Chapter 100: War Begins
“The Great Ape Gang?”
After hearing this, Lin Qi could not help but frown.
The Great Ape Gang was one of the Ape Clan gangs in the wilderness, and the Ape Clan was also one of the top ten powerful races in the City of Light Chasing. The well-known Gorilla Gang in the suburbs belonged to the Ape Clan.
Because the Ape Clan was a powerful race in the City of Light Chasing, the Gorilla Gang had never worried about not getting their money back. After Lin Qi had money, the first thing he did was return sixty thousand Bit to the Gorilla Gang, settling the account.
As for the Great Ape Gang, it was a very old and large wilderness gang that had existed for more than fifty years. At its peak it could rank in the top ten, and at its lowest it was still within the top twenty. According to the information Qin Mu had given, this fluctuation in ranking was largely related to the Gorilla Gang.
Or rather, the Great Ape Gang was the senior officials of the Gorilla Gang supporting a gang in the wilderness, providing resources to that senior official of the Gorilla Gang. It also served as a promotion path for experts of the Great Ape Gang. That was why its ranking rose and fell from time to time. Otherwise, with the Ape Clan being one of the top ten powerful races in the City of Light Chasing, it was impossible for their wilderness gang to be only hovering around the twentieth place.
And the fact that the Great Ape Gang was targeting Crimson Moon Mountain was undoubtedly very bad news.
At present, the Player Count of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was only Although they had dug up quite a lot of energy ore from Crimson Moon Mountain in the past few days, they could only convert at most a bit more than ten lounges for now, and reconstruction also required time.
According to the reconstruction time given by the System, the first five resting places to be converted would take three days. It would still take more than one day on Lin Qi’s side to complete the remodeling.
But according to Yaklo, the Great Ape Gang would attack Crimson Moon Mountain in at most one day. Time was completely insufficient, and even if they made it, they would only be able to add fifty newcomers, which was far from enough.
The Great Ape Gang had more than two thousand members. Even if Obsidian Martial Arts Hall added this batch of newcomers, they would have only 160 people, not even a fraction of the Great Ape Gang.
Just as Lin Qi was sinking into deep thought, Yaklo suddenly spoke. “Hall Master Lin, if you think the information is important, I have some more detailed information about the Great Ape Gang that I can tell you.”
“I did not expect you to have so much information.” Lin Qi looked at Yaklo with some surprise. As a rogue, Yaklo should not have known much about a city. After all, rogues shot once and changed places, never staying in one place for too long.
“This is just my personal habit,” Yaklo explained. “Before I accept any commission, I thoroughly investigate information about the employer and the target, to avoid provoking someone I should not.”
“You are here now, so it seems your investigation of your own information was not very reliable,” Lin Qi said with a smile.
“My information about Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was indeed wrong, but my investigation of the Great Ape Gang came from black market intelligence brokers and should not be mistaken.” Yaklo gave a slight bitter smile.
Regarding information on Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Yaklo now truly wanted to beat that intelligence broker to death, and also hated himself for underestimating Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
The intelligence provided was indeed comprehensive. On the surface, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had at most a bit more than ten advanced apprentices, most of them intermediate apprentices.
But who could have imagined that during the initial death match, there should have been only two geniuses in Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, yet in reality those advanced apprentices each had combat power at least comparable to quasi-martial artists, and the combat power of the intermediate apprentices was no weaker than advanced apprentices. They were practically a group of monsters.
“Go ahead, the information about the Great Ape Gang.” Lin Qi stopped teasing Yaklo and asked directly.
“Yes.” Yaklo nodded, a weight slightly lifted from his heart, and slowly said, “The Great Ape Gang has about 2,600 members, with about 700 apprentice-level experts. However, this time the Great Ape Gang is acting in a hurry. Within one day, they will be able to transfer fewer than four hundred apprentices. The rest of the apprentice-level experts are occupied with transport. The total number they can mobilize should exceed one thousand. Aside from the gang leader Watu, the Great Ape Gang has fourteen hidden quasi-martial artists. These quasi-martial artists are the private armed force of a senior official of the Gorilla Gang.”
“Besides these quasi-martial artists, the most powerful assets of the Great Ape Gang are five sets of A6-grade battle armor. Those five sets of A6-grade battle armor have always been the Great Ape Gang’s greatest confidence and are controlled by the gang leader and the four vice gang leaders who are limit apprentices.”
“However, for this attack on Crimson Moon Mountain, three vice gang leaders are busy with transport. The only ones who can take the field are likely the gang leader Watu and one vice gang leader.”
“Two sets of A6-grade battle armor, more than ten quasi-martial artists, and over a thousand men?” After hearing this, Lin Qi could not help feeling stirred.
Over a thousand people attacking Crimson Moon Mountain. This scale was no longer a gang brawl, but a war.
“Hall Master Lin, I suggest you give up Crimson Moon Mountain as soon as possible. As long as you withdraw from Crimson Moon Mountain now, the Great Ape Gang will not make a move against Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and they will not interfere in the enmity between Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and the White Feather Gang.” Yaklo, seeing the silent Lin Qi, felt his chance had come. “Obsidian Martial Arts Hall may lose Crimson Moon Mountain, but it will become very difficult for the White Feather Gang to move against Obsidian Martial Arts Hall again, especially since Obsidian Martial Arts Hall has many high-end combatants. Afterward, you can completely intercept members of the White Feather Gang in the wilderness, not only increasing your wealth and accumulated strength but also weakening the White Feather Gang.”
Yaklo still felt lingering fear toward the high-end combat power of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. Who would have thought that four advanced apprentices could kill their four quasi-martial artists.
Such a dozen or more high-end combatants might be helpless against the Great Ape Gang, but when dealing with the White Feather Gang, which lacked foundation, they could definitely grind the White Feather Gang to death over time.
After that, unless the White Feather Gang led people to attack the headquarters of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and faced all the vagrants of the human race residential area, there would be no solution.
“All right, I understand.” After a brief silence, Lin Qi nodded and instructed, “Your information is indeed very important to me. As agreed, I will spare your life, but you can only stay inside the martial arts hall, move between the first and second floors, and not leave the hall by even half a step. I will have someone arrange a room for you and send you some medicine for your injuries. If you dare leave the hall without my order, you should know the consequences.”
“I am a cripple now. How would I dare to run around?” Yaklo glanced at his own arms and gave a slight bitter smile, but still promised, “Please rest assured, Hall Master Lin, without your order I will definitely not leave the hall by even half a step.”
Yaklo had accepted his fate now.
Both his arms had comminuted fractures. Although they could be healed, the treatment would probably cost over a million. For a ruined limit quasi-martial artist to earn over a million Bit was nothing but a dream.
And as a crippled limit quasi-martial artist, he was a moving treasure in the wilderness. If caught and sold to some pharmaceutical companies, he would definitely fetch a high price, and what awaited him would be a life worse than death.
In contrast, staying in Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was safer. At least from Lin Qi’s attitude, he clearly did not intend to do anything terrible to Yaklo, only to keep him as a prisoner.
On the other side, after giving his instructions, Lin Qi had a new player lead Yaklo to a lounge on the second floor. Lin Qi himself went to the training ground, summoned Fang Zhen and the others, and gathered everyone. This surprised Fang Zhen and the others with delight, as they knew this must have triggered a hidden plot.
In less than a few minutes, all the players had gathered, looking curiously at Lin Qi.
“I am going to announce some bad news to everyone now.” Lin Qi swept his gaze over the players and loudly announced, “The White Feather Gang, which has always been hostile to us, has now joined with the Great Ape Gang in the wilderness and plans to attack Crimson Moon Mountain within the next one or two days. Their numbers are roughly estimated at over one thousand. Can you tolerate this?”
After hearing this, everyone was stunned. Fang Zhen and the others in particular had their mouths wide open, unable to believe it was true.
All the players present knew that the new expansion pack was to guard Crimson Moon Mountain. Each of them had thought it would just be small-scale skirmishes like in the wilderness. They had not expected it to escalate this much.
Over a thousand people attacking!
This was no longer a gang dispute, but a war.
“My answer is that I cannot tolerate it!” Lin Qi said very seriously. “Since they dare reach their claws toward us, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall will not be polite. What we need to do is simple: break their claws so that no one else dares to do this again in the future!”
“From now on, any disciple who has reached apprentice-level can accept the task to guard Crimson Moon Mountain and come with me to Crimson Moon Mountain!”
As Lin Qi’s words fell, the players present, after a brief silence, suddenly became incomparably excited, as if it were a festival.
“This is insane! We are going to kill like crazy!”
“Hurry! Hurry and inform Sister Wu and the others! War! The war is starting!”
“Damn! I am just a little short of reaching apprentice-level! Master of the Pavilion, can you give me some time?”
