Lin Feng used Identify to scan the surroundings, but did not find anyone else hiding nearby.
"Yuna, can you locate their position?" Lin Feng stroked her ears. As a canine, her racial ability should come in handy here.
Yuna did not sense anything amiss and took the initiative to grab Lin Feng's hand to lead the way.
Not long after, Lin Feng heard sounds in the distance. It was the clashing of metal weapons. Due to the sound blocking in the maze, such loud noises meant people were not far away.
"Let's sneak over quietly and be an unnoticed observer."
"What does 'be an unnoticed observer' mean?" Emily asked, confused.
Lin Feng gently knocked her head: "Just listen to the first half of the sentence, you don't need to worry about the second half."
Emily scratched her head and mumbled in acknowledgment.
The three of them tiptoed over stealthily like thieves.
Lin Feng finally heard the shouting and cursing.
"With just you guys? Rabble..."
"Boss, they can't hold out much longer!"
"We'll strike it rich once we kill them!"
Hearing the chaotic shouting up ahead, Lin Feng took the chance to rush over. He finally saw the people.
A group of dark-skinned, bare-chested brawny men were fighting two adventurers. There were also many bodies lying on the ground, some still groaning, some already dead.
Lin Feng used Identify to scan them.
[Maze Robbers ×16]
[Adventurers in Desperate Straits ×2]
"Master, they are all humans, so why are they fighting each other?" Yuna could not comprehend this.
"Robbery. They want to kill and loot." Lin Feng hid to one side to watch the fight. "What's wrong? Wouldn't beastmen do the same?"
"Absolutely not." The two beast-eared girls replied in unison.
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"If we loot, it would be from humans or other races, never our own kind," Emily explained seriously.
"Every member of the tribe has the duty to contribute to it. Such internecine violence that also harms the interests of the tribe would, at the minimum, lead to exile or capital punishment on the spot."
"You're talking about overt actions. Surely such things happen covertly too? It's just that no one knows about them," Lin Feng raised his eyebrows at the robbers, "Look at them, doing this kind of thing inside the maze. Isn't that to avoid being seen?"
Emily was taken aback by his words: "When you put it that way, maybe there are such cases. But I wouldn't know about them."
She patted Lin Feng's shoulder, then inexplicably patted her own chest: "But don't worry, I won't make a move against you. You're my husband."
"I'm not worried about you or me. This little bunny spirit isn't a match for me."
"Wha...what bunny spirit?!" Emily hammered Lin Feng twice. "How dare you look down on me!"
"We can continue this when we get back. Shhh!" Lin Feng covered Emily's mouth.
Throughout this, Yuna had been wholeheartedly observing the fight.
"Master, shouldn't we save them?"
"Save them?" Lin Feng rubbed his head.
He felt there was no real reason to do so.
Those two men were strangers, with no relationship to him and Yuna.
"Yes, kill all those bad guys and rescue those two," Emily said viciously.
"Why rescue them? Humans are bad people. I'd be happy to watch them kill each other," Emily said ruthlessly.
Lin Feng knocked her head again.
Although he didn't intend to rescue those two men, Emily's erroneous views still needed correction.
"There are good people in this world, but the only one you can truly trust is yourself," Lin Feng said.
Even for the good people, you can't place absolute, unreserved trust in them.
"I...I actually trust Master quite a bit," Yuna said softly, tugging at Lin Feng's sleeve.
"And I also trust you a lot," Emily added.
Hearing their words warmed Lin Feng's heart.
Beast-eared girls were great. As long as you treated them well, they would trust you wholeheartedly without any ulterior motives.
Such guileless girls would probably be swindled of everything by scumbags in his old world.
"Of course, as your husband, protecting you is my duty. You can unconditionally trust me," Lin Feng stroked the heads of his beast-eared wives.
"But...Master, those two seem to be in dire straits," Yuna said anxiously.
Lin Feng looked back. At some point, the two adventurers had completely fallen into disadvantage.
With their backs against each other, they were surrounded by dozens of robbers.
"Should we...save their lives?" Yuna gently tugged at Lin Feng's sleeve again.
"Do you want to save them?"
"It'd just take a flick of the hand. At worst, we can ask them for a reward after rescuing them," Yuna said, drawing her greatsword, already raring to go.
Silly girl! Even if we don't rescue them, the money would still be ours in the end.
But since my wife has gone soft-hearted...
Just as Lin Feng was preparing to help, the situation took a turn.
One of the adventurers suddenly backstabbed his companion and attempted to defect to the robbers.
"......"
All three of them were rendered speechless.
However, that guy also met a bad end, getting his throat slit directly.
"Master, you may have been right. The only one you can trust is yourself," Yuna said in a daze.
"Humans really can't be trusted. Comrades-in-arms one second, backstabbing traitors the next just to save their own skin," Emily said through gritted teeth. "Cowardly bastards!"
Well, what can one say?
The two words "human nature" were far more complicated than these beast-eared girls imagined.
"Alright alright, you two go take care of them," Lin Feng patted the shoulders of his beast-eared wives. He would just squat here and watch the show.
After appraising the robbers, he found none above level 13. They were absolutely no match for his wives, so he had nothing to worry about.
"Can you do it?" Lin Feng asked this openly, but he was really only addressing Yuna.
"What's there to be unable to do?" Emily made a disdainful face while picking her ear.
Yuna swung her greatsword, inspecting her weapon: "I won't show mercy to evildoers."
Lin Feng heaved a sigh of relief.
"Do you plan to kill them directly or give them a warning first?"
"We'll warn them first. Killing them straight away is too lenient," Emily said excitedly, nocking an arrow on her short bow.
Then Yuna also walked out with her.
The robbers' boss immediately noticed the two beast-eared girls swaggering out.
"Hah, time to work, brothers! More bitches keep coming, endless sources of wealth!"
"Where did these small fries pop out from?" Emily disdainfully picked her ear.
A random underling jumped out arrogantly: "Small fries? Our boss is 'One-eyed Harlen', the most vicious robber in these parts!"
"Idiot! What kind of fool reveals information about himself?" The boss then slapped his underling.
"Whatever, those two beastmen are going to die anyway, no difference..."
The boss sized up Yuna and Emily, planning to take them captive as comfort women for the gang. After having his fun, he'd toss them to his underlings. When short on cash, he could sell them to slave traders.
But before he could finish his fantasies, his head was already separated from his body.
Yuna was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, seven or eight heads went flying.
Before the rest could react, Emily exercised her wild imagination on them.
"Still too quick, letting them off too easy," Emily pulled out the arrows lodged in their foreheads.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
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.”
