Chapter 248: An Ambush from the Hunters, A Group of Youngsters Comes to the Mad King Building!

Today was the sixth day of the break, and Xu Lang was going stir-crazy.

[Total Nightmare Coins: 29777]

Three hundred more Nightmare Coins and he could upgrade the Nightmare Bed.

This is heart-wrenching, family.

Doing the math, he had wasted quite a few Nightmare Coins earlier, but who can predict these things.

If you count post-game review time as an extra minute — I should be transcendent.

Xu Lang couldn’t stay inside, so he decided to go out for a walk.

Because of the rumors that entering the Blood Mist World with dual Sequences would go insane, he hadn’t done any pioneering these past days.

The Blood Pelican Demon Blade was already ravenous.

“Xu Lang, where are you going?” Xu Xiaomeng was playing the Game Console and turned to ask.

“Out to clear my head,” Xu Lang replied.

……

“Damn, finally out. That five-time champion really knows how to hide!”

A youth who had been circling the Glutton saw Xu Lang and cursed in his heart.

Then he watched Xu Lang walk straight toward him.

“Lang…bro.” The youth’s ingratiating smile froze on his face as a blood blade suddenly sliced off his head.

In two swift moves Xu Lang stuffed the malicious man into the Glutton’s belly, so as not to dirty the place.

“A peerless delicacy, value: 1 Silver Coin!” The Glutton spat out a Silver Coin.

That scene of hiding the corpse happened to be seen by a player who had come up to the tenth floor to dump trash, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

Huh? Is this trash can not to be misused?

It didn’t say it was Xu Lang’s exclusive RBQ!

Xu Lang didn’t even look at the player, picked up the Silver Coin, and jumped down the building.

……

Ginkgo Avenue.

Ever since Xu Lang pushed pioneering out to three hundred meters, and with the players’ subsequent efforts, the situation had finally stabilized.

If you sweep the monsters clean once, follow-up progress becomes much easier.

Swish, swish!

Between the ginkgo trees, Xu Lang single-handedly killed two low-value, rock-like monsters, then sheathed his blade and fell into thought.

“Nothing wrong at all, after scaring me all these days!”

“I still lack courage.”

“The number of monsters at the front of Ginkgo Avenue is shrinking. It seems Zheng Kai and the others are at the very front, trying to breakthrough the poisonous miasma, and they regularly send people to clear monsters.”

After entering the Blood Mist World, Xu Lang wasn’t completely normal either.

For example, the blood mist now got absorbed whenever it neared him, as if he were some kind of vacuum cleaner.

“No idea how long this anomaly will last, good or bad.” Xu Lang frowned as he watched the surrounding blood mist vanish, muttering to himself. Then he turned and said calmly toward the emptiness ahead, “Are you still not coming out?”

A figure leapt down from the sky, then more players appeared in fragments, until over forty players had surrounded Xu Lang!

“Haha, Xu Lang, we’ve long admired your reputation!” A long-haired man cupped his hands toward Xu Lang, then asked curiously, “Did you spot us early and wait for us to gather?”

Xu Lang didn’t answer. His gaze was indifferent as he used his Sixth Sense to assess these players’ danger levels.

Most of these players he hadn’t seen before;

they were probably newcomers.

“You’re confident, but you might not know what you’re up against.” The long-haired man laughed, “We are the Bandit Forty-Two, we came together from the Hunter Building!”

Voices erupted around them all at once.

“We were waiting in the dorm building to ambush you!”

“Screw you, did you kill the sixth brother? He was just camping a spot—what’s his problem?!”

“Our dorm has special tools specifically for dealing with so-called strong players like you. You can leave your last words now!”

“Don’t even think about resisting, it’s your own fault for placing yourself isolated.”

“Heh, even if your tenant shows up, whatever!”

“A building boss who only finished five game rounds, the secrets inside will feed us for several rounds!”

A vicious man in flaming red armor shouted, “Enough talk, start the attack!”

The crowd instantly quieted.

These players who claimed to be from the Hunter Building stared at Xu Lang with greedy eyes.

They’d been camping for a long time;

finally getting one-on-one outdoor time with Xu Lang was a godsend.

To ambush him they had stayed cooped up in the dorm building, never appearing together nor speaking to one another.

“Hey, Chi-Mei, don’t be impatient.” The long-haired man looked at Xu Lang and tempted him, “Bro, tell me honestly, did you get some key Dorm Owner Token? How else did you develop so fast?”

A strange emotion rose in Xu Lang’s heart, trying to lure him into revealing the truth.

But that emotion was quickly suppressed by a powerful killing intent!

Although Xu Lang couldn’t use Sequence powers, his killing will remained, and his Spirit attribute was not low, which directly nullified the long-haired man’s mental skill.

Xu Lang’s eyes flashed crimson as he summoned a purple Fire Dragon, cloaking the area and blocking sight in all directions.

“Attack!” the long-haired man shouted urgently.

Everyone pulled out bows and crossbows and fired toward the center of the Fire Dragon.

They coordinated smoothly, shooting downward so even misses wouldn’t severely injure teammates, like a well-trained army!

“Six o’clock!” the long-haired man barked.

Without him needing to say more, everyone saw a dark silhouette burst out of the flames at high speed.

At that moment several mental-control skills hit toward Xu Lang, but most missed!

The reason was simple: Xu Lang was enveloped by Polar Night, causing targeting errors.

Several orbs shot at Xu Lang, blooming mid-flight into reinforced steel capture nets!

Cold blade glints flickered!

The capture nets hadn’t even fully formed before Xu Lang cut them apart.

Seeing Xu Lang rushing into the crowd, a man in pitch-black heavy armor charged forward, his heavy axe roaring like a tiger, aiming at Xu Lang!

With that axe coming down, Xu Lang could only try to dodge;

heavy armor players had the advantage.

Others were ready with their ambush.

Then something unexpected happened!

Blood light flashed, and Xu Lang split the tiger-headed heavy axe cleanly in two with a single stroke!

The blade didn’t lose force. In an instant it sliced through the axeman’s heavy armor, flesh, and bone!

The long-haired man was stunned as if he’d witnessed a fierce soldier on an ancient battlefield wielding a strange blade that wrecked horse and man alike!

Before he could issue another order, the flames surged again, burning the axeman’s remains while once more blocking vision!

Screams rose from within the inferno.

“What a bunch of cowards. If they die, they die—what a crybaby!”

Chi-Mei’s face went cold. Like a tiger, he leapt into the purple fire!

Once inside, his armor sizzled and he saw Xu Lang cutting down his teammates.

“Everyone fall back, don’t let him escape!” Chi-Mei suddenly swelled to a three-meter giant, surged forward, and with one punch sent Xu Lang flying.

“Ahhh!!!”

Chi-Mei’s roar shook the sky;

he nearly toppled over.

He stared at his shattered knuckles in a sweat, feeling as if a saw had scraped through every bone!

The advantage of numbers showed itself: while he writhed in pain, his teammates’ attacks continued to pummel the Five-Time Champion marked as prey!

Xu Lang soon couldn’t hold out.

There were just too many attackers, and more importantly, he was affected by control.

That was especially lethal!

Attacks came from all directions;

if not for the Jade Armor effect of the Ghostly Profound Armor, Xu Lang would already be crippled or fatally wounded.

These players specialized in hunting “strong players”;

many of their items Xu Lang had never seen but were clearly tailored for this purpose.

His Sixth Sense was sounding like a symphony!

“No choice, just brute-force the stats!” Xu Lang flipped two cards.

Let these outsiders see the Mad King Building’s local specialties.

Just as the crowd pressed their firepower, the thunderous rat-a-tat of gunfire roared.

The Tyrant wielded the Thunder God Gatling sweeping wildly, and an entire row of players dropped!

[Thunder God Gatling]

[Type: Heavy Firearm]

[Level: 10]

[Rarity: Rare]

[Damage: 800]

[Durability: 400/400]

Eight hundred damage can’t compare to the Blood Pelican Demon Blade, but it depends on attack speed!

One thousand bullets could be emptied in half a minute!

The long-haired man was terrified by the output, but he seemed to have some tracking ability, constantly locking onto Xu Lang’s location.

“He’s not gone, he’s hiding behind that monster. Don’t let him run!”

“No, he’s approaching!”

Instead of panic, the long-haired man showed delight.

The next second.

A six-eyed golden corpse leapt out of the purple fire and flashed past his side in an instant!

A headless corpse stood motionless;

its long-haired head was gone!

Xu Lang’s base attributes surged past the critical threshold of 150 points!

Call it attribute stacking—because it was attribute stacking!

That’s the Mad King Building’s items for you;

they don’t give even the slightest discount!