Lin Xu treated the island owners who provided information in the same way as before.

He will surely offer a sufficiently valuable reward to those who are willing to wait for him.

Unwilling to wait, they only hoped that those people would be alive to continue participating in the assessment after meeting the nobles.

Besides these people, more and more island owners are gathering, their goal being to ambush Lin Xu in exchange for the school district head's bounty.

These people were all trying to find out Lin Xu's coordinates or lure him to specific places.

Lin Xu gave all these people directions, telling them to gather at Chen Shaojie's location.

When we take care of Chen Shaojie, we can also deal with these bounty hunters, which will save them from confusing the public and causing trouble.

Lin Xu recognized many familiar names among these island owners who were after the bounty; they were all his classmates from school.

Although they weren't from the same class, they were all people from the same year at school whom I was quite familiar with.

For example, Wang Lei, who called him "Grandpa" three times, was also among this group trying to collect the bounty.

If these people were willing to find the golden ruins and use them as bait to lure him over, he might be willing to spare their lives.

Unfortunately, many people are trying to extract coordinates and gain something for free, and Lin Xu doesn't intend to keep such people around.

As long as these people arrive at Chen Shaojie's location at the agreed time, he wouldn't mind taking care of them.

In addition to this new information, Lin Xu also unexpectedly received another piece of news.

That was a chat message in the class group.

His classmates had all passed the puzzle test and had actually gathered together, preparing to meet Lin Xu.

These people claimed to have found many valuable items in the mysterious ruins and wanted to give them to Lin Xu as a way of repaying his help.

The speaker wasn't just the class monitor; there were also five other island owners.

Including Lin Xu, all the island owners in the class have now gathered, including the three classmates who died earlier.

Lin Xu never expected that his classmates would gather together, and that everyone would be planning to give him something in return.

He originally thought that if one or two island lords would keep their promise and share some of the ruins' rewards with him, that would be very good.

But now it seems that if what these classmates said was true, then his previous test really did yield good results.

If these students are of good character, then it would be a good option to train them a little and assign them other tasks.

At this point, the meeting place agreed upon by these classmates was on the island's travel route, so Lin Xu agreed to meet them on the way before finding Chen Shaojie.

If these classmates are genuinely willing to reciprocate, Lin Xu won't be stingy with some benefits.

But if these classmates had some ulterior motives because of the previous Golden Ruins incident, Lin Xu was confident that they would not be a match for him.

Time passed quickly.

After traveling for a day and a half, Lin Xu finally arrived at the gathering place of his classmates.

We are not far from Chen Shaojie's coordinates.

While Lin Xu was practicing swordsmanship on the island, Xiao Yu came to his side:

“Master, there are six island lords gathered together ahead. They seem to be waiting for someone.”

Lin Xu's heart stirred, and he went to the lookout tower of the island residence and took out his binoculars.

This observation tower was also built by Xiaoyu and him together during this period.

After the last battle, he seized a considerable amount of building materials from Wang En and his knights' squires on the island.

Lin Xu and Xiao Yu used these building materials to build a very sturdy and magnificent castle on the edge of the island.

The castle is at least 200 meters long and wide, and there are about 10 layers of soil blocks stacked on top of it, so it is no longer suspended in mid-air.

Moreover, the castle is fully equipped, especially the residential area, kitchen, and bathroom, all of which are quite high-end and luxurious.

These high-class rooms were created using materials and facilities that were taken from Wang En.

In addition, the castle's defenses, firepower, and observation capabilities were also carefully designed and arranged by Jade.

The only problem is that there's not enough time for construction and the island is too small. Otherwise, according to the plan Lin Xu and Xiao Yu discussed, the castle would be at least ten times larger and have ten times better facilities.

Now that there is this castle, Lin Xu can rest assured that the island will not easily fall even if he leaves it.

He looked through his binoculars at the six islands in the distance, and then spotted a familiar face on one of them.

It was his class monitor.

Around the class monitor were five other people, the other five island lords from the same class.

Lin Xu felt a little gratified.

The idea that all the island owners in his class would repay him was a pipe dream.

But now it seems that these classmates are actually quite good.

These people are waiting here, and judging from the fact that there aren't many armed forces on their island, they're probably not here to ambush and kill the enemy, but rather to wait for him to fulfill his promise.

Lin Xu directly ordered Xiao Yu to approach the six islands of their classmate, but all the elves and phantoms had to hide.

In addition, Xiaoyu must not let her guard down. If anything unusual happens on those islands in the same class, she should immediately launch a barrage of fire without holding back.

Xiaoyu and Taoyao nodded seriously, indicating that they accepted the order.

Although Phantom was somewhat unwilling to hide, she instinctively softened and agreed to Lin Xu's words, and obediently entered the castle.

Lin Xu gradually approached the six islands.

The squad leader and his group immediately looked panicked.

They didn't recognize that this was Lin Xu's island at first, and just felt unlucky to have run into that big shot who was passing by.

Some of these people had a desperate look on their faces, probably wanting to fight to the death.

Some were pondering strategies, seemingly willing to pay any price to overcome this crisis.

Meanwhile, a message also came from Lin Xu's class group:

[Lin Xu, don't come here for now. We encountered a very powerful island on the way; its machine guns and weapons are ridiculously strong. Get away from here to avoid being caught in the crossfire!]

Lin Xu saw the message in the group chat; it was from the class monitor.

Besides him, the other students also spoke up.

Some people, fearing Lin Xu wouldn't believe them, sent him a screenshot.

That's exactly what his island looks like.

Lin Xu found it amusing, but also felt a warmth in his heart.

These students really proved to be reliable in crucial moments.

He said:

[Don't get so excited, everyone. This island is mine.]

The moment the message was spoken, the class group chat fell silent.

Then the students erupted in chaos.

【What!】

Are you kidding me?

[Lin Xu? Is that you on that island? Isn't your island 100 meters long and wide?]

"How could that be? We haven't studied as much as you, Lin Xu, you're not lying to us!"

Lin Xu smirked, took a screenshot of the six islands in front of him, and posted it in the chat group.

The angle from which he took the screenshot was precisely at the front of his own island.

From here you can see part of the outer wall of his castle, as well as the island of the six classmates in front of him.

Chat group:

Holy crap!

[It really is Lin Xu!]

[That scared me to death! I was ready to detonate the explosives and kill us all!]

I'm willing to give up everything to save my life!

[Boss, please take me on as your follower! This island is so amazing, I don't even want to be the island owner, I just want to be your henchman!]

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