Chapter 2436: Chapter 1096: Truly Worthy of Our Great Lin God! (Part 2)

Seeing the first batch of unlucky ones running across the suspension bridge one after another, Chestnut Medal felt relieved.

"Don’t scare yourselves. Although entering Wang Cheng will certainly involve terrifying rule pollution, it’s not to the point that you should be so frightened at the city gate, right?"

Wang Helin comforted everyone.

But as soon as he finished speaking, two of those ten unfortunates had their heads suddenly explode like balloons crushed by car wheels.

Bam! Bam!

With blood and flesh splattering, the two headless bodies fell to the ground.

"Holy shit!"

"No way, is there really pollution?"

"As expected of the Qin Palace, it’s full of life-threatening crises!"

Everyone gasped in fear, their eyes bulging with shock.

"Haha!"

The cavalry, and the guards at the city gate, all laughed heartily at this scene, as if they were watching a bunch of clowns performing.

"Next team!"

The General commanded.

Everyone immediately looked at Lin Baici.

"God Lin, think of a way quickly!"

"Should we just fight our way in?"

"Are you crazy?"

Everyone was anxious, desperately recalling details, thinking of a way to solve this rule pollution.

"Looks like two people die each time!"

Gu Qingqiu pondered.

"For now, it seems to be random deaths!"

San Miyairi glanced at the small fry: "There’s too little information, we need another team!"

The Sakura girl bit her lip but eventually spoke up: "Let me choose the people!"

Strength, gender, height, beauty, ugliness...

San Miyairi needed to control the variables to verify what kind of person would get shot in the head.

Is it truly random?

Or is there some kind of trigger?

The General saw no one stepping up, so he directly started pointing out people with his whip: "You, you, you..."

Chestnut Medal panicked seeing this, and rushed in big strides to a few people, slapping them hard in the face.

"Baka, get out there, cross the bridge!"

The ones being hit didn’t want to go.

"If you don’t cross the bridge, you’ll die now!"

Chestnut Medal threatened.

The General didn’t stop Chestnut Medal, nor did he support the unfortunates being slapped, just stood by watching.

The ten unfortunates hesitated, dragging their feet.

Chestnut Medal worried that if this continued, he too would be chosen, so he used a Blade Slash, chopping at a man’s neck.

Swoosh!

Blood spurted out, the head rolling like a ripe tomato.

"Get on the bridge!"

Chestnut Medal shouted, then looked at Xia Hongyao, complaining: "Xia Tuan, this is your responsibility!"

He knew Lin Baici’s words were more effective, but he didn’t dare confront Lin Baici, so he could only yell at Xia Hongyao.

"I’m working on it!"

Xia Hongyao bit her lip.

Apart from the three people selected by the General, the seven beaten out by Chestnut Medal underwent a rough body search.

They hesitated, not wanting to step onto the bridge, and got another round of beating.

This time, they stalled and all played tricks.

They didn’t know if the danger was for those who crossed first or last, so they all aimed for the middle.

Seeking safety!

The General didn’t rush them but waved his hand.

Then, archers atop the city wall began shooting.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Arrows rained down, covering the suspension bridge.

Not only that, but a large number of crossbow arrows as thick as adult wrists fired down from ballistae.

Thud thud thud!

The arrowheads struck the suspension bridge, but because the bridge was coated multiple times with tung oil and processed with special techniques, neither arrows nor fist-sized crossbow bolt heads could leave more than a scratch on it.

This group of ten was shot mercilessly like a beehive, none survived.

"Baka, they died in vain!"

Chestnut Medal was furious, then turned to pick more people.

But when he pushed some people out, the General glanced over, shook his head, and began naming with the whip again.

"You, you, you..."

The General picked out ten people in one go.

Among them were Chestnut Medal, Kim Myungjin, Gu Qingqiu, Dudek...

"Baka!"

To Chestnut Medal, his odds of dying are one in ten, which is already very high; but for Lin Baici, it’s one in five.

Because Kim Myungjin and Gu Qingqiu are both his companions.

Kim Myungjin glanced at Lin Baici, wanting to call him Oppa, but she held back, not wanting to pressure him.

Lin Baici recalled past experiences and walked to the General’s horse: "General, may I have a word?"

The General looked down at Lin Baici, eyes cold.

"I observe that the General has the demeanor of an unparalleled commander; allow me to present a set of our nation’s master-crafted wineware as a token of respect!"

Lin Baici finished speaking, turning around to Yi Jisheng’s side.

Yi Jisheng carried a large backpack filled with offerings salvaged from a sunken ship.

Lin Baici took out some items, returned to the General, and offered them with both hands.

"Please accept my humble gift, General!"

The General’s expression softened a bit, not even bothering to hide it, leaning down and taking the wooden box from Lin Baici’s hands.

Upon opening it, the General’s eyes lit up, a smile appearing.

Lin Baici wasn’t sure if the items were good, but the General, as a God’s Ruins Aboriginal, recognized them at first glance.

For it to be offered as a tribute, this set of wineware must be top-notch.

"You from the envoy group..."

The General smirked: "Too many of you."

Lin Baici, aware of social cues, immediately understood the implication.

A single gift was not enough—or Lin Baici could take some people across, but the rest still needed to undergo inspection.

"General, those are all tributes, already recorded, I can’t make decisions on them. But if it’s knife coins..."

Lin Baici slowed his speech, secretly observing the General’s expression.

"Good!"

The General nodded.

This indicated that money was acceptable too.

Lin Baici immediately returned to Yi Jisheng: "Come over and block the view!"

Hua Yue Yu, Ai Xuyue, and the others quickly came over, forming a human wall.

Lin Baici hurriedly filled two backpacks with knife coins.

These were all salvaged from that sunken ship,

there were many of them.

After finishing, Lin Baici went back to the General’s horse and placed the two backpacks before him: "Please inspect, General!"

Had he not worried about future needs, he wouldn’t mind giving everything to the General.

The General waved his whip, and two of his personal guards came over, opening the backpacks to inspect.

After confirming the two backpacks contained only knife coins and nothing else, the two personal guards nodded.

"You may pass!"

The General spoke: "Don’t dawdle!"

The General’s voice wasn’t loud, but everyone’s hearing was sharp; after hearing his words, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Have we passed this stage?"

"Definitely passed!"

"Damn, scared the hell out of me!"

Success!

No wonder he’s the Great Lin God!

"Thank the General!"

Lin Baici cupped his fists, then turned to rally the group.

Some hesitated, still playing tricks, but Xia Hongyao and the others unconditionally trusted Lin Baici, stepping onto the bridge immediately.

Three minutes later, they crossed the suspension bridge, standing under the city gate.

No one’s head exploded!

"Who would’ve thought this stage required bribery!"

"If God Lin hadn’t had us salvage from the sunken ship, we wouldn’t have had so many knife coins to bribe them!"

"How despicable, even the monsters in God’s Ruins know how to take bribes?"

Everyone muttered.

Looking up, Lin Baici saw the city gate towering over twenty meters, large enough for giants to pass through.

Now, it was tightly closed, covered in bronze and rivets.

On the city gate, on either side, was a bronze-cast lion’s head.

Xia Hongyao turned around.

The General and his cavalry stood behind, across the bridge, watching with amusement, showing no intention of opening the gate or leading them.

"Baka, this seems like another pollution!"

Chestnut Medal worried.

Before even entering, they faced two pollution events—once inside, wouldn’t it mean a lethal trap at every step?

"If you don’t enter the city within half an hour, you will be executed on the spot!"

The General snorted coldly.

"Can we just bribe them some more?"

"Are you dumb? Bribing won’t work at this stage anymore!"

"Then how do we open the gate?"

"If I knew, would we be worrying here?"

"Stop arguing, you’ll disturb God Lin’s thinking!"

Everyone whispered, all looking hopefully at Lin Baici.

This Haijing god of forest,

was now the hope of the entire village!