Chapter 333 - 309: This Is a Grand, Self-Delivered Gift Package

Chapter 333: Chapter 309: This Is a Grand, Self-Delivered Gift Package

The Mutant Beasts controlled by Li Lin were all quite large. More importantly, they were incredibly powerful and astonishingly fast.

Critically, there were quite a few of them—more than thirty in total.

A Survivor Base without heavy weaponry facing such a number of Summoned Beasts would be utterly destroyed.

This was why a Summoning Beast Ability User who reached their full potential was considered so terrifying.

This was especially true for someone like Li Lin. With the Li Family backing him, all the ability users of the family and its affiliates served him alone, helping him control Mutant Beasts, break through to his Tier-2 ability unlock, and even find so many Mutated Beast King cubs.

Once these Mutated Beast King cubs were fully grown, Li Lin believed he wouldn’t even have to fear the Flame Emperor.

Right now, he had only one goal: to make an example of that Lu Feng and establish his own authority.

If the Li Family’s ability users hadn’t all been dispatched to help him, Lu Feng would never have had an opening to exploit and humiliate the Li Family.

Therefore, eliminating Lu Feng had become a necessity.

His plan now was to have his Mutant Beasts enter Zhuangyuan District and slaughter everyone, creating the impression of a Mutant Beast invasion to lure reinforcements from the East Suburb Fortress.

Soon, the Mutant Beasts charged into Zhuangyuan District, but Li Lin quickly frowned. "Something’s not right. Why is no one here? Doesn’t this whole base even have sentries? Was the intel wrong?"

Li Sheng immediately responded, "Impossible. The man I sent was Li Tie. You know his abilities. There’s no way his intel could be wrong."

"Mm." Li Lin nodded.

He knew of Li Tie. The man’s abilities in this area were indeed the strongest in the Li Family.

But what the two of them didn’t know was that at this very moment, the Li Tie they were speaking of was staring in panic at the ability users surrounding him.

Every single one of them had activated their beastification abilities and were eyeing him like prey, led by Guo Zhen.

More importantly, he had already seen that besides their beastification, they all possessed a second ability. They were all dual-ability users.

Li Tie couldn’t believe it. ’How could they have so many terrifying ability users?’

Once his identity was exposed, he knew he was in trouble. He wanted to escape and warn the Li Family, but he didn’t even have a chance to flee.

"Finish him. There’s no point in keeping him alive," Lu Feng’s cold voice rang out.

After discovering the anomaly here in Zhuangyuan District, he had naturally entered the game at the first opportunity to make arrangements.

He just hadn’t expected that the ones targeting Qingfeng Base would be the Li Family.

’It seems they’ve finally freed up their hands,’ he thought.

A moment later, Li Tie’s scream rang out, then was cut short, leaving only a corpse behind.

"Boss, more than twenty Mutant Beasts have charged into Zhuangyuan District," Lin Jiao came to report. "They’re different species, but they’re moving together. It seems like someone is controlling them."

"Controlling Mutant Beasts?" Lu Feng frowned. "Could it be that guy has shown up?"

In the game’s background lore, after the Flame Emperor and the Hexagonal Beast perished together, the City East Alliance fractured, leading to a long period of chaos and warring factions.

This situation lasted for a long time, until a man named Li Lin appeared in the Li Family.

He was a Summoning Beast Ability User who controlled a great many Mutated Beast Kings. He swept through his opposition, absorbing numerous factions and making the Li Family the most powerful force in Celestial Sea City for a time.

Unfortunately, during the later Shadow Calamity, Li Lin’s weakness was exploited—a Summoning Beast Ability User’s personal combat strength is very low. The Li Family’s ability users failed to protect him adequately, and he was assassinated.

Moreover, the assassin managed to bypass Li Lin’s Mutated Beast King guards and kill him in a single blow.

’For the Li Family to be using Mutant Beasts to attack Zhuangyuan District now, it could only be Li Lin’s doing. I wonder if I can get his Summoning Beast ability to drop when I kill him.’

’If that happened, I could obtain the ability of a Summoner. Then I could control any Mutant Beast I wanted, instead of having to rely completely on system drops.’

’With an ability like that and my own power, I could assemble a massive Mutant Beast army.’

That would undoubtedly be a terrifying force, one that would play a huge role both now and after the Hexagonal Beast disaster when the City East Alliance inevitably fractures.

’The key is whether Li Lin controls any Mutated Beast Kings. If he does, killing him might drop a pet egg.’

At this thought, Lu Feng smiled. ’The Li Family isn’t here to cause trouble, they’re delivering a blind box gift package right to my doorstep. Now I just have to open it and see what’s inside.’

"Since the Li Family is here, let’s give them a proper welcome." Lu Feng looked at Li Tie’s corpse and gave the order, "Everyone, prepare for action."

...

「In Zhuangyuan District.」

More than twenty Mutant Beasts rampaged wildly, searching for humans. Their orders were to slaughter every person here.

But after entering the district, they couldn’t find a single human. They couldn’t even find a target, let alone carry out a slaughter.

This caused them to roar madly, their calls echoing over a great distance.

On a nearby building, Li Lin heard the sounds and his brow furrowed. "Something’s wrong. They haven’t found any survivors in Zhuangyuan District. Li Tie’s intel was wrong, or he was discovered and the people in the district have already fled."

"Damn it." Li Sheng naturally believed Li Lin’s words.

They had prepared for so long; for their targets to have escaped at the last moment was infuriating.

"Let’s go," Li Sheng shouted, leading his men directly toward Zhuangyuan District.

The men from the Li Family hurried to follow.

Li Lin also followed close behind.

Soon, all the Li Family members had arrived in Zhuangyuan District.

All of Li Lin’s Mutant Beasts gathered around him as well.

"Damn it, did they really all get away?" Li Sheng grew more and more annoyed. But just then, the sound of rockets being fired suddenly rang out.

WHOOSH!~

WHOOSH!~

...

Li Lin and Li Sheng simultaneously looked up at the rooftops, where they saw several people aiming rocket launchers at them.

The people in Zhuangyuan District hadn’t fled at all. They had actually set an ambush for them here.

In the next instant, a series of explosions erupted among the Li Family’s men.

The rockets fell too suddenly to be dodged. As they detonated, the Li Family’s men had no time to react and were sent flying by the blasts.

Even though they were all ability users, two unlucky ones still had their legs blown off and were left writhing and wailing on the ground.

"Damn it!" Li Sheng roared. He raised his hand and swiped it toward the building, sending a Qi Blade shooting upward.

BOOM!~

The Qi Blade slammed into the wall, blasting a jagged hole in it.

"Hmph!" Li Lin snorted coldly. A Mutant Beast beside him charged viciously toward the building. Its sharp claws dug deep into the wall, allowing it to run up the surface as if on level ground.

In an instant, the Mutant Beast charged through the broken hole in the wall.

Li Lin sneered at the sight.

’They actually thought they could ambush us? How ridiculous.’

’Now that my Mutant Beast is inside, those people are dead for sure.’

But in the very next moment, his expression changed drastically. From the hole in the wall, a corpse was thrown out, crashing onto the ground below.

It was the corpse of his Mutant Beast.

The expressions of everyone from the Li Family changed at the sight.

"How could this be?" Li Lin’s face grew as dark as thunder.