In the duty branch of the fourth squad of the Superpower Duty Bureau in Qipan City,
In front of Pang Shuo was a landline phone with the speaker on. The voice of the director of the Qipan City Superpower Duty Bureau came from the speaker.
"It's fine if you took action without telling me first since we operate on the line between life and death, there's no need to be timid. But you could at least make up a more credible reason!"
Pang Shuo righteously argued: "It is credible! I inferred it based on the facts."
The other end of the phone laughed angrily, then the sound of pages turning, the director of the Superpower Duty Bureau read out word for word: "The informant, Feng An'an, said an extremely handsome man told her she was too skinny but she did not want to gain weight, which was very unreasonable. She suspected a certain flower pot influenced her mind. How could you even accept a case like this? Did a donkey kick your brain?"
"Isn't this very unreasonable? It's obvious there's something wrong with that flower pot."
The other end of the phone was silent for a long time before speaking gently: "Old Pang, why don't you take some time off for now? We maneuver on the line between life and death, there's no need to be afraid of acting. But your reasoning could be more credible."
"Director Guo, what do you mean? I'm serious."
"Oh, right, right, you've worked hard recently. Starting today, take some time off and rest."
Pang Shuo was obtuse but not stupid. He was being openly patronized. He quickly said: "Director Guo, this involves a Class A monster, we can't delay!"
Pang Shuo brought out the Class A monster issue so Director Guo had to listen: "Do you have any evidence?"
"No, I applied to investigate the Fierce Tigers Club."
Director Guo indifferently responded: "No, the Fierce Tigers Club is the largest underground superpower organization in Qipan City. I have to deal with it cautiously."
"They don't even have any high-level superhumans, their gathering is illegal."
"So what? Last time one of them went to provide support, not to mention the numerous times before they've provided assistance. Three Class B superhumans, calculate how many people they could save?"
Pang Shuo anxiously bellowed: "What if they really are raising a Class A monster? Wouldn't more people die?"
"That's why I asked if you have evidence!"
Speaking animatedly, Director Guo was also getting mad.
"Old Pang, get this clear. Acting recklessly without evidence could drive all the superhumans out of Qipan City!"
Pang Shuo went silent. As quick as the duty squad was, they still couldn't compare to superhumans stationed all over the city.
"Got nothing else to say right?"
After reprimanding Pang Shuo Director Guo's anger dissipated. He gave Pang Shuo final warning.
"I don't care what you privately investigate but don't make a scene publicly. I'll cover for you today but remember to give yourself some time off. I'm hanging up."
A light "pa" sound signaled the other side hanging up. The phone gave out the busy tone tutututu.
Pang Shuo irritably kicked his shoes to the side and leaned back in his chair, propping his feet up on the desk.
Letting his brain go blank, his suffocating anger also dissipated.
His anger was gone but the issue still needed to be resolved.
Pang Shuo crossed his arms, pondering how to deal with the Fierce Tigers Club situation.
After a while, he dialed the office line: "Get Zhuang Heng to come to my office."
...
At the school gate of Qipan City Senior High School,
Although the teachers didn't monitor them much, staying home meant facing his sullen little brother so Qi Yuan unhesitatingly chose to go to school.
Students who don't want to go to school mostly just want to play around.
The third year teachers don't care anymore. Students could do whatever they want but they still rushed to school every day.
There were peers at school and no parents nagging.
Qi Yuan had just finished classes for the day.
Just as he was specially admitted to Shen City University, his head teacher spread the news.
Happily announcing there was a student from their class admitted to the combat department of Shen City University.
Basking in the envious gazes of his classmates, as soon as school ended, Qi Yuan made a beeline for the exit.
Yet once again he was stopped at the door.
This time it wasn't Xue Shiyun but Lv Cheng.
He was squatting at the door, seamlessly blending in with the school gate security guards. Qi Yuan only noticed him after being blocked.
Xue Shiyun could only find out the rough details about yesterday's incident with the fourth squad.
So Lv Cheng specially came to ask Qi Yuan, hoping to find out exactly what happened.
"How did it go? Did they find anything over there?"
Once they walked somewhere with fewer people, Lv Cheng impatiently asked.
"Nothing. The salon only sold it. The Hibiscus Mask originated from the Fierce Tigers Club but since they're an underground organization with three Class B superhumans, Squad Leader Pang can't forcibly investigate."
After handing it over to the authorities, Qi Yuan stopped keeping tabs. This information was told to him when Zhuang Heng called.
"What do you think, Qi?"
Sir, there must be more to this...
"Maybe the Hibiscus Mask is just a mutant plant with special superpowers. The Superpower Duty Bureau didn't detect anything abnormal about it."
If it was said they were persecuting civilians, ugly incidents defending superhumans could happen. But regarding Class A monsters, the authorities wouldn't harbor private interests.
Qi Yuan believed it wasn't that their authority was insufficient to understand the next step of the plan but rather the issue wasn't serious.
As an unaffiliated wild superhuman he didn't need to worry too much. The world was so big, talented people emerged in large numbers.
What was most important to him right now was publicizing his reputation.
After experiencing Ghost Market, Qi Yuan profoundly realized trumpeting himself was not as good as others trumpeting him.
He hadn't figured out the specifics of how to operate yet.
Livestreaming himself was too prone to screw ups. Many of his affairs couldn't withstand scrutiny.
If he could take advantage of some huge leak...
He could reach the top in one step without needing to consider so much.
After Qi Yuan finished speaking, Lv Cheng didn't say anything more but the frown on the other's face while lost in thought seemed to indicate he was pondering some major event.
So he kept silent as well, after a long period of silence he finally steeled his resolve.
"Qi, were you planning on resolving this alone?"
Seeing Lv Cheng fantasizing again, Qi Yuan remained unruffled, quietly watching what antic he would imagine.
Seeing Qi Yuan's lack of response, Lv Cheng assumed it meant he acquiesced. He said:
"Actually my master sent me to investigate the monster feeding incident so don't worry about implicating me. Just order me to do anything, Lv Cheng will go all out."
Last time Qi Yuan overheard Lv Cheng was sent by his master to carry out a mission but he didn't know the specifics.
Qi Yuan calmly fished for details from him.
"How did your master foresee Qipan City would have someone feeding monsters?"
Just as he was about to demonstrate his capabilities to prove he wasn't useless baggage, upon hearing Qi Yuan's question Lv Cheng honestly answered.
"The city next door, uh...what's that city called again? The one next to our city with the monster feeding incident."
"Gebi City."
Qi Yuan immediately understood and supplemented.
"Right, anyway I forgot the name of that neighboring city."
After reading it, Qi Yuan realized his mistake and explained: "It's called Gebi City. Ge from stop fighting, bi from green."
Lv Cheng was speechless. No wonder he only remembered it was the neighboring city with this whimsical homophone name.
Pun deductions, huge deductions!
"The perpetrator of that case once said his monster was very obedient and didn't eat live humans. It was fed cadavers he conveniently got from his job."
What was the problem with that?
Qi Yuan felt somewhat bewildered.
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!
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.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
