Chapter 4489 — The Biggest Loser
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But faced with the urgent gazes of so many people below, if he really did that, Hai Wuliang had no doubt he would become the target of universal wrath. Pointed at by a thousand fingers, he would be drowned alive in spit...
With no way out, Hai Wuliang could only stiffen his neck and rise, stepping to the center, while Qi Mingyuan and the others beside him all wore expressions of mockery.
The Four Seas Escort Agency under this chief judge had grown used to throwing its weight around, always carrying itself like the undisputed overlord of escort agencies. And yet now its point ranking was a mere sixth!
An overlord of escort agencies fighting on its home ground, and in the blink of an eye it could not even make the top five—such a thing was utterly unprecedented. This time, the Four Seas Escort Agency would truly be nailed to the pillar of historical shame.
"Owing to the constraints of time, this year's Southern Continent Escort Gathering ends here." Hai Wuliang's very first sentence let the whole crowd breathe a sigh of relief; every face was one of unburdened release. Damn it, this wretched match was finally over...
The hall immediately erupted in discussion. On the point leaderboard, first place still belonged to the Skysupport Escort Agency with one thousand and seventy points; the Dragon Boat Escort Agency, striking late, ranked second with nine hundred and sixty; third, fourth, and fifth went in order to the Divine Wind Escort Agency, the Tianhong Escort Agency, and the Black Eagle Escort Agency; while the Four Seas Escort Agency had been shoved clean out of the top five, reduced to sixth.
Of it all, the most gripping was the contest for first place between the Skysupport and Dragon Boat agencies. Both hailed from the Weihu Sea Region, and their point totals left every other agency far behind. The crux was that in the end the two were separated by only one hundred and ten points. The Dragon Boat Escort Agency had chased for a whole afternoon and still fallen short at the last—one could only say that Heaven's will was at work in the unseen.
Having weathered the danger and held first place after all, Qi Mingyuan, Qi Wenmo, Wei Zhao, and the rest of the company unconsciously let out a long, turbid breath, their faces alight with uncontainable excitement. Even now they could scarcely believe it—their own Skysupport Escort Agency had truly led the field all the way to the end and become the overlord of escort agencies in name and in fact!
In the Southern Continent Sea Region, that status was all but equivalent to leader of the orthodox path; one might even call them the foremost power of the Southern Continent Sea Region without exaggeration. Who would not be thrilled by such an honor?
As for the Dragon Boat Escort Agency, though it was a pity they had ultimately failed to overtake Skysupport, rising from an obscure little agency to sudden prominence as the lofty second agency—if Long Kuiba were still dissatisfied even with such heaven-defying results, then he truly deserved to be drowned alive in the crowd's spit...
It was just like exams in the mortal world: a top student moans and sighs all day about doing poorly, and then the results come out and—ta-da—he's placed second in the whole school. Just how are the rest of us bottom-feeders supposed to live?!
Counting up the great winners of this Southern Continent Escort Gathering, after the Skysupport and Dragon Boat agencies came the Black Eagle Escort Agency. Though it had the Far Reach Escort Agency as its predecessor, it was in the end still a newly formed agency, and to break into the ranks of the top five agencies on its very first participation in the assembly was absolutely cause for celebration, with no room for regret.