Chapter 72: After One Night
“Dead?”
“The vice gang leader is dead?”
“How is this possible! The vice gang leader is a quasi-martial artist! How could he die!”
On the training ground, fewer than ten top tier experts of the White Feather Gang, who had been desperately trading injury for injury against the players, each saw Gana lying motionless on the ground. For a moment they were all stunned; some even forgot to block the players’ attacks.
For them, coming from the White Feather Gang to the Gray Robe Gang this time was like a routine outing. Not to mention having a quasi-martial artist like Gana, just their more than twenty apprentices alone could stand against an ordinary wilderness gang.
With a quasi-martial artist like Gana sitting in town, it was enough to wipe out an ordinary wilderness gang. This was also why, even after more than half of them had died, the White Feather Gang members still had the confidence to keep fighting.
But now that confidence was gone.
“Damn! So it really was a plot kill.”
“Master of the pavilion, you are stealing our last hits!”
“Master of the pavilion is so handsome! Taking out the boss in two moves, that is insanely cool!”
“As expected of the strongest npc made by the manufacturer, fighting bosses is like playing for him.”
The players present looked at Lin Qi, who had settled everything with one palm, each with an expression of “just as expected,” while the experts of the three teams including Luo Wu Shang all wore helpless looks.
“It seems we will have to increase our kill speed even more from now on. Otherwise, once these plot-kill bosses run off at phase one or two, we can only stare blankly.” Luo Wu Shang said helplessly.
“But this plot boss was really strong. Facing the three of us attacking together, he only ended up with one arm injured.” Zhang Qing Wei glanced at Gana lying on the ground and could not help feeling a bit emotional. “I remember the last time we dealt with a boss in Pilgrimage, sending out more than two saint-level existences, was already many years ago.”
“Indeed. Last time we dealt with the strongest boss in Pilgrimage, the president led two saint-level existences.” Zhao Hu beside her nodded, then looked at Gana, the fighting spirit in his eyes burning even higher.
Now that the descent of high martial arts was still only at the early internal test stage, a boss this powerful had already appeared. It was hard to imagine how many formidable bosses would show up later.
If a boss appeared later that forced Pilgrimage to dispatch all saint-level existences, that would truly be exhilarating.
“Forget the boss. Hurry up and clear those small mobs, or the mobs will all be gone!” Luo Wu Shang looked at the players who had resurrected from the basement and rushed out again, then stepped into Leopard Shadow Steps and charged at the nearest White Feather Gang expert.
The members of the other three teams snapped out of it as well and rushed to kill the remaining White Feather Gang experts.
While Luo Wu Shang’s three teams were surrounding and killing the last White Feather Gang experts, Qin Mu, who had rushed to Gana’s side, was speechless for a long time. He looked at Gana on the ground, then at Lin Qi, not knowing what to say for the moment.
He had originally thought that this young man Lin Qi would still need his protection. He did not expect Lin Qi to take down the quasi-martial artist Gana in just two moves. Even though Gana had suffered some injuries, he was still a quasi-martial artist.
This level of strength clearly surpassed his own.
“Brother Lin, you are incredible!”
“Brother Lin, I never thought you were hiding your strength this deep. You took down a quasi-martial artist in just two hits. From now on, let us see who dares cause trouble in our residential area.”
“From now on, we are blessed. With Brother Lin’s skills, plus Brother Qin, the other races around us probably will not dare keep encroaching on our residential area.”
The other human apprentice vagrants surrounded them, delighted by Lin Qi’s strength and even somewhat excited.
There were many races in the City of Light Chasing. In the abandoned areas the races had used every means to expand their territory. Compared to ten years ago, the human residential area now had shrunk to less than one third. These areas had been gradually taken over by vagrants of other races nearby, seizing a few buildings or half a street every so often.
Because of these encroachments, they had fought with vagrants of other races many times, but had more losses than wins. Over time, the human vagrant residential area had been compressed to just one third.
If not for Qin Mu, they would not even have been able to keep that one third.
Now having a powerhouse like Lin Qi was a tremendous blessing for the vagrants living in the Human Race Abandoned Area.
“It was just luck.” Lin Qi put away his spear, smiled, and said, “Thank you, Brother Qin Mu, and the rest of you for coming to help this time. Otherwise, these people from the White Feather Gang would have been really hard to deal with.”
Lin Qi was personally very grateful to these human vagrants who had come to help. Life in the High Martial Arts World was harsh; who would willingly risk their life for a stranger.
“Brother Lin, you are too modest. Even if we had not come, I am afraid these White Feather Gang people would not have left alive.” Qin Mu looked at the still-calm Lin Qi and could not help reminding him, “But after this battle, the White Feather Gang will definitely not let it go. I suggest that for a while you all should not go out. Stay in the abandoned area so we can look out for each other, and then the White Feather Gang probably will not dare launch a full-scale attack.”
A vice gang leader had died, and a quasi-martial artist at that. This was a heavy blow to the White Feather Gang.
Given the White Feather Gang’s style, they were notoriously vengeful. When the time came, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would inevitably face a major battle.
“Do not worry, Brother Qin Mu. If the White Feather Gang wants to come, let them come. Our Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is not to be trifled with either.” Lin Qi nodded. After crossing moves with Gana, he no longer feared the White Feather Gang as much as before.
He had struck at Gana earlier entirely because he feared Gana would escape. After all, a quasi-martial artist had a huge influence on wilderness gang conflicts and must not be allowed to run free.
Originally, Lin Qi had thought it would take some effort, cooperating with the players, to kill this quasi-martial artist Gana.
But now it seemed he had overthought it.
A quasi-martial artist like Gana was indeed top tier combat power among wilderness gangs, but compared with those quasi-martial artists in the suburbs, the martial skills he had learned and the weapons he wielded were far inferior.
As for the suburban gangs, not to mention quasi-martial artists, even limit apprentices equipped with A6-grade battle armor were not few, and each suburban gang more or less had mastered martial artist-level martial skills.
For a quasi-martial artist to learn such skills should not be difficult; they would not be like Gana, who as a quasi-martial artist had only mastered two apprentice-level martial skills in total. He could be considered the weakest quasi-martial artist, whose sense of danger was even far inferior to Xia Ling of the Phosphor Fire Trading Market.
And Lin Qi only needed a bit more time for more players to become intermediate apprentices or even advanced apprentices. He could pile them up to wear down and kill the three quasi-martial artists of the White Feather Gang.
Human Race Abandoned Area.
As the news of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall crushing the White Feather Gang spread, the entire abandoned area was filled with celebration. Many human vagrants excitedly went out in the middle of the night to buy wine to celebrate this good news.
Although the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had provoked a major wilderness gang ranked in the top hundred like the White Feather Gang, Lin Qi had taken down quasi-martial artist Gana in two moves. With that level of strength, if Lin Qi truly chose to flee, it would be hard for the White Feather Gang to keep him, not to mention that in their human residential area, the number of vagrants far exceeded the White Feather Gang’s members.
Unless the White Feather Gang went mad and completely ignored their own casualties, willingly dropping out of the top hundred wilderness gangs, they would not launch a massive assault.
On the contrary, because there was now an expert who could kill quasi-martial artists in the Human Race Abandoned Area, the abandoned areas of other races nearby would have to think twice before trying to encroach on their land again.
Crystal Race Abandoned Area, early morning.
“Brother Hou Fei, something big has happened!” A tall Crystal Race woman hurried into a shabby room, looking extremely anxious. “Something big has happened in the human abandoned area!”
“How many times have I told you, knock before you come in.” Woken up, Hou Fei looked at the tall woman helplessly. “Speak. What big matter? If it is nothing important, today you must swing the blade ten thousand times!”
“It really is something big.” The tall woman’s mouth twitched. She did not mind swinging ten thousand times, but that blade weighed more than two hundred kilograms; swinging it ten thousand times properly was hard. She then looked at the bleary-eyed Hou Fei, organized her words, and said seriously, “Last night, the vice gang leader of the White Feather Gang, Gana, led more than twenty apprentices to attack a martial arts hall in the Human Race Abandoned Area. Now there is no news from Gana and the others. According to people in the Human Race Abandoned Area, all of them were taken care of by the Gray Robe Gang.”
