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

Chapter 168 The First Cannon Shot of Dawn

The City of Light, the outskirts of the Iron Heart Gang.

As the sun rose, the small square surrounded by eight steel buildings, each over twenty stories high, was filled with members of the Iron Heart Gang, all looking at the four men tied up in the center with surprise.

"Why are these four elders tied up?"

"Don't you know? Something big happened last night. Deputy Gang Leader Meng Wei led a rebellion, but the Gang Leader and others discovered it in time and suppressed it immediately. These four elders are the ones who planned to rebel with Deputy Gang Leader Meng Wei."

"No way, how could Vice Leader Meng Wei betray us? The Iron Heart Gang owes its current status largely to Vice Leader Meng Wei leading the charge in countless battles. Could the gang leader have made a mistake?"

"I'm not really sure about that either; I just arrived and heard it from other people."

The thousands of Iron Heart Gang members present watched the four elders on the stage, barely alive, and whispered amongst themselves, curious about what had happened to the gang.

As a suburban gang in the City of Light, the Iron Heart Gang has existed for a relatively short time compared to established gangs, making it arguably a newcomer. Its overall strength is only mid-level, and its accumulated experience is far inferior to that of established forces and families that have existed for over fifty years.

The entire gang can be said to rely on the two martial artists, gang leader Fu Yihai and deputy gang leader Meng Wei. The other elders are only at the limit of quasi-martial artists. They can only maintain their image and avoid being looked down upon by other gangs because of the B1-level battle armor that the gang has acquired at a great cost.

Established gangs and families in the City of Light, even without martial artists in charge, generally possess a considerable number of B2-level battle armors, with some even having B4-level armors.

Any near-martial arts master at the limit, once they put on B4-level armor that can increase their strength by 1600 kilograms, can easily suppress a beginner martial artist wearing B1-level armor. Moreover, once the B-level armor reaches B3 level, it has some special alloy added, which has a certain weakening effect on force, giving the near-martial arts master a great resistance to force.

This is why the Iron Heart Gang, despite having two martial artists, can only rank in the middle of the suburbs.

Now that the Iron Heart Gang has just resolved a major problem and is preparing to reclaim Nanxing Street, gradually embarking on a path of prosperity, it is hard for anyone to imagine that the deputy gang leader, Meng Wei, would betray them.

Once the Iron Heart Gang can reclaim Nanxing Street, their financial resources will increase significantly. They can then purchase a bottle of basic Qi and Blood Enhancement Potion from the Martial Arts Association to help Vice Gang Leader Meng Wei break through to the intermediate-level martial artist realm. Once he becomes an intermediate-level martial artist, the Iron Heart Gang will rise in status as well. Meng Wei's position within the gang will likely surpass that of Gang Leader Fu Yihai, so there will be absolutely no reason for him to rebel.

While the members of the Iron Heart Gang were discussing, a middle-aged giant in his forties, with bulging muscles and a height of about two and a half meters, and a width of nearly two people, walked onto the stage.

As the middle-aged giant walked onto the stage, the entire audience fell silent and turned to look.

The giant middle-aged man was none other than Fu Yihai, the leader of the Iron Heart Gang, who was accompanied by several gang elders.

"Silence!"

"I've suddenly gathered everyone here to announce three things."

As Fu Yihai stood on the stage, he looked around, his energy surging, and a wave of heat spread out, making everyone in the audience feel immense pressure.

Although Fu Yihai was a beginner-level martial artist like the deputy gang leader Meng Wei, Fu Yihai was younger than Meng Wei. Although his blood and qi had declined somewhat, his physical condition was still at its peak. The sheer burst of blood and qi could make a quasi-martial artist feel as if they were carrying a hundred-kilogram boulder.

"The first thing is that the deputy gang leader Meng Wei betrayed and fled last night. The reason for the betrayal was that the Obsidian Martial Arts School promised Meng Wei benefits and wanted to bring the entire Iron Heart Gang to join the Obsidian Martial Arts School. However, I discovered it in advance and suppressed the rebellion with the elders. Meng Wei and his two disciples escaped."

As Fu Yihai spoke, the members of the Iron Heart Gang present immediately erupted in uproar.

"No way, the vice leader is actually planning to bring people to join that Obsidian Martial Arts School?"

"Isn't the Obsidian Martial Arts School a wild gang that the four major powers, including the North Ao family, are targeting? Has the vice leader gone mad and actually made our Iron Heart Gang join such a force?"

"Luckily, the gang leader discovered it early, otherwise our Iron Heart Gang would be in big trouble. Now those four major powers have said that any force that has anything to do with the Obsidian Martial Arts School will face their wrath."

News of the four major forces—Northern Osaka, Bain, Peven, and the Gorilla Gang—has spread throughout the City of Light. Not only in the suburbs, but also among various forces and ordinary people in the city proper, it is widely known.

I don't want to get involved in the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy's affairs. After all, even the two most recognized forces in the suburbs would find it troublesome if these four forces joined forces, let alone the other forces.

As for the major powers in the city, apart from those martial artists at the Bone Forging Realm, they are not much stronger than the two most recognized powers in the suburbs. Naturally, they are unwilling to offend the four major powers unnecessarily.

Some powerful factions in the city even issued special orders for their own members not to get involved, which shows how much they value the alliance of the four major forces.

If Tie Xin Gang really joins the Obsidian Martial Arts School, then they're finished.

Fu Yihai looked at the gang members, who were filled with both fear and relief, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Next, I'll announce the second matter," Fu Yihai said loudly. "These four elders on the stage are the ones who planned to rebel with Meng Wei. Originally, I intended to execute them directly, but considering their years of service to the Iron Heart Gang, I can give them a chance. If Meng Wei is willing to come and accept punishment before sunset today, I will let these four elders go and forgive their past transgressions. If Meng Wei doesn't come, then they can't blame me; they can only blame themselves for misjudging people!"

As the second item was announced, the entire room erupted in noise once again.

"As expected of the gang leader, he's showing mercy by letting these four elders off so easily. I wonder if Meng Wei will dare to come over today."

"I don't think he'll come. Fighting among martial artists in the city is a strict rule. Meng Wei is a martial artist, after all. As long as he's not surrounded by people below the martial artist level, who in the entire City of Light can do anything to him? But if he comes today, with so many experts from the gang here, he definitely won't be able to escape."

"Didn't Meng Wei join the Obsidian Martial Arts School? Do you think the Obsidian Martial Arts School will send someone over? I heard that the Obsidian Martial Arts School has some strength, with many experts in the school. They even wiped out the Great Ape Gang in the wild before, and now they are being targeted by the four major forces. If the Obsidian Martial Arts School didn't have a certain level of strength, it would probably have been defeated long ago."

"It's very possible. If Vice Leader Meng Wei brings the people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, there might actually be a chance. I heard that the head of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, Lin Qi, has exceptional potential. Wearing B1-level armor, his strength is probably no less than that of the leader. If he joins forces with Vice Leader Meng Wei, there might be a chance for him to leave with the four elders."

"If that's the case, wouldn't we be in a really bad situation?"

The name Obsidian Martial Arts School is now known throughout the city, especially the school's owner, Lin Qi, whose information has been thoroughly investigated.

It's a sure thing that the current generation of human geniuses will be admitted to the genius training camp, and it's only a matter of time before they become high-ranking officials in the city.

This is why the four major powers only targeted the Obsidian Martial Arts School and did not deal with Lin Qi himself.

Of course, the more important reason is that martial artists in the city are prohibited from fighting each other. If the four major forces want to deal with Lin Qi, they can only rely on a large number of quasi-martial artists to overwhelm him. However, martial artists will run away, and if they enter the city, fighting is strictly prohibited. Therefore, it is impossible to deal with Lin Qi.

If Meng Wei brings Lin Qi over and wreaks havoc in the crowd, even Gang Leader Fu Yihai won't be able to do anything. At most, he can only kill Meng Wei and the people Lin Qi brought, and then it will be a matter of who can wear down whom.

This is also the most common thing in the suburbs when gangs fight for territory. After a gang war, the gang leader will almost never die. It is all the people below who die. It is not that these gang leaders do not fight hard. It is just that martial artists cannot fight each other, which makes it very difficult for one side to kill the other side's martial artists.

Unless you overwhelm them with sheer numbers, the other side's martial artists will definitely run away if they see it's not going to work. As a result, over the years, members below the level of martial artists have changed batch after batch in major cities. The leaders of martial artist-level gangs have remained the same for decades, and it's always the lower-level members who suffer.

"Don't worry too much. The third thing I'm about to announce is related to all of you," Fu Yihai said with a smile, looking at the worried members of the gang. "Considering the Obsidian Martial Arts School behind Meng Wei, I contacted the four major powers last night. They were very pleased with our choice, so they specially sent eight hundred elites to assist us. Anyone from the Obsidian Martial Arts School who comes here will definitely not return!"

After Fu Yihai finished speaking, a group of fully armed Extreme Apprentices and Quasi-Martial Artists walked out of the main street outside the small square. Each of them was wearing A6-level combat armor. A total of eight hundred people came down to the stage in an orderly manner, which shocked all the Iron Heart Gang members present.

Eight hundred extreme apprentices and quasi-martial artists wearing A6-level armor, even the Iron Heart Gang masters who had fought in gang battles for more than ten years, and the four elders on the stage who were on the verge of death, could not even dream of it.

Iron Heart Gang is considered a mid-tier gang among the suburban gangs, but it has less than two hundred sets of A6-level armor. As for the Ultimate Apprentices and Quasi-Martial Artists, they probably don't even number five hundred together.

"Our leader is mighty!"

"Is this the strength of the four major forces? Eight hundred elite troops! This force could wipe out our entire Iron Heart Gang!"

"It's not just that they can wipe out our Iron Heart Gang. These 100 elites can kill a martial artist wearing B-grade armor. These elites would be enough to deal with us. In other words, 400 elites could wipe out our Iron Heart Gang."

"With these eight hundred elites out, the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy will definitely not dare to come. I don't know what the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy was thinking, daring to provoke the four major powers in the first place."

The Iron Heart Gang members felt relieved when they saw the eight hundred elites sent by the four major powers, realizing that this was a show put on by their gang leader, Fu Yihai, and the four major powers.

The purpose was to humiliate the Obsidian Martial Arts School and let everyone in the city know that the Obsidian Martial Arts School couldn't even protect those who wanted to join, so that no one would dare to have any contact with the Obsidian Martial Arts School in the future.

However, just as the Iron Heart Gang members below the stage were discussing amongst themselves, an arrow suddenly shot out from the street at the entrance of the small square. It was close to the speed of sound and struck an elder wearing B1-level armor on the stage.

"It's a B2-level arrow! Get out of the way!" Fu Yihai spotted the incoming arrow immediately and shouted a warning.

Upon hearing this, the elder dared not be careless. He leaped into the air, preparing to dodge towards the ground below, but at that moment, an arrow carrying lightning struck the first B2-level arrow that was flying towards him in the blink of an eye.

boom!

A sound like thunder echoed throughout the small square, and a scorching beam of light, seemingly out of nowhere, pierced the heart of the elder wearing B1-level armor who was preparing to dodge, leaving a charred hole the size of a bowl. He was dead beyond any doubt...

(End of this chapter)