bookbashuk Chapter 3 Carve Through Monster Town
Chapter 3 Carve Through Monster Town
The day of the martial arts combat assessment.
Outside Monster Town, a large number of quasi-martial artists gathered.
Someone nervously checked their sword.
Someone adjusted their combat uniform repeatedly.
Some people pretended to be relaxed and joked, but their eyes were always looking behind the iron gate.
There are monsters inside.
Even for aspiring warriors, being a mere novice beast soldier is a first-time experience of facing life and death.
Luo Feng stood calmly in the crowd.
He held a battle sword in his hand.
There were no throwing knives on his back.
There was no extra equipment either.
His mental energy flowed quietly deep within his mind, like an invisible layer of water, clinging to his body and the surrounding air.
Zhou Yan's voice rang out.
"Client, would you like to review the objectives?"
"You passed the assessment."
"Too conservative."
"Crush through Monster Town."
"That's right."
A pale gold ledger appeared at the edge of the field of vision.
Current total liabilities: 101 million Chinese Yuan
[Required documents for repayment: 0]
Total repayment progress: 0%
[The monster composition in the assessment area: mainly basic beast soldiers.]
[Recommendation: Prioritize densely populated areas, utilize mental power to enhance movement, and achieve continuous kills.]
Luo Feng glanced at it and then looked away.
The iron gate slowly opened.
The aspiring warriors entered Monster Town one after another.
The streets were dilapidated, the buildings were broken, and the air reeked of a fishy stench.
In the distance, low, guttural roars echoed one after another.
Many people turned pale.
Luo Feng, however, headed straight into the depths of the town.
It's not the edge.
This is not a safe route.
It is the area with the highest concentration of monsters.
One of the test takers saw him walk inside and couldn't help but call out.
"Bro, there are lots of monsters over there!"
Luo Feng did not turn around.
"I know."
……
In the monitoring room.
Several officers were staring at the screen.
Every year during the practical assessment, the first few minutes are the best test of a newcomer's mental fortitude.
Some people's legs will go weak.
Some people might act impulsively.
Some people usually have good grades, but their movements become distorted when they see blood.
"This year's batch is relatively stable."
As soon as one officer finished speaking, the person next to him suddenly pointed to a screen.
"Look at this."
In the video, Luo Feng walks into a narrow street.
At the end of the street, three Tibetan Mastiffs simultaneously raised their heads.
The next moment, the three-headed monster pounced.
Luo Feng made a move.
It's not about retreating.
He actually charged straight at the three-headed monster.
The first tiger mastiff lunged and bit.
Luo Feng slipped, his body brushing past its claw shadow, and his battle blade slashed into the side of his neck.
The second one lunged from the side.
He didn't look, but as if he knew in advance, he slightly tilted his shoulder, reversed the hilt of his knife, and forced the attack away.
The third head had just landed when Luo Feng turned around.
A flash of light.
The three Tibetan Mastiffs fell down almost simultaneously.
The monitoring room fell silent for a moment.
An officer frowned.
"That movement technique..."
"Extremely meticulous?"
No one answered immediately.
Because Luo Feng on the screen didn't stop.
He cut off the valid receipt and rushed straight to the next street.
[Killed: Elementary Orc Soldier 3]
[Estimated value of pending settlement materials: 8.6 million Huaxia Coins]
Total repayment progress: 0.086%
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "A great start!"
Luo Feng said, "Too slow."
The power of mental energy spreads silently.
ten meters.
Twenty meters.
Thirty meters.
He had already pinpointed the locations of the monsters in the surrounding stairwells, behind abandoned cars, and in the shadows of corners.
He didn't need to search as carefully as an ordinary quasi-martial artist.
In his eyes, the monsters had become moving numbers representing repayments.
Luo Feng rushed into a dilapidated building.
In the stairwell, two shadowy cats pounced from above and below.
Shadowcat is very fast.
A normal martial artist would be most afraid of being flanked from behind if they encountered it.
Ke Luofeng's body seemed to be gently pulled by an invisible hand.
Toes touching the ground.
The center of gravity shifted.
The first shadow cat brushed past his shoulder and missed.
Luo Feng swung his sword backhand and severed its spine.
As soon as the second head fell from above, Luo Feng had already turned to the side and raised his blade from below.
puff!
Blood splattered on the wall.
[Killed: Elementary Orc Soldier 5]
[Estimated value of pending settlement materials: 14.1 million Huaxia Coins]
Total repayment progress: 0.141%
Ten minutes later.
[Killed: Elementary Orc Soldier 47]
[Estimated value of pending settlement materials: 126.4 million Huaxia Coins]
Total repayment progress: 1.26%
Twenty minutes later.
[Killed: Elementary Orc Soldier 108]
[Estimated value of pending settlement materials: 291.7 million Huaxia Coins]
Total repayment progress: 2.91%
Thirty minutes later.
[Killed: Elementary Orc Soldier 186]
[Estimated value of pending settlement materials: 502.3 million Huaxia Coins]
Total repayment progress: 5.02%
In the monitoring room, no one spoke anymore.
At first, the officers thought Luo Feng was just in good form at the start.
Later, they thought he would get tired.
Later, they thought he would slow down.
But Luo Feng didn't have it.
His speed even became more and more stable.
Each dodge felt like it just barely grazed the monster's attack.
Every strike is executed with maximum efficiency, without wasting a single ounce of energy.
His movements were not flashy.
It even looks very simple.
But the more knowledgeable the officer was, the more chills ran down his spine.
That's something an ordinary newcomer can't do.
That kind of combat efficiency only comes from extremely precise judgment of the body, distance, and monster's movements.
"Check it out."
A middle-aged officer in combat uniform said in a deep voice.
"Retrieve all of Luo Feng's information."
The staff member next to them quickly retrieved the information.
"Luo Feng, eighteen years old, a student of the Limit Martial Arts Academy, has just passed the preliminary martial artist assessment."
"Combat logs?"
"There are no official wilderness records."
"No?"
The middle-aged officer stared at the screen, his expression changing.
On the screen, Luo Feng swept past the side of a wild boar with iron bristles, his battle blade slashing down in the process.
There were no unnecessary movements.
The iron-haired wild boar collapsed to the ground with a thud.
The middle-aged officer whispered, "Monster."
……
Deep within Monster Town.
Luo Feng stood in the middle of a dilapidated street, his breathing still steady.
The ground was littered with the corpses of monsters.
Fresh blood flowed down the cracks in the pavement.
[Killed: Elementary Orc Soldier 302]
[Estimated value of pending settlement materials: 815.8 million Huaxia Coins]
Total repayment progress: 8.15%
Zhou Yan clicked his tongue.
"Three hundred heads. Originally, killing thirty or so would have been impressive for this assessment, but now it's ten times that."
Luo Feng wiped the blood off the blade.
"Not enough."
"That's definitely not enough," Zhou Yan said. "You owe one hundred million."
Luo Feng was not affected by this number.
He only asked, "How many are left nearby?"
Pale gold lines spread out at the edge of vision.
"Two hundred meters to the left, nineteen heads. In the abandoned building to the right, twenty-seven heads. Further ahead, there is a densely populated area with at least sixty heads."
Just as Luo Feng was about to move, a scream suddenly came from afar.
That sound wasn't from a monster.
are people.
Luo Feng stopped in his tracks.
The mental power spread out instantly.
Three hundred meters away, a quasi-martial artist fell down on a street corner.
His sword lay lying to the side.
Ahead, a monster that was clearly a size larger than an ordinary tiger mastiff was growling in a low voice.
Its muscles twitched constantly, and something seemed to be rolling under its fur.
The faces of the several aspiring martial artists around them turned pale.
"How can it be so fast?"
"Isn't it a basic beast soldier?"
"Help! Call for help!"
In the monitoring room, the alarm suddenly sounded.
"Anomaly in Block 7!"
"A novice beast soldier appears to have evolved!"
"Speed exceeds the standard for a basic beast soldier!"
The middle-aged officer suddenly stood up.
"Rescue team, on your way!"
The staff looked grim.
"Too far, even the nearest squad will take twenty seconds!"
Twenty seconds.
It's very short for the average person.
But for a quasi-martial artist to be killed by a monster, it's too long.
On the screen, the bones of the Tibetan Mastiff cracked as its body swelled up again.
It was originally just a rudimentary beast soldier.
But at this moment, he has already stepped into the intermediate level of beast soldier.
The fallen martial arts practitioner was deathly pale and unable to even get up.
The monster let out a low growl and pounced.
In the monitoring room, someone couldn't help but curse.
"It's too late!"
Right at this moment.
A figure rushed out from the side street corner.
Luo Feng.
He was extremely fast.
It was almost there, and only a blurry image remained in the surveillance footage.
The fallen martial arts practitioner only heard a very low voice.
"Don't move."
The next instant, Luo Feng was already standing in front of him.
A medium-sized tiger mastiff pounced, bringing a foul stench.
Luo Feng did not back down.
With a slight push of mental energy, I supported myself under my feet.
His body shifted half a step to the side at an almost impossible angle.
This half-step was just enough to dodge the sharpest claws that would pounce.
At the same time, the battle sword was raised.
Advanced warrior-level combat experience was fully unleashed at this moment.
It's not a direct confrontation.
It's not brute force.
Instead, the blade cuts into the thinnest part of the neck at the moment when the monster's old strength is exhausted and new strength has not yet been generated.
puff!
A flash of light.
The massive body of the intermediate-level Tiger Mastiff whizzed past Luo Feng as it charged away.
After rushing five or six meters, it crashed to the ground.
Blood gushed from the head and neck.
A knife.
The intermediate-level beastman is dead.
The whole street was quiet.
The fallen martial arts practitioner sat on the ground, staring blankly at Luo Feng's back.
Several aspiring martial artists in the distance also seemed to be frozen in place.
The monitoring room was equally silent.
The middle-aged military officer stood in front of the screen, remaining silent for a long time.
After a long silence, he slowly uttered a sentence.
"Subtle-level movement technique".
The other officer's voice was dry.
"And that slash... that's not something a newbie could do."
On the screen, Luo Feng looked down and cut off the valid certificate.
In his mind, the ledger was being refreshed.
[Killed: Intermediate Beast Soldier 1]
[Estimated value of intermediate-level beast soldier materials: 46 Chinese Yuan]
[Total estimated value of pending settlement materials: 861.8 million Huaxia Coins]
Current total repayment progress: 8.61%
Zhou Yan's voice carried a hint of barely suppressed laughter.
"This cut is valuable."
Luo Feng glanced at the trembling prospective martial artist.
"Can you still walk?"
The man nodded vigorously.
"Yes, yes!"
Luo Feng turned around.
"Then let's leave this neighborhood."
After saying that, he picked up his knife and continued walking towards the area densely populated with monsters.
It was as if killing the mid-level beast soldier just now was merely a casual action.
……
Before the end of the assessment.
Luo Feng swung his knife one last time.
A shadow cat lay on the ground.
The surrounding streets are almost devoid of any monsters that can still stand.
The pale gold ledger is frozen in time.
[Kill Statistics for This Match]
[Elementary Beast Soldier: 386]
[Intermediate Beast Soldier: 1]
[Estimated value of pending settlement materials: 1097.5 million Huaxia Coins]
Current total repayment progress: 10.96%
[Remaining total liabilities: approximately RMB 8992.5 million]
Luo Feng looked at the progress bar.
One assessment, and I lost 10%.
This is not yet the wilderness area.
In the true wilderness, there are more monsters, and the materials truly belong to him.
Luo Feng gripped his battle sword tightly.
Zhou Yan asked, "How does it feel?"
Luo Feng looked towards the town's exit.
There, officers and staff were already waiting.
Many people's eyes were on him.
Shock.
Unbelievable.
Luo Feng remained calm.
"Monsters can indeed pay off debts."
Zhou Yan smiled.
"Welcome to the world of loan warriors."