58: Chapter 58 Rejecting Involution, Leaving get off work on Time

"Bang!" The Wind-Chasing Claw shot out.

The grappling hook bit into an exposed construction steel beam a dozen meters overhead.

Amidst Amir's shattering gaze, Lin Ye soared into the air.

Using the tension of the cable, he landed steadily on the steel beam.

"You can't leave! Pull me up!"

Amir reached out, his voice cracking.

However, the answer he received was the gray-white tide surging into the alley entrance.

Dozens of Small Pale Ones squeezed into the alley, their shrill screams instantly drowning out Amir.

"Ah—!" A shrill scream echoed between the high concrete walls.

Bone spurs sliced open his arms, and sharp fangs tore through flesh.

The sounds of large mouths chewing drowned out Amir's vicious curses.

Inside the Great Xia Live Stream, the screen was full of cheers.

[Extremely satisfying! This kind of trash deserves to be torn apart and eaten alive!]

[This Indian guy really got what he asked for! He wanted to go to heaven, and now he's really gone to heaven!]

[Brother Eye's move here is a perfect score!]

The audience from neighboring India collectively broke down, running to the Great Xia Live Stream in a rage to spam curses.

[India: Shameless Great Xia people! Refusing to save someone! He is a murderer!]

[India: You will face the divine punishment of Shiva!]

Great Xia netizens typed furiously, their combat power maxed out.

[Hilarious, he insisted on running into a dead end, our Brother Eye was just practicing parkour!]

[Exactly, Brother Eye didn't even touch him, and he even gave him the middle finger as a farewell before leaving, how thoughtful!]

[Hurry home and drink two bowls of Ganges water to cool off!]

On the steel beam, Lin Ye looked down and took a glance.

Below, Amir had already been torn to pieces by the feeding.

Some of the Pale Species raised their heads, locking onto Lin Ye above by sound.

"Swish, swish, swish!" They dug their sharp claws into the concrete wall, climbing up on all fours.

Lin Ye immediately dismissed the idea of standing there and picking them off.

The density of monsters below was too high; if he shot arrows now, they would likely be stepped on or carried away, making it impossible to retrieve them.

"If I can't stay, I'll just change locations."

He raised his hand and shot the Wind-Chasing Claw again, biting into the roof on one side of the alley.

Swinging his body, he flipped onto the rooftop.

Lin Ye used the Wind-Chasing Claw to leap continuously between the rooftops of the ruins.

He left quickly, leaving those roars behind.

After several detours.

Lin Ye stopped at a partially collapsed office building.

On the third floor, there happened to be a broken window with a wide view, perfectly overlooking the road outside.

A dozen Pale Species were wandering around.

Lin Ye leaned against the window, raised his crossbow, and continued his "roll call" tactic.

Cock, aim, pull the trigger.

"Swish." A Pale Species fell to the ground.

Shoot the claw, retrieve the arrow.

Everything was like an assembly line operation.

However... after frequently piercing through hard bones, the retribution for "exploiting a bug" finally arrived.

"Swish." Another arrow shot out, a precise headshot.

Lin Ye habitually swung the grappling hook to retrieve it.

"Snap!" The arrow shaft broke on the spot.

Only half the shaft flew back into his hand; the part with the arrowhead was stuck in the monster's forehead.

Lin Ye frowned slightly and casually threw the broken half-arrow aside.

He pulled out a new arrow and loaded it into the groove.

Two minutes later, the familiar operation repeated.

"Hiss!" This time the shaft was retrieved, but the arrowhead fell off, remaining in the monster's corpse.

Two ruined in a row.

Lin Ye stopped.

He took out the remaining five arrows and checked them one by one.

Sure enough, one of the shafts already had several cracks.

If he used it again, it would definitely shatter.

"This Japanese gear is just not durable."

Lin Ye couldn't help but complain.

He decisively gave up on the "free-loading" sniping playstyle.

These arrows were his trump card for survival; he couldn't waste them all on farming points like this.

...

Meanwhile, in the exclusive USA Livestream.

Scott held a deformed steel bar and smashed the head of a Pale Species with one blow.

His whole body was covered in black blood and minced flesh.

Unexpectedly, Scott had not completely lost his mind.

After the battle ended, he immediately exited that frenzied state.

A second before the monster encirclement formed, he quickly turned around.

He slipped into the subway entrance behind him, avoiding a large-scale encirclement.

The USA Livestream was full of praise.

However.

Great Xia Disaster Prevention Administration, Third Research Group.

On a secondary screen next to the main screen, a screenshot of the exact second Scott turned to retreat was frozen.

"Zoom in on the character's back area," Lu Chen said coldly.

The analyst quickly zoomed in and sharpened the image.

They saw that under the camouflage uniform on Scott's back, there was a strange, subtle bulge!

It was clearly an outgrowth that didn't belong to human physiological structure.

Lu Chen pushed up his glasses.

"Looking at him, it seems he has adapted to the erosion of the pollution."

"But his body must have already paid an irreversible price."

...

Void Sea.

On the skyline, a hint of pale orange-red gradually appeared.

Lin Ye leaned against the edge of the broken third-floor window and summoned the light screen to check the leaderboard.

[No.1: Scott (USA) — Points: 388]

[No.2: Ivan (Russia) — Points: 206]

[No.3: Soldier King Xu Haifeng (Great Xia) — Points: 182]

...

[No.9: Lin Ye (Great Xia) — Points: 98]

Relying on this steady, damage-free harvesting style, his points accumulated quickly, and his ranking soared into the top ten.

However, that guy in first place is almost at 400; it seems this pollution boost is quite effective.

Lin Ye closed the light screen and glanced at his wrist terminal.

It was almost dark.

A rule warning appeared in his mind: During special events, the activity of exotic beasts and Pale Species increases significantly at night.

"You can never finish earning all the points, but you only have one life."

He hung the crossbow back on the side of his backpack, showing no attachment to the "double points" easily available below.

"Time's up, clocking out!"

His attitude of "clocking out on time, refusing to rat race" would make capitalists weep.

Lin Ye quickly moved through the ruins along the direction he came from.

His original plan was to climb over the mountain and return the same way.

But when he reached the foot of the mountains at the edge of the basin, his footsteps suddenly stopped.

His gaze swept over a rock wall a few dozen meters to the right.

That rock wall was completely covered by a large amount of vines, lush and green.

At first glance, there was nothing unusual.

Eye of Destiny, activate.

In his vision, besides the green of the vines, there was also a green line.

Lin Ye quickly changed direction and approached the rock wall.

He drew his dagger and cut through the intertwined vines.

"Rip—!"

As the vines were pushed aside, a natural canyon crevice, wide enough for only one person to pass through sideways, appeared before his eyes.

Standing at the mouth of the crevice, a scent of soil rushed towards him.

"There's a breeze."

Lin Ye felt a surge of joy.

This was clearly a hidden crevice formed by the mountain fracturing, which could lead directly to the primeval forest outside the basin.

Passing through here would save quite a bit of time and energy.

He turned sideways and squeezed directly into the narrow crevice.

The rock walls on both sides never saw sunlight all year round; they were cold, damp, and covered in moss.

About twenty minutes later.

A glimmer of light finally appeared ahead.

Lin Ye pushed aside the vines blocking the exit and stepped out from the rock wall.

Familiar plants came into view; he had successfully returned to the primeval forest outside the basin.

He prepared to set off to return to the waterfall cave.

But he hadn't even walked ten meters away.

"Roar—!"

From the direction of the basin behind him, a terrifying roar suddenly erupted.

Lin Ye paused, then accelerated into the forest without looking back.

The Scarlet Night was about to descend.