The young man scoffed, "Even if you take her to level 10, she's just a tool... The Knight's Sanctuary membership contract lasts three years, and once you sign, you're a black slave for three years!"
"If you're not skilled, just kill some small monsters peacefully and slowly accumulate lifespan. Like us, we only kill small monsters and retreat to call for help when encountering a BOSS. Isn't that good enough?"
"At least our lifespan and experience points can steadily increase without being bound by a guild."
Chu Yan sighed with a helpless smile, "But Xiaoyou thinks she's extraordinary. After all, she has a hidden class... In that sense, she's indeed stronger than us."
Everyone fell silent...
"Wait, there's a Shackler ahead! Chu Yan, slow it down!"
A faceless humanoid monster wrapped in chains appeared not far in front of them.
Chu Yan's class was Archer.
She had learned a skill called 'Frost Arrow.'
Seeing this, she immediately stepped forward, drew her bow, and shot an ice-covered arrow at the Shackler!
Although it didn't hit the Shackler's head, it struck its body, causing a 30% slowdown effect.
Instantly, everyone charged forward, launching an attack on the Shackler.
Behind the four of them were Chu Yan's parents, their faces showing some worry...
They were middle-aged, having worked hard all their lives, and never expected to encounter the Abandoned Gods Game.
Chu Yan was concerned for them, so she had them stay in the town and not go out... only then did she bring people over to help them.
Unexpectedly, there was a public guild called 'Dream Sand River' in Dark Moon Town.
They joined it!
Chu Yan understood that as an ordinary person, being able to survive in the Abandoned Gods Game, slowly killing small monsters to recover health, was already quite good.
She could also help other elderly people who didn't know how to play the game and had no combat power to level up.
But Qin Xiaoyou was unwilling.
They had to go their separate ways!
At this moment.
Among Chu Yan's group of four, there was physical damage, magical damage, a tank, and a healer. The four of them worked together to deal with a common small monster Shackler with relative ease.
Soon, they took down the small monster.
Just as the young man in the team stepped forward to absorb the lifespan dropped by the small monster...
Suddenly!
A series of shadow arrows shot out from the nearby woods, accurately hitting the young man's head!
-429 (Weak Point Attack)!
-456 (Weak Point Attack)!
-452 (Weak Point Attack)!
The young man fell dead on the spot, not only failing to obtain the lifespan dropped by the small monster but also losing his own lifespan...
Immediately, a string of arrogant laughter echoed.
"Damn, this fool is so fragile, gone with just one arrow!"
"No kidding, what kind of experts can Dream Sand River have? It's all trash."
"Indeed, who with any skill would want to bring those old geezers along?"
Six players wearing silver and bronze equipment, all with their faces concealed, emerged from the woods, looking mockingly at Chu Yan and the remaining five!
"You guys, hand over all your lifespan."
Chu Yan and the others' expressions turned a bit grim.
They knew they had encountered a robbery!
Either lose all their tradable lifespan.
Or lose half of both tradable and non-tradable lifespan.
But the key was...
They couldn't show how much tradable lifespan they had!
If they gave too little and the others thought they hadn't given it all, they would still be killed!
Chu Yan glanced at them and frowned, "The officials have explicitly banned killing in the wild! Aren't you afraid of being wanted?"
The leader, a young man with a black dragon tattoo on his arm, sneered at her words, "To hell with the officials. Do you know who I am? Do they know who I am? Stop wasting time, I'll give you three seconds..."
However, before he could finish speaking.
Swish!
A shadowy blade light appeared in the field, slashing outward in a circle, instantly decapitating the tattooed man, Zhang Wei, and a few others, sending their heads flying high into the air!
The six robbers died on the spot, their bodies collapsing!
Immediately, Chu Yan and the others saw some blood-red flowers appear on the bodies of the six, looking eerie and terrifying...
"Damn, who took them out in an instant?"
"Wow, that's too fierce!"
"Ugh—"
Behind Chu Yan, everyone was shocked, and her mother retched in disgust...
They trembled all over, feeling a bit scared.
"Th-thank you!"
Chu Yan mustered the courage to shout into the air.
For a long time, no one responded to her.
Only the blood-red flowers on the ground slowly disappeared after draining the bodies of the six...
"It seems... it seems to be Shadow?"
In the team channel, Chu Yan couldn't help but speculate, "He seems to be quite nice."
The bespectacled girl looked a bit worshipful and excited, "Shadow? Why would Shadow come to our little town?"
The chubby young man was also trembling with excitement, "Come to think of it, only Shadow could be so fierce! I actually got to see Shadow?"
Chu Yan said helplessly, "See what? Which eye did you see him with? He didn't even show up!"
...
At this time, Qin Feng had already moved far away from them.
He had just passed by.
The reason he acted wasn't because he saw Chu Yan.
In fact, Qin Feng hadn't even looked closely at who these people were...
His speed was too fast!
In the blink of an eye, the Night Wolf had carried him over a hundred meters away!
Along the way, he just saw a few players ahead with the 'Slayer' mark on their IDs and casually took them out like minions.
"My Slayer status is almost at five layers."
"If it reaches five layers, there's a chance of attracting that NPC... At this stage, I don't want to meet that guy."
For a Slayer, killing other Slayers reduces their own Slayer value!
So, Qin Feng was just trying to lower his Slayer value to avoid being targeted by 'that guy' early on.
Even after killing them and leaving the scene without a trace, he didn't realize he had just saved Chu Yan...
...
Dark Moon Town.
The young man with the black dragon tattoo and his five teammates all resurrected together in the town center.
The six of them looked extremely grim.
Because they all had the 'Slayer' status.
Plus, after being drained by Qin Feng's Blossoming Curse, all their tradable lifespan was reduced to zero!
Moreover...
Being killed under two layers of Slayer status, their non-tradable lifespan was halved, halved again, and finally halved once more by Qin Feng!
The young man with the black dragon tattoo originally had 8 years of non-tradable lifespan left.
When he resurrected, he found, trembling, that his non-tradable lifespan was less than half a year!
"Damn, the system says we were killed by Shadow?"
"Why would the world's number one Shadow appear in this remote town?"
"We're screwed, why did I lose so much lifespan? All my tradable lifespan is gone!"
"Wait, we have Slayer status..."
"Log out, log out quickly!"
By the time they realized, it was too late.
In the town, an official team had already noticed the 'Slayer' mark on them and surrounded them with cold smiles.
"Remember their codenames."
"Black Dragon is also a dragon, Spicy Chicken Flavored Chips..."
"Although we don't know their real identities yet, we'll put them on the list and issue a wanted notice in the game!"
The officials prohibited player killings in the town and naturally took action.
Once marked and wanted, if encountered by official personnel, they would naturally be hunted.
In addition, the officials had some special hidden classes that could help track targets in the game!
This way, there was still some deterrent effect on players.
But, with so many players in the game and too few official personnel, many players who committed crimes were still rampant outside...
...
Of course, for Qin Feng, this was completely irrelevant.
With his strength, it was impossible for him to be constrained by the officials!
A mere two minutes later.
Qin Feng arrived at a stagnant lake surrounded by a valley, where the seven Gold-level BOSSes were located.
As soon as he entered the valley, distant and mysterious 'whispers' began to echo in his ears!
"These whispers... it's really the Ancient God Slate! But it seems to be a cursed slate?"