LWGP - Chapter 93
Chapter 93: Holy Light
“Fuck!” Liao Luo couldn’t hold it in again. “Wang, are you crazy? You’re harvesting vegetables at a time like this!”
Wang Jiu: “If you don’t harvest ripe vegetables, when do you?”
Not only was she harvesting, she was fucking planting more.
While the group’s resentment reached its maximum, only Wang Shu continued to wave the flag of a devoted disciple, praising, “Even in such a crisis, Master remains as steady as Mount Tai, calm and farsighted, viewing life and death as dirt, and the endless rats as mere dust. Such spirit, such magnificence, truly…”
The wild praise kept flowing.
Qiao Xuejing and Dao Dao suddenly felt that the stable relationship between this master and disciple might have something to do with this ass-kissing.
Zhao Shanxiao’s face darkened as he sneered, “That’s because she’s from the next village over, but you’re from 443, you damn fatty.”
Wang Shu’s stream of praise came to an abrupt halt.
Damn it, right, I almost forgot.
Wang Shu finally got the picture and couldn’t help but howl, “Master, what do we do now? Please stop planting vegetables!”
Wang Jiu had just finished planting the last seed. She glanced at the 150 Spirit Energy she had gained and also saw the increase in her Spirit Power.
She ignored Wang Shu and shouted, “Dao Dao, get in the homestead. Follow me.”
Dao Dao, inside the resurrection point, was stunned for a moment but still scurried into Wang Jiu’s homestead. Anyway, if it died now, it could be resurrected.
If you didn’t try, you wouldn’t even get a chance to be resurrected.
When the captain called, you had to follow. This was a quality it had agreed upon with Qiao Xuejing beforehand—without the skills of flattery or a Lucky Hand, they could only work diligently to provide their maximum value.
When Dao Dao arrived at the homestead, it saw Wang Jiu on the roof jump straight out. In the dark night, her wine-red silk pajamas were faintly visible under her black trench coat as it billowed. She had gotten up in a hurry and hadn’t changed, not even wearing shoes. With a single leap, she covered more than ten meters. Setting aside how stunning her form was, after that stunning display, hundreds, nearly a thousand, rats went berserk and charged after her. Dao Dao, who was by her side, felt its pigskin crawl. As for Wang Jiu…
“Work with me.”
As the horde of rats rushed forward, Wang Jiu moved her hands, and her bow and arrow were instantly swapped for a silver long-bladed saber and a Tang sword.
“Okay, okay.”
Just as Dao Dao responded, it saw Wang Jiu’s blades move. With a single slash, the blades shimmered with silver light, extending three to four meters.
After a three-to-four-meter fan-shaped arc of blade light, seventy to eighty rats were completely wiped out.
With two blades, that was over a hundred.
“A skill?” The people in the resurrection point were astonished.
“No, it’s a basic attack, not even a basic skill. But she used Spirit Power.”
Hearing this, the crowd suddenly understood why she had been harvesting vegetables just now.
Right, how many fields and vegetables did she have in there? To use Spirit Power for basic attacks, how fucking rich was she?
The group of people who didn’t even have a homestead felt a pang of jealousy. They shot the rats with even more grief and indignation. Under Wang Jiu’s terrifying killing power, Dao Dao was in no danger of being swallowed up, and it quickly timed its actions perfectly—it knew why Wang Jiu had called it to follow.
Ground Slam.
When she killed one wave, another wave of two to three hundred would come from behind. It would use Ground Slam, and since these rats didn’t have high attributes and their agility was poor, they couldn’t withstand it and were all sent flying. Then, she would follow up with a flash of her twin blades, basically wiping them all out. They repeated this process.
It looked incredibly dangerous, as if a single misstep would lead to being completely overwhelmed, but she seemed to have calculated the timing perfectly, even accounting for the rats’ running and gathering speed. The main thing was that Dao Dao coordinated well with her.
It wasn’t their first time working together; they had done it before when fighting a BOSS.
Qiao Xuejing and Wang Shu didn’t go out, because they knew that with only Dao Dao, Wang Jiu could still keep an eye on it. But with more people, it would be hard to say, and they would likely just get in the way. It was better to provide support with ranged attacks.
However, even though Wang Jiu had drawn away a large number of rats, the damage to the array under the resurrection point was still rapidly increasing. It was already down to 15%.
Many people were in despair, but they held on by a thread, wanting to persevere to the end, if only for their families.
“Seven minutes left!”
“We might just make it!”
“Everyone, keep it up! Don’t give up!”
It was that same quick-witted bald man. His shouts invigorated many people, who began to fight even harder.
Since someone was handling the propaganda, the others didn’t bother speaking.
However, Xie Lu didn’t speak, but instead rushed out of the resurrection point.
Like Wang Jiu, he single-handedly drew away a large number of rats, relieving the pressure.
This scene made many people’s eyes turn red, and they all shouted words of encouragement.
“What they’re doing is very dangerous. The number of rats attacking them is stable for now, but it will definitely increase. That Ratling Sub-Boss will definitely…” As Jiang Kaikai spoke, he suddenly thought of something, but before he could say it, the situation on Wang Jiu’s side indeed became perilous.
Amidst the squealing of the rats, nearly three thousand of them charged towards Wang Jiu all at once.
The faces of Qiao Xuejing and the others changed drastically. At that moment, Wang Jiu probably sensed the danger as well. She suddenly grabbed Dao Dao and leaped out of the rat pile. However, after jumping, she threw Dao Dao down below.
Bang! The fat Dao Dao landed on the ground, bounced once, and on its second landing, it dug its trotters in. Ground Slam!
Boom! The soil on the ground actually loosened and caved in. The effect looked much better than the previous Ground Slams. That was because—there were hollow tunnels dug by the rats underneath, causing the soil to be soft and concave.
With this depression, amidst the flying dust, Wang Jiu, still in mid-air, had already swapped her blades for a bow. She nocked an arrow with lightning speed, and before the creature in the pit could react, the sharp arrow shot out.
In that instant, 10% of Wang Jiu’s blood was directly drained.
Previously, when she killed Zhao Shanxiao, she had used 2% of her blood each time, and after several uses, she had kept the blood loss under 10%. But after eating and a night’s sleep, it had been fully replenished.
Now, using 10% in one go, the effect was…
Buzz. A silver light shot out, plunging into the ground. With a loud bang, the three-meter-diameter pit collapsed completely. Squeak! A sharp scream was heard, and blood splattered out.
A hit.
The one underground… the Ratling Sub-Boss.
Killed in one shot.
A halo of light flashed as the sub-boss was shot and killed with a single arrow.
Dao Dao’s eyes lit up. It followed with another Ground Slam, completely collapsing the already caved-in pit and revealing the corpse of the little rat leader underneath.
Only then did everyone understand why she had gone out alone to draw the monsters. It was probably to find this little leader.
They just didn’t know how she did it.
With the little leader dead, the rat pack immediately fell into chaos, squealing and scurrying around in panic. Some of the slightly larger rats chittered randomly, all wanting to command the army. They even started biting each other, seemingly fighting for leadership of the pack.
With that, the rats became even more chaotic, forgetting to attack the array below.
Their intelligence was lacking, and they relied entirely on the sub-boss for direction. Now that the sub-boss was gone, the situation completely turned in favor of the 443 players.
After landing, Wang Jiu glanced at the Ratling Sub-Boss.
Huize Mountain Rat Pack Sub-leader (Level 10 Rat Player)
Strength: 180
Agility: 240
Stamina: 190
Wang Jiu had been surprised by this rat’s level and attributes when she had previously caught a glimpse of it.
Other rats were at levels six, seven, or eight, but few had double-digit attributes. Yet the level 10 sub-leader seemed to have mutated, its attributes skyrocketing.
It was several times stronger than the other large rats.
Why was that?
Because it was a player, there was no need to unlock anything, but it dropped a pile of items. Wang Jiu glanced at them and was somewhat surprised, because the items were all stones, strange corpses, and what seemed to be some kind of jade. She didn’t look closely and swept them all up her sleeve.
Taking advantage of the rats’ confusion, Wang Jiu returned to the top of the homestead with Dao Dao.
Liao Luo glanced at her and said in a strange tone, “Truly badass.”
It was sarcastic, as if he was unwilling to praise her, yet also tinged with jealousy.
Unfortunately, Wang Jiu paid no attention to his complex inner conflict. She just scanned the chaotic rat pile. Because of the power struggle, the large rats eligible to compete for the sub-leader position had all emerged onto the surface, eager to tear at their competitors.
“Kill the fat ones,” Wang Jiu said, and the others knew what to do.
Xie Lu didn’t even need Wang Jiu’s reminder and had already started killing. His aim was terrifyingly accurate. Taking advantage of the rats’ confusion, his arrows killed several of them.
However, Xie Lu glanced at Wang Jiu several times.
With many of the large rats dead, the rat pile became even more chaotic. Lacking leadership, the mid-tier rats began to bite each other.
This low-level species, especially one that relied on numbers to win, had a definite weakness: once leadership was lost, internal chaos would ensue. This was because the quality of the group hadn’t kept up with its quantity. The larger the number, the greater the chaos.
Xie Lu had thought of this, but he hadn’t expected Wang Jiu to be faster than him.
Perhaps it wasn’t just her mind, but also her execution—her agility was likely higher than his now.
Xie Lu’s thoughts were quick, but his hands didn’t slow down. After shooting many large rats, he noticed that the rats’ aggression was starting to increase, and they were becoming much more frenzied.
Without a word, Wang Jiu took Dao Dao and went back. Xie Lu also quickly returned to the homestead area.
“They’re regrouping. We probably don’t have much time.”
“Defend! Defend quickly! It’s only at 15% integrity! One minute left!”
The crowd noticed the swift and frenzied advance of the rat pack. They saw many rats burrowing into the ground, even if it meant smashing their heads open. Their hearts pounded in their chests, and they all fought as if injected with chicken blood.
One minute, just one minute. There was no reason they couldn’t hold on!
But the integrity was also dropping rapidly.
This is killing me!
10%!!
Wang Jiu frowned. So fast? Could it be that a new Ratling Sub-Boss had been born?
Her gaze swept over the area, but she couldn’t find it in the teeming swarm of rats.
We’re screwed!
40 seconds left.
8%!
We can’t hold on!
Wang Jiu’s brow furrowed, and she leaped down. The moment she did, Dao Dao and the others were horrified. This time, without hesitation, they also charged forward. But the fastest was Xie Lu. In a flash, he was by Wang Jiu’s side, his longsword a blur as he intercepted the endless tide of rats swarming in from behind her.
“Is she crazy?”
“She’s not from 444, why is she fighting so hard?”
Liao Luo and the others didn’t understand, but that didn’t stop them from trying to save themselves. They all charged out together.
“Lure the rats away!”
“Quick!”
“Die a few more times, we can still resurrect!”
Many people rushed out from the resurrection point, died, went back, and rushed out again.
They used their bodies to slow the speed at which the rat pack burrowed into the ground to attack the array.
It was effective, and it did indeed slow the enemy down.
On the other side, no matter how strong Wang Jiu and Xie Lu were, they couldn’t withstand the countless rats. As Xie Lu had said, even for people like them, if they were surrounded and couldn’t escape, the inevitable result would be to be completely devoured and gnawed clean by the terrifying rats.
In that instant, some of the old, weak, women, and children still in the resurrection point could almost see the strongest people, including Liao Luo and the others, on the verge of being swallowed by the weak rats…
They were like an enveloping vortex, a tidal wave of slaughter.
It was… it was an endless radiance.
Buzz!
When Wang Jiu raised her hand, a milky-white and golden light, filled with a sacred aura, bloomed in her palm. It was like the bright gift of a scorching sun, like a lighthouse in the darkness driving away evil and showing the way.
The dense mass of rats let out terrified screams. They retreated like a tide. Amidst this retreat, several milky-white rays of light separated from the radiance in Wang Jiu’s palm, shooting through space and entering the bodies of Qiao Xuejing, Zhao Shanxiao, and the others who had been bitten and injured by the rats, including herself. Their wounds healed at a terrifying speed, leaving no scars.
Xie Lu’s eyes lit up. This was?
Zhao Shanxiao: “Holy Light!!!”
He truly hadn’t expected Wang Jiu to be so decisive, learning it as soon as she said she would. And her Spirit Power was so abundant that she healed all their injuries in one go.
He didn’t know if it was her Spirit Power that was strong, or if this 「Holy Light」 was strong.
Either way, it was too terrifying. Just now, Liao Luo had half his flesh gnawed off!
And he was healed just like that?
In their excitement, they heard Wang Jiu speak two sentences in her soft, cool, and rather pleasant, alluring voice.
“You’ve drained me dry.”
“You owe me 5 gold coins. Each of you will pay me back after the fight.”
Wang Jiu retracted the light in her palm and summoned her Fish Hunter Bow. She paid no mind to the speechless expressions of the others, who felt as if a waterfall of icy water had been poured over their admiration and gratitude. She had already spotted a very small young rat in the pack.
When the Holy Light appeared, the light drove away the darkness, and she instantly saw the young rat hiding in the most inconspicuous part of the pack, yet running the fastest.
But this rat’s attributes were much higher than the others, and it was obvious that its head was a bit large.
Its form seemed somewhat similar to the previous sub-leader.
Its evolution was faster than the other rats.
Moreover, it had just arrived; it hadn’t been there before.
Wang Jiu narrowed her eyes and suddenly fired an arrow, hitting its tail.
The pained young rat let out a scream and looked at Wang Jiu with hatred.
Wang Jiu, however, gave it a contemptuous look.
The young rat, whose intelligence was already comparable to a human’s, was filled with resentment, but it didn’t command the rat pack to attack Wang Jiu. Instead, it controlled its anger and made them all burrow frantically into the ground.
In this frenzy, Wang Jiu could have shot and killed it, but she didn’t. Instead, she fired an arrow that cut down the arrow shot by Xie Lu from the other side.
He had found the young rat too!
But why did she stop him from killing it?
Xie Lu was startled and turned to look at her. Their eyes met, and his gaze seemed to question her.
But Wang Jiu just raised an eyebrow and ignored him.
Just then.
Ding. A system notification arrived.
The array integrity was at 8%, and the glow of the resurrection point had dimmed considerably, but it was fine. The 30-minute timer was up.
Rest and recover, refresh anew.
The resurrection point was restored.
The people who had been fighting frantically were bewildered. They won, just like that?
Heavens, we finally won!
“We haven’t won, we haven’t won, my friends! There’s still the next wave! They’re still biting! Fuck, raise your little hands and keep going!”
The bald man was truly a professional who lived and breathed propaganda. He immediately started shouting again.
This made things much easier for Xie Lu and the others—with several thousand people, talent was bound to emerge.
This guy must have worked in propaganda before.
The crowd, which had just relaxed, immediately tensed up again. Oh right, damn it, the integrity was already down to 95% again.
So fast!
Even faster than before?!
Xie Lu raised his bow, about to shoot the young rat, but an arrow beat him to it.
It struck the young rat’s throat.
Not fatal, but it damaged its squeaker, preventing it from making a sound.
This?
Xie Lu realized Wang Jiu’s intention—to destroy its ability to command without killing it?
Could it be…
Before he could ask, this time, the rat pack was in complete chaos.
Because the young rat wasn’t dead, the other rats couldn’t seize power, but it also couldn’t command them, causing the pack to fall into disarray once more.
Xie Lu jumped onto the roof of the homestead where Wang Jiu was and asked her, “I have three questions, I don’t know if I can ask.”
Now that the situation seemed stable, he wanted answers.
He asked politely, but he didn’t expect Wang Jiu to answer so directly.
He hadn’t even asked his questions in detail yet.
“1. My agility is higher than yours, and the Ratling Sub-Boss’s voice is more distinct than the other rats’. To conceal itself, it always has other groups of rats make noise to cover its commands. I just picked out the individual voice from the group’s noise. 2. Their leader’s identity is related to evolution. The power struggle among the large rats only causes a brief period of chaos, which is to cover for the arrival of a new leader. 3. As long as we don’t kill the leader, they won’t have a new leader arrive to control the pack.”
“Since you’re handsome, I’ll throw in another piece of information for free—judging by the speed it arrived, its nest shouldn’t be far from here.”
Xie Lu was surprised and quickly responded, “Thank you.”
“You would have figured it out soon enough anyway. I had to earn your gratitude before you did.”
“You flatter me. Still, thank you. If there’s anything I can do for you in the future…”
Xie Lu was a man of strong principles. He had been prepared for Wang Jiu to refuse him, but he hadn’t expected her to be so generous. He was momentarily grateful and therefore spoke with solemnity…
It was like if a ruthless landlord suddenly became generous one day; the exploited would be especially moved.
Wang Jiu didn’t even look at him, just continued to shoot rats and said casually, “Don’t make promises to women so easily. What if I make a request you’re sure to refuse? It would be too awkward then, and you’d lose face.”
A request? What kind of request would I definitely refuse?
Xie Lu: “???”
In an instant, Xie Lu, who suddenly understood, didn’t blush. In the fire-lit night, his face just appeared slightly pale, but if one looked closely, one could see that his ears were red. His thin lips were pressed tightly together as he glanced at Wang Jiu several times.
There was condemnation, helplessness, and a bit of contemplation—was she joking, or?
Why was she always like this?
Was toying with him that interesting?
As his thoughts raced, he heard Wang Jiu say slowly, “I can’t just ask you to give me the territory you’re about to redeem, can I? Even if you were willing, I’m not that shameless.”
Ah? That’s what she meant? Not that… indescribable kind of thing?
Never mind Xie Lu’s embarrassed, flushed face after realizing he had been overthinking things. As for the others…
Liao Luo: “I think you are.”
Jiang Kaikai and the others: Can’t you show some restraint! The situation is critical! The fight isn’t over! You two shameless dogs!
Embarrassed, Xie Lu jumped off the homestead roof, not wanting to interact with Wang Jiu any further, lest he fall into another one of her traps.
Liao Luo also ran off, because the thrill of hitting and running was just too exciting.
In an instant, only Wang Jiu was left on the roof.
However, Xie Lu’s judgment was correct. With Wang Jiu’s unconventional approach of severing the rat pack’s command structure, the pack could no longer gather for an attack. Many rats, not wanting to smash their heads open, knew when to retreat. A stream of them crawled out from underground, right into the line of fire of the crowd.
Now, it was a safe and steady hunt with no danger.
The situation was stable.
The people hiding in the resurrection point frantically shot at the rat pack, and the bodies piled up like mountains on the ground.
But there were still forty to fifty thousand rats in the pack.
It was just that no new ones were arriving.
“I think we’ll be pulling an all-nighter tonight.” Many people were starting to run out of stamina.
“Anyone have food? Support us!”
“Eat while you fight.”
“Damn it, I’ve never fought this hard even when grinding mobs. Honey, give me two sweet potatoes, I need to recover some strength.”
The day before yesterday, they were eating hot pot at home. Today, they had to gnaw on sweet potatoes to stay alive while fighting monsters.
What kind of world was this!
Just as the crowd was grumbling, they suddenly saw the rats let out screams and start to move frantically.
Wang Jiu was startled. She glanced at the young rat. It was still the same, nothing was wrong, and it hadn’t issued any commands. What was wrong with the other rats?
But it didn’t look like they were attacking in a frenzy. It looked more like… fear!
Just as Wang Jiu made this judgment, she suddenly felt… a brilliant radiance behind her.
Uh, she hadn’t cast Holy Light.
Who was it?
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