According to the current market prices, Lin Mo listed the [Hero's Golden Bow], the weapon that had accompanied him from the novice village to the level three main city and helped him overcome countless difficulties, on the auction house of Blazing Ember City for a price of one hundred thousand RMB.
This price was not exaggerated at all.
After all, on the market right now, even a level ten, Tier One blue piece of equipment could sell for seven or eight thousand, even over ten thousand.
Blazing Ember City alone had three million players, yet in the entire auction house, the number of Tier Two equipment did not exceed one hundred pieces.
As for a Tier Two weapon of orange quality, this one was completely unique.
If not for its low level.
If it were level twelve or thirteen, the value of this bow would increase by at least fifty percent.
Still, being able to sell it for a hundred thousand was enough to satisfy Lin Mo.
After dealing with the equipment, Lin Mo logged off.
Since he had ordered takeout in advance, by the time Lin Mo logged off, the food had already been delivered to his door.
He kept the entire offline delay to within ten minutes.
After finishing his meal, Lin Mo immediately logged back in.
There was still quite some time before the agreed meeting time with Ling Xiao and the others.
So Lin Mo planned to head over to the Insect Nest Underground Palace first and clear his own eighth floor task.
Just as Lin Mo finished restocking mana potions at the potion shop and was about to rush toward the Insect Nest Underground Palace.
Suddenly, he received a WeChat message. Su Yingxia.
Perhaps he had loved her once, but now, toward this woman, Lin Mo no longer felt even the slightest attachment.
Still, he tapped into Su Yingxia's message and took a look.
[Lin Mo, I'm being bullied. They said they'll only let me go if you come. For the sake of me being your ex girlfriend, can you come save me?]
[They're hitting me! Wuwu, it hurts so bad.]
Putting on the pitiful act again?
Lin Mo sneered, [Su Yingxia, how did I never notice before that you were such a good actress?]
So Lin Mo replied, [Alright. Wait there. I'll be there soon.]
When she saw this message, Su Yingxia was deeply moved.
However, after replying, Lin Mo simply continued heading toward the Insect Nest Underground Palace.
He had no intention whatsoever of actually going to save Su Yingxia.
A woman who, for money, easily abandoned a four year relationship, later even sold Lin Mo out to Wang Junjie, and went so far as to spread rumors about Lin Mo in front of her own younger brother, if Lin Mo went to save her, his brain would have to be full of holes.
Just as Lin Mo closed the WeChat chat, in the blink of an eye, he suddenly received another in game private message—
[Chasing Dreams, Pure Heart: Rulebound! Your wife and your brother are in my hands. If you don't want them to be killed back to level one, bring the Heart of Shadow and come to Death Town.]
Lin Mo suddenly realized.
[So the ones Su Yingxia said were bullying her just now were you, huh?]
'But, Brother? Who?'
In Lin Mo's mind, a figure suddenly surfaced: Qin Feng.
He immediately sent Qin Feng a message, [Where are you?]
[Brother Mo! Don't come! It's a trap!]
It seemed Lin Mo's guess was indeed correct.
[You were targeted by Chasing Dreams because of me. In this situation, how could I just stand by and do nothing?]
"Wait!", Lin Mo suddenly realized a problem, "How does Chasing Dreams Pure Heart know the Heart of Shadow is in my hands?"
"Could it be that the Heart of Shadow I took from the mail really was the one he had?"
"I really want to see what kind of tricks you're trying to pull."
A cold glint flashed through Lin Mo's eyes.
Just in case, the two Hearts of Shadow had already been placed by him in another warehouse in Blazing Ember City that hadn't been burned.
He opened the map and searched for [Death Town].
Then Lin Mo followed the map's guidance and rushed toward the western part of Blazing Ember City.
On the way, he also sent Ling Xiao a WeChat message, [Come to Death Town. Emergency situation. Bring Fat Dahai.]
Wu Gang had strength in numbers, and Lin Mo wasn't about to attend alone.
Most importantly, he needed Fat Dahai's purification skill as a priest, so he could break crowd control if necessary.
———
On the other side, Ling Xiao and the others were still on their way back to the city from the Insect Nest Underground Palace.
Seeing Lin Mo's message, Ling Xiao's expression tightened as he said, "Lin Mo's asking us to go to Death Town. He says it's urgent."
"Huh? Did something happen?", Xia Wanwan asked worriedly, "Then let's hurry over!"
"If something really happens to Senior Lin Mo, Ling Xiao, your leveling speed will be affected. If you can't reach level thirty before Wang Junjie, it's over."
"Yeah, let's hurry!"
With that, the group of four didn't even bother returning to the city and immediately followed the map's guidance toward Death Town.
———
Over on Lin Mo's side.
After sending the message to Ling Xiao, he thought it over again and realized another issue.
"Wu Gang knows my strength. If he still dares to set up a trap, that means he must be fully prepared this time."
"In that case, I should make some preparations too, to live up to all the effort you put into this plan."
Thus, Lin Mo deliberately opened the Blazing Ember City level rankings and clicked into a temporary chat window of someone on the list.
———
Meanwhile—
[Shadow City]
While hunting Shadow Guards, Wang Junjie suddenly received an in game friend message, [Rulebound is in Death Town.]
Seeing this message, Wang Junjie's eyes immediately lit up.
"Hahaha! Rulebound, if you've got the guts, then hide in that lousy bug hole forever! Why'd you come out?"
"When you were hiding in there before, I couldn't be bothered to waste time camping you. But since you came out on your own this time, let's see where you can run!"
As he spoke, Wang Junjie immediately ordered the nearby members of the Chaotic World, "Brothers, pause things here for now! Everyone follow me to Death Town!"
———
Western Outskirts of Blazing Ember City, Wilderness Area—
Inside a small town that was silent, dark, filled with the aura of death, and dotted with gravestones everywhere like a cemetery, a man and a woman were tied up on the ground.
The man was Qin Feng. And the woman was Su Yingxia.
Around them, with Wu Gang at the center, stood a large group of players from the [Chasing Dreams] studio.
At the same time, from the depths of the town behind them, one hysterical scream after another could be heard.
Qin Feng lay on the ground, eyes bloodshot, roaring at Wu Gang in fury, "One man takes responsibility for his own actions! If you've got the guts, come at me! Let my guild brothers go!"
It turned out that those captured weren't just Qin Feng and Su Yingxia.
There were also over thirty players from Qin Feng's Zhufeng Guild.
And at this very moment, those thirty plus Zhufeng Guild players were deep in the town, suffering inhuman torture.
Wu Gang walked over to Qin Feng, stepped on his face with one foot, bent down, and said with a ferocious expression, "If you want to blame someone, blame your good brother Rulebound! He's the one who dragged you into this!"
"Oh right, I forgot to tell you. Do you know why I brought you all to this Death Town?"
"Because this map has a special setting. As long as a player dies inside Death Town, they'll revive on the spot instead of reviving back in the main city."
Wu Gang grinned viciously, "If nothing unexpected happened, your guild brothers should have all been killed down to level zero by my people already."
Qin Feng instantly erupted in rage, "Fack your mother! I'll kill you!!"
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!
Wu Gang suddenly pulled out a dagger and stabbed Qin Feng in the chest over and over again. Blood immediately sprayed everywhere.
Beside them, Su Yingxia was so frightened she burst into loud sobs.
Before long, Qin Feng collapsed in a pool of blood, his life gone.
However, his corpse did not disappear.
And sure enough, ten seconds later, he revived on the spot.
Under the death penalty, Qin Feng's level dropped from fourteen to thirteen.
Before Qin Feng could even recover, the wizard [Chasing Dreams Youth] cast an E rank Halo spell, stunning Qin Feng.
Wu Gang took advantage of the moment and once again stepped on Qin Feng's face while he was unable to resist.
"Rulebound killed me from level twelve down to level two, and it took me until now just to crawl back up to level seven. I'm going to let you experience what it feels like to lose levels too!"
As his words fell.
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!
Wu Gang stabbed again and again, killing Qin Feng, who had just revived, right back into the pool of blood.
Su Yingxia, standing to the side, panicked and cried out, "Y-you you can't kill me after killing him, okay!"
Taking advantage of the ten second revival window while Qin Feng was waiting to resurrect again, Wu Gang held the blood soaked dagger and slowly advanced toward Su Yingxia.
"Relax, you won't escape either!"
"The mistakes your man made will be paid for by you!"
"Such a pity for such a pretty face!"
With that said, just as Wu Gang raised his dagger, about to slash it across Su Yingxia's face.
Puchi!
A sharp arrow suddenly shot in from behind, piercing straight through Wu Gang's chest.
-2325 (Critical)!
No hesitation at all, Wu Gang dropped to his knees with a thud right in front of Su Yingxia.
The sudden silence caused Su Yingxia, who was in an extreme state of terror, to slowly open her tightly shut eyes.
Past Wu Gang's corpse, she saw, straight ahead, a young archer wearing holy light robes, a king's crown on his head, holding a venomous crossbow, level as high as twenty, slowly walking toward them.
"Lin Mo," Su Yingxia's eyes shimmered with delighted light, "I knew it! You would definitely come!"
"You would never just watch me get bullied and do nothing!"
At the same time.
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!
The surrounding Chasing Dreams players saw Lin Mo and immediately drew their weapons, entering battle stance.
"Rulebound is here!"
"Everyone, prepare for battle!"
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