Chapter 255

A Wei's words pulled back the thoughts of the crowd that had long since gone astray, but seeing Qiao Mu, who had been beaten black and blue, those squad leaders who could have competed all hesitated.

Qiao Mu was about to faint, how could he still be challenged?

In his state, even if a pig went up, it could win easily.

But the key is, even if you win, wouldn't you be stabbed in the back for taking advantage of someone's vulnerability?

Qiao Mu had exhausted all his strength, and fresh blood kept flowing from his lips; yet, in his originally dim and lusterless eyes, a strong hatred suddenly erupted.

He was not reconciled!

How could he be defeated by a pretty boy?

And it was a one-sided crushing defeat!

The plan to make a stunning appearance on the arena to establish his authority had been shattered, but fortunately, the position of Commander still belonged to him in the end.

"Qiao Mu, are you okay?"

Gu Beicheng saw Qiao Mu injured like this and quickly called Chen Xiaoxiao to help him up from the ground together, letting him lean back in a chair to rest.

Although the development of events was beyond his expectations, the position of Commander was still within his plan, so there was no loss; as long as the person in the position of Commander could be used by him, he could accept everything else for the time being.

It's just that kid Xu Tian...

Gu Beicheng felt a chill in his heart.

It seems he had indeed underestimated him.

"Is there anyone else who wants to challenge Qiao Mu?" A Wei asked again when he saw no one answering.

"If no one wants to continue challenging, then I will now officially announce..."

"Wait a minute!"

Just as everyone was waiting for A Wei to officially announce Qiao Mu as the successor to the Commander position, a voice came from offstage.

"I want to challenge him!"

Suddenly there was an uproar offstage, and everyone looked angrily in the direction of the voice.

"Xiao Dou Ding? He wants to challenge Qiao Mu?"

"Is he sick? Didn't he see that Qiao Mu is already injured? How can he defend the arena in this state?"

"Even if he wins, it won't be an honorable victory; does he have the face to sit in the Commander's position?"

"This kid is a despicable villain; how did I not know he was so insidious before?"

Xiao Dou Ding faced the questioning of the others and retorted indifferently.

"Aren't all squad leaders allowed to challenge? I didn't violate the rules..."

"Besides, fists and feet have no eyes, and he wasn't injured by me, so why can't I challenge?"

"Also, I hate people who don't follow martial ethics the most! Who lets someone use one hand, and it's the left hand at that?"

The Dark Guards: "..."

He was beaten so miserably without even letting him use his left hand; if he had let him, wouldn't he have gone directly to see the King of Hell?

But Xiao Dou Ding didn't care about the ghost-struck looks of those Dark Guards; he puffed out his chest and walked onto the arena again.

"Qiao Mu, get up here, I want to challenge you!"

Qiao Mu, who had just sat in the chair offstage, had a mouthful of blood stuck in his throat and almost sprayed it out; he stared in shock at the person standing on the stage, clearly not expecting that someone would really still want to challenge him.

And the result of this arena battle was already determined before it even began.

Even if he knew in his heart that this Xiao Dou Ding's strength was inferior to his, he didn't even have the strength to throw a punch now, so how could he defend the arena?

But the rules were the rules; no matter how unwilling Qiao Mu was, he could only climb onto the arena limping, supported by others.

Because Qiao Mu had been seriously injured by Xu Tian, and climbing onto the arena had exhausted the physical strength he had just recovered, he was kicked off the arena by Xiao Dou Ding after just two moves.

A Wei announced speechlessly: "Xiao Dou Ding... uh... Su Jinchen has successfully attacked the arena and temporarily taken over the position of Commander; does anyone want to continue to challenge him?"

The people standing below stared at each other, and no one made a sound.

Chen Xiaoxiao had already been defeated when she fought Qiao Mu and was now just an ordinary Dark Guard, so she couldn't challenge anymore.

And although Bai Lu was defeated by Qiao Mu and demoted back to the position of First Squad Leader, in his current state, it was impossible for him to go up on stage again.

As for the other squad leaders, the person with the most hope of competing was the Fifth Squad Leader, but he had also been defeated by Xiao Dou Ding in the previous rounds, so he couldn't go up either; right now, there really was no one who could challenge him.

Therefore, this battle for the Commander position finally came to an end.

A Wei cleared his throat, picked up the microphone, and announced.

"Below, I announce that the Tang family's new Dark Guard Commander is Su Jinchen!"

Qiao Mu, who had been kicked off the stage by Xiao Dou Ding, lay miserably on the ground, the token at his waist falling to a position not far above his head.

He reached out his hand with difficulty, wanting to grab that token symbolizing power that he had longed for, but his fingers stopped at a distance of less than an inch from the token, and he no longer had the strength to go any further.

The token he had coveted for so long still didn't belong to him in the end.

After A Wei announced the result, there was dead silence offstage.

After a few seconds, someone finally reacted.

"Am I really dreaming? That kid really became the Commander?"

"Who is he? What qualifications does he have to be Commander?"

Because of his height, Xiao Dou Ding had the least presence among the Tang family Dark Guards, who were full of experts, and no one had ever regarded him as an opponent.

But the members of the First Squad were still very happy about this result.

"Great!"

"Xiao Dou Ding, I didn't expect you to be so cool!"

"To deal with a despicable villain like Qiao Mu, you can't use the methods of an honorable gentleman!"

"You can consider this using magic to defeat magic!"

"The way to defeat a villain is to be even more shameless than the villain..."

Xiao Dou Ding had black lines on his face.

Although these people were praising him, it didn't sound like anything good.

He looked sideways slightly, saw Bai Lu, and nodded.

"Boss, I took the position of Commander back for you!"

"You did well." Bai Lu hadn't yet recovered from the blow, but he still tried his best to pull out a smile and patted Xiao Dou Ding on the shoulder.

"However, being able to defeat that guy Qiao Mu was all thanks to Mr. Xu." Xiao Dou Ding didn't take the credit either.

"That's right, Mr. Xu is simply cool as hell!"

"Watching him beat Qiao Mu up, I really let out a huge breath of anger."

"If Qiao Mu had defeated the boss honorably, we wouldn't feel unconvinced, but he had no strength and still had to engage in crooked ways!"

The First Squad members stood up for Bai Lu.

"Clearly, when the arena started, he was being suppressed by the boss and couldn't take any advantage at all; if he hadn't played dirty tricks to provoke the boss, the boss would definitely have been able to continue as Commander."

Bai Lu heard this and seemed to think of that experience that had left him nearly desperate, and his eyes dimmed.

"By the way, have you heard..."

The team members beside him noticed the change in his mood and changed the subject nonchalantly; clearly, no one wanted to poke his scars.

They were partners who spent every day together and would certainly not listen to Qiao Mu's one-sided story.

No matter what, that was Bai Lu's past, and they didn't believe Bai Lu would do something like abandoning his family to flee for his life alone.

As long as Bai Lu didn't want to talk about it, they wouldn't ask.

With this, the trial assembly for the position of Commander officially ended.

Although Bai Lu couldn't continue his term as Commander, he was still the First Squad Leader.

As for the position of Commander, it was naturally taken over by Su Jinchen, who had defeated Qiao Mu.

And Qiao Mu could continue to serve as the Sixth Squad Leader.

As for Chen Xiaoxiao, whom everyone had supported at the beginning, she not only lost to her own subordinate in public but even fell to being an ordinary Dark Guard, no longer having any special privileges.

However, the Dark Guards hadn't yet pulled themselves out of the tense and exciting atmosphere and were still discussing it with great interest.

"That pretty boy is actually so powerful..." someone sighed.

"I originally thought he only knew how to flatter and use sweet talk to please Tang Zong; now I find he isn't completely useless either; at least at critical moments, he can still be a bodyguard for Tang Zong."

"I was also stunned; Qiao Mu was actually beaten by him with no power to fight back; no wonder Tang Zong agreed to follow our arena rules."

"I see he looks gentle and refined, not at all like a martial artist; I didn't expect his moves to be so fierce..."

The trial ended, and the seriously injured Qiao Mu was sent for treatment.

Gu Beicheng looked at Xu Tian, who was surrounded in the middle, with deep eyes, a flash of imperceptible coldness in the depths of his eyes.