Lin Mo set his sights on the wealthy girl, Xia Wanwan!

With his A-rank talent, Mutual Destruction, Ling Xiao had worked his way up to third place on Cloudside Town's Heaven Ranking.

But he was always one step behind Wang Junjie.

Especially now that he had several hundred Crime Points, he could no longer use Mutual Destruction to kill Boss Monsters and level up.

If he died, he would lose an enormous amount of experience, making it more trouble than it was worth!

At this point, he had lost every means of fighting back against Wang Junjie, but he wanted to win!

So Lin Mo's first remark had undoubtedly given him tremendous confidence!

But the two hundred thousand he mentioned afterward was like a bucket of cold water, instantly extinguishing his hopes.

Looking embarrassed, Ling Xiao asked, "Could... could you lower the price?"

"I really can't come up with two hundred thousand."

Lin Mo said nothing, as though deliberately waiting for something.

Just then, Xia Wanwan, standing beside them, told Lin Mo, "I have it!"

"I'll pay you!"

Knowing that Ling Xiao, a university student, had no money, Lin Mo had been waiting for Xia Wanwan to speak up. He immediately smiled. "Deal!"

"Wanwan..." Ling Xiao looked at Xia Wanwan, seemingly wanting to say something.

But Xia Wanwan shook her head and smiled gently. "It's all right, as long as I can be with you!"

With that, Xia Wanwan asked Lin Mo for his bank account number and immediately transferred two hundred thousand to him!

Normally, Lin Mo would have been utterly astonished to see someone produce two hundred thousand so easily.

After all, Xia Wanwan was only a student at Ning University.

But at that moment, Lin Mo wasn't surprised in the slightest.

Because he knew... Xia Wanwan was actually a wealthy girl!

Ever since seeing Xia Wanwan, Lin Mo had kept racking his brain. She seemed so familiar!

Finally, he remembered: in his previous life, he had heard people in the game mention that Ning University's campus beauty, Xia Wanwan, had originally enjoyed a happy family life. Both her parents were senior corporate executives, and her family was affluent.

But during a business trip by car, her parents had died at the scene of an accident, leaving Xia Wanwan an inheritance of five million!

That was how Xia Wanwan had become a wealthy girl while still attending university.

And those five million were precisely what Lin Mo had his sights on!

Once Oracle devours reality in three months, those five million will be nothing but a pile of wastepaper to them anyway.

But in my hands, they'll instantly get me 10% of the way toward my fifty-million cumulative top-up goal!

Lin Mo had very little time left.

He had to scrape together fifty million as quickly as possible, by any means necessary-even if it took some scheming!

Five million in exchange for someone with an SSS-rank talent like me personally protecting you two-that's worth it, right?

Of course, Lin Mo couldn't make an outrageous demand right away and ask for five million, draining Xia Wanwan's savings dry.

To get those five million, he had to take it slowly, one step at a time!

And this two hundred thousand was his first step!

"Then when do we start?" Xia Wanwan asked anxiously, biting her lip.

According to Cloudside Town's level leaderboard, Wang Junjie had already reached level 9 with 13% progress. He was only a step away from level 10!

Meanwhile, Ling Xiao was only level 8 with 25% progress. The gap was far too large!

Xia Wanwan feared they were already out of time.

Unhurried, Lin Mo confirmed that he had received the two hundred thousand.

Then he answered, "Now."

With that, Lin Mo created a party and invited Ling Xiao and Xia Wanwan.

He then turned to Skinny Monkey and Pang Dahai beside them. "You two, join as well."

"Me?" Pang Dahai pointed at himself, overwhelmed by the unexpected favor. "Can I really?"

"Like hell you can!" Skinny Monkey slapped Pang Dahai on the forehead and complained, "Don't you know every extra person cuts Brother Xiao's experience gains by 10%?"

"Why would we get in the way?"

Pang Dahai rubbed his head, looking aggrieved.

But Lin Mo said casually, "It's fine. Join up. I'll get all four of you to level 10 before Wang Junjie."

"In return, seventy percent of your leveling rewards go to me. You keep the other thirty percent."

"Can... can that really work?" Skinny Monkey clearly wasn't concerned about the rewards. He was worried that he would slow Ling Xiao's leveling down.

Skinny Monkey gritted his teeth as though making a firm decision, then looked resolutely at Ling Xiao. "Brother Xiao, you were the one who pulled me out from under that truck on the road back then. I owe you my life!"

"If this doesn't work, I'll go kill Wang Junjie in real life! Damn it, even if it costs me my life, I won't let him get his hands on your girl!"

"There's no need to be so pessimistic." Lin Mo sighed helplessly. "Could you guys have a little faith in me, the number one on the Heaven Ranking?"

Ling Xiao told Skinny Monkey and Pang Dahai, "You two should join too."

"We'll follow Mo Shou Cheng Gui's lead."

As they spoke,

Lin Mo led the party out of the Shadow Nest and into another nearby level 10 wilderness area: the Ant Nest!

"According to Oracle's rules, each person in a five-player party only gets 50% of the combat experience!"

They entered the Ant Nest map.

Before the fighting began, Skinny Monkey was still anxiously checking Oracle's official guides and Cloudside Town's level leaderboard. He muttered, "Wang Junjie has so many people helping him farm monsters. Our pace... it'll be hard to catch up with him."

While Skinny Monkey, Pang Dahai, and the others were fretting,

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Lin Mo raised the Brave Golden Bow and targeted the level 10 monsters, [Man-Eating Ants], that were everywhere around them. With his agility of a whopping 188, he fired four shots a second!

-1119 (critical hit)!

-1164 (critical hit)!

-1209 (critical hit)!

-1254 (critical hit)!

[Ding! Your teammate has killed a level 10 Man-Eating Ant. You gained 120 experience points (base 50% + region-wide Blessing Aura 10%)!]

[Ding! Your teammate has killed a level 10 Man-Eating Ant. You gained 120 experience points!]

[Ding...]

Skinny Monkey, Pang Dahai, and the others instantly stared wide-eyed, utterly dumbstruck.

A thousand words rose to their lips, only to condense into two thunderous words-

"Holy shit!!?"

Lin Mo's heart gave a jolt.

I forgot to turn on Health Lock...

With that, Lin Mo activated Health Lock mode.

He continued targeting the nearby Man-Eating Ants.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Each arrow dealt over 1,200 critical damage, reducing every ant he hit to 1 HP!

At the same time, Lin Mo told Ling Xiao, "Go get the last hits."

Ling Xiao quickly caught on.

Sword in hand, he charged toward the Man-Eating Ants that Lin Mo had crippled.

Swish!

Swish!

Swish!

-97!

-97!

-97!

As the third-ranked player on the Heaven Ranking, Ling Xiao was actually quite strong.

He only seemed insignificant when compared to Lin Mo.

And so, with one slash per ant, Ling Xiao easily finished off the Man-Eating Ants that Lin Mo had reduced to 1 HP.

He received the extra 30% experience bonus for landing the last hit, along with the Blessing Aura that increased kill rewards by 10%, which every player in Cloudside Town had received from the first boss kill.

Each Man-Eating Ant gave Ling Xiao a full 180 experience points!

The speed of their monster farming left Skinny Monkey, Pang Dahai, and even Xia Wanwan stunned!

Just then, Lin Mo asked the dumbfounded group, "Want to go even faster?"

"Yes!!" They nodded eagerly.

"Then go lure more monsters over," Lin Mo instructed.

Skinny Monkey and Pang Dahai immediately ran to the outskirts to draw more Man-Eating Ants toward them.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Lin Mo's slaughter grew even more savage and bloodthirsty!

Countless Man-Eating Ants rushed in from every direction, only to be shot down dozens of yards away without even getting a chance to approach him!

Meanwhile, Wang Junjie remained completely unaware that [Wind Soughs Sadly], third on the Heaven Ranking, was rapidly gaining levels.

All he knew was, "If those bastards from Ning University hadn't interfered, Mo Shou Cheng Gui never would've stolen my boss!"

"Damn it, that useless Ling Xiao must've called them over!"

Wang Junjie ground his teeth.

A vicious plan for revenge also took shape in his mind:

You worthless piece of trash! Looks like you still don't know who's in charge, huh? You actually dared to help Mo Shou Cheng Gui go against me?

"Just you wait! Once I hit level 10, I'm going to fucking livestream myself screwing Xia Wanwan to death!"

Those words sent the nearby Troubled Times Guild lackeys into a frenzy of excitement.

"Boss, are you really going to livestream it? Which platform?"

Wang Junjie snapped, "Stream your sister!"

The lackey replied, "Boss, you mean you'll start streaming if I bring my sister over? You got it! I'll go get her right now!"

Wang Junjie snapped, "Stream your mother!"

The lackey replied, "You got it! I'll dig my mother up too!"

Wang Junjie shouted, "Get lost!"

The lackey replied, "You got it!"