115: Li Zhuilin escaped

Seeing the Family Head rise, the rest of the people stood up immediately.

“Third Master, gather the troops.”

The Li Family Head looked at Third Master and commanded.

“Yes!”

Hearing the Family Head’s words, a cold, venomous expression appeared on the Li Family’s Third Master’s face.

For this revenge operation, the Li Family had kept an entire division on standby within the city.

As the order was issued, this army unit in the city immediately mobilized and rushed toward the city gate.

Furthermore, two of the four divisions that were leveling up outside also withdrew from their nests and began advancing from two separate directions to intercept the Lin Family’s route.

In truth, mobilizing such a large force was unnecessary just for the Lin Family’s twenty-something amateurs.

The Li Family’s main concern was the power backing the Lin Family; since the Official Faction was currently embroiled in internal power struggles, with each group forming its own faction, they weren't sure who was supporting the Lin Family. It was always safer to be cautious. As soon as the Lin Family exited the city gate, they headed straight toward the Green-Eyed Qilin Crocodile’s location.

However, they hadn't traveled far when a young man from the Lin Family suddenly noticed a large troop of soldiers rapidly approaching them from behind.

“Grandpa, look…”

The young man tugged at Lin Kun and pointed behind them.

Lin Kun turned his head to look, and his soul nearly flew out of his body.

“Oh no! It’s the Li Family! Run!”

A few kilometers away, the Li Family Head led the charge, bringing nearly ten thousand soldiers of the entire division, charging murderously toward their position.

When the Lin Family members turned to look, their expressions changed drastically, and they froze on the spot.

According to Lin Kun’s assessment, given Huang Chen’s deterrent power, the Li Family would certainly weigh the pros and cons and swallow the bitter pill in silence.

The fact that the Li Family had made no move yesterday seemed to confirm his guess.

But they never expected that the Li Family’s lack of response was simply them waiting for the Lin Family to leave the city.

“Run! Hurry up and run!”

Lin Xiao roared, jolting everyone awake. He then grabbed a daughter with each hand and frantically fled forward.

Because once Movement Skill reaches 100, further increases provide very minimal boosts to speed and attack speed.

Therefore, Trial Takers usually stop increasing their Movement Skill once it reaches 100 points.

This also means that the speed of nearly all Trial Takers is roughly the same.

Thus, from the moment the Lin Family began running at full speed, the distance between the two sides remained consistently controlled at about seven or eight kilometers.

At this point, seeing the Lin Family start to flee, over a dozen figures immediately broke away from the main Li Family Army and pursued them at double the speed.

As a regular army, they must be equipped with Scouts.

This class increases their Movement Skill to 1100, achieving twice the speed of an average person.

With a speed difference of 100 meters per second, the seven or eight kilometer distance was closed in just about a minute.

As soon as they reached attack range, these Scouts launched an assault on the Lin Family members without hesitation.

Aside from Movement Skill, they allocated almost all their potential points to Physique, resulting in very low attack power.

However, their attacks were not intended to inflict significant damage on the Lin Family.

Rather, they aimed to use their skill effects to slow down the Lin Family members.

Immediately, under the Scouts' attacks, effects like Slow, Stun, and Injured Knockback appeared on everyone.

The Lin Family’s escape speed dropped significantly.

“Counterattack! Fight back!”

Lin Kun shouted in panic.

They had to drive these people away, otherwise, if the Li Family caught up, all of them would be finished.

The Lin Family members responded by attacking.

But the Scouts were highly experienced; after attacking, they immediately used their speed to dodge outward, and since they focused on Movement Skill, their proficiency was much higher than average.

Not a single one of the Lin Family’s skills landed.

After dodging a wave of skills, the Scouts immediately stuck to them again like persistent plasters, launching a second round of attacks.

After two or three rounds of back and forth, the Li Family Army behind them had closed the distance to about four kilometers.

Lin Kun was burning with anxiety, yet utterly helpless.

When Lin Qinglian saw the Li Family Army, she immediately sent distress signals to Huang Chen, Tie Shengnan, and Xie Chunyan.

Huang Chen was currently in the Satellite City instance; although the raid was nearing its end, he couldn’t leave just yet.

Meanwhile, Tie Shengnan’s team had already exited the Green-Eyed Qilin Crocodile’s nest and was rushing toward the Lin Family’s location.

At the same time, Xie Chunyan issued an order, and almost all the Forbidden City Legion members in Area 886 immediately dropped what they were doing and headed toward Lin Qinglian's position.

In Xie Chunyan’s view, this was a perfect opportunity for Forbidden City to establish its prestige.

Forbidden City’s large-scale expansion recently inevitably caused various frictions and conflicts with other forces.

While the incidents were minor, they became bothersome to handle when they piled up.

Therefore, Xie Chunyan intended to use this opportunity to show everyone Forbidden City’s fangs.

However, based on the current distances, even the closest Tie Shengnan would need at least half an hour to arrive.

Hopefully, the Lin Family could hold out.

At the very least, nothing must happen to the two Lin sisters.

Otherwise, when Huang Chen returned, not just the Li Family, but even the Official Faction wouldn’t be able to withstand his fury.

On the Lin Family’s side, they were completely helpless against the Scouts.

Seeing the Li Family Army about to catch up, faces were etched with despair.

But right at this moment,

Lin Qingmei suddenly let go of Lin Xiao’s hand. With a thought, her entire body vanished.

She was a Wood Elemental and already Level 50, allowing her to cast the skill “Stealth.”

“Qingmei…”

Lin Xiao roared, his expression changing dramatically, and his pace involuntarily slowed down.

Why did his daughter suddenly disappear while they were running?

Seeing this, Lin Qinglian tightened her grip on her father’s hand and urgently said, “Dad! This is Sister’s Level 50 skill, don’t worry.”

No sooner had Lin Qinglian finished speaking than a Scout dozens of meters away suddenly screamed and vanished into a white light.

Lin Qingmei’s figure reappeared. Level 50, combined with Huang Chen’s potential points and a Level 45 Dark Gold Set.

How could a Scout, only around Level 30 and focused primarily on Physique, withstand her Break Stealth Strike?

After killing one Scout, Lin Qingmei’s expression turned cold. She instantly charged toward another Scout ahead, and her figure disappeared again mid-run.

Seeing Lin Qingmei vanish, the Scouts’ expressions changed drastically, and they immediately took off running.

“Ah…”

Another scream.

It turned out that Lin Qingmei had immediately turned around after going into Stealth, sneaked up to another Scout, killed him, and then re-entered Stealth.

At this, all the remaining Scouts were terrified.

They all retreated to a distance of about three hundred meters from the Lin Family and followed, daring not to get any closer.

In this manner, the Li and Lin families, one pursuing and one fleeing, ran for over ten minutes.

Until another army appeared directly in front of them.

The army, well-rested and prepared, immediately formed a fan shape to flank the Lin Family members as soon as they appeared.

Meanwhile, Tie Shengnan and a dozen core members, leading a thousand new recruits, had arrived at a location only 10 minutes away from the Lin Family. [I don’t know why I’m so wordy; I originally only planned a few hundred characters for the chase scene, but ended up writing two thousand. Maybe I’ve always wanted to be a Sea King, so my brain is full of water. I will properly repent and return to the main storyline quickly…]