First Blood

"What are you all standing around looking stunned for?"

"They're just peak Quasi-Apprentices, they only used martial skills! All of you, attack!"

"Take them down, and there will be heavy rewards afterward!"

Lante roared at the stunned members of the White Feather Gang.

In that instant, the White Feather Gang members understood. It wasn't that Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qingwei were terrifying, but rather that they had only managed to suppress the leader Lante and captain Maiti through surprise attacks and martial skills.

"Kill!"

"Just two peak Quasi-Apprentices dare to oppose the White Feather Gang? They're asking for death!"

"Archers, take down that kid and the woman in the distance! We can't let them escape!"

The three White Feather Gang captains who reacted first all drew their combined spears from their backs. With a twist and a turn, they transformed into alloy spears nearly three meters long and immediately attacked Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qingwei.

Although the three captains couldn't use martial skills, their strength as early-stage apprentices, exceeding 300 kilograms, allowed them to easily suppress Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qingwei when they weren't using their skills.

As leader Lante's roar echoed throughout the base, the patrolling White Feather Gang members also converged on the base entrance, ready to snatch credit.

Within the gang, it was too difficult for ordinary members to get promoted. There were generally only two ways.

The first was to complete tasks assigned by the gang and accumulate enough strength to be promoted.

The second was to kill enemies and accumulate enough contribution to be promoted from an ordinary member to a captain.

Now, with only Lin Qi and the other two daring to come to the White Feather Gang's territory to snatch people, this was an absolute opportunity to earn merit.

"We're done for." Luo Qi looked at the more than ten White Feather Gang members charging forward in armor, as well as the archers aiming from a distance. She couldn't help but shout to Lin Qi, "You run! I'll find a way to hold them off!"

In Luo Qi's opinion, Lin Qi had come to the White Feather Gang for a fake transaction specifically to save her. As a peak Quasi-Apprentice, she certainly couldn't let Lin Qi, who wasn't even a Quasi-Apprentice, step forward.

However, just as Luo Qi was about to pull Lin Qi into the car to block the White Feather Gang, she suddenly found that she couldn't move Lin Qi.

"Lin Zi! You?"

Before Luo Qi could recover from her shock, she saw Lin Qi calmly raise his other hand.

"Attack! Take them down!"

Lin Qi looked at the approaching White Feather Gang members and waved the hand he had raised.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Suddenly, four silver-white lights shot out from behind Lin Qi, directly and accurately hitting the unprotected necks of the White Feather Gang members. Four of them died on the spot.

As the four died, at the same moment, more than twenty figures rushed out from the distant woods. Their speed was astonishing, with several reaching the apprentice level.

This scene shocked the White Feather Gang members. They hadn't expected Lin Qi and his group to be prepared and not just three people.

"Not good! Enemy attack! There's an enemy attack!"

"Quick! Quickly notify the nearby people! The planting base is being attacked by a gang!"

"Damn it! No signal! The signal is being jammed!"

In the darkness, being able to kill four armored individuals with a single volley of arrows, and with over twenty people charging, this situation could only mean that another gang was attempting to attack the planting base.

"Who exactly are you people?"

"How dare you attack our White Feather Gang's base! Do you want to be enemies with our White Feather Gang until death?"

Lante, who had joined the encirclement, glanced at the players rushing from a distance. His expression was extremely grave and surprised, and he couldn't help but roar.

Although he couldn't see clearly in the darkness, the ten people at the forefront clearly had speeds that reached the apprentice level, exceeding 12 meters per second.

This meant that the opposing gang had dispatched a full ten high-level apprentices, more than double the number of apprentices at their base. Combined with the two monstrous women in front of them, such a terrifying formation was enough to annihilate a small wild gang.

But in Lante's memory, he didn't seem to have offended such a force at all.

The members of the current gang were very conspicuous, all wearing dark gray long-sleeved T-shirts. Especially when they got closer, it was clear that the members of this gang were all holding shovels. With such an obvious gang symbol, he would never forget it.

As for the claim that this gang was here to rescue Luo Qi, even a ghost wouldn't believe it. In the City of Light Chasing, anyone protected by a gang would have a gang mark. If someone dared to harm a person with a gang mark, it meant they were making an enemy of that gang.

But Luo Qi had no gang mark on her at all; she was just an ordinary employee of the Azure Crystal Weapon Shop.

"This BOSS talks too much nonsense." Luo Wu Shang looked at Lante, who was questioning while fighting, and couldn't help but feel speechless. "The game developers really need to adjust the BOSS's AI properly. We've already attacked, and instead of focusing on fighting, he's asking if we intend to fight to the death. Is this interesting?"

"Just bear with it, it's for the plot," Zhang Qingwei, who was entangled with the two White Feather Gang captains, reminded her in a low voice. "Everyone else is rushing over, let's speed things up too. We can't let anyone else get this BOSS's first kill."

"Okay, this BOSS's first kill will definitely have extra rewards, we can't let others have it." Luo Wu Shang dodged Lante's horizontal spear sweep, nodded in agreement, and used Point Star again.

"You're courting death!"

Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qingwei's words enraged and shocked Lante. He slammed his spear, directly repelling Luo Wu Shang's Point Star. He took two steps back, then held his spear horizontally, his muscles bulging, preparing to use a finishing move to kill one of them first.

Although Lante didn't understand why lunatics nowadays were so strong, using martial skills as if they were free, one after another.

But to treat him as a BOSS and dare to aim for his first kill?

Then he would let the two of them know how easy it was to get his first kill!

"This BOSS is getting impatient, looks like he's planning to enter Phase Two!" Luo Wu Shang, who had been repelled, executed a perfect aerial flip and landed precisely. Her eyes were filled with excitement. "Come on! Let me see how your Phase Two is!"

"Damn it! You lunatic!" Lante looked at Luo Wu Shang, who showed no fear and seemed eager to fight, feeling extremely frustrated.

The use of martial skills placed a great burden on the body. Usually, using them meant a fight to the death, a life-or-death struggle.

The current lunatic has no idea what death is, which makes Lante hesitate about whether to use a martial skill and risk his life.

Betting his own life against a lunatic, no matter how you look at it, is a losing proposition.

"This BOSS isn't that great, taking this long to activate its second phase." Zhang Qingwei, glancing at Lante, said with some impatience, "The others are about to rush over. Is he planning to gather everyone here and let them all fight for the first kill?"

"Damn it! You die first!"

Lante stared intently at Zhang Qingwei, who was engaged in battle. He absolutely could not stand this woman, so he leaped forward and brought his spear down towards Zhang Qingwei.

Apprentice-level martial skill, Mountain Breaker!

This spear technique can increase strength and speed by over 50%. A single strike delivers over 600 kilograms of force, enough to threaten a high-level apprentice.

"Is this BOSS's second phase a hate transfer?"

"This is actually interesting."

Luo Wu Shang, watching Lante strike directly at Zhang Qingwei, couldn't help but scrutinize him seriously.

Zhang Qingwei, who was dealing with two White Feather Gang captains, had no time to dodge. She could only forcefully swing the arrow in her hand, meeting the attack with the Surging Wave Blade.

Bang!

Zhang Qingwei was sent flying over ten meters away. The arm holding the Black Steel Arrow was twisted and fractured. She looked much more disheveled and was no longer able to fight the other captains.

Just as Lante was about to show a smug expression, he saw Zhang Qingwei, with her fractured arm, reveal a look of joy.

"Wu Shang, this BOSS is pretty good! He actually managed to break my arm in one move. If I can get his first kill, maybe it'll drop something good!" Zhang Qingwei excitedly alerted Luo Wu Shang.

"This BOSS is indeed good. After activating its second phase, its strength and speed have increased significantly. However, the backlash from this move doesn't seem small either. I can feel his aura weakening; he probably can't use it many more times." Luo Wu Shang nodded, her gaze even more excited, and she unleashed the Point Star towards Lante.

In response, Zhang Qingwei no longer bothered with the other captains. She gripped the Black Steel Arrow with her other hand, took a step with Leopard Shadow Steps, and transformed into a black shadow, charging straight at Lante with another Surging Wave Blade.

"Madmen! These two are completely mad!"

Lante watched as the two of them charged at him desperately. He could clearly feel that they didn't care about their own lives at all, not even knowing what fear was.

All they were thinking about was his first kill!

At this moment, it wasn't just Lante who thought this group of people in dark gray clothes were lunatics. The White Feather Gang members who were fighting also felt that these people in gray clothes were a bunch of madmen.

Damn it!

These people don't use normal weapons when they fight; they charge forward with shovels. Some of them have been hit by several arrows, but instead of being afraid, they pull out the arrows, collect them, and show expressions of having profited.

Then, as they charge, they shout, "Shoot me! Shoot me!"

Seeing this, the surrounding Gray Clothes Gang members showed envious expressions and followed suit, leaving the White Feather Gang archers bewildered.

They had seen people used as shields, but never someone willingly stepping forward to be a shield, with an expression that said, "If you don't shoot me, you're dead."

This made the archers wonder who was shooting whom.

However, the most ruthless were those Gray Clothes Gang members who shot arrows. When they ran out of arrows, they would directly pull arrows from their companions and shoot them back without even blinking. Ruthlessness and cruelty could be no more than this.

Meanwhile, on the player side, due to the shooting by Fang Zhen and others, the White Feather Gang members were being reduced almost every moment, causing the charging White Feather Gang members to quickly scatter.

"Excellent!"

"I'm getting this BOSS's first kill!"

One Leaf Floating Cloud, who had already rushed in front of Lante, held his spear with both hands and spun in mid-air, excitedly using Spiral Demon Spear Kill on Lante.

Lante, having just withstood a wave of combined attacks from Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qingwei, had very unstable health. However, he instinctively felt a sense of crisis from One Leaf Floating Cloud's attack and leaped again, using Mountain Breaker.

Bang!

With just one touch, the spear in Lante's hand was knocked away. Immediately after, a silver alloy spear pierced through Lante's neck, and his entire head flew off.

And in Lante's final moments, he saw that One Leaf Floating Cloud, who had used Spiral Demon Spear Kill, had lost an arm, was bleeding profusely all over, and clearly wouldn't live much longer.

But for some reason, the dying One Leaf Floating Cloud's face was beaming with joy, and he let out continuous cheers.

First kill!

I got his first kill!

"Damn it!"

Lante cursed in his heart. To his death, he couldn't understand when he had provoked such a terrifying gang. Not a single normal person in the entire gang.