The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

"Why has Brother Wang been gone for so long?"

Zhao Can and the others waited in the woods for quite a while, a vague sense of unease rising in their hearts.

Hua Xiangrong was taken aback. "Something happened?"

Zhao Can shook his head.

"Song Gua is only level 5, while Brother Wang is already level 16 and has much better equipment than Song Gua. What could possibly go wrong? He probably really found something good on Song Gua and just ran away."

At that moment, one of Zhao Can's training partners exclaimed, "Oh no!"

"What's wrong?"

"Brother Wang is dead!"

How did you know?

"We're always in a team; if a teammate dies, there will be a notification in the team chat!"

"this……"

Hua Xiangrong was dumbfounded once again.

"Did Song Gua kill him?"

Zhao Can seemed skeptical, and said, "Let's go take a look!"

The group hurried to the shore of the swamp, but there was neither Song Gua nor the bald man, nor even any trace of a battle.

Just kidding, if two hundred people worked together to clean up the scene, they could turn over the entire turf in no time.

When Song Gua steals goods and runs away, he naturally wants to make sure he leaves no trace of himself.

Even though killing each other in the wild is beyond the reach of official professional law enforcement agencies, Song Gua still doesn't want to leave any evidence for anyone to use against him.

"It must have been that guy named Song Gua who killed Brother Wang!"

"We must avenge Brother Wang!"

"Hua, is he your classmate?"

Hua Xiangrong nodded, frowning slightly, "If you want to take revenge, don't go to the school, so as not to cause me any trouble."

Zhao Can poured cold water on their enthusiasm.

"Song Gua killed someone without leaving a trace or evidence. Someone must be helping him. You guys shouldn't go and get yourselves killed. What revenge for Brother Wang? Isn't it just that you suspect Song Gua has experience-boosting items?"

The group of people, their thoughts exposed, coughed awkwardly a few times.

Zhao Can looked at the dark swamp and muttered to himself, "Who could be helping or sponsoring a useless profession? Does this person have poor judgment, or are they after something from Song Gua?"

Even if Zhao Can racked his brains, he could never have imagined that Song Gua was actually a lone wolf.

After dealing with the bald man, Song Gua and his clones stuffed all the dropped items into their respective backpacks.

Then, Song Gua put away all his clones, slipped into the forest alone, and quickly disappeared.

Those who frequently commit murder know that, aside from psychopaths, most people experience psychological distress afterward.

But I didn't feel anything from the Song hexagram.

He and his clones came to this world to pull off a big heist; this little ripple is nothing to them.

In addition, the battle just now was data-driven; you only saw damage numbers and there wasn't much gore, so it lacked impact.

Battles between professionals can also result in bloody, brutal scenes with severed limbs flying everywhere.

However, that person was wearing heavy armor and had very high defense, making it difficult for them to do that.

The bald guy was killed, purely because he suffered real injuries.

As they rushed forward, Song Gua left behind clones along the way to hide and keep watch, in case anyone followed them.

He stopped running after running two or three kilometers.

The sentries along the way reported that no one was following him, so he was relieved and began to tally up his spoils.

"The bald guy came out to help Zhao Can level up, but he didn't bring much useful stuff with him."

The 20,000 Federal Dollars should be the training fee paid by Zhao Can.

Some level 15 equipment of low quality, and some red and blue potions.

There are also two regular-quality town recall scrolls.

"The return scroll is still useful; I'll go back and rest when I get tired of experience points."

With limited funds, Song Gua didn't buy this essential item for leaving the city on this trip. Taking the carriage back would be much cheaper than using a roll of paper.

The clones complained.

"You're tired my ass!"

When professionals continuously gain experience, they will enter a state of experience fatigue after a certain period of time or quantity, and will no longer be able to gain experience.

This mechanism allows professionals to catch their breath during their growth process; otherwise, everyone would be stuck in the wilderness, not stopping until they reach the maximum level.

The bald man also had a high-quality, first-tier Guardian skill book in his backpack.

Skill books are a good thing.

The only ways for professionals to acquire skills, besides automatically learning them when changing jobs, are through skill books.

Skill books are also needed to upgrade skills.

Skill books are divided into three categories.

General skills, such as "Sprint", "Power Jump", "Heavy Strike", and "Self-Destruct", are not limited by sequence or class and can be learned by all classes, but their quality is always the lowest, white.

Sequence skills can be learned by all professions within the corresponding sequence.

Exclusive skills are skills that only this class can master.

"Brother of the protective charm sequence, take it and use it."

Song Gua summoned all the clones belonging to the Guardian sequence.

With too many monks and too little meat, a group of meat shields began to compete in terms of muscle.

The bald man had mostly cleaned up the items he had dropped; what remained were his personal belongings from his training trips.

The overall harvest was rather meager.

After all, he's only level 16 and doesn't have much experience.

"What is this?"

When Song Gua casually discarded the bald man's personal belongings, one of them caught his eye.