Ling Xiao, who held the A-rank talent Jade and Stone Burn Together in his hands, relied on his own efforts to become third on the Yunbian Town leaderboard.
But he was still one step slower than Wang Junjie.
Especially now that he was carrying several hundred points of crime value, in this state he could no longer use the Jade and Stone Burn Together talent to blow up elite monsters to level up.
Because once he died, he would lose a huge amount of experience, and in the end it would not be worth it at all.
At this moment, he could be said to have already lost all the strength and means to fight against Wang Junjie, but he wanted to win.
So Lin Mo's previous sentence undoubtedly gave him tremendous confidence.
But the following sentence, two hundred thousand, was like a bucket of cold water, instantly extinguishing his hope.
Ling Xiao said awkwardly, "Can… can it be less?"
"Two hundred thousand, I really can't come up with it."
Lin Mo didn't speak, as if deliberately waiting for something.
At this moment, Xia Wanwan at the side said to Lin Mo, "I have it!"
"I'll give it to you!"
Knowing that Ling Xiao, as a college student, had no money, and that he was just waiting for Xia Wanwan to speak up, Lin Mo immediately smiled and said, "Alright."
"Wanwan…", Ling Xiao looked at Xia Wanwan, seeming to want to say something.
But Xia Wanwan shook her head, smiled gently, and said, "It's okay, as long as I can be with you."
As she spoke, Xia Wanwan asked Lin Mo for his bank card number and immediately transferred two hundred thousand yuan to him.
If it were an ordinary person, seeing someone take out two hundred thousand so easily, Lin Mo would definitely have been extremely shocked. After all, Xia Wanwan was just a student at Ning University.
But at this moment, Lin Mo wasn't surprised at all.
Because he knew… Xia Wanwan was actually a little rich girl.
Ever since seeing Xia Wanwan, Lin Mo had been thinking hard, feeling that this person looked very familiar.
And he finally remembered: in his previous life, he had heard people in the game talk about how Ning University's campus beauty Xia Wanwan originally had a happy family, with both parents being top-level company executives, and the family conditions belonging to the wealthy class.
But during one self-driving business trip, her parents were involved in a car accident and died on the spot, leaving Xia Wanwan with an inheritance of five million.
That was how Xia Wanwan, who was still in college, became a little rich girl.
So Lin Mo had set his sights precisely on those five millions of Xia Wanwan.
'Anyway, once Divine Oracle devours the real world three months later, that five million will just be a pile of waste paper to them.'
'But if it's with me, it can instantly fulfill 10% of my fifty-million cumulative recharge goal.'
The time left for Lin Mo was extremely limited.
He had to use any means possible, even tactics, to quickly scrape together fifty million.
'Using five million in exchange for someone like me, an SSS-rank talent holder personally escorting you two, that's worth it, right?'
Of course, Lin Mo couldn't bite off too much at once and directly ask for five million, draining Xia Wanwan's entire reserve.
If he wanted to get that five million, he had to do it step by step, slowly.
And right now, this two hundred thousand was Lin Mo's first step.
"So, when do we start?", Xia Wanwan bit her lip and asked anxiously.
Because according to the Yunbian Town level rankings: Wang Junjie's level had already reached level 9 at 13%, just one step away from level 10.
And Ling Xiao was currently only level 8 at 25%. The gap between them was too big.
Xia Wanwan was worried that there wasn't enough time left.
Lin Mo calmly confirmed that he had received the two hundred thousand.
Then he blurted out, "Now."
As he spoke, Lin Mo created a party and pulled Ling Xiao and Xia Wanwan into it.
Then he turned to the skinny monkey and Fat Dahai beside him and said, "You two, come in as well."
"Me?", Fat Dahai pointed at himself, flattered and surprised, "I can?"
"You can my ass!", Skinny Monkey slapped Fat Dahai on the head and complained, "Don't you know that every extra person reduces Brother Xiao's experience gain by 10%?"
"What are we joining the fun for?"
Fat Dahai rubbed his head, looking wronged.
But Lin Mo said indifferently, "It's fine. You two come in. I'll make all four of you reach level 10 before Wang Junjie."
"As a condition, 70% of your leveling rewards go to me, and the remaining 30% go to yourselves."
"This… can it really work?", Skinny Monkey was clearly not worried about the rewards, but about whether he would drag down Ling Xiao's leveling speed.
Skinny Monkey gritted his teeth, as if making some kind of decision, and said firmly to Ling Xiao, "Brother Xiao, back then you dragged me out from under a big truck on the road. This life of mine was given by you."
"If it doesn't work, I'll go offline and hack Wang Junjie to death! Damn it, even if I have to throw away my monkey life, I won't let sister-in-law fall into Wang Junjie's hands."
"There's no need to be so pessimistic," Lin Mo sighed and said helplessly, "I'm saying, can you guys have a bit of trust in me, the number one on the leaderboard?"
Ling Xiao said to Skinny Monkey and Fat Dahai, "You two come in as well."
"Follow Rulebound."
As he spoke, Lin Mo led the team away from the Shadow Nest and arrived at another nearby level 10 wild area: the Ant Nest.
"According to Divine Oracle settings, if five people form a party, each person can only get 50% of the combat experience."
After entering the Ant Nest map.
Before the battle, Skinny Monkey was still worriedly checking Divine Oracle's official guides and the Yunbian Town level leaderboard, muttering, "Wang Junjie has so many people helping him grind monsters. Our speed… it's hard to catch up to him…"
Just as Skinny Monkey and Fat Dahai were full of worry.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Lin Mo raised the Hero's Golden Bow, locked onto the level 10 monsters scattered all around, the [Man-Eating Ants], and with his 188 agility, fired four arrows per second.
-1119 (Critical)!
-1164 (Critical)!
-1209 (Critical)!
-1254 (Critical)!
[Ding～Your teammate killed a level 10 monster Man-Eating Ant. You gained 120 experience points (base 50% + global blessing aura 10%)!]
[Ding～Your teammate killed a level 10 monster Man-Eating Ant. You gained 100 experience points!]
[Ding…]
Skinny Monkey, Fat Dahai, and the others instantly widened their eyes, completely dumbfounded.
Thousands of words gathered at the tip of their tongues, leaving only two earth-shaking words—
"Holy shit!"
Lin Mo, on the other hand, froze for a moment.
"Forgot to turn on HP lock," As he said that, Lin Mo activated HP lock mode.
He continued to lock onto nearby Man-Eating Ants.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
With each arrow dealing over 1200 critical damage, all the attacked Man-Eating Ants were shot down to 1 HP.
At the same time, Lin Mo said to Ling Xiao, "Go take the last hit."
Ling Xiao reacted quickly.
Holding his sword, he charged toward those Man-Eating Ants that Lin Mo had crippled.
Slash!
Slash!
Slash!
-97!
-97!
-97!
As the third-ranked powerhouse on the leaderboard, Ling Xiao's strength was actually pretty decent.
It was just that compared to Lin Mo, it seemed insignificant.
In this way, Ling Xiao easily harvested the Man-Eating Ants one by one that Lin Mo had reduced to 1 HP.
Gaining the extra 30% experience bonus for the last hit, as well as the blessing aura that increased kill rewards by 10% for all Yunbian Town players after the first boss kill.
Each Man-Eating Ant could provide Ling Xiao with a full 180 experience points.
This monster-killing speed left Skinny Monkey, Fat Dahai, and even Xia Wanwan completely stunned.
At this time, Lin Mo asked the stunned Skinny Monkey and the others again, "Want it even faster?"
"Yes!", They nodded repeatedly.
"Then go lure monsters," Lin Mo ordered.
So Skinny Monkey and Fat Dahai immediately ran to the outer area to draw the Man-Eating Ants over.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Lin Mo's slaughter became even more brutal and bloodthirsty.
Countless Man-Eating Ants rushing in from all directions didn't even have a chance to get close to Lin Mo before being shot dead dozens of yards away.
———
At the same time, on the other side, Wang Junjie was completely unaware of the rapid level surge of the third-ranked [Wind Whistling].
All he knew was, "If it weren't for that bunch of Ning University trash coming to cause trouble just now, Rulebound wouldn't have been able to steal my boss at all!"
"Damn it, it must have been that trash Ling Xiao who called them over!"
Wang Junjie ground his teeth in hatred.
Dark and vicious thoughts of revenge also arose in his heart, "Useless trash! Looks like you still haven't figured out who's boss, huh? You dare help Rulebound go against me?"
"Just wait. Once I hit level 10, I'll start a livestream and fack Xia Wanwan to death!"
As soon as these words were spoken, a group of Chaotic World Guild lackeys nearby were boiling with excitement.
"Boss, are you really doing a livestream? Which platform?"
Wang Junjie: "Stream your sister!"
Lackey: "Boss, do you mean bring my sister over and then start the stream? Got it! I'll go bring my sister over right now." [T/N: How is it important to the plot?]
Wang Junjie: "Stream your mom!"
Lackey: "Got it! I'll go dig up my mom too!"
Wang Junjie: "Get lost!"
Lackey: "Got it!"
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