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

Chapter 73 After One Night

"Dead?"

"The vice-leader is dead?"

"How is this possible! The deputy leader was a near-martial artist! How could he be dead!"

The less than ten White Feather Gang experts on the training field, who were originally fighting desperately against the players who were trading blows, were all stunned when they saw Gana lying motionless on the ground. Some of them even forgot to defend themselves against the players' attacks.

For the White Feather Gang, their visit to the Gray Robe Gang was just like a regular outing. Putting aside the fact that there was a quasi-martial artist like Gana, their twenty-odd apprentices alone were enough to take on an ordinary gang in the wild.

With a near-martial artist like Ghana in charge, wiping out an ordinary gang in the wild would be enough. This is the reason why the White Feather Gang members are still willing to fight even after more than half of them have died.

But now that confidence is gone.

"Damn it! It was definitely a plot-driven death."

"Master, that's not fair, you're stealing people's kills!"

"The Master is so cool! He took down the BOSS in just two moves, that was absolutely awesome!"

"As expected of the strongest NPC created by the manufacturer, defeating the BOSS is like child's play."

The players present looked at Lin Qi, who had single-handedly decided the outcome, and all of them showed expressions of "I knew it!" while the experts from Luo Wushang and the other two teams looked helpless.

"It seems we need to kill them even faster in the future, otherwise these story-driven bosses will run away after the first or second phase, and we'll just be left watching helplessly," Luo Wushang said helplessly.

"But this time's boss is really strong. Even with the three of us ganging up on him, he only suffered an arm injury." Zhang Qingwei glanced at Ghana lying on the ground and couldn't help but sigh. "I remember the last time we fought a boss in Pilgrimage, we had to send out more than two Saints. That was several years ago."

"Indeed, last time when we dealt with the strongest BOSS in the pilgrimage, it was the guild leader who led two saints." Zhao Hu nodded in agreement, looking at Ghana with even higher fighting spirit in his eyes.

Even though the game is still in its early closed beta, the appearance of such a powerful boss is already surprising. It's hard to imagine how many more powerful bosses will appear later.

If one day a being could appear that would make them make a pilgrimage and mobilize all those who are called saints, that would be truly amazing.

"Forget about the BOSS, hurry up and clear out those mobs, or we'll be wiped out!" Luo Wushang watched as the players resurrected from the basement and rushed out again, and couldn't help but use her Leopard Shadow Step to attack the nearest White Feather Gang expert.

The other three teams reacted and also rushed towards the other experts of the White Feather Gang.

While Luo Wushang's three teams were besieging the last White Feather Gang expert, Qin Mu, who had arrived in front of Gana, remained silent for a long time. He looked at Gana on the ground, then at Lin Qi, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

I originally thought that Lin Qi, this young man, would still need my protection, but I didn't expect that Lin Qi would kill Gana, a quasi-martial artist, in just two moves. Even though Gana was injured, he was still a quasi-martial artist.

This level of strength has clearly surpassed his.

"Brother Lin is amazing!"

"Brother Lin, I didn't expect you to be so well hidden. You took down a quasi-martial artist in just two moves. Now, let's see who dares to cause trouble in our residential area."

"We're all going to be lucky from now on. With Brother Lin's skills and Brother Qin's help, the other tribes around here shouldn't dare to keep encroaching on our living area."

The other human apprentices and wandering people gathered around, and were overjoyed and even excited to see the formidable Lin Qi.

The City of Light has many races, and in the abandoned area, each race will stop at nothing to expand its territory. For example, the human race's living area is now less than a third of what it was ten years ago. These areas are occupied by nomads from other races every now and then, who take over a few buildings or half a street.

Because of the issue of encroachment, they have fought many times with nomads from other races, but they have always lost more often than they have won. Over time, the nomadic human settlements have dwindled to only one-third of their original area.

If it weren't for Qin Mu, even this third wouldn't have been saved.

With a master like Lin Qi now available, it's a tremendous boon for the vagrants living in the human wasteland.

"Just lucky." Lin Qi put away his spear and smiled. "Thank you so much, Brother Qin Mu, for coming to help. Otherwise, it would have been really difficult to deal with these people from the White Feather Gang."

Lin Qi was very grateful to the human nomads who came to help. After all, life in the high-martial world was difficult, and who would be willing to risk their life for a stranger?

"Brother Lin, you're too modest. Even if we hadn't come, those White Feather Gang members probably wouldn't have left alive." Qin Mu looked at the still calm Lin Qi and couldn't help but remind him, "However, after this battle, Brother Lin, the White Feather Gang probably won't let it go easily. I suggest that you and your companions stay in the abandoned area for a while. We can look after each other, and that way, the White Feather Gang members shouldn't dare to launch a full-scale attack."

The death of a deputy leader, especially one who was a quasi-martial artist, is a huge blow to the White Feather Gang.

Given the White Feather Gang's style of doing things, they are vengeful and will definitely be involved in a major battle with the Obsidian Martial Arts School.

"Don't worry, Brother Qin Mu. Let the White Feather Gang come if they want. Our Obsidian Martial Arts School isn't going to be trifled with either." Lin Qi nodded. After his fight with Ghana, he was no longer so afraid of the White Feather Gang.

The reason I attacked Ghana earlier was because I was worried that he would escape. After all, a quasi-martial artist can have a great impact on the struggles between gangs in the wild, and we must not let a tiger return to the mountains.

Lin Qi originally thought that he would have to use some methods and cooperate with the players to kill Ghana, a quasi-martial artist.

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But now it seems he was overthinking it.

Ghana, as a quasi-martial artist, would indeed be among the top fighters in a wilderness gang, but compared to those quasi-martial artists in the suburbs, he is far inferior in both the martial arts skills he has learned and the weapons he carries.

Leaving aside the near-martial artists, there are quite a few extreme apprentices in the gangs in the suburbs, even those wearing A6-level armor. And most of the gangs in the suburbs have mastered martial arts skills at the martial artist level.

It shouldn't be difficult for a prospective martial artist to learn these skills. Unlike Ghana, who only mastered two apprentice-level martial arts techniques, making him arguably the weakest prospective martial artist, he doesn't pose as much of a threat as Xia Ling from the Phosphorus Fire Trading Market.

He only needs a little more time, and more players will become intermediate apprentices, or even advanced apprentices. They could overwhelm the three quasi-martial artists of the White Feather Gang.

Human Abandoned Zone.

As news of the Obsidian Martial Arts School's defeat of the White Feather Gang spread, the entire abandoned district was filled with jubilation, and many human nomads excitedly went out in the middle of the night to buy alcohol to celebrate the good news.

Although the Obsidian Martial Arts School had offended the White Feather Gang, a top-100 gang in the wilderness, Lin Qi had defeated the quasi-martial artist Gana in two moves. With such strength, if Lin Qi really ran away, it would be difficult for the White Feather Gang to keep him there, not to mention that in their human settlement area, the number of vagrants far exceeded that of the White Feather Gang.

Unless the White Feather Gang goes mad and completely disregards the deaths and injuries of its members, causing it to fall out of the top 100 wild gangs, they won't launch a full-scale attack.

Conversely, with the addition of a powerful expert capable of killing quasi-martial artists, the abandoned areas of the human race will have to think twice before attempting to seize their land again.

Early morning in the abandoned Crystal Zone.

"Brother Hou Fei, something terrible has happened!" A tall woman from the Crystal Clan rushed into a dilapidated room, her expression extremely anxious. "Something terrible has happened in the abandoned area on the human side!"

"How many times have I told you? Knock before you come in." Hou Fei, who had been woken up, looked at the tall woman speechlessly. "Speak, what's the big deal? If it's nothing important, you have to swing your knife ten thousand times today!"

"This is serious." The tall woman twitched her lips. Swinging a knife ten thousand times wouldn't be a big deal, but that knife weighed over two hundred kilograms. Swinging it normally ten thousand times would be difficult. She then looked at the sleepy-eyed Hou Fei, organized her thoughts, and said seriously, "Just last night, the vice leader of the White Feather Gang, Gana, led more than twenty apprentices to attack a martial arts school in the human abandoned area. As a result, there has been no news of Gana and the others. I heard from the people in the human abandoned area that they were all dealt with by the Gray Robe Gang."

(End of this chapter)