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

Chapter 46 When the Battle Begins

Outside the city of light, there lies the precipice.

As night fell, on the hillsides covered with withered trees, in the bases made of stacked cargo boxes, groups of young men with wings on their backs patrolled the tens of thousands of square meters of blood essence rice planted within the bases.

Inside one of the cargo containers, five middle-aged men and women wearing the armbands of the White Feather Gang captain sat together, eating rice cooked with blood essence rice and savoring wild beast meat, making the patrolling members outside drool.

Blood Essence Rice is a food that only a select few can enjoy in the City of Light. While wild beast meat is far less energy-rich than monster meat, it is still far more delicious and sophisticated than the synthetic foods that people eat every day in the City of Light.

"Boss Lant, do you really think Cangjing Weapon Shop is willing to spend 300,000 to ransom her?" A burly man, over 2.4 meters tall and wearing alloy armor, with triangular eyes, was chewing on wild beast meat while glancing at Luo Qi, who was tied to an iron table not far away. "This woman is quite beautiful for a human, but I remember the owner of Cangjing Weapon Shop is from the Three-Eyed Clan. Those Three-Eyed Clan members are all as cunning as monkeys. For them to be willing to spend such a large sum, could this woman be the old shop owner's illegitimate daughter?"

"McTi, you think there's some profit to be made here?" Sitting in the middle of the group, a tall, burly, dark-skinned man named Lant glanced at the man with three corners of his eyes, his gaze filled with greed.

"I don't know either." The man with the triangular eyes shook his head slightly. "I just think that when we asked the Qingque Gang for an exorbitant amount, we hoped that the Qingque Gang would have a falling out with the Cangjing Weapon Shop. Even if we killed the Cangjing Weapon Shop's employees, although the Cangjing Weapon Shop would have a problem with us, they probably wouldn't cooperate with the Qingque Gang anymore. After all, if we can't even protect their employees, how can we cooperate in the future?"

"But unexpectedly, the Azure Crystal Weapon Shop was willing to ransom her. If you said that this woman had nothing to do with that old guy, I doubt anyone would believe you."

"Indeed, when the people from the Azure Crystal Weapon Shop arrive later, let's see if we can squeeze out a little more profit." Lant looked at Luo Qi with excitement in his eyes. "I was worried about how to raise the 300,000 yuan reward that the deputy gang leader had offered, but now it's all gone. It can be considered compensation for the lost batch of goods. If we can get even more, that will be our income."

"Boss Lant, didn't you have your eye on that A6-level armor set from the Azure Crystal Weapon Shop before?" The Wild Feather Clan woman, who was also eating meat, teased, "Why don't you just have the Azure Crystal Weapon Shop make another set this time? That way, with your A6-level armor, you can definitely compete for the sixth vice leader position this year, and everyone can benefit from it too."

"A set of A6-level protective gear?" Upon hearing this, Lant swallowed hard, his gaze towards Luo Qi becoming even more ardent.

Currently, his physical fitness is only at the intermediate apprentice level, with a strength of over 400 kilograms and a speed of 15 meters per second.

With a set of A4-level protective gear, one can barely hold one's own against an advanced apprentice who has no protective gear. But if one had A6-level protective gear worth over 100,000, one could definitely stand on equal footing with those advanced apprentices.

It's entirely feasible to compete for the sixth vice-leader position created by the current leader.

The White Feather Gang prioritizes strength above all else. The higher one's status, the more benefits one receives. The Blood Essence Rice and wild beast meat that only captains like them can eat are nothing to the vice-gang leader.

The deputy leader of the White Feather Gang can eat monster meat from time to time, and occasionally receive martial arts guidance from the gang leader. He can also lead two hundred people under his command, which is far superior to a planting base leader who can only command fifty people.

Luo Qi, who was tied up, felt utterly hopeless.

Although she didn't know why the Azure Crystal Weapon Shop would use 300,000 bits to redeem her, 300,000 bits was an amount that even if she were emptied out, she still couldn't repay.

"Boss, someone's here to ransom someone," a regular member of the White Feather Gang suddenly ran in to report.

"They're finally here. I've been raising this woman for nothing all these days, I'm going to make the Azure Crystal Weapon Shop pay up." Lant suddenly stood up, glanced at the triangular-eyed man next to him, and said, "Take your men, come with me to take a look."

Immediately, the other four White Feather Gang captains present laughed and followed after them with Luo Qi.

Outside the White Feather Gang's planting base.

Lant led a group of his men out of the barbed wire fence-enclosed base. At the main gate, a large three-wheeled vehicle was parked with three people, all of whom were short and less than two meters tall. They looked like they hadn't even finished junior high school. Lant's face immediately darkened.

"Is there no one at the Azure Crystal Weapon Shop? Why did you little brats get to come here?" Lant glared angrily at Lin Qi and growled.

I originally thought Luo Qi was some kind of illegitimate daughter of the old shop owner, and would definitely be highly valued.

But now that three second-class disabled people have been brought in, what profit can be made from them?

Luo Qi, who was tied up behind them, stared wide-eyed at the three of them, completely unable to believe it was real.

Luo Qi had considered many people who might come to redeem her with money, but she never imagined it would be Lin Qi.

"We're just here to ransom people, we have nothing to do with anything else," Lin Qi said calmly. "It's a cash-and-hand transaction, you'd better not mess around. If word gets out, your White Feather Gang will be out of business in the City of Light."

Lin Qi knew these nomads from the City of Light who roamed the wilderness very well. They were so greedy that they could squeeze oil out of even a toad. They would seize any opportunity to exploit even the smallest bit of their land.

"Since our White Feather Gang said it would cost 300,000 to ransom the hostage, then it will cost 300,000." Lant glanced impatiently at the triangular-eyed man next to him. "Release Matty."

"Yes." The giant with triangular eyes nodded and untied Luo Qi.

In the wilderness of the City of Light, which is also outside their White Feather Gang's planting base, they weren't worried that Lin Qi and the others would take people without paying them. After all, no matter how you looked at it, the three of them were probably only at the level of apprentices, and they couldn't possibly outrun the apprentices.

Lin Qi looked at Luo Qi who was walking over, and gestured to Luo Wushang and Zhang Qingwei to hand over the metal box containing 300,000 bits in the car to Bai Yu Gang.

"Exciting! This is so exciting! No wonder it's a team dungeon, there are so many people!"

"Why couldn't you choose me to come along, Master?"

The twenty-eight players, including Twilight of the Gods, who were hiding in the withered forest, looked at Luo Wushang and Zhang Qingwei, who were two hundred meters away, and they were all filled with indescribable envy.

The first priority of this operation is to rescue people, and the second is to eliminate all members of the White Feather Gang.

Based on previous observations, Bai Yu Gang has quite a few people at this planting base, probably more than forty. In order to prevent these people from escaping, the best time to act is when they are redeeming people, as this is when the people are most concentrated.

Therefore, a plan to eliminate them was devised. First, Luo Wushang and Zhang Qingwei would lure the monsters together to cause a disturbance. Once the monsters had gathered enough, it would be time for the others to make their move.

Unfortunately, luring monsters requires a high level of strength and skill, and the number of people who can go is limited, so in the end only Luo Wushang and Zhang Qingwei were chosen.

For a moment, all the players hiding in the withered forest stared at Luo Wushang and Zhang Qingwei, waiting for the signal to make a move.

Outside the Baiyubang planting base.

As Luo Qi walked to Lin Qi's side, Luo Wushang and Zhang Qingwei, carrying metal boxes, also walked step by step toward the five people led by Lant.

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Thirty meters...

Twenty meters...

ten meters...

When Luo Wushang and Zhang Qingwei were less than five meters away from Lant and his group of five, they suddenly sprang into action.

Luo Wushang drew a jet-black steel arrow directly from the side of the metal box, and Zhang Qingwei also drew a black steel arrow, and swung them at Lant and the three-eyed giant respectively.

"Dare to make a move!"

"court death!"

When Lant and the others saw Luo Wushang and Zhang Qingwei approaching, they were initially furious, but then they were stunned when they saw the weapons the two were carrying.

Arrows?

What do they want to do?

The White Feather Gang members behind them were also stunned.

They had seen many fierce people in the wild, but they had never seen such a fierce and arrogant woman. She charged forward with just an arrow in hand, seemingly oblivious to the meaning of death.

Before everyone could recover from their surprise and astonishment, Luo Wushang's black steel arrow transformed into six black rays, while Zhang Qingwei's black steel arrow transformed into three black shadows, striking directly at Lant and Triangle Eyes.

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Luo Wushang and Zhang Qingwei were so fast that even Lant and the triangular-eyed giant, whose physical abilities had reached the apprentice level, could not keep up for a while. Fortunately, both of them were wearing alloy protective gear.

Six deep arrow wounds appeared on Lant's chest armor, and he had to take three steps back to steady himself. As for the giant with triangular eyes next to him, his A3-level armor dented, and he spat out a mouthful of blood before crashing heavily onto the barbed wire fence.

"How is that possible!"

This scene stunned all the members of the White Feather Gang present.

Two human women with level two disabilities actually managed to defeat the base leader and severely injure the apprentice-level captain, Mati, with just one arrow. It was as if life was playing a joke on them.

(End of this chapter)