[Blazing Ember City]
Lin Mo went to the potion shop and restocked some potions.
No choice, with four SSS-rank skills now, Lin Mo's mana consumption had grown increasingly terrifying.
Relying only on the mana recovery from killing poisoned enemies provided by the Toxic Necklace was far from enough.
After getting everything ready, Lin Mo and Ning Xi prepared to set off for the [Black Mine].
But just as they reached the west gate of the main city, Ning Xi suddenly said casually, "Brother Lin Mo, have you noticed that there seem to be a lot more people outside the city all of a sudden?"
Lin Mo hadn't paid attention at first.
After hearing her say this, he looked out and sure enough saw large numbers of players outside the west gate, killing scattered small monsters along the roadside.
The small monsters outside the city, like wild chickens and stray dogs, were generally only in their teens or around level twenty, and there were no quests in the city that involved killing them.
Normally, there would be some low-level players who couldn't grab quests coming out to farm these monsters for experience, but nowhere near as many as there were right now.
Moreover, most of the players outside the city had hidden the IDs above their heads.
"Wait!"
Lin Mo seemed to realize something and immediately grabbed Ning Xi, stopping in place.
"Let's leave through the south gate."
As he spoke, Lin Mo pulled Ning Xi back from the west gate, ultimately not taking that step out of the city.
And just after the two of them left the west gate area.
Outside the city, a warrior player who was killing little chicks, with his ID hidden and looking like a solo player, glanced toward the west gate of the main city, immediately opened his friends list, and sent a message to [Chaotic World Hero], ["Brother Jie, Rulebound was about to leave the city through the west gate, but for some reason, he suddenly turned back."]
Ding!
Wang Junjie replied, ["Keep watching him. As soon as he leaves the city, don't ask questions, just chop him for me."]
["Comes out once, chop him once!"]
["Comes out ten times, chop him ten times!"]
["Yes!"]
———
Lin Mo and Ning Xi tried the west gate, south gate, east gate, and north gate of Blazing Ember City.
Only to discover that large numbers of players were gathered outside all four gates, deliberately hiding their IDs and pretending to farm small monsters.
In the end, the two retreated back into the city again.
"The Chaotic World Guild has already surrounded the entire Blazing Ember City."
"Looks like they want to trap us inside Blazing Ember City."
Ning Xi frowned slightly, "They have overwhelming numbers. With just the two of us, it'll probably be very hard to break out…"
Since Wang Junjie had come up with this idea, he would definitely stick to it to the end.
As long as the Chaotic World players were getting paid, even if they were told to do nothing and guard the city gates until the end of time, they'd be willing.
But Lin Mo couldn't afford to waste even a single second.
Whether it was carrying out the assessment quest, obtaining military authority, clearing dungeons, or completing the A-rank hidden quest Exterminate the Darkness, Lin Mo had to leave the city as soon as possible.
After a moment of silence, Lin Mo muttered, "Looks like there's only one way left…"
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Offline—
[Ning'an City, the Wang Family]
[Villa District]
The sun was already high in the sky.
Wang Junjie, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by a ringing phone.
He answered it with his eyes still closed.
An urgent voice came from the other end, ["Brother Jie, Rulebound has left the city through the west gate."]
Wang Junjie said irritably, "Didn't I tell you already? If he comes out, just chop him! No need to tell me."
The voice on the other end grew even more urgent, ["B-But! The Dragon Soul people are here too!"]
'Dragon Soul?'
Hearing those two words, Wang Junjie instantly woke up.
The moment he opened his eyes, aside from eye gunk, there was only rage in them.
"Fack! You dog Dragon Soul again!"
"Is Rulebound your daddy? How come wherever he is, you Dragon Soul dogs show up too?"
"Damn it! My guild already has ten thousand people now, and you still dare to come looking for trouble! Today, I'll wipe out you Dragon Soul along with Rulebound in one go!"
As he spoke, Wang Junjie got up, put on his clothes, went to the gaming room next door, sat down at the computer desk, put on his Divine Oracle helmet, and logged into the game.
———
[Outside the West Gate of Blazing Ember City]
Lin Mo and Ning Xi had just stepped out of the city.
Those players who had been pretending to be solo players killing small monsters instantly revealed their true colors.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless players drew their weapons and quickly surrounded the two of them.
At the same time, the IDs that had originally been hidden above their heads all appeared at once, uniformly prefixed with the two words [Chaotic World].
"So it really is people from the Chaotic World Guild."
As for the real solo players, they were badly startled by the sudden scene and hurriedly fled back into the city.
"Holy shit! No wonder there were suddenly so many people outside today fighting me over little chicks. Turns out it was a Chaotic World ambush!"
"That scared me! I almost thought they were here to rob me!"
"You only kill a few little chicks. How many copper coins could you possibly have? Even if you gave it to them, they wouldn't care! They're here for the number one on the rankings, Rulebound!"
"Another fight! Awesome! Time to pick up scraps again! If I pick up a few silver coins, I can add an extra chicken leg to lunch today!"
On the outer edge, at the front of the Chaotic World crowd, A level 26 black-armored knight man, [Chaotic World Lu Bu], pointed at Lin Mo and shouted, "Brother Jie's order! Whoever kills Rulebound gets a ten million bounty."
'Holy shit?'
'Ten million?'
"So I'm actually worth that much?"
For a brief moment, Lin Mo suddenly had the urge to kill himself just to claim the reward.
"Brothers, kill Rulebound, and we'll split the ten million bounty together!"
Amid the shouts.
From all directions, countless Chaotic World players wielded their weapons and charged toward Lin Mo like a tidal wave.
Lin Mo, however, stood calmly in place, not flustered in the slightest.
As if he had a plan already.
At the instant the surrounding Chaotic World players were about to rush in.
Suddenly—
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless arrows and magic orbs rained down from the sky, centered on Lin Mo, striking the approaching Chaotic World players.
-736!
-652!
-589!
-612!
A massive spread of damage numbers crazily popped up over everyone's heads.
The Chaotic World players were caught completely off guard by the sudden attack.
Amid waves of screams, dozens of beams of white light lit up within the crowd.
The next moment, behind Lin Mo and Ning Xi, a large group of high-level players with [Dragon Soul] IDs over their heads, all level 26 to 27 and firmly within Blazing Ember City's first-tier ranks, charged out from the west gate of Blazing Ember City.
At the front of the crowd, Blazing Ember City's second-ranked player on the level leaderboard, the level 28 archer Su Muqiu, stared fiercely at the Chaotic World players ahead and gave an order, "Protect Rulebound and Liuli!"
"Kill!"
Kill!!!
Amid earth-shaking roars, a thousand Dragon Soul players swept past Lin Mo and Ning Xi, charging straight into Chaotic World.
"Damn it! Dragon Soul again!"
"Brothers, hold steady! We have more people, kill!"
"Hack up the Dragon Soul dogs! Kill Rulebound! Brothers, we split the ten million bounty!"
Kill
The Chaotic World Guild quickly rallied and launched a counterattack against the Dragon Soul Guild.
The two sides' players erupted into their third large-scale guild battle outside the west gate of Blazing Ember City.
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