Danger Zone 0911 outskirts.
A pack of Mutant Hounds charged over, baring their fangs and claws!
Standing 1.9 meters tall,
Lin Chen held a two-meter Mo Saber, yet instead of dodging,
he charged straight at them!
As dozens of Mutant Hounds closed in,
Lin Chen gripped his Mo Saber and swung it horizontally and vertically!
He forcibly carved out a one-meter Safe Zone around himself!
Whenever a Mutant Hound came close, it was either sliced in half at the waist or disemboweled!
Otherwise, its head flew off, blood spraying everywhere!
[ Ding! Killed one Mutant Hound. Qi-Blood Value +0.1! ] [ Ding! Killed three Mutant Hounds. Qi-Blood Value +0.3! ] [ Ding! Used Mad Demon Slash twice. Proficiency +0.2! ] [ Ding! Killed ten Mutant Hounds. Qi-Blood Value +1! ]
With his blood and qi boiling,
Lin Chen seemed to possess endless strength as he crazily swung his saber!
After killing the last Mutant Hound, the ruins fell silent!
Covered in blood, Lin Chen swept his gaze around.
He immediately stabbed his saber into the ground and dropped onto his butt.
After that frenzied slaughter, his stamina had also been draining at light speed!
Fortunately, his continuously increasing Qi-Blood Value barely held off the weakness in his body!
Without bothering to rest, Lin Chen got up and swiftly stored the corpses of the dozens of Mutant Hounds away.
After finishing all that, he pulled the Mo Saber back out of the ground!
A casual glance made Lin Chen's eyes light up!
The rusty blade had actually revealed a patch of silver-white metal!
Though it was only the size of a fingernail, it was still clearly visible at a glance!
What was going on?
Could it be that killing Monsters had worn away the rust?
Lin Chen pursed his lips.
He had even hoped this saber came with tetanus damage.
Who would have thought that after only a few swings, the rust had actually worn off!
"Better head home first..."
Lin Chen shook his head slightly.
Knowing when to quit, he understood that this was not a place to linger. He immediately sprinted toward Chuan City!
Not long after he left, another pack of First-Level Demon Beasts came howling over, drawn by the scent of blood...
At the city gate.
As night fell, the final Bus 502 arrived at the station.
After getting off, the bus driver glanced at the gate and skillfully lit a cigarette.
As he puffed out smoke, he seemed to be waiting for something.
As time passed bit by bit,
figures gradually began entering through the city gate.
Their eyes were cold, their expressions stern.
Wrapped in Alloy Battle Armor, they radiated killing intent!
Unfazed by the sight, the bus driver blew out a smoke ring.
He looked at the returning Martial Artists and nodded slightly in greeting!
Some Martial Artists left on other means of transportation without even turning their heads.
Others, short on cash, silently boarded the bus.
After several people took seats inside, the bus driver could not help but sigh!
He thought that he had made ten trips today!
There had been eight Martial Artists heading out in total!
No!
Including that last rookie, there had been nine!
Yet fewer than five had returned now!
The fate of those who had not returned was easy to imagine!
Time to go!
Just as the faintly sighing bus driver was about to head back,
another figure came running through the city gate.
The person was tall and thin, dressed in the most ordinary, cheap Combat Suit.
If his face had not still been recognizable,
his blood-covered body would have looked exactly like a corpse!
"Wait for me! I haven't gotten on yet!"
The sprinting Lin Chen drew quite a bit of attention.
The Monster blood covering his body made the two Martial Artists on the bus frown.
After secretly glancing at him a few times, they chose to ignore him!
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"Holy shit! It's you, rookie!"
"How many Monsters did you kill?"
After recognizing Lin Chen, the bus driver asked with a face full of surprise!
"Kill what Monsters?" Lin Chen complained. "It was my first day out. It was lucky enough that I wasn't killed by Monsters. This is blood that splashed onto me when some One-Star big shot killed Monsters!
"It scared me so badly that I ran straight back. Outside the city is way too terrifying!"
Bus driver: "..."
Speechless, the bus driver withdrew his shock.
He glanced at Lin Chen and started the bus back.
After hearing that, the two Martial Artists who had frowned earlier showed a trace of contempt in their eyes and stopped paying attention to him!
Just like that,
Lin Chen successfully fooled them.
Not intending to draw attention, he casually found a place to sit!
Looking at the closed city gate, the corner of his mouth rose.
Chuan City Martial Arts Base enforced a curfew!
Martial Artists were not allowed to leave the city to train at night!
If they failed to return on time, they could only spend the night outside the city.
Lin Chen, who had run fast enough to make it back, smiled slightly and opened his panel:
[ Name: Lin Chen! ] [ Age: 18! ] [ Specialty: 18 cm! ] [ Realm: One-Star Martial Artist! ] [ Qi-Blood Value: 402/600!! ] [ Combat Skill: Mad Demon Slash! Entry Level! (Entry Level, Minor Mastery, major mastery, perfection!) ]
His Qi-Blood Value had surged from 351 to 402!
And that was only from killing a few dozen First-Level Demon Beasts!
If he killed several hundred,
Lin Chen seriously suspected that he could break through to Two-Star Martial Artist today!
As for Mad Demon Slash, it was still at the Novice Stage, with some distance left before Minor Mastery!
After closing the panel,
Lin Chen sank his consciousness into the Warrior Badge space.
When he saw the mountain-like pile of Monster corpses, his heart was filled with excitement!
For someone who had gone outside the city to hunt Monsters for the first time, such gains were already far from easy to achieve!
For anyone else, simply surviving would have been impressive enough!
Happy as he was,
Lin Chen began thinking about where to trade these Monster corpses!
Not wanting to attract attention, once the bus reached its stop, he headed straight for an empty alley...
A moment later, a figure wearing flashy sunglasses and a Duckbill Cap appeared in the Warrior Association Trading Hall!
That person was none other than Lin Chen!
Wanting to conceal his identity, he looked over the many trading shops.
Then he went around asking them one by one!
After making a round of inquiries, he finally stopped at Old Li Exchange!
"You're back? Did you check the prices?"
The shop owner was a fat middle-aged man with a face full of smiles!
Rubbing his hands together, he glanced at Lin Chen as though he was already used to seeing him return!
"Stop hesitating. My place offers the highest price for First-Level Demon Beasts in the whole exchange. Kid, are you selling or not?"
Hearing the question, Lin Chen nodded.
After confirming that no one was behind him, he walked into the shop.
Clatter...
With a thought from Lin Chen, the Warrior Badge space instantly emptied!
The mountain-like pile of Monster corpses appeared before Old Li.
"Damn, no wonder you were so cautious. You made quite a haul, kid. You're already a Two-Star Martial Artist, right?"
Lin Chen did not say a word.
Seeing that, Old Li did not ask further.
After all, Martial Artists had their rules, and exchanges had their rules too.
They never asked where a Martial Artist's goods came from.
Very soon, after doing some calculations, Old Li said with a smile:
"I pay five thousand per First-Level Demon Beast corpse. Thirty-five of them comes to 175,000. Want to count it?"
Looking at the money handed over to him, Lin Chen directly stored it in his badge!
Monster corpse prices at the exchange were divided by rank.
First-Level Demon Beasts were the cheapest, averaging only a few thousand each.
Second-Level Demon Beast corpses would be worth double.
And so on—the higher the rank of the Monster corpse, the more valuable it was!
Back when he killed fish at RT-Mart, Lin Chen only earned three thousand a month!
Now, after just one trip outside the city, his net worth had instantly skyrocketed!
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