[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed":3,"chapter-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-74":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","How Do We Play If This Boss Isn't Nerfed?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1618199,2083,"Chapter 74 - 72: Ruined City Plus","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-74",74,"\u003Cp>As Lin Ye’s character fully materialized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He regained all five of his senses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The acrid smell of rain-eaten rust, the dusty scent of shattered concrete, and...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...the faint, rank stench of various mutated beasts drifting from the city’s deepest shadows—a foul mix of musk and rot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but ruins and rubble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was no longer a simple case of déjà vu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He truly felt like he had come home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though a storm was brewing in his heart, Lin Ye’s movements retained a caution that was etched into his very bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t rush into action. Instead, he crouched low, like a shadow, melting completely into the dead silence of the ruins as he moved quickly and soundlessly along the edge of the rooftop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye’s primary objective was to observe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Observe the terrain of this area, and observe the distribution and types of monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a lesson Lin Ye had learned from countless nights in the ruined city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, his gaze locked onto a corner of the street below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, a scrawny mutated dog with patchy fur was gnawing on something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its movements were full of nervous vigilance, its head jerking up from time to time to scan its surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Lin Ye’s vision, level information appeared above the mutated dog’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[LV.9]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a similar level to the monsters he had encountered in the outer ring of the ruined city before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye chose not to attack from a distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slid silently down to a lower floor, using the exposed rebar and broken sections of the building’s exterior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire process didn’t make a single unnecessary sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mutated dog was still tearing at its meal, completely unaware of the death that was upon it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when Lin Ye stepped out from the shadows to its side and rear did it jolt in alarm, a threatening growl rumbling in its throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SHLICK!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye’s figure stepped forward like a ghost. With no flashy moves, his standard-issue long spear shot out with the simplest and most efficient speed, accurately piercing through the mutated dog’s eye socket and straight through the back of its skull!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire motion was fluid and seamless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mutated dog’s body went rigid. Its growl cut off abruptly as the life was instantly drained from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just a second before it dissolved into a stream of data...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...a cold notification sound echoed in Lin Ye’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have slain a LV.9 Mutated Dog.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Affected by *Five Qi Guiding Formulas*, your experience multiplier has been set to 150%. You have gained 24 experience points!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye’s eyes lit up instantly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It gives EXP?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’And full EXP at that!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The discovery made him feel his own heart beat faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If killing monsters in reality meant the system absorbed their life energy or souls to grant EXP...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...then where did the EXP come from in this virtual world made entirely of data?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Or maybe my guess was completely wrong, and there was never a setting for absorbing energy and souls in the first place.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It could just be that as my combat experience grows, the system simply makes me stronger.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye couldn’t figure it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nor did he dwell on it for too long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’When God closes one ruined city for you, does he turn around and open another, even better-equipped one?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A long-forgotten excitement, so intense it was almost a tremor, shot up his spine and straight to the top of his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the Virtual Space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the real world, he only had one life. Every step had to be taken as if on thin ice, calculated down to the last detail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But here...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...although death meant elimination according to the rules, he wouldn’t truly die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could completely cast aside his deepest-held reservations from the real world and treat this place as a leveling paradise with infinitely more freedom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His only slight regret was that killing monsters here couldn’t trigger the passive effect of *Soul Furnace*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t permanently increase his maximum Life Value by devouring souls like he could in the real ruined city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that single flaw couldn’t overshadow its brilliance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye had no time to revel in this discovery; instead, a sharp pang of regret struck him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Why does this competition only last for a mere three days!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had more time, Lin Ye would even want to stay here until he had killed every last mutated beast!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he could grieve his lost opportunity, Lin Ye’s ears twitched. He immediately crouched down, instantly ducking back behind the wreckage of a nearby building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t the chaotic, disorderly footsteps of a mutated beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the hurried, panicked footsteps of a human, accompanied by heavy panting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carried on the wind, Lin Ye even caught the stench of... urine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held his breath and peered out through a crack in the wall he was using for cover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his line of sight, a young Martial Artist of about his age, wearing the combat uniform of another Dongjiang Martial Arts High School, was scrambling and stumbling as he fled for his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His face was a mask of terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above his head, the [LV.12] level indicator was clearly visible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And behind him, a burly, tusked, LV.9 mutated boar pursued him relentlessly with heavy steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young Martial Artist had a gash on his right leg so deep the bone was visible, dripping blood. It had clearly been pierced by the boar’s tusk in a previous encounter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A question mark practically appeared over Lin Ye’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Lin Ye found even more absurd was the wet trail the person left behind as he ran.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had pissed himself in fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye didn’t understand, but he was thoroughly shocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’A Level 12 Martial Artist gets successfully ambushed by a mutated boar three levels lower than him, and his only reaction is to lose his nerve and run for his life?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Not even thinking of fighting back.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Are these so-called geniuses really this fragile in actual combat?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, Lin Ye’s pupils contracted slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw three black shadows dash out from another fork in the road, drawn by the thick scent of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were three mutated hounds with extremely keen senses of smell, all of them LV.10.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They swarmed forward, instantly cutting off the young Martial Artist’s only escape route.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hounds in front, a boar behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a hopeless situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young Martial Artist let out a despairing scream, his legs gave out, and he collapsed to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene that followed was bloody and brutal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mutated boar let out an excited roar, its massive body charging like a tank and ramming violently into the man’s chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crisp sound of shattering bones was clearly audible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three hounds pounced like starving wolves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of them precisely bit through his throat in a single snap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another was even more savage, sinking its teeth directly into the wound on his inner thigh and tearing at it wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last one even brutally ripped open his pants, dug straight into his anus, and spilled his intestines and organs all over the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His screams lasted less than two seconds before being drowned out by the excited sounds of the monsters chewing and tearing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye watched all of this unfold, his expression impassive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw a faint stream of light rise from the mangled corpse, shoot toward the sky, and disappear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’That must be his consciousness.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his body remained, becoming food for the squabbling monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye’s gaze shifted from the corpse, which had been devoured until it was unrecognizable, without a ripple of emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after confirming there were no other hidden observers did he slowly step out from the shadows of the building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The LV.9 mutated boar was excitedly nudging pieces of the corpse with its tusks, letting out satisfied grunts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three LV.10 mutated hounds were off to the side, tearing at the intestines and growling at each other as they fought over the choice organs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye’s footsteps were silent, like a leaf drifting onto the surface of water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The four mutated beasts were engrossed in their feast of flesh and blood, completely unaware that a human had come up behind them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t until Lin Ye was within three meters that the beasts seemed to sense something and whipped their heads around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What one of them saw was the black afterimage of a spear, moving at unbelievable speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SCHLUK!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it moved second, the long spear struck first, accurately plunging into the hound’s open mouth, exiting through the back of its neck, and pinning it firmly to the ground!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Startled, the other two hounds and the boar simultaneously let out enraged roars and turned to lunge at him!\u003C\u002Fp>",1487,"2026-06-06T10:31:47.882Z",1,"novelbin.me","e58f261a2355335f567b1d63c1735f24b5df228c6dc533ebdbce5e32926dc99a","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-75","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-73",250,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhow-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-cover.jpg"]