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Chapter 185 My Name is Xiao Dashan (Seeking monthly votes and continued reading)

In front of the cave, Qin Changge and two disheveled men faced off from a distance.

Qin Changge was somewhat confused as to why this calamity had to be like this.

It could completely corrupt this man, turning him into two calamities.

In other words, both of them could very well be calamities, and Qin Changge cannot afford to be careless.

However, if there is one hostage who has not been corrupted, that would be the key to passing the level, so if possible, Qin Changge should try to win him over.

“I know perfectly well who the hostages are. Now, I’d like to ask you, where are you from?”

“I’m from a nearby village. I was captured by bandits,” one of the disheveled men said.

Another disheveled man said, "I'm not even from this village. I'm a bandit, a death row inmate, captured by the Golden Knife Guards as a hostage. These guys are bastards, what do they think human life is?"

Qin Changge nodded after hearing this: "That's all right, that's all right."

Then, Qin Changge asked, "How many people are in your family?"

"I'm unmarried, living a life of constant danger, with no one to rely on."

"There are four people in my family: my wife, a son, and a daughter."

The two answers made Qin Changge's heart skip a beat. This calamity was so meticulous and destructive, and it could transform other life forms into calamities at any time. No wonder it was a major threat to the Great Thousand World.

Given time, the Calamity could likely conquer the entire world. However, since it needs to feed on other life forms, it cannot transform all life forms; it might instead adopt a captive breeding method.

Thinking of this, Qin Changge even felt that the fact that the world was now on par with the calamity might be because the calamity was deliberately holding back.

But soon, Qin Changge shook his head. He was just a lowly nobody, not even a god-level being, so thinking about these things was pointless.

At this moment, the two slovenly men pointed at each other and said, "You are the calamity, you are the calamity."

Qin Changge took out the Blood Shadow Blade: "I have a way to quickly find out who the Calamity is, but there might be a price to pay."

The two disheveled men hesitated for a moment, then took a step back. One of them asked, "You're not going to chop us both up, are you?"

Qin Changge shook his head: "How could that be? We'll know the result once we cut one down."

The two disheveled men pointed at each other and said, "Cut him down, he's the real calamity."

Qin Changge took out a copper coin: "I'll do a divination. Whoever it says will suffer calamity, and will be the one to be cut down. That's fair, right? After all, it's up to fate."

The two disheveled men felt a chill when they saw Qin Changge so casually deciding who to kill. They felt that Qin Changge was the real calamity, like a demon.

After performing the divination, Qin Changge pointed to the disheveled man on the left and said, "I'm sorry, it seems you're not having much luck."

After saying that, he stepped forward and slashed the man's arm with his knife, instantly severing one of his arms.

Instead of bleeding from the man's right shoulder, a strange green liquid was flowing out. Qin Changge immediately realized that this guy was Calamity. Without hesitation, he swung the Blood Shadow Blade and cut off the man's neck.

In an instant, the calamity withered completely, like a dead tree branch, and turned to ashes.

Qin Changge glanced at the Blood Shadow Blade in his hand and suddenly realized that this was a specially made weapon that could deal with calamities.

The remaining disheveled man looked at Qin Changge, clasped his hands in a fist and said, "I am a hostage, I am a hostage."

Qin Changge, holding the Blood Shadow Blade, said, "Actually, you've been with Calamity for so long that even a light bite would turn you into Calamity. So it's hard to say whether you're a hostage right now."

Seeing this, the disheveled man couldn't help but take a step back: "Then what do you mean?" Qin Changge said: "You'll know once you make a cut."

The slovenly man turned and ran: "You're the calamity, you madman!"

Qin Changge stepped forward and slashed the slovenly man's wrist with his knife, severing one of his hands.

"Hahaha!" the slovenly man cried out in pain.

Seeing this, Qin Changge said somewhat apologetically, "It seems you are human, which makes things a bit awkward."

He took out a talisman and slapped it on the disheveled man. In an instant, a holy white light shone, instantly reattaching his arm.

"This..." The slovenly man stared at the scene in astonishment, then looked at Qin Changge, wondering who Qin Changge was and how he could have such abilities.

Qin Changge grabbed the slovenly man's shoulder: "Now we can go back and report."

Qin Changge, carrying the disheveled man, soared into the air and arrived at the foot of the mountain in front of Yue Chenfeng: "I have rescued this hostage."

Yue Chenfeng nodded: "Although it's not the fastest, it's still done. Just wait over there."

Qin Changge nodded.

Moments later, all fifty hostages in the forest were rescued, but there were not as many as one hundred examinees who came out. Many of them had died at the hands of the calamity, which clearly showed how terrible the calamity was.

Yue Chenfeng said to the remaining fifty examinees, "Rescuing hostages, completing missions, and eliminating calamities—this is the daily routine of us Golden Knife Guards. If you cannot accept this, you have one last chance to withdraw."

None of the examinees present withdrew.

After all, they have to continue the assessment. If they don't pass, they won't become Golden Knife Guards. Since they've come this far, there's no harm in taking another assessment.

Yue Chenfeng nodded in satisfaction: "Next, we'll move on to the third and final round of assessments. This round will test your teamwork skills. You fifty people will be randomly divided into twenty-five pairs. Each person will have a 'Sun' and a 'Moon' character. To pass the assessment, each team needs to bring out two sets of 'Sun' and 'Moon' characters. In other words, each team must defeat at least one other team and take their 'Sun' and 'Moon' characters. Do you understand?"

All the examiners present nodded.

Qin Changge frowned. Teaming up with strangers was a difficult decision for him. He found it hard to trust strangers, let alone team up with them.

At this point, one of the examinees raised their hand and asked, "What if you get your cards, but another person loses theirs?"

Yue Chenfeng said expressionlessly, "There is no distinction between your own cards and other people's cards. In short, to pass the test, you must keep your own cards and also take away other people's cards. A team needs to hand over two Sun cards and two Moon cards to pass the test."

After listening, Qin Changge understood that if he got someone else's card, but his teammate lost theirs, they would not be able to pass the level. This was the so-called teamwork.

Yue Chenfeng said, "Now we'll start random team formation."

A large number of tokens with the characters for "sun" and "moon" were thrown down from the sky. Qin Changge saw a token flying towards him, reached out and caught it; it was the twenty-second "sun" token. Immediately afterwards, all the tokens were caught by the examinees.

Yue Chenfeng said, "Those who receive tokens with the same number are from the same team."

Soon, all the examinees found their teammates, and Qin Changge also found the person with the number twenty-two moon tile.

This person looked somewhat sleazy. Although he was a top-tier expert and looked down on ordinary people, he still exuded a sleazy vibe in Qin Changge's eyes.

He had triangular eyes and a pointed mustache. He chuckled at Qin Changge, "We're teammates now. Please guide me from now on. My name is Ye Hanzhou. May I ask your name?"

Qin Changge replied, "My name is Xiao Dashan."

"Xiao Dashan? That's quite a... domineering name!" Ye Hanzhou nodded.

(End of this chapter)