Chapter 171
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Chapter 171: Luo Ji’s Killing Intent
Luo Ji was completely unaware of the new invading enemy reinforcements’ current location, their troop types, or their numbers.
So many uncertainties gave him quite a headache at this moment.
However, based on his previous experience, the opponent should also have landed randomly, but wouldn’t completely deviate from this area.
As for their exact location within this specific region, that remained unknown.
In the current situation, the safest approach was to eliminate Cao Peng before Yan Sheng could find them!
After all, Yan Sheng was just a recruited reinforcement, while the protagonists of this invasion battle were Ye Qingxuan and Cao Peng.
As soon as Cao Peng died, this invasion battle would be deemed concluded, and the defeated side’s reinforcement would be forcibly removed by the system!
Thinking of this, from the start of the pursuit battle until now, a hint of murderous intent couldn’t help but appear on Luo Ji’s usually calm face.
To avoid an even worse situation later, even if it meant taking some risks, he had to forcibly kill Cao Peng!
“Liu Zheng!”
At Luo Ji’s call, Liu Zheng, sensing the cold killing intent in his leader’s tone, understood his meaning without needing any unnecessary words.
Trailing his battle-axe, an action originally meant to conserve arm strength, now served a crucial balancing role on the muddy ground.
Sensing the commotion behind him, Cao Peng couldn’t help but glance back.
What he saw almost made him soil himself, a.fierce general from the opposing side was relentlessly closing in on him with explosive speed!
The distance between them was halved in the blink of an eye!
“Quick, stop him!”
“Stop him for me!!”
Cao Peng kept screaming with his terribly harsh voice, ordering his soldiers to intercept the charging Liu Zheng.
However, given Liu Zheng’s strength, how could a mere few soldiers stop him?
He didn’t even put those few soldiers wielding stone axes in his eyes.
He maintained his pursuit momentum, and suddenly swung his battle-axe, unleashing a continuous series of lunges and charges.
While cutting down all the obstructing soldiers, he continued his relentless charge towards Cao Peng.
This truly terrified Cao Peng.
The opponent’s strength was somewhat beyond his expectations.
Facing this man, his stone axe-wielders couldn’t even manage to block and were all cut down.
Realizing this, half of Cao Peng’s heart turned cold.
Then, as if remembering something, he quickly shouted out loud.
“Yan, Yan Sheng!”
“I’m here! Come save me!!”
Facing Cao Peng’s cry for help, Luo Ji’s pupils slightly contracted, then he shouted sternly.
“Liu Zheng, kill him quickly!”
“Yes!”
Having also heard the opponent’s shouts, Liu Zheng clearly realized that reinforcements might be arriving for the enemy.
Not daring to delay, his speed increased by another notch!
Each step he took on the muddy ground, which was, frankly, very slippery, meant his previous speed was already the limit at which he could control his body’s balance.
Now, with the speed increasing once again, with every step he lunged forward, his sense of balance was constantly being compromised, creating significant psychological pressure for him.
However, as the one being pursued, Cao Peng’s psychological pressure was clearly greater.
His continuous loud cries for help made his throat hoarse, yet he received no response whatsoever.
Intense fear relentlessly devoured his reason, causing him to roar out again.
“No, impossible!”
“You can’t kill me, I’m…”
Cao Peng seemed to want to make a final desperate struggle, but Liu Zheng at this moment was in no mood to listen to his boring nonsense.
He flexed his arms, unhesitatingly swung his battle-axe.
With an upward motion, carrying a surge of momentum, he directly unleashed a cleaving strike towards Cao Peng.
The immense force made the accompanying wind pressure rumble.
A single strike would surely make Cao Peng’s round head explode like a watermelon!
“Hold your axe!”
Who knew, at this critical juncture, accompanied by a figure that rapidly charged out, a spearhead gleaming with metallic luster pierced the falling axe blade, forcibly deflecting the battle-axe’s attack by a distance.
While neutralizing Liu Zheng’s offensive, a spear-wielding youth quickly blocked between the two.
“So fast!”
“Did he just happen to randomly teleport nearby?”
With the arrival of the enemy reinforcements, Luo Ji’s mood was undoubtedly terrible.
Just a little more, only just a little more, and he would have killed Cao Peng, forcibly ending this invasion battle!
However, there was no use regretting it now.
Luo Ji glanced at the armed troops charging out behind the spear-wielding youth, intending to confirm the enemy’s troop composition.
“10 spearmen, 15…”
“No!”
“20 shield-axe soldiers?!”
“No ranged units?”
“It seems the opponent also learned from the distress signal that this is a mountain forest area…”
After a quick scan, Luo Ji, who had secretly counted the enemy’s forces in his mind, felt a heavy heart.
The opponent’s forces already outnumbered his, and in terms of equipment, the spearheads of those spears and the axe blades of the battle-axes were clearly made of copper.
This was clearly a Bronze rank player, but much tougher to deal with than he had anticipated.
Due to the timely arrival of Cao Peng’s reinforcements, the forces of both sides instantly formed a standoff.
They were sizing up each other, and at the same time, wary of one another.
“Brother, it’s best to forgive when you can.”
“We are all Bronze rank players, isn’t it a bit unseemly to come over and bully a player with no rank?”
The spear-wielding youth was clearly the player named Yan Sheng.
After confirming his troop advantage, his tone of voice became a bit more composed.
It was unavoidable that his shield-axe soldiers, whose weapons were all brass battle-axes, were mistaken by the opponent for a Bronze rank player.
Luo Ji had no intention of explaining and coldly sneered, “Bullying a no-rank player?”
“You need to understand, he was the one who lost face first.”
“Not only did he bully a newcomer who just left the novice protection period, but he also spent 7 days, couldn’t deal with the newcomer, and still stubbornly refused to leave.”
“So tell me, who exactly is being unseemly here?”
Hearing this, Yan Sheng’s eye twitched visibly.
He was clearly unaware of this matter.
Deliberately targeting newcomers for a fight was disgraceful in itself, and failing to defeat one after 7 days was even more humiliating.
What’s more, to stubbornly refuse to leave after 7 days?
To be honest, he absolutely did not want to start a war with the player opposite him, which was why he didn’t immediately attack after neutralizing the offensive.
Although his forces held the advantage, the man wielding the battle-axe opposite him was very strong.
He seemed to have easily neutralized that last strike, but in reality, the recoil made his hand ache from the impact.
Fighting was too irrational.
“Brother, my junior here was indeed out of line this time.”
“Continuing to fight won’t benefit anyone.”
“Give me some face, how about we stop here?”
