"Boss... Boss, so many skeletons!" The underling following Xing Zhao was so frightened by the sudden appearance of so many skeletons that he swallowed hard and started to stutter.

"I can see them!" Xing Zhao felt a chill run down his spine as he watched the skeleton soldiers continuously emerging from the passage.

That's way too many!

"Sister, can we handle so many skeletons?" Gu Xiaobei whispered to Gu Mian from the other side.

A hot breath brushed against her neck, and Gu Mian shrank back uncomfortably: "It's nothing serious."

As long as she isn't instantly killed, she can heal herself!

Although they spoke very softly, people nearby could still hear them.

“We don’t need to kill them all.” Qin Huaizhou sighed, his face full of helplessness. “Have you forgotten that our kill mission is almost complete?”

"Uh..." Gu Xiaobei suddenly realized, "That's right! We don't need to fight these skeletons to the death here at all!"

After figuring it out, he immediately looked at Gu Mian excitedly: "Sister, we'll help you get the skeleton to low health, then you can get the kill, and after the mission is complete, we can go up to the fourth floor together, okay?"

“The idea is good, but…” Gu Mian raised his chin, gesturing for him to look at Xing Zhao and the others who were listening intently: “They will most likely cause trouble in the middle.”

"Hehe." Xing Zhao wasn't angry when he heard Gu Mian say that. Instead, he forced a smile and said, "As long as you're willing to help us complete the mission, I guarantee we won't cause any trouble."

He no longer mentioned cooperating to kill the big boss, clearly knowing how low the success rate was with so many skeleton soldiers around.

It would be better to take advantage of everyone being surrounded by skeletons and change the condition to helping each other complete the kill mission; the probability of cooperation might be greater that way.

"Oh?" Gu Mian gave him a cold look: "I have a better idea than helping you complete the mission."

A slow, cold smile crept onto her lips: "How about we just get rid of you all? That way I won't have to worry about you causing trouble anymore?"

"That's a good idea." Jiang Bai clapped his hands twice in agreement. "I've always felt you looked familiar, but I just couldn't remember where I'd seen you before. Just now, I finally remembered..."

Jiang Bai's gaze gradually turned cold, and for a moment it became somewhat intimidating.

Gu Mian was stunned. Goodness, how come she hadn't noticed before that this person could be quite intimidating when he turned cold?

It seemed there was no hope of cooperating to complete the mission. Xing Zhao withdrew the forced smile from his face and looked back at them with the same expressionless face.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? The atmosphere seems a bit off." Qin Huaizhou looked completely bewildered, not understanding why they suddenly wanted to take action.

Gu Mian: "...You're really perceptive; you noticed it so quickly."

"Um..." Qin Huaizhou scratched the back of his head: "I have a feeling that you're not really praising me."

In the blink of an eye, the skeleton soldiers who had been surrounding everyone suddenly changed their motionless state as if they had received some kind of command.

They raised their gleaming, sharp steel blades high and slashed forward fiercely—

"Snap!"

"Snap!"

The golden protective shield that suddenly appeared above everyone's heads instantly developed countless cracks.

"Damn it! You destroyed another one of my protective shields!" Xu Kun grimaced in pain as he forcefully plunged his Tang sword into the chest of the skeleton soldier in front of him.

[Health Points - 3000]

At the same time, Gu Mian followed up with a finishing blow, instantly eliminating the low-health skeleton soldier.

[Killed 1 Tier 5 Skeleton Soldier.]

[Current kill count: 9/100.]