Chapter 142: Madness And A Call For Help
Emerald Sky, main street in the suburbs.
Nearly an hour after the end of the battle at the Nine Streets Gang, more than one hundred members of suburban gangs and families wearing A6-grade battle armor also returned from the pursuit.
“Brajiji, what is going on with you? Where are the others in your team?” Jia Siwei, a burly leader of the Three-eyed Tribe, looked at the clearly reduced Nine Streets Gang with curiosity.
With the Three-eyed Tribe man’s question, the other faction members present could not help looking toward the Nine Streets Gang with curiosity as well.
They discovered that the Nine Streets Gang indeed had fewer members than when they left. There had been more than fifty; now there were not even forty, and each person’s expression looked bad.
“Nothing much. When dealing with the gray-clothed demon just now, some brothers were sacrificed,” Brajiji said flatly.
“Gray-clothed demon? That really exists?” Jia Siwei asked with curiosity. “Isn’t that just the excuse those wilderness gangs use for breaking into the city proper?”
“Those wilderness gangs did not lie.” Brajiji glanced at Jia Siwei and explained, “those humans in silver-gray clothing are all lunatics who have no concept of death. If you do not handle them well, they will drag you down with them.”
Jia Siwei was an expert under Wanxing City’s Aosen Great Family. The Aosen Great Family could rank in the top five martial artist great families in the suburbs of Wanxing City, and its overall strength was not below that of the Nine Streets Gang.
Normally their two factions also had trade dealings without conflicts, so this time, for the job of intercepting the wilderness gangs, this street was mainly in the charge of their two sides.
The other major suburban gangs and great families only provided some manpower and could also help identify whether the incoming personnel were members of major powers permitted to enter the city proper this time.
The two of them here could be considered of equal rank.
“What a pity. If I had known, I should have stayed,” Jia Siwei sighed. “We went into the city proper to chase those people. Although we killed them all, there was no additional gain. Everything was stripped clean by those who went in first. There was no decent weapon and equipment, no potions. It was a wasted trip. I might as well have stayed to see what that gray-clothed demon looked like.”
“It is a pity, but those gray-clothed demons have already been completely wiped out by us. If you want to see them, you can only go and rummage in that pile of corpses over there,” Brajiji said rather proudly.
“I was just saying. A wilderness gang of humans, how strong can they be?” Jia Siwei said carelessly with a smile. “This time when I went into the city proper, I did gain something. I heard quite a few pieces of news, and one of them will definitely give you a shock.”
“What news?” Brajiji asked curiously.
“You know the street leading to the city proper on the west side, right?” Jia Siwei said in a deliberately mysterious tone.
“Of course. That place is mainly guarded by the Yise Great Family. Did something happen there?” Brajiji asked in puzzlement.
The Yise Great Family was publicly recognized in Wanxing City as a martial artist great family that could rank in the top two in the suburbs, and its overall strength was somewhat stronger than the Nine Streets Gang.
“Someone broke through there. More than ten people rushed into the city proper. They still have not chased them down and even lost more than a dozen people. They are jumping mad now,” Jia Siwei said with a laugh. “People outside have always said how powerful the Yise Great Family is, but now it seems that they are just so-so. It is one thing to be broken through, but more than ten people ran into the city proper and they still could not catch them and instead let more than a dozen of their own die. They have practically become a joke.”
“Do they know whether it was some wilderness gang or suburban gang?” Brajiji could not help being surprised.
Emerald Sky had six entrances and exits, all with similar numbers of guards. Whether or not it was the Yise Great Family on duty, the fact that someone could break through and leave the Yise Great Family helpless was already enough to draw serious attention.
“When I talked with them by smart watch, they did not say. They only said that group was very strong. Their numbers were small, but each of them was a top expert,” Jia Siwei shook his head.
“Numbers small, but each a top expert?” After hearing this, Brajiji did not know why, but he felt their description sounded very much like the silver-gray demons he had seen.
Likewise, their numbers were small, each one a top expert, only with very poor weapon and equipment. If all the gray-clothed demons had been wearing A6-grade battle armor, the result of the battle would definitely have been incredibly tragic.
Just as Brajiji was about to say something more, he suddenly noticed a group of people rushing over from the distant street. Each of them was extremely fast, clearly far beyond ordinary apprentices.
“I really do not know what is going on tonight. Why are there so many people who do not care about their lives running over here?” Looking at the figures less than four hundred meters away, Jia Siwei could not help complaining. “Now we can forget about getting any rest. Are you going this time, or am I?”
“Wait. I feel like I have seen those people before,” Brajiji said as he watched the figures now less than three hundred meters away. He felt those silhouettes were somewhat familiar.
Each one was not tall and wore a hood. Although the night was dark, under the moonlight he could vaguely see that these people were all dressed in silver-gray clothing.
“Gray-clothed demons! They are the gray-clothed demons!” Brajiji stood up as he watched the figures running toward them.
“They are the gray-clothed demons you mentioned?” Jia Siwei looked at the somewhat shocked Brajiji and could not help laughing. “My old brother, you are too nervous. Why not let me handle it this time?”
A group of just a bit more than thirty, each holding a B2-grade arrow and not even wearing a single piece of armor. Faced with such a team, Jia Siwei completely did not understand what Brajiji was so wary of.
“Fine, I will leave it to you this time. Be careful of them. These gray-clothed demons are not weak,” Brajiji nodded without objection. He had consumed a lot in the previous battle and had not yet recovered, so it was very suitable to let Jia Siwei and the others make a move.
“Alright, leave it to us.” Jia Siwei stood up directly and ordered the people behind him, “everyone prepare for battle. Let these gray-clothed demons understand who among us and them are the real demons!”
The more than one hundred suburban faction members who had just returned all laughed.
These so-called gray-clothed demons numbered only a bit more than thirty, yet dared to face their more than one hundred fully armed quasi-martial artists. It was simply courting death.
On the other side, at the search and rescue team camp.
“Old Mu, the people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall are here again!” Hou Fei hurriedly yanked Qin Mu up and said.
“Are the people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall crazy? Why are they coming again?” Qin Mu, who had just been resting, woke up completely when he heard this. He could not believe the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall people still dared to come.
“I do not know either. Anyway, the two sides are already fighting,” Hou Fei spread his hands, indicating he also did not understand what the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was thinking, coming here again to die.
When Hou Fei and Qin Mu arrived at a spot five to six hundred meters away, they found that the battle between the two sides was already extremely fierce.
Although Jia Siwei’s side, which was guarding the area, had an absolute advantage in numbers, this group from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall completely did not care about their lives. Whenever one of them found an opportunity, they would grab hold of a guarding Three-eyed Tribe member, and another would seize the moment to fire a laser beam and take both out together without any hesitation.
Especially the one man and two women charging at the very front. The three of them, working together, killed people on Jia Siwei’s side as if it were a game. One would draw attention, another would land a palm strike to the back, or a B2-grade arrow would pierce through a chest from behind, impossible to guard against.
Even though a furious Jia Siwei and a winged tribe man in B1-grade battle armor on the other side managed to suppress the three, the three refused to become entangled. They circled around the crowd instead, targeting other quasi-martial artists to kill.
By the time the battle completely ended, the more than thirty people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall were all dead, and of the more than one hundred on Jia Siwei’s side, only a bit over eighty remained. More than thirty had died, an outcome even more tragic than in Brajiji’s previous battle.
“Lunatics! Lunatics!” Jia Siwei could not help cursing loudly as he looked at the dead members of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
If the two sides had only fought in a normal way, his losses would never have been so great, but the people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had gone mad, clearly disregarding their own lives, fighting from the start with the mindset of dragging their enemies down with them.
This kind of battle was something he had never seen before in his life.
“Calm down, my brother. At least we won the battle on the field and did not let them break through,” Brajiji tried to comfort him.
He was actually very surprised by this battle as well. He had not expected these gray-clothed demons to fight so irrationally, going straight for mutual destruction.
Fortunately it had been Jia Siwei’s people who went up. If it had been the Nine Streets Gang instead, their losses would probably have been just as heavy.
“Wiped out again?” Qin Mu looked at the fallen members of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, his expression very ugly. He could not understand what Hall Master Lin Qi was thinking. One young human expert after another was being thrown away like this, dying for nothing, with no value at all in their deaths.
Another hour passed.
“Damn it! How are these gray-clothed demons here again?” Jia Siwei, seeing those familiar figures and familiar clothing, spoke with an extremely ugly expression. “Brajiji, it is your turn this time!”
Although they had wiped out the gray-clothed demons in that last battle, losing more than thirty people was no joke. These were all quasi-martial artists, the foundation of their gangs and families. Usually, they would not lose even a few in a month, but more than thirty had died in a single night.
If more kept dying like this, he truly would not be able to explain it to his superiors.
“My brother, are you not going too far? With so many gray-clothed demons, how can you expect our team of fewer than forty to charge up?” Brajiji said angrily.
In terms of casualty count, the Nine Streets Gang had lost more than the Aosen Great Family. Of the more than thirty who had died earlier, more than half were from other gang factions. Now there were more than thirty gray-clothed demons, and he had fewer than forty people; he no longer had much of a numerical advantage. If they really fought, the casualties would be unimaginable.
“Then how about we go together?” Jia Siwei glanced at the Nine Streets Gang numbers. If they fought the gray-clothed demons again, Brajiji would definitely come after him later.
“Fine, together!” Brajiji did not object.
Then Brajiji and Jia Siwei led over one hundred members to once again attack this group of gray-clothed demons.
“Old Mu, the people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall are here again!” Hou Fei once more yanked Qin Mu up.
“Again?” Qin Mu felt utterly drained.
Less than ten minutes later, the battle between the two sides ended. This time, whether it was Brajiji or Jia Siwei, both looked extremely grim.
“Lunatics! Those damned lunatics!” Jia Siwei roared, eyes bloodshot. “Where the hell did these lunatics come from!”
Brajiji was more silent as he looked at the gray-clothed demons lying dead on the ground again. For some reason, he suddenly understood why the members of the wilderness gangs had been so terrified.
Although they had once more wiped out the gray-clothed demons in this battle, their own numbers had dropped to only seventy-one.
If the gray-clothed demons came yet again, their destruction would probably not be far off.
“Jia Siwei, request for aid. There are too many gray-clothed demons. I am afraid we cannot hold out for another two or three waves,” Brajiji took the initiative to suggest.
“Alright, we will request for aid.” Jia Siwei nodded helplessly.
Although asking for aid from above would make many people laugh at them,
if they continued fighting like this, their people would really be gone. If it ended up just the three of them in B1-grade battle armor facing more than thirty gray-clothed demons, they might not even be able to guarantee their own survival.
The two of them immediately reported the current situation to the senior officials in the city proper, hoping they would send more people.
