Gao Wu: If this BOSS isn't nerfed, is it even playable?

Chapter 69 Shocking Changes in the Abandoned City
Lin Ye was stunned for a moment when he saw the friend request from his previous opponent and the line of text attached to it.

Tongtiandai?
Lin Ye chuckled, lightly tapped his finger, and directly chose to refuse.

He also casually opened today's battle record.

The uniform green "Victory" lettering stretched from the top of the screen to the bottom, interspersed with gold badges indicating rank advancement, which did look rather exaggerated.

Undefeated.

In the Iron and Bronze tiers, Lin Ye felt like he wasn't competing at all, but rather just playing a one-sided game of dragon swimming.

Or, in Li Jun's words, this is called frying fish.

With the "crushing" mechanic, as long as the opponent's level is lower than yours, the all-around suppression is almost unstoppable.

Lin Ye put himself in the other person's shoes. If he were the one chasing the wind, he would probably feel like he had encountered a monster and could not see the slightest chance of winning.

Just as Lin Ye was about to start the next round.

A red dot appeared in his personal email inbox, indicating that there was a new email.

Upon opening them, I found two unread emails.

The sender's title surprised Lin Ye.

[Personnel Department of Thunderclap Martial Hall]

Black Peak Martial Hall Recruitment Office

Lin Ye casually opened the first letter and began to read it.

The letter was written in a very polite manner, first praising his amazing talent and potential shown in the qualifying matches, and then getting straight to the point, extending an olive branch to him.

The letter promised that as long as Lin Ye passed the Federation's official martial artist assessment, the Thunderclap Martial Hall would immediately provide him with a D-level martial artist contract.

Lin Ye initially thought it was a scam email.

But when his gaze fell on the sender's ID, he noticed a golden "Martial Hall Official" logo, officially certified by the Martial Peak platform.

He opened another email, the contents of which were similar, all wanting to sign him.

In addition to receiving 15 Alliance Coins each month, you can also earn Martial Hall Points by completing tasks, which can be exchanged for cultivation techniques, visualization methods, and even S-level cultivation resources.

Lin Ye pondered for a moment, then did not reply rashly.

I'll ask Teacher Chen tomorrow.

Afterwards, Lin Ye continued with the ranked matches.

……

Five hours later.

You have advanced to Silver IV!

[Friendly reminder: Your combat time at the Martial Arts Peak level today exceeds 8 hours. Please remember to rest and allocate your time wisely!]

Even without system reminders, Lin Ye was already incredibly annoyed.

He was almost sick of playing those eight-plus hours of ranked matches.

Lin Ye couldn't even remember how many games he had played.

Fortunately, I finally managed to reach the required rank to be eligible to participate in the competition.

Lin Ye glanced at the time; it was a little past four in the morning.

As usual, Lin Ye should be preparing to go to school to cultivate in the gravity chamber.

But Lin Ye noticed that he now had about 92% of the experience of LV12.

He felt restless if he didn't go to the ruined city to kill monsters for a day.

Let's go to the abandoned city, kill some monsters, and level up to level 13 first.

After making his decision, Lin Ye went out.

……

When Lin Ye stepped onto the land of the abandoned city again, he was greeted by an even more profound silence than before.

The wind howled through the dilapidated buildings, making a strange, wailing sound, and stirring up dust and debris from the ground.

At this time of day, even in the outermost fifth ring, one could usually hear one or two roars of mutated beasts coming from afar.

But not today.

All sounds are silent.

The silence was unsettling.

Lin Ye's figure moved swiftly through the shadows without making a sound.

As Lin Ye ventured deeper into the cave, the sense of unease in his heart grew stronger.

There seem to be far fewer mutated beasts!

Along the way, he didn't even see a single wandering mutated beast, and it was difficult to find even fresh footprints on the ground.

As if overnight, all life in this ruin had been wiped out by some invisible force.

Before I knew it, the outline of the chemical plant, which lay sprawled on the horizon like a steel behemoth, came into view once again.

We've arrived at the third ring road.

Lin Ye slowed his pace, raising his vigilance to the limit.

The instant he stepped into the third ring boundary, a strong, almost tangible, stench of blood assaulted his senses.

Lin Ye's pupils contracted slightly.

Using the broken window frame high above as cover, he looked toward the source of the bloody smell.

The next moment, he saw a scene that made his scalp tingle. On the wide open ground outside the chemical plant, a large number of mutated beast corpses lay scattered haphazardly.

Mutant dogs, mutant hyenas, and even several large mutant wild boars.

The deaths of these corpses were extremely gruesome.

None of them were intact.

Some of the corpses looked as if they had been cut in half at the waist by a sharp weapon, with their internal organs spilling out onto the ground.

Some had their entire bodies completely smashed, turning into a shapeless mass of minced meat.

Lin Ye's gaze swept over the corpses.

The blood was still fresh and had not yet completely coagulated.

These mutated beasts hadn't been dead for long.

At most, no more than half a day.

Who did it?

Lin Ye suppressed his surprise and doubt, and did not rashly approach the pile of corpses.

He chose to take a detour.

Following the shadows of the buildings, they crept deeper and deeper, step by step, with utmost care.

Soon, he found some things scattered on the ground in a very hidden corner of the building.

They were some pure white fragments.

Lin Ye's eyes narrowed.

He crouched down and gently picked up the largest fragment with the tip of his gun.

It's made of protective clothing!
They were dressed exactly the same as the two mysterious people he had met last time!
He brought the fragments closer for a closer look, and a detail that chilled him to the bone appeared.

The edges of these fragments were covered with messy tear marks, and all the fibers were rolled up from the inside out.

just like……

Something broke free from the inside of the protective suit and tore it to shreds!

Lin Ye felt a chill creep up his spine.

His gaze fell on the ground next to the fragments of the protective suit.

There, amidst the thick dust, were some remarkably clear footprints.

The footprints had an outline that resembled a person.

But the size is frighteningly large!
It's more than twice the size of an adult male's foot!
Roar--! ! !
At that very moment, a strange, muffled roar, yet filled with a violent aura, came from the top of a tall building not far away!
That sound was completely different from any mutated beast Lin Ye had ever heard.

Lin Ye's heart skipped a beat.

Almost instinctively, he instantly shrank into the deepest shadow of the nearby building ruins, holding his breath completely.

He slowly looked up, following the sound.

Through the gaps in the buildings above, he saw a huge figure standing on the edge of the roof of a ten-story abandoned residential building, dozens of meters away.

It was a mutated beast that Lin Ye had never seen before.

Its body is covered with thick, spotted fur, and it is at least three meters tall. In appearance, it has both the pointed ears of a feline and the long snout of a canine!

It has two ram horns on its forehead, fish fins on its spine, and legs that look like cow hooves.

What made Lin Ye's scalp tingle even more was that this monster could walk upright and its hands were incredibly flexible, capable of grasping.

Above its head, a string of bright red characters floated clearly.

【LV.17】

Lin Ye's heart sank to the bottom.

Such a high level!
While they were pondering, they saw the special mutated monster roar and easily break off a huge piece of concrete debris, about two meters square, from the rooftop. It then hurled it down onto the street below like a small pebble!

boom! ! !
A deafening bang!

The ground trembled.

Lin Ye saw that at the spot where the cement block landed, an LV8 mutated gray wolf that had just crawled out of the ruins was smashed into a pile of minced meat before it even had a chance to let out a scream!
What the hell is this?

Lin Ye's mind was in complete chaos.

next second.

When the monster turned around, revealing more details to Lin Ye, his pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints!

He saw clearly.

Between the thighs and waist of that special mutated beast, there were still a few tattered strips of cloth.

The color and material of the cloth strips...

It's fragments of a protective suit!

An answer that made Lin Ye's blood almost freeze entered his mind.

That wasn't an ordinary mutated beast...

It used to be a person.

　That concludes the third update. From tomorrow until October 1st when the book is released, there will be three updates per day, one in the morning, one at noon, and one in the evening.

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