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

Chapter 164 What He Can Do, So Can I (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets Combined)

"It should be."

Lin Qi stared blankly at the video on TV, completely bewildered by what was going on.

But he was certain that the person digging up the body in the video was indeed a player.

He saw familiar players like Luo Wushang, Chen Ya, Saiwai Qiangke, Yiqiang Bajue, and Dajun Yingxiong in the video.

"Linzi, this is bad!" Luo Qi looked at Lin Qi with a look of horror on his face and said, "Beiao, Bain, Peiwen, the Gorilla Gang, all of them are dead, and your Obsidian Martial Arts School people are there. These four major forces will definitely come after you."

Any one of the four major powers in the suburbs – North O, Bane, Peven, and the Gorilla Gang – would be a top-tier power in the city.

Even if you add all the wilderness gangs in the City of Light together, they still can't compare to any one of the four factions.

It can be said that any of the four factions could send out some forces and wreak havoc on the wilderness gangs.

With so many people from the four major powers dead and the Black Obsidian Martial Arts School members present, it would be hard to believe that the Black Obsidian Martial Arts School had nothing to do with this incident.

"Are these the four factions that are after the Azure Void Treasure?"

As Lin Qi watched the video, he suddenly remembered the transportation team from this morning, in which Luo Wushang had also participated, and he immediately understood what had happened.

"Linzi, stop standing there! Before the four major powers react, you must escape now, escape to another city." Luo Qi said anxiously, looking at the silent Lin Qi. "Someone is definitely trying to frame the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy. Although you are a genius martial artist, you haven't entered the genius training camp yet. The four major powers are willing to go to any lengths to target you secretly. The city's higher-ups probably can't do anything about it; at most, they can punish the four major powers afterward. Only if you run to another city and join the genius training camp in another city will the four major powers not dare to attack you."

With so many people killed in the four major factions, they will definitely not let this go so easily. They will find all the related people and factions and deal with them all.

After all, the person who released the video was too ruthless. Not only did they frame the Obsidian Martial Arts School, but they also made the whole city aware that so many people from the four major forces had been killed.

If the four major powers fail to make any move, their influence in the City of Light will plummet to unimaginable levels.

As the head of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, Lin Qi's involvement in the matter meant that it was almost certain that the four major powers would come after him.

"Don't worry, martial artists are forbidden from fighting each other within the city. This is an ironclad rule of the city." Lin Qi waved his hand to calm Luo Qi down, seeing her anxious expression. "Any martial artist who dares to make the first move will surely die. Even if they escape outside the city, the city garrison will chase after them and kill them personally. Not many martial artists are willing to take such a risk. Even if the four major powers wanted to hire someone capable of doing so, the price they would have to pay would be something that the four major powers could hardly afford."

"As for the four major powers taking action themselves, unless they all want to die, no one in the city can do anything to me unless it's a martial artist from one of the four major powers."

Lin Qi is now more familiar with the rules of the City of Light than Luo Qi is.

Fighting between martial artists is strictly prohibited within the city; this is an absolute rule and the core of maintaining the city's operation. Therefore, all major cities severely punish such behavior.

The four major powers were well aware of this and would certainly not make a move against him, a martial artist, so he had nothing to fear.

"Even so, the city's higher-ups won't care what the four major powers do to the Obsidian Martial Arts School in the abandoned area. At that time, your Obsidian Martial Arts School probably won't be able to develop in the City of Light." After calming down, Luo Qi still felt that Lin Qi was not suitable to stay in the City of Light.

For a martial artist to improve quickly, they need a lot of resources, which requires the support of a powerful force. Moreover, Lin Qi cannot stay in the city forever without ever leaving.

"Don't worry, as long as I'm alright, the Obsidian Martial Arts School won't fall." Lin Qi smiled.

Although he didn't know what these four major forces planned to do to the Obsidian Martial Arts School, the four major forces were the ones he should really be worried about in the face of players who could resurrect infinitely.

Looking at the unusually calm Lin Qi, Luo Qi felt that Lin Qi must have some confidence, so she stopped worrying and sighed slightly, saying, "But this time the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is really wronged. They were framed for possibly killing people from the four major forces."

"No, our Obsidian Martial Arts Academy was not framed." Lin Qi shook his head, looked at the still-playing video, and said calmly, "Those people from the four major forces were probably killed by us."

"Are you crazy? How could you admit it so readily! Don't go around telling everyone about this." Luo Qi stared wide-eyed at Lin Qi, who had actually admitted to doing it, not understanding what Lin Qi was thinking.

While other people and forces avoided this matter like the plague, Lin Qi decided to get involved.

"Alright, I won't say anything more." Lin Qi looked at Luo Qi, who was staring at him, and chuckled. "The next two hundred sets of A6-level battle armor are yours."

After saying that, Lin Qi walked out of the Obsidian Shop and returned to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall with the players and medicine-making equipment.

When Lin Qi returned to the Obsidian Martial Arts School, all the major forces in the City of Light were in an uproar.

"What exactly happened? How could so many people have died from those four families?"

"Among the people in this video, it seems to be Dibs from the Bei'ao family. The Bei'ao family is probably going to go crazy now, as he is someone who will definitely enter the genius training camp in the future."

"But which faction did this? To kill so many experts from the four major factions in one fell swoop, could it be that the top two factions went all out?"

"Although I don't know if it was those two companies that did it, the fact that they wiped out so many experts from the four major forces in one go means that this force must have big ambitions. We still need to be careful recently."

For a time, all the major gangs and families in the city were speculating about the mysterious force that had wiped out the four major powers. Many of them suspected that it was the two forces recognized as the top two in the suburbs of the City of Light, but others believed that it was not those two forces, but a conspiracy against the four major powers.

Regardless of any speculation, all the major factions in the City of Light have sent messages instructing their members to be cautious in the wild.

The City of Light, the Gorilla Gang's base in the East Warehouse.

On the brightly lit top floor of the steel building, Beth, a figure over three meters tall with golden hair and wearing B2-level armor, approached Wright, who was sitting cross-legged in the courtyard. Beside him was an extreme quasi-martial artist wearing B1-level armor.

"Beth, tell me, why were the Sixth Guard members there? And now they're all dead?" Wright opened his eyes, and his terrifying blood aura as a high-level martial artist suddenly erupted, pressing down on Beth and the others.

In just a moment, Beth, as a beginner martial artist, was alright, but he felt a little short of breath and his whole body felt heavy.

But the near-martial arts masters following behind them all knelt on the ground, their whole bodies trembling, as if an unbearable mountain was pressing down on them.

"Uncle Wright, I took it upon myself to call the Sixth Guard this time," Beth said somewhat nervously. "I received a message from Dibs, and the Obsidian Martial Arts School had previously cut off my supplies, so I persuaded the Sixth Guard to go and intercept the Obsidian Martial Arts School's supply convoy. I never expected it to turn out like this."

The Gorilla Gang has ten guards, each composed of the most elite members selected from the ordinary gang members. Now, the 300 members of the Sixth Guard have been wiped out, which is a great loss to the Gorilla Gang.

This responsibility is indeed very difficult for him to bear.

"Is that how it is, Muto?" Wright's gaze shifted to the Limitless Quasi-Martial Artist kneeling on the ground to the side, who was also the captain of the Sixth Guard.

"Yes, Chief." Muto replied with difficulty.

"Muto, you should know the rules. You absolutely cannot move the guards without my orders." Wright glanced at Beth, then looked at Muto. "I'm curious, what reason did Beth give that managed to persuade you?"

"The remains of a lord-level monster!" Muto explained. "Young Master Beth said that Obsidian Martial Arts Academy has the remains of a lord-level monster. If we get this, it will definitely allow Young Master Beth to enter the genius training camp, and even break into the top ten. That's why I dispatched the Sixth Guard."

"The remains of a lord-level monster?" Wright looked at Beth strangely. "How did you get information about something like that?"

"At first I didn't believe it either, but Dibs sent me a photo, and it really did show the remains of a Lord-level monster." Beth quickly forwarded the photo Dibs sent to Wright.

Wright glanced at the photo and found that, just as Beth had said, the claw was definitely a lord-level monster, and not just any ordinary lord-level monster. In the picture, there was also the silver-gray long-sleeved T-shirt that the disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts School always wore.

"It was because of this photo that the four of us chose to join forces, thinking of capturing some disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts School, and then threatening the Obsidian Martial Arts School to hand over the remains of that lord-level monster," Beth said cautiously. "I really didn't expect that this was a conspiracy against our four forces, which led to the annihilation of the Sixth Guard."

"Alright, I understand." Wright nodded, then looked at Beth and said sternly, "But the Sixth Guard has been wiped out, and someone has to be held responsible for this."

"Uncle Wright..." Beth tensed up immediately upon hearing this.

The blood and qi of high-level martial artists are as deep as the ocean, far beyond what a low-level martial artist can compare to.

boom!

Wright simply swung his palm, and before Beth could even react, the kneeling wooden man was blasted dozens of meters away by a blast of air, crashing directly into the steel wall of the courtyard, where he was instantly killed.

"The person in charge is dead now. You need to be careful in the future and don't let yourself be used as a pawn again." Wright glanced at the stunned Beth and said slowly, "But this matter can't be left like this. Dibs from North Ao is dead, and one of the heirs from the other two families is also dead. Since Obsidian Martial Arts School is involved, it must give an explanation. Go and inform those three families in North Ao that we, the Gorilla Gang, can ignore other matters, but we, the Gorilla Gang, want a quarter of the remains of the Lord-level monster."

"Yes." Upon hearing this, Beth's face lit up with joy.

According to their previous plan, the kidnapping of members of the Obsidian Martial Arts School was intended to negotiate with the school. After all, the four of them could not represent the true thoughts of the four families, otherwise they wouldn't have gone to so much trouble.

Now that Uncle Wright, the leader of the Gorilla Gang, has spoken, he represents the will of the Gorilla Gang.

On the outskirts of the city, in a magnificent courtyard covering an area of ​​six square kilometers.

Large numbers of teenagers were either sparring or learning training methods. Some of them were injured while learning training methods, but they still did not stop. If they dared to stop, the aspiring martial artists supervising them would lash them with a whip, sending flesh flying.

These thousands of young men and women were all carefully selected by the Bei'ao family from among the vagrants of the Feather Clan as potential assassins. They underwent various cruel training programs from a young age, but less than 10% of them could eventually become true assassins of the Bei'ao family.

Because of the large sums of money spent on training these brutally trained assassins from a young age, the strength of the North Ao family ranks above the two major martial arts families, Bain and Pevin.

However, at this moment, in a secret chamber several hundred meters below the courtyard, a giant of the Feather Clan with the strength of a mid-level martial artist hurriedly entered the secret chamber.

As the giant of the winged race entered the secret chamber, an old man was seen sitting inside. Although the old man was hunched over, his vital energy was clearly even more astonishing than that of the giant.

"Patriarch, Dibus is dead," the giant of the Feathered Clan said anxiously.

The patriarch, Kadwin, has led the North Ao family to rise to prominence and now stands at the top of the city's outskirts. His personal strength is unfathomable. He was already a high-level martial artist more than ten years ago, just waiting to break through that barrier so that the North Ao family can move to the city center and become a powerful family in the entire City of Light.

Now that Dibs, the future head of the family, is dead, this is no small matter, and he has no choice but to bite the bullet and bother the family head, Kadwin.

"I already know." The hunched old man's voice was completely devoid of emotion as he looked at the giant. "What did the other three families say?"

"The three families all have similar intentions: they only want a quarter of the Lord-level monster's remains, and they don't care about anything else," the giant reported.

"What a pack of wolves, all they want is to take advantage, yet they expect the North Ao family to step in," Kadwin chuckled dismissively. "Fine, then tell the other three families that if anything goes wrong, we'll all work together. No one will be able to stay out of it. Otherwise, the other families will join forces to wipe out the one trying to stay out of it!"

"What should we do with the Obsidian Martial Arts School?" the giant asked.

"Since they showed up in that place and dared to take our belongings, I don't care if they were framed or not." Kadwin glanced at the giant. "Drok, go and tell the Obsidian Martial Arts School that I can give this little guy Lin Qi some face. He can hand over the remains of the lord-level monster and all our belongings, and compensate us with 800 million bits. Then we can call it even."

"Patriarch, what if Lin Qi is unwilling?" Derock asked.

Only a handful of genius martial artists appear in the entire City of Light every three years. Once they join the genius training program, they become the absolute elites of the city. Especially for young people, who are often impetuous, it's not surprising that they might refuse.

"You won't agree?" Kadwin laughed immediately. "If he doesn't agree, tell him that his Obsidian Martial Arts School should never open again."

"Yes." Drock then bowed and left.

As the sun sets, at the Obsidian Martial Arts School.

Lin Qi transported the pharmaceutical equipment back, and after a period of installation, the pharmaceutical workshop was finally completely set up, and the formal production of medicines could begin.

This filled Jacqueline with joy, as she could finally begin her money-making treatment plan.

Just as Lin Qi was about to return to his room to devise a plan for teaching indigenous people, the door of the martial arts school was suddenly pushed open, and a giant of the Feather Clan, whose height exceeded three meters, led a full twenty prospective martial arts youths wearing A6-level armor into the room.

"Which of you is Lin Qi?" The giant walked into the training ground, glanced at everyone, and asked loudly, "I am Elder Derock of the Beiao family, here on behalf of the Beiao family."

As soon as DeRock spoke, the entire arena fell silent, and some veteran players turned to look at DeRock.

"Is this the hidden plot Sister Wu was talking about?" The newly resurrected Yi Ye Fu Yun looked at the giant who called himself the member of the Bei Ao family, a rare hint of joy on his face. "They arrived so quickly?"

"Sister Wu and the others really hit the jackpot this time. They even managed to trigger a hidden storyline. If I had known, I wouldn't have tried to become a martial artist and would have gone with them instead." Xiao Yuan, who had also been resurrected, went crazy and looked at Derock with shining eyes. "This guy's strength is definitely that of a mid-level martial artist BOSS. I wonder if there will be a chance to defeat him in the later part of the story."

"A mid-level martial artist-level BOSS?" Yi Ye Fuyun couldn't help but lick his lips as he looked at Derock. "The loot must be great. I hope the subsequent plot will be strong."

While the veteran players who were striving to become martial artists were chatting on the second floor of the martial arts hall, Lin Qi also walked out of the lounge.

"I am Lin Qi, the owner of the museum. What do you want with me?" Lin Qi asked softly, looking at the arrogant Derock.

"So you are Lin Qi." Derock sized up Lin Qi, paused, and said, "On behalf of the Beiao family, I inform you that, given that you are a genius martial artist, our Beiao family is willing to give you face. As long as you hand over the remains of the lord-level monster and all the spoils in the valley, and compensate us four major forces with 800 million bits, our Beiao family can consider this matter settled."

"You four major powers launched a preemptive attack on our Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, and instead of apologizing, you're now demanding that we hand over the remains of a Lord-level monster and compensate you with 800 million bits. Do you think that's appropriate?" Lin Qi glanced at Drock and asked softly, "I don't think you four major powers are unaware of what happened."

"That's none of my business. I'm just here to inform you on behalf of the North Ao family," Derock shook his head, still speaking coldly. "You just need to tell me your choice."

"What if I choose to refuse?" Lin Qi said with a smile.

"Our patriarch guessed it. His meaning is that you should stop opening your Obsidian Martial Arts School from now on," Derock replied coldly, showing no surprise.

"Alright, I understand what your patriarch means." Lin Qi nodded and said calmly, "Please go back and tell your patriarch that I reject his proposal, and at the same time, I'll add this: what he can do, I can do too."

(End of this chapter)