Duan Danian was a 183cm tall fat man. Although there was a shortage of food for a short period of time, his shape did not seem to change a bit. He was originally from Wu city, Wan Nan province. When the Sun disappeared, he escaped from the city and came to Jin Ling city. On the way, he unexpectedly awakened his ability and made a bunch of friends.
He had a glorious time when he just came to Jin Ling city. At that time, he did not need to do a lot of stuff himself. He did not even need to go out of the city to risk his life. However, ever since a guy called “the 13th master” came to Jin Ling city with one of his associates, who was very good at fighting, a few days ago, his life became less enjoyable than before. Soon after they came to the city, they gathered a group of people and had a fight with his group. And the result was that he lost the fight. He even lost two of his men in the fight.
And the most detestable thing was, this guy even had the relationships with both the military and the government. There were also a few underground awakening organisations that were secretly supporting his man. Duan Danian didn’t have anyone help him, nor did he have somewhere to complain to. He had no other choice but to see his territory being taken away by this man.
After spending a whole afternoon thinking, he eventually decided to become a bandit and rob people in the green dragon mountain area.
Speaking of Green Dragon Mountain, it was really a good place. The Shen Ling highway was just at the bottom of the mountain. It was a road that a lot of people used to escape from different cities in the east to Jin Ling city. The north and the south of the highway were the endless mountain range. That was why the majority of people used this highway. It was also the reason why Duan Danian chose this place to rob people.
If he needed to survive then he would need to gather a lot of food. The government did provide him some ways of exchanging food, but those tasks were very risky, so he did not go for those options. To him, robbing those refugees was much easier.
“Bo… bob… boss, people… People!” said a skinny man with a pronounced stutter, who was holding the binoculars.
“Huh!? How many people?” said Duan Danian. He pulled his hand out of the dress of the sexy woman sitting on his lap, but his mind was thinking about the girl he caught yesterday. That girl was roughly 18 years old, fine skin, and very cute. The only thing he did not like was that the girl was too emaciated.
“Three, three, four, five… five… six… Six-” the skinny guy stuttered.
“Fuck off, you stupid fuck!” Duan Danian kicked away the skinny man and grabbed the binoculars. “Good! Good! Old, weak, women and kids. Just look at them, they can’t even walk properly. There are even people moving a fucking stretcher. Perfect! This is definitely an easy target. Brothers, get your weapons! It’s showtime!” Duan Danian said excitedly after he saw what kind of people in the group.
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The mountains were seemingly close but actually, they were very far away. This was how the people in Chu Yunsheng’s group felt now.
Since the moment Huang Renkuan knew Jin Ling city was near, he became more and more energetic, and his steps became stronger and quicker. Those people at the back of the group could not even catch up with his pace.
While they were moving towards the mountains, a few helicopters appeared from their back, flew over their heads, and flew towards Jin Ling city. They seemed like the helicopters they had seen before, but Huang Renkuan did not shout or curse them this time. Instead, he was just secretly happy that they seemed to have lost one of their helicopters.
“We are almost there! Everyone keep it up! We will definitely be able to get into the city before the night arrives!” Zhao Shanhe did not care about his injuries. He was constantly shouting in the group trying to encourage everyone.
The people in Lao Chui’s group were still very weak, the meat Chu Yunsheng provided only helped them to solve the hunger problem, not their physical strength. They have already walked for roughly 6Km now, everyone was breathless.
Chu Yunsheng still walked at the end of the group. This place was very close to Jin Ling city. They started to see more and more red-shelled insects’ bodies. Although the monsters’ energies were completely dissipated, as long as the shells were still there, he could use them to make combat armours.
He estimated the bodies he has collected so far, was definitely enough to make a tier-two armor set.
In terms of those green fluorescent monsters’ bodies, he had already used a level-three absorption talisman to absorb all the energy from them. As he expected, those monsters’ energies were even weaker than red-eye monsters, one green fluorescent monster’s energy was only able to fill up less than one-sixth of a Yuan Qi unit’s space on the absorption talisman.
The absorption talismans Chu Yunsheng used to use were level-two absorption talismans. After he reached Yuan Tian stage two, he had a decent amount of low-level absorption talismans, so he took some time to make a level-three absorption talisman.
A level-three talisman could be repeatedly used as long as the talisman’s core wasn’t damaged.
Because he was in a hurry, and also because a single green fluorescent monster did not provide much Yuan Qi, it took him quite a while to absorb all the green monsters’ energy from the storage talisman. Eventually, he filled up one level-three absorption talisman with eighteen water patterns on it, which was a lot more than a level-two absorption talisman can store.
Eventually, the group reached the mountain pass. But as soon as they reached the mountain pass, Chu Yunsheng was shocked to see a dead golden-shelled insect’s body lying on the ground, surrounded by many big craters.
It was probably killed by the massive artillery strike. Chu Yunsheng could not help but think.
He did not have time to carefully observe and study it. He simply just stored the body in one of the storage talismans he had. Originally, he had three storage talisman, one for food, water, and other necessities, one for monsters’ bodies, and the last one used as a backup. However, this golden-shelled monster was very big and very special, so he decided to store it individually.
But just when he finished storing it, he heard Huang Renkuan’s scream. It instantly startled him. They have not encountered any other monsters since they encountered the green fluorescent monsters. Thinking that it was monsters, he immediately rushed towards the front of the group.
“How dare you! I am working for the government!” Huang Renkuan cursed at the group of people that suddenly attacked him. He spat out blood and could barely stand up from the ground.
“Who are you trying to scare, haha…, hey! Look at the body next to you, he was probably a mayor!” Duan Danian laughed out loud. He didn’t expect that there were awakened humans in this group. This guy even claimed that he was working for the government. But he wasn’t scared. There were too many people working for the government in the city. Even if he did kill them, no one would be able to find out that it was he who did it.
“Bo… bo… Boss, stop wasting time talking to th… th… Them… Just kill… kill… kill them!” the skinny guy stuttered.
Duan Danian glanced at them and said fiercely, “leave all the food, I’ll let you go. Otherwise, huh-huh!”
To him, those people were already dead. He did not know how many people he had killed recently, but he didn’t care anymore. After all, what could those people possibly do to him?
“Oh, otherwise what?” said Chu Yunsheng, who had just arrived. He pulled Zhao Shanhe back and whispered to him, “if we start the fight, you take care of everyone, leave the fight to me.”
“You motherfucker! Brothers!” Even though Duan Danian didn’t see clearly how exactly Chu Yunsheng appeared in front of the group, since he had a dozen awakened subordinates, killing this guy was as easy as cutting a piece of cake. However, just when he was about to give an order, one of his men suddenly stopped him.
“Boss, don’t mess with this guy. I think it would be better just to let them leave.”
Duan Danian squinted his eyes to take a close look at the person who stopped him. It was a fire elemental warrior, who had just joined his group recently. His name was Sun Qian, and he was quite strong compared to the other people in the group.
“Your friend?” Duan Danian said with a long face. He wasn’t happy about this guy stopping him. However, because of this man’s ability, he did not want to be too harsh when talking to him.
“Boss, I can tell you that even if all of us fight him together, he can still kill us all using just one hand easily!” Sun Qian was a short guy. He could not reach Duan Danian’s ear, so he tried to say it as quietly as possible.
Duan Danian gasped in surprise when he heard this. Although he didn’t quite believe what he said, he knew that this guy wasn’t a big talker, so he hesitated.
Chu Yunsheng’s five senses were very sensitive. He could clearly hear their conversation. It would be great, if they did not fight each other, but if they really wanted a fight, even if he could kill them all, Lao Chui’s group definitely would lose a few people’s lives as well.
If it was just him alone, then he would definitely kill those bandits without a second thought.
Slowly lowering the sword and pointing it at the ground, Chu Yunsheng took up the standard starting stance of sword attack. Once his enemy started to move, he would immediately swing the sword and try to kill as many people as possible.
“Mr. Chu, it was totally a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding, we are going to leave now!” Sun Qian said immediately when he saw Chu Yunsheng was doing his sword attack stance. He smiled and said with a respectful and cautious tone. He tried to calm the situation down and not to offend Chu Yunsheng any further.
“You know me?” said Chu Yunsheng. He was quite surprised. Originally, he thought this guy could tell his strength by looking at his running speed. But apparently, he knew more than just that.
“Everyone knows Mr. Chu’s powerful sword skill at Kun city. I was one of the recruited awakened warriors.” Sun Qian nervously explained, Duan Danian didn’t know how powerful this man was, but he knew. This man could even withstand a flaming bird’s attack. He could kill a meat worm in one sword strike. How could he afford to offend this man?
