Chapter 4418 — Uproar
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Looking at the shocking corpses on the field, not only Qi Wenmo but everyone else in the escort agency wore grave expressions. They could not help but feel a sense of fellow feeling for the fallen—just one stick of incense ago, they had all been chatting and laughing together. Yet now they were separated by life and death, and worse, they had been butchered before everyone's very eyes. That feeling was truly hair-raising.
Because if it had not been those people who had taken the field, but themselves instead, they would likely already have become corpses on the ground.
There was no helping it—this was the style the Southern Continent's escort agency grand gathering had always had: extremely bloody, extremely cruel. Any escort agency that wanted to rise to prominence needed not only formidable strength, but also had to gamble with human lives. If one was not willing to pay a sufficiently great price, then by what right should one rise to prominence?
By this time Qi Wenmo's face was so dark it looked as though water could drip from it. Among the agency's few first-rate experts, three had died outright in a single match. The price was simply too heavy. The only thing that could serve as some consolation was that, at the cost of three lives, this round of the escort-defending battle had passed without mishap after all, and they had ultimately obtained forty points.
That score could not be called high, but if one did not quibble over the cost, it was just barely acceptable. Still, compared with Wei Zhao's record over here, it was completely unimpressive.
Wei Zhao had not only led his four men to withdraw whole and intact, but had also successfully obtained a high score of sixty points. That gave the whole of the Qingtian Escort Agency, which had been weighed down with heavy hearts, a much-needed shot in the arm, and the young master Qi Wenmo, who had suffered such a blow, was at last no longer so gloomily frowning. He thanked Wei Zhao repeatedly—Wei Zhao had truly bailed him out of a tight spot.
This was the first time he had led a team to the Southern Continent's escort agency grand gathering. It was precisely the moment to display his leadership ability and establish his prestige. If he had no presentable results, then even if he was Qi Mingyuan's only son, he would inevitably be gossiped about behind his back, and it would be hard for him to truly take over the Qingtian Escort Agency.
But now, thanks to Wei Zhao saving the day, regardless of anything else, at least where scoring was concerned, they had already far exceeded expectations—enough to make everyone in the agency rejoice and cheer.
Adding the escort-defending battle and the escort-seizing battle together, their total score for the first round was one hundred points. Although it could not compare with the one hundred and twenty points of a top dog like the Sihai Escort Agency, it was definitely among the top ranks. Even compared with the other five great escort agencies, they were not the least bit inferior—they were even slightly better than some.
The Sihai Escort Agency was unquestionably ranked first, while the second place was unexpectedly a tie between two escort agencies: the Shenfeng Escort Agency and the Qingtian Escort Agency!
The Shenfeng Escort Agency was one thing—for so many years it had always been among the five great escort agencies, a universally acknowledged traditional powerhouse whose strength and foundation were on par with even the Sihai Escort Agency. No one would find it strange for it to be ranked second. But that the Qingtian Escort Agency could also tie for second—this truly made many people's jaws drop.
Although nominally speaking, the Qingtian Escort Agency was also one of the five great escort agencies, it had barely managed to board the last train last time; in the past it had always hovered outside the top seven or eight.