know you will come and save me.”Silika sobbed.
Seeing the two of them "showing off their love" as if no one else was around, the people surrounding them did not dare to disturb them at all. They even hoped that they would continue like this and then quietly run away. They had no choice. The power of that move that instantly crippled everyone had really frightened them.
Kirito, who had come with Natsukaze, looked at the two people hugging each other in the enemy's encirclement. His eyes were filled with spirit, and he was speechless. He could only take out a short sword with a paralyzing effect and paralyze the enemies one by one. Then, he watched from the side.
After dealing with the Assassins, Xia Feng immediately went to look for Silika. He chased after Kirito, but even when he caught up with Kirito and the others, they still could not find Silika. This made him extremely worried. Fortunately, Kirito's Enemy Searching skill was of a very high level, and he could already search for his friend's tracks. Thus, Natsuya brought Kirito to the place where he and Silika had separated, which was where they had first met the enemy. Kirito then used a skill, and the two of them followed the footprints all the way. Although Xia Feng and Kirito's movement speed was much faster than Celica and the Titan's Hand guild, which was Rosalia and her men, Celica had already left first, and Xia Feng had wasted a lot of time chasing after Kirito. Furthermore, Celica and the others had been moving all the time, so they only managed to catch up to them at the end.
Fortunately, he managed to make it in time. Xiafeng couldn't imagine what would have happened to Celica if she hadn't made it in time.
Noticing Kirito's teasing gaze, Celica hurriedly got out of Natsuya's arms and hid behind him, not daring to look at him. Her face was flushed red, and she looked very cute. Unfortunately, the sky was too dark for Xia Feng to see this scene clearly.
"How should we deal with them?" Kirito asked when he saw that Natsuya and the others had finally finished. However, Xia Feng felt that there was a deeper meaning in his gaze.
Xiafeng turned around and looked at Rosalia. This was the woman who had given the order in fear. She must be their leader. Although Xia Feng was a little surprised that the leader of this group was a woman, this would not make him show mercy to her.
" Since you want to steal Celica's equipment, I'll give you a taste of your own medicine. Take off all your equipment and I'll spare your lives. As for whether you can return alive, you can ask the heavens.”Xia Feng said coldly.
At this moment, Celica suddenly felt that the world was unpredictable. Originally, these people wanted to steal her equipment, but now Xia Feng wanted to steal their equipment. She didn't think that Xia Feng had gone overboard at all. After all, these people had wanted to kill her just now, and Xia Feng had at least given them a chance to live.
"No, don't do this. I'll die without equipment. I beg you, I beg you, as long as you let me go, I'll do anything you want me to do, even if it's that kind of thing. I know that you can do that kind of thing in this game. I live a good life. I'll definitely satisfy you.”Rosalia cried and begged. If she wasn't paralyzed at the moment, she would probably run over and hug Xia Feng's leg.
Looking at the disgusting and shameless expression of this flirtatious woman, Cecilia was furious.
"Brother Xiafeng, ignore her. This woman is bad.”
In fact, at this moment, what Cecilia was thinking was," Damn vixen, you still want to seduce my Brother Xia Feng! I won't let you succeed.
Xia Feng had no interest in this kind of woman. He had snatched their equipment and left them here. By the way, these people were paralyzed and would take ten minutes to recover. Xia Feng didn't have the time to wait for them. He grabbed their hands one by one, slid out of the menu, and " helped " them take off their equipment.
The method of calling out the menu in SAO was very simple. All he had to do was slide his hand down.
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