32: Chapter 32 A Flash Attempt to Move a Grave? You Think You Can Escape?

A chilly wind blew into their faces.

Walking out first was Bai Nian, holding a short blade with a poker face, followed by Su Sixi, carrying a blade with undisguised murderous intent in her eyes.

Right after them came Su Mengmeng, with frost lingering in her palms, and An Mumu, with an arrogant look all over her face.

As for Lin Qing, with his hands in his pockets and surrounded in the middle by the four girls, he walked out leisurely, a look of boredom on his face as if watching a clown's performance.

This lineup, falling into Zhang Yu's eyes, made him instantly make a judgment.

Lin Qing? After crossing over, he actually turned into a kept man who lived off women?

Zhang Yu only glanced lightly at Lin Qing, his eyes full of disdain, and then shifted his gaze to the several girls present.

He could clearly perceive that the life levels of Bai Nian and Su Sixi were above his own!

Zhang Yu subconsciously took half a step back.

He couldn't take them head-on!

"Yo."

An Mumu had already walked up to Zhang Cheng, who was rolling on the ground, poked his flesh-mangled broken leg with a wooden stick, and smiled like a little demon.

"Isn't this the punk who blocked our path on the first floor? Last time you lost an ear, and this time you lost a leg. Shouldn't you leave your head behind as well?"

She stood up, hoisted the wooden stick onto her shoulder, swept her peach blossom eyes across Zhang Yu and the others, and spoke in a breezy tone.

"So, who gave you the guts to come up here and seek death?"

Zhang Yu suppressed the shock in his heart. He looked at Bai Nian and raised his left hand: "Monitor Bai Nian, it's a misunderstanding! I just came to pick up Yawei..."

"Pick someone up?"

Lin Qing finally spoke, his voice bland, yet it instantly made the air freeze.

"Were the words sent through someone earlier, and your younger brother's shouting and cursing just now, the attitude of 'picking someone up'?"

Without waiting for Zhang Yu to defend himself, Lin Qing's gaze had already crossed over him and landed on the five dormitory managers behind him.

"What about you guys? Are you also here to 'pick someone up'?"

The five dormitory managers trembled all over; this was precisely the opportunity they had been waiting for!

The leading brawny man immediately stepped forward, distanced himself from Zhang Yu, and roared: "No! We are not in the same group as him! We are here to trade water!"

"Right! He forced us to come!"

"He insisted on blocking the door! It has nothing to do with us!"

The five people turned their coats in a second, and the ten underlings behind them turned out to be even more cowardly than anyone else.

Zhang Yu's face instantly turned extremely gloomy.

A bunch of trash who only acted tough when things went their way and surrendered when things went south!

Yet he wasn't panicked at all, casting a covert glance toward the hallway direction.

Watching this farce, Lin Qing couldn't even be bothered to put up an act, simply turning his head and nodding at Su Sixi.

Su Sixi understood.

Without a single word of nonsense, her short blade slipped out of its sheath, and her figure shot forward like an arrow released from a bowstring, pouncing straight at Zhang Yu!

"How dare you!"

Zhang Yu's pupils abruptly shrank, instinctively raising his sword horizontally to block.

Clang!

Sparks flew in all directions!

The iron sword blocked Su Sixi's fast blade, but before he could even catch his breath, Bai Nian had already closed in from the other side, her short blade aiming straight for his sword-wielding wrist!

A pincer attack from two ordinary-advanced experts!

Zhang Yu was instantly forced into a desperate situation, his speed, strength, and reflexes being crushed in every aspect!

"Hiss——"

A chill hit his ribs; Su Sixi's blade edge had already sliced open his skin and flesh.

Zhang Yu made a decisive choice.

He couldn't fight; he had to leave!

He suddenly retreated, his thoughts racing at lightning speed, activating his weapon skill!

Hum!

A faint light shot out from the sword body.

The next second, Zhang Yu's figure vanished into thin air!

"He ran away!" Bai Nian shouted fiercely.

Ten meters away, Zhang Yu's figure appeared out of nowhere, but the sword in his hand had pierced straight through the shirt-wearing youth who was acting as a lookout.

Zhang Yu pulled out his longsword and turned to run.

"With a ten-meter distance, they can't catch up anymore!"

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief and took his first step forward—

An extremely faint, almost imperceptible sound of a mechanical spring releasing came from behind him.

Swish——

A dark silver arrow tore through the air.

Zhang Yu only caught a trace of the whistling tail sound of the piercing air, and then, there was an excruciating pain piercing through his chest.

He stiffly lowered his head.

A section of a dark-silver arrowhead poked out from his sternum, still stained with shattered heart tissue.

"No..."

Large mouthfuls of fresh blood gushed from his mouth, the iron sword smashed onto the ground with a 'clang', and his entire body crashed face down, collapsing heavily.

From teleporting away to being shot dead, it took less than two seconds in total.

The hallway fell into dead silence.

Ten meters away, Lin Qing slowly lowered his dark-silver hand crossbow, as if he had just done a trivial matter.

No one saw clearly when he drew the crossbow or when he aimed.

The SS-rank talent holder who had been so arrogant just a moment ago died just like that.

He died neatly and cleanly.

"Thud!"

"Thud, thud, thud——"

The legs of the five dormitory managers went soft, and they knelt down in unison. The underlings behind them directly flattened themselves on the ground, trembling like chaff in the wind.

"We have nothing to do with Zhang Yu! He forced us!"

"We surrender! As long as you don't kill us, we'll do whatever you want us to do!"

Lin Qing walked over to Zhang Yu's corpse, picked up that transcendent iron sword, and casually tossed it to Bai Nian.

"Keep it."

He turned around, looking down from above at the crowd kneeling all over the floor, his voice icy.

"If you do something wrong, you have to pay the price."

"Starting tomorrow, go to the forest every morning to chop trees and deliver the timber to the Ninth Floor. If you don't deliver enough, or play tricks..."

Lin Qing raised a finger and pointed at the still-bleeding corpse on the ground.

"Zhang Yu will be your end."

Everyone's scalp went numb as they kowtowed frantically: "Understood! We absolutely wouldn't dare!"

At this moment, Zhang Cheng on the ground clutched his broken leg, squeezing out an ingratiating smile: "Lin... Brother Lin! Thank you! My brother deserved to die! From now on, I'll hang out with you!"

His biological brother's corpse wasn't even cold yet.

Lin Qing couldn't be bothered to pay attention to him, simply looking at the five dormitory managers: "You guys weren't in the same group as him?"

"No!"

One dormitory manager roared through gritted teeth: "It was this pair of son-of-a-bitch brothers! Zhang Cheng tricked the people in our dorm into going to the forest to fight monsters, and as a result, he screwed all thirty-something of us into the Black Sea! Only he managed to run back!"

Over thirty human lives!

Understanding dawned on Lin Qing, and he tilted his head toward the five dormitory managers.

"In that case, I'll leave Zhang Cheng to you guys."

In the eyes of the five dormitory managers, fierce glints of revenge instantly lit up.

Zhang Cheng's smile froze on his face: "No——! Brother Lin! You promised not to kill me!"

"Slap!"

A dormitory manager struck him across the mouth with an iron rod, cutting off his wails.

"Thirty-seven human lives," the brawny man grabbed him by the hair, word by word, "it's time to pay up."

Room 9001's bone door slowly closed behind Lin Qing, cutting off the bloodshed about to take place outside.

...

Inside the dormitory.

Su Sixi gulped down a mouthful of water and cursed grumblingly: "What a piece of work, running so fast."

"Just flashing to move graves." An Mumu summarized accurately in a single sentence, amusing everyone.

With safety guaranteed, the girls started chattering and gossiping again.

Lin Qing sat back down in his chair, just wanting to arrange the upcoming matters.

But An Mumu suddenly stood up from in front of the central screen, her expression changing.

"Lin Qing, come look!"

Lin Qing walked over, only to see that in the view window of the arrow tower console, the gray fog in the hallway outside had somehow grown twice as dense.

And at a spot less than five meters away from the dormitory's main door, an oval-shaped white-green halo was twisting and emerging!

"Today's monster door-breaching... has begun." Bai Nian lowered her voice.

Lin Qing's heart tightened; he picked up his hand crossbow and strode toward the bone door.

The moment the door opened, the gray fog rushed into his face.

Inside the halo, four massive figures had already solidified—two and a half meters tall, holding stone hammers and bone axes, with blue-black skin bulging with veins and scarlet eyes!

They were Minotaurs!

[Mutated Minotaur Warrior] × 3 — Ordinary Advanced.

[Mutated Minotaur Chieftain] × 1 — Good Grade (Early Entry).

They were restrained by the halo and temporarily unable to rush out, but that layer of light film was slowly thinning!

Before it had even properly begun, three ordinary-advanced ones came, plus one good-grade one.

The ones behind would only be stronger.

This was going to be another tough battle!

Looking at that isolating light film, Lin Qing suddenly had a flash of inspiration, an absurd thought flashing through his mind.

The "Touch Void" trait of Protecting the Crowd could pierce through nothingness and attack non-physical units.

Then this light film restraining the monsters was essentially also an "energy barrier".

If...

The "Touch Void" trait could also pierce through this light film?

Wouldn't that mean he could take these monsters still trapped in the "spawn point" and unable to fight back...

And beat them like living targets?!

Lin Qing's heart beat wildly. He abruptly raised his hand crossbow, the muzzle aiming at the roaring Minotaur chieftain inside the light film.

He murmured two words in a low voice.

"Touch Void."