55: Chapter 55 Never accept dogs, only kill them.

Lin Ye slipped into the bushes and tossed the carcass of the Striped Terror Wolf onto the ground.

He crouched in the shadow of a tree.

His left eye opened a slit.

"Eye of Destiny, activate."

Sure enough, that red light a hundred meters away was creeping toward him.

...

Great Xia Disaster Prevention Administration, Command Center.

"Director Wei, our Challenger Lin Ye appears to have encountered the Island Nation Challenger, Lord Ikan Kinju!"

A staff member typed rapidly, and the massive screen in the hall instantly split in two.

On the left was Lin Ye, and on the right was Lord Ikan Kinju.

Director Wei Tiejun walked over quickly: "What is the probability of an encounter?"

"Comparing the terrain and plant silhouettes in both their perspectives, the probability of overlap is 93.4%."

Director Wei Tiejun frowned deeply, saying nothing.

The entire command center fell silent.

Everyone stared at the screen.

It was clearly visible from the livestream feed on the right that the Island Nation man was holding a cocked crossbow.

This thing could be considered a major lethal weapon in the Void Sea.

...

At the same time, countless Island Nation citizens crowded into their livestream, with the chat feed scrolling frantically.

[Yosh! Up ahead is that Great Xia one-eyed dragon!]

[May Amaterasu bless us! Lord Ikan Kinju's luck is too good!]

[Kill him! Use the crossbow to shoot through his head!]

[That Great Xia person has no defense at all, Lord Ikan Kinju, act now!]

[The glory of the Empire shall be rebuilt by Lord Ikan Kinju! Banzai!]

Between the lines, a nauseating malice permeated.

...

In the forest.

Lord Ikan Kinju lightened his steps, deliberately avoiding the dead branches and fallen leaves on the ground with every stride.

He crept cautiously to a position 50 meters from the bushes.

His breathing quickened, and his heart raced.

That extreme survival suit and the backpack full of supplies would soon be his!

As long as he finished this person off, he could suppress Great Xia's national destiny and become a national hero.

The distance closed to 30 meters.

Lord Ikan Kinju stopped behind a tree.

He leaned out, raised his crossbow, and aimed the sight at the bushes ahead.

Then, he froze.

In his sights, there was only the carcass of the Striped Terror Wolf.

Where was that Great Xia person?

There was no movement; everything around was deathly quiet.

"Where did he go? Did he run away?"

After waiting in place for two minutes, Lord Ikan Kinju couldn't hold back anymore.

He leveled his crossbow and rushed toward the bushes.

Pushing aside the leaves, there was nothing but the wolf carcass.

The Great Xia person was truly gone!

Cold sweat broke out on Lord Ikan Kinju's back, and an intense sense of crisis made him look around wildly.

At that very instant.

A sound came from above.

Before he could figure out what was happening, the branches and leaves above his head were burst open!

Lin Ye plummeted straight down from high above!

Lord Ikan Kinju looked up, his face full of horror, frantically trying to raise the crossbow.

Accompanied by the pressure of the wind, Lin Ye had already landed.

While bending his knees to absorb the impact, he slashed downward with the dagger held in his left hand.

"Sshhh—!"

The blade sliced through Lord Ikan Kinju's right arm that was holding the crossbow.

Blood splattered.

The crossbow slipped directly from his hand and slammed onto the muddy ground.

"Ah—! Baka!"

Lord Ikan Kinju let out a miserable scream.

This "Baka" that slipped out caused Lin Ye, who was preparing to execute him immediately, to pause.

His gaze instantly dropped to freezing point.

The person opposite him was actually an Island Nation citizen.

If he just gave him a quick death like this, it would be too easy for this beast.

Lord Ikan Kinju backed away repeatedly, pulling out a dagger with his left hand and waving it wildly in front of him.

"Go to hell! Go to hell!"

Lin Ye stepped forward.

"Clang!"

The dagger in his left hand precisely parried the opponent's blade, sending sparks flying.

His right hand curled into a fist.

A heavy punch slammed directly into Lord Ikan Kinju's face.

"Crack!"

The sound of the nasal bone shattering was incomparably pleasant to Lin Ye's ears.

Lord Ikan Kinju flew backward, his back hitting a tree trunk before he slowly slid down.

"Little Baka?"

Lin Ye walked over step by step, shaking the blood droplets off his fist.

"With only this much ability, you're trying to rob people?"

Lord Ikan Kinju struggled to get up.

Lin Ye lifted his right leg and kicked him directly on his left kneecap.

"Crack!"

The knee joint snapped backward.

"Ah—!"

This scream startled away the flocks of birds within a hundred meters.

Lord Ikan Kinju's dagger dropped to the ground, and he clutched his bent left leg, rolling in the mud.

Lin Ye continued by kicking him in the chest.

Three ribs broke at once, forcing the opponent's scream back into his throat.

"Want to scavenge? You should take a look at what kind of trash you are."

Lin Ye grabbed his hair and hauled him halfway up.

He clenched his left fist and aimed straight for his chin.

"Bang!"

The jawbone dislocated and shattered.

The next half minute was a completely one-sided beating.

Every one of Lin Ye's punches connected, destroying all of Lord Ikan Kinju's ability to resist.

Inside the Great Xia Live Stream.

[Holy shit! Awesome! Beat him hard!]

[You have to use lethal force against these little Bakas! My bloodline has awakened, family!]

[A one-shot kill would be too easy for him! Brother Eye did a good job!]

[Whoever dares to offend my Great Xia must be executed!]

[This is true blood for blood!]

Great Xia citizens across the entire internet were cheering wildly for Lin Ye's ruthless methods.

Conversely, in the Island Nation livestream.

The netizens who were just celebrating moments ago collectively had a mental breakdown.

They watched helplessly as Lord Ikan Kinju was beaten by that Great Xia person like a stray dog, without even a sliver of room to fight back.

[Baka! What is he doing! Lord Ikan Kinju, stand up and fight back!]

[This is impossible! How could an Imperial warrior be defeated by a cripple!]

[Protest! This is too cruel! This Great Xia person is a devil!]

...

In the forest.

Lord Ikan Kinju's psychological defenses were shattered even more thoroughly than his bones.

He dragged his broken body and knelt in a pool of blood.

The excruciating pain made him abandon all his pride, bushido, and bullshit dignity.

"Don't kill me! I surrender!"

With his jaw dislocated, he wailed inarticulately.

"I am willing to be a vassal! I am willing to be your dog! Woof woof woof!"

"All my supplies are yours! Don't kill me!"

He lay on the ground, kowtowing desperately like a maggot.

That deep-seated baseness and servility were exposed completely in the face of death.

Lin Ye looked down at him from above.

In his eyes, there was no pity, only undisguised disgust.

"Be a dog for Great Xia?"

Lin Ye gripped his dagger with a backhand grip, his voice cold and bone-chilling.

"You Island Nation people... are not worthy."

He raised his left hand, and the blade flashed.

"Sshhh!"

His throat was slit.

Blood sprayed wildly, splattering onto the surrounding dead leaves.

Lord Ikan Kinju's eyes bulged, and only a wheezing "hiss" sound remained in his throat.

He struggled twice in despair before completely expiring.

[Killed Island Nation Challenger: Lord Ikan Kinju.]

Lin Ye paused: "Holy shit, this name is truly a work of art!"

[Obtained "Expansion Plugin Fragment" x5.]

[Upload volume limit expanded to 1.5 cubic meters!]

Lin Ye raised an eyebrow.

So that's how it is.

Killing other Challengers allows one to expand their own limits.

5 fragments expanded it by 0.5 cubic meters, so 1 is 0.1 cubic meters.

This means the more people he kills, the larger the volume of supplies he can upload.

This mechanism is simply encouraging mutual slaughter between Challengers!

He curled his lip and picked up the crossbow from the ground.

The crossbow body was intact, and the bowstring was taut.

Then he grabbed the backpack from the corpse and unzipped it.

He rummaged through it, took out seven or eight arrows, and tucked them directly into the outer pocket of his own backpack.

As for the rest of the junk in the bag.

It was pathetically poor.

Lin Ye curled his lip in disdain, not even bothering to touch it.

Finally, he picked up the opponent's dagger and weighed it, treating it as a spare.

"The loot is passable."

Lin Ye turned around and looked up.

His gaze pierced through the layers of the forest.

In the depths of the mountains shrouded by clouds and mist, a dense cluster of red light flickered in his left eye's vision.

His target was right there!

He fastened his backpack and raised the cocked crossbow.

Stepping on the fallen leaves, he continued pushing forward without looking back.