160: C-level mission, kill the robbers

Li Ziyu's eyes flickered, and he tried to tap on the red block, which was one level below black.

Similar to the previous display, it still showed that the prerequisite task was not unlocked.

He then sequentially tapped on the blue and green blocks.

Ultimately, Li Ziyu came to a conclusion.

Black, red, blue, and green represented S-rank, A-rank, B-rank, and C-rank difficulty tasks, respectively.

Black represented S-rank difficulty tasks.

Red represented A-rank difficulty tasks.

Blue represented B-rank difficulty tasks.

Green represented C-rank difficulty tasks.

Only by completing a C-rank task first could he unlock B-rank.

Eventually, he would progressively unlock S-rank tasks.

“This should be a means to protect participants; after all, if someone recklessly chose an S-rank task, they probably wouldn't even know how they died,” Li Ziyu mused, continuing to examine the interface.

A C-rank task, it stated, could earn 5% task completion.

A B-rank task could earn 10% task completion.

An A-rank task could earn 15% task completion.

An S-rank task, on the other hand, could earn 40% task completion!

The task panel did not require completing S-rank tasks to fill the progress bar, meaning that if one had patience, they could continuously grind C-rank tasks.

This seemed to accommodate Martial Artists with lower strength.

Li Ziyu then shifted his gaze downwards, sweeping over the completion leaderboard in the upper right corner.

There was only one name on it:

Li Yang, task completion, 5%.

“As expected of Ji Dao Martial Hall’s second-generation disciple, he completed a C-rank task so quickly; he’s got something,” Li Ziyu thought.

Li Ziyu operated on the screen for a moment longer, and after understanding the rules, he made a decision.

As long as he kept completing low-level tasks, he could eventually fill the progress bar.

However, since this Martial Saint Secret Realm specifically categorized task levels and even set up a progress leaderboard, it was clear that the final rewards for filling the progress bar by completing S-rank tasks versus completing a bunch of C-rank tasks would be different.

Otherwise, no one would bother with S-rank tasks.

Everyone would just grind low-level tasks.

“In that case, I’ll complete a C-rank task first, then a B-rank task!

After that, an A-rank, and finally… an S-rank!”

After a moment of thought, Li Ziyu made up his mind.

By pushing through this way, he would only need to complete one C-rank task, one B-rank task, one A-rank task, and two S-rank tasks to fill the task bar!

Completing one S-rank task was equivalent to eight C-rank tasks, four B-rank tasks, or 2.5 A-rank tasks; it was all about efficiency.

With that thought, Li Ziyu clicked on a green block.

[Task Level: C]

[Danger Level: Normal]

[Task Reward Completion: 5%]

[Task Details—Rescue Hostages.

A gold store in the International Trade Financial Center has been hijacked by three Ancient Martial Practitioner robbers. Ten hostages are being held inside. The Public Security Bureau has requested assistance from higher authorities. The objective is to rescue the trapped hostages.]

[Robber Strength: Four-level High-grade Ancient Martial Practitioner.]

Below, there was also a location map of the task site.

There was also an assessment of the robbers' strength.

When Martial Artists first appeared, there were indeed many ill-intentioned individuals who engaged in arson, murder, and robbery.

After all, when an individual gains powerful strength, desires and evil thoughts often breed within them.

It was like his previous life's America, where gun ownership was legal, and there were frequent occurrences of zero-dollar shopping and gunfire, leading to countless casualties.

And the power of a Martial Artist was immeasurably stronger than firearms.

After confirming the task objective, Li Ziyu followed the location guidance on his wristband and rushed towards the target area.

As for the message about meeting up in the group chat, he simply ignored it.

He could now roughly deduce the difficulty of the tasks.

The C-rank task required Four-level High-grade Martial Artists.

Then, going up, B-rank would most likely require Five-level Intermediate or High-grade.

And A-rank tasks might very well require Fifth-level Peak Martial Artist, or even Six-Level Beginner Warrior.

As for the final S-rank task, Li Ziyu felt that the minimum requirement for a Martial Artist would be Six-level Intermediate!

Or even Six-level High-grade!

Although he had not engaged in actual combat with a Six-level High-grade Martial Artist, Li Ziyu felt that with his current strength, defeating a Level 6 Martial Artists should be no problem.

System.

Ten minutes later.

Li Ziyu arrived at a gold store in the city center, following the task guidance.

At this time, the gold store was already surrounded by hundreds of armed police officers with live ammunition.

Police cars and armored vehicles, with flashing sirens, completely blockaded the gold store, and several armed helicopters even hovered in the sky.

Further out, yellow lines had been drawn everywhere.

Many Public Security Bureau personnel were maintaining order.

At this moment, many onlookers were gathered not far from the gold store's entrance, craning their necks, curiously holding up their phones to photograph the direction of the gold store.

At the same time, they were discussing animatedly:

“Wow, isn’t it just robbing a gold store? Why such a big commotion? Even helicopters are here, making it look like a war.”

“You don’t understand. I heard from others that the robbers inside are Ancient Martial Practitioners, and they are said to be very powerful Ancient Martial Practitioners!”

“No matter how strong an Ancient Martial Practitioner is, can they still block a sniper rifle bullet?”

“Don’t say that, they really can. I saw a video online a few days ago of an Ancient Martial Practitioner single-handedly blowing up a tank.”

“Pfft, you’re just talking nonsense…”

Li Ziyu listened to the discussions of the onlookers.

One hundred and fifty years ago, Martial Artists had not yet officially come to the forefront. Ordinary people's knowledge of Martial Artist deeds came from online videos and rumors, and their concept of Martial Artist power was still stuck in the stage of flying over rooftops and walls, or uprooting willow trees as seen in wuxia novels.

They had no experience of the terror of powerful Martial Artists destroying cities in later generations.

No wonder, with such a large-scale situation, they still dared to risk their lives to gather and watch.

This was the deeply ingrained sense of security brought by hot weapons.

“Hey, young man, it’s dangerous inside, don’t go in.”

“Hey, stop!! This area is sealed off, you can’t enter!”