Aftermath

The White Feather Gang's planting base.

"He's dead?"

"Our boss was an intermediate apprentice, how could he possibly lose to someone who isn't even an apprentice?"

The remaining four captains of the White Feather Gang stared at Lante, who had been instantly killed, and they were all terrified. Even if One Leaf Floating Cloud had taken Lante down with him, with Lante, the only intermediate apprentice in the base, dead, they had no chance of winning this battle.

Right now, just Luo Wu Shang and the injured Zhang Qingwei alone required all four of them to suppress, and the Grey Feather Gang in front of them still had nine experts comparable to apprentices.

It could be said that the two sides were not fighting on the same level.

"Run!"

"Everyone run! Go report!"

"Grey Feather Gang, you just wait, this matter will not end here, the terror of our White Feather Gang is beyond your imagination!"

Immediately, the four captains exchanged glances and almost all made the same decision.

Run!

After joining a gang, every member was tied to the gang, especially those stationed in a location. The gang required them to hold their ground, and anyone who feared battle would be directly dealt with by the gang afterward, so gang fights were quite brutal.

However, there was one type of escape that was permitted within the gang, and that was when the gap between the two sides was too large. This allowed for escape. Although there would be punishment afterward, those punishments were much lighter compared to death.

There were still over twenty surviving members. As long as they scattered and fled, they would definitely be able to escape the suppression range and notify other members of the White Feather Gang.

As long as they contacted the White Feather Gang headquarters, the Grey Feather Gang would be doomed.

In an instant, twenty-three White Feather Gang members turned and fled. Especially the four captains who had reached the apprentice level, they fled in four different directions.

As the White Feather Gang members turned to flee, the players present almost made the White Feather Gang members break down with a few sentences.

"Quick look! These monsters are so smart, they actually know how to escape!"

"Damn it! These monsters are too detestable, they'd rather give it to those archers than to us, do we have any grudges with them?"

"Do you think this is the game wanting us to practice Leopard Shadow Steps, which is why these monsters are running around?"

"Don't say it! This game really can do that. I haven't practiced my Leopard Shadow Steps much, and I've only just reached the beginner stage at 10%. Can any of you let me have a monster later so I can practice Leopard Shadow Steps? I don't ask for much, just kill them after they run out of the base."

The players present watched the White Feather Gang members scattering and fleeing, chatting leisurely, making the White Feather Gang members who hadn't run far feel like they were going crazy.

What kind of crazy gang is this?

It was one thing for them to be mentally ill, but these mentally ill people also practiced martial arts like Leopard Shadow Steps, were they afraid these mentally ill people wouldn't be able to catch up?

Martial arts were such precious things that ordinary people couldn't learn them even if they wanted to. Yet, the founder of the Grey Feather Gang taught them to a group of mentally ill people. Was the founder of the Grey Feather Gang this ruthless?

In an instant, within the White Feather Gang's planting base, every fleeing White Feather Gang member had a player chasing behind them, with the players shouting as they chased.

Run!

Run faster!

Why are you running so slowly?

As for the four fleeing captains of the White Feather Gang, they didn't have such good luck. They were completely treated as elite monsters by Luo Wu Shang and the other twelve, beings that needed to be "first-killed."

After only a few exchanges, the four captains of the White Feather Gang were swarmed and killed.

And at the main entrance of the White Feather Gang's planting base, until the battle was completely over, Luo Qi, who was standing next to Lin Qi, had not recovered from her shock.

With only thirty people, they had directly captured a planting base of the White Feather Gang, and only five of their own people were lost. This combat power was terrifying.

However, what made their scalps tingle even more was that all of them had mastered martial arts.

Although Luo Qi didn't know if everyone in this Grey Feather Gang had learned martial arts, learning martial arts was very expensive. Normally, for gangs operating in the wild, only a very small number of captains had the good fortune to learn them, in addition to the deputy leader and above.

And for the gangs in the suburbs, only the captain-level members mastered them, and ordinary members still had no chance to learn.

But in the Grey Feather Gang now, a group of people who were clearly not even apprentices had mastered martial arts, and even more than one type.

Such a gang was simply terrifying!

"Lin Zi, have you also joined this gang?" Luo Qi looked at Lin Qi, her gaze filled with complexity.

Although this Grey Feather Gang was very powerful, joining a gang meant living on the edge, having no control over oneself, and frequently participating in gang fights.

And when the Grey Feather Gang attacked, in Luo Qi's opinion, it was likely that Lin Qi had joined the Grey Feather Gang, which then persuaded the Grey Feather Gang to attack the White Feather Gang. The cost involved was unimaginable.

"You could say that." Lin Qi thought for a moment and nodded.

It was better to let Luo Qi misunderstand. After all, it was difficult for him to explain the players on his side, but if it were a mysterious gang, then many things would make sense.

"You must have paid a considerable price to find these people this time." Luo Qi looked at Lin Qi, who had admitted it. She felt a warmth in her heart, but also a deep sense of self-reproach. She then said very earnestly, "I am willing to bear all these costs alone. No matter how many years of debt I have to repay, I will earn it with all my might."

"Repay money?" Lin Qi looked at Luo Qi, who seemed uncomfortable if she didn't do something. After a moment of thought, he said, "That's not necessary. Our gang needs a lot of weapons recently. Can I trouble you to craft them personally? Of course, the payment won't be small."

He knew Luo Qi's craftsmanship well. This could be clearly seen from the A5 Black Steel Arrows she had made.

Even though Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qingwei had fought fiercely with Lante, the intermediate apprentice, for so long, the Black Steel Arrows had not been significantly damaged even when clashing with A6 weapons. In contrast, the protective gear on Lante and the captains' bodies was all in disarray, which showed that the forging process was very high.

"You just need me to craft weapons?" Luo Qi looked at Lin Qi with some surprise.

She considered her forging skills to be good in the suburbs. Although not comparable to the shop owner, she was still considered top-tier. Otherwise, the Green Sparrow Gang wouldn't have specifically asked her to craft weapons.

And she had prepared herself to lose a kidney, but they just told her she only needed to craft weapons to repay the debt. How could she believe this?

Having any of the gangs make a move would cost far more than an ordinary person could afford in a lifetime, let alone a lavish one like the White Feather Gang. It was as if every gang member was forged from gold; losing five of them meant an ordinary person couldn't even afford to pay for their life.

"Mhm, that should be it for now," Lin Qi nodded. Although he still wanted to discuss crafting protective gear, weapons were the most pressing need for the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

From this battle, Lin Qi understood very clearly that if Luo Wu Shang and the others had possessed decent weapons, the fight wouldn't have been so brutal.

Although only five out of thirty people had died, more than ten were seriously injured, and the rest suffered various injuries from the backlash of using their martial skills extensively.

If it weren't for the fact that players could be resurrected freely after death, this would have been equivalent to a complete annihilation for a gang. The victory was incredibly narrow.

In this High Martial world, player resurrection wasn't instant or in the same spot. They could only revive in the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall's confinement room. This meant that if a player died in the wilderness, they were completely out of the fight. By the time anyone reached them, the battle would already be over.

Afterward, Lin Qi quickly arranged for the players to clear the battlefield. They took everything they could from the White Feather Gang's cultivation base, leaving not even an immature stalk of Blood Essence Rice for the White Feather Gang. Everything was loaded onto the vehicles; anything that couldn't be loaded was burned to the ground, leaving nothing behind.

"The White Feather Gang truly lives up to its reputation as a top-hundred gang; even their cultivation base is this rich. Fortunately, the White Feather Gang had a medium-sized vintage transport vehicle and two Big Three-Wheelers, otherwise, we wouldn't have had enough space."

Lin Qi looked at the four full carts of goods and then, driving the vintage transport vehicle, led everyone back to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

After Lin Qi and his group quietly returned to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall under the cover of night, the Human Wasteland exploded once more. In fact, it wasn't just the Human Wasteland; many of the abandoned areas on the outskirts of the city were also in an uproar.

The White Feather Gang's outdoor cultivation base had been completely wiped out!

Not a single survivor remained!

This news spread like wildfire, directly reaching all the major abandoned areas.