The commotion here quickly alerted the entire Golden Elephant City Large Corps, including the resting Trial Participants, who nervously grabbed their weapons and rushed over.
Golden Elephant City raised an eyebrow. "Who is so bold as to dare attack us in the middle of the night?"
In the Trial Ground right now, their faction was the largest. Provoking them intentionally was courting death.
When Golden Elephant City arrived, he saw everyone gathered around two Trial Participants who had fallen and couldn't get up.
Someone held up two arrows and said to Golden Elephant City, "The attacker used arrows. Both people were hit in the neck. Although they can't die without arrowheads, such severe injuries still caused them to faint and rendered them unable to continue fighting."
Wang Qing suddenly shouted, "It's Zhao Mu! He has the best Archery skills in our school, this must be his doing!"
Golden Elephant City narrowed his eyes. "But in this kind of darkness, how did he manage to accurately hit two people in the neck?"
The others looked at each other, finding it completely incomprehensible.
Let alone them, even the instructors in the Monitoring Room found it strange.
"After mastering Spiritual Power to a certain extent, one can condense Spiritual Power into the eyes to enhance vision. But this is a considerably high-level technique; he shouldn't be able to grasp it at this stage."
"Could it be that this kid is a nocturnal species of the Dark Race?"
Xu Zhixiong's face was filled with confusion.
Zhao Mu's two arrows were truly surprising.
Previously, when dealing with the five-person squad, it was still dusk, and the sky hadn't completely darkened.
However, in the jungle at this moment, it was pitch black.
Golden Elephant City suddenly began to feel a trace of pressure in his heart.
"Did anyone notice where he is?"
The patrol members immediately replied, "We couldn't find him at all. When we went to look, he had already fled."
A shadow enveloped everyone's hearts.
A person who could accurately snipe targets in the dark was constantly preparing to strike them from the shadows.
In this situation, how could anyone not be afraid?
"Young Master Jin, what should we do?"
Everyone could only rely on Golden Elephant City to make a decision.
Golden Elephant City narrowed his eyes; he knew what Zhao Mu was planning.
The Large Corps, nearly fifty people strong, couldn't move out collectively to find his position in the darkness; they could only set up camp and act as his living targets.
If Zhao Mu didn't strike now, the moment they settled down to rest, he would reappear and accurately take out a few random people.
Thinking of this, even Golden Elephant City couldn't help but shrink his neck.
He quickly said to the surrounding Trial Participants, "Don't worry, he doesn't dare approach. He can only use sneak attacks like this from the shadows. How many arrows could he possibly have?"
"We'll just go back and rest, rotating guards every two hours. Nothing will happen!"
Golden Elephant City cheerfully reassured everyone.
But at this moment, a disagreement arose.
One of the three remaining members of the previous five-person squad stepped forward and said, "That shouldn't be the calculation, Young Master Jin."
"We don't know how many arrows he has left. But I know that until we find a way to deal with him, he will definitely try his best to eliminate our effective strength."
"Everyone on patrol faces the risk of being eliminated."
He stared at Golden Elephant City: "Our squad has already lost two people, so we demand a change in patrol personnel!"
Everyone else had their own thoughts; they were originally a temporary team assembled just to pass the trial, so their bonds weren't deep.
Once their interests were threatened, the team would quickly disintegrate.
Golden Elephant City narrowed his eyes, staring at the person who had contradicted him. He smiled and spread his hands, saying, "Don't get too agitated. Doing this now is our best option; taking the initiative to attack is absolutely unwise."
"Since it's your turn to patrol, you must stick to the agreement. Otherwise, if we swap to others, they will also face danger."
Someone suddenly spoke up, "That's true, but Young Master Jin, we haven't seen you go on patrol either!"
The speaker was hidden in the darkness, and no one knew who it was.
However, Golden Elephant City's actions clearly aroused dissatisfaction among the group.
As the team leader, Golden Elephant City had always stayed in a safe location, using the excuse of managing the overall situation to avoid participating in patrols.
Golden Elephant City started to get a headache; managing this rabble was indeed difficult.
But he was also unwilling to go on patrol himself.
No one wanted to face a Divine Archer operating in the darkness.
After careful consideration, he found a solution.
"Let's cut down trees! We'll use the wood to build a barricade and avoid Zhao Mu's attacks."
As soon as this method was proposed, everyone nodded in agreement.
They were located on the back of the mountain, so they only needed to cut down some small trees or branches to enclose the remaining three sides, eliminating their worry about Zhao Mu's arrows.
So, the group picked up their weapons and quickly started cutting down trees and gathering thick branches nearby.
Zhao Mu saw this scene from afar and laughed inwardly.
"As long as you don't dare leave the camp to come find me, I have a hundred ways to make sure you get no peace!"
Zhao Mu glanced around, then quickly snuck toward the area above their camp.
The Large Corps quickly gathered a lot of wood and stuck it directly into the ground to serve as a shield wall.
This way, it would be extremely difficult to attack the area with arrows from the outside.
The patrol members also didn't dare go out, instead staying inside the shield wall and observing their surroundings through the gaps between the tree trunks.
"Everyone continue resting and conserve your energy! Wait for the next round of Battle Zone Contraction."
Golden Elephant City quietly issued the order to the group, and the others lay down to rest again.
But before they had rested for long, a huge "Rumble!" sound came from above, startling them.
Golden Elephant City quickly got up and turned his head to look, his eyes widening dramatically.
"Holy crap!"
In his panic, he swore. It turned out that several massive boulders were rolling down the mountain, thundering toward them!
"Run!"
The group jumped up in terror and scrambled, rolling and crawling, to the side.
In the darkness, people crowded together, unable to dodge in time. Many were trampled, and those hit by the rocks let out miserable wails.
It turned out that Zhao Mu had gotten above them, used leverage, and treated his heavenly halberd as a crowbar to pry loose many large stones.
This type of mountain had many large boulders, some exposed and some half-buried in the soil, but with Zhao Mu's strength, prying them loose was not difficult.
Golden Elephant City and the others thought they were clever by building a wooden wall to block Zhao Mu's arrows, but they never imagined that something far worse was coming.
After a period of screaming and wailing, the Large Corps suffered seven or eight casualties. Some were disabled, and others were severely injured or their fate unknown.
Golden Elephant City, panting heavily, hid to the side, looking at the mess on the ground, so angry his face turned green.
"Damn Zhao Mu! I never provoked you, why are you targeting me!"
He cursed furiously.
But after a moment's thought, he realized something and gnashed his teeth in even greater rage.
"Which son of a bitch leaked the fact that I was planning to deal with him! Damn it, damn it all!"
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