In fact, it wasn't Lu Yuan's fault for not administering anesthesia.
After all, Lu Yuan's surgery business for normal people had just started to take off recently.
Before Zhang San came to Lu Yuan's clinic, Lu Yuan had been dealing with corpses and the infected, so what was the need for anesthesia?
In a blink of an eye, two days had passed from the originally planned three-day business closure.
On the third day early morning, Lu Yuan examined Niu Ben's physical condition and found that he had fully recovered to a normal state.
Standing by Niu Ben's bedside, Lu Yuan considered whether to lead him to a pollution source site for some practice.
At this moment, boom!!
A loud explosion suddenly echoed from the western part of Yun City.
"Doctor Lu, Doctor Lu!!"
Outside the ward, Xiao Chen came running in a panic, still holding a phone in the middle of a call.
"Doctor Lu! The Group, the Group is calling to say that a major incident is happening in Yun City!"
The Group that Xiao Chen referred to was naturally the Xia Group, the number one financial tycoon in Yun City.
He served as a communication officer and driver for Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan was a little displeased as he took the phone from Xiao Chen and said, "Hello?"
On the other end of the phone was the voice of Wang Dong, the CEO of the Xia Group: "Doctor Lu! Half a month ago, the boss of the Black Fire Mercenary Group, the number one financial tycoon in Xifu City, died!"
"Later, there was a shift in the financial powers in Xifu City, and Black Fire was forced out. Now, a group of wandering Black Fire mercenaries have escaped to our city!"
"The enemy has quite a number of people, and we, we can't stop them..."
Lu Yuan spoke in a deep voice: "Understood."
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
He took out a Bluetooth earpiece from his pocket and put it on. Just as he was about to say, "Liu Yuan--"
He suddenly changed his mind and said, "Never mind."
He returned the phone to Xiao Chen and looked at Niu Ben, "Niu, get up and move around?"
Niu Ben grinned, "No problem! Doctor Lu, I'll listen to you!"
"Isn't this the reason for having the surgery with you? Let's go!!"
Five minutes later, Lu Yuan drove the car while Niu Ben carried a wolf's tooth club and ran behind, and the two of them rushed towards the direction of the explosion in Yun City.
Walking on foot was Niu Ben's own request.
In his own words, except for last month when he had a fling with Qiu Ying, he hadn't been active for years, so he needed to get accustomed to it.
......
In the southern suburbs of Yun City.
More than a dozen armored cars, sedans, and SUVs were slowly approaching Yun City from the outside.
On both sides of the vehicle convoy, around a hundred wandering mercenaries carrying weapons followed.
Behind them, more than a dozen hired soldiers from the Xia Group lay in pools of blood.
Bang, bang, bang--
A muscular, shirtless man in camouflage with one eye raised his rifle and fired three shots into the air!
He held a loudspeaker and shouted, "Listen up, all of you!"
"I'm Du Long!"
"From today onwards! In this city, I call the shots!"
After saying that, he fired another three shots into the air, bang, bang, bang--
This man had a tattered shoulder patch on his shoulder embroidered with four gold stars, indicating that he was a level four ability user with a capability coefficient exceeding 4.0.
The convoy continued to advance.
At this time, there was not a single person on the main road in this southern district of Yun City.
To be precise, apart from the few hired soldiers from the Xia Group earlier, this group had not encountered any notable resistance.
Du Long, who was leading the group, was quite satisfied with this situation, as he could take control of this small city at a very small cost.
Du Long walked forward with his gun raised, examining the street scenes of this small city.
Although the scale was a bit small, the buildings seemed to be well-preserved, and the population appeared to be considerable.
Sustaining his group of over a hundred men shouldn't be a problem.
Clang--
Suddenly, a window on the second floor of a shop on the street opened, and a woman stood by the window, staring blankly at Du Long on the street.
This was the first time Du Long had seen such a bold woman.
This woman appeared to be of average beauty, but her eyes were captivating and fierce.
Especially those double eyelids, they were lively and alluring, almost as if they had been plucked from the eyes of a fairy in a painting.
Du Long grinned at the woman, then deliberately displayed his massive chest muscles to her and raised his thick, dark eyebrows.
The woman smiled.
She stretched lazily and asked in a languid tone, "Big brother, are you saying that you'll be calling the shots in this city from now on?"
"Correct!"
"It's me! I'm Du Long!"
Bang, bang, bang--
Du Long said arrogantly and fired another three shots from his gun.
"Hee hee hee!"
The woman's laughter was exceptionally crisp. "Du Long, if those words are coming from your mouth, I'm afraid they don't count!"
Du Long turned and pointed behind him, "The financial tycoon of your small city is nothing in front of me!"
A hint of disdain flashed in the woman's eyes, and she rolled her eyes, saying, "Du Long, go a couple of streets ahead to a major intersection, and head east. You'll find a Medical Academy. If you get the people there to agree, then your position in Yun City will be stable!"
"Fine! You little slut, you wait! I'll come back and f*** you!"
Du Long gave the woman a smile that both men and women would understand the meaning of, and he thrust his hips forward.
The woman was completely unfazed by Du Long's antics. She rested her chin on her hand and said coyly, "Du Long, hurry up and go. I'll be waiting for you to come back!"
Du Long glared fiercely at the woman and motioned behind him, immediately sending a group of mercenaries to guard the woman's building below.
The woman upstairs watched Du Long's carefree retreating figure and muttered helplessly, "I can't believe you, with so many cities around, you just had to pick a city like this."
Soon, Du Long's group entered the urban area of Yun City from the southern suburbs.
There were more people now.
But these people were simply standing on both sides of the street, quietly watching Du Long's group pass. No one came forward to stop them, and no one fled.
This scene made Du Long feel uneasy in his heart.
The more he saw the way those people on the street were looking at him, the more he felt like they were looking at a dead person.
Not only did Du Long have this feeling, but when he turned to look behind him, he realized that his group of over a hundred men had somehow started clinging to the armored vehicles as they advanced.
Bang, bang, bang--
He fired another three shots into the air, and only then did Du Long's heart feel a little more at ease.
He was clearly a level four ability user, but now he had to rely on the gun in his hand to bolster his courage. Du Long felt a sense of humiliation.
"Listen up, all of you!"
"From now on, I call the shots in this city!"
After shouting those two sentences with all his might, Du Long felt like he had regained some courage, but--
He saw the people on both sides of the street laughing at him.
Those people included men, women, and even the elderly, but there were no children.
Seeing those faces laughing at him, Du Long became enraged.
"Laugh at this, you motherf*****s!!"
He raised his gun and fired a shot at an elderly man standing on the side of the street!
Bang!
A spray of blood erupted as the powerful momentum of the rifle bullet tore through the old man's chest, sending him flying backward a great distance.
Du Long was quite pleased with the effect of his shot.
He turned his head again to look at those people standing on the street, but this time, the smiles had disappeared from their faces.
Instead, they were replaced by envy.
Everyone was staring at the old man who had been struck by Du Long's bullet, their eyes filled with envious expressions.
In an instant, a cold wind blew, sending chills down Du Long's spine.
He saw the old man who had just been shot in the chest slowly getting up from the ground.
Out of the corner of his eye, Du Long noticed a tall, muscular figure ahead on the street, slowly approaching him while carrying a wolf's tooth club over his shoulder.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
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