"He actually didn't fall for it?" Chi Yu felt a slight shock when he noticed the contemptuous look Shi Feng cast his way.
He had indeed wanted to lure Shi Feng over, then kill him and seize his items more easily.
When a person falls into despair, even the faintest glimmer of hope becomes something they'll cling to desperately—it's practically an instinct. Chi Yu had exploited precisely this, and even though many people knew they were being deceived, they would still choose to come.
But what about Shi Feng?
Right now, players surrounded Shi Feng from every direction—tens of thousands of pairs of eyes fixed on him, the area sealed so tightly that not a single player, let alone a fly, could escape.
He was completely cornered with absolutely no hope of getting out.
Faced with such overwhelming pressure, an ordinary person's mind would have crumbled long ago, sending them collapsing to the ground. Even Chi Yu himself couldn't guarantee he'd remain unaffected. Being pointed at by thousands was already more than most people could bear, let alone having hundreds of thousands of murderous gazes bearing down on him. Yet not only did Shi Feng show not the slightest crack in his composure—he even had the leisure to throw back a contemptuous stare…
Chi Yu was beginning to wonder whether Shi Feng was even human, to be this calm.
"Even if you didn't fall for it, you have no chance of escaping." Chi Yu sighed inwardly, but his determination to kill Shi Feng hadn't wavered in the slightest.
Above the area where Shi Feng stood, waves upon waves of fire rain and arrows streaked down, blotting out the sky. Even though Shi Feng was now level 34 and possessed significant level suppression, there was no way he could survive this.
Not a single person doubted that Shi Feng could make it out alive.
But what Shi Feng did next left everyone baffled.
At this critical moment, he actually activated Sword Control Return to Heaven and started picking up drops off the ground—one piece, two pieces—tossing them into his inventory. He looked like a man who'd rather die than leave money behind.
Quite a few players stared at this display in confusion.
"Does Black Flame really think he can get away?"
"Black Flame can't possibly believe that once something's in his inventory, it won't drop when he dies."
But Shi Feng simply smiled faintly, completely ignoring the spells flying toward him.
Then wave after wave of magic and arrows crashed down. Within a 20-yard radius of Shi Feng, the area instantly became a hellscape of ice and fire. Every player caught in that 20-yard zone was obliterated into ash without exception—including Shi Feng himself.
"Hahaha, Black Flame, so you finally meet your end!" Wei Wo Du Kuang burst into laughter as he watched Shi Feng dissolve into starlight. Even though he hadn't delivered the killing blow himself, the myth of Black Flame's invincibility had been shattered like this. Once word got out, it would become a laughingstock across the Divine Realm.
The guild master of Zero Wing, Black Flame, had died because of his greed. What could be more ironic than that?
"Wait—Black Flame is dead, but none of the items he picked up have dropped." A player with exceptionally sharp eyes suddenly exclaimed.
Prompted by that player's words, everyone finally realized it.
Just as he'd said, Black Flame had indeed been killed, but the items on the ground hadn't increased—if anything, a few were missing.
What on earth had just happened?
Could the drops from the Mechanical Slayer really not require a two-hour holding period once they were placed in inventory?
Even Wei Wo Du Kuang was stunned, his eyes locked on the spot where Shi Feng had died. But no matter how hard he racked his brain, he couldn't figure out what had happened.
If items picked up were truly safe once placed in an inventory without the two-hour holding requirement, then Black Flame—who already had a massive red name—should have lost at least most of his equipped gear upon death. But not a single piece had dropped.
"Brother Chi Yu, this is bad. If dropped items that get placed in an inventory don't come out when the player dies, it's going to be even harder for us to snatch the drops." The female ranger Liu Qianqian said with some anxiety.
Now that so many players were here, if the items got picked up, they wouldn't have the slightest chance.