Chapter 171: Spoils of War (3K) 1
Translator: 549690339
Dead silence!
An extreme dead silence envelops these woods, and at this moment, it seems that even breathing is a great sin.
Whether it was the robber-like players or the black-listed criminals who had plundered many times, their eyes bulged round with fear and trepidation.
Baimian Shusheng, with a bounty of 32W Soul Sand, who had escaped the pursuit of the Tai Xuan Association multiple times and manipulated countless female players, and had already ascended to the peak of the Elite-level…
Lost.
Defeated in just one move!
That wealthy young lady…no, the girl who commanded the flock of crows, who exactly is she? Since she is not the Lord, who is the Lord?
What kind of new Lord could employ and control such a strong person?
Their thoughts raced, no, there was no room for them to think.
The bandits were killed one by one.
The wanted criminals who were with Baimian Shusheng were fairly Elite, all of them were of the Elite order, and among them, they were above average.
In terms of levels, they were higher than Lu Liu.
In terms of combat power, they couldn’t even last a single move against Lu Liu, and their mob attack was like a disorderly crowd.
No matter how large the wolf pack is, it can’t shake a giant beast.
At this moment, Lu Liu was like an invincible war God, smashing the ground trembling with each move, crushing the soil, stones, and trees like thin paper.
The awakened Halberd Guard and Imperial Guard, shouting the name of “General Lu”.
Only General Duo Lai was anxious, constantly mumbling, “Gently, gently, don’t break it!”
It looked around again. The intelligent General Duo Lai had already noticed that one of the enemies had disappeared unknowingly.
The most valuable one.
“Can General Duo Lai launch an attack now?”
“Yes.”
For the sake of the bounty, Great Lord Shepherd agreed to Miss Duo’s request for an attack.
After all, the battle power of White Fox Daisy isn’t very good, and it would be a bit reluctant for Lu Liu, such a heavily armored burly man, to chase the enemy.
To prevent any accidents, General Duo Lai soared into the sky.
“Coo !”
In the dense forest, Scarface, who was burly, robust, and vicious, and who could stop a child from crying just by standing there, was fleeing at high speed.
“That waste of a Scholar! A waste of a target he has chosen!”
He cursed angrily.
Scarface, who had a bounty of 40W Soul Sand and had escaped from the official chasers and bounty hunters multiple times, ended up falling into the hands of the ‘prey’.
This is a disgrace.
And a nightmare!
This caravan is clearly a Tyrannosaurus hiding in sheep’s clothing!
Scarface ran away. He was a player who preferred to confront his enemies head-on, without the fancy methods of Baimian Shusheng, and he dared not enter the official towns. But at this moment, he fled like a light bird, leaping in bounding leaps on the not-so-stout branches, making only a faint rustling noise.
Suddenly, Scarface paused in his steps.
He stood on a branch that was only as thick as his arm. His body, which stood over two meters tall and with arms thicker than the average person’s thighs, did not break the branch.
He squinted his eyes and looked at the figure standing in front of him not far away.
It was not the young girl who controlled the flock of crows or the invincible black-armored strongman, but only…
A plain and harmless-looking young girl with light-blue hair swirling slightly.
The look in her eyes was particularly intense.
“There’s a third strong player?”
“Well, I, Scarface, am not wronged to have lost.”
“But, are you sure you want to stop me? The whole robbery was planned by Baimian Shusheng, if you let me go, you’d just pretend you didn’t catch up, you could explain to your boss, and you wouldn’t have to fight for your life, how about that?”
However, the young girl in front of her seemed to have not heard his words, just mumbling something to herself.
She was mumbling a number.
Her gaze became increasingly intense.
As if… as if she was looking at prey on a cutting board.
Scarface was furious, even the Association’s capture team had never made him suffer such humiliation!
But in the next moment, he cooled down again, no longer distorted in appearance, and his eyes calmly stared at Duo Lai in the distance, “The reason I withdrew was to avoid unnecessary battles and not want to continue to be eroded, but now… it’s you who forced me.”
Scarface tore off the bandages coiled tightly around his left arm.
White fragments flew chaotically around him.
It revealed the inside, an unusually large left arm, covered with a series of crimson filaments. The muscles on it pulsed and writhed as if they had a life of their own.
Baimian Shusheng was just a collaborator, a tool to him, a self-deceiving fool.
He was not the same.
He seemed rough but was actually meticulous. He basically did not make a move unless necessary, so as to mislead his enemies.
Make those bounty hounds who were following the scent fall into his hands time and time again.
“A bounty of 40W can’t represent my strength at all.”
Scarface sprang out like a dragon, pulled out a Rare-grade fire gun from his right hand, and fired several shots at the blue-haired young girl in the distance. The bullets containing explosive energy, one after another, stalled in front of the young girl, creating ripples, as if they were frozen in a mud pit.
Gravity • Repulsion Barrier!
Scarface was not surprised, the shots from the fire gun were just a feint, his real killer move was…
The already stout left hand, suddenly swelled several sizes, turning into a crimson giant hand. A huge mouth more than a meter and a half in diameter cracked open inside the palm of the giant hand, and countless tentacles reached out from inside, looking extremely terrifying.
This was the corrupting power derived from the servant of the Fallen God.
Its existence required life, and its master, Scars, had to offer sacrifices to use it. Otherwise, the power of erosion would devour him.
“Now, it’s your turn to serve as its sacrifice!”
A giant hand slapped down.
However, behind the blue-haired girl, a silver giant hand thrust out as well.
Two colossal palms collided, stirring up a blast of wild wind in the jungle, swooshing up all the fallen leaves on the ground, causing continuous rustling sounds.
But the erosive giant palm of Scars was not just about power.
A huge mouth opened in the palm of his hand, a terrifying erosion power spreading out, accompanied by numerous tendrils.
But at this moment, a crack also appeared in the silver giant hand’s palm, revealing a black void as if capable of devouring everything.
The onrushing erosion power was…
Devoured!!
This is the power of the Fallen God’s servant!
However, the energy of the enormous crimson arm was draining away, visibly withering at an observable rate.
“Pah!”
Duo Lai spat out saliva, and a dazzling thunderlight burst out of the silver giant palm.
The blinding arc of thunder flipped trees over and destroyed rocks and soil.
Under the crazed surge, Duo Lai remained unmoved. The gravitation shields scattered around it repelled all the shattered woods and rocks flying towards it.
It looked ahead.
Out of the smoke and dust, Giant Hand Scars had sprung up, running away as hard as he could.
Several cannon fodder soldiers that he summoned to buy time, roared toward Duo Lai, only to be burned to ashes the next moment.
However, by this time, Giant Hand Scars, who was running away as fast and desperately as possible, had already raced over a thousand meters, raising clouds of dust, turning any monsters in his way into dust with a wave of his hand.
Despite rushing recklessly, he was moving incredibly quickly.
However,
How could the speed of man be faster than light, faster than thunder?
Blinding thunder lights suddenly appeared behind him. A silver object shot out from the thunder, like a super electromagnetic cannon piercing through the giant hand Scars, and with undiminished prowess, it penetrated trees, and split rocks before finally blasting open in the distance.
Scars came to a halt.
The next moment,
Whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz
Several silver super electromagnetic bullets, entwined in thunder light, penetrated Scars’ torso, shattering his heart.
He finally toppled to the ground, lifeless.
“Finally… He’s finally dead.”
Duo Lai didn’t care that it had achieved this ‘critical moment’, ‘in order to not destroy important evidence’, and thus, the big explosion of its miniature universe had genuinely learned the real super electromagnetic cannon.
It merely rushed forward nervously until it saw that the whole head of the scarred man was still intact, then it breathed a big sigh of relief.
“Yay!”
“But, how much is 40 W worth of Soul Sand?”
While Duo Lai caught up and killed the high-rewarded Giant Hand Scars, the combat on the other side had already ended.
Under the reminder of the Great Lord Shepherd, everyone quickly cleaned up the battlefield, erased all traces around, and changed their positions.
Then came the tallying of the spoils they got from these bandits.
“So poor!”
In Shiling Town, Sophia thought she was poor, as she had to pay 1,500 Soul Sands a day for lodging there. However, after searching through the bodies of these bandits, she felt these guys were much poorer.
“That’s normal, who would be a bandit if they had money.”
Daisy piped in.
They got slightly over four thousand Soul Sands from the first batch of bandits, plus a dozen or so Remnant Souls, and some mass-market props and equipment.
Yet, for the second batch: Giant Hand Scars, Baimian Shusheng, and several other notorious wanted criminals, they only gathered less than one thousand grams of Soul Sand.
They seemed even poorer.
“That’s normal.”
Mu Yuan explained, “The first batch are likely greedy old players who want to play the temporary role of a bandit, killing and robbing in lawless places, only to find that when greed arises, they fall into abyss. These players have a few Soul Sands in their pockets. As they are weak, they naturally don’t have much money.
“The second batch of players are real criminals. They usually concentrate their limited resources on themselves and won’t keep Soul Sands in their pockets. It’s normal for them to be poor. However, they are not really poor.”
Mu Yuan signaled a few halberd-wearing imperial guards who had awakened self-awareness to remove the clothes and armours from Shusheng, Scars, and several others.
And displayed them one by one.
As these equipments were unclaimed, Duo Lai, who had the identity of a hero, used the identification spell on each one, and eventually found seven rare pieces of equipment.
A pair of daggers belonging to Shusheng were the gems among rare-level equipments.
They wouldn’t sell for a small sum.
After all, being just Ranger Players, they couldn’t possibly compare to the Lords, especially the second-generation Lords.
Apart from this, there were some bits and pieces.
There seemed to be treasures among the odds and ends. Based on its sharp intuition, Duo Lai flipped out an old, crinkled piece of paper.
It seemed like a treasure map.
Although it looked old and dilapidated, it was tried and found to be extremely sturdy, immune from blades and fire damage.
However, this treasure map was only half intact, and its divine rhythm was not evident.
You could only vaguely see the words “bury…………….. earth”.
Perhaps you need the other half to unlock the true information?
This was just a piece of paper beneficial to some extent, but in most likelihood, it would prove useless.
Mu Yuan told Duo Lai to store it away, then looked at the encapsulated heads presented before him.