As the beam of light flashed, Fang Zheng appeared next to the teleportation crystal. He raised his head and looked around.

According to the intelligence obtained from Kuroyukihime and Argo, the main activity area of ​​the group of PK players named "Smiling Coffin" is the second, third and fourth floors. They basically do not show up on the first and fifth floors. The reason is very simple. The fifth floor is currently the main floor where all the major strategy groups are located. All of them are top-notch upper-level players. Unless the Smiling Coffins are mentally ill, they will not voluntarily seek death.

The first floor is the headquarters of many guilds. After all, only Fang Zheng's Dark Moon Sword has a guild station. Other guilds should temporarily use the starting town on the first floor as their headquarters. If they are on the first floor, if they encounter a guild leader who leads his guild members to attack, it would be simply courting death.

Therefore, the second, third and fourth floors are relatively good choices at present.

Something was not right.

After leaving the safe zone, Fang Zheng glanced around, and then his face darkened slightly. He was now in the material collection area on the second floor. Logically, there should be many production players collecting materials here. But in fact, Fang Zheng could only see some players wearing guild uniforms collecting materials in groups nearby. The rest of the place was deserted, completely different from the previous bustling scene.

Criminal Player...

Fang Zheng stayed near the safe zone for a while, and then walked towards the depths of the forest.

As he went deeper, there was no one around, and Fang Zheng stopped in front of a collection point and began to collect materials. His material collection level was not high, but Fang Zheng didn't care. After all, he didn't come here just to collect materials.

"Hey, this guy."

Sure enough, when Fang Zheng finished collecting materials and stood up, he saw seven or eight players walking out from the nearby bushes. They were wearing armor and holding various weapons. They surrounded Fang Zheng with a smile. From the outside, they were no different from ordinary players, but the arrows on their heads were not ordinary green, but orange - this was the symbol of criminal players.

The arrows of players who steal, hurt, or kill people in the game will change color and turn orange. After turning orange, they cannot enter the town for supplies because they will be attacked by guards. Other players can also attack orange players at will.

If it were an ordinary online game, these orange players would definitely not be so brazen, but now, in this death game, they seem to have found their own fun. After all, here, if you kill someone, you will really die. Most people may be afraid of this, but for other players, they seem to have found the meaning of their existence.

"You're really brave to come here alone."

"Who are you? What do you want?"

Looking at the orange players who surrounded him, Fang Zheng frowned and asked in a deep voice. Upon hearing Fang Zheng's question, the orange players immediately grinned, revealing a disgusting smile like a jackal.

"It's very simple. Just take out all the weapons, equipment and money you have on you. Then we can spare your life, okay?"

“Hahahahahaha.”

As the leading orange player spoke, the others also laughed. Upon hearing this, Fang Zheng's eyes became even colder.

"What if I don't give it to you? Do you still want to kill people?"

"Right? We are members of 'Laughing Coffin'."

The leading orange player revealed a ferocious smile.

"Killing a few people is nothing to us, right?"

"...Aren't you afraid of being punished?"

"Are you kidding me? Who will punish us? This is a game world. There is no evidence that we will really die if we kill them, right? There is no evidence at all, and we can't treat it as a crime when we go back. Besides, we don't even know if we can go back, so who cares about this!"

Having said that, the orange player suddenly waved his hand.

"I'll say it again, hand over everything you have, or else..."

The orange player didn't finish his words, because the next moment, Fang Zheng suddenly swung out with a sword. The dark sword swept through the air and directly split his body in two. The man's upper body rotated in the air for a moment, and then shattered and disappeared with a "bang".

“——”

The laughter of the others suddenly stopped at this moment. They stared at Fang Zheng with wide eyes in horror, not because of his ruthlessness, but because of his attack power. This was not the real world, but the game world. Although they were not top players, they were also among the top players. Otherwise, they would not come out in groups to rob.

But now, the highest-ranking person among them was killed instantly?

This can only mean one thing, that is, the man in front of them is higher than their level! !

He is a player in the strategy group!!

Since Fang Zheng was not wearing the Darkmoon Sword uniform, nor the equipment of high-level players, nor did he take out his iconic beast cutting knife, but was just wearing a very ordinary primary cloak and low-level player equipment, these orange criminals naturally mistook Fang Zheng for a low-level gathering player.

"Attack, why are the people from the strategy team here?"

"Kill him!! He must have a lot of advanced equipment and items!!"

After a moment of surprise, these criminals reacted immediately. Although they were a little scared at first, their greed took over instantly. Even though the other party was of a higher level, there was only one person, while there were more than ten people here! Ten people against one, not to mention, they had seen blood before!

That’s right!

Thinking of this, these criminals became more and more proud. They killed several rebellious players in succession. To them, the orange logo was not only not a check, but more like their medal. In fact, most players would be scared to death and cry for help as soon as they saw their orange logo. This also made these orange criminals feel extremely satisfied.

And now, they were like a pack of wolves, pouncing on their prey.

“Hahahahaha, go to hell!!”

"Go to hell! Go to hell! Taste our power!"

However, Fang Zheng said nothing as he listened to the criminals' roars and screams. He simply raised the sword in his hand and swung it forward with force.

With a flash of sword light, the two orange criminals were killed instantly. Then Fang Zheng turned sideways to avoid the sudden attack from behind, and then raised the sword again to chop down the third guy who rushed forward to die.

If those orange criminals were like a pack of wolves, then Fang Zheng was like an efficient killing machine, cold, silent and fast.

"clang!!"

The one-handed sword flew out in a spin, and the criminal wailed and sat on the ground. He widened his eyes in horror and looked at Fang Zheng in front of him - in just a blink of an eye, the orange criminals who were besieging Fang Zheng were swept away, leaving only him alone.

"Please, please, don't kill me... don't..."

Feeling the cold touch of the sword on his neck, the criminal felt the fear of death for the first time. The thought of death being so close at hand almost paralyzed him.

"Tell me how many people are in the guild, their names, and where they are currently active, and I won't kill you."

Fang Zheng tightly grasped the sword in his hand and stared coldly at the criminal in front of him. For him, killing was no longer a problem. Whether killing was right or wrong was something that only a little girl like Asuna would consider. However, Fang Zheng had killed tens of thousands of people in various worlds, so he didn't care about the thoughts of these criminals.

As a paladin, it is his job to uphold justice.

For Fang Zheng, it doesn't matter if these people are killed or not, regardless of whether they will be convicted in reality. However, in order to make the world more peaceful, Fang Zheng doesn't mind using more extreme means to curb this negative impact.

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you now... I'll tell you right now."

Hearing Fang Zheng's words, the criminal nodded repeatedly, then he quickly opened his system interface, and then switched it to a form visible to others to show it to Fang Zheng. After looking at the list of members and their locations in the criminal system union, Fang Zheng nodded and then put away the sword.

"Okay, you can go now."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!!"

Hearing Fang Zheng's words, the criminal stood up hastily as if he had been pardoned, and then scrambled towards the exit of the woods. He looked back as he ran, and found that Fang Zheng was indeed standing there, with no intention of chasing him. This made the criminal breathe a sigh of relief, and he ran towards the exit even faster.

This bastard!!

The criminal ran forward, cursing in his heart, but now he just wanted to leave here, as long as he left here and returned to the guild, then he would bring the president and the strong men in the guild to find this man, torture him, and kill him...

However, his beautiful dream ended there.

Just as the criminal was about to leave the woods, a rapier shot out from the nearby woods like lightning and hit the criminal directly on his body, instantly making dozens of holes in him. The next moment, accompanied by a huge impact and screams, the orange criminal turned into data fragments and disappeared into the air.

Restia walked out with a rapier in her hand, smiling, while on the other side, Esther also walked out of the forest holding a long sword.

Not long after, Fang Zheng appeared in front of them.

"Okay, now that we have the list, let's start the hunt."

Time to cut off your ears!