Chapter 149: Why did you have to be so stubborn?

Ye Lin was almost blown up with rage. He had been ready to play dead, but this guy was as stubborn as a donkey at a mill, insisting on shooting his head with an arrow as if he were sick in the head.

"Go to your grandma's eggs, your sixth uncle's cantaloupe, your little sister's big winter melon, your grandpa's big chicken leg, and your aunt's big grape!"

Unable to keep up the act, Ye Lin leaped up, activated Burning Reincarnation, and slammed a punch toward the face of the tongue-protruding masked man.

"You can still move?!"

The tongue-protruding masked man was shocked. This guy's heart had been pierced by his arrow, and he had been on the verge of breathing his last; how did he suddenly jump back up? Could it be a final flash of clarity before death?

Then, the tongue-protruding masked man sneered. If one thought an archer was a fragile profession unskilled in close combat, they would be dead wrong.

If one lacked strength, they couldn't even pull back a bowstring, so the strength attribute of the archer profession was actually not low at all. You think archers are fragile, but in reality, Lu Bu, who shot a halberd at the gate, was also an archer.

"An ice mage dares to play close combat with me?"

Facing the punch coming from Ye Lin, the tongue-protruding masked man returned the favor without hesitation, colliding with Ye Lin's fist.

Bang!

After the clash of fists, the tongue-protruding masked man was instantly startled, because he discovered that Ye Lin's strength did not seem much weaker than his own!

How is this possible? Wasn't this guy an ice mage? What mage specializes in the strength attribute?

Before he could figure out what was going on, Ye Lin had already pressed forward, starting with a left front kick, a right whip kick, and a left jab!

Three consecutive moves struck, forcing the tongue-protruding masked man to retreat step by step. One dodge was too slow, and a corner of his mask was shattered, revealing a left eye filled with shock.

"No! This isn't right! Why aren't you dead yet?"

The more the tongue-protruding masked man thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. How could an ice mage have such astonishing strength?

Astonishing strength was one thing—that could just be innate power—but the key was that this guy's heart had already been pierced by his arrow. Why could he still move freely, and why was he still so strong when hitting people?

"Don't you know that some people have their hearts on the left side? The only one dying today will be you!" Ye Lin began to spout nonsense with a straight face.

"The heart is on the left side? So that's it!"

The tongue-protruding masked man took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the doubt and unease in his heart, then quickly adjusted his posture, gripped his longbow, and his eyes turned cold.

He instantly pulled the bow to full draw, his entire body's strength seemingly converging onto the arrow in his hand. The moment he released his fingers, three arrows shot out like lightning, tearing through the air and heading straight for Ye Lin with a sharp whistling sound.

These three arrows were aimed at Ye Lin's brow, throat, and chest respectively. Clearly, this time, the tongue-protruding masked man did not intend to give Ye Lin any chance to survive.

"You're shooting at my face again!"

Ye Lin was almost fainted with anger; his level of fury was like seeing a hater constantly trashing Kun Kun.

At this moment, he was truly filled with murderous intent!

"Forbidden Spell—Wall of Sighs!"

A stone wall suddenly rose from the ground. The three arrows struck the stone wall and were instantly destroyed by their own force, while the stone wall remained motionless.

After all, Ye Lin was now level 43, and a job-changer below level 63 could not shake the Wall of Sighs in the slightest.

"What?!"

The tongue-protruding masked man felt a jolt of fear in his heart. Although he didn't know what was happening, he knew clearly that he probably couldn't kill the man in front of him!

If he didn't leave quickly, he would be in danger himself!

He turned to flee, but at that moment, one undead creature after another crawled out from underground, forming an impenetrable line of defense that blocked his path. The face under the tongue-protruding mask turned deathly pale.

"Tell me, why did you have to be so stubborn?" Ye Lin gritted his teeth. "If you had killed me and gone back to report, everyone would be happy, wouldn't they? Why did you have to shoot arrows at my face? Now look, you're going to die, I can't use this identity anymore, and I'm definitely going to be hunted down next!"

"Who exactly are you?"

The tongue-protruding masked man shouted with a show of bravado. At the same time, he quietly felt for a button behind him and pressed it!

This was their organization's way of contacting each other; as long as he pressed it, he could transmit the news that he was in danger.

After pressing the button, the tongue-protruding masked man secretly breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he could hold out for a few minutes, his reinforcements would arrive!

He didn't believe he couldn't even hold out for a few minutes!

Just as the tongue-protruding masked man held this thought, a pair of affectionate eyes looked toward him.

"Forbidden Spell—Eyes of Eternal Freeze!"

In the blink of an eye, the tongue-protruding masked man was frozen into an ice sculpture.

Then Ye Lin walked up, raised his hand, and pressed it onto the top of the ice sculpture's head, instantly activating Endless Devour.

【Devoured level 58 job-changer *1, obtained water, fat, protein, carbohydrates, minerals, and a small amount of trace elements;】

【Increased lifespan by 35 years, experience points by 580, strength attribute by 9, agility attribute by 5, and spirit attribute by 4.】

After a few breaths, the tongue-protruding masked man was completely decomposed.

"WTF! Ptooey!"

Although he killed the tongue-protruding masked man, Ye Lin couldn't feel happy at all. He picked up the tongue-protruding masked man's bow and arrows, then turned and slipped away.

This identity definitely couldn't be used anymore, and those monster corpses stored at the Job-Changer Guild definitely couldn't be retrieved either; no matter how he calculated it, he was at a loss.

After leaving via a spatial jump, Ye Lin activated the Turtle Breathing Technique, putting himself into a void state. With the tongue-protruding masked man dead, he would have even more trouble ahead; it was better to hide for a while to avoid the limelight.

Sure enough, not long after Ye Lin left, a black-robed person wearing a rat-faced mask appeared at the spot where he had just been.

"Killed in such a short time, and the body was disposed of? When did Qingcheng get such a powerhouse? This is not logical..."

The rat-faced masked person muttered to himself, his tone full of doubt, then he lowered his body and began sniffing around.

"There are fluctuations of ice-type magic; that guy clearly took action. There is also a wave of earth-type magic, and space-type! Was there more than one person involved? That would make sense."

Just then, a faint light flashed at the rat-faced masked man's ear, and he hurriedly pressed his earpiece.

"Yes... My lord, the Hanging Ghost is dead. Preliminary suspicion is that three people were involved in killing him."

"Guo Qin... Guo Qin hasn't been caught yet, and as for that Ling Ye, he seems to have evaporated into thin air; no traces can be found."

"Understood... We will conduct a carpet search of Qingcheng and its vicinity next..."

On the other side of the earpiece, Xie Hong's expression was somewhat gloomy.

"It seems that there is a force I don't know about involved in this Qingcheng matter, otherwise the Hanging Ghost wouldn't have died. Is it the Zhuge family? No, Zhuge Qianxing broke all ties with the Zhuge family long ago; that much is certain. Could it be... the Leaf of the Hanging Sky?!"

"As expected, involving the Gate of Apocalypse, I knew those guys wouldn't stay quiet..."