Chapter 144: Overnight Fame
“Get rich?” Ye Qinglu rolled her eyes at Yi Ye Fu Yun. “It’s the middle of the night and you still haven’t woken up?”
It was already close to three in the morning, and they had gone several hours without any gains. It could be said they had fallen quite a bit behind the other teams.
Let alone getting rich.
If they did not work harder, those five permission quotas would have nothing to do with them.
“I’m serious, big sis,” Yi Ye Fu Yun whispered. “We’ve already struck it rich. Big sis, you should know those elite monsters we killed were all wearing A6 battle armor.”
“Of course I know, but what does that have to do with us entering the city proper?” Ye Qinglu asked.
“It really doesn’t,” Yi Ye Fu Yun said with a smile, seeing that Ye Qinglu’s thinking was still stuck on the city proper. “But our goal is just to get more contribution, it’s not like we must enter the city proper. Each set of that A6 battle armor is worth more than 1500 contribution. If we farm a few hundred sets, who could possibly surpass us in contribution?”
After hearing this, Ye Qinglu was stunned for a moment and started to realize what was going on.
Before this, they had been focused only on getting into the city proper to earn more contribution, but they had forgotten that those elite monsters were themselves the greatest source of contribution, especially since their street alone had spawned over three hundred extra.
Four hundred sets of A6 battle armor. If they could secure that contribution, sweeping the top five contribution spots would not be impossible.
Right away, Yi Ye Fu Yun, Ye Qinglu, and the others caught up with Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang and the rest, ready to start farming elite monsters, and they had to do it before other teams discovered how many elite monsters were on their side. They would get as many sets of A6 battle armor as they could.
After Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others left, Lin Qi looked at the medium transport vehicle already filled with A6 battle armor, feeling indescribably shocked.
Back then, he had dreamed of obtaining a set of A6 battle armor and becoming invincible below the level of martial artist.
Now, although he had become a martial artist, he still craved A6 battle armor.
For a faction, A6 battle armor was a guarantee of strength. The reason suburban gangs were powerful was largely because they had enough A6 battle armor.
This way, even if suburban gangs lost many experts in a major battle, with the power of A6 battle armor, a beginner apprentice putting it on could fight a quasi-martial artist, and an advanced apprentice wearing it could suppress a quasi-martial artist.
Back then, with just five sets of A6 battle armor, the Great Ape Gang had made many large wilderness gangs green with envy, yet now he had an entire vehicle full of A6 battle armor.
These more than one hundred and fifty sets of A6 battle armor, whether used to arm the people Flo had brought or the players who had just been promoted to beginner apprentices, could instantly give Obsidian Martial Arts Hall more than one hundred and fifty quasi-martial-artist-level combat forces.
More than one hundred and fifty quasi-martial artists!
Such power, let alone among the major gangs in the wilderness, would also be a considerable force among the major suburban factions, comparable to those ordinary suburban gangs.
“So many A6 battle armor sets are too unsafe left here. Better to head back first,” Lin Qi thought for a moment and decided to send the A6 battle armor back to Crimson Moon Mountain to arm Flo and the others.
At present, there were very few players staying on Crimson Moon Mountain, and their strength was generally only at beginner apprentice and intermediate apprentice. Even adding the more than forty apprentice-level experts Flo had brought, it was still difficult to manage Crimson Moon Mountain, where the population was growing by the day.
But with this batch of A6 battle armor, they did not even need many sets. Just fifty would be enough to overawe all of Crimson Moon Mountain, making other wilderness factions and vagrants afraid to cause trouble on the mountain.
While Lin Qi was driving the medium transport vehicle back to Crimson Moon Mountain, on the main street in the suburbs of Emerald Sky, Brajiji and Jia Siwei also came under yet another wave of attacks from the gray-clothed demons.
“Damn gray-clothed demons! How many people do they have? Why are there still so many charging over!” Jia Siwei looked at the more than thirty players rushing at them. The initial ease was gone; all that remained was speechlessness.
Normally, when a faction knew it was no match, it should have given up long ago. But the gray-clothed demons just kept coming in wave after wave, simply no different from lunatics.
And while they had already lost over a hundred people, the gray-clothed demons had also lost nearly two hundred experts, and not just ordinary ones. Among them were quasi-martial artists and limit apprentices. Such losses would be crippling not only for a wilderness faction but even for an ordinary suburban gang.
With losses this heavy, a normal faction would have given up long ago, yet the gray-clothed demons seemed to have a do-or-die resolve.
On the other side, Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others, seeing the more than four hundred experts from various major suburban factions, felt as if they were looking at mountains of gold and seas of silver, their eyes shining.
“In this battle, as soon as we finish off one, the others cover our team to strip off the armor. Once they start chasing us madly, we retreat into the alleys for street fights. Prioritize taking the armor; everything else comes second,” Yi Ye Fu Yun said, looking at the more than four hundred elite monsters charging from afar, reminding everyone once more.
This time, Yi Ye Fu Yun planned to follow Fang Zhen’s example, assigning three people specifically to pick up drops while the others protected those three as they pulled back from the battlefield. Once the armor was placed somewhere safe, they would start the next pickup run, continuing until their numbers were almost exhausted, and then take all the armor back.
By the time they returned, those who had died would almost have resurrected, and they could come back to farm elite monsters again. It was a very efficient farming method.
Everyone nodded.
Soon, the two sides clashed again. This time, whether it was Ye Qinglu or Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang, the two cooperated and almost immediately went all out against the first Nine Streets Gang member who rushed forward.
Martial artist-level martial skill Boundless Full Moon!
Martial artist-level martial skill Lightning Strike Three Forms, first form, Lightning Spear!
Before that Nine Streets Gang member could block Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang’s Boundless Full Moon, the skill’s sweeping force directly blasted back everyone around. At the moment that Nine Streets Gang member tried to block, Ye Qinglu seized the chance to fire a Lightning Spear.
A scorching beam flashed and instantly pierced through that Nine Streets Gang member’s chest, ending the life of that Nine Streets Gang member.
“Quick!” Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang shouted.
“On it!” Yi Ye Fu Yun in the rear immediately used Leopard Shadow Steps to appear beside the fallen Nine Streets Gang member and began stripping off the battle armor at once, while the other two players cooperated at his side.
This scene left Brajiji and Jia Siwei, watching from the distance, both stunned.
“What are they trying to do?”
“Don’t tell me these gray-clothed demons won’t even spare the corpses?”
Previously, in their battles with the gray-clothed demons, the gray-clothed demons only killed; they did nothing else, just trying to take down as many as possible. But now, they were stripping the clothes off the dead first thing, and everyone else was covering them. This was the first time they had seen such a tactic.
“No, they’re after the A6 battle armor!” Brajiji, seeing Yi Ye Fu Yun finish stripping off the clothes, was the first to react and shouted loudly, “Everyone, take down the one with the armor! We absolutely cannot let them take the battle armor away!”
At this point, the members of the major factions also reacted and rushed toward the retreating Yi Ye Fu Yun.
A6 battle armor, a single set worth several million bit, was no small expense for suburban factions. It could even be said to be more valuable than a quasi-martial artist.
If someone really stole it, the gang would definitely make trouble afterward, even demanding compensation.
For the quasi-martial artists of these large suburban gangs, a set of A6 battle armor costing several million would take half a lifetime of earnings to pay back.
In an instant, over a hundred faction members were chasing Yi Ye Fu Yun, who was carrying the battle armor, while Yi Ye Fu Yun darted through the alleys off the street. Ye Qinglu, Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang, and the others took the opportunity to kill the pursuing faction members.
In less than five minutes, more than twenty faction members had been killed, over ten of them stripped of their battle armor. In contrast, only fewer than twenty of Yi Ye Fu Yun’s people had died, and the main forces, Ye Qinglu and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang, were still fine.
“Damn it! Fighting in the alleys is bad for us. Everyone, block them on the main street!” Jia Siwei watched the two slaughtering through the alleys; such fighting would only increase their casualties. Even when he and Brajiji gave chase, the two refused to engage, only fighting while retreating.
After more than ten minutes of fighting, Ye Qinglu, Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang, and the others were finally taken down, but they had cut the major factions’ numbers by nearly forty. They had caused the loss of a full twenty-six sets of A6 battle armor, all carried back to the temporary resurrection point by Yi Ye Fu Yun’s five-person team.
This made Brajiji, Jia Siwei, and the others stomp their feet in anger.
They had never expected this group of gray-clothed demons to stop fighting to the death and instead turn to robbery.
“Should we report this?” Jia Siwei hesitated as he looked at the missing A6 battle armor, unsure whether to file a report.
Although they had won, losing so many sets of A6 battle armor was something the senior officials would not just let slide.
“No, we absolutely cannot report this,” Brajiji said firmly. “We can’t afford such a huge loss.”
Jia Siwei thought it over and felt that was their only option.
As long as they did not say anything, the people above would not know. When an investigation came, they would just say those people had disappeared somewhere. That way, with those people gone, the loss of the battle armor would have nothing to do with them.
Nearly an hour later, another wave of gray-clothed demons came over. This time, Brajiji and Jia Siwei had wised up and did not pursue at all, staying on the main street and ignoring Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others stripping battle armor, focusing instead on killing players on the main street.
In this battle, the major factions lost only fourteen people, and fourteen sets of A6 battle armor were stripped away.
After another hour, Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others came again.
Until dawn, as the sun slowly rose.
Of the more than four hundred stationed personnel, fewer than one hundred remained. Brajiji and Jia Siwei decided to request support from above once more.
…
“What, support again?” Tanya frowned as she listened to her subordinate’s report. “Didn’t I just send a wave of support an hour ago?”
“Young lady, that was for the northern district streets before. Now it’s Brajiji’s western district street, and it’s not only those two main streets. Our people scattered across the other four main streets are also all asking for support,” the Nine Streets Gang man said nervously.
“What is going on?” Tanya was stunned. “How many factions are attacking the city proper now?”
All six outposts were requesting support at the same time. Just hearing this made her wonder if her subordinate had gone without sleep and was not thinking clearly.
She knew that the members of the major factions stationed in the six areas numbered over fifteen hundred experts. For all of them to be calling for support, it was terrifying to imagine how many people were attacking the city proper.
“According to the information we have, it’s only one faction that has been attacking all along,” the Nine Streets Gang man said, wiping away sweat.
“One faction?” Tanya was taken aback. “What faction? When the major factions held those private talks before, did we not ally with this faction?”
A faction capable of attacking all six outposts at once, and fighting so fiercely that all outposts were asking for aid, was so strong she could hardly imagine it.
For such a powerful faction, it was unbelievable that they had not allied with them beforehand.
“We don’t know exactly what that faction is called,” the Nine Streets Gang man said carefully. “We only know that many people from the wilderness gangs call them the gray-clothed demons.”
