From beginning to end, Xiao Jun didn't even glance at Jiang Yue.
If she had indeed not been involved in this matter, and had not handed over the mutant compound in the end, she would have been a corpse by now.
"Brother Jun, I'll go with you."
Wan Qianya stepped forward, walking beside Xiao Jun.
Xiao Jun nodded.
The two of them headed east, one after the other.
"Call Lone Wolf out."
Now, the Lone Wolf Gang was in shambles, with only six or seven thousand members left out of the original tens of thousands, many of whom had been recruited just today.
And there were only a handful of elite fighters left.
"Who are you to demand our boss to come out? You want to die?"
As soon as the words left his mouth, Wan Qianya moved, yet seemed as if she hadn't moved at all.
The person who had just spoken could no longer speak.
"Bring Lone Wolf out, or we'll kill our way in."
Someone died, and more and more Lone Wolf Gang members began to surround them, but Xiao Jun wasn't afraid at all.
If they were zombies surrounding him, Xiao Jun might have had to consider it, but this motley crew facing him, he only needed to kill a couple of them and they wouldn't dare move.
Just as Xiao Jun had thought, several hundred people surrounded them, yet not a single one dared to act.
Someone had already gone to inform Lone Wolf.
Soon, Lone Wolf came out with over a dozen subordinates, his heart sinking when he saw that it was Xiao Jun.
Every time he encountered this guy, nothing good ever happened.
"Captain Xiao, we've been minding our own business lately, and you suddenly show up at our doorstep killing people. That's not cool, man."
Lone Wolf was usually quite arrogant, but after suffering a few losses at Xiao Jun's hands, he always felt that this guy was his nemesis.
Moreover, over the past few days, the Lone Wolf Gang had been shattered by the zombies, and really couldn't withstand any more turmoil.
"Heh, so it's cool to incite my subordinates to betray me?"
"What are you talking about, Captain Xiao? I have no idea."
Lone Wolf began playing dumb.
Xiao Jun took a step forward.
"Stop him."
Lone Wolf shouted, and the people around started to move, several of them rushing forward emboldened by their numbers.
Xiao Jun didn't move, but Wan Qianya did, and the people around retreated.
Six corpses, plus the one from before, made seven corpses in total, enough to scare anyone.
"Don't play dumb with me, you turned a few dozen of my people, and you think you can just walk away?"
[A few dozen people? No way, I only turned two.]
[I really shouldn't have listened to that college student. He said there was a chance for revenge, but the guy just showed up at our doorstep.]
"Who was the college student who taught you?"
Xiao Jun suddenly appeared in front of Lone Wolf, his words scaring Lone Wolf into retreating several steps.
"What college student? I don't know."
[How does he know everything? This is crazy.]
"Qianya."
If he didn't say anything, it didn't matter. Killing Lone Wolf would disband the Lone Wolf Gang, eliminating the threat all the same.
"Don't do anything crazy, I have thousands of brothers, you think you can get out of here alive?"
"Do you think anyone would avenge you if you died?"
To have fallen to this level as a gang leader, he really had failed.
But all of this was inseparable from Xiao Jun. If it weren't for him slapping Lone Wolf in the face several times, diminishing Lone Wolf's prestige, at least a few more people would have rushed out to give Xiao Jun some trouble.
Lone Wolf looked left and right, and some people had even retreated a few steps.
"If you want to live, it's simple: five hundred third-tier mutant crystals."
"Are you kidding me? Do you think mutant crystals grow on trees? Go ask Future City if they even have five hundred."
Lone Wolf's expression changed. After losing so many people and wasting so many resources, he had only collected less than a hundred third-tier mutant crystals. And you're asking for five hundred right off the bat?
"People are dead, they have nothing. Don't say this wasn't your doing, we're all smart people here, I wouldn't come and make trouble for you without evidence."
"Five hundred is impossible, killing me wouldn't get you that many."
"Use fourth-tier ones to make up for it."
"Ten, that's the most I can do."
"Three hundred."
"Then you might as well kill me."
"Two hundred, I can't go any lower, or I'll have to kill you."
"Brother, I really don't have that many. Do you have two hundred?"
"..."
"Fifty, if you can't produce that, then you die."
The negotiation ended there.
Since they were standing so close together, the others stayed far away, afraid that Xiao Jun might inadvertently harm them.
They only saw the two of them exchange a few quick words, then Xiao Jun put his arm around his gang leader's shoulders in a warm, friendly manner, as if they were old friends reunited after many years, and walked into the stronghold together.
"Hand over the college student who gave you advice, and I can reduce the number a bit."
Xiao Jun didn't want to leave this person alive, but if Lone Wolf didn't say anything, he had no way to find him.
Right now, the mutant crystals were more important.
"Captain Xiao, the only educated person in my gang is him. If you kill him, you'd be cutting off my future prospects. You gotta pay more."
"Screw you, if there's a next time, you better watch your head."
Xiao Jun stopped in his tracks, going any further would be entering the Lone Wolf Gang's territory, and while he wasn't afraid, there was no need to take unnecessary risks.
Lone Wolf had thought about resisting, but the hand on his shoulder felt like a mountain, leaving him unable to move at all.
He could only obediently take out fifty third-tier mutant crystals.
"You lucked out this time, next time it won't be something mutant crystals can solve."
With that, Xiao Jun turned and left.
"Captain Xiao, it was all a misunderstanding, come back for tea next time."
Lone Wolf called out loudly from behind, letting everyone know that he had been extorted for fifty third-tier mutant crystals. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to remain as the gang leader, it would be no different from killing him.
"No need to see me out, Lone Wolf Gang Leader, you still have things to take care of in there. I'll come back next time."
He waved his hand in a friendly manner, as if he had just finished a meal at an old friend's house, leaving the onlookers dumbfounded.
"Let's go, back home."
Seeing this grim reaper finally leave, Lone Wolf heaved a sigh of relief.
This couldn't go on, he had to come up with a plan. As a renowned gang leader, he couldn't remain this pathetic.
And the zombies at night were still a major headache.
...
Back on the second floor, aside from Li Jingyin and Jiang Doctor, the other four girls were there, but the atmosphere was somber.
Everyone knew what had happened that led to Li Jingyin's injuries.
Even Little Loli had gone to the girls' dormitories and made a big fuss, interrogating anyone who had been close to Li Jie in recent days.
As a squad leader, Li Jie's subordinate squads had all been disbanded and reorganized.
"There's a reward for reporting her, if you're found out, you're dead."
Finally, Little Loli left with those harsh words and returned to the second floor.
When Xiao Jun learned about it, he just patted Little Loli's head. Li Jie probably didn't have any accomplices left. If she did, she would have definitely brought them along.
The opponent she was dealing with was Li Jingyin, Jiang Yue, Xiao Jun and others of fourth-tier strength. She wouldn't have let go of any combat power.
Seeing Xiao Jun return, Jiang Yue silently took off all the spatial equipment she was wearing, as the team's quartermaster, she carried half of the team's wealth on her.
"Brother Jun."
No one spoke, until finally Wan Qianya called out.
She had watched Jiang Yue's actions the whole time, but because Li Jie was her childhood best friend since before the apocalypse, she had gone soft, leading to this outcome.
"Keep your things, don't let there be a next time."
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
u Chenyuan transmigrated into a female-oriented novel about a real and fake heiress, becoming the CEO elder brother of both. Unfortunately, the entire Lu family—including himself, the CEO—were mere cannon fodder in the story. Determined to save himself, Lu Chenyuan took action. The spoiled, attention-seeking fake heiress? Thrown into the harsh realities of the working class to learn humility. The love-struck real heiress? Pushed toward academic excellence, so lofty goals would blind her to trivial romances. As for the betrayed, vengeful arranged marriage wife… the plot hadn’t even begun yet. There was still time—if he couldn’t handle her, he could at least avoid her. "CEO Lu, are you avoiding me?" Mo Qingli fixed her gaze on Lu Chenyuan. For the first time, the shrewd and calculating Lu Chenyuan felt a flicker of unease.
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
