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E Lin Mo picked up the bow Wang Junjie had dropped and inspected it. Sure enough, it was the level 5, tier 1, purple-quality [Magic Bow] he had drawn from Card Master Carl and then listed at the auction house, where Wang Junjie had bought it for twenty thousand!
"Excellent."
"That makes up for last time, when he only dropped a skill book and no equipment!"
With 200 Crime Points to his name, his drop rate upon death had increased dramatically.
So besides the Magic Bow, Wang Junjie had also dropped two pieces of blue equipment, both of which he had paid a fortune for at the auction house!
And all of that equipment had been listed by Lin Mo, too.
After coming full circle...
Almost everything Wang Junjie had paid Lin Mo for had ended up back in Lin Mo's hands!
Lin Mo could just imagine how devastated Wang Junjie must have been right now!
Sure enough.
Before long, Wang Junjie's voice appeared in the regional chat channel.
[Hero of Troubled Times] (level 6, male, second on the Heaven Ranking): "Mo Shou Cheng Gui, fuck your mother! Your mother got *** by me!"
"I ***"
"You ****"
[Mo Shou Cheng Gui] (level 9, male, first on the Heaven Ranking): "Oh, Junjie, how'd you drop to level 6? Weren't you just level 7?"
"Oh, and I think you dropped your weapon. I'll put it up at the auction house later. Remember to bring twenty thousand to pick it up."
With that, Lin Mo casually reported Wang Junjie's messages.
[Ding~ Report submitted successfully. Please wait for system feedback!] [Ding~ The system has detected severe verbal abuse by player Hero of Troubled Times. He has been muted for 5 hours!]
Meanwhile, at the Resurrection Spring in Cloudside Town.
Wang Junjie, whose three-hour mute had only just expired, discovered that he had been muted for another five hours.
He became so furious that his brain was starved of oxygen, and he collapsed headfirst into the spring.
"The boss passed out again!"
"Boss, wake up! Boss!"
"Boss, urgh... you stink..."
No matter how foul Wang Junjie seemed to everyone else.
To Lin Mo, Wang Junjie was always a delight!
Every time Lin Mo killed Wang Junjie for his drops, his earnings almost matched what he could make from killing a minor Boss Monster!
Delighted, Lin Mo tucked the purple Magic Bow and the other pieces of blue equipment into his inventory.
He surveyed the battlefield.
Seeing Wang Junjie killed and looted, the Troubled Times Guild players scattered in every direction.
After all, they were only there for the money. Their loyalty to Wang Junjie was practically zero.
With Wang Junjie gone, who were they supposed to keep up the act for?
Just then, Lin Mo spotted an overlooked... Tree Demon boss!
"Oh, there's a Boss Monster here, too?"
Lin Mo was pleasantly surprised.
After a moment's thought.
Lin Mo guessed that Wind Soughs Sadly had intended to use [Mutual Destruction] to kill this Boss Monster for its drops, only for Wang Junjie to discover him and bring his men over to steal it.
On the surface, this Tree Demon boss appeared to have sparked the conflict between the two sides.
In reality, though, things probably weren't that simple.
"Wang Junjie and Mutual Destruction seem to have had some kind of feud already!"
Of course, that had little to do with Lin Mo.
As it happened, Lin Mo only needed another 5% experience to reach level 10.
"Taking down this level 7 Tree Demon boss should be enough!"
With that thought.
Lin Mo raised the Brave Golden Bow and opened fire on the Tree Demon!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
-686 (critical hit)!
-686 (critical hit)!
-686 (critical hit)!
Roar...
With a mournful howl, the Tree Demon boss collapsed to the ground, dead.
[Ding~ You have slain the level 10 Boss Monster, Tree Demon Boss. Experience +2400, reputation +3 (rewards reduced by 20% for killing a monster 2 levels below you)!]
The surrounding players were instantly dumbstruck.
"Holy shit... he instantly killed a level 7 Boss Monster! What kind of monster is this Mo Shou Cheng Gui?!"
"He's incredible! And handsome, too. If only Mo Shou Cheng Gui were my boyfriend. I wouldn't even mind if he finished in seconds!"
"Hey, gorgeous, let me be your boyfriend! I'm amazing, too! He's good at games, but I'm good in bed. I guarantee you'll want a second round after the first!"
"You creep! Get lost!"
Whoosh!
Warm golden light descended over Lin Mo's head.
The long-awaited system notifications arrived right on cue-
[Ding~ Congratulations, you have leveled up! All five attributes +1, free attribute points +3. Current level: 10. You have reached the maximum level. Please complete your class advancement to raise the level cap!] [Ding~ Congratulations on reaching level 10! System reminder: complete the final step, class advancement, to claim the first-place reward in the Level Rush event!]
"I still have to advance my class before I can claim the reward?"
Lin Mo frowned slightly.
"Did they copy this event's tricks from Pinduoduo?"
Still, first place was already in the bag for Lin Mo, so there was no need to worry.
After all, as of now, the second-place Wang Junjie was only level 6 and posed absolutely no threat to Lin Mo!
Lin Mo bent down to collect the Tree Demon boss's loot.
Since the Tree Demon's level was lower than Lin Mo's, its drop rate had been reduced considerably.
Beneath the Tree Demon's corpse, Lin Mo found only five silver coins and two pieces of level 7, tier 1 green equipment!
Together, they were probably worth four or five thousand!
Not bad!
After all, he'd gotten them for free!
With the battle over, Lin Mo turned his gaze toward Ling Xiao.
He walked toward him.
The university girls immediately put their own bodies between him and Ling Xiao to protect him.
"Y-you... what do you want?"
"Don't you dare bully Ling Xiao!"
Their attitude was still the same as last time.
This time, however, there was noticeably less wide-eyed stupidity in their eyes, and considerably more awe toward Lin Mo!
After all, Lin Mo had even dared to kill Wang Junjie, the richest man in Ning'an City, whom no one at their entire Ning'an University dared offend!
He was simply too powerful!
Lin Mo swept his gaze across them.
"Idiots."
With that, Lin Mo merely walked past them without attacking.
As it turned out, Lin Mo had never intended to kill Ling Xiao in the first place!
Although, in Lin Mo's eyes, Ling Xiao was no different from Wang Junjie-both were eyesores.
The main issue was that Ling Xiao's name was currently white.
Killing him would mean wasting another half hour or more grinding away Lin Mo's Red Name status.
Besides, Ling Xiao was nowhere near as lucrative as Wang Junjie. Killing him would have no value at all.
On top of that, Lin Mo was in a hurry to head back, advance his class, craft equipment, and kill bosses.
He had no time to play around with them!
As they watched Lin Mo's figure recede into the distance.
The university girls still seemed a little disgruntled.
"Tch, what's his problem? What a poser!"
"Exactly. So he's good at a game. What's so impressive about that?"
"If Wang Junjie hadn't kept causing trouble, Ling Xiao would definitely be progressing much better than him!"
"Enough!"
Just as the girls were muttering complaints about Lin Mo, Ling Xiao suddenly snapped, "If it weren't for Mo Shou Cheng Gui, we'd all be dead by now!"
As he spoke, Ling Xiao gazed after the departing Lin Mo, an unusual gleam surfacing in his deep eyes...
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