Waste 015

"You will understand," Fang Zhiyi smiled.

Peng Huan'er turned around helplessly and entered the back hall.

"Give it! Give it all! We just can't live like this! From now on, all of us will just have to live on air!"

Hearing this, Li San revealed a weird smile, "Tsk tsk, our young madam is not happy."

Fang Zhiyi turned his head and glared at him fiercely.

Li San immediately looked around, acting as if it were his first time visiting this timber shop.

"But still, Young Master, the Gu family's tax increase is too ruthless. What on earth is a 'normal operation tax'?"

Fang Zhiyi couldn't be bothered to argue with him. He just stared blankly at a few commoners being beaten not far away.

Li San followed his gaze, his expression turning somewhat fierce, but Fang Zhiyi raised a hand to stop him. Li San could only watch helplessly as those fighters snatched the peddler's money and walked straight away.

After a long time.

"Only with shared interests and experiences can there be a common enemy." He patted Li San on the shoulder. "You're quite smart; you should understand this logic."

"Huh?"

"Some things cannot be accomplished by ourselves alone. Remember, what we are doing is for the common people of the world. It is not for me, nor is it for you, but for everyone."

Li San's eyes began to shine.

The young master truly lives up to his title; his words always strike so deeply into people's hearts!

However, over the next half month, the timber shop had to pay a large sum of money for various miscellaneous fees, making Peng Huan'er so angry that she wanted to close up shop. The streets of Yicheng were filled with complaints, and the peddlers who previously set up stalls had all vanished.

The head of the Gu family was very pleased. In the past, he had been cautious, deeply afraid of accidentally bringing disaster to the Gu family. But now that the world was in chaos, no one cared about what he did. Looking at the wealth before him, the family head's face was full of greed.

An unexpected turn of events occurred right at this time.

Two fighters were strutting arrogantly down the street. Seeing them, an old man carrying a bamboo basket immediately tried to take a detour, but they reached out and stopped him.

"Old man, have you paid your taxes?"

"Ah? I... I just came to trade for some medicine..."

"Trading for medicine also requires paying taxes!"

"Why?" the old man asked, trembling.

"What do you mean why! Hand over the money!" Half a month of smooth sailing had caused the egos of these people to rapidly inflate. Now, they practically considered themselves the masters of Yicheng.

Seeing that the old man couldn't produce any money, one of the fighters raised his foot and kicked him.

The surrounding commoners all had fear mixed with anger in their eyes, but no one dared to speak. For ordinary people to deal with fighters, it was simply a fool's dream.

Suddenly, a voice rang out.

"You two bird-men! What are you doing!"

The two fighters turned around in confusion and saw an unfamiliar face squeezing out from the crowd.

They looked Bold Wu up and down. "Oh, is there actually someone who isn't afraid of death?"

Although Bold Wu was beating a drum in his heart, thinking of Fang Zhiyi's words, he stiffened his neck. "Afraid of death? So what if I'm afraid of death? We still get bullied by you anyway! Do you really think we commoners are your slaves? Today, your grandpa here is going all out! Come on!"

Seeing this, the two men, feeling their authority challenged, exchanged a glance. One of them flashed and appeared right in front of Bold Wu.

Bold Wu felt a moment of panic. This... this speed was too fast!

He forced himself to calm down, quickly raising the gadget in his hand and aiming it at the fighter whose face was full of contempt.

"A hidden weapon?" The fighter frowned and instantly twisted his body out of the way.

However, he did not expect that the inexplicable object in Bold Wu's hand would merely shoot out a thin wire.

"What the hell is this?"

Just as he was puzzled, the wire, like a venomous snake smelling blood, turned directly in mid-air and shot straight toward him! He didn't dodge, nor did he think much of it. What could a single wire do? The opponent was just an ordinary person.

But the moment the wire touched him, the abundant fighting energy within his body instantly leaked out madly like an opened floodgate!

"You!" He turned pale with fright. He tried to struggle but it was useless. The wire rested firmly on the back of his hand, and no matter what he did, he couldn't shake it off.

Within a few breaths, he fell to the ground, trembling.

"What did you do! You lowly peasant!" The other man recovered from his shock.

Bold Wu was equally shocked. He looked at the technology in his hand and, somewhat unconfidently, aimed it at the other man again.

"Bastard!" The man was already on guard, staring intently at the strange object.

Who knew that this time, with a slight movement of Bold Wu's finger, a burst of white light would suddenly erupt from the object!

In an instant, this fighter stood frozen on the spot. He slowly lowered his head in horror, only to find a large hole in his chest.

This scene left all the commoners dumbfounded.

"The Gu family oppresses the people, and the fighters treat human lives like dirt!" Another person squeezed out of the crowd. It was Li San. He took a deep breath, "Yicheng is the Yicheng of every commoner, not the Gu family's Yicheng! The people are not slaves! And they are certainly not dirt!"

The scene quieted down, and countless eyes looked at Li San.

Li San felt a little guilty.

It seemed he had remembered his lines wrong.

But the cheers that erupted afterward lifted his spirits.

Young Master! We did it!

The overwhelmed commoners were seeing someone who could stand up against the fighters for the first time, and the phrase 'Yicheng is the Yicheng of the commoners' instilled a newfound sense of mission in their hearts.

Fang Zhiyi stood far away, occasionally recording something in the notebook in his hand.

Little Hei couldn't understand it. It just complained, "You managed to turn the kinetic energy system of a high-tech car into a weapon. I finally understand why humanity's technology tree got so skewed."

"Is that my fault? It's good enough to have this thing. This wretched place has pitifully few minerals. I've already done my best." Listening to the synchronized chanting, Fang Zhiyi shook his head, turned around, and walked in another direction.

He would leave the matters in Yicheng to Li San and the others. The fighters here generally had low levels, so barring any accidents, they should be able to handle it.

"That ruin you mentioned, is it still deeper in the mountains?"

"You don't seriously want to go dig there, do you? With just your handful of people? You wouldn't be able to dig it out even if you worked until you died."

Fang Zhiyi pointed backward without even turning his head. "Who said I only have a handful of people? Let me teach you another phrase today: when people are united, they can move Mount Tai."

The head of the Gu family never expected that his lackeys would either be captured or killed on the spot.

Hearing the noise outside, he initially thought someone from above had come to cause trouble for him. When he discovered that it was actually a crowd of commoners surrounding his courtyard, the Gu family head's face clearly darkened.

"What are you trying to do?"

"We are going to overthrow you." Li San was very satisfied with his line.

"Overthrow me?" The family head glanced at Li San. The other party was neither a fighter nor someone of any status. "Are you crazy?"

Li San curled his lips, and several people behind him raised the weapons in their hands simultaneously.

"What the hell are those?"