The Fourth Calamity: People in High Martial Arts, Gods in Games

Chapter 109 Martial Artist Lin Qi?

"Absolutely certain!"

"The news has spread to almost half of the suburbs, and many gangs are talking about the Obsidian Martial Arts School that has risen in the abandoned area."

"I think this human's Obsidian Martial Arts School is just a madman. He provoked the White Feather Gang in Crimson Moon Mountain before, and now he's raiding the Great Ape Gang at night. He has no idea what fear is."

Hearing Xia Ling's serious voice, the middle-aged guard was so frightened that he almost broke out in a cold sweat on his back and quickly tried to explain.

"I underestimated their gang before." Xia Ling was both shocked and suddenly realized, "They dared to offend even a big gang like the Great Ape Gang to the death. No wonder they were able to get their hands on the One-Horned Gold-Eating Rat."

"What's the casualty situation at the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy?"

"Six senior apprentices died."

"Are you kidding me?"

As Xia Ling listened to the middle-aged guard's report, her gaze suddenly turned icy, causing cold sweat to stream down the guard's forehead.

"Young Miss, it's true!" The middle-aged guard hurriedly explained, "The Obsidian Martial Arts Academy only sent nineteen people for the night raid: one Ultimate Apprentice and eighteen Advanced Apprentices. Originally, all of these people were supposed to die at the hands of the Great Ape Gang, but the head of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, Lin Qi, suddenly intervened and rescued the remaining thirteen people. All members of the Great Ape Gang can testify to this."

"Are you telling me a joke? Trying to make me laugh?" Xia Ling looked at the middle-aged guard, her voice growing colder.

Nineteen people raiding the Great Ape Gang's headquarters at night and killing more than six hundred people is already ridiculous enough. But doesn't she know Lin Qi's situation?

He's just an apprentice.

The story of Lin Qi single-handedly rescuing the remaining thirteen people from the Great Ape Gang's headquarters is so unbelievable that even a fairy tale wouldn't dare to tell.

The situation of the Great Ape Gang may be a secret to gangs in the wild, but it is no secret to gangs in the suburbs. At the Great Ape Gang's headquarters, there are at least ten quasi-martial artists stationed there, more than one hundred apprentices of advanced level, and more than four hundred experts above the level of apprentice.

Faced with such a large army of apprentices, let alone Lin Qi saving thirteen people as an apprentice, even twenty quasi-martial artists couldn't save them.

"Young Miss, everything I said is true. According to the members of the Great Ape Gang, Lin Qi is suspected to be a martial artist, which is why the five injured elders of the Great Ape Gang retreated in a hurry." The middle-aged guard looked at Xia Ling, who was already impatient and wagging her tail, and was almost crying.

Xia Ling is indeed very beautiful, a top beauty in the Half-Scale Clan, and has exceptional talent. She became a quasi-martial artist before she was twenty years old and is now the future star of the family. Her influence in the Phosphorus Fire Gang is comparable to that of the vice gang leader, making her a true prodigy.

But this seemingly perfect woman is actually a little devil.

Although more than a dozen people die every year in the phosphorus trading market for unknown reasons, it is obvious to everyone that these people have offended the gang leaders, which is why they died mysteriously.

After Xia Ling took over the phosphorus trading market, the death toll doubled, with guards suffering the most casualties.

As for the reasons for these people's deaths, sometimes it was because Xia Ling was happy, and sometimes it was because Xia Ling was angry. This turned what was originally a lucrative phosphorus trading market into a place that everyone in the phosphorus gang wanted to avoid.

"A potential martial artist? That Lin Qi?" Xia Ling's beautiful eyes were filled with disbelief after hearing the guard's explanation. "How could he possibly be a martial artist?"

Xia Ling had a fairly deep memory of Lin Qi. When she first met Lin Qi, she could tell that he wasn't even an apprentice. The second time, through testing, she confirmed her guess.

As for their third meeting, Xia Ling was certain that Lin Qi was just an apprentice.

How long has it been since Lin Qi became a martial artist?

Even those who are considered genius martial artists in the Half-Scale Clan, who have been fed various medicines since childhood, probably cannot keep up with Lin Qi's progress rate by even one-tenth. Lin Qi has no background and no resources, so what makes him so capable of improving so quickly?

"Miss, I have a video recorded by a member of the Great Ape Gang." The middle-aged guard, seeing Xia Ling's suspicions, immediately took out the video information that he had purchased at a high price, no longer daring to have any thoughts of taking credit.

After receiving the video message, Xia Ling's smartwatch opened and viewed it without hesitation.

The recorded video was very short, less than five seconds long, but one second of it made Xia Ling truly believe what the guard said.

Lin Qi's appearance is clearly visible in the video, and he uses martial arts techniques at the martial artist level three times in less than a second.

Such a continuous burst of qi and blood is something that even a quasi-martial artist cannot do. Only martial artists whose internal organs have been strengthened by energy minerals can have such reaction speed and qi and blood control ability.

Xia Ling had witnessed this continuous use of martial arts techniques many times during practical training sessions conducted by martial arts instructors at Zhuguang University. It was something that novice martial artists and apprentices below the level of martial artists could not easily pull off.

"A martial artist! He really is a martial artist!" Xia Ling stared intently at Lin Qi in the video, a smile involuntarily spreading across her face. "If I can get him to be my recommender, I can participate in this Five Cities Grand Competition. Even if I can't win the championship, as long as I can enter the main competition, I can choose a secret technique to learn from the Martial Artists Association. It really is true that there's always a way out."

The Five Cities Grand Tournament, held annually by the Martial Arts Association in conjunction with five surrounding cities, is very famous in the five cities. Anyone under the age of twenty who is recommended by martial artists can participate in this grand tournament.

The Martial Arts Association even offers very generous rewards every year, attracting many young people from the five cities to participate and hopefully achieve success.

While such a competition may seem to promote the progress of the younger generation in the five cities, it is actually a benefit prepared for the children of martial artists.

No matter how talented someone is, they are not qualified to participate without a martial arts recommendation.

Although she was a half-scaled, there were no martial artists in her family, so she had never been able to qualify for the competition. As for getting to know those martial artists, they would not give their precious recommendation spots to a suburban gang like the Phosphorus Fire Gang. Giving them to the children of large families in the city would be a better choice.

But Lin Qi is different. She has just been promoted to a martial artist and probably no one in a major family in the city knows her. She has a good chance of getting this recommendation spot.

Especially now, Obsidian Martial Arts School has offended the Great Ape Gang.

The Big Ape Gang is a behemoth to outlaw gangs, but to large gangs in the suburbs, it's nothing more than a large ant that can be crushed at any time.

"Young Miss, the Great Ape Gang probably won't let the Obsidian Martial Arts School go now. After resolving some issues at their headquarters, they'll likely make their move against the Obsidian Martial Arts School within the next day or two. The Obsidian Martial Arts School is far weaker than the Great Ape Gang. Although this is a good opportunity, if we directly intervene, the Great Ape Gang will probably also make a move. This favor might not be easy to do," the middle-aged guard cautiously reminded him.

"What a joke! Do you think our Phosphorus Fire Gang is afraid of those gorillas?" Xia Ling scoffed, then ordered, "Go and gather a group of men immediately. We'll head to Crimson Moon Mountain first thing tomorrow morning. I want to see who dares to mess with the Obsidian Martial Arts School!"

"Yes!" Upon hearing this, the middle-aged guard immediately bowed and left the secret chamber.

Meanwhile, more than a hundred kilometers away on Red Moon Mountain in the City of Light, Lin Qi finally finished sorting and distributing the spoils from this night raid on the Great Ape Gang's headquarters.

"The members of the Great Ape Gang are really rich. The worst weapons they use are all A6 grade, and they also have so many B2 grade arrows. They truly deserve to be called a long-established gang." Lin Qi looked at the pile of weapons, armor and arrows on the table and couldn't help but sigh.

In addition to the basic score of 10,000 and contribution reward of 500, players will also receive loot worth half the value of this raid mission.

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Even if the players only managed to collect half the value of the loot, they still filled a whole table.

I don’t know if it was because the player was hit by a lot of arrows, but he got a lot of B2-level arrows, a total of twenty-five. Most of them were contributed by Yi Ye Fuyun, who directly exchanged them for the B2-level halberd.

As for the others, they all abandoned the A5 and A6 armor they had picked up, happily chose two or three A6 weapons, and then all committed suicide to resurrect. They were incredibly fast.

The night raid was very effective and should significantly delay the Great Ape Gang's attack, giving players more time to improve and produce more advanced and intermediate apprentices.

After all, most players on Crimson Moon Mountain have been stuck at the threshold for quite some time, only needing to improve their Shocking Breathing Technique a little more to break through to the next level.

Then Lin Qi touched the dented helmet on the armor box, and couldn't help but smile.

"I wonder if Luo Qi can repair the helmet of this armor."

The entire A6-level armor, except for the helmet, is a self-contained unit made of nano-alloy. It is very convenient to put on and take off. The removed armor is just a small suitcase. To put it on, you only need to open the suitcase and step on it. However, you need to bring your own helmet, which is far less convenient than the B-level armor.

Even so, Lin Qi was quite satisfied with the A6-level battle armor in front of him.

Simply wearing it will increase his strength by 100 kilograms, bringing his strength to nearly 1200 kilograms. In addition, there is a neural aid, making his neural reaction even faster than that of an ordinary martial artist.

With full-body protection, he can roam freely on the battlefield as long as he doesn't face B-level weapons or force.

"Is this that person's smartwatch?"

When Lin Qi opened the armor case, ready to try out the A6-level armor, he discovered that there was actually an exquisite smart watch inside.

Although the material is not a B-grade alloy, it is still superior to ordinary smartwatches, being made of A6-grade alloy, something that ordinary apprentices could not possess.

Lin Qi then opened the smart watch and began to examine it carefully.

A high-ranking member of the Great Ape Gang wearing A6-level armor must know a lot of the gang's secrets. With a major battle imminent, knowing more about the Great Ape Gang will be of great help in dealing with them later.

Lin Qi was stunned after checking for less than ten minutes.

"How is this possible! There's actually a small energy vein hidden deep within Crimson Moon Mountain?!"

Looking at the detailed introduction and exploration results of Crimson Moon Mountain on the smartwatch, Lin Qi was at a loss for words to describe his current state of mind.

Energy veins have always been the lifeline of the high-martial-arts world.

A tiny energy vein is enough to cause gangs in the wild to fight each other, because they can easily make hundreds of millions of bits by selling the energy ore.

The smaller energy veins above the micro energy veins are something that can drive all the major gangs in the suburbs crazy.

The reason is quite simple: each small energy vein can be used to build a town, or rather, the existing wilderness towns are all built on a small energy vein.

In other words, as long as you can occupy a small energy vein, you can become a king outside the city!

(End of this chapter)