Chapter 147: Gold-tier Treasure Chest
On the streets of Emerald Sky, while everyone was briefly stunned and shocked, Lin Xinyao also grabbed the box and broke through the encirclement. Her reaction was so fast that the Los Family suicide squad blocking her could not help but feel ashamed.
What was that about calling them the family’s emotionless slaughter machines?
What about heartless puppets?
These suicide squad members of the Los Family all felt unworthy of such titles.
The woman of the human race before them was the one who truly deserved such an honor.
“Is this person really human?” Mo Ke stared at the distant Lin Xinyao, shocked as well.
Her companion sacrificed himself in self-detonation, yet she showed not the slightest emotional fluctuation, did not even spare him a glance. Even outsiders like them were moved and shocked by the scene, but Lin Xinyao, as his companion, showed no reaction at all, even more ruthless than a suicide squad member.
But shock was shock; Mo Ke still ordered everyone to give chase.
Lin Xinyao was only an intermediate apprentice. In terms of speed, she could not possibly match quasi-martial artists wearing A6-grade battle armor.
With more than twenty meters between them, a quasi-martial artist needed at most one or two seconds to catch up, while Li Tianxing, who was rushing over, was more than two hundred meters away from Lin Xinyao. He could definitely intercept her before the two sides made contact.
“Big sis over there, do you want to help?” Twilight of the Gods shouted to Lin Xinyao from less than a hundred meters away. “When the time comes, we only need half of the profit from the treasure chest.”
At this point, Li Tianxing definitely could not make it in time. Eight quasi-martial artists had already closed in. Next, as long as they joined forces for a single strike, Lin Xinyao was doomed.
“You brat want to take advantage? You’re ten years too early!” Lin Xinyao cast a disdainful glance at Twilight of the Gods in the distance and directly unleashed a Lightning Palm into the air at the treasure chest in her hands.
Bang!
Thunder fire force exploded, and the treasure chest shot up into the sky like a cannonball, reaching a height of more than fifty meters in less than the blink of an eye.
“Hurry! Grab the storage box!”
The eight quasi-martial artists stared at the Rem Titanium Storage Box soaring into midair. None of them had expected Lin Xinyao to pull this move, tossing the storage box into the air. The hang time would definitely be enough for Li Tianxing to reach the storage box’s location.
For the moment, the eight quasi-martial artists no longer bothered with Lin Xinyao and leaped up one after another to seize the storage box.
At a height of fifty meters, quasi-martial artists could not reach it with a single jump, but they could use each other as stepping stones to get that high.
Two quasi-martial artists placed their hands together, letting a third suddenly step on their palms. Using his own leap combined with their simultaneous force, he was about to shoot up toward the storage box in midair.
“You think it’s that easy to get through!”
As if she had anticipated this, Lin Xinyao also leaped up, and her entire body suddenly swelled.
“Explode!”
Boom!
Once again, searing fire energy spread out within a five-meter radius, directly taking out the eight quasi-martial artists who were trying to snatch the storage box.
Meanwhile, Li Tianxing in midair stepped a few times on the air right as the storage box fell, grabbed the box, and ran onto a building on the other side, then sprinted madly for the suburbs, leaping across rooftops.
This scene stunned everyone yet again.
“Lunatics! A bunch of lunatics!” Mo Ke could not help but curse as he watched Lin Xinyao turn to ash.
He had not expected that besides Lu Fanchen being able to self-detonate, even Lin Xinyao could self-detonate.
And the explosions on both of them were not caused by bombs they carried. Otherwise, quasi-martial artists wearing A6-grade battle armor would not have died. It was clearly an extremely special self-destruct martial skill.
It would be one thing if only one person practiced it, but there was actually a second lunatic cultivating a self-destruct martial skill. He could not understand what kind of faction this was. Instead of thinking about improving their own strength, one after another specialized in self-destruct martial skills, charging in to trade their lives. What was the point of that?
For a time, because of the consecutive self-detonations of Lu Fanchen and Lin Xinyao, neither the Nine Streets Gang members nor the Los Family people dared to get close to the players present, afraid these players would self-detonate at the slightest disagreement.
Facing such a group of lunatics, both sides could only run. They absolutely would not engage in any battle or entanglement with the players, not even allow themselves to draw near.
This instantly made the Heavenly Might members, who might have been wiped out, safe, but since neither faction dared approach, some opportunities to snatch treasure chests were completely lost.
Let alone grabbing treasure chests; they did not even have a chance to get close to them. Everyone feared the players like tigers, more than they feared directly facing a lord-level monster.
“We can’t grab anything. Let’s withdraw quickly.” Zhao Hu saw that members of both factions were not allowing them to approach at all and helplessly gave the order.
The other Heavenly Might members, though reluctant, also left.
They had not expected the newcomers this time to be so fierce, forcing the enemy into an acute stress reaction, unwilling to play with them anymore.
Only after all the players had gone far away did the Nine Streets Gang and the Los Family safely withdraw from the Martial Artist Association, heading in the opposite direction from the players and leaving Emerald Sky.
In the wilderness outside Emerald Sky.
“Young Master Mo Ke, I have already investigated. Those gray-clothed demons in silver-gray clothing are from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.” The dignified middle-aged man in B3-grade battle armor held a Rem Titanium Storage Box in one hand and reported in a low voice.
“Obsidian Martial Arts Hall? The same group that followed us all the way to Emerald Sky?” Mo Ke’s expression turned ugly.
When he had seen them at the Martial Artist Association, they had only seemed familiar, and he did not think those gray-clothed demons were from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. After all, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was just a newly risen wilderness faction. Even if it had destroyed the Great Ape Gang, in front of the Los Family it was still insignificant.
He had never imagined that the faction that had stolen his two Rem Titanium Storage Boxes would be the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, a wilderness gang he did not consider worth mentioning.
“Young Master Mo Ke, I will gather men right away and wipe out this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall before tomorrow, and take back the storage boxes.” The dignified middle-aged man volunteered.
“No, we cannot act.” Mo Ke shook his head, rejecting the suggestion.
The gray-clothed demons Tanya had mentioned were capable of attacking six stronghold sites of major powers at the same time, forcing all six to request aid. The strength of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was definitely not as simple as it appeared.
“Then we just let it go like this? Young Master Mo Ke, those are the Martial Artist Association’s nine treasured storage boxes that we finally got. Even if they can self-detonate, we have ways to deal with them.” The dignified man did not understand why Mo Ke refused to make a move.
The Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples’ self-detonation methods were troublesome, but not unsolvable.
According to the information, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had few disciples. To deal with their self-detonation, they only needed to send some suicide squad apprentices armed with electromagnetic grenades. He did not believe Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could match the Los Family in numbers of self-detonators.
The Los Family had recruited over ten thousand members, with even the weakest being apprentice-level experts. What did Obsidian Martial Arts Hall have to compare?
Besides, they could use heavy B3-grade compound bows for ranged sniping against Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. In the hands of quasi-martial artists equipped with B1-grade battle armor, the power of those bows and arrows would be hard for even true martial artists to block. Anyone below martial artist level would be killed with one arrow. Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could not possibly be a match for the Los Family.
“Of course we cannot just let go of the grudge of the stolen storage boxes.” Thinking of his two Rem Titanium Storage Boxes, Mo Ke’s expression turned ice-cold. “Daring to destroy my road as a martial artist, this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall must be destroyed. But we do not necessarily need to do it ourselves.”
“Young Master Mo Ke, you mean?” The dignified man looked at Mo Ke, full of doubt.
“Didn’t Obsidian Martial Arts Hall obtain quite a few precious treasures from Emerald Sky’s Martial Artist Association?” Mo Ke said with a smile. “Then we will spread this information, saying that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall obtained many precious treasures from the Martial Artist Association in Emerald Sky.”
“This time, many forces in the suburbs were not qualified to enter the city. Some wilderness gangs and suburban factions have not even received the news yet. Now many lord-level monsters have appeared around Emerald Sky, and there are even signs of devouring evolution. Even the city senior officials probably do not want to provoke it and will definitely warn all factions not to approach Emerald Sky again.”
“Yet Obsidian Martial Arts Hall obtained precious treasures from Emerald Sky. What do you think the various factions in the suburbs will do?”
“Destroy Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and seize the treasures!” The dignified man’s eyes lit up.
With this borrowed knife strategy, the Los Family would not need to send a single soldier and could still eliminate Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
“But young master, what about those two Rem Titanium Storage Boxes? We can’t just let those factions have them, can we?” the dignified man asked.
“Of course we cannot give those two storage boxes to other factions.” Mo Ke rolled his eyes at him. “Those factions are just my test. Once Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is destroyed, you will lead people to retrieve the storage boxes for me.”
“I understand, Young Master Mo Ke!” The dignified man nodded.
“All right, go back and spread this information.” Mo Ke could not help but laugh. “Especially notify those factions that hold a grudge against Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. They definitely will not let this chance slip past.”
This time, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had managed to break into Emerald Sky’s city proper and even repelled the personnel of major factions. The strength they displayed was not to be underestimated. But if they had to face a siege from all the major factions of City of Light Chasing, they would be crippled if not annihilated. Harvesting them later would not be too late.
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In a tunnel not far outside Emerald Sky.
A large number of resurrected players walked out of the tunnel, chatting and laughing, each with excitement and joy on their faces as they counted their gains. The two carts piled full of A6-grade battle armor made even the newly returned Lin Qi stare in a daze.
Two carts, more than four hundred sets of A6-grade battle armor. Lin Qi had no idea what these players had done in Emerald Sky to get so many A6-grade suits.
Just as Lin Qi was still in shock, more than a dozen figures ran out from the nearby woods, each carrying a storage box, their faces filled with unprecedented excitement as they rushed to him.
“Master of the Pavilion, we gained quite a lot this time. Can you see how many contribution points this golden treasure chest is worth?” Zhang Qing Wei held a storage box emitting a faint golden glow and could not help asking Lin Qi for an appraisal, eager to see if it could yield something good.
“Golden treasure chest? Where did you get this?”
Staring at the treasure chest before him, shining with brilliant light under the sun, Lin Qi was also dumbfounded.
This high martial arts world was not an MMO game. Before, when the players dug up ordinary treasure chests under the hall, that was one thing. This time they had gone even further, actually producing an even higher-grade treasure chest.
Gold grade!
Yes, it was really a gold-grade treasure chest, completely gleaming with gold.
And these players had obtained three at once. There was no way to deny it.
