57: Chapter 57 Acting Skills and Countermeasures

Lin Ye cut into the outskirts of the ruins from the eastern viaduct.

He crouched behind the wreckage of an SUV.

He raised his crossbow and aimed at a Small Pale One twenty meters away.

His index finger pressed the trigger.

"Whoosh."

The arrow pierced through the monster's skull.

The Small Pale One was pulled backward by inertia, collapsed to the ground, and stopped moving.

Lin Ye raised his right arm and aimed at the tail of the arrow shaft.

The grappling hook shot out, biting into the middle of the arrow shaft.

With a "splat" sound, the arrow brought out a string of black blood and fell back into his hand.

A prompt popped up on the light screen in front of his right eye.

[Killed Small Pale One, Points +4]

[Current Points: 23]

That crossed the minimum threshold.

Lin Ye shook the blood off the arrowhead and reloaded it into the arrow groove.

He summoned the leaderboard from the light screen.

[No.1: Scott (USA) — Points: 214]

[No.2: Ivan (Russia) — Points: 42]

[No.3: Soldier King Xu Haifeng (Great Xia) — Points: 38]

The point increases for the vast majority of Challengers were within a normal range.

But looking at that exaggerated number at the top of the list, Lin Ye raised an eyebrow.

"214 points?"

Even if he killed only high-point monsters, he would have to pile up dozens of corpses.

For a normal person doing this kind of manual labor, their bones would have fallen apart long ago.

Yet this Scott's killing efficiency was only getting higher.

"He must have been marinated in high-dimensional energy, right? His Spirit Grid is probably so degraded that even his own mother wouldn't recognize him."

Lin Ye muttered to himself.

Trading his life for points, he was a total sucker.

He closed the list and looked up at the viaduct ahead.

A scan with his left eye.

The bridge deck was clean, without a hint of dangerous red light.

He shot out the grappling hook, biting into the edge of the viaduct.

Lin Ye soared into the air, vaulted over the guardrail, and landed on the bridge deck.

Looking down from a height, the situation below was fully visible.

On the road, many Pale Species were wandering back and forth among the wreckage of the ruins.

He rested his crossbow on the concrete guardrail, aiming the sight at a Small Pale One below.

"Whoosh."

A headshot.

Shoot the claw, retrieve the arrow.

Cock the string, next one.

Lin Ye transformed into a heartless marking machine.

He advanced slowly along the bridge deck, and every time he pulled the trigger, a monster below was bound to fall.

No melee combat, no unnecessary physical exertion.

[Killed Small Pale One, Points +4]

[Killed Small Pale One, Points +4]

...

Shooting, retrieving, formed a perfect closed loop.

In the Great Xia Live Stream.

[Damn! Others are playing wilderness survival, Brother Eye is playing a first-person shooter!]

[This farming method, elegant! Too damn elegant!]

[This is the advantage of having a good brain! Pure intelligence crushing!]

[Look at John Bull's Huohuo, to kill one small monster, his arm was bitten to shreds, Brother Eye hasn't even broken a sweat!]

Relying on this "free-loading" playstyle, Lin Ye soared up the leaderboard.

From outside the top 100, he broke directly into the top 50.

However, good times didn't last long.

After he knocked down another monster and walked a few dozen meters further, the road ended.

The viaduct ahead had completely collapsed, turning into a pile of ruins.

"Tsk, what a pity for this treasure trove of points."

He smacked his lips, still unsatisfied.

He hung the crossbow on the outside of his backpack.

He raised his hand and fired a grappling hook, biting onto a transverse steel beam.

He stepped onto the guardrail and jumped, landing steadily on the road below.

Lin Ye used abandoned cars as cover to advance into the city.

Just as he turned a traffic light intersection.

"Swish!"

Two Small Pale Ones pounced directly from the shadows.

Lin Ye drew his fire axe.

He dodged the first one's pounce, and with a backhand swing, chopped its cervical spine to pieces.

Then he kicked the second one in the abdomen, knocking it over.

Taking a step forward, the axe blade smashed through its skull.

He pulled out the fire axe and shook off the black blood.

Suddenly.

A terrified scream came from the other end of the road.

"Ahhh! Help! Help me!"

Lin Ye looked up.

A dark-skinned man was sprinting towards him.

Twenty meters behind him, a dozen Small Pale Ones were chasing madly.

And behind this group of small monsters, there was a large Medium Pale-Type with bone spurs growing on its back.

The light screen in Lin Ye's right eye flickered.

[Nationality: India]

He raised an eyebrow and stood still.

And on the other end.

Amir, who had been full of despair, saw Lin Ye ahead. He was stunned for a moment, then his eyes revealed wild joy.

A scapegoat had arrived!

"Hey! You in front! Don't run! Save me!"

Amir didn't lower his voice; instead, he deliberately waved his arms and shouted like a madman.

He sped up desperately, rushing straight towards Lin Ye's direction.

The Great Xia Live Stream exploded.

[What is this Indian doing! He's deliberately leading the monsters to Brother Eye!]

[Too shameless! Trying to drag others down with him while he's looking for death!]

[Brother Eye, run! Don't worry about him!]

Meanwhile, in the neighboring India Livestream, there was collective revelry.

[Amir did a great job! Lead the monsters to that Great Xia person!]

[Trading a Great Xia person's life for Amir's life is quite a good deal.]

[Look at that Great Xia person's expression, he must have peed his pants in fear!]

...

On the road, Lin Ye's eyes grew cold.

This kind of low-quality attempt to divert disaster was just too obvious.

Want to use him to transfer aggro?

Fine, today, buddy will teach you how to efficiently lure monsters.

Lin Ye instantly channeled his inner actor, putting on a terrified expression.

"Holy shit! Don't you fucking come over here!"

He let out a scream and turned to run in the opposite direction.

Seeing this, the stone in Amir's heart fell to the ground.

As long as he's scared out of his wits, that's fine!

As long as this Great Xia person runs around, he can distract the monsters for him.

"Wait for me! Brother! Let's fight together!"

Amir spouted nonsense, squeezing out his last bit of strength to desperately follow behind Lin Ye.

The two of them fled down the road, one in front and one behind.

Lin Ye ran in front, his footsteps seemingly panicked but actually extremely rhythmic.

He deliberately held back his speed, always maintaining a "lead" of about 5 to 10 meters.

Whenever the speed behind him slowed down, Lin Ye would pretend to trip over a stone or look back with a terrified expression.

This gave the other party an illusion:

Just grit your teeth, run two more steps, and you can catch up to this Great Xia person and complete the "handover" of aggro.

Amir had already taken the bait and was chasing desperately with red eyes.

And this game directly shattered the quiet of the ruins along the way.

On both sides of the street, under abandoned cars, behind broken walls.

One Pale Species after another was awakened.

They hissed and crazily joined the pursuing army.

The snowball got bigger and bigger.

In just one minute, the Pale Species following behind Amir had surged from the initial fifteen or sixteen to nearly forty!

The audience in the Great Xia Live Stream was stunned.

[What is Brother Eye doing? Why hasn't he shaken him off yet at this point?]

[He's led almost a whole company of monsters, hasn't he!]

[Why do I feel like... Brother Eye is walking the dog?]

...

Amir's lungs felt like they were burning, his legs were trembling, and his stamina was on the verge of collapse.

"Can't run anymore... Damn it, stop!"

Lin Ye turned his head and glanced back.

The heat was enough.

He suddenly made a 90-degree sharp turn and rushed into an alley between two collapsed office buildings.

Amir couldn't react in time; his mind was filled with the obsession of using Lin Ye as a scapegoat, so he dove in right after him.

The alley got narrower the further they went.

On both sides were blackened concrete walls.

Amir ran a few dozen steps, and his footsteps suddenly stopped.

In front of the alley, a pile of collapsed building debris blocked the way.

This was a dead end.

Amir was dumbfounded.

He turned his head back.

All the Pale Species had already squeezed into the alley entrance.

Their hissing made Amir's mentality collapse completely.

He pointed at Lin Ye, who was backing against the building debris, and cursed hysterically:

"Stupid! You idiot!"

"Don't you have eyes! Why did you run into a dead end!"

"Now we're both going to die here!"

Despair twisted his face, and his whole body couldn't stop trembling.

However, the terror on Lin Ye's face faded like a tide.

He put on a mocking expression.

"Die? It's you who's dying, not me."

He raised his left hand with a smile and waved, then changed the gesture, holding up a single middle finger.

"Little curry from India, buddy isn't playing with you anymore, bye-bye."

Lin Ye raised his right arm, aiming at an exposed steel bar dozens of meters above his head.