Chapter 98: I Help Ling Bo

Ling Bo had taken refuge in a budget hotel. By then, the hunting creatures around the hotel had already been cleared out, and evolvers were lying in ambush nearby, ready to seize Ling Bo at any moment.

At a time like this, whoever obtained the potion would grow stronger and gain a better chance of surviving.

Those who had come to buy the potion all had their own plans, and each wanted to invite Ling Bo to join their base.

By the time Qin Hao and Wu Qiong arrived, the fighting had already broken out.

Ling Bo stood on the rooftop, facing off against three heroes.

“Ling Bo, your strength is considerable. But if you want to truly put your abilities to use, you still need the support of a base. I won’t hold your previous imprisonment of me against you. As long as you come with our Jiang family, I guarantee your treatment will be no worse than what the Wu family can offer.”

“Heh. Your Jiang family is nothing. Ling Bo, the nation can give you special treatment and provide you with special knowledge. At a time like this, shouldn’t you be standing with the country? You should know that General Fan still has twenty thousand soldiers under his command. That force alone is enough to resist the hunting creatures and protect the people.”

“Fan Feng, that traitorous scoundrel, blinded by profit, murdered the Prime Minister—why don’t you mention that?” the third man shouted. “Ling Bo, our Chen family has been loyal for generations. Come with us, and we’ll help you.”

The three of them represented the Jiang, Fan, and Chen factions respectively. In the capital, a city that valued pedigree and was ruled by great families, the forces with names and standing naturally carried far more weight than those grass-roots bases.

Though they all claimed they were trying to win Ling Bo over, each of them was in truth on guard against him.

If Ling Bo agreed to any one of them, the other two would surely move to eliminate him.

If he could not be obtained, then he must be destroyed.

At that moment, Wu Qiong below suddenly shouted, “If you ask me, why don’t the four of us join forces and capture Ling Bo? Once we have him, we can torture him until he wishes he were dead. Then we won’t have to worry about him refusing to talk about the potion.”

Wu Qiong’s appearance was like the last straw that broke the camel’s back.

The already taut atmosphere was instantly ignited.

The three heroes on the rooftop erupted into motion and struck at Ling Bo.

“Earth!”

Ling Bo had already been prepared. His power of thought also surged forth.

“Sand!”

The next moment, the reinforced concrete beneath the three heroes’ feet actually turned to sand and collapsed.

The three of them fell straight down from the top floor, while a cloud of dust blinded their eyes.

The people who had been lying in ambush nearby finally made their move as the battle erupted.

The next instant, gunfire exploded all around.

The bullets were all aimed at Ling Bo.

Ling Bo condensed the earth element with his power of thought, forming a wall of dirt to block the incoming rounds.

The bullets struck the wall. In just a few dozen seconds, the earth wall was shattered. The firepower was simply too fierce.

And at that very moment, inside the building, Ling Bo and the three heroes were already locked in a fierce melee.

Wu Qiong immediately called out to Qin Hao and rushed into the building.

Crash!

The building collapsed again.

Qin Hao pulled back out of the building. Fighting an evolver with earth-element innate abilities inside a structure was simply unwise.

Besides, Qin Hao had no intention of attacking Ling Bo.

And although Ling Bo had the advantage, being attacked by four people at once still left him hard-pressed to cope.

The entire building turned to sand and collapsed. The destructive power of a second-tier evolver was indeed terrifying, but to Qin Hao, this style of combat was nothing more than a waste of thought power.

Amid the ruins, Ling Bo battled the other four in a chaotic struggle. The evolver representing General Fan Feng’s faction was also at the second tier. More than that, his innate ability was clearly metal manipulation.

Even in the collapsed buildings, countless steel bars remained. Since Ling Bo could control earth, he could control metal as well.

In an instant, twisted steel bars lashed out at Ling Bo, forcing him to evade.

But in that moment, he exposed himself to the sniper’s sights.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The high-powered sniper rifle was aimed at Ling Bo’s limbs, while Wu Qiong also revealed a cruel smile and raised the star-energy gun in his hand.

The star-energy gun was terrifyingly powerful; a single hit would leave Ling Bo dead or gravely wounded at the very least.

Yet at that moment, the twisted metal that had been attacking Ling Bo suddenly bent away, warping into spiral shapes like twisted rope. More metal gathered together, forming a steel plate.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The bullets struck the steel plate but failed to penetrate. It was clear that this metal was far stronger than Ling Bo’s earth wall.

Sizzle!

Wu Qiong’s weapon also struck a block of metal. The block condensed elemental force and actually intercepted the star-energy blast by brute force.

For a moment, all five people on the scene froze.

“Who is it!” shouted Fan Feng’s retainer first, his heart filled with dread. His attack had been unraveled, and even the force of his soul had been scattered. He had effectively suffered a backlash, and at that moment his head felt as though it were being pierced by needles.

Following the trail of thought power, they looked over and discovered that the one who had made the move was actually a man standing by the roadside.

Wu Qiong saw that it was Qin Hao who had acted, and he froze.

“Brother Qin, what do you think you’re doing? Why are you helping Ling Bo?”

Qin Hao gave a cold laugh.

“I was helping Ling Bo from the start. I just didn’t expect you to choose to kill him. You all know how important he is, so why would you do this?”

Before any of them could speak, Qin Hao said in a low voice, “Let me guess. Is it because you’re afraid of dying?”

Ling Bo had orchestrated the Hero Prison, forcing all the heroes of the capital to fight hunting creatures inside the prison.

Half of the most outstanding heroes died, half survived. And even those who lived never wanted to endure such an experience again.

After all, the survival mission allowed escape. As for how many people would die as a result, by this point none of that mattered to them anymore.

Especially after the third batch of heroes appeared.

Those selected by the Peace Alliance to receive the third hero system were, for the most part, powerful evolvers.

One month into the apocalypse, those who had become first-tier evolvers, or even second-tier evolvers, were the magnates of the major factions, the great families, and the military.

Once these people obtained the hero system, their ambitions swelled.

Within just three days, they killed the original administrators. Members of the various factions gathered their people and established their own settlements, giving rise to the current situation.

And none of these people wanted Ling Bo to keep sending them to their deaths when survival mission three came around.

So they wanted Ling Bo dead.

“What a pity. In truth, your abilities are all quite good. If you could set aside your ambitions and support Ling Bo, then the capital would not continue to descend into chaos. But regrettably, all you care about is your own interests.”

At that moment, Wu Qiong could not bear the fact that he had brought a traitor with him, and had even given Ling Bo a formidable helper. Enraged, he barked, “And you don’t care about your own interests? Don’t you also want to take Ling Bo as your subordinate and get the potion in his hands? Do you really think you’re some great hero? Then you won’t be leaving here today either.”

Wu Qiong issued the order.

“Blow him away.”