Qin Feng descends, causing Ernie Ross, the Quivering Clown’s hair to stand on end!

The invisible Bone Sword Wyvern King soars through the skies above the Los Angeles Ruins.

Standing atop the dragon's head, Qin Feng's indifferent gaze pierces through the Faceless Mask, sweeping across the ground amidst the ruins as he searches for his target.

He sees Chaos reigning within the ruined city.

However, overall, the number of players here is far fewer than in the City Ruins of Great Xia.

On one hand, the population of Los Angeles was originally much smaller; on the other, it's naturally due to the influence of the Trembling Clown.

Although the Trembling Clown's base range of movement is only within 30 kilometers of the Scaredy Shack, the fact remains that as long as there are corpses, the Scaredy Shack can be reconstituted. This means that within this ruined expanse, the Trembling Clown enjoys a degree of Freedom.

This has led most players within the Los Angeles area who learned the news to log off to save their lives.

Those who remain online either haven't gotten the news yet or are holed up inside their guild's Hideout.

Protected by the defensive barrier of a Hideout, players feel relatively secure. After all, even an Epic BOSS would need time to breach a Hideout's barrier.

But…

Is that really the case?

…

Qin Feng temporarily deactivated the Ancient-Grade effect of his 'Original Shadow Perception'.

That effect was: upon seeing through an invisible target, instantly Stripping the target by 100% and temporarily depriving it of its five senses.

"First, find the Trembling Clown."

"Then, find the Scaredy Shack."

If he kept that 'see-through' effect active, then the moment Qin Feng saw through the Trembling Clown, the Scaredy Shack would become alert and start scurrying around.

After all…

Right now, there are far too many player corpses in these Los Angeles Ruins!

There are even some level 10-15 monster corpses.

The Scaredy Shack can reconstitute and regenerate from these corpses at any time, thereby relocating.

Like a nimble dog in the mountains.

Even for Qin Feng, it would be difficult to truly threaten the Scaredy Shack's existence in such an environment.

So…

It must be a one-hit kill!

Qin Feng and Osirio soared together at high altitude, their presence undetected by anyone.

Soon, Qin Feng located 'Ernie Ross, the Quivering Clown', operating invisibly amidst some ruins in the northwest part of the Los Angeles Ruins!

It was contorting its shadowy limbs, holding two daggers, maintaining a level 8 stealth state as it moved with a sinister chill.

It wasn't targeting those Hideouts.

Because there were still plenty of fearless North American players wandering around outside.

Some players were even fighting amongst themselves.

"Motherfucker!"

"Son of a bitch!"

On top of a ruined blacksmith shop, players from two teams were going all out, hurling insults and various skills at each other over a Silver-grade BOSS.

Such players either truly have no fear of Death.

Or they genuinely haven't heard any news about the 'Trembling Clown'.

This isn't particularly strange.

Even back in the internet age, there would be masses of people unaware of some hot news.

Even if Blue Star were about to be destroyed and every country globally broadcasted warnings, many people would still remain unaware.

Some things might seem like common knowledge online, but that's because people online are, well, online. In reality, many people in the real world aren't online, or aren't online every single moment…

It was precisely as this team of Latino players and another team of dark-skinned players clashed…

Suddenly, flashes of blade light flickered in the darkness.

Ernie Ross, the Quivering Clown · Chaotic Blade Slaughter!

Blade light blossomed within a radius of twenty to thirty meters!

Amidst cries for parents and howls of pain, the Trembling Clown's attacks, imbued with the 'Instant Death' affix, successively killed twelve players from both sides…

After the successful strike, Ernie Ross, the Quivering Clown instantly turned invisible, absorbing the lifespan scattered by the fallen…

Qin Feng watched, naturally not intervening.

After finding the Trembling Clown, he began observing its movement patterns and soon discovered…

This guy's range of movement seemed relatively fixed for the time being.

"Meaning the Scaredy Shack's location probably hasn't changed recently."

Qin Feng observed meticulously.

He quickly noticed a Gold-grade Hideout not far away, resembling a three-story school building, that seemed a bit off.

Inside other guild Hideouts, there were still quite a few players.

Some players killed by the Trembling Clown would fall into a nightmare state upon Death, then revive inside the Hideout… At that point, guildmates would help restrain these nightmare-afflicted members within the Hideout, preventing them from running out to their Deaths.

But inside this three-story school Hideout… it was too quiet!

Not a single person!

"Or rather, it's not that there's no one in this Hideout, but that everyone in this Hideout has already perished completely!"

"So… this is the location of the Scaredy Shack?"

A guild Hideout with no one inside? Most likely, all dead…

As for how the Scaredy Shack got inside a player guild's Hideout…

That's also quite simple.

As long as there are corpses inside that guild Hideout.

Sometimes guild members infight and kill each other, or drag monster corpses back to the Hideout… Such situations aren't that rare, especially in North America where it's even more commonplace.

And the Scaredy Shack's reconstitution ignores defensive barriers.

As long as there's a corpse inside the Hideout, the Scaredy Shack can use that corpse as raw material to reconstitute a brand new Scaredy Shack right where the corpse lies.

When the Scaredy Shack appears inside a guild Hideout, what does that imply? Need more be said?

…

A moment later.

Qin Feng rode Osirio, flying to the vicinity of that Gold-grade 'Torture Academy' Hideout.

Soon he saw, inside a classroom on the first floor of the Torture Academy, a bizarre flesh-and-blood shack pulsating like a heart!

If you weren't looking carefully, this shack was quite inconspicuous.

But Qin Feng, searching with purpose, naturally found it easily.

"Truly cautious."

Qin Feng thought calmly.

This Epic BOSS had chosen a Hideout as its base.

Once danger approached, it would have ample time to escape during the process of the enemy breaching the defensive barrier!

One can imagine…

In a place like the Los Angeles Ruins with its multitude of players.

This Trembling Clown is an utterly unsolvable existence for the current player base.

The only solution is to evacuate all players in the vicinity as much as possible. And Qin Feng, naturally, isn't so kind-hearted as to help North America eliminate this BOSS.

He has a better plan…

Once Qin Feng located the Scaredy Shack, he had a clear idea.

When dealing with this kind of BOSS, the most crucial point for communication is—deterrence!

Currently, other players simply don't have the means for that.

But for Qin Feng, deterring this thing is all too simple.

At this moment!

The Trembling Clown was still prowling the ruins, completely unaware that its base had been discovered by Qin Feng.

Just as it finished off another player team…

While absorbing the lifespan orbs on the ground…

Suddenly, a series of strange yet familiar words echoed from the nearby air, causing the Trembling Clown's 'hair to stand on end' instantly!

Strange, because the Trembling Clown hadn't heard that language in a long time.

Familiar, because the Trembling Clown had also learned a smattering of that language.

That was—the Ancient God Language!

In that instant…

The Trembling Clown was trembling with fear!