Jiang Kai stared at Little Rascal in disbelief. Who could have imagined that the one who landed the final blow on the BOSS would actually be this guy.
When the Rat King was killed, Little Rascal had clearly been in his pocket, badly injured. How could it possibly have had a chance to make a move.
Everyone around was now looking at Jiang Kai. As for Little Rascal's situation, even Jiang Kai himself could not figure it out, and he had no intention of making it public.
"Jiang Kai, what exactly are you playing at!" Dongfang Canghai asked impatiently.
Jiang Kai's mind spun rapidly. He immediately snapped the pocket shut and said, "Cough cough, I was messing with you. I killed the Rat King!"
"So it really was you!" Huang Jianguo narrowed his eyes. His hatred toward Jiang Kai had already reached a new height. If there weren't so many people watching here, he would have wanted to kill Jiang Kai on the spot.
However, here and now, no matter how much Huang Jianguo hated Jiang Kai, there was no way he could kill him in front of everyone.
"Fine! Jiang Kai, mountains are high and roads are long. We'll meet again sooner or later!"
Liu Yuanxiang's gaze was like a venomous snake. After staring at Jiang Kai for several seconds, the malice in his eyes quietly faded. He stepped forward and said, "A hero truly does emerge young. To snatch the BOSS from over a thousand War Gods, Jiang Kai, you really are strong."
Dongfang Canghai snorted coldly and directly led the Dongfang family members away.
Dongfang Bai turned his head and glanced at Jiang Kai.
He was five or six years older than Jiang Kai, had risen to fame young, once unrivaled in the limelight. Yet after meeting Jiang Kai, he had actually been reduced to a supporting role, suppressed by Jiang Kai at every turn…
Thinking of this, jealousy flared up in Dongfang Bai's heart. He sneered at Jiang Kai and said, "Jiang Kai, Ghost Star is just one battlefield. I'm really looking forward to seeing whether you still have this kind of ability on a real life-or-death battlefield like the Beast God Battlefield!"
With that, Dongfang Bai flicked his sleeve and left.
The Human Realm Xuanwu of Tianchi and the Dongfang family guilds had all left. If they stayed here, they would only become targets of condemnation from other guilds, so they did not dare linger and left resentfully.
Jiang Kai walked to the spot where the Rat King had been killed. Looking at the corpse card on the ground, he said softly, "Sigh, I'll take the blame for you. Transfer the corpse card to me so people don't doubt it."
After waiting for the transfer to finish, Jiang Kai bent down and picked up the corpse card.
"And the treasure chest… it should be in the cave." After saying that, Jiang Kai leaped down into the cave beneath the Rat King.
Following the underground cave, Jiang Kai spent some time before finally finding the BOSS treasure chest.
There was no one else around at this moment. Jiang Kai grabbed Little Rascal and pulled it out.
This guy had first played dead, letting him kill the BOSS, and then snatched the BOSS from the hands of so many experts… Jiang Kai slightly narrowed his eyes and looked at Little Rascal warily. "So you played dead back then and left your last words just to use my attack to heavily injure the Rat King?"
Little Rascal was pinched by the back of the neck and left dangling in the air. It desperately tried to reach Jiang Kai's hand with its claws, but its arms were too short and couldn't reach.
After struggling for a while, Little Rascal finally gave up and let Jiang Kai hold it, nodding helplessly.
"Chi chi chi, chi chi chi!"
"I can't understand what you're saying… but you really are pretty nasty. I was actually quite sad back then." Jiang Kai shook his head and sighed.
"So, how did you kill the BOSS?"
Little Rascal pointed at Jiang Kai's finger behind it. Jiang Kai immediately understood. This guy was about to put on a performance again.
After thinking about it, Jiang Kai put the little fellow down on the ground.
Through Little Rascal's vivid, emotionally rich reenactment, Jiang Kai roughly understood what had happened.
"You followed the Rat King and secretly attacked its hind leg, then left something in its wound. When I launched my attack, you triggered that thing to explode and deal damage… damn, that actually works?"
Jiang Kai stared at Little Rascal in shock.
He himself was trying to steal Xuanwu's BOSS, while Little Rascal had been thinking about how to steal his BOSS!
This was truly the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind!
"You little thing, I really underestimated you!" Jiang Kai shook his head and sighed. "Back in the newbie trial zone you already used me, and now you're using me again?"
Little Rascal stood there, looking at Jiang Kai pitifully.
"Still pretending to be pitiful?" Jiang Kai frowned at it. "I'm telling you, you're really something else, always targeting me to screw me over!"
"That Zhong Qiang who caught you, you didn't mess with him. I treat you so well, and every day you're thinking of ways to mess with me…"
Little Rascal lowered its head and played with its claws.
Jiang Kai sighed. "Forget it, forget it. Even though I didn't personally snatch the BOSS, seeing Liu Yuanxiang and the others return empty-handed still feels pretty good."
"Oh right, are you transferring the treasure chest to me or not?"
Little Rascal immediately ran to the treasure chest. It was only the size of a palm, yet it hugged the chest tightly and refused to let go.
That stubborn little expression seemed to say: No way, all of this is mine!
Jiang Kai was instantly speechless.
Had this guy been with him so long that it had learned all his signature moves?
"What use do you have for the stuff inside? Give it to me. I'll sell it and buy you tasty food."
Little Rascal still refused to let go.
Jiang Kai sighed. This guy was dead set on swallowing the treasure chest whole.
"Fine, then give me the summoning skull. The Huaxia military needs this thing. Besides, I already took the blame for you. Everyone knows I killed the Rat King, so the skull has to be with me anyway," Jiang Kai said.
Little Rascal thought about it seriously, then finally nodded with great difficulty.
Jiang Kai shook his head, walked over to the treasure chest, and opened it. Seeing the chest filled with treasures, he forcibly suppressed his envy and jealousy, rummaged around inside, and finally found the summoning skull.
"Damn, why is there so much more stuff in your chest than in the two I opened?!" Jiang Kai complained.
"Looks like there are several pieces of transcendent gear and treasures too… wait, could this Rat King have been mutated?"
The more Jiang Kai thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
A King-tier BOSS only has one of its kind, so there was no way to tell whether it was mutated. But judging from the Rat King's strength, it was very likely a mutated King-tier!
After all, even the treasure chest was bigger than a normal King-tier chest!
"Hey, Little Fluff, let's talk business. How about I trade the King-tier treasure chest I have for this one?" Jiang Kai looked at Little Rascal expectantly.
Little Rascal ignored him completely. It directly cardified the treasure chest and carefully put it away.
Looks like the deal had fallen through. Jiang Kai gave up on the idea of tricking the treasure chest away from Little Rascal and could only take it back to the surface.
After everyone had waited for a long time, Jiang Kai jumped out of the cave, holding a summoning skull in his hand.
The people around sighed with emotion.
"To snatch the BOSS from so many people, you need both strength and luck. This Jiang Kai has both."
"Anything's better than letting Xuanwu and the others get it."
No matter what, the Rat King had been killed, and the skull had ended up in Jiang Kai's hands.
Most of the guilds that participated in this Rat King hunting operation suffered heavy losses. Even Xuanwu, one of the four major guilds, had many members die and log out.
Only the Ancient Martial Guild fared slightly better due to their strong individual combat strength.
After the successful hunt, the three major guilds had already left under public pressure, while the other guilds rested within the BOSS territory.
He Shishi and Zhou Chu carefully tallied the numbers.
The two guilds had a total of 113 deaths. The Lord God side had exactly 40, while Qingyun, unexpectedly, had 63 deaths.
Seeing this result, He Shishi looked at Zhou Chu guiltily. "Uncle Zhou, if it weren't for protecting us, you wouldn't have sacrificed so many people. Now you've lost even more people than we have. I really don't know what to say."
Zhou Chu smiled slightly. "It's nothing serious. If we can't even protect you, we might as well die in battle."
As he spoke, Zhou Chu looked toward Hu Yan and Ruan Yu resting nearby. "The Lord God Guild is different from other guilds. Don't be fooled by how low your combat power is right now. I believe that in the future, you'll definitely produce even more strong fighters!"
"I have a feeling," Zhou Chu said as he looked seriously at He Shishi, "when your Lord God truly becomes strong…"
"It will shock the world!"
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