Chapter 48: Aftermath
White Feather Gang planting base.
“Dead?”
“The boss is an intermediate apprentice, how could he possibly lose to someone who is not even an apprentice?”
The four remaining captains of the White Feather Gang looked at Lante, who had been killed in an instant, and each of them was scared. Even though Yi Ye Fu Yun had taken Lante down in a mutually destructive way, with Lante, the only intermediate apprentice in the base, dead, they no longer had any chance of winning this battle.
Right now just Luo Wu Shang and the injured Zhang Qing Wei alone required the four captains together to suppress them, while the Gray Robe Gang still had nine experts whose strength was comparable to apprentices.
It could be said the two sides were fighting on completely different levels.
“Run!”
“Everyone run! Hurry, go report!”
“Gray Robe Gang, just you wait, this will never end like this. The terror of our White Feather Gang is beyond your imagination!”
The four captains exchanged glances and almost all made the same decision.
Run.
After joining a gang, every member was tied to it for life. Especially for those stationed in one place, the gang demanded they defend it to the death. Anyone who showed cowardice in battle would be killed by the gang afterward, so fights between gangs were extremely brutal.
But there was one kind of retreat that was allowed in a gang, and that was when the difference in strength between the two sides was too great. In that case running was permitted. Although there would be punishment afterward, compared to death that punishment was much lighter.
At this moment more than twenty members were still alive. As long as they scattered and fled, they would definitely be able to escape the interference range and notify the other members of the White Feather Gang.
As long as they contacted White Feather Gang headquarters, then the Gray Robe Gang was doomed.
In an instant, twenty-three members of the White Feather Gang turned and ran. The four captains who had reached apprentice-level in particular fled in four different directions.
But just as the White Feather Gang people turned to flee, a few lines from the players present almost made them mentally collapse.
“Look! These monsters are so smart, they actually know to run for their lives!”
“Damn! These monsters are too hateful, they are giving the advantage to that group of archers and not to us. Do we have some grudge with them or what?”
“Do you think the game wants us to practice Leopard Shadow Steps, so it is making these monsters run all over the place?”
“Say no more, this game really would do that. I barely practiced Leopard Shadow Steps, I am only at entry-level 10 percent. Later can one of you give me a monster so I can practice Leopard Shadow Steps? I will not ask for much, as long as the monster runs out of the base, you can kill it after.”
The players present watched the fleeing members of the White Feather Gang and each of them chatted lazily, making the White Feather Gang members, who had not even run far yet, feel like they were going crazy.
What kind of lunatic gang was this?
It would be bad enough if every one of them was mentally ill, but these lunatics had even practiced a martial skill like Leopard Shadow Steps, as if they were afraid these lunatics would not be able to catch people.
Martial skills were so precious that ordinary people had no chance to learn them, yet the founder of the Gray Robe Gang had taught them to a group of lunatics. Did the founder of the Gray Robe Gang really have to be this ruthless?
For a while, in the planting base of the White Feather Gang, behind every fleeing member there was a player in pursuit, shouting as they chased.
Run!
Run faster!
Why are you running so slowly?
As for the four fleeing captains of the White Feather Gang, they were not so lucky. They were completely treated by Luo Wu Shang and the other eleven as elite monsters whose first blood had to be contested.
After only a few exchanges, the four captains of the White Feather Gang were beaten to death by the group.
At the gate of the White Feather Gang planting base, all the way until the battle was completely over, Luo Qi, who was standing next to Lin Qi, had still not come back to her senses.
Only thirty people had directly taken down a planting base of the White Feather Gang, and they had only lost five people themselves. This combat power was terrifying.
But what made her scalp tingle even more was that all these people had mastered martial skills.
Although Luo Qi did not know whether every member of the Gray Robe Gang had learned martial skills, learning martial skills was very expensive. In normal wild-operating gangs, only a very few captains would be lucky enough to learn them, and beyond that only the vice gang leader and above.
As for the gangs in the suburbs, only captain level members had them. Ordinary members still had no chance to learn.
Yet the Gray Robe Gang in front of her was clearly composed of people who were not even apprentices, and they had all mastered martial skills, and not just one.
Such a gang was simply terrifying.
“Lin, did you also join this gang?” Luo Qi looked at Lin Qi, her gaze complicated.
Although this Gray Robe Gang was formidable, joining a gang meant living on the edge of death, with no control over your own life, constantly being dragged into gang fights.
And in Luo Qi’s view, the reason the Gray Robe Gang had attacked must very likely be that Lin Qi had joined them and persuaded them to come attack the White Feather Gang. The price involved was something she did not dare imagine.
“Sort of.” Lin Qi thought for a moment and nodded.
He decided it was better to let Luo Qi continue to misunderstand. After all, it was hard to explain the matter of players, but if it was a mysterious gang, then many things could be explained.
“You must have paid a heavy price to get these people to come here this time.” As Luo Qi looked at Lin Qi acknowledging it, her heart felt warm but also deeply guilty. She then said very earnestly, “I am willing to bear all of that price alone. No matter how many years it takes to pay back the money, I will earn it with everything I have.”
“Pay it back?” Lin Qi looked at Luo Qi, who seemed uncomfortable if she did not do something, and after a moment of thought said, “There is no need for that. Our gang recently needs a lot of weapons. Could I trouble you to forge them personally? Of course you will be paid well.”
He understood Luo Qi’s craftsmanship very well. Just from the A5-grade black steel arrows she had made, that was obvious.
Even though Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qing Wei had fought that intermediate apprentice Lante fiercely for so long, the black steel arrows had suffered almost no damage while clashing with A6-grade weapons. In contrast, the armor on Lante and those captains was all deformed. It showed how high her forging skills were.
“I just need to forge weapons?” Luo Qi looked at Lin Qi in surprise.
She believed her forging skills were considered good in the suburbs. While not as good as the shop owner, she was still first-tier. Otherwise the Green Sparrow Gang would not have specifically named her to forge weapons.
She had already mentally prepared to lose a kidney, and now she was told she only needed to forge weapons to pay it back. How could she believe that?
The price of hiring any gang to act was something an ordinary person could never afford in a lifetime, not to mention such a lavish Gray Robe Gang. It was as if every member was made of gold. Five of them had died in one go. An ordinary person could not repay that even with their life.
“Yes, for now that should be enough.” Lin Qi nodded. Although he also wanted armor, weapons were what Obsidian Martial Arts Hall lacked most at the moment.
From this battle, Lin Qi could see very clearly that if Luo Wu Shang and the others had had decent weapons, the fight would not have been so brutal.
Although only five of the thirty had died, more than ten others were seriously injured, and the rest had suffered various injuries from backlash due to the explosive use of martial skills.
If players did not have easy resurrection, this would have been the equivalent of an entire gang being wiped out in a single battle, with a very narrow victory.
In the high martial arts world, players did not resurrect on the spot. They could only resurrect in the confined room of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. Which meant that if a player died in the wilderness, they were completely out of the fight, and by the time they ran back, the battle would already be over.
Lin Qi then arranged for the players to quickly clean up the battlefield, taking everything from the White Feather Gang planting base that could be taken. They did not leave behind even a single immature grain of blood essence rice. Everything was loaded onto the vehicles, and whatever could not be loaded was burned to ash. Nothing would be left for the White Feather Gang.
“The White Feather Gang really lives up to being a top-100 gang. Even one planting base is this rich. Luckily they have one medium vintage transport vehicle and two tricycles, otherwise it would not be enough to hold everything.”
Looking at the four fully loaded vehicles, Lin Qi drove the vintage transport vehicle and led everyone back to Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
After Lin Qi and the others took advantage of the night to quietly return to Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, the Human Race Abandoned Area exploded with news again. It was not only the Human Race Abandoned Area, but also many abandoned areas outside the suburbs.
The White Feather Gang’s wilderness planting base had been completely wiped out.
Not a single survivor.
This news spread through all the abandoned areas as if it had grown wings.
