Chapter 80: A Single Cloud-Piercing Arrow (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader Mo Yi Xiaokeng)

A single cloud-piercing arrow, and a thousand troops and ten thousand horses arrive to meet.

The Six Colors of Prideful Cold are not just fireworks; they are illumination flares, and signal flares as well.

Players cannot be killed, and they use poison arrows and exploit bugs; Lin Bai's life is precious, so how could he possibly fight them head-on...

The suddenly appearing NPCs once again caused the barrage to explode and flood the screen.

"What's the situation?"

"The BOSS can even call for reinforcements?"

"Looking at this situation, Gugao Laoren's plan was riddled with holes from the start; Lin Bai had clearly laid a trap for him to walk right into."

"Deng Li Buduo is indeed a traitor."

"Scatter, scatter, it's over; I'm afraid Jiamu City prison is going to be overcrowded."

"The iron-clad fact tells us that you must never farm a BOSS inside the city."

"Pfft, the levels of Jiamu City players are being slashed again; their already miserable lives are adding frost to snow."

"It's not that serious; the game doesn't have a 'red name' system, and they're all covering their faces, as long as they aren't caught on the spot."

"Right, level-one alt accounts just delete their characters, and the veteran players who were exploiting the logout bug haven't even had a chance to act yet; Shopkeeper Lin is too impatient."

"Shopkeeper Lin looks like he won, but he actually lost; he lost because of his lack of understanding of players."

……

【Crazy Man】, 【Bitter Melon Vine】, 【Silver】, and others who logged off to sneak attack Lin Bai, upon seeing 【Gugao Laoren】 and the others suddenly surrounded, let out a sigh of relief in unison after a brief moment of shock.

Catch a thief with the stolen goods.

They weren't even at the scene, so they had no losses at all; at worst, they could just wait for the NPCs to disperse before logging back in, and do whatever they were going to do the next day!

It's just that 【Gugao Laoren】 is having a miserable time...

……

"What should we do?" 【I Am Not An Alt】 asked, "Gao Laoda, shall we charge?"

"Level-one accounts cover the high-level players to log off." 【Gugao Laoren】 quickly made the most correct judgment; he scanned the NPCs surrounding them, "You can charge if you want to charge, or if you don't want to charge, you can just surrender; when the time comes, delete your characters and start over, I will compensate for all losses."

"Understood." 【I Am Not An Alt】 nodded.

Reinforcements arrived.

Lin Bai walked out of the Kitchen God Rice Divination unhurriedly and cupped his hands toward the group from the martial arts halls: "Many thanks to you Hall Masters for your assistance."

"Shopkeeper Lin is too polite." The master of the Zhang Family Boxing Hall said, "The criminals disregard the law and gathered a crowd to commit crimes in Jiamu City; protecting the safety of the people in the city is the responsibility of every martial artist."

"It is said that there are apprentices from the martial arts halls among the criminals." The Mo Family Hall Master scanned the surrounded players and said, "Coming here this time is also for our own safety; gathering a crowd to kill and commit crimes in the city, once caught by the City Lord, it will inevitably implicate the martial arts halls. We must also thank Shopkeeper Lin for not reporting it to the Government, otherwise, I fear we would have had no way to defend ourselves."

"Shopkeeper Lin, rest assured; if any apprentices from the Wu Family Blade Hall can truly be identified among the criminals, this old man will definitely cripple their Martial Art and then send them to the Government to be dealt with according to the law, without any leniency." The master of the Wu Family Blade Hall stroked his beard, holding a Willow Leaf Broadsword in his hand, his gaze cold and sharp.

Behind the three hall masters, several craftsmen like Zhang Achun and Zhang Shutang, as well as the doctor from the medical clinic, all spoke up in agreement: "Shopkeeper Lin, rest assured, if there are any craftsman apprentices, we will not be lenient either..."

"Many thanks, everyone." Lin Bai cupped his hands and smiled.

"It's only right, it's only right." A crowd of NPCs said one after another, "We should be the ones thanking Shopkeeper Lin."

"Everyone, let's not keep thanking each other." Lin Bai laughed, "We are all part of Jiamu City, and we should work together to maintain the harmony and stability of Jiamu City, and protect our home..."

"Naive NPCs, they're all just alt accounts, who can you catch?" Watching the few NPCs who thought they had victory in their grasp, 【Crazy Man】 laughed in spite of himself, but Lin Bai's next sentence made his smile freeze on his face.

"Everyone, these past few days, there have been more Heavenly Descended in the city; I believe everyone understands." Lin Bai looked at the alt accounts still standing in place and said, "The Heavenly Descended do not belong to this mortal world; they do not fear life or death, they come and go like the wind, disappear at will, and possess divine abilities comparable to immortals, making them extremely difficult to capture. But divine abilities are not a reason for them to ignore the law.

This time, most of those committing crimes outside my shop were Heavenly Descended. Therefore, I implore everyone to stay here for a few more days.

During this period, if any black-clad, masked Heavenly Descended appear within the encirclement, please apprehend them. If the apprentices who were previously training at your halls do not appear in these few days, it can also be concluded that they participated in the crimes; when they do show up, you can simply sweep them out the door. The losses and room and board for you Hall Masters over these few days will all be covered by me..."

……

"Holy shit."

"Holy shit."

"This move is too ruthless. Get caught as soon as you log in, or never log in again, which is equivalent to quitting the game; Shopkeeper Lin is pulling the firewood from under the cauldron, that was played beautifully."

"In the BOSS battle, the main combat power consists of players from the first and second closed betas; wasting a few days offline means all their previous efforts are in vain."

"Jiamu City players have been rounded up in one fell swoop; this is true Hell Mode."

"Good heavens, the NPCs aren't fighting you on levels, they're talking law with you directly."

"It's always been players corpse-camping, this time it's the NPCs' turn; they even figured out the logout method. Is the Game Company going to come out and give an explanation?"

"The NPCs' intelligence is too high."

"Shopkeeper Lin is the real BOSS; the BOSSES in other games are weak compared to him."

"I said long ago that Gugao Laoren's plan wouldn't work; who kills NPCs inside a city?"

"Shopkeeper Lin is teaching by example, telling all players that you have to follow the law when playing games, otherwise, you won't even have a game to play."

"If you can't kill and burn at will in a game, what's the point of playing? Is a group of people just playing house with NPCs inside?"

"Trash online game, abusing players, boycott."

"This is the most realistic game. Otherwise, if you could just craft crossbows and kill people in the street, how would the NPCs live? Don't forget the game setting: NPCs only have one life. If you let them kill at will, the city order would collapse in a few days."

"Compared to NPCs, players are Undying and Indestructible and level up super fast, they've already taken a huge advantage; if you lower the NPCs' intelligence, what difference is there between this game and a trash online game?"

"The doomsday for kill-type players; if this livestream gets out, the outside world's expectations for the game will plummet by fifty percent; the planners are truly stupid."

"I play games to find thrills; if I can't kill at will, I suddenly don't want to play this kind of game."

"Real life is already miserable enough, why go into a game to be bullied by NPCs?"

"I think it's very interesting; the slogan launched by Xianxia World from the beginning was 'realism.' If it were made into the old online game mode where the BOSS just stands there waiting for you to hit it, that would be the stupid thing."

"Thumbs up, fighting wits and courage with the BOSS is what's interesting."

"In such a realistic world, perfectly killing a BOSS gives an absolutely explosive sense of achievement."

"You can do whatever you want if your level is high; if this group of players had high enough Skill levels, they could completely slaughter their way through these NPCs and break out of the encirclement without a care. The Government in the game still follows the rules and doesn't just arrest people at will."

"The correct way to play this game is actually to act like a grandson in the early stages and be a big shot in the later stages."

"There is still a way: log on and commit suicide, have your own people guard the corpse until it refreshes, and once you come out of the Resurrection Point, you will be a clean person again. At most, you lose one level and some money..."

The flustered 【Madman】 had been paying attention to the barrage; he believed the vast number of netizens would surely find a suitable way to cope. Suicide to drop a level made his eyes light up—this was the method with the least loss.

But before he could even log on.

Lin Bai blocked all loopholes with one sentence: "... After a Heavenly Descended dies and resurrects, all items on their person will remain at the spot. If anyone returns to the martial arts hall and has lost their Sword, they are the culprit..."

That's right.

When entering a martial arts hall to learn a Skill, the hall issues corresponding weapons. Most of these weapons bear the hall's mark, and when players come out to fight a BOSS, no one considers hiding their identity by changing weapons.

In their view, wearing black clothes and masks was already showing enough respect to Lin Bai.

It wasn't that they weren't cautious enough, but that they lacked this awareness.

It's just playing a game; who would clear everything off their body when fighting a BOSS so as not to leave a single trace!

A perfect crime?

Give me a break, they are players, not high-IQ criminals.

"Except for a new account, it's completely over."

"Shopkeeper Lin didn't leave them a single path to survival."

"Over ten days, all that hard work has gone to waste."

"I don't know why, but looking at the miserable players of Jiamu City, I kind of want to laugh."

"@Huangye Lang. A bloody lesson: when fighting the Black Tiger Gang, absolutely do not repeat the same mistakes."

"I am now incredibly glad that I didn't choose Jiamu City back then."

"Didn't some people complain that the game had no beginner guidance? Now there is; Shopkeeper Lin is online teaching you how to play the game correctly..."

"Hahaha, the biggest winner of this BOSS battle is Deng Li Buduo."

"So it turns out this is a game for honest people, hahaha, I'm dying of laughter."

"Wrong, this is a game for smart people."

Thank you to all the lovely readers for your support. There are four more Alliance Leaders today; I definitely can't make them all up in one day, but Old Wei guarantees that I will definitely add more chapters to pay them back. O(∩_∩)O!

(End of this chapter)