65: Chapter 65 Schemes Within Schemes and Game Within Game

"Bang!"

Lin Ye kicked the half-open door.

The wooden door panel shattered, but he immediately pulled his body back!

"Whoosh—Bang!"

A metal baseball bat swung down with a whistling sound!

It smashed a dent into the concrete floor, sending gravel flying.

Sean, who had been lying in ambush behind the door, had missed his long-planned, lethal strike.

In the Great Xia Live Stream.

[Holy crap! God-tier movement! Is Brother Eye hacking with that reaction speed?]

[Wait, did Brother Eye not believe that bitch from the very beginning?]

[I was stunned by that arrow before he kicked the door; it turns out Brother Eye was playing along with their scheme!]

[So slick! I knew our Brother Eye wouldn't be some goody-two-shoes!]

[Scared the hell out of me! My heart stopped for a second, but Brother Eye is as steady as ever!]

[Kill those two bastards! Slaughter them mercilessly!]

Previously, on the ruined street, when Liu Tingting had asked Lin Ye for help.

Lin Ye had appeared moved by the word "compatriot," but in reality, he had already instantly activated his Eye of Destiny.

To ordinary eyes, she was a pitiful, weak woman being hunted by monsters.

But Lin Ye had seen the red aura on this woman!

Furthermore, before deciding to go upstairs, Lin Ye had already looked up and scanned this office building.

In the top-floor area, a red light and a green light were intertwined.

The script was too poor, and the acting was too exaggerated.

He had pretended to be hot-blooded and righteous, purely to play along with their trap.

In the hallway, Liu Tingting clutched her pierced knee, rolling on the ground in pain.

When Sean saw that the trap had been broken, the flesh on his face twitched with rage.

"Yellow-skinned monkey! Go to hell!"

He roared, relying on his height and brawn, and swung the baseball bat with full force toward Lin Ye's head.

The corridor was narrow, barely two meters wide.

Sean was confident that in such a space, his strength and attack range would definitely be able to crush this Great Xia person into meat paste.

But Lin Ye narrowed his eyes, not panicking in the slightest.

He slid his left foot half a step to the right and leaned his upper body backward.

"Whoosh!"

The baseball bat whistled past his chest.

After missing the strike, Sean flipped his wrist, changing the horizontal sweep into a downward cleave.

Lin Ye lowered his body, crouching down and brushing past the falling shadow of the club.

"Clang!"

The baseball bat slammed into the wall to the side, shaking off chunks of plaster.

Just at the gap where Sean's old force was spent and his new force had yet to generate!

Lin Ye reached back to his waist with his right hand and drew his fire axe.

Engaging his waist and back, he swung the axe blade directly at Sean's side ribs!

Terrified, Sean twisted his wrist with all his might, pulling the baseball bat back horizontally to block in front of him.

"Clang—!"

Sparks flew!

Sean's hand went numb from the impact, and the baseball bat nearly flew out of his grip.

"How is this kid so strong?"

Before he could stabilize his center of gravity, Lin Ye's next move arrived.

Using the recoil from the axe bouncing off, he spun around.

His left hand had already gripped a dagger at some point.

The blade moved from bottom to top, slicing fiercely along the outside of Sean's thigh!

"Sshh—!"

Fabric tore, and the blade carved a half-foot-long bloody gash!

Flesh curled back, and blood gushed out.

"Ah—Fuck!"

Sean let out a miserable scream, stumbling back three steps until his back hit the door frame.

In just one exchange, the positions of strength had reversed!

Cold sweat broke out on Sean; he realized he couldn't gain any advantage against this Great Xia person at all.

The opponent didn't try to brute-force him at all; every dodge was perfectly timed, and his counterattacks went straight for vital points.

If this kept up, he would definitely be done for within three rounds!

Taking advantage of the gap while Lin Ye retracted his blade to adjust his center of gravity, Sean gritted his teeth, turned around, and crashed through the broken door of a nearby utility room.

"Stop!"

Lin Ye's eyes sharpened, and he raised his fire axe to pursue.

The next moment, Sean walked out dragging a woman.

His right arm was locked around her neck, using her as a human shield.

The girl was none other than Zhao Mengmeng.

"Back off! Drop your weapons!"

Sean's face was twisted in a savage expression.

"Hand it all over! All the supplies! Otherwise, I'll snap her neck right now!"

Sean applied force with his right arm, and Zhao Mengmeng's face instantly turned purple-red.

She opened her mouth in pain, her feet kicking weakly in the air.

Lin Ye stopped in his tracks, his hand gripping the fire axe tightening slightly.

Just then, Liu Tingting, who was huddled in the corner, suddenly screamed like a mad dog.

"Master! Kill him! He is Lin Ye, the one currently ranked first on the leaderboard!"

"He must have top-tier supplies on him! Kill him, and everything will be yours!"

Upon hearing "ranked first," a greedy green light erupted in Sean's eyes.

"So you are Lin Ye!"

"Hahaha! God is helping me! Kid, if you don't want this woman to die, hand everything over to me immediately!"

At this life-or-death moment, the suffocating Zhao Mengmeng used all her strength to shout at Lin Ye:

"Don't... don't worry about me... run!"

"That animal Liu Tingting... she voluntarily became a dog for the USA!"

"Kill... kill that bitch... you have to go!"

Hearing the words "became a dog," a flash of killing intent crossed Lin Ye's calm eyes.

Betraying her country, acknowledging a thief as her father, selling out her compatriots.

Any one of these was enough for her to die ten thousand times over.

Seeing Lin Ye standing still without reacting, Sean assumed he was afraid of harming the hostage, becoming increasingly arrogant.

"What? Too afraid to move?"

He curled his thick lips, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth.

"It's okay if you don't want to die; your melee skills are not bad. As long as you kneel down and submit to me now, I will spare your life."

"How about it? Hand over the supplies, and I'll take you to live the high life in these ruins!"

The corridor was deathly silent.

A few seconds later.

The cold glint in Lin Ye's eyes faded, and he put on a helpless expression.

He sighed and slowly raised his hands.

"Fine, you win."

"The supplies are all yours, let her go."

Under Sean's ecstatic gaze, Lin Ye raised his arms in a very straightforward manner.

"Clang! Clang!"

The fire axe and the dagger fell to the ground.

He even "played along" quite well, lifting his foot to kick the two weapons over.

Seeing Lin Ye become unarmed, Sean's guard dropped significantly.

He let out a wild, victorious laugh, spraying spit onto Zhao Mengmeng's hair.

"Hahahaha! I thought the one ranked first had some backbone, but it turns out he's just a spineless coward!"

Sean stared greedily at the backpack on Lin Ye's back.

"Now, take off the bag on your back and throw it over!"

"Don't try any tricks!"

"No problem." Lin Ye shrugged in a very cooperative manner.

He slowly unbuckled the chest strap and took off the backpack.

"Catch."

Before he even finished speaking, Lin Ye whipped his arm up, throwing the backpack directly at Sean's head!

The backpack traced a parabolic arc in mid-air.

Sean's gaze instinctively followed the movement, and he subconsciously reached out his other free hand to grab it.

And this was the moment Lin Ye had been waiting for!

His right arm suddenly shot up.

"Bang!"

The Wind-Chasing Claw shot out like lightning!

The few meters of distance were covered in an instant.

The hook precisely latched onto the right arm Sean was using to choke Zhao Mengmeng!

The muscles in Lin Ye's right arm bulged as he yanked backward.

"Ah—Fuck!"

Accompanied by Sean's heart-wrenching scream, his right arm was forcibly twisted into a grotesque angle, and he was dragged forward, falling to the ground!

The restraint was broken!

Zhao Mengmeng felt her neck loosen; she didn't have time to think and rolled to the side.

At the same time, Lin Ye also lunged forward.

Closing the distance in two or three strides.

By the time the backpack hit the ground, Lin Ye was already standing between Zhao Mengmeng and Sean!