39: Chapter 39 A Plan to Lure the Tiger Away from the Mountain

Lin Ye withdrew his gaze, sat up, and leaned his back against the parapet wall.

If he faced them head-on, the little meat on his bones wouldn't even be enough for them to have a full meal.

He stood up, gently pushed open the rooftop fire door, and slipped into the stairwell.

Twenty minutes later, Lin Ye looked like an old scavenger, having scavenged a large pile of scrap metal from the building.

A rusty microwave, a deformed drying rack, several scrap iron buckets, plus a pile of broken pots and pans.

Finally, he used a dagger to pry off a precarious solid wood door panel.

Lin Ye moved all these "trophies" to the stairwell landing leading from the fifth floor to the fourth.

One end of the door panel rested on the steps, while more than half of the other end hung in mid-air.

A dining table leg was propped under the door panel, serving as a temporary support.

Next, he piled all the collected junk onto the door panel.

Great Xia Live Stream.

The audience watched Lin Ye bustling up and down like a scavenging old man, and everyone fell into silence.

[What is Brother Eye doing? Is he collecting scrap here? Cardboard is fifty cents a pound!]

[Can this scrap metal kill monsters? Brother Eye is confused!]

[Next door, Scott just tore another one apart, while we're over here playing with waste recycling...]

[Stop comparing, stop comparing, I'm going to have a heart attack if I keep watching.]

[Old Xu, stop drinking water, come out and give us a reverse jinx to protect the king!]

This bullet comment spoke for countless people.

Meanwhile, those overseas IDs directly began to compare and belittle.

[USA: Scott has already killed his seventh Pale Species! Your Cyclops is still moving trash!]

[Island Nation: Yoshi, Great Xia people are naturally suited for picking up trash!]

[Kangaroo Country: Great Xia gave its only airdrop opportunity to this loser, do you regret it now?]

Even more disgusting things followed.

A group of "Runners" who had just passed their US immigration applications jumped out blatantly.

[Red-eye flight tonight, goodbye everyone! Passport in hand, JPG]

[Just got off the plane, the air of freedom is indeed sweet. I suggest everyone stop wasting time on a sinking ship, those who know, know.]

[Thanks to Lin Ye for dragging down the National Destiny, otherwise my application to renounce citizenship wouldn't have been approved instantly, hahaha!]

The screen full of boasting and belittling made Great Xia netizens' blood pressure soar, but the voices of rebuttal were quickly drowned out by the torrent of mockery.

...

Lin Ye carefully set up the trap, then opened his backpack and pulled out a roll of unopened nylon fishing line.

He tied one end to the broken table leg, then retreated to the sixth-floor rooftop while letting out the line.

Finally, he wrapped the fishing line around a piece of exposed rebar on the rooftop.

Preparation complete.

He bent down and casually picked up a few pieces of rubble from the rooftop floor.

Walking to the edge of the rooftop, he glanced down at the courtyard.

With a flick of his wrist.

"Clack!"

The stone hit the open space in the courtyard.

The sound of impact was exceptionally piercing in the ruins.

Below, three nearby Pale Species simultaneously raised their spindle-shaped heads and crawled rapidly toward the sound.

They took the bait.

Lin Ye wasn't in a hurry and waited for over ten seconds.

He threw the second stone.

At the same position.

"Clack!"

This time, two more from further away also moved, converging toward the same area following the source of the sound.

The third stone.

The fourth stone.

He controlled the intervals, hitting the same area every time.

By the time the fifth pebble fell, over a dozen grayish-white monsters were crowded in the open space.

They emitted low growls, their sharp claws scratching frantically at the ground.

In the large courtyard, only two or three were still wandering on the outermost edges.

That's enough!

Lin Ye grabbed the fishing line wrapped around the rebar with his right hand.

He pulled back hard!

"Zing—!"

The fishing line instantly snapped taut.

At the fourth-floor stairwell.

The table leg was yanked away by the fishing line.

The door panel, losing its support, collapsed with a loud "Bang!"

The microwave, iron racks, iron buckets, and other junk on the door panel poured down the stairs all at once!

"Clang!! Crash—! Boom!"

The sound of metal hitting concrete steps and iron trash cans bouncing back and forth in the stairwell...

This noise was infinitely amplified within the enclosed structure of the stairwell.

In the courtyard, the crowded Pale Species all turned their heads in unison, aiming at the building beneath Lin Ye's feet.

"Hiss—!"

They emitted low hisses and leaped over the broken walls one after another.

Even the creatures wandering the nearby streets were all attracted, scrambling to crash through the broken door on the first floor of the apartment building!

For a moment, the sounds of trampling and hissing inside the apartment building were deafening.

First floor, second floor... the sound rapidly approached upward.

By this time, Lin Ye was already standing at the very edge of the rooftop.

The hook of the Wind-Chasing Claw was firmly grasped onto the parapet wall.

Without a hint of hesitation, he leaped and flipped directly off the rooftop!

He pressed the switch.

The cable slowly released.

Clinging to the outer wall, he descended rapidly like a black shadow!

Great Xia Live Stream.

The livestream exploded from this move, and the bullet comments fell into a sea of revelry!

[Making a feint to the east while attacking in the west! Luring the tiger from the mountain!]

[Moving bricks? Moving your mother's bricks! He was setting a trap! We're the clowns!]

[Does the Archaeology Department teach this now? I want to change my major!]

[Where are the Runners? Where's the one who was showing off their passport just now? Come out and see what an IQ crush looks like!]

[The muscle soldier next door only knows how to charge brainlessly, but Brother Eye's move is called a dimensional strike!]

"Swish—"

His soles made brief friction with the outer wall.

As soon as his feet touched the ground, Lin Ye followed through with a tactical forward roll, perfectly dissipating the impact of the high-altitude descent.

As he stood up, he raised his right arm and pressed the switch.

With a "Whoosh," the flying claw retracted.

He didn't pause, took a running start, and kicked off the base of the wall with his left foot.

His hands climbed the top of the wall, and he flipped over it, landing steadily inside the courtyard.

At this moment, the courtyard was completely like an undefended empty city.

The main force had all been tricked by the noise into the building behind him, and he could still hear the monsters frantically tearing the place apart in the stairwells.

Holding the Fire Axe in his hand, Lin Ye advanced directly toward the position of the golden light point he had previously locked onto.

Two minutes later.

He stopped in front of the ruins of a collapsed small wooden building.

The golden light point was buried directly beneath this pile of ruins.

"Buried so deep, there's likely a basement."

Lin Ye gripped the axe handle, narrowed his eyes, and began to search for a downward passage among the rubble and decayed wooden boards.

Just as he used the axe handle to carefully push aside a wooden board.

"Creeak..."

The broken rubble under his feet made a very slight friction sound.

This sound was negligible to human ears.

But to the ear of a sightless Pale Species, it was like a thunderclap on a clear day!

A lone Small Pale One wandering on the edge of the ruins suddenly turned its head.

"Hiss!"

The monster emitted a hiss, its limbs suddenly kicked off the ground, and it lunged straight for Lin Ye!

A foul wind blew in his face.

There was no panic in Lin Ye's eyes.

He shifted his left foot, his body sliding slightly to the side, avoiding the monster's killing trajectory.

Almost simultaneously, a powerful torque force erupted from his waist and abdomen.

Lin Ye gripped the Fire Axe tightly with his right hand and swung it out!

"Crack!"

The axe blade, with the sound of breaking air, chopped into the Pale Species' cervical vertebrae!

The crisp sound of a breaking spine was accompanied by splashing black blood.

The monster's body stiffened in mid-air, then slammed heavily at Lin Ye's feet, rolling forward twice before stopping.

The whole process took less than two seconds.

A one-hit kill!

Lin Ye was expressionless as he raised his leg and kicked the monster's corpse aside.

He continued to clear the clutter in front of him.

Soon, beneath a tilted floor slab, he cleared away the rubble, and a downward staircase was revealed.

At the end of the stairs was a rusty iron door.

Lin Ye crouched down, his left eye opening the Eye of Destiny again, attempting to probe the situation below.

In the next second, his brow furrowed.

His vision penetrated the rusty iron door.

Beside the golden light point, there was also a red light point, larger than those outside, coiled there!