Chapter 397: Chapter 378: The First Battle of the Trial
When Lin Yi finished dealing with the Demon Race, Aoshi Wangchu came over to Lin Yi and asked:
"What do we do next?"
In Lin Yi’s line of sight, a thief wearing leather armor was hiding in a small dirt pit behind.
Where Lin Yi had just looked towards actually had nothing; the purpose of doing this was to not alert the enemy.
Now, Lin Yi just wanted to see what this group of people actually intended to do.
If these people left with good sense, it would naturally be best.
It’s still just the beginning of the event, it’s estimated these people don’t even have any points on them; killing them would be pointless.
However, if these people didn’t have good sense, Lin Yi wouldn’t mind using up one of their resurrection chances.
Seeing Aoshi Wangchu’s nervous look, Lin Yi gently comforted:
"Just proceed as usual!"
After killing those Demon Race creatures, Lin Yi’s score became 38.
Banxia and others each got 9 points, this gap was not minor.
But Aoshi Wangchu and the others didn’t mind.
After all, it’s just the beginning; the real winner is whoever reaches the end of this trial.
And with their strength, reaching the end depended solely on Feng Hua.
So Feng Hua taking the lion’s share was naturally as it should be, right?
They also clearly knew many wished to team up with Feng Hua, encountering them was already very fortunate, how dare they ask for more.
Just then, Lin Yi surprisingly discovered that with his current 38 points, he couldn’t even make the top 100 on the leaderboard.
Because of this, Lin Yi specially opened the points interface to check, only to find out his ranking was outside a thousand, and still dropping.
This meant that in just this little while, at least a thousand or more teams had already dealt with at least one wave of the Demon Race.
But thinking about the massive number of players in this trial event, Lin Yi felt relieved.
After all, this participation included top players from around the world, having this result wasn’t hard to understand.
Afterward, Lin Yi glanced at the equipment dropped by the Demon Race and said to everyone:
"Take a look at the equipment, whoever can use it, divide it among yourselves. If none of you can use it, roll dice to decide its ownership."
With Lin Yi’s vision, naturally, he wouldn’t care for these ordinary equipment items. Moreover, since he took most of the points, giving them these equipment items could be seen as compensation.
While sorting through the equipment, they found a level 20 Rare Magic Staff. Wangchu asked Lin Yi:
"Boss Feng, do you want this?"
Lin Yi shook his head directly and said:
"No need, you guys divide it among yourselves."
After exchanging glances, everyone was not polite and began dividing the items one by one.
They, of course, understood that with Lin Yi’s power, these items naturally weren’t worth his notice.
Just that wave, apart from the equipment dropped by the level 35 Demon Spirit, which they could use, the items dropped by level 20 and below Demon men were twenty-level equipment at most, which they would sell off back home.
After distributing the spoils and taking a slight rest, Lin Yi then said to everyone:
"Let’s go, and see if there’s a hidden passage inside here or something."
Everyone nodded in agreement, and Lin Yi reminded:
"Be careful."
Then, Lin Yi’s group carefully walked over the remnants and started searching among the ruins.
Only Lin Yi seemed to be searching aimlessly, but in reality, he was step by step walking towards the spot where the Demon man had disappeared earlier.
After about three or four minutes, Lin Yi ’coincidentally’ reached the spot:
"Found it!"
Underneath a pile of rubble, Lin Yi vaguely saw a cellar-like entrance, with a locked wooden board sealing it.
Everyone was startled: there really was one!
Lin Yi then motioned for everyone to come over with a wave of his hand, and they cautiously approached Lin Yi’s position.
When they saw the entrance blocked by the wooden board, their faces all showed shocked expressions.
Duoduo was even more surprised:
"There really is a secret passage!"
At this moment, the way Duoduo looked at Lin Yi contained an inexplicable admiration:
"Boss Feng, you are amazing, you even discovered this."
One had to know that the area of this ruin was not small.
And above the ruins were collapsed buildings, various old equipment, and bones; if Lin Yi hadn’t initially noticed the Demon man’s odd number, who would have imagined there was a hidden tunnel here?
According to ordinary thinking, one would either engage in battle around here to lure out any possible danger inside;
Or ignore it post-battle, then leave after gathering the spoils.
Unless discovered by chance, few would think to search this seemingly ordinary ruin.
At this point, this small squad fully accepted the authority of this man in front of them, the game’s number one.
Lin Yi didn’t care what was on their minds; he mulled over the entrance position for a moment and, for the sake of caution, turned to Blood Conceal Demon and said:
"You go down first and check the situation. If anything feels wrong, get out immediately, understand?"
Blood Conceal Demon nodded and went into Stealth mode.
Although Blood Conceal Demon had always been silent, like he was keeping people at a distance,
he never slacked off or hesitated on Lin Yi’s commands.
Lin Yi liked cooperating with people like Blood Conceal Demon, decisive and straightforward, much like Tian Ci and Red Eyes.
Lin Yi:
"Are you ready?"
Blood Conceal Demon:
"I’m ready."
"Good!"
Lin Yi backed away a few steps and then told Banxia and Duoduo:
"You both come behind me."
Then he said to Aoshi Wangchu:
"You guard the back."
A few people stood in position according to Lin Yi’s instructions, and under his signal, the Blood Conceal Demon cautiously opened the wooden board.
As soon as the board was lifted, a ghostly light immediately shone from inside.
At that moment, Lin Yi suddenly said:
"Wait a minute!"
"Crack!"
The Blood Conceal Demon stopped mid-way through lifting the board and looked at Lin Yi in confusion.
Lin Yi gestured for the Blood Conceal Demon to put the board back, and he did so accordingly.
Lin Yi turned his head to the side, sneering coldly:
"This is a dead end."
Banxia and others looked in the direction of Lin Yi’s gaze and noticed four players approaching with mischievous smiles.
What caught everyone’s attention the most was the set of teeth gleaming with a white sheen. Duoduo almost blurted out:
"Damn, those are some white teeth."
A black person!
Based on the equipment and appearance, they were not players from the Hua Country War Zone.
The black person’s teeth and eye whites were as striking as fireflies in the night, hard to ignore.
"Hey, friends, we found this place first. What are you doing here?"
A slightly arrogant voice suddenly came from their team.
It was obvious they were here for the secret passage beneath the ruins.
Hearing this, Duoduo couldn’t help but roll his eyes:
"Why do we always run into shameless idiots like this everywhere?"
"What did you say, punk?!"
The black person seemed to have quite a temper, ready to get physical.
But was held back by a bearded man, seemingly trying to avoid a conflict, and continued:
"I’m just kindly reminding you, we are from the Middle East War Zone, so don’t mess with us."
But this statement was immediately met with scorn from Dodo:
"What nonsense."
Upon hearing the blatant threat, whether it was Duoduo, Banxia, or the millions of viewers watching the live stream, they were probably bursting with laughter inside.
The common thought among them was: Probably not many would dare say such words in front of Feng Hua, right?
If they knew who they were facing, surely they wouldn’t utter such arrogant words.
If they knew Feng Hua was here, they probably wouldn’t dare appear at all.
Given Feng Hua’s reputation, fear of him wasn’t limited to the Hua Country War Zone.
Worldwide, not a few knew of Feng Hua’s ’fearsome’ reputation.
A person whose strength could top the Endless Tower rankings wasn’t someone just any cat or dog could offend.
Although everyone was playing the same game, the gap between players wasn’t something ordinary people could imagine.
The other side seemingly realized their meaning, and their voice dropped:
"You had your chance, but since you’re being ungrateful, then..."
As soon as the words fell, a sudden roar erupted not far behind Banxia:
"Qilin Strike!"
"Splat!"
"-7980"
A massive damage number appeared out of nowhere.
In the next moment, under everyone’s stunned gaze, a thief’s corpse fell, barely half a meter away from Banxia, the thief’s arm landing near the foot of Banxia Liuli.
The Jade Qilin, having returned to its normal size, stood beside the corpse, with a look of disdain:
"Truly not worth a single blow."
Banxia finally snapped back to reality, involuntarily screaming and quickly retreating.
Aoshi Wangchu was the first to reach Banxia’s side, face serious.
If it wasn’t for the Jade Qilin taking action, the thief might have attacked Banxia during the moment of distraction.
Without precaution, Banxia Liuli might not have survived.
The other party, realizing their plot had been discovered and losing a thief, smartly chose to turn and run.
But could they really escape?
Lin Yi sneered, having already activated skills before they attempted to flee:
"Arcane Burst"
"Arcane Nova"
The two group attack skills fell onto the opposing team, massive damage numbers rose above their heads. The group vaguely heard someone in the opposing team shouting:
"Demon King Feng Hua, he is Demon King Feng Hua."
At this point, Duoduo also unleashed a skill:
"Gale Arrow"
The arrow pierced the air, skimming over the target’s head without hitting.
Duoduo was stunned...
Was Duoduo’s accuracy off?
Of course not!
Because before that, the four of them had already been wiped out by Lin Yi’s two group attacks.
Almost instantaneously!
None survived.
Watching Lin Yi wipe out an entire team with a mere wave of his hand brought chaos to the live broadcast room!
Everyone looked at Lin Yi with eyes reflecting the words flying across the live chat:
"He’s straight-up a walking nuke, damage off the charts!"