CHAPTER 51: CHAPTER 48: AFTERMATH

The White Feather Gang’s Plantation Base.

"Dead?"

"The boss is an Intermediate Apprentice, how could he lose to someone who’s not even an Apprentice?"

The remaining four captains of the White Feather Gang looked at Lante, who was instantly killed, and were terrified. Even though One Leaf Floating Cloud took Lante down by a mutual destruction tactic, with Lante being the only Intermediate Apprentice at the base dead, they had no chance of winning this battle.

Now, even just Luo Wushang and the injured Zhang Qingwei were enough to require all four captains to suppress, while the Grey Coat Gang still had nine experts on par with Apprentices.

It can be said that the battle was completely on different levels for both sides.

"Run!"

"Everyone run! Quickly, go report back!"

"Grey Coat Gang, you just wait, this matter won’t end like this. Our White Feather Gang’s terror is beyond your imagination!"

The four captains exchanged glances and made the same decision almost simultaneously.

Run!

After joining a gang, each member is tied to the gang for life, especially those stationed at a location, who are required by the gang to defend to the death. Anyone afraid of battle would be killed by the gang afterwards, making gang fights incredibly brutal.

However, there is one kind of escape allowed in the gang, which is when the gap between sides is too big, you’re allowed to run. Although there would be punishments later, those are lighter compared to death.

There were still over twenty people alive; if they scattered and fled, they could surely escape the blockade range and notify other members of the White Feather Gang.

Once they contact the White Feather Gang headquarters, the Grey Coat Gang would be finished.

At this moment, twenty-three members of the White Feather Gang turned and ran, especially the four captains who had reached the Apprentice Level, fleeing in four different directions.

As the members of the White Feather Gang turned and fled, a few words from the players present almost drove them mad.

"Look! These creatures are so smart; they actually know how to run away!"

"Damn! These creatures are too mean, benefiting that group of archers but not us; did we have any grudge with them?"

"Do you think this is the game’s way of wanting us to practice Leopard Shadow Step, so it made these creatures run around?"

"Don’t say! This game could really do that. I haven’t really practiced my Leopard Shadow Step, just got to entry 10%; later, can anyone leave a creature for me to practice? I’m not asking for much, just until the creature runs out of the base, then you guys kill it."

The players present watched the White Feather Gang members flee in all directions, chatting leisurely among themselves, making the fleeing members feel like they were going crazy.

What kind of insane gang is this?

Being mentally ill is one thing, but these psychos have practiced martial arts like Leopard Shadow Step, are they scared that the mentally ill won’t be able to catch up with people?

Martial arts are such precious things that ordinary people can’t learn, yet the founder of the Grey Coat Gang taught a bunch of psychos, is this founder ruthless or what?

For a moment, you could see in the White Feather Gang’s plantation base, each fleeing member being pursued by a player, who shouted while chasing.

Run!

Run faster!

Why are you running so slowly?

As for the four fleeing White Feather Gang captains, they were not as lucky, being completely treated as elite monsters by Luo Wushang and the twelve others, necessary to compete for the loot.

In just a few exchanges, the four captains of the White Feather Gang were beaten to death.

At the entrance of the White Feather Gang’s plantation base, until the battle thoroughly ended, Luo Qi standing next to Lin Qi hadn’t recovered.

With only thirty people, they directly took down a plantation base of the White Feather Gang, losing only five of their own, this combat strength was terrifying.

But what made the scalp tingle more was that these people had all mastered martial arts.

Although Luo Qi didn’t know if everyone in the Grey Coat Gang had learned martial arts, learning martial arts is expensive; in gangs that operate outside, very few captains have the fortune to study it, except for figures above the Deputy Gang Leader.

And in those gangs in the suburbs, only those at the Captain Level have mastery, ordinary members still have no opportunity to learn.

Yet the Grey Coat Gang here, a bunch of people who clearly aren’t even Apprentices, all mastered martial arts, and not just one style.

This kind of gang is simply terrifying!

"Lin Zi, did you also join this gang?" Luo Qi looked at Lin Qi with somewhat complex eyes.

This Grey Coat Gang is formidable, but joining a gang means living in uncertainty, having no control, and frequently getting involved in gang fights.

And seeing the Grey Coat Gang attacking, Luo Qi thought it was likely because Lin Qi joined the Grey Coat Gang, which convinced them to come and attack the White Feather Gang, the price of which was unimaginable.

"Kind of." Lin Qi thought for a moment and nodded.

He planned to let Luo Qi misunderstand, as it was hard to explain the player situation, but as a mysterious gang, many things could be explained.

"You must have paid a hefty price to get these people over." Luo Qi looked at Lin Qi admitting, feeling a surge of warmth along with deep self-blame, and sincerely said, "I’m willing to bear these costs alone, no matter how many years I have to repay."

"Repay?" Lin Qi looked at Luo Qi, who seemed uncomfortable without doing something, and after a moment of thought said, "No need, our gang needs a lot of weapons recently, can I trouble you to make them? Of course, the pay won’t be low."

As for Luo Qi’s craftsmanship, he knew well, this was clear just from the A5 Grade Black Steel Arrows she made.

Even Luo Wushang and Zhang Qingwei fought fiercely for so long with Lante, the Intermediate Apprentice, the Black Steel Arrows when clashing with A6 Grade weapons, hardly showed any damage, whereas the armor on Lante’s captains was falling apart, proving her high-level forging skills.

"All I need to do is make weapons?" Luo Qi looked at Lin Qi in surprise.

She considered her forging skills good in the suburbs, though not as good as the shop owner, it was first-rate, or else the Cyan Sparrow Gang wouldn’t specifically name her to make weapons.

And she was prepared to lose a kidney, only to be told she just needed to forge weapons to repay, how could she believe that?

Hiring any gang to attack costs more than an ordinary person could bear in a lifetime, let alone such an extravagant Grey Coat Gang, where every gang member seemed made of gold, losing five at once, ordinary people couldn’t even give their lives to repay it.

"Yes, that should be it for now." Lin Qi nodded, although he wanted to say to make armor as well, weapons were what the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall urgently needed now.

From this battle, Lin Qi could see clearly, if only Luo Wushang and others had decent weapons, the fight wouldn’t have been so fierce.

Thirty people, although only five died, more than ten suffered serious injuries, and others took various damage due to the backlash from heavy use of martial arts.

If it weren’t for players being able to revive casually, this would have been a complete annihilation for a gang, with a narrow victory.

In this high-martial world, player revivals don’t happen on the spot; they can only revive in the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s confinement room, meaning if players die in the wild, they are out of the battle, and by the time they reach the battle, it would be over.

Lin Qi then organised the players to quickly clean the battlefield, taking everything from the White Feather Gang’s plantation base that could be taken, without leaving even a single immature Blood Essence Rice, loading everything onto vehicles, and burning anything that couldn’t be loaded, leaving nothing behind.

"The White Feather Gang truly lives up to being one of the top hundred gangs, even a plantation base is so wealthy. Luckily, they have a medium-sized vintage transport truck and two large tricycles; otherwise, it would really be hard to fit everything."

Lin Qi looked at the four fully loaded vehicles and drove the vintage transport truck, leading everyone back to the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

As Lin Qi and the others quietly returned to the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall under the cover of night, the Human Race Abandoned Area exploded again, and it wasn’t just there, but many abandoned areas in the suburbs also erupted.

The White Feather Gang’s outdoor plantation base was completely wiped out!

Not a single one left alive!

This news spread like wildfire across all major abandoned areas.