71: Chapter 71 Points Harvester

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The sound of gravel hitting broken iron buckets was particularly jarring in the ruins.

In the shadows of the streets in the distance, the roars of the Pale Species erupted one after another.

Lin Ye crouched behind a broken window on the third floor.

A crossbow rested on the window sill, his index finger pressing against the trigger.

His left eye opened slightly.

Eye of Destiny, activate.

Within his field of vision, red dots scattered across several streets were moving rapidly, drawn by the noise.

The iron bucket on the outermost advertising frame rang first.

Further in, the second set of buckets on a street lamp pole was pulled.

Immediately after, the third set of buckets on a broken window frame emitted a dense, chaotic clatter.

Batch after batch of the Pale Species came flooding crazily toward the entrance of the plaza, following the sound.

Zhao Mengmeng gripped the window frame with both hands: "They're coming, Brother Lin, they're really coming!"

"Shut up, don't give away our position."

Lin Ye gave a soft reprimand, his hands continuing to move without pause.

The first batch of the Small Pale One rushed out from the street entrance.

The narrow entrance was only a little over two meters wide.

The first few of the Pale Species plunged in, and the ones behind them couldn't stop in time, crashing directly into the backs of the front row.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

A dozen monsters were squeezed into a mass, tearing at each other, their sharp claws shredding the wall plaster.

Lin Ye aimed at the one in the very front.

"Whoosh!"

The wooden arrow left the string, the bone-tipped arrowhead piercing through the skull of the Pale Species.

[Killed a Small Pale One, points +4]

There was not a moment of hesitation.

Draw an arrow, press into the groove, cock the string, aim, fire.

"Whoosh!"

The second Pale Species toppled backward.

"Whoosh!"

The third monster had just climbed over the corpses of its kin when its head was shot through on the spot.

The plaza entrance had become a natural shooting gallery.

The monsters in the front were blocked, while those in the back were still desperately squeezing in.

Wooden arrows were fired.

The grappling claws were retrieved.

Those that could be pulled back were reused; those that couldn't were decisively abandoned.

The points jumped crazily.

570.

578.

586.

Zhao Mengmeng gripped the window lattice tightly, her knuckles turning white.

A dull thudding sound came from deep within the street.

"Thud!"

"Thud!"

Several sturdy Medium Pale-Type monsters were pushing up from the rear.

They stood nearly two and a half meters tall, with arched spines and thick, long arms, smashing through abandoned cars as they charged.

The Small Pale One in front couldn't stop them at all.

With a shove from the few medium monsters, dozens of the Small Pale One at the entrance were forcibly squeezed out of the way.

"Boom!"

A gray-white wave surged into the plaza.

The monster crowd that had been jammed at the entrance dispersed.

More than thirty of the Pale Species were pushed into the interior, rushing toward the dead ends of the ruins on both sides.

Lin Ye decisively put down the crossbow.

He picked up the burning torch at his feet with his left hand and threw it toward the fuel belt in the center of the plaza.

"Boom!"

The motor oil ignited upon contact with the fire.

Orange-red flames flared along the ground, spanning the entire plaza.

Heat waves rolled upward, and black smoke billowed out from the gaps.

The monster crowd was cut in half by this wall of fire.

The main force in the rear was forced to stop outside the entrance, the crowded Pale Species screaming and retreating from the flames.

And the thirty-plus monsters that had already rushed into the plaza were sealed between the wall of fire and the buildings.

Zhao Mengmeng stared wide-eyed and cursed: "Sweet! Closing the door like this is perfect!"

Lin Ye raised his crossbow again.

"Don't space out, keep an eye on your side, and shout if any with low health leak through."

"Got it!"

The Pale Species trapped inside the plaza bumped around everywhere.

Some rushed toward the wall of fire, and when their skin was licked by the oil flames, the entire monster would roll on the ground, screaming.

Some crashed into abandoned buses, their sharp claws sending sparks flying from the sheet metal.

Others tried to climb the walls, but the walls had been pre-coated with oil by Lin Ye; they slipped and fell heavily back to the ground.

Lin Ye pulled the trigger.

"Whoosh!"

The head of a Pale Species lunging toward the second floor exploded in blood.

"Whoosh!"

Another monster that had climbed onto the roof of a broken car tumbled to the ground.

The kill notifications refreshed continuously.

590.

605.

623.

Zhao Mengmeng stared at Lin Ye's name as it crossed the six-hundred mark, biting her lip to keep from crying out.

The Great Xia Live Stream barrage screen was flooded.

[He surpassed him! He surpassed him again! That mad dog Scott has been stepped back down!]

[Six hundred! Brother Eye has broken six hundred!]

[Once the wall of fire opened, it burned the USA's top-ranked player's dream away!]

[This wave is called closing the door to collect rent; if a monster comes in, it has to pay with its life!]

Inside the ruin plaza, the slaughter continued.

Lin Ye finished firing one quiver of wooden arrows and quickly swapped to the second.

On the other side of the fire wall, the subsequent monster crowd was forced back by the heat, able only to roar crazily outside the entrance.

Inside the plaza, the remaining Pale Species were becoming fewer and fewer.

The points climbed to 690.

Lin Ye glanced at them and then stopped shooting.

Zhao Mengmeng was stunned: "Brother Lin, why'd you stop? There are still monsters!"

"It's time to give you some points."

Lin Ye pulled out a wooden arrow, pressed it into the crossbow groove, and aimed at a Small Pale One wandering below.

"Whoosh!"

The wooden arrow didn't aim for the head; it pierced directly through the monster's left thigh.

The Pale Species let out a miserable howl, falling onto the concrete floor and clawing at the ground with its four limbs.

Lin Ye gestured to the second floor opposite.

"Finish it off!"

Zhao Mengmeng drew her dagger.

She slid down from the load-bearing pillar on the second floor and rushed toward the low-health monster upon landing.

The Pale Species dragged its broken leg, turned its head, and roared.

Zhao Mengmeng circled to its side and rear, gripped the dagger with both hands in a reverse hold, and plunged it into the back of its head.

"Squish!"

[Killed a Small Pale One, points +4]

She watched the points jumping on the light screen, her breathing heavy.

"Again!"

Lin Ye fired his second arrow.

"Whoosh!"

Another Pale Species had its right shoulder pierced and fell beside a broken car.

Zhao Mengmeng rushed up, stepped on its spine with one foot, and stabbed the dagger into its eye socket.

"Squish!"

[Killed a Small Pale One, points +4]

The third one.

The fourth one.

The coordination between the two quickly took shape.

Lin Ye was responsible for wounding the monsters, crippling their mobility.

Zhao Mengmeng was responsible for finishing them off and conveniently retrieving the arrows.

From being flustered at the beginning, she gradually became swift and decisive.

She specifically targeted the back of the head, eye sockets, and cervical spine.

If she could end it in one strike, she would never waste a second.

Great Xia Live Stream.

[Go, Mengmeng! The top fifteen is right in front of you!]

[This support is finally starting to eat the economy!]

[Brother Eye carrying people to get points is just too steady; he controls them first and then lets her finish them off, the sense of security is maxed out!]

[The Chuan-Yu Tyrannosaurus is evolving, please do not disturb!]

The Medium Pale-Type monster that had fallen to the ground suddenly exploded into action!

Its entire body sprang up, its sharp claws lunging directly at Zhao Mengmeng's face!

At the third-floor window, Lin Ye raised his right arm.

"Bang!"

Wind-Chasing Claw fired, the grappling claw biting into the monster's hind leg.

He exerted force and yanked backward!

"Bang!"

The Medium Pale-Type was pulled off balance and smashed onto the concrete floor.

The sharp claws grazed the side of Zhao Mengmeng's face, pulling away a few strands of broken hair.

"Trying to sneak attack me? You think you're something special!"

She pounced on it, her knees pressing down on the monster's neck.

Holding the dagger with both hands, she drove it all the way into its eye socket.

"Squish!"

[Killed a Medium Pale-Type, points +10]

Zhao Mengmeng's ranking shot upward.

Eighteenth.

Sixteenth.

Fifteenth.

Thirteenth.

After finishing off two more low-health monsters, her name forcefully charged into the top ten!

[No.9: Zhao Mengmeng (Great Xia) — Points: 198]

Great Xia Live Stream.

[She's in! Mengmeng is in the top ten!]

[That moment just now scared me to death, she actually didn't retreat!]

[This girl is really tough; if it were me, my legs would have gone soft long ago!]

[Two people from Great Xia in the top ten! And Old Xu is in the front ranks too, this wave is super satisfying!]

Zhao Mengmeng stood in the pool of black blood, her chest heaving violently.

She stared at the ninth place on the translucent light screen, biting her teeth tightly.

"I did it!"

She turned around and punched the sheet metal of the abandoned bus nearby, her voice hoarse.

"Brother Lin, I really did it!"

Lin Ye stood behind the broken window on the third floor, putting away the Wind-Chasing Claw.

"Don't howl, there are still two left below that aren't completely dead."

Zhao Mengmeng wiped her face and rushed over with her blade.

"Coming!"

The last two low-health Pale Species were dealt with, and the plaza quieted down.

The wall of fire was still burning, and there were very few monsters running over afterward.

The Pale Species in the surrounding streets had been mostly cleared out, and no matter how much noise they made, it only attracted a few stray small monsters.

Lin Ye summoned the light screen.

[No.1: Lin Ye (Great Xia) — Points: 742]

[No.2: Scott (USA) — Points: 621]

Lin Ye casually closed the light screen.

"Work's done, it's not cost-effective to keep grinding."

Zhao Mengmeng looked up: "Back to the karst cave?"

"Not going back tonight, we'll spend the night in the ruins."

Zhao Mengmeng's movements stopped.

"What?"