I'm in the Ark, a player.

Just grit your teeth, endure it, and you can earn this many LMD!?

No, buddy?

This is way more profitable than selling scale pills!

But do you think this will convince me to let you beat me up willingly?!

What kind of person do you take me for?!

I have some backbone, after all!

—That's what I originally wanted to say, but the other party gave me just too much!

You should have told me you'd give so much!

Without hesitation, he took the money from Qin Tianling, took a few steps to the left, and after moving away from the stall, he said with a firm look in his eyes.

"I understand, let's start fighting!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than he saw Qin Tianling raise a gun, fire a shot at his head, and then charge towards him with almost afterimage speed.

Then he saw a fist the size of a sandbag punching him squarely in the face.

Then everything went black, and he was spun around and flew away.

The Rat King...is that all?

Qin Tianling looked at his fist with a puzzled expression, and frowned.

Something's not right...

A battle between experts can't possibly be a fight between high-level Os?

He turned around and walked up to Lin Yuxia, pointing to Jie, who was lying unconscious on the ground.

"You're saying this guy is the Rat King?"

"Uh...yes!"

Lin Yuxia felt a little guilty.

Although she felt a little sorry for Jie, she really didn't believe that Qin Tianling sought out the Rat King just to fight him.

There must be some other purpose behind it.

In order to elicit this information, she had no choice but to resort to this desperate measure.

It just seems that reality is a little different from what I imagined.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

He is not the Rat King, he could not be the Rat King!

Qin Tianling said with certainty,

Even if Lin Yuxia identified the other party so clearly, even if Lin Yuxia was so certain,

But his feel for the game, the ID he saw, and the health bar he saw all denied that this guy was the Rat King!

Where can you hit and knock someone away so easily? Where can you enter combat and the name above the health bar remain blank? Where can you find a hidden boss that loses so much health from a single punch?!

Furthermore,

This guy is a bear, not a rat!

"I always felt that your promise to take me to find the Rat King was a bit too sudden."

This kind of hidden boss should have a series of new hidden side quests and new explorations, how could it be found so easily?

—Lin Yuxia, are you kidding me?!

In that case.........

"I really have to control you, Lin Yuxia!"

As they were speaking, Qin Tianling grabbed Lin Yuxia—

Refined in an instant!

"Huh!?"

"Can't move?"

Black mist continued to swirl around her body, and Lin Yuxia was horrified to find herself unable to move.

"What are you trying to do!?"

"If you had just cooperated with me, I wouldn't have wanted things to turn out like this."

That won't work now.

Qin Tianling said slowly, "I originally wanted to get along well with you, but I was deceived instead, so I have to use some unconventional methods."

"Since you won't tell me who the Rat King is or where he is..."

Then I'll make you impersonate the Rat King!

They severely tarnished the Rat King's reputation in the underworld.

Then the real Rat King is revealed!

"When the real Rat King discovers that you've been impersonating him and comes out to clean house, I'll have my chance to confront him and have a fight!"

Qin Tianling became more and more enthusiastic and proud as he spoke.

Damn, I'm a genius!

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Chapter 196, I Really Have to Control You

A moment later, in order to carry out his plan, Qin Tianling brought Lin Yuxia to the slum.

Standing on the roof of a building about four stories high, I kept looking down at something.

"I told you, I'm not going to cooperate with you."

Lin Yuxia bit her lip lightly, speaking with strong resistance.

But she couldn't resist.

Damn it, what kind of Originium Arts is this?

It's just as eerie as it was in the stairwell!

"I don't need your cooperation. I just need a rat that looks like the Rat King to appear on the scene so that I can act under the name of the Rat King's subordinate."

Qin Tianling didn't care about Lin Yuxia's attitude at all. After all, this girl had lied to him, and it was already being polite that he hadn't laid a hand on her.

"At first you said you wanted to fight the Rat King, then you wanted to impersonate him. What are you really up to?!"

Lin Yuxia glared fiercely at Qin Tianling with her pink eyes, realizing that she was right not to believe he was just fighting.

With such formidable strength and a fearsome reputation in the underworld,

How could it be just a simple matter of going up to the Rat King to fight?

Perhaps he's planning to overthrow the Rat King, unify the underworld by force, and become the new uncrowned king of the underworld!

Given his close relationship with Chen Huijie, it's likely that he initially got involved because of the connections Chen Huijie had.

So that after he defeats the Rat King, he can take over the entire Dragon Gate underworld!

Although Lin Yuxia knew that given the relationship between Governor Wei and her father, this was unlikely to succeed.

But what if Qin Tianling is unaware of this connection and this is exactly what he planned?

Are you deaf?

I already said, I just want to fight the Rat King.

Qin Tianling picked at his ear with his little finger and said impatiently.

Is this NPC out of their mind?

Is Chinese difficult to understand?

I just want to fight the Rat King!

Since there is a peak, the purpose must be to conquer it!

Neither eliminate nor belittle.

Instead, enjoy the battle itself!

It was as exhilarating as playing several fast and slow swords in one breath.

It feels as satisfying as seizing an opportunity to deliver a powerful blow and then unleashing a long, tedious, but undeniably cool combo.

It felt like a series of Iaijutsu attacks followed by a powerful Dragon Rising attack.

Isn't this the kind of fun you should enjoy when playing games?!

The Rat King... I hope the battle against this hidden boss will be as unforgettable as the Blood Knight.

"Hey, do you see that nightclub across the street in the distance?"

Pointing to the buildings across the street below, Qin Tianling turned to Lin Yuxia and said...

"Everyone says that the Rat King controls the underworld, so the various gangs in the underworld must be very important to the Rat King as forces within the underworld, right?"

Lin Yuxia looked at Qin Tianling quietly. She wanted to make it clear that Qin Tianling's belief was a complete misunderstanding.

However, she ultimately did not speak up for various reasons.

"This is the most profitable property of Qinglin Hall, one of the top gangs in the underworld today."

I'm going to take it down right now!

Ideally, we could also half-dead off the entire Qinglin Hall along the way.

—This indirect weakening of the Rat King's power will surely attract his attention, won't it?

Ah, I can't wait!

Lin Yuxia fell silent.

If I remember correctly, this should be the gang that my father wanted to settle accounts with?

Because the Iron Hand Gang was wiped out overnight, this gang seized the opportunity to take over its assets and grew into a large gang within half a month.

As the scale has grown, so has the appetite, and its hands and feet have started to wander... It seems it has touched some places it shouldn't have.

If he were to go in and cause a scene, it would seem to be exactly what Lin Yuxia wanted.

"Hmm...why the silence? Is the gang I chose not leading enough?"

Oh no, are they starting to have doubts?

You need to act a little uncooperative so that the other party doesn't become suspicious or switch targets.

All of this was to use him to achieve the original purpose!

Thinking of this, Lin Yuxia glared fiercely at Qin Tianling.

There's no need to act at all; you just need to express your dislike for this guy.

Those pink eyes instantly filled with intense hostility and resistance; if their gaze were capable of causing harm, it might just tear a piece of flesh from Qin Tianling's body.

"Oh, that's a very good expression."

If you had clearly stated the Rat King's true location from the beginning, I wouldn't have had to do so much.

Hehehehehe.

"Even if you can single-handedly defeat this stronghold, I will absolutely not cooperate with your charade!"

Lin Yuxia's voice was squeezed out through clenched teeth, sounding disgusted.

"Ah... you seem to have misunderstood something?"