Chapter 146: Chapter 48 Brother Xu Mo
What would the world look like without the constraints of law?
Xu Mo charged toward the leading Hunter.
To his surprise, the Hunter abandoned the fight, turned around, and fled toward the public area.
This Desert Hunter was no good samaritan.
But obviously, his speed was no match for Xu Mo’s, feeling the sound of pursuit behind him, he turned and slashed with his knife.
The knife was fast, its blade carrying an icy chill.
Xu Mo’s reaction was incredibly quick, he simply dodged the attack.
As the Hunter tried to swing his knife horizontally, Xu Mo grabbed his arm.
With a forceful yank, Xu Mo hurled him into the air, then violently smashed him toward the ground.
“Bang…”
A loud crash echoed, and the Hunter screamed, a sound of bones cracking followed.
He attempted to raise his knife, but Xu Mo’s foot stomped directly onto his hand, pressing down hard.
“Ah!” he howled in agony.
Looking into Xu Mo’s impassive face, how could he be so ruthless?
“Do you take off the helmet yourself, or shall I?” Xu Mo said, looking down at the other’s head.
“Xu Mo, it was just a joke, testing your strength,” the Hunter pleaded.
Jiang Tong removed his helmet, revealing his true face.
He had been coveting Sun Xiaoxiao for a long time.
Sun Xiaoxiao was foolish with abundant wealth and a privileged family background.
If he could secure her, it would aid his own growth.
However, Xiao Qi’s presence disgusted him.
A lowly Desert Hunter, always lingering around Xiaoxiao, haunting her like a bad spirit.
So when he saw Xu Mo and his group enter Ruins World, he got an idea to leave them with a profound memory.
He found three accomplices.
But they ultimately failed.
This Desert Hunter must have killed many monsters before, carrying a strong aura of violence, coldhearted and ruthless.
“A joke?” Xu Mo said mockingly, driving the knife into the Hunter’s palm.
“Ah!”
In the virtual world, one feels real pain.
Jiang Tong looked at Xu Mo with fear, was this the devil himself?
It had been a long time since Xu Mo had felt like this. Not since his days in the Underworld, where he was consumed with brutality.
Yet, at the academy, he met mostly decent people.
Somewhat content and at ease, he gradually forgot the harshness of the Underworld.
But Jiang Tong, if his intention had been merely to teach them a lesson, perhaps that would have been forgivable.
Yet, they had the audacity to attempt harm on Ye Qingdie.
Unforgivable.
To deal with such people, Xu Mo only knew to meet violence with violence.
“What are you doing?” A figure shouted from a distance.
Xu Mo looked up to see several figures sprinting toward them.
It was Li Man and Sun Xiaoxiao.
They saw Xu Mo abusing Jiang Tong.
“Save me,” Jiang Tong cried for help, his voice wretched as though he was the victim.
“Let him go,” Li Man ordered, her eyes cold as she stared at Xu Mo.
“What’s going on?” Sun Xiaoxiao asked.
Why had they started fighting?
Xu Mo glanced down at Jiang Tong and slid the knife across his throat, not killing him outright.
Jiang Tong’s face was filled with intense fear; his hands clutched at his bleeding neck as he slowly felt death approaching.
“How dare you be so presumptuous,” Li Man said icily, staring at Xu Mo.
Was it that they wouldn’t face consequences for their crime once they left the virtual space?
The same heinous acts would be avenged if traced back in the real world.
Yet Jiang Tong dared to make a move against Xu Mo and his group.
Firstly, he believed Xu Mo did not know their identities.
Secondly, even if he did know, Jiang Tong was not afraid of them.
In Jiang Tong’s view, Xu Mo and his companions were nothing but lowly Desert Hunters.
Xu Mo gave Li Man an indifferent look.
Of course, he knew that Li Man had always looked down on them.
He didn’t care what she thought.
As long as they didn’t provoke him.
Just like Jiang Tong.
Ignoring Li Man, Xu Mo turned to Ye Qingdie, “Let’s go.”
Shadow and Xiao Qi had been killed, Elsa had no student card.
Only the two of them remained.
Li Man rushed to Jiang Tong’s side, only to see him gazing desperately at her.
She understood his plea and swiftly granted him the mercy of death, closing her eyes until Jiang Tong vanished.
In such a situation, one’s only choices were to kill or to close down the machine from outside to forcefully log off.
Obviously, killing was the quicker option at close range.
“Did you see that?” Li Man said to Sun Xiaoxiao, “These Desert Hunters still carry their barbaric and savage nature, cruel and bloodthirsty. That guy getting close to you had no good intentions. Stay away from them, I don’t understand why Instructor Lin Xi would want to help them.”
“But, they lost two people too, right?”
Li Man, with her strong personal biases, saw the situation from a skewed perspective.
But Sun Xiaoxiao was without bias.
What she saw was the disappearance of Xiao Qi.
Most likely, Jiang Tong and his group had killed him.
Not knowing what happened, she couldn’t judge.
“Jiang Tong wouldn’t let them kill him so easily. It’s clear they ganged up on him and killed two of their own,” Li Man couldn’t believe Sun Xiaoxiao was still making excuses for Xu Mo and felt frustrated.
“Is that so?” Sun Xiaoxiao muttered.
What if he had always been that powerful?
She was still pondering why her father wanted her to be friends with Xu Mo and his group.
…
After Jiang Tong’s death, the knife in Xu Mo’s hand disappeared, indicating that equipment was not lootable.
They would have to earn their own equipment.
Some time later, they both obtained a set of gear.
The price of equipment in the score mall was about ten times the score of monsters of the same level.
For example, acquiring a C+ grade item would roughly require hunting ten C+ grade monsters.
Thus, obtaining cross-level equipment became a challenge.
Especially since the score for a B- grade monster was a hundred times that of a C+ grade, exchanging for B- grade equipment required hunting a thousand C+ grade monsters.