Chapter 11 50 PM

Ye Xiu's Lord Grim was rushing to First Line Canyon. This time period, near 12:00 AM, was still quite lively. Many players like Ye Xiu were waiting for the dungeon instance reset and couldn't wait to level up, so there were many players rushing on the road as well.

Ye Xiu had already contacted Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan. Both of them had logged off directly from Loulan City, so logging back on and heading to First Line Canyon would be faster than going from Congee City.

Outside Congee City was a desolate wilderness with level 30-ish miscellaneous monsters, but it wasn't considered a leveling area. The spawn rate and density of the monsters weren't enough to meet the leveling needs of players. Except for some quest requirements, no players would fight monsters here.

After passing through this suburban road, it split into two forks. The left side led to Loulan City where wandering people gathered, and the right side was the uninhabited First Line Canyon. Players who walked here basically had their levels revealed at a glance. Those who went to the left were all below level 30; those who went to the right were above level 30 and currently belonged to the high-level crowd in the tenth server.

Lord Grim naturally belonged to this group, turning right at the fork. Coincidentally, several player characters walking beside him were all high-level, uniformly turning to the right.

Ahead on the road, there were several players coming from the direction of First Line Canyon towards Congee City. At this time, close to 12:00 AM, when everyone was rushing to the leveling area to prepare for the dungeon instance, these characters going in the opposite direction were particularly eye-catching.

A row of eight people, four on the left and four on the right, were advancing side by side. At first glance, they looked like wild geese lined up in the shape of the Chinese character "ren" (人).

The characters who were traveling together had scattered around Lord Grim at some point.

Ye Xiu suddenly realized something was wrong, and Lord Grim suddenly stopped.

The many characters around him seemed to receive a unified command at this moment, and they all stopped together.

Sure enough!

Ye Xiu didn't think too much and took the initiative. His left hand, lightly resting on the keyboard, suddenly accelerated, instantly completing an operation.

Many players around him didn't react slowly either. The moment everyone's characters stopped, they already knew their intentions had been exposed.

The players with mid-to-long range attack characters immediately launched their attacks. Bullets and spells came from several directions, pouncing towards Lord Grim in the center. Lord Grim was instantly hit into a cloud of afterimages and disappeared, leaving no corpse behind.

Shadow Clone Technique!

The besiegers were all experienced Glory players. They knew instantly that they had killed a shadow clone left behind after using the Shadow Clone Technique.

Lord Grim's real body had already flashed to the right side of a character before they launched their attacks.

No dialogue, just raised the spear and attacked.

At the same time as the shadow clone disappeared, this player character blocking the way was blasted away by Ye Xiu's Lord Grim with a Falling Flower Palm.

He didn't even react to what had happened.

He was using a melee character and was preparing to join the others in the siege. After seeing the many ranged attack characters launching their attacks and destroying Lord Grim's shadow clone, he was searching for the real body like everyone else when his character suddenly floated into the air.

The real body is beside me?

Even after being blasted away by the Falling Flower Palm, this guy was still wondering about this question.

The flying body was Ye Xiu's vanguard.

He noticed it early, and the players' encirclement was not yet complete. The direction of this Shadow Clone Technique was precisely the weakest point of this incomplete encirclement.

The flying character crashed into another person in this direction. There were only two people in this direction. This character was a Sharpshooter. While dodging the flying human cannonball, he pulled out his gun and fired at Lord Grim, trying to hinder him.

Ye Xiu could see clearly that Lord Grim, rushing straight ahead, made a slight horizontal movement and dodged the series of bullets that were shot at him. Then, he jumped forward, turned 180 degrees in the air, and raised the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella in gun form, firing a shot and using a Gun Fu technique to fly backwards.

This sudden acceleration caused the bullets and spells chasing the real body to miss. Lord Grim, after landing with Gun Fu, happened to be next to that Sharpshooter. The Sharpshooter reacted quickly, raising his leg for a knee strike. But before he could even raise his leg halfway, Lord Grim had already stomped him to the ground. Ye Xiu had used a Trampling Shot one step faster than him.

"Bang, bang," two shots were fired as a formality, and Lord Grim continued to rush out. Two players' characters, one on the left and one on the right, quickly surrounded him.

The one on the left was a Berserker, starting with a Collapsing Mountain. He jumped high to make his move. Even smarter, he didn't chop at Lord Grim's person, but chopped at the direction Lord Grim was charging, obviously not seeking to kill with this strike, but only to block Lord Grim.

As a result, he saw Lord Grim rushing straight as if he hadn't seen him. Of course, the Berserker would only be happier to seek death like this and wouldn't have the slightest intention of stopping. But just as the Collapsing Mountain was about to hit, a cold light suddenly appeared. Lord Grim dodged sideways and drew his sword, precisely placing a block in front of the Collapsing Mountain.

Collapsing Mountain had a powerful momentum, while the blocking action was small, but the skill effects in the game weren't just about the momentum.

With a loud "clang," the Berserker's heavy sword slashed on Lord Grim's sword. The block effect was activated, and some of the damage was neutralized. Lord Grim was forcibly knocked back.

As a result, this retreat was something the player who had rushed over from the right hadn't expected. He originally thought that Lord Grim would be stopped by this Collapsing Mountain. Seeing Lord Grim rushing up without knowing death, he was fantasizing about the scene of being completely knocked to the ground by the Collapsing Mountain, but he didn't expect Lord Grim to suddenly block and use the knockback effect after the block to quickly complete a shift. In the blink of an eye, he was already by his side.

This player busily operated, but how could he be faster than Ye Xiu, who had already calculated accurately? The Myriad Manifestations Umbrella was disassembled into a nunchaku during the knockback process. As soon as he retreated to this player's side, he immediately used a Throw, throwing him out. The Berserker over there jumped high and smashed the ground with a Collapsing Mountain, still posing after the move, when someone flew over with a whoosh. There was no way to dodge, and the two of them fell into a pile.

Ye Xiu didn't bother chasing, immediately having Lord Grim turn around and run away. A large group of players controlled their characters and chased after him eagerly. A Witch was more proactive, flying quickly on a broom. As a result, Lord Grim ran a few steps and suddenly did a backwards flying gun, shooting the Witch in the head. Blood splattered, and this guy panicked and crashed into a tree, causing a burst of laughter behind him.

"Laughing at what!" The Witch who crashed into the tree climbed up from under the tree, roaring in an unfriendly tone.

As a result, not many people paid attention to him. The others continued to chase Lord Grim madly.

"Surround, surround!!" Someone shouted.

"Surround your head! The speed is the same, how do you surround?"

"Is there anyone in that direction! Find someone to stop him."

"There's no one over there, it's not a leveling area."

"This guy is doing it on purpose, specifically finding a place where no one can intercept him."

"Chase, what are you talking about, let's see how far he can run."

It sounded like discussion and arguments. A crowd of people rushed up with a lot of noise.

Ye Xiu looked back at the distance. It wasn't difficult to escape at this time, but seeing the other party's well-prepared appearance, he was afraid they wouldn't give up so easily.

These characters didn't show their guild titles, but in the few moments of fighting, Ye Xiu had already glanced at a few people's IDs. While running, he searched one by one, and all of them were level 33 characters.

Level 33 characters were almost all elites of the major guilds in the tenth server. Not wearing the title was just not showing their specific owner.

Ye Xiu didn't feel lucky that he could successfully escape. He suddenly thought of Tang Rou's Soft Mist being killed in the afternoon. Was that really just a tragedy of afk in the wild, or did she encounter someone with ulterior motives like this?

Thinking of this, Ye Xiu quickly messaged the four people, asking about their situation.

"Dead..." Tang Rou replied.

Her Soft Mist had always been in a near-death state. She thought she could recover her health while walking on the road. Who knew that she would be targeted as soon as she left the city.

Health and mana were bottomed out, and the state was weakened by 80%. Taking medicine could replenish health and mana, but the weakening of the state could only be recovered by finding a physician and paying money, or by spending ten minutes to recover slowly.

Tang Rou thought that the time from Congee City to First Line Canyon was enough to recover her state, so she didn't look for a physician. The 80% weakening was so significant that experienced players could tell it at a glance.

For a character in a near-death state, even the most skilled players wouldn't be afraid. Tang Rou controlled Soft Mist and was besieged not long after leaving the main city. She had no resistance and was sent back to the city again. She was still at a loss!

"Ah, ah! Why is someone killing me! Boss!!" Steamed Bun Invasion replied excitedly.

"Are you dead?" Ye Xiu asked quickly.

"Not yet, I ran, but they're still chasing." Steamed Bun Invasion said. This guy's style was despicable, and Ye Xiu had expected that he would think of a despicable way out when he encountered such a situation.

As for Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan, there was even less to worry about. They were professional players after all. One against a hundred was impossible, but they should be able to retreat safely in unfavorable situations. Besides, these two might be together.

"God, someone is chasing us!" This was Qiao Yifan's reply.

"Someone is chasing you, is Liu Hao up to no good again?" Su Mucheng had already made a guess.

"Not sure yet, how are you? Are you with One Inch Ash?"

"Yes, we ran away, there are a lot of them!" Su Mucheng said.

"How many people?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Dozens..."

"So many, what levels are they?"

"Just glanced at a few, all level 33." Su Mucheng said.

"One guild shouldn't have so many level 33 characters." Ye Xiu realized that the situation might be more cruel than he had guessed.