Good And Devil World

by Stayrr

In less than an instant the world as we knew it was at its end. That’s right. The Apocalypse. In a single blink Zombies appeared and mutated monsters began to rampage all throughout the world. Now it was the human species turn to fight for survival and planetary dominance! On the same day that the world descends into chaos we meet Yue Zhong. Initially only hoping to get to his frie

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Chapter 410 – Mountain Range

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

It was as though they caught the scent of humans, because there was a rustling of the grass, before Mutant Rats the size of pigs came charging out of the forest, making a mad rush for the group of Enhancers.

"Level 18 Mutant Beast: Mutant Mountain Rats! They possess sharp teeth and formidable strength, which can bite through even steel!" The moment Yue Zhong saw those Mutant Mountain Rats, the information about them popped up.

When they saw the incoming horde of Mutant Mountain Rats, many Enhancers charged forwards with their weapons drawn. These were one of the weaker groups of Mutant Beasts residing in the range, and was perfect for low-level Enhancers.

"Xin Jiarou, go kill that!!" Yue Zhong pointed to one of the Mutant Mountain Rats that has charged over with the intention to maul them, as he threw a Dark Magic Blade to her.

"Yes!! Master!!" Xin Jiarou eyed the Mutant Mountain Rat, as her scalp turned numb. She was someone who had not even killed a chicken prior to the apocalypse. However, for the sake of her daughter, she still held up the Dark Magic Blade, her body trembling slightly as she faced the Mutant Mountain Rat.

Yue Zhong spoke behind her: "Don't fear! As long as you calm yourself down, it is not your match! Your strength is way above it, but remember, no one will help you! Only you can help yourself. Even if you really died, I wouldn't lend a hand."

Yue Zhong had handed a lot of equipment to Xin Jiarou, and although she was only Level 1, her attributes were even higher than that of a Level 30 Enhancer. Once she learnt to get past the psychological barrier, slaughtering the Mutant Mountain rats wouldn' t be an issue.

Xin Jiarou held the Dark Magic Blade tightly as she shivered, her heart full of fear.

The speed of the Mutant Mountain Rat was fast, like a galloping horse, and it charged towards Xin Jiarou with a fearsome aura, pouncing towards her viciously.

"Am I going to die?" Xin Jiarou was frightened stiff, and she could not move, her mind going blank.

"Mama!!!!!!" Just as Xin Jiarou was about to be knocked down by the Mutant Mountain Rat, the piercing scream from behind jolted her awake.

Xin Jiarou twisted with all her might, and the sharp claws barely touched her shoulder, but the paw managed to hit her shoulder, slapping her viciously, and a tremendous force sent Xin Jiarou sprawling to the ground.

Under that immense assault, Xin Jiarou's shoulder was broken, and her heartbeat dulled, causing her to spit out a mouthful of blood.

Even with the protection of the Type 3 Mutant Beast hide, Xin Jiarou's body constitution was too weak, and she could not withstand even the force of a Mutant Mountain Rat. This was the weakness of Agilty-based Enhancers, their DPS was high, and they could dodge well, but the moment they were hit, their defences were pitiful.

Mu Xiangling saw that her mother had fallen to the ground, and her face turned pale, as she struggled in Yue Zhong's arms and screamed: "Mama!! Mama!! Mama!! Yue Zhong!! Yue Zhong-gege!! Please help, save my mother!! If you don't, she's going to die!!"

Yue Zhong's eyes were cold as he held Mu Xiangling tightly, sealing her movements, and not allowing her to make any rash moves: "No! You'd better open your eyes and watch carefully! She needs to start relying on herself to get past this obstacle! In the future, if you want to become an Enhancer, you'll also need to overcome your fear like this!"

After which, Yue Zhong glanced at Ning Yuxin as well, and she trembled slightly, knowing full well that Yue Zhong was talking to her also. If she wanted to become a powerful Enhancer, she had to overcome her initial fears.

When the Mutant Mountain Rat injured Xin Jiarou with its mid-air leap, the moment it landed, it turned around swiftly to launch a second attack.

"I can't die here!! I can't die!! If I die, what's going to happen to Xiangling? I must live!!" With the threat of death looming over, Xin Jiarou's eyes turned bloodshot and she managed to muster her potential.

Xin Jiarou saw the Mutant Mountain Rat flying over, and she exerted her maximum speed, enabling her to take in the movement of the Mutant Mountain Rat. She adjusted her body slightly in response, and used her right hand to sweep the Dark Magic Blade upwards to slice at it.

The Dark Magic Blade was extremely sharp, and the Mutant Mountain Rat had no way of defending against that hit, as it was instantly sliced in two, fresh blood and its innards splattered onto Xin Jiarou, making her look hideous.

"Congratulations on reaching Level 2……"

"Congratulations on reaching Level 5, you have gained 2 attribute points to be allocated!"

After killing the Mutant Mountain Rat, Xin Jiarou instantly soared to Level 5, at the same time, a skill book and 10 Survivor Coins dropped in front of her.

Xin Jiarou wiped the blood off the corner of her mouth, as she picked up the skill book and survivor coins and offered them to Yue Zhong. She spoke with a new hint of resolution in her eyes: "Master! I've accomplished my task."

After killing the Mutant Mountain Rat on her own, Xin Jiarou had gone through an earth-shattering change, she has already shedded her image of a weak woman, and was on her way to becoming a strong female warrior.

Yue Zhong took out a packet of Life-Saving Grass and threw it to Xin Jiarou, before taking the skill book and survivor coins: "Eat this! Take a rest first!"

Xin Jiarou swallowed the packet of Life-Saving Grass and stood quietly beside Yue Zhong.

"Level 2 Skill: Treatment of Bone Injuries. Skill only allows bone injuries to be treated. No effect on other injuries. Usage expends 8 Spirit. Non-doctors, priests, paladins and other healer classes can only utilize skill once a day."

"This skill, which of you wants to learn?" Yue Zhong held it up in front of Mu Xiangling and Ning Yuxin, as his own path was that of a combatant, and every skill had to be geared towards fighting. Furthermore, he possessed the Level 4 Regeneration Skill, hence he didn't need another healing skill.

Mu Xiangling took a look at the book and immediately exclaimed: "Me! I want to heal my mum!!"

Without any hesitation, Mu Xiangling took it and immediately learnt it, when suddenly, her face fell and she groaned: "My Spirit is not high enough! I only have 7 points of Spirit, I can't activate the skill!"

Yue Zhong thought for a moment, and then pulled out a Fireball Ring from his pocket and gave it to Mu Xiangling.

She immediately brightened up, and kissed Yue Zhong's hands, as she put it on, and thanked him profusely: "Thank you Ge-ge~~! Ge-ge is the best~~!!"

Upon equipping the Fireball Ring, Mu Xiangling immediately activated the healing skill, and a white light shot into Xin Jiarou.

Under the combined effects of the white light and the Life-Saving Grass, Xin Jiarou's broken shoulder blade recovered quickly.

When the light dissipated, Xin Jiarou tested her shoulder gingerly, and her eyes flashed with joy, and reported to Yue Zhong: "Master! My body is healed, I can continue to fight!"

"Then go take care of that Mutant Mountain Rat!" Yue Zhong pointed at another one casually, as he told Xin Jiarou.

The Green Stone Triad was currently occupying a huge region, and the rest of the Enhancers did not dare get too close.

This was also part of the agreement, that the 4 Great Triads would claim the best spots and resources. They could monopolize them and thus, increase faster in strength and gain more Enhancers.

As for those solo wanderers and smaller factions, they could only gobble up the leftovers, or risk their lives by venturing further into the mountain range to hunt bigger Mutant Beasts.

After killing one Mutant Mountain Rat, Xin Jiarou had increased confidence and experience in dealing with them, and she pumped everything into Agility. She raced forth, and in a flash, appeared in front of a Mutant Mountain Rat.

The Mutant Rat pounced towards Xin Jiarou, who lightly dodged the attack, and slashed out with the Dark Magic Blade, instantly severing the unfortunate beast in 2. Compared to her earlier pathetic performance, it was as though she had completed some arcane transformation into another person, one who was extremely comfortable with hunting.

After killing the Mutant Mountain Rat in one slash, Xin Jiarou shot forwards and slashed down at another Mutant Mountain Rat that had just appeared.

The status as an Evolver coupled with the ample equipment that Yue Zhong gave her, with the various enhancements and her own talents she was well prepared. She started a killing spree and grew stronger without stop, as her level increased again and again.

Not long after, the Mutant Mountain Rat horde was wiped out by the huge gathering of Enhancers, with only 6 unfortunate fatalities had been ripped apart, and another 30 who suffered various degrees of injuries.

Once they cleared the horde, the huge troop decided to leave the mountain range temporarily, setting up camp at a nearby village about 5km away. They had already rushed for an entire day, and many were exhausted.

Furthermore, battling against the Mutant Beasts in the dark of the night was tantamount to suicide. At night, the humans suffered a decrease in their abilities, but the Mutant Beasts could employ more of their strength. There were very few like Yue Zhong who were suited for fighting at night.

"Master! My current level is 14!" Inside a room of the town, Xin Jiarou exclaimed with excitement and a little exhaustion to Yue Zhong.

Growing from a Level 1 to a Level 14 within a day, such a speed vastly outstripped Yue Zhong. However, this was because Xin Jiarou was an Evolver, and she had gained the boost of equipment from Yue Zhong, allowing her to reap such benefits and results in a day's worth of combat.

Without all the various enhancements from the equipment, Xin Jiarou would not be able to kill so many Mutant Mountain Rats.

Upon hearing that Xin Jiarou had grown to become a Level 14 Evolver, Ning Yuxin's eyes shone with envy. She had also killed a few Mutant Mountain Rats with the help of White Bones, but her enhancement level was only 7. Those aided forms of enhancement were slower, and thus the slower growth.

Mu Xiangling leapt into Xin Jiarou's embrace and giggled: "My mama is the best! Hehe!"

Xin Jiarou hugged Mu Xiangling back as she ruffled her hair, eyes filled with motherly love.

Yue Zhong watched the 2 of them, and his face broke into a smile. Xin Jiarou had proved today, that his investment in her was not wasted. As long as she continued fighting on, she would quickly grow to become a terrifying existence.

"Yue Zhong!!! I want your life!!!" In the town, at a corner of an alley, a man who was dressed in a black cloak cursed out under his breath, his eyes filled with a look of utter hatred and venom.

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Chapter 411 – The Ravenous Beast Horde Attacks!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

As the majority of the humans were falling into deep slumber, under the cover of the moonlight, groups of Mutant Beasts started gathering around the small town.

Amidst the dark patches of grass, multiple pairs of eyes that were shining green stared fixedly at the humans patrolling at the entrance, as though they were staring at delicious food.

The surroundings were suddenly filled with a soundwave that was beyond the human hearing range, and under the indication of the soundwave, those Mutant Beasts that were lying in wait suddenly made their move and charged towards the town.

The Enhancers of Guilin City had gone hunting this way countless times, and they had long since laid countless warning traps around the town. The moment the Mutant Beasts moved, almost all of the traps sounded at the same time.

"Ambush!! Ambush!!"

The moment the alarms rang out, the warriors by the wall immediately shouted at the top of their lungs.

In just a few breaths, all the human warriors who were just entering sleep immediately got up and grabbed their weapons, as they charged towards the outside.

When hunting the Mutant Beasts, facing an ambush during the night was the most dangerous, the moment one was careless, it could spell doom for the entire party.

The warriors got up, and under the command of the various leaders, they quickly dispersed to the various key points of the town.

This small town was established by the countless parties of Guilin City to help with the hunting of Mutant Beasts. There were all sorts of traps laid around the town, and when several Mutant Beasts got close, they fell into these traps.

Yue Zhong had brought his experts from the Green Stone Triad to the front of the town at the first notice.

"So many Mutant Beasts!!" Yue Zhong looked and was shocked.

They discovered that beyond the perimeter, there were countless Mutant Mountain Rats. They charged forth with disregard for their own lives, filling up the holes and traps, making the ground even for the rest of the horde to advance.

Pretty soon, the Mutant Mountain Rats would be able to break past the defences and get closer to the town.

Earlier, when the factions had entered the town, they had allocated defence positions, all they had to do was to take charge of their own locations. As there were too many factions, this was the best solution to deal with any potential problems. Even the 4 Great Triads would only be able to instruct their own subordinates, as for the other warriors, they would not be able to command them.

Yue Zhong glanced at the densely packed horde of Mutant Mountain Rats, and ordered White Bones: "White Bones! Charge! Make sure that they're all mutilated!! And try not to let them destroy the traps!"

Receiving Yue Zhong's orders, White Bones hoisted its huge axe, and charged into the Mutant Mountain Rats' horde.

As White Bones entered their midst, bone spikes started to shoot from various points of its body, piercing those Mutant Rats, sending them flying towards Yue Zhong's side.

The low-levelled Enhancers under Yue Zhong immediately stepped forwards and used their Tang Replica Swords to finish off the Mutant Rats, gaining enhancement in the process.

Even Mu Xiangling was using the sharp Dark Magic Blade to help finish off the Mutant Rats.

With the help of White Bones, the subordinates of Yue Zhong managed to enhance themselves at an incredible speed, their levels rising rapidly.

The rest of the experts just stood and waited silently for his orders.

Yue Zhong had Night Enhancement Skill, and he could see that beyond the positions of the Mutant Mountain Rats, there were countless pairs of eyes that shone green, staring hungrily at the town. The moment he committed all his troops to fight, their stamina would dwindle, and it would be a problem to face the monsters behind.

After White Bones had evolved into the Second Order Dark Skeleton, its battle ability had rose to a fearsome level. It stood alone at the front of Yue Zhong's defence, and was like an immovable mountain that blocked all advance! The moment those Mutant Mountain Rats got close, it would shoot a bone spike out and throw the unfortunate beast backwards, before it was slaughtered by the humans.

Yue Zhong observed a while, before ordering Xin Jiarou: "Go and kill as many as you can! Raise your level to 16 then come back! Add all your points to Stamina now!"

The level of these Mutant Mountain Rats were at 18, and to Xin Jiarou, they were the perfect hunting targets.

"Yes! Master!!" Xin Jiarou brandished her Dark Magic Blade and charged towards the Mutant Mountain Rats, easily entering their midst, and started a massacre.

At this moment, Yue Zhong still had White Bones holding the fort, and he could sit and relax, while helping his low level subordinates strengthen themselves.

However, near his spot, there was a weaker gang, and the when the Mutant Mountain Rats horde had used the corpses of their fallen comrades to fill up the traps, they managed to tangle with the small triad.

This gang was called the Knife Association, and they were made up of a chief and 20 other experts. Their chief Cai Mingliang was an Agility-based Evolver. The knives in his hands whooshed about, and numerous Mutant Mountain Rats met their end at his hands. However, the 20 experts beside him did not have decent levels, most of them hovering at Level 21 or 22, additionally, their equipment was inadequate, hence, there was growing exhaustion as they faced the relentless rat horde.

All of a sudden, 6 of the Mutant Mountain Rats charged at one of the experts wielding a Tang Sabre who had coincidentally just killed 2 other Rats.

"Ah!! Boss!! Save me!!" The expert had just sliced off the head of one Mutant Rat, when the other 5 immediately pounced on him, biting him with their razor sharp jaws, as he screamed out in agony.

"Wang Yue!!!" Cai Mingliang's eyes turned bloodshot, and activated his skill, charging towards Wang Yue in a flash. As he sped along, he sliced the 16 Mutant Mountain Rats blocking his way. Fresh blood and innards splattered all over the ground in his wake.

Cai Mingliang arrived at Wang Yue's side, and slashed 5 times quickly, slicing the bodies of the 5 gnawing Mutant Mountain Rats in twain.

"Wang Yue!!" Cai Mingliang howled in agony as he looked at Wang Yue, whose throat had already been ripped wide open by one of the Rats, leaving only a corpse.

"Boss!! Save Me!" Another Knife Association member screamed out this time, he had also just been accosted by 4 Mutant Rats, and their defence was starting to collapse.

Cai Mingliang's body disappeared in a flash and appeared right beside that expert, instantly killing the 4 Mutant Mountain Rats.

"Save me!! Save me!! Ah!!!!"

However, Cai Mingliang was only one person, even if he gave his all to run about the battlefield, there was a limit to how much he could do, and he could only watch helplessly as his comrades died in front of him.

The vice-chief of the Knife Association Luo Shi sliced off the head of one Mutant Rat before turning to shout at Cai Mingliang: "Boss!! We can't hold off any longer!! We will definitely die if this goes on! Let's ask the Green Stone Triad for help!!"

Cai Mingliang panted heavily as he replied: "If we go now!! What if they demand for something that is hard to accept? What if he wants to swallow our Knife Association?"

Luo Shi hollered as he killed another Mutant Rat with difficulty: "Boss!! If this goes on, we're all going to die!! If we die, what's the point of the Knife Association?!"

"Boss! Help!!!" Another expert of the Knife Association screamed out, and was immediately pounced on by a few Mutant Mountain Rats, before being bitten to death.

Cai Mingliang witnessed yet another death of his subordinates, and gritted his teeth as he ordered one of the experts: "Hong Ming!! Go request aid from Green Stone Triad, say that we're willing to join him, ask Yue Zhong to send some aid!!"

Everyone had a job and spot to defend, and no one could retreat without the 4 Great Triads' orders. If any one faction or person dared to abandon his post, then anyone would be able to execute them later. Furthermore, upon return to Guilin City, the family members of the deserters would be killed without mercy as well.

Under such cruel laws, even if the road seemed helpless, those Enhancers had to fight on to the death. Otherwise, they would implicate their friends and families back at Guilin City.

Hong Ming quickly came to Yue Zhong's camp.

"Damn!! They're too strong! With such an expert in the Green Stone Triad, no wonder they became one of the 4 Great Triads!" When Hong Ming arrived at the campsite, he saw Yue Zhong commanding the lower level Enhancers to strengthen themselves, and the lone killing figure of White Bones on the frontlines.

White Bones alone could defend the location. It must be known that as Yue Zhong commanded Green Stone Triad, and since they were one of the 4 Great Triads, the location they had to defend was larger than most of the ordinary triads by at least 10 times.

White Bones had been enhanced 4 times, and evolved to the Second Order Dark Skeleton level. After its evolution, it was stronger than other Dark Skeletons by at least twice, its combat ability was extremely tyrannical, to the point where it could even take down a normal Type 2 Mutant Beast with only a fair amount of effort. It was considered even more dangerous than most Type 2 Mutant Beasts. However, in comparison, its Speed, Strength and Stamina was still lacking.

Hong Ming came to Yue Zhong and kneeled, as he kowtowed profusely: "Boss Yue!! I'm Hong Ming from the Knife Association!! Please send some reinforcements to save us! I'm begging you!!"

Yue Zhong eyed Hong Ming a little coolly: "Hong Ming! We had agreed beforehand on the defence zones! The Green Stone Triad is defending a location 10 times that of yours! I need my manpower here. Please hold on for awhile, I will send some men over later."

Yue Zhong was well aware of the fact that the Knife Association had an Agility-based Evolver. With that Evolver, the Knife Association could hold out for at least another 20 minutes.

Yue Zhong had planned that after 20 minutes, when the Knife Association was down to their last bit of strength, Yue Zhong would then go and rescue them. That way, the Knife Association would have no strength to bargain for any part of the Type 3 Mutant Beast.

Hong Ming did not hesitate as he immediately offered: "Boss Yue, as long as you send men to save us! We from the Knife Association will be willing to join the Green Stone Triad, and become part of you guys!"

Yue Zhong's tone immediately changed: "Great! Then I shall bring some men to help now!"

If the Knife Association were to join the Green Stone Triad, then the power in Yue Zhong's control would naturally increase some more, therefore he was willing to save them now.

Yue Zhong immediately summoned Larman: "Larman! Come with me!"

"Yes, Leader!" Larman brought the ex-Judgement Corps as they followed Yue Zhong closely, making their way towards the Knife Association's zone in haste.

Yue Zhong led his men and quickly slaughtered their way through the zone, only to see the remaining members of the Knife Association closely huddling in a circle, surrounded by a swarm of the Mutant Mountain Rats, desperately hanging on.

Yue Zhong heroically brandished his 2m-long Black Tooth Blade and charged into the Rat swarm. With every gargantuan swing, 4 or more of the Mutant Mountain Rats would lose their heads.

Facing these densely packed but low-level beasts, the Black Tooth Blade in Yue Zhong's hands was the most effective weapon, as the area of effect was large, and he could kill many of them in a single swing.

"Charge!!" Larman bellowed as he pulled out his own Dark Magic Blade and shot towards the Mutant Rats.

The platoon of the ex-Judgement Corps warriors also pulled out their Tang Replica Swords and followed Larman's lead as they charged towards the Mutant Mountain Rats. The strength of these warriors was their marksmanship, modern weaponry proficiency as well as experience. Their close-quarters combat was decent as well, and killing these Mutant Rats was not an issue.

On the other side, Cai Mingliang brought his men and they slaughtered their way through, both sides joining forces and forcing the Mutant Mountain Rats back.

Cai Mingliang came over in front of Yue Zhong, with a complicated gleam in his eyes, and he spoke solemnly. "Cai Mingliang greets Boss Yue! This time, it's thanks to Boss Yue's timely rescue, otherwise my brothers and I would have died here!"

Yue Zhong nodded slightly and replied: "I got it! Take your men! Let's construct some barricades immediately!!"

Yue Zhong had brought along some tools as well.

To maintain the defence on Cai Mingliang's side, the fortification required was definitely not little. The main reason why they were struggling was because they had underestimated the effectiveness of fortifications. They had grown complacent, and didn't expect the forces of the Mutant Beasts to attack so fast, hence they had thoroughly suffered.

Whereas compared to Yue Zhong, everywhere he went, he would bring along the necessary materials and tools for fortification. A simple construction could potentially save the lives of countless warriors at the right time.

After they forced the horde back, Yue Zhong's subordinates began nailing large steel beams into the ground. After they established a few stakes, they started tying a layer of sharp wires in between the stakes, and in a matter of minutes, a simple defensive structure was erected.

"Yes, Boss!" Cai Mingliang saw those simple yet effective structures, and his respect for Yue Zhong rose, before bringing his men to help out in the ongoing fortifications.

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Chapter 412 – Chen Hongye! Assasination Attempt!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

The defences of the other parts of town were still tight, and with the protection of the numerous experts scattered throughout, the dense horde of Mutant Mountain Rats could not break through, instead getting slaughtered.

There were also parts where the Mutant Mountain Rats managed to overrun the humans, and they swept the place clean of the Enhancers that were stationed there.

The number of corpses of Mutant Mountain Rats had reached 3,000, and over 60 Enhancers had been killed as well.

Without giving the humans a chance to rest, the Mutant Beast horde lying in wait behind the Mutant Mountain Rats began their assault.

The Mutant Beasts waiting behind the Mutant Mountain Rats were actually Mutant Civets. These mutant beasts were Level 21, their bodies as tough as wolves, and claws extremely sharp. Behind the Mutant Civets, following closely behind were Mutant Leopard Cats. Behind them were Mutant Vietnam Golden Monkeys, Mutant Pangolins, and others. The entire horde was making their way closer, like an army of beasts.

Yue Zhong stared at the incoming horde, and his expression fell: "Damn it!! How can we defend an attack on such scale?"

In the dark of the night, only people with night vision capabilities like Yue Zhong, as well as some of the Evolvers could see the status of the town. Whoever saw the incoming horde, would feel their scalp go numb from fear and desolation.

The moment the horde pushed into town, the battle exploded into full blown proportions.

Ice spikes, sword qi, blade beams, fireballs, wind blades, ground spears, all sorts of abilities exploded out, exhibiting their might at the front lines. Countless Mutant Beasts were instantly pulverized by the numerous abilities raining on them, but at the same time, there would be unfortunate humans that died at the vicious claws and swipes of the Mutant Beasts.

Yue Zhong had recalled White Bones and Xin Jiarou back, ordering Larman and his troops forwards with their modern weaponry to unleash carnage on the Mutant Beasts charging towards them.

Yue Zhong was worried that they would encounter a huge horde of Mutant Beasts, and had brought along 10 127mm heavy machine guns.

The 10 127mm machine guns aimed towards the horde of monsters, and let loose a volley of fearsome firepower. With the dense rain of bullets, a number of Mutant Beasts instantly got punched full of holes even before nearing the defence post. Facing that type of firepower, only those Mutant Beasts above Level 40 would be able to defend against it with their bare flesh, as for the rest, they could only die.

"What do we do? If this continues on, we will definitely die at the jaws of these brutes." Yue Zhong eyed the situation as he racked his brains.

Yue Zhong had only 50,000 rounds of ammunition in his possession, and if they continued to fire at this rate, the bullets will run out sooner or later. And once it came to close combat, his subordinates would definitely face defeat.

Right at this time, a giant mouse of about 5m with scales that looked like rocks leapt out from the horde, squashing a number of other Mutant Beasts as it made its way towards Yue Zhong's area in a frenzy. The bullets of the heavy machine gun only served to bounce off that insane armor.

"Level 53 Strange Beast: Type 2 Mutant Mountain Rat. It possesses an extremely hard carapace and monstrous strength."

"Prepare the grenade launchers! Fire!!" Larman saw the Type 2 Mutant Mountain Rat and hollered at the top of his lungs.

6 soldiers handling the grenade launchers stepped forwards, aiming at the Type 2 Mutant Mountain Rat and fired.

Hong! Hong!

A number of the rockets all exploded on the Type 2 Mutant Mountain Rat, and those explosives that could easily blast an armored vehicle only resulted in 2 very small bloody holes, not even endangering the Type 2 Mutant Mountain Rat's life. On the contrary, it only served to enrage it even further, as it released a stronger killing intent, its eyes turning bloodshot and charged at Larman and his subordinates.

Seeing the Type 2 Mutant Mountain Rat rushing over, the faces of Larman and his subordinates fell, if the Type 2 Mutant Mountain Rat successfully reached their site, they would definitely die, if not injured heavily.

At this time, White Bones took a step forwards, as a number of bone spikes appeared, and propelled itself onto the head of the Type 2 Mutant Mountain Rat. It then condensed a sharp bone drill, plunging it deep into the wound that resulted from the explosives earlier.

The sharp bone drill penetrated the wound of the Type 2 Mutant Mountain Rat, and started to spin rapidly, causing the wound to enlarge. The sharp bone drill then proceeded to mash the brains of the Type 2 Mutant Mountain Rat into paste!

The moment the brain was pulverized, the Type 2 Mutant Mountain Rat slumped to the ground, dropping 2 Skill Books and an amount of Survivor Coins. The 2 Skill Books were a Level 3 Stamina Consolidation and Level 3 Agility Consolidation.

The moment the Type 2 Mutant Mountain Rat died, the remaining hundred some Mutant Rats dispersed and started to retreat in various directions. Within the town, there were still a large number of Mutant Leopard Cats and Mutant Civets that happened to be the natural predators of the Mutant Mountain Rats. If it wasn't for the threat of the Type 2 Mutant Beast, the rest of the Mutant Mountain Rats inside would have long since escaped as well.

"This!!! Maybe we have a chance!!" Yue Zhong saw the dispersing Mutant Mountain Rats, and his eyes shone brightly.

At this time, a shadow flitted over like a whirlwind, pouncing on White Bones, knocking it to the ground, as it opened its huge jaws and bit at its neck. "Level 56 Mutant Beast, Type 2 Mutant Civet!"

Yue Zhong's eyes flashed with a strange glint as he changed towards the Type 2 Mutant Civet.

Just as the Type 2 Mutant Civet opened its huge jaws, White Bones immediately shot out a sharp bone spike towards the throat of the Mutant Civet.

At the same time, a bone blade shot out from White Bones' body, locking the limbs of the Type 2 Mutant Civet.

The Type 2 Mutant Civet had a terrifying speed, as it dodged the killing strike from White Bones, but its movement was tied down by White Bones very same maneuver.

Yue Zhong shot towards the attacking Type 2 Mutant Civet like an arrow, his right hand condensing the domineering Devil Flame Spear, striking it at the Type 2 Mutant Civet. As he lunged into his attack he penetrated its head, incinerating the brains of the Type 2 Mutant Civet.

The Type 2 Mutant Civet slumped to the ground, becoming a corpse, at the same time dropping a green-coloured treasure box and Survivor Coins.

"Congratulations on reaching Level 53, you have gained 2 attribute points to be allocated."

With the death of the Type 2 Mutant Civet, the rest of the Mutant Civets also dispersed, retreating towards the distance.

Yue Zhong's side had a large number of Mutant Civets, and when they scattered, the pressure on his subordinates were alleviated a lot.

Yue Zhong relaxed a little after killing the Type 2 Mutant Civet, and could feel the chance for victory: "As expected, one must kill the Type 2 leaders. Otherwise, we would not stand a chance against these hordes of Mutant Beasts."

Just when Yue Zhong was starting to relax, a dark shadow charged out suddenly from a dark corner, and a blade came sweeping downwards as though it was splitting the skies, slashing towards Yue Zhong.

As it was the moment where Yue Zhong had just let down his guard, he was caught unprepared, and just as his Danger Perception warned him of the danger, the black blade had already appeared in front of him.

Yue Zhong activated his Shadow Steps, dodging towards the right, and raising his left arm to defend.

The black blade came slashing down on Yue Zhong's left hand, and went through the Type 3 Mutant Beast hide, sending Yue Zhong's left arm flying, fresh blood splattering.

At the same time, a fearsome blade energy was sent through Yue Zhong's wound, knocking him backwards 6 or 7 metres, as he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

"Larman! I'm Chen Hongye! Quickly help me kill Yue Zhong!! As long as we kill him! We can work together to rebuild the Hong Triad!!" As the black blade beam dispersed, a middle-aged man was revealed, holding a Level 4 Treasure Black Swiss Blade. His looks were refined, but his expression was currently grim.

This middle-aged man was Hong Triad's chief Chen Hongye. The earlier took all of Chen Hongye's Spirit, expending a huge amount of Stamina as well. That strike was a Second Order Skill: Shattering Cut.

The power of the Shattering Cut was truly without equal, even slashing apart a Type 3 Mutant Beast Hide. However, its consumption was likewise enormous, almost expending all of Chen Hongye's Stamina and Spirit. He had no choice but to ask Larman for help.

Just as Chen Hongye leapt out, from a small room at the back of the town, 20 other experts suddenly burst forwards, they were precisely the 4 Elders that Chen Hongye brought out, along with their subordinates.

At this point, there were only White Bones, Larman, his subordinates as well as Cai Mingliang and his men from the Knife Association. If Larman was to turn on Yue Zhong now, it was possible that the Knife Association would revolt as well, then Yue Zhong would truly be in danger.

Chen Hongye had waited a long time for this chance. If Yue Zhong had stayed at his own site, Chen Hongye would not have succeeded. He had been patient, and finally gotten the golden opportunity to strike, and his single strike had removed Yue Zhong's left arm, creating possibilities.

Hearing Chen Hongye's words, Larman's subordinates were riled up, and looked to Larman. They were only willing to listen to this commander who had principles, but mostly because he was their commander after all.

TN:

体力固化 敏捷固化

Stamina Consolidation Agility Consolidation. A number of chapters back, there was a Strength Consolidation skill like this as well. Open to suggestion for better terms?

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Chapter 413 – Killing Chen Hongye

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

Larman's expression changed a few times, as he struggled a while before replying solemnly: "Chen Hongye! I'm sorry, I'm now Yue Zhong's subordinate. I need to follow the code of professionalism! Guys, take up your weapons, and prepare to take the enemies of Boss down!"

Hearing his orders, the 30-plus ex-Judgement Corps members hollered once, before taking up their weapons and started to fire at the 20 elite members of Chen Hongye's troops.

Under the intense and fierce firepower of the 30 or so soldiers, 4 of the elites under Chen Hongye were immediately killed.

The remaining 16 experts of Chen Hongye immediately dove for cover.

Chen Hongye's eyes flashed with desperation: "Damn!! Larman, have you forgotten the honour and glory of the mighty Kingdom of God? We should pledge loyalty to that, isn't it?!"

Yue Zhong's eyes flashed with a chilly gaze, as he suppressed his pain, and raised his stinger at Chen Hongye's head: "Chen Hongye! As a Chinese, you dare become a foreigner's dog. You deserve to die!"

Chen Hongye's face turned ugly, before he disappeared in a black light, and appeared 10m away from his original spot.

"What's so bad about it!! The foreigners can give me more money! I get better treatment with them as well, so what's bad about being their dog! Within our country, people like us who have no background, aren't we also the dogs of people with background? Being a dog to power and prestige is better than leading life as a normal person!!"

"The fact that this Daddy became a dog for the foreigners, even the officials in our country have to be deferential to me! As a foreigner's dog, I'm seen as a higher position than those in our country! What are the normal people in our country considered? Nothing more than ants! If a rich kid accidentally killed someone, nothing will happen to him. However, if the person that died happened to be a foreigner's dog, the entire government and police force will come after that rich kid!"

"Yue Zhong! Those who stay within the country aim to be officials! Elites! Celebrities! Famous people! Those with capabilities all aim to go overseas anyway! I'm just going with the flow! Yue Zhong, the Kingdom of God is not something you can afford to stand up to! Come with me and be a foreigner's dog, if we combine our forces, we can become an overseer of the Asia region!!" Chen Hongye had a twisted and feverish expression as he spoke loudly.

When Chen Hongye was younger, his sister had been raped by a government official's son before. However, because he had worn a condom, just based on that ridiculous reason, he had managed to dodge the punishment and judgement of the law. From that moment on, Chen Hongye's personality became twisted, and worked hard to slog for the foreigners. After the apocalypse, the first thing he did was to join the Kingdom of God, and worked wholeheartedly for them.

Yue Zhong's eyes flashed coldly as he activated his Shadow Steps, and wielded his Black Tooth Blade, slashing it at Chen Hongye: "Chen Hongye! If you want to be a dog, that's your problem! I couldn't care less about your past! I just know that since you're in my way, you're my enemy! So, you have to die!"

Chen Hongye's eyes flashed with a look of pity, as he raised his blade to block Yue Zhong's attack: "What a shame! Yellow-skinned people are really a lower lifeform! You still won't listen!!"

As they exchanged blows, the force of the collision knocked Yue Zhong back by one step, his Strength could not compare to Chen Hongye.

Chen Hongye laughed out grimly, as he stepped forward: "With this little bit of strength? And you want my life? What confidence."

At this time, 3 sharp bone spikes shot out from Yue Zhong's waist towards Chen Hongye's own waist.

Chen Hongye's face fell, and the Black Swiss Blade in his hands shot out a few blade beams, splitting the 3 bone spikes apart.

Yue Zhong took the chance to slash towards Chen Hongye's body.

As he hadn't recovered from the previous strike, he gritted his teeth and forcefully used his left shoulder to block the attack.

The moment Yue Zhong's blade landed on the left shoulder, his 6-times Strength exploded, causing Chen Hongye to fly back 5 metres.

Chen Hongye's left shoulder had a few broken bones, and the Type 2 Mutant Beast hide on his shoulder had a little tear as well. He endured the pain as he though: "Damn! That bastard's strong!!"

Yue Zhong's attack did not stop there, as his movements flowed one after another like water. His pupils narrowed, and he activated his [Art of Fear]. A powerful Spiritual blast bombarded Chen Hongye's consciousness.

Chen Hongye was instantly enveloped by a horrifying illusion, causing his body to stop still.

In the next moment, a sharp bone spike came from behind Yue Zhong, piercing Chen Hongye in between his brows, and nailing him to the ground.

"The Chief is dead!!"

"Beast!! We must seek revenge for Chief!!"

"Kill them all!! We must avenge Chief!!"

The remaining soldiers became enraged when they saw their Chief killed, as they roared out and started charging at Yue Zhong. These were the closest aides to Chen Hongye, and were loyal to a fault. They had turned mad with his death.

Yue Zhong looked at them, and his eyes flashed with a cold light, ordering White Bones: "Kill them!"

White Bones leapt towards these soldiers, and its right hand opened, shooting 5 bone spikes out, piercing the heads of 5 of the soldiers, killing them instantly.

Yue Zhong raised his Stinger and opened fire on the other soldiers.

Following the sounds of gunshots, 3 of them had their heads blasted to smithereens and their lifeless corpses fell to the floor.

As they witness this, 3 of the Elders retreated to nearby cover.

White Bones charged into the midst of the remaining shoulders, executing its whirlwind move again, and some of the beasts that were summoned from the summoner inside the group were immediately shredded. It also held out its huge axe, instantly slashing the stomach of the summoner, separating his legs from his upper body.

One Caster-class Enhancer was in the middle of a chant, when a sharp bone spike pierced his brain and nailed him to a wall behind.

In a short span of less than a minute, the frenzied soldiers of Chen Hongye were all killed by White Bones, as broken bones and fresh blood were all over the ground.

From behind a cover, one of the Hong Triads' Elder called out: "Yue Zhong!! We're willing to surrender! Please promise our wellbeing!!"

By now the struggle was over, Chen Hongye had perished at Yue Zhong's hands, they had no hope of obtaining victory anymore. Therefore, they chose the wisest choice available. They were not steadfast soldiers that would die for Chen Hongye after all, and they had their own plans.

Yue Zhong replied casually: "Fine! As long as you surrender! I can guarantee no harm would come to you! But if you guys think of resisting, then you'll have to pay the price!! Come out!"

There were Mutant Beasts everywhere, and if he could gain the aid of 3 more experts, it would make his job easier as well.

The 3 Elders came out from behind the cover after exchanging looks, as they came in front of Yue Zhong.

The 3 Elders all bowed to Yue Zhong, with a slightly perturbed manner: "Wei Hua Ning (Wu Wen Sheng, Gan Chi Hai) greets Boss Yue!!"

Yue Zhong had a broken left arm, and the 3 Elders were uncertain if Yue Zhong would blame them for it. In this world, the strong often oppressed the weak, with no reason at all sometimes.

Yue Zhong ordered the 3 of them: "Wei Hua Ning, Wu Wen Sheng, Gan Chi Hai, the 3 of you will become Larman's subordinates temporarily, and defend this place. As long as there's no breach, I'll consider it as a merit, and after the battle, I will reward you accordingly."

These 3 Elders had just surrendered, and we're naturally untrustworthy, but Yue Zhong couldn't care about such. He was in dire need of experts, and he had no qualms using whoever he could get his hands on.

If Chen Hongye's soldiers had not been so stubborn and loyal, Yue Zhong had in fact planned to absorb them.

"Yes! Boss Yue!!" Hearing his orders, the 3 Elders heaved a sigh of relief, and knew that Yue Zhong would not harm them since he needed them. Earlier, the viciousness of White Bones and Yue Zhong had left them with a deep impression, and they did not dare harbor any ill intent.

Chen Hongye's Shattering Cut could penetrate even the hide of a Type 3 Mutant Beast, its power was obviously immeasurable. In the past, no one could even defend against that strike from him. Although Yue Zhong had lost an arm, he was still alive, and managed to turn the tide to strike back at Chen Hongye, exhibiting his might in the meantime.

Wei Hua Ning hesitated a while, before warning Yue Zhong: "Boss Yue! You must be wary of Di Ya!! He's filled with killing intent against you! This time, Chen Hongye had hidden amongst his troops to infiltrate the town to ambush you."

Yue Zhong's pupils narrowed: "So it was him!!"

Yue Zhong did not falter as he replied: "I got it! Go on with your business!"

It was a crucial period right now, and even if Yue Zhong knew that Di Ya had been in cahoots with Chen Hongye, he could not do anything. If 2 tigers were to fight, both would definitely be injured, even if he killed Di Ya now, he would be short of one more cannon fodder for the Mutant Beasts.

Wei Hua Ning made his way to the frontlines after replying: "Yes!"

At a distance, within the post of the Heavenly Dragon Triad, the experts were displaying their own abilities, keeping the Mutant Beasts at bay.

A huge wall of earth condensed out of mid air, and blocked various parts, leaving only narrow alleys. When those Mutant Beasts followed the paths, they were immediately culled by the experts of the Heavenly Dragon Triad.

There was an expert who also possessed the [Ground Manipulation] skill, and he could use it to change the way the ground looked. As long as his Spirit did not run out, he could maintain the shape for a decent amount of time.

"Did he succeed?" Di Ya looked towards Yue Zhong's direction as he muttered.

"Chief! Don't worry! Chen Hongye is definitely not simple. Even if he failed, Yue Zhong would not be in any good shape. Regardless, we will not have suffered!" A short, ugly man chuckled beside Di Ya. This wretched-looking man was Di Ya's adviser, Song Xin.

TN: I have decided to separate out the Chinese names with 3 syllables. I know some Chinese names can be eg: Chen Hongye, and there are some Chen Hong Ye. I'll be separating them based on how the Chinese is meant to be read.

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Chapter 414 – The Situation Gradually Collapses!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

Right at this time, a Type 2 Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar came crashing into the huge earth walls like a tank, causing a deep booming sound to resonate outwards. The maze that was created by the high level Enhancer immediately collapsed.

The Type 2 Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar continued its charge into the camp of the Heavenly Dragon Triad, squashing anything that came in its way. A few of the soldiers who were standing near the earth wall hunting the Mutant Beasts were instantly grounded into meat paste.

The Type 2 Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar was among the higher level Type 2 Mutant Beasts, and the moment it entered the midst of the humans, it opened its mouth to let out an astonishing shriek that caused the ground to shudder.

A large soundwave pulsated outwards with the Type 2 Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar as the epicentre, and in an instant, all those Summoner-types and Spirit-types Enhancers without adequate Endurance were instantly killed by the soundwave.

The remaining Enhancers were also not spared, suffering varying forms of giddiness and blood flowed from their orifices, their movements dulled.

At that moment, a number of Black-Scaled Boars immediately charged towards the humans like tanks, causing a path of destruction as they squashed everything in their path, turning more than 20-over Enhancers into meat paste.

The moment the Type 2 Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar had breached the defences and launched its soundwave attack, it had decimated over 20% of the Heavenly Dragon Triad, and was still rampaging about their camp.

Hong!!

When the Mutant Boar group just breached the camp, there was a huge earthquake, and a terrifying explosion instantly pulverized the numerous Black-Scaled Boars.

This was one of the last line of defences arranged by the Heavenly Dragon Triad. Di Ya wasn't an idiot, and since he had ties with the military of Guilin City, he naturally possessed some talents who could create firepower ammunition. Explosives were one of his various means.

After the dust settled, a number of bungalows had collapsed, and there was Mutant Beast blood everywhere.

Seeing this, the people of the Heavenly Dragon Triad heaved a sigh of relief.

"Snakes!! There're many snakes!!" Right at this moment, one of the Enhancers who possessed the [Night Vision] ability shouted out in terror, his face turning pale.

At almost the same moment, a huge horde of Mutant Snakes of all sizes and colours flew through the air as they landed amongst the Enhancers of the Heavenly Dragon Triad.

Some of the larger snakes were a few metres long, while the smaller ones could be as small as 20 cm, and they made their way towards the Heavenly Dragon Triad members by slithering through the rubble and buildings.

"Ah!!! I've been bitten!" One of the experts suddenly shrieked in agony, a 20 cm small snake with a green and grayish body appearing on his leg. He panicked and swiped towards the snake with his blade.

The small Mutant Snake slithered away quickly, dodging the blow from the Heavenly Dragon Triad member.

At the next moment, the right leg of the expert started to swell quickly, as a dark energy started to bloat up in his body.

"Save me!! Save…." The expert had only time to shout out twice, before slumping to the floor, dead.

"There're snakes here too!!"

"Damn beasts!!"

Amongst the Heavenly Dragon Triad, there were screams being uttered everywhere, as the snakes came out from all sorts of covers and corners, and they had suddenly launched their assault, causing multiple casualties.

One of the Elder quickly came to Di Ya's side as he asked nervously: "Boss!! What do we do? If we continue fighting, the brothers will all die soon!!"

By this time, the Heavenly Dragon Triad had been forced to their last resort. The 5 Evolvers that they had saved as their last trump card were currently already deployed at the frontlines, and through their joint efforts, they were barely keeping the large Mutant Beasts at bay.

However, no matter how strong the Evolvers were, they had a limit to their Stamina and Spirit, and everyone present was extremely clear on the extreme situation they were in. Collapse was just a matter of time!!

Di Ya replied in an incensed manner: "What else can we do!! Hold on!! Go tell Ji Qing and the rest, they had better hang on! Once we make it past this crisis, I'll give them whatever they want back at Guilin City!!"

In the past, there were many Mutant Beast hordes that attacked the small town as well, but each time, the humans had made use of traps, fortifications and combat ability to retreat. This time, the difference of the attack was that it was launched by almost every single type of Mutant Beast horde out there. It wasn't just a single assault led by a Type 2 Mutant Beast, but rather, wave after wave of attack, making it incredibly hard to defend against.

Di Ya was filled with dread facing this never ending Mutant Beast horde, and one of the Strength-based Evolver had already been dismembered by a Type 2 Mutant Beast and its horde. Di Ya was thus unwilling to go to the frontlines.

Song Xin suggested: "Chief!! Let's retreat!! If we continue like this, the elites of the Heavenly Dragon Triad will perish here."

Di Ya frowned, and his heart raced, but he still hesitated: "If we just retreat like this! When we go back to Guilin City, we will become the enemy of the rest of the triads!!"

Song Xin laughed coldly: "Chief. Today, we have all seen the might of the Mutant Beast horde. This is definitely not something the human race can defend against! If the 3,000 people inside the town were to defend with all their lives, after tonight, no one will be left alive! We need to break away now and leave this place of death."

Song Xin laughed evilly and analyzed for Di Ya: "If there were people who miraculously survived, they must have abandoned their own posts as well. Like this, they have no right to point at us. If they all died, that's even better! The 3 Great Triads have plenty of experts here, but our Heavenly Dragon Triad would have suffered the least, then the entire Guilin City would be ours!"

Di Ya was still hesitating: "There are so many Mutant Beasts outside now, if we charge out, it will still be suicide!"

By this time, there were countless Mutant Beasts gathered outside the town, going out now was guaranteed death. The inside of the town was instead safer.

Song Xin continued to provide diabolical suggestions: "We can retreat towards the town first! Let the Mutant Beasts breach in, since there are so many experts in town, they can distract them. We can then make use of the chance and escape!!"

Song Xin had an impassioned look as he looked at Di Ya and said: "Chief!! Let's escape! If not now, we won't have the chance anymore!!"

At this time, one of the members came up to Di Ya with a look of fear and shock as he reported: "Chief!! Luo Da Huan… Elder Luo has died in battle!!"

Luo Da Huan was a Strength-based Evolver under Di Ya's command, and his combat strength was astonishing. When he heard the news of Luo Da Huan's death, Di Ya came to a decision: "Alright! Convey my orders!! All members of the Heavenly Dragon Triad are to follow me back to town!!"

The moment Di Ya gave that order, the frontline collapsed, as the members of the Heavenly Dragon Triad made their way to town in a frenzy.

Without the human experts to block them, the Mutant Beasts poured into town like water from a broken dam, as they began to gobble up the humans that they saw.

Di Ya brought the experts of the Heavenly Dragon Triad and escaped for their post, causing a hole in the defence of the small town, and numerous Mutant Beasts began pouring into town, engaging the experts inside the town in combat.

Human nature was selfish, and after Di Ya brought his triad to retreat, many of the other experts who were fighting bitterly also decided to throw in the towel, as they made their way back towards the town, before they were surrounded and killed.

Without the clear command of a single leader, the human side was starting to collapse, and in the entire town, there were many experts trying to escape. They were still entangled with the Mutant Beasts, but without a clear command, they lacked the courage to survive and fight. Therefore, many decided to turn and run, not turning back. Even the Heavenly Dragon Triad had given up, the smaller lone fighters were even more unwilling to fight to the death.

"What? The Heavenly Dragon Triad had retreated!!! Are you sure?!" Over at the Green Bamboo Triad's camp, Gao Ming Hao's expression was extremely unsightly, and he could not care about his image anymore as he shouted in disbelief.

The gang member replied immediately: "Yes! Boss!! I saw everyone from the Heavenly Dragon Triad escaping towards the town after abandoning their post!!"

Gao Ming Hao gritted his teeth, as he slammed the table, causing it to split into pieces: "Di Ya, you insufferable bastard!!"

The Green Bamboo Triad and Heavenly Dragon Triad were defending locations that were close to each other, and with the retreat of the Heavenly Dragon Triad, the Green Bamboo Triad would be at the highest risk. If they didn't retreat, they would definitely face a pincer assault from the Mutant Beast horde.

"What do we do, Chief?" The upper echelon of the Green Bamboo Triad looked towards Gao Ming Hao and asked nervously.

This concerned the life and death of the entire top brass of the Green Bamboo Triad, if they were not careful, the core power of the Green Bamboo Triad would fall here.

Gao Ming Hao's brains worked at top speed, as he turned his gaze towards Hu Yi, his gaze narrowing: "Hu Yi! I order you and Liu Lie tio take 20 men and go take over Chu Ming He and the rest! As long as you can stall for 20 minutes, you're free to disperse after that! If we get through tonight, once we're back at Guilin City, I'll reward you guys accordingly!"

Hu Yi heard those words, and a strange glint flashed across his eyes, he immediately stared back at Gao Ming Hao, pondering silently and only replying after 5 seconds: "Yes! Boss!!"

After which, Hu Yi and his trusted aide Liu Lie headed out, their shoulders squared. Without ample support, bringing 20 people to defend the area was a suicide mission.

Gao Ming Hao watched the leaving silhouettes of Hu Yi and Liu Lie, before his eyes flashed and he ordered solemnly: "My orders! All members of the Green Bamboo Triad are to immediately withdraw towards the town!"

"Yes! Boss!!"

Under the command of Gao Ming Hao, all the members of the Green Bamboo Triad immediately abandoned their posts and retreated towards the town.

As Liu Lie walked beside Hu Yi, he felt something amiss: "Hu Yi! Where're you going? This isn't the frontlines!"

Hu Yi's eyes flashed with pain, as he slowly replied: "You're right! I'm not going to the front lines! I'm going to join my big bro Yue Zhong! All of you listen up, resisting at the frontlines for 20 minutes is a death sentence! Gao Ming Hao is obviously abandoning us, to buy some time for their retreat! To think that I was loyal to him, only for such an end, it truly chills the heart."

Hu Yi looked at his subordinates and continued solemnly: Brothers! You have followed me for so long. I won't make things difficult for you, whoever wants to stay loyal to the Green Bamboo Triad and Gao Ming Hao can go to fight. You can go to the frontlines to your death. I will not force you! Those who want to follow me to join my big bro Yue Zhong, follow me!"

These 20 members had all antagonized the upper echelons of the Green Bamboo Triad at some point. This time, the fact that Gao Ming Hao had sent them out was precisely to get rid of them, and no one had spoken up for them.

A burly looking man with decent features, and an enhancement level of 27 walked up to Hu Yi and declared: "Hu Yi!! Gao Ming Hao he doesn't want to die, we likewise, don't wish for our deaths!! Since he had cut us off so decisively, we can't be blamed! I, Gao Fei, am following you!!"

"That's right!! That's right!"

Everybody all hollered their agreement. No one wanted to die in this god-forsaken place.

"Then, Liu Lie!! Take care!!" Hu Yi turned towards Liu Lie, and spoke a single sentence, before turning and leading his men towards Yue Zhong's site.

Liu Lie struggled for just a moment, before chasing up: "Wait!! I'll come with you guys!!"

The entire party killed the Mutant Beasts that got in their path as they made their way towards Yue Zhong's site. By the time they reached there, they had killed over dozens of Mutant Beasts.

By then, Hu Yi's body was covered in blood as he came to Yue Zhong's side and spoke with excitement: "Bro!! I'm here!!"

Yue Zhong eyed him and immediately asked: "Little Leopard! How come it's you! What happened?"

Yue Zhong knew that this brother of his was extremely loyal, even when Yue Zhong had established the Green Stone Triad which went on to become one of the 4 Great Triads, Hu Yi had not immediately come to throw his lot with him, instead remaining at Green Bamboo Triad to contribute merits for Gao Ming Hao. Now that Hu Yi had brought his men here, there must have been a problem.

Hu Yi looked towards Yue Zhong and replied: "Bro! Gao Ming Hao sent us to our deaths, I wasn't willing, so I brought my men here. The Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad have both retreated! Now there's only you left on the outskirts of town! Bro, what are your plans?"

Yue Zhong pondered, as his eyes flashed with a resolute glint: "Guard here!! I will not retreat!!"

Liu Lie could not help but ask: "But why? Boss Yue! Both the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad have retreated! The Mutant Beast horde will come here shortly. Staying here will only mean death!!"

Yue Zhong replied: "We have constructed enough fortifications to hold the weaker ones off! If we go back to the town, the defences there are weak and non-existent! Going there would mean certain death! Little Leopard, go bring men and join the frontlines. You'll be tasked with handling the large-types, is that ok? Any other problems, leave it to me to handle!"

Hu Yi chuckled: "Hehheh! Bro!! Leave the big Mutant Beasts to me then! Brothers! Onwards!"

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Chapter 415 – Yue Zhong's Combat Strength!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

In the hunt this time, Yue Zhong had brought along 300 of his subordinates, and amongst them, the majority were just fresh ordinary humans who had received a little training.

While they were unable to defend against the assaults of the Mutant Beasts, they could construct defences, fortifications and lay traps. It was because of their help, that Yue Zhong managed to lay his entire site with various fortifications, killing a number of the lower level invading Mutant Beasts.

These simple constructs had sharp steel beams, and barriers with spikes, stacked sandbags, and various other little traps. While they were ineffective against the Type 2 Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar, to the ordinary Mutant Beasts, these simple traps could harm them fatally, to the point of taking their lives.

Many of the Mutant Mountain Rats would smash into sharp steel beams, as they struggled painfully. When some of the quicker Mutant Civets stepped on the jagged wires with force, it would cause their paws to be directly sliced off. With the numerous sandbags acting as blockades for the important channels, only one or 2 Mutant Beasts would be able to enter at any one time.

With the aid of these fortifications, Yue Zhong's side could easily slaughter the Mutant Beasts under the command of the various experts, withstanding the seemingly endless assault of Mutant Beasts.

It was just that these fortifications were effective against the lower level Mutant Beasts, against the bigger Mutant Beasts, it was a bit of a stretch. A simple charge of a Type 2 Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar could destroy the entire defence!

The large-type Mutant Beasts were the enemies and counter to these simple fortifications, and just a herd of them could cause mayhem and destruction. Without the cover of the defences, his subordinates would find it infinitely harder to defend against the Mutant Beast horde.

At this moment, in front of Yue Zhong's site, a large number of the Mutant Civets had suddenly dispersed, giving way to 20 Mutant Pangolins with thick armors that were charging over.

"Fire!!" Larman looked at the 20 Mutant Pangolins and bellowed angrily.

The 10 heavy machine guns proceeded to unleash a fiery carnage, as the bullets that could pierce tanks only served to bounce off the armor of the Mutant Pangolins.

Seeing this, everyone's faces turned white.

Right at this time, Hu Yi roared out as well as he leapt forwards, with the Black Tooth Blade that Yue Zhong handed to him, charging towards the Mutant Pangolins as he shouted: "Leave them to me!!"

"Die!! Die!! Haha!" Hu Yi charged into the midst of the 20 Mutant Pangolins, as he laughed out maniacally, his blade flashing about. The 20 Mutant Pangolins were instantly sliced apart, blood flowing.

After taking care of those Mutant Pangolins, Hu Yi immediately retreated back behind the defences. He had to conserve his Stamina, and leaving the smaller and weaker types to the rest was the best choice.

"Bai Xiaosheng!!" Yue Zhong saw that things had come under control, and immediately summoned Bai Xiaosheng.

"What's the matter Boss?" Bai Xiaosheng came with a bored expression as he asked. As one of the top experts under Yue Zhong, he hadn't taken any action yet. Seeing the soldiers on the frontline giving their all, his heart was ignited and he was getting restless.

As an Agility-based Evolver, there were still differences in power. Bai Xiaosheng's combat strength was naturally stronger than Cai Mingliang by a huge margin. If they were to fight, Bai Xiaosheng could kill Cai Mingliang easily.

Yue Zhong ordered solemnly: "Go into town now, any scattered lone Enhancer or those who are running away, get them to rely on us! Tell them to join us!"

Bai Xiaosheng guffawed and dashed away in a flash, not before saying: "Making use of the opportunity to swallow the other powers!! Boss you sure are crafty!! Haha! But I like that! I'm going!!"

Yue Zhong gazed at Bai Xiaosheng leaving, before he turned his attention towards the newly gathered 20 Black-Scaled Ferocious Boars making their way over under the lead of the Type 2 Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar.

It was that same Type 2 Ferocious Black-Scaled Boar that had destroyed the defences of the Heavenly Dragon Triad and caused them to be routed. If it wasn't for the Type 2 Ferocious Black-Scaled Boar, the Heavenly Dragon Triad would definitely have been able to hold out longer.

Yue Zhong looked at that tank-like beast and it's followers, took a deep breath, his eyes showing a resolute glint, and began charging forwards towards them with White Bones by his side. He was not the weak Yue Zhong like he was back then, and he had already Evolved to a level where he could definitely take them. This fight, he would definitely win.

White Bones leapt over Yue Zhong, suddenly exploding out with a bone blade when it was in front of the herd of Mutant Black-Scaled Ferocious Boars. It easily crossed one of the Mutant Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar, slicing it in two as it passed by.

Currently, White Bones' Sharpening ability had caused the bone blades from its body to become extremely sharp, adding on to evolving into a Dark Skeleton, and the skill further enhanced 1, the sheer piercing power of the blades were truly terrifying. It could easily cause a high-level Mutant Beast like the Mutant Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar to be sliced to death. Even a Type 2 Mutant Beast with a slightly lower defence would not be able to withstand a single slash from White Bones.

White Bones was like a tyrannical killing machine. Its bone blades extended in all directions, and the 20 Mutant Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar could only be sliced into pieces of bloody meat when faced against it. It was exhibiting its fearsome might after having evolved into the Dark Skeleton.

When the Type 2 Black-Scaled Mutant Boar saw its little brothers being slaughtered, it immediately bellowed in anger, and a strong, oppressive soundwave was released in all directions.

Under that destructive soundwave attack, Yue Zhong's body slightly shuddered, it could be said that the soundwave attack did cause him some discomfort, otherwise he was fine. After all, he was a dual-attribute Evolver, possessing the Spirit and Endurance growth attributes! His body was truly sturdy beyond belief, even a bullet would not be able to harm him overmuch.

The Type 2 Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar was just recovering from its sound wave attack, when Yue Zhong condensed a Devil Flame Spear in his hands after expending 40 points of Spirit and 10 points of Stamina.

"Burn for me!!" Yue Zhong's eyes flashed coldly, as he tossed it out with all his strength. The sharp Devil Flame Spear whistled through the air, and buried deep in between the brows of the Type 2 Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar.

The terrifying might of the Devil Flame Spear immediately exploded out, piercing deeply into the armor, and penetrating the brain, before instantly enveloping the entire head cavity, incinerating the contents.

"Congratulations on reaching Level 54, you have gained 2 points of attributes to be allocated!"

"Congratulations on reaching Level 55, you have gained 2 points of attributes to be allocated!"

Following the 2 repeated sounds of notification, the mountain-like Type 2 Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar toppled over, dropping a skill book and a hundred Survivor Coins.

Yue Zhong chose to allocate all 4 points into Agility, before walking over to pick up the items.

Agility was extremely important to a warrior, it could allow the person to react instantly. If the Agility wasn't strong enough, then there would be a lack of capability to deal with instantaneous changes. A high Agility was also needed to deal with any decently skilled Agility-based Evolver, otherwise, he could be easily taken down by said Agility-based Evolver.

"Level 4 Skill Book 2nd Order Strength Consolidation! Learning this skill will permanently increase Strength by 50. Requires Strength Consolidation to be enhanced thrice."

With the death of the Type 2 Black-Scaled Ferocious Boar, the remaining 40 some Mutant Black-Scaled Ferocious Boars scattered around the town began to escape rapidly, some of them even exploding in anger! The finished swallowing a number of the weaker Mutant Beasts around, before they ran towards the Mountain Range.

All of a sudden, a dark shadow shattered a number of glass shards as it pounced towards Yue Zhong with a speed that exceeded Bai Xiaosheng.

On the battlefield, Yue Zhong was extremely perceptive, and the moment the dark shadow moved, he had felt it, and retreated immediately, while keeping an eye on the attacker's movement. It was a Type 2 Leopard Cat, similar in nature to Lightning.

Yue Zhong had retreated quickly, but the speed of the Type 2 Leopard Cat was faster, in just a short breath, it managed to pounce on Yue Zhong, knocking him to the ground, opening its jaws in an attempt to bite down on Yue Zhong's head.

At this moment, a sharp bone spike pierced the Type 2 Leopard Cat from the side, nailing it to the ground.

Following that, another bone spike shot out almost instantaneously, piercing the body of the Type 2 Leopard Cat.

Yue Zhong immediately took out his Crocodile Tooth Saw Blade and slashed the head of the Type 2 Leopard Cat viciously, immediately splitting it open. A large orb of experience floated into his body, along with huge amounts of scorching blood splattering on him, but it wasn't enough to level up.

The Type 2 Leopard Cat dropped a Level 3 Skill Agility Consolidation and 100 Survivor Coins.

"It's a Good chance!!" After killing the Type 2 Mutant Leopard Cat in a single slash, his mind raced, and he immediately emitted a long howl towards the skies.

In a forest outside of the town, there was a roar of reply, filled with threatening might.

Under the threat of that furious roar, the remaining 500 Mutant Leopard Cats inside the town immediately retreated towards the forest.

Following the new source of strength was the fundamental law of the Mutant Beasts.

Seeing the retreat of the Mutant Leopard Cats, Yue Zhong's heart was relieved. After all, Lightning, who was hidden in the forest, was one of Yue Zhong's hidden trump cards. Now, with the addition of another 500 Mutant Leopard Cats coming under Lightning's command, the strength of his hand had increased yet again.

Right at this time, there was a horrifying howl that resounded, sounding neither like a tiger or leopard. The sound was so terrifying, as though it was a sound not possible on this earth. Everyone who heard it immediately trembled, their hearts filled with an uneasy premonition.

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Chapter 416 – Continuous Level Up!

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[Book 3: The South]

Ever since Yue Zhong had subdued Lightning, he had developed a bond with Lightning, and when that howl had sounded, he could feel the fear rising from Lightning.

Yue Zhong's heart immediately fell, and could guess the true nature of the beast: "That was definitely at least a Type 3 Mutant Beast!!"

The 4 Great Triads had at first intended to bring men to clear up the smaller Mutant Beasts, before slowly hunting the Type 3 Mutant Beast. However, they did not expect the Type 3 Mutant Beast they thought was their prey to make a move first! This Mutant beast was obviously smart enough to control the large portion of the Mutant Hordes in the mountain range to launch an assault, planning even, by sending the Type 2's to battle, causing almost the entire town of humans to be killed.

A small poisonous snake suddenly emerged from a dark corner, darting towards Yue Zhong's legs.

Yue Zhong's reaction was quick, and his foot immediately came down on the Mutant Poisonous Snake's body, squashing it directly with Strength.

"So you're attacking here now?" Yue Zhong looked towards the surroundings, and with his Night Vision, he could clearly see countless Mutant Snakes gathering around him, their levels of varying degrees, and there were even larger hordes of Mutant Snakes slithering towards his site.

"This won't do! I need to get Lightning to act! Otherwise, we'll lose!" Yue Zhong's mind spun and he quickly let out a sharp howl towards the skies.

Lightning, who had been hiding in the forest, received the order and replied with an angry howl of its own. It charged out, leading its 600 little brothers, as they raced towards Yue Zhong's location.

On the other side, White Bones was currently darting about, its bone blades flashing enchantingly. Within 10m of its body, all the Mutant Snakes were currently being slaughtered or nailed to the ground.

Countless Mutant Snakes of varying sizes were currently slithering towards Yue Zhong, and in the dark where moat couldn't see well, with countless snakes on the ground slithering about, it was a really skin-crawling scene.

The numerous snakes intended to seal Yue Zhong's route of escape, as they started to gather, and shot towards Yue Zhong with a lightning speed.

"Go to hell!" Yue Zhong's eyes flashed, and conjured his Devil Flame at the first moment, as a huge ball of his Devil Flame emitted outwards from him. It continued to spread to a distance of 20m, instantly turning all the Mutant Snakes into ash.

Right at this time, a 30m-long Mutant Python opened its jaws wide, shooting towards Yue Zhong.

Yue Zhong pointed a finger at that giant Mutant Python, as a fire arrow shot out, piercing the jaws of the snake and exploding upon contact. It started to burn and in a few moments, it turned the entire head of the Mutant Python into mush.

With the ever increasing strength of Yue Zhong's Spirit, the Devil Flame in his hands had obviously become alot stronger and much more threatening. As of now, he had reached a level of control with the Devil Flame that was natural as flipping his hands.

After the death of the Mutant Python, another 10 green Mutant Snakes came out of a corner and darted towards Yue Zhong, but just as they entered the radius of his body, they were immediately burnt to crisp by the Devil Flame.

A large number of the Mutant Snakes started to pounce continuously towards Yue Zhong, using their own bodies to wear down Yue Zhong's Devil Flame armor.

Suddenly, 40 30m-long Mutant King Cobras appeared in all directions, opening their jaws and firing their innate ability, which was a dark poisonous spit, aiming at Yue Zhong!

Yue Zhong's expression fell, and increased the output of the Devil Flame around himself further. The black poison spit launched by those Mutant King Cobras landed on the Devil Flame and sizzled out in a dense poisonous cloud.

Yue Zhong then held his breath, before activating his Shadow Steps, and shot himself towards one of the Mutant King Cobras in a manner of seconds. The Devil Flame Sword in his hands danced, and the Level 43 Mutant Beast was immediately chopped in two by a single swing.

On the other side, White Bones was entangled with the Mutant Snake horde, as the dozens of sharp Bone Blades from its body sliced the heads off 10 of the Mutant King Cobras, sending them flying.

White Bones had just slaughtered a full 10 of the Mutant King Cobras, when a variant turned up, its length 40 metres, its body scales shining with a metallic luster, its jaws opened wide as it shot towards White Bones.

"Level 65 Mutant Beast: Type 2 Mutant King Cobra! It possesses immense strength and a dangerous venom!"

Yue Zhong shot a glance at the huge beast, and saw that White Bones had been bitten on the right leg by the Type 2 Mutant King Cobra.

When snakes launched an attack, their speed was the fastest then. Although White Bones possessed a speed that was 10 times that of humans, it could not dodge the attack of the Type 2 Mutant King Cobra.

With a single bite of gargantuan strength, the sound of breaking bones resounded, White Bones' entire right leg had been ground into powder!

The fiery demonic eyes of White Bones flashed, as 2 sharp bone spikes appeared from its brows and directly pierced the eyes of the Type 2 Mutant King Cobra.

When the sharp bone spikes pierced the eyes of the Type 2 Mutant King Cobra, a large amount of blood and mucus spurted out from the wounds.

Using the bone spikes, White Bones supported itself and removed itself from the mouth of the Type 2 Mutant King Cobra, landing on the ground.

With its eyes blinded, the Type 2 Mutant King Cobra was thrashing about with pain, twisting its body and causing a number of the smaller Mutant snakes to be squashed to death.

Seeing this, Yue Zhong condensed another Devil Flame Spear in his hands and tossed it forcefully at the Type 2 Mutant King Cobra, piercing its head and exploding. The brains were instantly incinerated.

"Congratulations on achieving Level 56, you have gained 2 points of attribute to be allocated!"

Following the sound of notification, the Type 2 Mutant King Cobra slumped to the ground, dropping a green treasure box and 100 Survivor Coins.

Yue Zhong added the 2 points into his Agility, and went to open up the treasure box.

"Level 4 Treasure: Ring of Poison Fang. Upon equipping, Spirit 10. It comes with a poison attack skill. When using the skill, you can imbue your melee weapon with a thorny venomous attack."

Yue Zhong instantly blinged himself up of course, and his Spirit was enhanced yet again. Now his spirit reached an incredibly terrifying level of 193 points!.

The power of the Devil Flame was dependent on Yue Zhong's Spirit, and with his Spirit increasing all the time, his Devil Flame would become even more powerful. It was due to his current Spirit that he had been able to casually execute 2 Type 2 Mutant Beasts. If it was someone else, even with the Devil Flame skill enhanced 3 times, they might not be able to kill a Type 2 Mutant Beast so easily.

With the death of the Type 2 Mutant King Cobra, the Mutant King Cobras that were under its control began to disperse, escaping in all directions.

Right at this time, Lightning had arrived with its 600 brothers, and under It's command, they began to pounce on and kill the remaining Mutant Snakes.

The Mutant Leopard Cats were considered agile Mutant Beasts, and their movements swift, adding on to the fact that the Mutant Snakes had lost their leadership, they became delicious food for the Mutant Leopard Cats.

Lightning had swallowed the Type 3 Mutant Beast nuclei that Yue Zhong had given it, as well as the numerous Type 2 Mutant Beast nuclei that Yue Zhong bought from the market, but it still had not evolved into a Type 3 Mutant Beast. However, its strength had increased a lot, its level reaching 67. The moment it entered the battlefield, it shot about like a spectre, and in a manner of seconds, it had killed 3 of the weaker Type 2 Mutant Snakes.

After killing those 3 Type 2 Mutant Snakes, the rest of the snake horde collapsed, as they began to slither away, and the huge gathering of snakes was almost instantly dispersed by half.

Yue Zhong darted about and killed a number of the enormous Mutant Snakes, when suddenly a green shadow leapt out from the snakes, biting down on Yue Zhong's thigh viciously. Even his 115 points of Agility did not give him enough time to react.

"Level 60 Mutant Beast, Type 2 Mutant Green Snake! Possesses an uncanny speed, and a dangerous venom."

A sharp pain shot up from the bite, Yue Zhong's left leg bone had been shattered by that Type 2 Mutant Green Snake.

"Fuck!!" Yue Zhong bellowed in pain and activated his Gravity Manipulation, causing a few jins of gravity to weigh down on the Mutant Snake. He then swung his Crocodile Tooth Saw Blade, immediately slicing the head of the Type 2 Mutant Green Snake off.

By all rights, with the powerful venom of that Type 2 Mutant Green Snake, Yue Zhong was faced with certain death. However, as luck would have it, the bite had went past the trousers, and although the clamping force was enough to break Yue Zhong's leg, it was not enough to pierce the Type 3 Mutant Beast hide, hence, he wasn't poisoned, and managed to escape with his life intact.

"Congratulations on achieving level 57, you have gained 2 points of attributes to be allocated!"

The death of the Type 2 Mutant Green Snake gave rise to another huge orb of experience to Yue Zhong, allowing him to promote another level yet again.

At the same time, the Type 2 Mutant Green Snake dropped a skill book and 100 Survivor Coins.

Yue Zhong directly enhanced his Agility, before picking up the skill book to take a glance.

"Level 3 Skill Book: Feline Transformation! After learning this skill, one can turn into a cat person. 6 Attributes would gain a huge increase, compared to the other beast-type transformations, Agility would be enhanced more, whereas Strength and Endurance are enhanced lesser."

The body of the Mutant Green Snake was small, and they were numerous, and was one of the main forces of the snake horde. With the death of the Type 2 Mutant Green Snake, the rest of the green snakes started to disperse, and the snake horde again was decreased by half.

Seeing this, Yue Zhong heaved a sigh of relief. Although the Mutant Green Snakes were small, they were numerous, and they were as threatening as any large Mutant Snake, now with their retreat, the pressure on Yue Zhong was lessened yet again.

With the situation somewhat more under control, Yue Zhong started to limp back towards his camp.

TN: I wonder how Yue Zhong has been fighting with one arm.

Ulamog: Veeeery Carefully.

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Chapter 417 -Absorbing the Scattered Troops!

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[Book 3: The South]

"Heal me!"

The moment Yue Zhong went back to his camp, he immediately summoned Mu Xiang Ling.

With the Level 4 Regeneration ability, as long as Yue Zhong wasn't forced to a point where it was a fatal injury, he could recover extremely quickly. The leg bone that was broken by the bite from the Type 2 Mutant Green Snake would be healed within a day, based on his current Vitality. However, in such a dangerous situation where anything can happen on the battlefield, moving with a broken leg bone was affecting Yue Zhong's combat ability.

Mu Xiang Ling's eyes flashed with concern, as she pressed lightly on Yue Zhong's wound with both hands, activating her [Treatment of Bone Injuries] ability, and a white light entered Yue Zhong's leg. "En!! Yue Zhong-gege, please be careful! I can only heal you once for today!"

With the help of the skill, Yue Zhong's left leg began to heal quickly, and within a minute, the broken bone had finished repairing.

Yue Zhong surveyed his surroundings, and saw that with the combined efforts of his subordinates, as well as the constant repair of the fortifications, they had managed to repel the never ending waves of Mutant Beasts.

It was also mainly due to Yue Zhong hunting a number of the Type 2 Mutant Beasts, causing the hordes to be without leaders, therefore dispersing. Adding on the fact that Lightning had joined in the fray with its little brothers, the defence was sustained.

Even so, the current situation was extremely perilous. Yue Zhong had only 10 subordinates who were above Level 30, while the rest of the 200-over were mainly constructing fortifications, their enhancement levels not high. They had no combat skills, and their fighting experience was lacking.

Getting those with no skills and experience to focus on the fortifications was still manageable. If they were sent to face any Mutant Beasts, they would definitely lose their lives. They were not like Xin Jiarou, who was well equipped and was an Evolver to boot. These were just ordinary humans, and getting them to challenge Mutant Beasts that were more ferocious than them was out of the question.

Yue Zhong glanced at Ning Yu Xin standing beside him, and threw a number of those Level 3 Skill Books to her, at the same time handing her a set of system equipment, saying: "Learn them. After that, put on these!"

Ning Yu Xin's performance so far was considered decent, and at this critical juncture, it was better to have an additional subordinate with strength. Yue Zhong had only a handful of people he trusted, Ning Yu Xin could barely be counted as one of them.

Ning Yu Xin received the few books and the set of equipment, and her eyes immediately brightened up, as she smiled at Yue Zhong: "Thank you!"

With a set of decent equipment, and powerful skills, one could go through a total transformation, and gain levels to challenge the wilderness. Xin Jia Rou had been able to take on higher level Mutant Beasts because she been supplied with equipment from Yue Zhong.

Mu Xiang Ling eyed the few books that Ning Yu Xin obtained from Yue Zhong, and could not help herself as she grabbed Yue Zhong's arms and whined: "Gege! You're biased!! Xiang Ling wants them too!"

Yue Zhong ruffled her hair as he consoled her: "It's not the time now! Let's see how it goes in the future!"

"En!" Mu Xiang Ling also just pouted a little, but did not hold it against Yue Zhong.

After healing his wounds, Yue Zhong pulled out his Divine Spring Tea, and took a sip. Although the Divine Spring Tea could not enhance Yue Zhong's Spirit further, it could quicken his recovery speed. In the current circumstances, regaining his Spirit was definitely important.

In the town, as the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad had abandoned their posts, there were numerous Mutant Beasts prowling about.

A Level 45 Violent Ape had just grabbed an escaping Enhancer and directly swung him harshly against the floor, smashing his brains.

6 Mutant Civets pounced on one Enhancer and directly ripped his throat off, as they begun to chomp on his corpse.

A number of Mutant Lizards came crawling across the various buildings, pouncing as they chased after the human Enhancers, directly ripping them apart!

A certain burly man who was wielding a huge mace that was way above hundreds of jin was currently swinging it about like a tornado, defending 7 other people. As long as any of the Mutant Beasts were unfortunate to get caught by his mace, their bodies would immediately explode from the force of the impact, and knocked back.

This valiant man was the leader of a small triad called the Great God Triad in Guilin City. His name was Zheng Tu and he was a Strength-based Evolver, brave and overbearing in his combat ability,

Zheng Tu was slaughtering the Mutant Beasts as he cursed out loud: "Fuck Di Ya and all his ancestors!! If this daddy can make it back to Guilin City alive, I will fucking slaughter the whole lot of the entire Heavenly Dragon Triad!!"

Due to Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad's betrayal, numerous Mutant Beasts had made it past their areas, causing chaos amongst the rest. 8 of Zheng Tu's subordinates had also lost their lives.

Currently, only Zheng Tu and his 7 other good brothers were alive, and he was filled with hatred and fury towards the 2 Great Triads.

One of his subordinates, whose entire body was covered in blood and had suffered a number of broken bones, looked at Zheng Tu as he gasped out in misery: "Chief, you should escape!! Don't care about us! We won't make it! If this goes on, you will die here as well!!"

Zheng Tu bellowed back coarsely: "Enough with the nonsense!! Is this daddy the type of person who abandons his brothers?"

Zheng Tu had been a butcher prior to the apocalypse. When it happened, he had awakened as an Evolver and set up his Great God Triad with a number of brothers. Although the triad was small, the camaraderie between all the brothers were especially great. Zheng Tu wasn't someone particularly ambitious as well, and he had established the Great God Triad in a bid to protect himself, as well as his brothers, and he treated them all very well.

Hearing those words of Zheng Tu, 2 of the men sighed, as they took up their Replica Tang Swords, and began to slaughter the Mutant Beasts that had surrounded them, helping to alleviate some of the pressure on Zheng Tu.

Right at this moment, a number of Mutant Cows had formed a herd, and were rampaging over. Seeing those Mutant Cows in the middle of their charge, the 7 of them were filled with a sense of despair: "We're finished!!"

Although Zheng Tu was obscenely strong, to defend against the charge of those Mutant Cows, it was definitely not feasible. Yet if he decide to dodge, then the 4 injured brothers behind him would definitely perish.

Right at this time, a vigorous body flitted past the herd of Mutant Cows, as a blade flashed about, and the heads of the Mutant Cows were instantly sliced apart. Their lifeless bodies slumped to the ground.

Zheng Tu saw the dead Mutant Cows and his heart went cold: "Expert!!"

The blade continued to dance about, and in just a few breaths, the numerous Mutant Cows were killed off entirely, and the shadow revealed himself in front of Zheng Tu. It was Bai Xiao Sheng.

Zheng Tu gazed at Bai Xiao Sheng, and offered his solemn thanks: "This brother!! Many thanks! I, Zheng Tu, will never forget your grace!!"

Bai Xiao Sheng gazed at the small group and replied mildly: "No thanks needed! I'm Bai Xiao Sheng from the Green Stone Triad! I was assigned by my boss to come gather the experts in the town. You're called Zheng Tu right! Bring your brothers to the Green Stone Triad's post! There's still hope for your brothers there. Otherwise, they'll definitely die! I'm going to get other people, smell ya later!"

After which, Bai Xiao Sheng went off, heading further into town. If there were no women for him to spend his energy on, everything else that Bai Xiao Sheng did was swift and curt. He was truly suitable to be a powerful expert.

One of the soldiers hesitated as he asked Zheng Tu: "What shall we do, Chief? Are we going to go join Yue Zhong?"

Zheng Tu did not hesitate, as he swung down his mace, saying with determination: "Go!! Of course we're going! Even if Yue Zhong wants our Great God Triad, it isn't an issue, as long as everyone of us stay alive, that's more than enough!"

Zheng Tu had swiftly made his decision and immediately brought his brothers towards the direction of Yue Zhong's Green Stone Triad.

When Bai Xiao Sheng entered the town, he continually saved various Enhancers, and advised them to gather at Green Stone Triad's location.

When those Enhancers who were running around like headless chickens heard that Yue Zhong and the Green Stone Triad were still holding the fort, they began killing their way towards them.

There were a total of 3,000 Enhancers who had decent combat strength and were experts in their own right, but without a facilitator, a lone person's strength could not possibly match up against the Mutant Beast horde. If Yue Zhong was to fight the Mutant Beasts himself, he would also not be able to hold on for long.

When those experts began to pour into Yue Zhong's site, he organized them, setting the injured and those who had expended their Stamina to rest temporarily, while those who still had fight left in them were deployed to the frontlines to face the Mutant Beasts.

With the participation of those experts, under Yue Zhong's command, the battle became more controlled. Some of the experts with the [Ground Manipulation] skill caused a few earthen walls to be erected, blocking the paths of the numerous smaller Mutant Beasts. Those with control of ice blanketed parts of the surrounding area with ice, which affected the agile-type Mutant Beasts, leaving them vulnerable and open to slaughter.

While commanding them, Yue Zhong focused on changing and maintaining the terrain. The other experts had done it differently, trying to make use of the skills to kill the monsters. Any large Mutant Beasts that could threaten the terrain around the site were disposed of by Hu Yi and a small team of Evolvers. The smaller Mutant Beasts were not strong enough to affect the grounds. The once seemingly endless horde were finally beginning to be held off under Yue Zhong's command of the experts, as well as the strengthening of the defences.

Just when Yue Zhong was about to take a breather, Ying Kaishan came to Yue Zhong with a strange look on his face: "Boss!!! The Scarlet Phoenix Triad had just arrived!!"

When Yue Zhong heard that, he frowned, "They're here?"

Of the 4 Great Triads in Guilin City, the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad had chosen to abandon their posts and retreated into town.

Now that the Scarlet Phoenix Triad had joined his side, Yue Zhong wasn't sure if it was going to be a good or bad thing. After all, the Scarlet Phoenix Triad was still one of the big 4s, and had the qualifications to vie for leadership.

Yue Zhong mulled for a while, before heading to the direction: "Let's go! Bring me to see Ding Lei!"

Yue Zhong came to the place they were at, and saw a hundred of the Scarlet Phoenix members, currently all of them were covered in fresh blood, many of them with heavy wounds. They were gasping for breath, and looked extremely miserable.

The Scarlet Phoenix had brought 200-over members of their core group on this hunt, but even before the Type 3 Mutant Beast had made its appearance, they had lost over a hundred of their sisters, their losses unbearable.

Their preparations weren't as comprehensive as Yue Zhong, and they didn't have the aid of a Type 2 Mutant Beast like Yue Zhong had with Lightning and its little brothers. When the Heavenly Dragon Triad and the Green Bamboo gang had abandoned their post, the Scarlet Phoenix Triad were swamped from all directions, and after a long battle, they were only left with a hundred of their members. The rest had died in battle.

Ding Lei walked up to Yue Zhong and immediately said: "Yue Zhong! The Scarlet Phoenix Triad is willing to listen to your command! However, please let my sisters rest a while!! I hope the injured can get treatment!"

Yue Zhong saw the Ding Lei was straightforward, and he immediately nodded and gave an order: "Good! Chief Ding, please bring some of your troops to support the frontlines, to let them rest!"

"Sisters! Come with me!" Ding Lei glanced at Yue Zhong once, before calling out to 30 of her female experts.

Very quickly, Ding Lei brought her subordinates to the frontlines, as they tagged out the exhausted soldiers.

In a part of the town, as most of the Enhancers had congregated at Yue Zhong's site, a large number of Mutant Beasts were currently circling the Heavenly Dragon Triad, slaughtering them by the numbers.

"Ah!!" A soldier of the Heavenly Dragon Triad bellowed, as he slashed a Mutant Monkey with a blade. In the next moment, a Mutant Violent Ape leapt out and viciously pummeled that same soldier, causing his head to explode.

A Mutant Civet had pounced on the body of another Heavenly Dragon Triad member, crushing his windpipe in between its jaws and sharp teeth. As it's teeth sank in and fresh blood splattered onto the Mutant Civet, it began to obtain an even more horrifying look.

"What do we do? Song Xin!!" Di Ya saw his subordinates dying one by one as he questioned in exasperation.

Song Xin surveyed the surroundings, as he lowered his voice and told Di Ya: "Boss! With the situation now, retreat is the only option! As long as you're still alive, we can still make a comeback!! We should quickly leave now!"

Di Ya's face turned grim: "What? You want me to leave the brothers behind and leave on my own?"

Song Xin made his point passionately: "Boss! If you don't leave now! There won't be a chance later on! You are the chief of our Heavenly Dragon Triad! Without you, the Heavenly Dragon Triad is nothing!! The rest can die but you can't die!! For the sake of the Heavenly Dragon Triad, you must live on!!"

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Chapter 418 -The Warriors come to Submit!

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[Book 3: The South]

Di Ya's eyes flashed with agony, as he patted Song Xin's shoulder: "Fine!! For the Heavenly Dragon Triad!! I can only retreat with shame!! Even in troubled times, the loyal subject still stands by his king. Song Xin, I will never forget your loyalty. Upon returning to Guilin City, I will confer upon you the title of an Elder!!"

Song Xin's expression was one of delight: "Thanks Boss!!"

Di Ya glanced at the members of his Heavenly Dragon Triad who were fighting with their lives on the line, and he abandoned them as he charged towards a corner of the Mutant Beast horde.

For the escape this time, Di Ya finally exhibited his true prowess befitting of his status as chief of the Heavenly Dragon Triad. There were six pure steel circular sawtooths floating about him, and as long as any Mutant Beast got close to him, they would immediately be sliced and diced by those serrated blades.

The few trusted aides by Di Ya's side also unleashed all their strongest techniques and abilities to assault the Mutant Beast horde.

All of a sudden, a huge shadow appeared behind the number of experts, and a huge coarse tongue swept by, dragging one of the trusted aides into its mouth.

Di Ya glanced at the huge beast, and his face fell. He turned around and pushed his speed to the limit, quickly disappearing into a patch of forest.

That huge beast did not stop jumping about, its tongue continuously sweeping those unfortunate Heavenly Dragon experts into its mouth as it gobbled them up.

Other than a few experts who managed to escape, the rest were swallowed entirely by that extremely huge beast.

After the beast had swallowed them, it seemed to have no interest towards Di Ya and the rest who escaped, as it made its way towards the town.

"The Chief has escaped!!"

"Damn it! Di Ya that bastard, he actually abandoned us!!"

"I knew he was unreliable! Fucker!!"

Quite rapidly, the news that Di Ya had brought a number of his trusted aides to escape was made known to the rest of the Heavenly Dragon Triad members, and they were immediately filled with fury and anger as they cursed out loud.

The remaining 4 Evolvers had swiftly gathered to discuss their options. When they had retreated into the town earlier, one of them had died surrounded by Mutant Beasts, and they were the only 4 Evolvers left of the Heavenly Dragon Triad.

One of the man, who was skinny and had fairly dark skin, with hands full of calluses looked at another who had decent features, and looked extremely outstanding, as he asked: "What do we do? Xia Ming Da!"

Xia Ming Da's eyes flashed with a chill light: "That Di Ya was callous, so he can't blame us for being heartless! Wretch! I want to bring the brothers to go join Yue Zhong! What about you guys?"

One of the Evolvers, Huang Heng, a 20-something young man with blond hair and multiple piercings, complete with the look of a hooligan, asked worriedly: "Yue Zhong!! What if he treats us like cannon fodder?"

The Heavenly Dragon Triad had constantly used the smaller triads as cannon fodder before, that was why Huang Heng was fearful.

One of them, Sun Ming, a middle-aged man who was bald and burly, his face bearing a white tiger tattoo replied solemnly: "I'm in favour of joining Yue Zhong! We don't have too much time to consider! If we drag on, our brothers will die!"

The Heavenly Dragon had also brought over 300 people on the hunting mission this time, but after a cruel battle, they were only left with about 100 of them.

Sun Ming's words caused everyone to quieten down.

Sun Ming Da surveyed the surroundings and directly smacked the floor, saying: "Alright! Things are going to get worse! Let's go join Yue Zhong now!!"

The other 3 Evolvers had no further opinions, and they immediate brought the rest of their men as they slaughtered their way towards Yue Zhong's direction. After paying the price of another 20 lives of their subordinates, the remaining warriors finally arrived at Yue Zhong's area.

Xia Ming Da and the rest neared the site, and they immediately sought Yue Zhong out.

"Amazing! Di Ya truly cannot compare to Yue Zhong!" Along the way, Xia Ming Da saw the various fortifications Yue Zhong had set up, and seeing the closely packed defences that were efficient against the smaller Mutant Beasts, the whole lot of them marveled at Yue Zhong's tactics.

Upon catching sight of Yue Zhong, Xia Ming Da immediately stepped forwards: "Boss Yue! I'm Xia Ming Da from the Heavenly Dragon Triad! These here are Zhang Wei, Huang Heng and Sun Ming! We're all Evolvers, and have decided to join Boss Yue in these dire times, we hope that you can accept us!"

Yue Zhong chuckled and replied: "Good!! Since you have brought your troops here to join me, I won't neglect you guys as well. Since you were Elders back at the Heavenly Dragon Triad, you can become Hall Leaders, and your subordinate are still yours to lead!"

If it was Yue Zhong who brought his men to conquer the opposing party, he would definitely bring reforms to the entire faction. However, since Xia Ming Da and the rest had taken the initiative to join him, he had to leave them with some benefits. Otherwise, who would be willing to throw their lot in with him. Furthermore, it was a situation that required careful treading, and if Yue Zhong insisted on reorganizing them, it would just cause more problems, and the men would be unwilling to fight with everything they've got. Hence, Yue Zhong decided to leave their troops alone.

"Many thanks Boss Yue!!" Hearing Yue Zhong's words, the 4 of them became reassured.

Yue Zhong then directly gave the order: "Xia Ming Da! Zhang Wei! You go and assist Larman to go swap out Ding Lei and the rest! Huang Heng, Sun Ming, go bring your men and rest first!"

"Yes! Boss Yue!!" Hearing that they were fighting alongside Yue Zhong's direct subordinate Larman, they were at ease, after all Yue Zhong could not possibly be sending his own men to be cannon fodder.

Yue Zhong's current group was like a gemstone that attracted the remaining Enhancers in town to join. Soon, the group had swelled to about a thousand in size.

With a decent-sized fighting force, and under his commands, the defence post was becoming steadier gradually, and there were signs of expansion.

With the flash of a blade, an agile Type 2 Mutant Civet's head was chopped off as it landed on the floor. With a 2m-long green greatsword Qing Yun Sword in her hands, she appeared beside the corpse and picked up the equipment and survivor coins.

"Go die!!! Haha!!" Hu Yi's eyes were bloodshot as he laughed out maniacally, using all his strength as he swung his sword about, causing the head of a Type 2 Red-Faced Monkey to be sent flying.

As expected, the moment the Type 2 Mutant Red-Faced Monkey died, the rest of the Red-Faced Monkeys fled.

A sharp bone spike shot out explosively, as it drilled at a rapid speed into the head of a Type 2 Vietnamese Golden Monkey, piercing its skull and nailing it to the ground, killing it instantly. White Bones then stepped forward and picked up the Skill Book and survivor coins dropped.

Amongst the Type 2 Mutant Beasts, there were stronger and weaker types. The Type 2 Mutant Vietnamese Golden Monkey and Type 2 Mutant Red-Faced monkey belonged to the weaker evolved species. As for actually dealing with these weaker Type 2 Mutant Beasts, there were currently enough strong Evolvers taking care of them.

Yue Zhong deployed his experts, and they began systematically taking out those weaker Type 2 Mutant Beasts. As they died one by one, their lesser variants would lose all order and start to flee. Some of them even began to attack the other Mutant Beasts the moment they lost their leaders.

Everyone present knew that it was a matter of life and death, and no one held back, utilizing all their skills to support the entire site from being overrun by the Mutant Beasts.

Under the joint efforts of all the experts, the different hordes of Mutant Beasts started to collapse, and bit by bit, they dispersed.

If the Mutant Beast horde that had assaulted the town was of only one race, then even if Yue Zhong and the rest gave their all to fight, they would not have a chance, as there would be too many Mutant Beasts.

However, because there were different types and races, with the deaths of their individual leaders, there were cracks appearing as some of the Mutant Beasts began to engage one another due to their innate nature. The number of beasts also gradually lessened.

Just as there were about 12 more Mutant Beasts groups to be dealt with, a sudden earth-shaking roar resounded from the distance, causing everyone to be shocked with fear.

"It's here!! The Type 3 Mutant Beast!!"

Hearing that tremendous roar that could stop the heart of an ordinary person, everyone felt their hearts sink, and they knew the main character of tonight had finally appeared.

Currently, after going through such a horrendous battle, the number of experts that Yue Zhong could still utilize only numbered about 900-plus. While he gave his all to ensure the lives and safety of them, there were still a hundred plus who perished at the jaws of the Mutant Beasts. The remaining experts had suffered large and heavy wounds, and their Spirit and Stamina were close to their limits.

As they watched, a gargantuan python-like beast appeared, its body over 90m-long, and 2m-wide. It had a long blue horn, and its sinuous body was completely covered with vibrant green scales. The beast had menacing vertical slits for eyes that gave the watching people a terrified feeling, like suddenly they had all become prey before its most natural predator. As it exited the forest, it was emitting a terrifying aura that coincidingly made it seem much more difficult to breathe.

"Level 80 Strange Beast, Type 3 Mutant: Green Jiao-Python."

From afar, Yue Zhong stared at the huge python, and it also stared back at him through its vertical eyes. From that exchange, it gave Yue Zhong an overwhelming sense of terror.

Yue Zhong's heart turned cold, as he had an extreme bad feeling: "What a terrifying Mutant Beast!!" *1

Beside the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python, there were 4 other Mutant Beasts following closely. One of them was a black toad that was roughly 4 metres tall, its body covered with a layer of mucus, and its skin dark-grey. Under the mucus, one could see the skin covered with various boils. Another beast was a huge ape, with a height of 5 metres, its body covered with flashing red hair, and its eyes radiating a bright red light. The third beast was another huge python that was slightly smaller than the Mutant Green Jiao-Python, and the last was a pangolin that was 3m-tall, 10m-long and its body was covered with a thick layer of scales.

*1 Ulamog: there used to be a particular free to play text adventure I played( It still exists and is great fun! )

Where enemies are ranked by color as you battle. I remember a particular black ranked boss that is almost not ment to be killed : "must roll 18 to damage" D20. "This opponent could kill you by glancing at you rather hard" xD

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Chapter 419 -Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

"Level 65 Strange Beast: Type 2 Mutant Poisonous Toad!"

"Level 67 Strange Beast: Type 2 Mutant Violent Ape!"

"Level 63 Strange Beast: Type 2 Mutant Green Jiao-Python!"

"Level 66 Strange Beast: Type 2 Mutant Pangolin!"

Yue Zhong swept a look across all 4 Type 2 Mutant Beasts, and was immediately notified of their information in his mind.

Just as Yue Zhong was calculating how to deal with those Mutant Beasts, all of a sudden, the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python opened it huge jaws, and spat out a huge green mist, which shot towards Yue Zhong's location from 2km away.

"Damn it!!" Yue Zhong's expression changed immediately, as he waved his hands, causing a ferocious tornado of fire to shoot towards the poisonous cloud.

The green cloud of poisonous gas was enveloped entirely by the fire tornado from Yue Zhong, before they turned to vapour and disintegrated into the air.

"Pu!" In the vicinity of that vapour, 4 Enhancers of above Level 30 suddenly turned black in their faces, as they spat out a mouthful of fresh blood and twitched as they fell to the ground, before dying.

Just that little contact with the vapour had caused the instantaneous death of 4 Enhancers of above Level 30, it could be seen how terrifying that poison mist of the Type 3 Mutant Jiao-Python was. What was more terrifying was that, the must had been sent from 2km away. This single ranged attack from that gargantuan Type 3 Mutant Beast was just too fearsome.

With that spit of poison mist as a signal, the remaining thousands of Mutant Beasts immediately launched into a frenzy assault on the defence site.

"Fuck!!! Bai Xiao Sheng!! Hu Yi!! Ying Kai Shan!! Xia Ming Da!! Xin Jia Rou!! Follow me!!" Yue Zhong saw the numerous Mutant Beasts charging over, and his face fell before calling for the experts near him.

These 5 were the closest as well as strongest experts, and in fact, there was Ding Lei near him as well, but Yue Zhong had no way of issuing a command to her, after all, there was no master-servant contract between the 2 of them.

Following Yue Zhong's orders, the 5 who he called immediately fell in behind him as they rushed towards the front.

Xin Jia Rou's growth during the night had been the most rapid, after killing a large number of high-levelled Mutant Beasts, her enhancement level had reached 28. As an Agility-based Evolver, coupled with the fact that she was equipped with an entire set of system equipment, she had the strength of a Level 40 Enhancer.

In front of Yue Zhong, White Bones had shot forwards like an arrow, flitting about with its bone blades, slaughtering any Mutant Beasts that got in the way, clearing a path for Yue Zhong towards the Type 3 Mutant Jiao-Python.

On the other side, Yue Zhong had also commanded Lightning to bring its remaining 500 little brothers to engage the rest of the Mutant Beasts. This was also a bid to keep the path clear for Yue Zhong.

While Yue Zhong's Spirit was truly high, if he were to have a battle of attrition against the Type 3 Mutant Beast, he would definitely lose and die, hence he needed to ensure that he had a straight shot for the kill before his Spirit is depleted entirely. Otherwise, the moment the Type 3 Mutant Jiao-Python shot that poison mist again, everyone would die without a chance.

Right at this time, the Type 3 Mutant Jiao-Python opened its jaws again and shot out 2 consecutive globs of poison, one aimed at the town, the other aimed at the pack of Mutant Leopard Cats led by Lightning.

Yue Zhong's face fell, and he waved his hands, shooting a terrifying ball of fire at one of the poison globs, instantly incinerating it and turning the glob into vapour.

The other poisonous glob landed amongst the pack of Mutant Leopard Cats, and the poison mist spread out instantly, enveloping an area half the size of a football field.

Within the poisonous mist, 30 Mutant Leopard Cats and other Mutant Beasts that were tangled with them instantly melted into puddles. Wherever the mist spread, as long as one was touched by it, the Mutant Beast would immediately turn black before slumping to the ground as its body corroded away.

"Fucking dangerous poison!!" Yue Zhong's heart was truly unsettled, if that poison glob was to land on the town, it would immediately cause everyone to collapse. It was even more terrifying than any biological weapon known to man!

Peng!

Just as the Type 3 Mutant Jiao-Python was preparing to shoot another ball of poison, a shot rang out from the distance, as a sniper bullet landed explosively on the eye of the Type 3 Mutant Jiao-Python.

The sniper bullet that could punch a hole in an armored truck simple bounced off the layer of crystal eyelid over the Type 3 Mutant Jiao-Python's eyes.

While it did not actually injure the Type 3 Mutant Jiao-Python, it served to enrage it, and while the layer of crystal was not penetrated, it was dented inwards! As one could imagine, it did cause some pain. It turned to look towards a patch of the forest, and after locking on to the position of the sniper, it spat out a glob of poison towards him.

When the poison glob landed, it immediately enveloped that patch of forest including that sniper, leaving only behind a sizzling mess and horrid stench.

In that little time, Yue Zhong and his team had already gotten within 200m of the Type 3 Mutant Jiao-Python.

The 4 Type 2 Mutant Beasts beside the Type 3 Mutant Jiao-Python immediately charged over.

Other than the 4 Type 2 Mutant Beasts, there were 2 other Type 2 Mutant Beasts also charging over, and they were a previously hidden Type 2 Tree Chameleon and a Type 2 Boa Constrictor.

The Type 2 Mutant Boa Constrictor was a 1m-long poisonous snake, with a speed that was just slightly slower than Lightning, which was way beyond most of its kind.

Just as the Type 2 Mutant Boa Constrictor got to within 50m of Yue Zhong, Xin Jia Rou activated her skill [Divine Speed]. Immediately, she burst forth with a speed that was above even Bai Xiao Sheng, brandishing a Dark Magic Blade. She disappeared to the naked eye, while with a flash and in a single slash of a blade, she had chopped the Type 2 Mutant Boa Constrictor in two.

However, after that single slash, Xin Jia Rou reappeared, her complexion pale and breathing ragged. Her Stamina was still lacking, and since the Divine Skill was maintained by the amount of Stamina she had, if she had no means of killing the enemy for sure, she would not be able to channel the skill for long. After killing that Type 2 Mutant Boa Constrictor, Xin Jia Rou had leapt to Level 31, entering the stages of most experts.

The Mutant Tree Chameleon had just gotten close to White Bones, when it was met with a sharp bone spike that exploded out from White Bones' body, piercing its brain before it started rotating rapidly, turning the brain into mush.

The Type 2 Mutant Poisonous Toad could feel that Yue Zhong's party was not going to be easy to handle, and had opened its mouth at the first instant, shooting a huge ball of mucus to envelope them.

It was the innate ability of the Type 2 Mutant Poisonous Toad, and it possessed properties that could paralyze humans. The moment a person was caught in it, they would faint at the first instant. It was a Type 2 Mutant Beast that few could stand up against.

"Boss! I'll deal with this fellow!!" Ying Kai Shan's eyes flashed with a cold light, as he took a step forwards, swinging his arms forwards, and a huge block of ice was immediately condensed in front of him, blocking the ball of mucus.

Bai Xiao Sheng roared with laughter, and in a flash, appeared beside the Type 2 Mutant Poisonous Toad with his Black Tooth Blade slashing down viciously at its body, saying: "You alone won't be enough! I'll help you out!!"

When his blade landed, he felt a slippery feeling from the ends of the blade, as the Black Tooth Blade followed the contours of the body and slid away.

At almost the same time, one of the boils on the skin of the Type 2 Mutant Poisonous Toad burst open, releasing a poisonous mist that started to spread.

Bai Xiao Sheng could not defend against that sudden turn of events, and immediately fainted when he whiffed in the poison gas, slumping to the ground. He was after all, an Agility-based Evolver, and had no way of defending against a poison attack.

At this time, the Type 2 Mutant Poisonous Toad shot its tongue out to grab Bai Xiao Sheng.

"Beast!! Go to hell!!" Hu Yi bellowed as he became one with his blade, and a huge blade beam that seemed to reach the moon and chase the stars came slashing down brightly onto the Type 2 Mutant Poisonous Toad, directly decapitating it.

Not only did Hu Yi become a Strength-based Evolver, but his blade technique had even evolved to the 2nd Order Blade Technique Specialization, and he could utilize his own strength to produce an unparalleled blade qi. The strength of his blade qi was directly related to his Strength, as well as the expended Stamina and Spirit.

Right at this moment, the smaller-sized Type 2 Mutant Green Jiao-Python came slithering over.

White Bones immediately shot a bone spike towards the head of it.

The Type 2 Mutant Green Jiao-Python opened up its mouth to shoot a ball of poison gas back at the income bone spike.

The moment the bone spike entered the range of the poisonous mist, it began to emit some fizzing sounds as boils started to appear on the surface of the bone, before it corroded into a pile of brittle bones.

The demonic fiery eyes of White Bones flashed, and it retreated a few steps, turning around to deal with the other two Type 2 Mutant Beasts.

The corrosive poison of the Type 2 Mutant Green Jiao-Python was the perfect counter to White Bones, and if White Bones was to continue fighting it, it would be only be dragging its loss, hence it had immediately switched targets.

Yue Zhong eyed the Type 2 Mutant Green Jiao-Python, his eyes flashing coldly, and he condensed a Devil Flame Spear, before tossing it with all his strength, sending it towards the head of the Type 2 Mutant Green Jiao-Python.

The Type 2 Mutant Green Jiao-Python responded by opening its huge mouth and shooting poisonous spit at the incoming Devil Flame Spear.

When the green poison landed on the Devil Flame Spear, it sizzled up before evaporating, while the Devil Flame Spear continued whistling through the air and pierced the head of the Type 2 Mutant Green Jiao-Python, incinerating the brain into uselessness.

Yue Zhong had just killed the Type 2 Mutant Green Jiao-Python, but had no time to breathe as the Type 2 Mutant Violent Ape that was built like a small mountain came at him in his moment of killing, while swinging its fist explosively towards Yue Zhong!

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Chapter 420 – Fighting the Green Jiao-Python!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

The fist of the Type 2 Mutant Violent Ape was huge, yet its speed was not slow, and it brought along a tremendous force, capable of even turning an armored car into scrap metal.

Yue Zhong activated his [Shadow Steps, and dodged to the right, evading that fearsome punch from the Type 2 Violent Ape.

"Boss! I'll help!!" Xia Ming Da saw this and bellowed out in fury, waving his Dark Magic Blade as he slashed towards the Type 2 Violent Ape.

Xia Ming Da was a Strength-based Evolver with the Level 3 Blade Technique Specialization, and his blade swings were extremely deadly. Coupled with the usage of the Dark Magic Blade, he could easily slaughter any weaker Type 2 Mutant Beast.

The Type 2 Violent Ape roared in anger, as it unleashed another terrifying punch towards Xia Ming Da, landing heavily on the Dark Magic Blade. The blow knocked the Dark Magic Blade aside and caused Xia Ming Da to be sent flying back towards a tree violently, smashing into a sloppy meat pulp.

In the end, even a Strength-based Evolver had no way of contending against a top-tier Type 2 Mutant Beast in terms of strength, and the only merit from Xia Ming Da's efforts was that he left a blade wound on the hand of the Type 2 Violent Ape, as a thin line of fresh blood flowed from the wound.

Each and every Type 2 Mutant Beast had their own strengths and abilities, and could not be underestimated. If caught off-guard, even someone as strong as Yue Zhong would be easily annihilated.

After killing Xia Ming Da explosively, the glint in the Type 2 Violent Ape's eyes turned even more violent, as it pounced towards Yue Zhong.

On the other side, the Type 2 Mutant Pangolin was also charging at Yue Zhong like a tank.

Even the head of the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python had swiveled to look towards Yue Zhong with its cold vertical eyes.

Facing the combined assault of the 2 Type 2 Mutant Beasts, Yue Zhong's eyes flashed, and pushed his [Shadow Steps] ability to the limit, dashing towards the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python.

If he allowed the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python to unleash its devastating attacks, everyone that Yue Zhong had brought would die without a doubt.

The 2 Type 2 Mutant Beasts were currently going to attack Yue Zhong, when all of a sudden, a layer of slippery ice condensed on the ground.

The Type 2 Violent Ape was caught unprepared as it stepped on the slippery ice, causing it to heavily fall, smashing a huge rock by the side of the road into smithereens.

The Type 2 Mutant Pangolin on the other hand had reacted immediately, extending its sharp claws as it grabbed the ground, maintaining its stability. However, as a result, its speed slowed down considerably.

Hu Yi walked towards Ying Kai Shan with a huge stride as he laughed: "Beautifully done Deadface!!"

Ying Kai Shan was constantly unemotive, and thus when Hu Yi had met him, he had immediately assigned a nickname to him.

Ying Kai Shan frowned as he muttered: "Hu Yi! I'm called Ying Kai Shan, not Deadface!!"

Hu Yi roared with laughter: "Haha!! I can still kill one more, after which I'll be spent! The remaining one will be left to you!"

Ying Kai Shan replied solemnly: "Then go get rid of that Type 2 Mutant Pangolin!"

"Fine!!" Hu Yi's eyes danced, as he shot forward, and again became one with the blade. An unparalleled blade beam came slashing down on the Type 2 Mutant Pangolin.

That tremendous blade beam instantly sliced through the tough carapace of the Type 2 Mutant Pangolin, splitting in two, as its innards and blood splattered out, dying Hu Yi's body red.

The moment he disposed of the Type 2 Mutant Pangolin, Hu Yi's complexion turned extremely pale, and he started to breath raggedly, before pulling his blade out and retreating. He was currently extremely weak, and had expended all he had, even a normal Mutant Beast would be able to wipe him out easily.

Yue Zhong continued to rush towards the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python, as he swapped to a PF98 swiftly. A grilled it out he immediately began aiming at it and firing.

With a flash, the rocket landed on the gargantuan body of the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python and exploded.

With that explosion, fresh blood splattered as scales flew apart. Unfortunately the rocket had actually only caused a fist-sized hole in the side of the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python.

Seeing this, Yue Zhong sucked in a breath of cold air: "What a terrifying defence!!"

If it was an ordinary Type 2 Mutant Beast, that single attack from Yue Zhong could cause the body to be blasted in two, however, all it did for the Type 3 Mutant Beast was cause a small fist-sized bloody wound, it was obvious that the defence of the Type 3 Mutant Beast was much tougher than that of a Type 2 Mutant Beast.

Of course, when the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python received that rocket from Yue Zhong, it emitted a roar of pain that sounded like a tiger or leopard, at the same time, it opened its huge jaws, and activated its innate ability, spitting out a huge green ball of poisonous mist that enveloped itself.

Yue Zhong then pulled out another PF98 and fired at the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python.

This time, when the rocket had just arrived near the body of the Green Jiao-Python, it was almost instantly disintegrated due to the strong corrosive poison mist, dissolving into a puddle.

The Type 3 Green Jiao-Python shot Yue Zhong a look, as its body started moving.

When it moved, its speed was extremely fast, even quicker than that of Lightning which was an agile-type beast, and in just a few breaths, it had reached in front of Yue Zhong.

Yue Zhong's eyes flashed as he instantly activated a layer of [Devil Flame] around him, and when the poison mist around the Green Jiao-Python came in contact with Yue Zhong's [Devil Flame, it began to sizzle and turn into wisps of vapour.

If it wasn't for the protection of the [Devil Flame, Yue Zhong would had instantly been dissolved.

The degree of poison belonging to the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python seemed to totally overcome any close-combat Enhancers. Without ample protection against the highly corrosive poison, one would be guaranteed to dissolve the moment one got too close.

Yue Zhong then activated his [Body Encompassing Armor, as White Bones turned into a black orb of light and formed a black carapace that seemingly shined with a metallic luster.

The Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python opened its huge jaws, and bit down towards Yue Zhong at a lightning speed.

Yue Zhong activated his [Shadow Steps] and his speed reached 15 times that of an ordinary person, and while it was not comparable to the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python, it gave him leeway to react.

Just as the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python started to bite down, 2 sharp bone spikes shot out from Yue Zhong's leg that was covered with the [Body Encompassing Armor, propelling him upwards into the skies.

The Type 3 Green Jiao-Python took a bite out of Yue Zhong's original position, instantly crushing the 2 bone spikes Yue Zhong shot out into dust. If Yue Zhong had been just a little slower, he would have been crushed into bits.

The moment the bone spikes were destroyed, Yue Zhong took the chance to leap onto the head of the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python.

However, just as he had gotten on its back, the beast shook its head wildly, and a huge force transmitted, coupled with the layer of slippery mucus on the beast's body, flinging Yue Zhong away by tens of metres.

Yue Zhong's pupils narrowed, as the Devil Flame in his right hand danced, and the long, all-conquering Devil Flame Spear appeared. He tossed it out strongly, and the Devil Flame Spear shot towards the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python extremely fast, breaking the sound barrier. *

The Type 3 Green Jiao-Python's eyes widened, and it opened its huge jaws to counter the Devil Flame Spear by spitting a dense green glob of poison at it.

Poison vapour rose to the skies, before the Devil Flame Spear penetrated that huge ball of poison, reaching the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python.

Although the ball of poison had not managed to stop the Devil Flame Spear entirely, it had worn down the strength of it, and the remaining power behind the Devil Flame Spear was not enough to threaten the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python.

Once it had disrupted Yue Zhong's attack, the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python opened its jaws again, and started firing balls of poison at a rate of 1 per second, continuously shooting them at Yue Zhong.

Yue Zhong's body flitted about in a bid to dodge those rapid-fire balls of poison. As those poisonous balls landed on the ground, they started to corrode the ground, leaving multiple holes.

The might of those poisonous balls was enough to engulf an area that neared half of a football field, and under the continuous firing of poison spit, the entire area was now covered with a dense green poisonous fog, and all living things within the area had already been dissolved into puddles.

If those poison balls had been fired on the site where Yue Zhong and his men were defending, it was definitely more than enough to completely wipe out the hundreds of experts.

Yue Zhong flitted about, dodging continuously like a spectre, and the Devil Flame covering his body burnt away any poison fog that neared him. Wisps of poisonous vapour sizzled towards the skies.

"Damn it!! What an annoying beast!" As Yue Zhong evaded, his heart was crying bitterly. This Type 3 Green Jiao-Python truly possessed formidable combat strength, and was forcing all his trump cards. Even then, he lacked the confidence for victory.

"I'll have to bet it all, otherwise we're going to die here." Yue Zhong's eyes flashed with a resolute glint, and he held his breath, then started to rush towards the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python. In order to defend against the assault of the poisonous fog, he had to expend a huge amount of Spirit to maintain the Devil Flame around himself. If this went on, he could defend against the poisonous fog for a limited time only, as after his Spirit was expended fully, he would lose his defence as well.

In just 3 seconds, Yue Zhong had managed to rush to the front of the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python, the Devil Flame dancing in his hands. He expended another 60 Spirit and 20 Stamina to condense a 2m-long Devil Flame Sword. This was, by now, the most that he could afford already.

Yue Zhong had just reached the body of the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python, when its eyes flashed fiercely, and bit out towards Yue Zhong in a vicious manner.

Yue Zhong caused a few bone spikes to shoot out from his right side, pushing him away by 6m, and the jaws of the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python landed on empty ground, cause a few cracks to appear in the surroundings.

Yue Zhong then quickly propelled himself towards the head of the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python, before he used the Devil Flame Sword to viciously strike at and puncture the eyes of the enormous beast.

The blazing hot Devil Flame Sword penetrated the eye, causing the mucus near the eyes to be burnt into nothing, and the might of the Devil Flame exploded out, instantly burning the insides of the eye.

The beast let out an earth-shaking roar of pain, and thrashed about with its strength, instantly knocking against Yue Zhong's body.

Yue Zhong felt like he was struck by a train as he was instantly knocked back dozens of metres, and even with his layers of protection and defence, he could feel almost 20 of his bones snapping, his internal organs shaken, as he spat out a huge amount of fresh blood.

When he landed, his body felt like breaking apart, his head dizzy, and the degree of pain almost unbearable to the point where one would wish for death. He coughed out once, and another huge mouthful of blood came rushing out. His condition was truly terrible.

This was under the fact that Yue Zhong was partly an Endurance Evolver! Naturally he had large amounts of Endurance, if it was an ordinary person, even if he were to don everything Yue Zhong had on, that single blow from the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python was enough to shatter the insides of the person. Thankfully, Yue Zhong's body was sturdy enough, hence he managed to survive the blow. Barely.

Yue Zhong gritted his teeth as he tolerated the pain, taking a look at the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python.

Only to discover that the Devil Flame was currently burning the right eye of the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python, as it writhed about in pain, however, with the enveloping mist of poison, the Devil Flame was diminishing slowly. If this continued on, the beast would definitely be able to recover.

"No! I can't go down like this!! I need to get rid of that piece of shit!!"

Yue Zhong sucked in a deep breath, swallowing a Life-Saving Grass, and directly threw a Type 2 Mutant Beast blood essence into his mouth. With a thought, 2 spikes shot out from behind him, propelling his body towards the Type 3 Green Jiao-Python.

While the blood essence of a Type 2 Mutant Beast had no more enhancing effect on Yue Zhong's Vitality, it provided a huge boost in terms of his recovery.

The moment the Type 2 Mutant Beast blood essence entered his body, it diffused and started nourishing his body. At the same time, his Level 4 [Regeneration] skill kicked in, helping in the rapid repairing of his body. This enabled him to regain his mobility even after suffering several broken bones.

When Yue Zhong reached the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python, he pulled out his Stinger, and aimed at the right eye of the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python, firing 6 consecutive shots.

The fearsome Stinger bullets penetrated the wounded right eye of the beast, forcefully entering its body before exploding, causing a number of the nerves to be destroyed as a result.

By this time, the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python had become thoroughly enraged, and started twisting its massive body, spitting out poisonous balls rapidly in all directions as part of its rampage.

Facing the enraged Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python, Yue Zhong could only use guerilla tactics such as dodge and hide.

As the spittles of venom shot out in all manner of directions, the moment it landed on any living thing, be it human or Mutant Beast, the unlucky victim would immediately be corroded and dissolved.

After spitting out more than 100 balls of poison, the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python became sluggish, after all, using its innate ability with such disregard would be tiring to even a Type 3 Mutant Beast.

Upon seeing that the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python was becoming sluggish, he propelled himself by extending a bone spike, before leaping onto the head of the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python. He used his right hand to shoot 4 extremely sharp spikes which formed a drill like shape as they pierced the wound, and began to spin rapidly.

TN: Yue Zhong you nasty.

Dedition: "Breaking the speed barrier" For anyone interested, this is 343 metres per second or 1234 km/h.

Also, question: Does the amount of exclamation marks bother you or do you think it adds to the story?

I sometimes try to swap out the exclamation marks if I feel the line needs a more solemn tone or whatnot, but I want to know if this is just me being picky or you guys agree.

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Chapter 421 – Promotion!Level 60!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

The large drill started to spin rapidly, as it made its way towards the brains of the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python. Soon after, the brain was pierced and the drill continued to spin rapidly, blending the internal brain matter into mush.

No matter how strong the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python was, with its brain destroyed it was done for. In its death throes, it tried to fling Yue Zhong, sending him flying, before it shuddered a while, and then finally slumped to the ground.

When Yue Zhong was sent flying by the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python, his body also trembled non-stop, his internal organs suffering from pain. He gritted his teeth forcefully, sending 2 spikes out from his back, supporting him and preventing him from landing harshly.

"Congratulations on achieving Level 58! You have gained 2 points of attributes to be allocated!"

"Congratulations on achieving Level 59! You have gained 2 points of attributes to be allocated!"

"Congratulations on achieving Level 60! You have gained 2 points of attributes to be allocated!"

"Congratulations on achieving Level 60! You have gained 1 skill point to be allocated!"

With the death of the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python, Yue Zhong had immediately leapt 3 levels, becoming a Level 60 Enhancer. The notifications sounded one after another in his mind.

Yue Zhong thought for a while, before allocating all the points to his Agility, at the same time, strengthening his Devil Flame to 4.

"Level 3 Skill Devil Flame (4) :……., its power is now stronger than the prior enhancement by 5 times!"

After Yue Zhong's Devil Flame was enhanced, its power was truly raised by a huge margin, however it had not yet reached the level of a Second Order skill.

A Second Order skill was the next threshold, and its might would definitely surpass that of a normal First Order skill. Ever since White Bones had evolved to its Dark Skeleton stage, it could single-handedly deal with any elite soldier, and killing even the weaker Type 2 Mutant Beasts like nothing. That was how powerful a Second Order skill was.

Yue Zhong was intending to raise his Devil Flame to its Second Order stage as quickly as possible, that way he would have something that could deal with the defence of a Type 3 Mutant Beast.

Yue Zhong looked towards the corpse of the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python, and discovered a green treasure box as well as 300 survivor coins: "I wonder what precious treasures would be dropped?"

Yue Zhong bent down to pick up the green treasure box and opened it, as a green radiant line shone out, and a green cloak appeared in his hands.

Level 5 Treasure: Green Jiao-Cape. By wrapping it around one's body, they can completely protect against even the incoming attack of a 37mm cannon. Upon equipping, Agility 12. Accompanying skill: Summon Green Jiao-Spirit. Skill description: When using the skill, a Green Jiao-Spirit with the combat ability rivalling that of a Type 2 Green Jiao-Python will appear to battle alongside user. Ability duration 1 hour. Cooldown 24 hours.

Yue Zhong donned the cape, and his Agility got raised by another 12 points. By this time, his Agility had reached 135 points. Many of the lower-levelled Agility-based Evolvers could not match his speed at all.

Yue Zhong glanced at the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python's corpse, and deactivated the Bone Encompassing Armor.

He then issued an order to White Bones: "Go retrieve its blood essence and nuclei for me!!"

To any ordinary Enhancer, the thing that was most beneficial to them would be the blood essence of the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python. The blood essence could raise their body constitution, and while it did not help the combat stats, it was still extremely important. After all, of the 6 major attributes, there was not one that was useless.

When it received the order, White Bones immediately burrowed Into the corpse of the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python, retrieving the necessary items and handing them to Yue Zhong.

The moment he killed that Green Jiao-Python, the rest of the horde started to lose all signs of their order, many of the bigger ones immediately gobbling up the weaker ones. Even more started to escape in all directions.

Even the Type 2 Violent Ape that was clashing against Ying Kai Shan suddenly left him alone and started to run towards the Mountain Range. These Type 2 Mutant Beasts had developed some sort of sixth sense, and would retreat the moment things seemed bad.

"We won!!"

"We're alive!!!"

"Thank God!! We're alive!!"

When all the experts who were beyond exhausted saw this, their hearts began to relax, and at the next moment, people began to whoop in delight and excitement.

This time, when the Mutant Beast horde had swarmed them, their numbers were nearing in the 800,000s. It was a force that was almost 20 times larger than the humans, and if it wasn't for the chaos in between the different races or their leaders being killed before the horde collapsed, the town of humans would definitely have been killed. Many of them were already prepared to die, and when the ending came and they were still alive, they could not help but cheer in relief.

Some of them had literally fainted on the ground the moment they saw the Mutant Beasts dispersing. They had been at battle for so long, and had pushed themselves beyond the limits of their Stamina and Spirit.

"Long live Boss Yue!!"

"Boss Yue you're awesome!!"

Not long after, Yue Zhong, Hu Yi and the rest slowly appeared at the town entrance. All the surviving experts immediately erupted in a earth-shaking cheer when they saw them. Passionate and thankful gazes fell on them.

Against the beast horde, if it wasn't for Yue Zhong's superb command of the situation, as well as his courage and bravery, even taking care of the Type 3 Mutant Green Jiao-Python, no one in the town would have been left alive. This was truly a heartfelt appreciation from every expert present.

Amidst the cheers, the upper echelons of the Scarlet Phoenix Triad had a complicated look as they gazed at the party.

One of the Scarlet Phoenix Elders, Liu Ling Ling whispered to Ding Lie: "Boss!! Now is the time where he's at his weakest! Shall we take him out!"

Anyone could see that Yue Zhong's party had been through a gruelling battle, and were at their limits. It was truly their weakest condition. The Scarlet Phoenix Triad had managed to establish themselves in Guilin City precisely because they were not some merciful or kind people. Taking advantage when their opponents were weak had been a normal occurrence in their manner of handling things.

Ding Lei gazed at the party for a long while, before shaking and saying: "No! If we act now, we might not be able to kill him! If we can't get a sure kill, we will suffer from his retaliation."

As the cheers went on, Yue Zhong went back to his own site and began to rest, after fighting in so many life-and-death battles consecutively, he was also feeling extremely exhausted, instantly falling asleep when he laid down.

The rest of the experts also left for their own places within the town to rest.

As for the 200 ordinary soldiers that Yue Zhong had brought specifically to help construct defences, under Larman's command, they began to sweep up all the corpses of the Type 2 Mutant Beasts, the other higher-level Mutant Beasts and kept watch over them, including the Type 3 Mutant Beast corpse. These were after all valuable treasures.

On the second day, when most of the experts had just woken up, they were summoned by Yue Zhong to the main square.

In the open square of the town, the human experts gathered one by one.

Over 3,000 people had come on the hunt for the Type 3 Mutant Beast, as of now, only 900 of them remained. The rest of the 2,000 plus people had died at the jaws of the Mutant Beast horde. However, for the surviving experts, almost everyone of them gained a huge increase in their combat abilities.

Zheng Tu also brought the rest of the Great God Triad towards the square and found a spot to sit down.

"Where's the Scarlet Phoenix Triad?" Zheng Tu swept his gaze left and right, but did not discover them, and he started to feel uneasy in his heart.

Right at this time, a chief of the Divine Dragon Triad, Zhang Zhi Hao, whose looks were insignificant, came up to Zheng Tu and said: "Old Zheng!! Seems like something's off!! Looking at the crowd, don't tell me Boss Yue wants to absorb all of us?"

While this Divine Dragon Triad sounded extremely valiant, and could be confused with the Heavenly Dragon Triad, in truth, they were comprised of 7 core members, who were good brothers, as well as a few other outer members. The Chief, Zhang Zhi Hao, had a so-so strength, and his enhancement level was 33. However, his character was smooth, and he had a lot of connections, and he had some form of bonds with Zheng Tu.

Zheng Tu eyed Zhang Zhi Hao and spoke solemnly: "Yesterday, it was all due to Boss Yue, that we're all alive now. If Boss Yue wants to take all of us in, then there's nothing wrong with it, just treat it that we're giving our lives to him."

Zhang Zhi Hao's expression turned frigid as he replied: "Bro Zheng. Yes, it's true that he saved us. But our businesses had been based on our own efforts. If he wants to take them all, isn't that inappropriate?"

When Zheng Tu heard those words, he also could not help but turn silent. Modern society was like this, even though Zheng Tu was grateful to Yue Zhong for saving their lives, but the thought of handing over his business, even Zheng Tu felt a little reluctant.

In the square, the majority of the people began to engage in discussion, guessing Yue Zhong's motives for gathering them here.

At this time, Yue Zhong strode onto the stage in the middle.

Behind Yue Zhong, there was Xin Jia Rou and Ning Yu Xin. On his sides, there were 2 neat rows of soldiers who had an extremely intimidating aura.

Yue Zhong sat down, sweeping his glance across the entire square, before opening his mouth: "Today, I've gathered everyone here, to discuss something important!"

Yue Zhong glanced around a little after pausing, then continued: "The Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad went back on their words, abandoning their posts at a crucial time. This is a heinous crime. I've decided that when I head back to Guilin City, I will exterminate them according to the agreement! However! While the Green Stone Triad has that wish, we may not have the strength! So I hope that all of you here will help me, Yue Zhong, out!"

"That's natural!! The Heavenly Dragon Triad! Green Bamboo Triad! Those bastards!! Kill them!! Boss Yue!! I, Zhang Zhi Hao, will definitely support you!!"

"Destroy them!!"

"Kill those bastards!!"

After those words of Yue Zhong, everyone present exploded out in fury. Everyone had a deep hatred for those 2 triads. If it wasn't for their betrayal, many of their brothers and friends wouldn't have died needlessly. Revenge was something they agreed on.

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Chapter 422: Di Ya's Resolve

Translated by: Kun

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[Book 3: The South]

Yue Zhong looked at everyone before slowly saying: "The Heavenly Dragon and Green Bamboo factions are large, their operations well organized. To eradicate them, we will need to work together. Without a single commander, it would be impossible, therefore I have decided to establish the Heaven Union, combining all our strength to wipe out the 2 triads!"

Yue Zhong wanted the experts present to work together. However, he knew that many of these experts had their own triads, and they would not be willing to just bring their men to join Yue Zhong, hence he came up with the idea of an union.

Zhang Zhi Hao immediately clapped his hands and nodded: "Good!! This idea's good!! That's great! I vouch for Boss Yue to be the Union Chief of this Heaven Union!!"

"That's right! If it wasn't for you Boss Yue, we would all have died!! Boss Yue, if you were to be the Union Leader, we would have no objections!"

"Those who're not willing to join the Heaven Union must be dogs of the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad! Let's eradicate them!!"

Amongst those rallying cries, there were definitely some who were planted by Yue Zhong, but a number of them were shouting out heartfelt words as well.

After the tough battle against the Mutant Beast horde the previous night, Yue Zhong had absorbed a number of experts into his ranks, and these people would be able to bolster his fighting force, and naturally increase his might.

Under those passionate cries, if there were anyone who still hesitated, they could only keep silent and go with the flow.

Yue Zhong grinned, and amiably called out: "Fine! Since everyone has so kindly nominated me! I will gladly accept the position as Union Chief then!"

This Heaven Union was a way that Yue Zhong could utilize all the different triads. With this, it was more effective than forcefully absorbing the smaller triads.

Also, with the name of the Heaven Union, Yue Zhong could justify sending those smaller powers who were not willing to join him, to become cannon fodder to test the strength of the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad, wearing down their forces.

Zhang Zhi Hao was the first to applaud loudly: "Long live Union Chief Yue!!"

"Congratulations Union Chief Yue!!"

A wave of congratulations began to resound from the people present. Some of the more intelligent ones could tell that something was off, but seeing the numerous experts beside Yue Zhong, they kept their silence.

After establishing the Union to control the number of experts, Yue Zhong began to delegate duties for them to clear the numerous Mutant Beasts corpses. They were all valuable resources, be it their hide, their bones, their claws, they were all materials that could be turned into useful equipment. Therefore, everyone began to collect with a look of excitement on their faces.

Di Ya had managed to escape back to Guilin City in a pathetic manner. When he returned, he immediately summoned the remaining 2 Elders who stayed behind as he gave an order: "Immediately bring men to go get Yue Zhong's father Yue Ming here!"

The 2 Elders were called Yan Liang and Lu Tao, and they were both Evolvers, possessing immense strength.

Yan Liang frowned as he asked: "Chief! If we kidnap Yue Ming, we will really be creating an enmity with the Green Stone Triad. Are you sure this is a good idea?"

Di Ya's pupils narrowed as he coldly asked: "Elder Yan, are you trying to go against my orders?"

Yan Liang replied with. haste: "Your subordinate does not dare! It's just that Chief, may I ask, what happened to the other Elders that went hunting with you?"

"Good! Good!! Good!!! Yan Liang you dare to question me?!" Di Ya laughed coldly, before suddenly brandishing the blade at his waist, slicing Yan Liang's head off with the flash of his weapon. Yan Liang's decapitated head flew through the air, landing on the floor with a thud, his eyes one of shock.

Yan Liang had never thought that Di Ya would actually act against him. Normally, even though the 2 of them had their conflicts, as Yan Liang was an Evolver, and his position inside the Triad wasn't low, Di Ya had to give him some face as well. Due to this, Yan Liang did not foresee that Di Ya would suddenly explode and kill him in a single move.

Witnessing this, Lu Tao's face immediately fell, and he could not help but retreated a few steps.

Di Ya stared at Lu Tao coldly, spitting: "Yan Liang committed insubordination, and was dealt with by me!! Elder Lu, are you going to obey my orders! Or do you want to disobey as well?!"

By now, within the Heavenly Dragon Triad, there were only Di Ya and Lu Tao left who were Evolvers. Yan Liang had been good friends with all 6 Elders that Di Ya brought out, and Di Ya was afraid that there would survivors from the town, and hence, to thoroughly seize control of his Heavenly Dragon Triad, he had taken care of Yan Liang at the first moment!

Lu Tao felt a chill in his heart as he replied: "Lu Tao is willing to strive for Chief!! I will bring my men to capture Yue Ming right this instant!"

With that, Lu Tao quickly left.

Di Ya then mulled for a long while, before carrying out various actions.

The entire Heavenly Dragon Triad was activated, as they went to attack the Green Stone Triad that Yue Zhong established.

Countless hooligans of the Heavenly Dragon Triad carried knives and wooden bats as they went into the different establishments, pillaging and damaging property, attacking anyone on sight. They strove to destroy as much of the businesses they could, while injuring many members of the Green Stone Triad.

Their attacks came without warning, and not long after, all 20 over shops under the Green Stone Triad were destroyed cleanly by the Heavenly Dragon Triad, and their casualties numbered in the 70s, some dead even. It was truly tragic.

One of the Hall Lords came crying in front of Zheng Ming He: "Elder Zheng!! Our 70 or more brothers had been pummeled by the Heavenly Dragon Triad!! You must help us seek redress!!"

"Have the Heavenly Dragon Triad gone crazy?" Zheng Ming He heard the report and frowned, he was different from the other subordinates of Yue Zhong. If it was the hot-blooded Bai Xiao Sheng, he definitely would have activated all the troops and fight it out with the Heavenly Dragon Triad without any consideration. As for him, he wanted to know the logic behind the actions.

One of the elites that Yue Zhong had brought over from Tianxin District came running in front of Zheng Ming He and reported: "Elder Zheng!! The main force of the Heavenly Dragon Triad is currently marching towards us now! What do we do?"

"Don't tell me that the Heavenly Dragon Triad are truly targeting us?" Zheng Ming He was shocked, before solemnly commanding: "Command all members of the Green Stone Triad to gather at the main headquarters! Prepare for battle!!"

The elite soldier replied with a "Yes!" before immediately dismissing himself.

Under Zheng Ming He's orders, a large number of the Green Stone Triad members gathered at the headquarters, as they prepared to engage in battle against the Heavenly Dragon Triad.

On the other side, Chen Sheng Gang was currently guarding Yue Zhong's house nearby with 6 other experts, as they observed everything that went on around. They were in charge of the safety of Yue Zhong's family.

One soldier suddenly pointed to a distance as he called out to Chen Sheng Gang: "Head! Those guys don't seem right!!"

Chen Sheng Gang looked towards the direction, only to see Lu Tao leading 30 experts from the Heavenly Dragon Triad as they ran over.

Lu Tao was very clear that Yue Ming would be under protection, as he was an important character, and decided to bring along more experts, intending to kidnap the entire family with brute force.

Chen Sheng Gang saw them and his expression changed, before ordering out: "Zhao Gua!! Immediately go take 2 men and escort Boss Yue's parents out of here!!"

Seeing those over 30 experts rushing over, a bad feeling arose in Chen Sheng Gang's heart.

"Yes! Head!" Zhao Gua then left immediately with 2 experts towards Yue Zhong's house.

Another elite asked Chen Sheng Gang directly: "What do we do now, Head?"

"Kill them directly!!" Chen Sheng Gang's eyes flashed grimly as he roared and pulled out a 12.7mm heavy machine gun, aiming at them and spraying wildly.

In order to protect his family, Yue Zhong had granted Chen Sheng Gang to kill without restrictions.

The dense rain of bullets immediately barraged down on those 30-over members of the Heavenly Dragon Triad.

Lu Tao and the rest totally didn't expect the usage of a heavy machine gun, furthermore, Chen Sheng Gang had not so much as asked a question, and had suddenly attacked.

In that instant, 6 of the experts were immediately ripped to shreds by the rapid fire.

"Take cover!! Kill them all!!" Lu Tao's eyes went bloodshot as he roared, and the members of the Heavenly Dragon Triad began to dive for cover, before pulling out their own weapons and firing back at Chen Sheng Gang's position.

The intense gunfire broke out, causing the survivors within the vicinity to hide in their houses as they trembled in fear.

Zhao Gua had led the 2 experts and reached Yue Zhong's house quickly, shooting down the lock and bursting through the room.

Yue Ming looked at them in shock, as he suppressed the fear in his heart and questioned: "Who are you people?"

Zhao Gua shot forward like an arrow, chopping Yue Ming and his wife in the neck, knocking them out, as he muttered: "Pardon my manners!!"

The other 2 soldiers immediately carried them, as the 3 of them made their way towards the roof of the apartment building.

Zhao Gua and his party quickly arrived at the roof above the 3rd storey.

He faced the opposite building, raising his right hand, and a number of steel wires explode out from behind his back, wrapping around one of the soldier, before sending him over to the other building.

Using this method, Zhao Gua made it across with his men, as they quickly escaped from there, rapidly landing on the other building.

Like this, they crossed a number of roofs similarly, and before long, Zhao Gua, the 2 soldiers, as well as Yue Ming and his wife disappeared amongst the buildings.

Lu Tao was also a strong Spirit-based Evolver, and as he saw the rain of bullets, he quickly activated a [Psychic Barrier, blocking those heavy machine gun bullets, at the same time bellowing: "Charge!!"

The remaining soldiers immediately leapt out from their covers, charging forwards with Lu Tao.

"Bastard!" Chen Sheng Gang's face fell, and activated his skill, as a huge wall of earth arose and blocked in front of those Heavenly Dragon Triad members. He was not aiming to kill, instead, buying for time. He had only 3 other men with him, and the 4 of them were definitely not a match against the over 20 other experts.

6 Strength-based Enhancers brought their weapons as they smashed furiously on the earth wall, causing it to break down immediately.

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Chapter 423 – Chaos Begins!

Translated by: Kun

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[Book 3: The South]

The earthen wall was broken, and a cloud of dust flew up. Lu Tao brought his men as they leapt across the debris, only to discover that there were no signs of people on the other side.

"Damn it!!" Lu Tao's face fell, and quickly brought his subordinates as they charged up the apartment building.

When Lu Tao and his men broke through the place where Yue Zhong's parents were staying, all they saw was an empty space.

"Search the place!!" Lu Tao's eyes flashed with fury as he bellowed out.

The 20 experts swiftly turned the place over, to no avail.

"Boss! They must have escaped! What now?" One of the experts came to Lu Tao and quickly reported.

Lu Tao's expression was extremely grim as he gritted his teeth: "Disperse!!"

Under Lu Tao's commands, these 20-over experts quickly retreated and left the place.

After a long while, some policemen in uniform finally sauntered over to the vicinity.

In Guilin City, the triads were numerous, and fights broke out often. As there were a number of experts in each triads, as long as things didn't get too out of hand, the local police weren't keen on interfering.

"Traitorous dog!! Get the hell out here!!"

"This is our Chinese territory, you traitors and dogs can fuck off!!"

"Traitors!! Disloyal bastards! You still don't want to get the hell out?!"

"Kill all the foreigners!!"

At a part of the city, the Heavenly Dragon Triad had surrounded the headquarters of the Green Stone Triad, and a number of the Heavenly Dragon Triad members were wielding knives and wooden bats, shouting and cursing at the people within the Green Stone Triad's building.

The Green Stone Triad had after all accepted a large amount of resources as well as the remnant soldiers of the Hong Triad. Therefore, under the right goading, the ordinary members of the Heavenly Dragon Triad were riled up enough, to call for blood, to the extent that even Yue Zhong's Green Stone Triad has been labelled as traitorous and disloyal.

Such tactics to pin the stigma on other people have long been utilized throughout history, and the members of the Heavenly Dragon Triad did not hesitate to do the same to the Green Stone Triad.

Shang Lun stood at a window, looking down on the shouting mob outside of the building, his killing intent billowing as he asked: "Old Zheng, what do we do now? Shall we kill them all?"

Shang Lun had followed Yue Zhong for a long while, and did not blink even when taking the lives of ordinary people. Truthfully, it was a numbness that most warriors had after a long while in such a world.

In the Green Stone Triad's headquarters, there were 3 battalions' worth of equipment, and the moment the entire Green Stone Triad was activated, they could easily kill those senseless hooligans outside baying for blood.

All those hooligans wielding simple knives and wooden bats, how could they be a match against professional soldiers wielding modern weaponry?

Zheng Ming He shook his head and he laughed coldly: "Not necessary!! We have plenty of other means!! Old Shang, don't worry, let's watch!"

Right at this time, a police siren resounded from afar.

Zheng Ming He laughed when he heard those sirens, saying: "They're here!"

A number of policemen quickly arrived at the location, and surrounded all the members of the Heavenly Dragon Triad.

Seeing the appearance of the policemen, the ordinary hooligans of the Heavenly Dragon Triad started to stir, and their faces fell. There were even a few who were frightened and tried to run away. A number of the higher-ranking heads bellowed in rage, and managed to control the situation, before it entirely collapsed.

Flanked by a number of policemen, Dan Hong finally appeared as he stomped to the rowdy crowd of Heavenly Dragon Triad members and roared: "What the hell are you guys doing? Gathering illegally and creating a ruckus is an offence! Don't tell me all of you want to spend your time in jail?!"

When the Heavenly Dragon Triad members saw that it was the Superintendent that appeared, the atmosphere broke, and a number of them immediately turned and ran.

If the triads in China had no backing, they were vulnerable to the police. Any small-time hooligan would be fearful and run when they saw a policeman.

Dan Hong swept a gaze across the remaining members, as he called out in a cold voice: "Lock all of them up!! Any who dares to resist, shoot them on the spot!!"

In the post-apocalyptic world, the authority of the police was still far-reaching. Executing criminals on the spot was a common occurrence, and using strength to demonstrate was now a normal way of the world.

Although Guilin City was considered quite stable when compared to the other establishments that Yue Zhong had come across, it was still part of the post-apocalyptic world, and punishments were still severe.

"Wait a minute!!" Right as Dan Hong issued the order for the Heavenly Dragon Triad members to be locked up, one of the Hall Lords, Sheng Huai Guang, stepped forwards in strides and barked.

Dan Hong glanced at him and asked in a low voice: "Sheng Huai Guang, are you going to resort to violence to retaliate?"

Hearing those words, the policemen around got tense as they pulled out their weapons. Some even immediately brought out their assault rifles and aimed it at the crowd of Heavenly Dragon Triad.

In this world, resisting was a frequent thing. As there were countless Enhancers amongst the civilians, many policemen would lose their lives on patrol. However, those who had truly plotted against the government, had long since been wiped out by the experts of the government and the army.

Guilin City used to have 5 Great Triads, but due to the actions of one of them offending a government official, an operation was mounted to wipe all traces of that particular Triad, and everyone saw the true might of the government. If the Heavenly Dragon Triad were to resist with force, their days would truly be numbered.

Dan Hong was an asshole, Yue Zhong had chose not to kill him, precisely because he could make use of him and the threat of the government behind him.

Sheng Huai Guang laughed as he turned his body slightly, revealing a weak young man with an arrogant bearing and dressed entirely in branded clothing as he said: "I don't dare! How could I, Sheng Huai Guang, be so bold as to go against the government? But, look who this is?"

The young man wearing branded stuff and had an arrogant look stared at Dan Hong with a provocative look: "Dan Hong! Don't you recognize me?"

Dan Hong looked at the despotic young man, and his expression changed, as his back broke out in cold sweat: "So it's Young Master Li! Why are you here?"

This young man was called Li Hong Zhi, and was the son of the mayor of Nanning City.

Currently in Guilin City, there was the banner of Guilin City and Nanning City, both had tremendous authority and reputation. Nanning City's mayor Li Jiu Ming and his men had a huge hand in everything with Guilin City, and was considered a true giant within the walls of Guilin City. That was why when Dan Hong saw Li Hong Zhi, his face had changed and he was breaking out in cold sweat.

Li Hong Zhi had a condescending look as he stared at Dan Hong, before replying at though he was calling a slave: "Dan Hong!! Since you recognize me, what are you waiting for? Go get your men and round up the Green Stone Triad!! Or do you want my dad to tear the skin off your back?"

In this post-apocalyptic world, where order had collapsed, and there was no longer any supervision by the public, all the high ranking government officials had took it up upon themselves to be sons of heavens. They became extremely arrogant, and this Li Hong Zhi was one such character.

When Dan Hong was reprimanded by this Li Hong Zhi as though he was his house servant, his face also turned white and green. He was after all, a government official himself with a certain status, and being scolded like that was extremely unpleasant to him. However, Li Hong Zhi truly represented his father Li Jiu Ming, and was not someone he could offend.

However, when Dan Hong thought of Yue Zhong's decisive methods, his heart felt conflicted. If Yue Zhong came back, he would definitely raze his entire family to the ground if he didn't handle this matter properly.

After struggling internally for a while, Dan Hong gritted his teeth as he commanded: "Li Hong Zhi! I'm currently on government business!! Pardon my offence!! Everyone, go round them all up!!"

Under Dan Hong's orders, those policemen immediately forced their way towards the Heavenly Dragon Triad members.

Li Hong Zhi's face turned ugly as he shouted: "You guys dare!!! I'm the son of Li Jiu Ming, the mayor of Nanning City!!"

Hearing his explosive revealing of his status, a few policemen stopped in their tracks, their faces showing hesitation. This was the son of one of the giants in Guilin City, if they were to bring him in now, his family would just pat him a little and he would be released, but the police themselves might lose their lives.

Just then, a shout of rage travelled from afar: "Who dares tough my brother Li Hong Zhi!!"

Following that angry shout, an army officer dressed entirely in military uniform, his hands wielding a gun, a head with short hair, burly build, eagle-eyes and a hook nose, came running, his entire body armed to the teeth.

Dan Hong saw the military officer and his face truly turned ashen, his heart full of regret: "Shit!! If I'd known, I wouldn't have stuck my neck out for Yue Zhong! This time, I'm fucked!"

Li Hong Zhi on the other hand was laughing loudly as he came up to greet the officer: "Brother Chang! You're here!"

The officer was called Chang Yu Feng, and he was a company officer that was on good terms with Li Hong Zhi. This time, Chang Yu Feng had actually brought along a company of soldiers to assist Li Hong Zhi.

Chang Yu Feng eyed Dan Hong coldly as he issued the command: "So you want to touch my brother? Men, capture him! Those who stand in the way, kill without hesitation!"

Hearing Chang Yu Feng's orders, 20 elite soldiers came out from behind Chang Yu Feng, as they charged towards Dan Hong.

The policemen under Dan Hong looked on helplessly as these properly-trained military soldiers came up to them and apprehended them. These were the military, the weapons in the police hands were insufficient to go against them. Even their training was on a different level. These policemen naturally did not dare retaliate, otherwise, they would truly lose their lives.

Dan Hong immediately went up to Li Hong Zhi, as he called out loudly with a pale face: "I'm from the government!! On what basis are you guys capturing me??"

Li Hong Zhi eyed Dan Hong, as he smirked coldly: "Government? Here, I'm the sky, I'm the law!! You're just a small superintendent and you want to go against me? You're truly seeking death!! Take him away!! Execute him!!"

Dan Hong immediately turned even paler as he shouted: "Dont' kill me!! Don't kill me!!"

2 burly men immediately grabbed the arms of Dan Hong and dragged him like a dog towards a small ditch.

The policemen looked on as Dan Hong was dragged into a ditch, his eyes filled with despair like a rabbit about to become the meal of a fox.

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Chapter 424 – Mobilization!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

Within the building, Shang Lun looked out the window and frowned: "Things aren't looking good. Looks like Dan Hong is about to be executed!"

Zheng Ming He eyed those soldiers and his brows furrowed as well: "Even the army came? Seems like this Heavenly Dragon Triad is not simple!"

Just as those 2 burly men brought Dan Hong towards a small ditch, 2 razor sharp bone spikes flashed by, and the heads of the 2 burly men were sent flying. Blood sprayed towards the skies, shocking everyone present.

"Ah!!!" When the 2 heads rolled over to a cowardly member of the Heavenly Dragon Triad, he could not help but scream.

The majority of the hooligans under the Heavenly Dragon Triad banner were ordinary members, and had not seen much blood. This time, witnessing the beheading of people right in front of their eyes, it was truly a terrifying scene.

The scream of the Heavenly Dragon Triad member attracted everyone's gaze towards the direction of the small ditch.

In front of everybody, Yue Zhong stepped forward into the pool of already congealing blood, followed by Hu Yi and a large number of experts.

Dan Hong was following by Yue Zhong's side, tears streaking down his face as he thanked profusely: "Many thanks to Boss Yue for saving my life!! Thank you Boss Yue!! From today onwards, this small life truly belongs to you Boss Yue!!"

Yue Zhong glanced at him and responded mildly: "As long as you carry your duties well for me, I will definitely not let you suffer!"

Yue Zhong naturally did not trust Dan Hong's pledge. This was modern society, and the current people treated promises like eating rice and passing flatulence, no one had the decency to uphold promises anymore. Only through sufficient threat and rewards, as well as the power to back up one's rules, would people truly be loyal.

If Yue Zhong had not established the Green Stone Triad, which became such a huge triad, he would have been unable to attract so many experts to join together under his banner.

Li Hong Zhi eyed Yue Zhong, laughing coldly as he ordered the nearby policemen: "You must be the Chief of the Green Stone Triad, Yue Zhong? All you useless policemen, what are you spacing out for? Why aren't you apprehending him! You want me to flay the skin on your back?"

When the policemen heard Li Hong Zhi trying to order them like dogs, their expressions turned ugly, and although they were extremely unwilling in their hearts, they began moving towards Yue Zhong, albeit hesitantly.

In this world, anyone who could become a cop was already a matter worth mentioning to the ordinary folks. However, if their identity and status as a policeman was taken away from them, they would be nothing. Under such threats, although their hearts were brimming with hatred, they could not help but slowly inch their way towards Yue Zhong.

Li Hong Zhi, on the other hand, just hid amongst the Heavenly Dragon Triad, watching the party of Yue Zhong as he smirked coldly.

The policemen represented the power of the government, if Yue Zhong dared to retaliate, it was tantamount to going against the government of Guilin City. If he didn't, then when he landed in the hands of the government, it was the same as being at the mercy of that Young Master Li.

Sheng Huai Guang also laughed coldly: "Yue Zhong!! Just surrender! If you kneel now and kiss the boots of Young Master Li, we can let you off with your life!! Otherwise, all your family and friends will die because of you!!"

"Yue Zhong!! Offer up your women for everyone's enjoyment! If this Daddy is happy, I will help you seek favour with Young Master Li, and let you off with your life being worse than a dog! Haha!"

"Yue Zhong! Crawl under Young Master Li's legs! Then let this daddy hit your bottom! I'll help you with your arsehole, lest those in the jail cells get you first! Haha!!"

Various vicious words and insults came from the members of the Heavenly Dragon Triad. There wasn't a single decent person within them, and the moment they began cursing, they seemed to have forgotten their bearings.

Yue Zhong's eyes emitted a strong cold killing intent, as he pulled out a walkie-talkie and barked coldly: "Kill them all!!"

At that instant, various M4s started pointing out from the headquarters of the Green Stone Triad, and at the next moment, a torrential spray of bullets came raining down on the Heavenly Dragon Triad, policemen as well as the soldiers of Chang Yu Feng.

"Ah!!"

"Help!!"

"Ah!!"

"It hurts!!"

"Save me!!"

Without enough time to react or defend, under the rain of bullets numerous men immediately slumped to the ground in pools of blood, and those who were not instantly killed were screaming and wailing in pain and agony.

Yue Zhong waved his hands, pulling out a .05 submachine gun and charged at the group of soldiers brought by Chang Yu Feng as he fired wildly.

The unfortunate soldiers were instantly decimated, with all of them being fired upon in a flash.

No one had expected for Yue Zhong to retaliate in such a decisive and vicious manner. He had not even spoken a single sentence to them, and immediately acted, causing his enemies to die without warning.

At the same time, from behind the group of soldiers led by Chang Yu Feng, White Bones leapt out and fired out various bone spikes in all directions, piercing the heads of the soldiers that were not yet dead.

The densely packed Heavenly Dragon Triad had immediately collapsed and scattered the moment a few of their men were fired upon, as the rest began to escape in various directions.

"Damn animal!!" Chang Yu Feng's eyes were bloodshot as he roared out while ducking for cover. His entire company of soldiers had been steadfast comrades of his for many years! However, today they were actually killed like slaughtered animals, and he was instantly filled with fury and hatred at Yue Zhong!!

It must be known that the entire company were elite soldiers, who could hold their own in long battles. Such an elite force was actually taken out in an instant at Yue Zhong's hands, and Chang Yu Feng was filled with fury and agony.

"How did it become like this?! How did it become like this!! Ah!!! I don't want to die!! Save me!! Save me!!" Li Hong Zhi looked in horror at the dying or dead members of the Heavenly Dragon Triad and policemen around him. He was thoroughly frightened and had pissed himself in fear, at the same time wailing in fright.

"Young Master!! Quickly, we must escape!!" A powerful Evolver appeared in front of Li Hong Zhi as he activated an [Air Barrier] and blocked the bullets. Another Evolver began to pull at Li Hong Zhi as they tried to run.

Those who engaged in the arts, culture or martial techniques, they would provide services for the royals and nobles. This was a long-time tradition in China. Many experts liked the high-flyer lifestyle, and since Li Jiu Ming was one of the top dogs in Guilin City, he naturally employed a number of experts.

Yue Zhong looked towards Bai Xiao Sheng beside him, who replied almost immediately: "I'll go! You want him dead, or alive?"

Yue Zhong replied mildly: "If alive, I want to see him, if dead, I want his corpse!"

"Yes! Leader!!" Bai Xiao Sheng chuckled and disappeared in a flash, towards the direction where Li Hong Zhi escaped towards.

Yue Zhong made a flashy example of an entire company of soldiers, as well as a number of policemen. This was already tantamount to declaring war against the powers of Guilin City. Since it was like this, Bai Xiao Sheng had immediately discarded the pretext of calling boss, and immediately referred to him respectfully as Leader.

Chang Yu Feng, who was hiding behind a corner, bellowed out in rage: "Yue Zhong!!! Stop! Are you trying to revolt? Guilin City has an entire regiment, to deal with a terrorist like you, is simply a matter of time. It's not too late to stop!! If you surrender now, I can seek leniency on your behalf, and definitely will not pursue this!!"

Yue Zhong's gaze was extremely icy as he chuckled: "Enough of your bullshit! I'm giving you 3 seconds! You can choose to die with the rest of your comrades, or surrender!"

Not pursuing matters, was a lie told to bluff children. In such an era where everyone sought their own benefits, everyone knew that those in power would definitely pursue matters. Yue Zhong had already decided to take matters into his hands, and had no intention to go back.

Just as they were having their exchange, White Bones flew about with its bone blades, and numerous soldiers were dying left, right and centre. After facing a huge monster horde, White Bones had evolved to a fearsome level, and possessed incredible combat strength.

"I surrender!!"

"I surrender!! Don't kill me!!"

Facing that gruesome slaughter, a number of the soldiers and remaining members of the Heavenly Dragon Triad cried out as they disposed of their weapons and immediately submitted. The casualty and death toll was simply too terrifying, and even a number of experts that were brought along had been casually killed by the Evolvers on Yue Zhong's side. They had thoroughly collapsed.

Chang Yu Feng looked at his miserable troops and the pathetic members of the Heavenly Dragon Triad and gritted his teeth, before trying to get away towards the direction of the army camp: "Damn it!! Yue Zhong's rebellion must be made known to the Regiment Commander!!"

Soon, the entire grounds in front of the Green Stone Triad was filled with corpses, and the kneeling members of the Heavenly Dragon Triad and soldiers who had lost their bravado.

Not long after, the hundreds of members of the Heaven Union who Yue Zhong brought back from the small town came and saw the carnage, and their faces fell.

One Heaven Union expert could not help but asked Yue Zhong pointedly and loudly: "Yue Zhong!! What's the meaning of this?! Are you trying to revolt?"

When that question burst out, everyone's eyes swivelled towards Yue Zhong.

Yue Zhong glanced at that member and chuckled: "No! I want to control the entire Guilin City!! Those who're willing to work with me stand on the right! Those who aren't, go to the left!! I'm giving you 10 seconds to consider! 10, 9….."

Right as Yue Zhong started his countdown, members of the Green Stone Triad immediately raised their guns and pointed at the crowd.

Those experts who had followed Yue Zhong loyally also stood and gazed at the crowd with an intensity.

Under those circumstances, many of the experts were smart enough to stand on the right. They might not agree with Yue Zhong's actions, but faced with those circumstances, they could only bow their heads, and no matter how unwilling they were, they could not show it.

However, there were 15 Heaven Union experts who directly stood on Yue Zhong's left, obviously expressing their disagreement.

One young university student stared at Yue Zhong in a righteous manner as he declared: "Yue Zhong! If you want to destroy the Heavenly Dragon Triad? I'm willing to be the first to help! But if you want to revolt, I, Zhang He, am the first to disagree!!"

Yue Zhong looked at those experts and his eyes flashed coldly, before his gaze landed on Zhang He as he said indifferently: "Since this is the case, then you guys can die! Do it!"

The moment Yue Zhong's words landed, a sharp bone blade shot out explosively from the side, piercing the 15 experts standing on the left, spraying a huge amount of blood.

One of the Heaven Union experts who was an Agility-based Evolver had been on alert since he stood on the left side, and the moment the bone blade appeared, he had leapt upwards, intending to dart to one side.

Yue Zhong casually raised his Stinger and fired a single explosive shot, causing the Heaven Union expert to stop and be split in two by whitebones.

Another Heaven Union member brandished a blade, and a blade beam appeared, forcefully blocking the bone spike. However, another blade came towards him from his blind side, decapitating him with similarly lightning speed.

The righteous sounding Zhang He had been pierced in the heart by another bone spike.

In a manner of seconds, the dozen of Heaven Union experts had been slaughtered cleanly by Yue Zhong, their blood dying the ground red.

Witnessing this, all the remaining Heaven Union members felt their heart turn cold, and were fearful towards Yue Zhong's decisive methods.

Yue Zhong eyed them and barked out coldly: "I know that there are some of you guys who are still not satisfied! I don't care! I have utmost confidence in conquering Guilin City. If you guys help me, I naturally would not neglect you. If there are any of you who dares to create chaos, not only will I kill you, your family and close loved ones will become slaves and trophies of the victors!!

Zhang Zhi Hao's brows lifted as he immediately called out: "I accept Union Leader Yue as the Leader! Long live Leader!"

"We accept Union Leader Yue as the Leader! Long live Leader!

Many of the remaining Heaven Union experts cursed Zhang Zhi Hao for kissing the horse's ass, but they also could not help but clamour to express their loyalty. In a situation where no one dared to stand out, they could only forcefully lend a hand to Yue Zhong.

Zheng Ming He came to Yue Zhong, as he hesitated a while before asking: "Leader! Isn't it too early to be acting now?"

Zheng Ming He had long since known of Yue Zhong's ambitions for Guilin City, but their current foothold was not strong enough. Furthermore, that Du Shan Xiong was leading a regiment of border guards that had exterminated a huge number of zombies after all.

Zheng Ming He could not think of any way they had as a motley bunch against the elite troops of Du Shan Xiong.

Yue Zhong glanced at Zheng Ming He and ordered coldly: "Bring some men and follow me!!"

Under Yue Zhong's orders, the entire Green Stone Triad was activated, and immediately equipped the 3 battalions' worth of equipment.

Yue Zhong then gathered all his manpower as they made their way towards the granary of Guilin City.

In this post-apocalypse, food was the most precious resource. That granary happened to be the only weak point of Guilin City. Without food, even a 100,000-strong army would be wiped out in a battle of attrition.

Since Yue Zhong had suddenly attacked, there was almost no resistance along the way, and there was no one who could stop him anyway. He quickly brought his troops right in front of the granary.

The importance of the granary in Guilin City was known to everyone. Inside the granary, there was a company of soldiers stationed as well as 40 Enhancers of above Level 30. No matter who tried to tackle the granary, would face the instant retaliation of an elite troop.

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Chapter 425 – Snatching the Granary!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

As Yue Zhong and his troops were nearing the granary, a dense hail of bullets came raining down on them from the granary, and killed a number of soldiers who had just undergone training recently.

The moment those soldiers were killed, the 3 battalions of soldiers instantly lost their composure, dodging behind cover, with signs of collapsing.

Although Yue Zhong had 3 battalions' worth of equipment, those equipping were people who had not yet undergone much training, and they naturally could not act like troops yet.

Larman found Yue Zhong and said: "Leader! Let me do it!"

Larman was in control of a platoon of elite soldiers, at the same time, he had chosen a few selected foreigners under him to undergo training 24/7. By now, he had a company's worth of elite troops. These foreigners were in foreign territory, and in order to live on and gain a better life, they were extremely valiant when fighting. In the battle at the small town, many of them had achieved numerous merits. Larman's foreign troops was one of the most capable troops under Yue Zhong's command now.

Hu Yi also came over as he urged Yue Zhong: "Bro!! Let me do it!! As long as I can get close to them, those fellows wouldn't even know what hit them!"

Yue Zhong eyed the direction of the granary and solemnly declared: "No need. Defend the back properly and await my orders!"

Around the granary, there were various constructions and defence fortifications erected. Without any heavy firepower, it was difficult to shake those defences. Yue Zhong was also lacking explosives. If he were to let the others attack, it would not prove to be of much difference.

After leaving his orders, he activated his [Shadow Steps] and immediately charged towards the granary with White Bones beside him.

The commanding officer of the granary defence troops looked at Yue Zhong and White Bones rushing over and could not help but grin coldly: "Fools! Open fire!"

There was, of course, a battalion stationed at the granary. The commander, Chai Zi Cang, was the brother-in-law of Du Shan Xiong and the battalion under his control was one of the stronger battalions amongst Du Shan Xiong's troops. They were naturally unafraid of 2 attacking experts. In his opinion, it didn't matter who came before him, facing those heavy firearms, they would be turned to ash.

In an instant, those various defence points around the granary opened fire, and all sorts of ammunition, rifle bullets, light machine gun ammo, and even grenades came flying and blanketed the entire area that Yue Zhong and White Bones were running through.

In the surrounding area of 500m, it was seemingly wiped clean. There was no cover, and it seemed impossible for Yue Zhong and White Bones to evade at all.

Just when Yue Zhong and White Bones were about to be enveloped by the barrage of flying lead and soon to be shrapnel, the Level 5 Bronze Spiritual Bell came flying out from Yue Zhong's chest pocket and floated above his head, creating a green shield, and when the bullets landed on that shield, they bounced off.

And White Bones was basically impervious to most bullets anyway, as the bullets landed on it, they just directly bounced away as well.

When Chai Zi Cang saw the bullets having no effect on the two, his expression turned to one of horror as he immediately ordered his men. "Experts? Quick, switch to the heavy firearms!! Red Arrows!! Grenade Launchers!! Artillery!! Blast the ever living shit out of them!!"

Very quickly, rounds of heavy fire started falling on the location of Yue Zhong and White Bones.

However, the speed of both Yue Zhong and White Bones was too fast, and the moment the heavy rounds had landed on where they were, Yue Zhong and White Bones had already breached the entrance of the granary.

Yue Zhong activated his skill at the first notice, and a 70m-long Type 2 Green Jiao-Python appeared out of thin air.

When the Type 2 Green Jiao-Python appeared, it immediately spat out a huge gas of poison fog around itself as defence. Following which, it charged towards the granary like a tank, all the while swallowing the resisting soldiers along the way.

The Type 2 Green Jiao-Python was surrounded by its deadly poison, and anything that it came into contact with would immediately corrode. As it charged through the granary, it was invincible, and no one could stop it. Any soldier who saw it immediately lost their wits, as they tried to escape from it.

The might of a Type 2 Mutant Beast like the Green Jiao-Python was perfect for an all-out assault, as its size could pressure the weaker ordinary humans, at the same time, suppressing any potential resistance.

The Type 2 Green Jiao-Python spat out another round of poisonous gas, and 6, 7 soldiers hiding behind a cover immediately dissolved into a puddle. When it opened its mouth, it could easily gobble another soldier up. When it smashed into an unfortunate soldier, the impact was enough to tear the person from within, bones snapping and all. It went on a rampage amongst the soldiers, causing carnage and mayhem everywhere.

At this critical juncture, the 40 experts that had been hiding within the crowd of soldiers finally made their appearance.

"Heaven Union! Charge!!" Yue Zhong then issued a command through a walkie-talkie.

Hu Yi had been temporarily placed in control over the Heaven Union, and when he received the order, he roared out excitedly: "Everybody!! Charge!! Those who don't, I'll personally chop off your heads!!"

The bulk of the defences and fire points had been destroyed by Yue Zhong, and the Heaven Union followed closely behind Hu Yi as they charged into the granary.

When they saw the scene of carnage inside the granary, their hearts turned cold, and many of those Heaven Union members who were absorbed by Yue Zhong immediately surrounded the 40 military experts.

There were over hundreds of experts in the Heaven Union, and after the baptism of that life-and-death battle at the small town, everyone had emerged so much stronger. Hundreds of experts against 40 military experts, even those who were not willing to submit to Yue Zhong, easily subdued the military experts.

Collapse, total collapse. The moment the experts from the Heaven Union joined in the fray, with Yue Zhong and White Bones as the vanguards, in a manner of minutes, the entire granary had been cleared of any resistance.

Chai Zi Cang looked around at the mayhem and his face turned pale as he slumped to the ground: "It's over!! The granary is finished!! Guilin City is finished!!"

One of the intelligence soldiers! immediately grabbed Chai Zi Cang as he shook him and exclaimed: "Commander!! It's still not over!! Although Yue Zhong had snatched the granary! The troops in his hands are not a match for the Regiment Commander! I'm guessing that he wants to negotiate!! Let's surrender first!!"

Chai Zi Cang immediately brightened up as he grabbed the hands of his intelligence officer: "That's right!! Negotiations!! He will definitely want to negotiate!! Bring me to him!!"

The moment Chai Zi Cang decided to surrender, all the fighting ceased within the Granary, different companies of the soldiers immediately surrendered, and became Yue Zhong's captives.

"I'm Chai Zi Cang, the Commanding Officer of the unit here, I want to see Yue Zhong!!"

Under the forceful request of Chai Zi Cang, 2 soldiers led him towards a room.

Only to discover that seated in a sofa of the room, there was an extremely young man, and beside him on the left was a cool-looking beauty, and on the right, an adorable loli. The cold-looking young beauty was currently cooling a cup of warm milk for the young man, while the loli was currently peeling wild grapes, and using her small hands to feed the young man.

Chai Zi Cang glanced at the young man sitting at the soda enjoying the treatment as he asked woodenly: "I'm Chai Zi Cang, the commander of the military unit here! You must be Yue Zhong?"

Yue Zhong glanced at Chai Zi Cang and pointed to opposite the sofa, as he replied indifferently: "I'm Yue Zhong, Sit!"

Chai Zi Cang sat down at the indicated place, as he stared at Yue Zhong and asked: "Yue Zhong, Why did you rebel? This will cause unrest amongst the citizens, and although you have snatched the granary now, your strength is insufficient to defend it!! The moment the army of the Regiment Commander reaches, your troops will suffer. There might be some misunderstanding between us, let's talk properly."

Yue Zhong smiled lightly and replied: "Commander Chai, I've mobilized my troops because I was forced to!! I was forced into a corner by that Li Hong Zhi and Chang Yu Feng those scum, and had no choice but to act in self-defence. Against the army of Regiment Commander Du, I know I have no way of defending against him. But what if, I decide to raze the granary to the ground! What do you think will happen?"

When Chai Zi Cang heard up to this point, his heart turned incredibly cold. In this granary, there was a few hundred thousand tonnes of rations. The entire populace of Guilin City depended on this place. If the entire place was razed, all order in Guilin City would then collapse. Without the support of rations, no matter how capable Du Shan Xiong's troops were, his subordinates will quickly collapse, and the entire regiment would be lost.

Chai Zi Cang stood up and exclaimed loudly: "How can you do that!! If you were to raze this place, it would cause the deaths of over hundreds of thousands of people!! Are you that cruel? It's the lives of hundreds of thousands of Chinese!!!"

Yue Zhong's gaze turned cold as he looked at Chai Zi Cang: "I didn't want this result! But, whoever wants my life, will have to pay the proper price! If I'm forced to a corner, then I couldn't care less about the lives of hundreds of thousands of people!"

Chai Zi Cang looked at Yue Zhong and his expression changed numerous times, in the end he sat down in silence. He didn't dare to provoke Yue Zhong further. If Yue Zhong truly set fire to the place, the entire Guilin City would be doomed.

Yue Zhong watched as Chai Zi Cang sat down helplessly, and his expression changed, as he smiled: "However, it's not like there's nothing to discuss. I personally hope to be able to have a good discussion with Regiment Commander Du! I hope that Commander Chai can help me convey a message on my behalf."

Chai Zi Cang mulled over for a while, as his heart regained a glimmer of hope: "Fine."

When Yue Zhong mobilized his troops and revolted, the entire Guilin City went into shock and a number of opportunists also emerged. Many people began to engage in their own forms of destruction, as a number of mobs took to the streets and plundered, and robbed, giving in to the inner demons. The entire city seemed to be plunged in chaos.

The government also responded fairly quickly, as countless policemen and special forces were dispatched to quell the chaos. Du Shan Xiong who was stationed out of Guilin City also rushed back with his troops.

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Chapter 426 – Threats

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

Just as Du Shan Xiong's troops had the granary surrounded, Chai Zi Cang came walking out from the troops of Yue Zhong, and returned to Du Shan Xiong.

In an emergency command post, Chai Zi Cang saw his superior Du Shan Xiong.

Du Shan Xiong was decked in a neat military uniform, and his brows radiated a strict and no-nonsense attitude. He had a few signs of white hair, and his body was radiating a strong soldier aura. He listened to Chai Zi Cang's account of the events quietly, as his brows furrowed deeper with each passing moment: "He really threatened to burn the granary down?"

The entire Guilin City relied on the granary to live, and if the hundred thousands tonnes of rations were to be burnt down, Guilin City was sure to fall.

Chai Zi Cang eyed Du Shan Xiong, and knew that this superior of his was reaching the boiling point, but he still bit the bullet to reply: "Yes!"

Du Shan Xion erupted in rage, and slammed down strongly on the table, causing his right hand to become numb as he roared: "Dammit! He's a terrorist that doesn't consider the big picture!!"

In this apocalyptic world, not all high-ranking officials were powerful enhancers. The strong ones tend to be fighting at the frontlines, hence a lot of the commanders behind the scenes were ordinary people. If the head was not safe, the walls will definitely crumble, and one could not expect an old fart with experts protecting him to be wielding a Tang Replica Sword and hacking a zombie.

Yue Zhong had met numerous leaders of factions who were Enhancers in their own right. This was because, when the world had gone to shit, only those with strength had the ability to convince the masses. Without any capabilities, no one would give two hoots.

One of the intelligence officer, Liu Xuan, came up to Du Shan Xiong and asked: "Regiment Commander! Shall we proceed with eliminating them?"

Du Shan Xiong's expression was extremely unsightly as he rebuked: "Eliminate them? What if they really burn the place down? What will you guys eat then?! You pig-brain!"

The intelligence officer's face fell when he was reprimanded and he immediately scooted back, his face flushed with embarrassment.

Harsh scoldings were a common occurrence in the military. Du Shan Xiong might be the Regiment Commander, but he came from a low military background as he worked his way up, and when he was enraged, his curses were not easy on the ears.

Du Shan Xiong calmed down as he stared fixedly at Chai Zi Cang and asked: "What are his terms?"

Chai Zi Cang seemed to hesitate, but he gritted his teeth and replied: "Regiment Commander! He wants you to pull your troops back by 10 li, otherwise he will burn the place in 1 hour! The moment we launch an assault, he would kill all our brothers that are held captive!"

When Du Shan Xiong heard that, he became even more enraged and stood straight up, almost bellowing: "He can forget about it!! I, Du Shan Xiong will never cower before threats!!! Chai Zi Cang, immediately go and tell that bastard, bring his men out to surrender now! Otherwise, when my army charges in, they will all die without a body to bury!!"

"Regiment Commander!! We can't do that!!"

"Regiment Commander!! Be appeased!!"

The various intelligence officers immediately crowded around as they tried to dissuade him. They did not think that their troops could not match against Yue Zhong. On the contrary, they were worried that Yue Zhong would really raze the granary to the ground, then that would truly spell the end of their troops. Without rations, no one would help to fight battles.

When they tried to dissuade him, Du Shan Xiong got even more furious, and pulled out the pistol by his waist and shouted: "Enough!! Whoever dares to say anything more, I will execute him on the spot! I want to see if Yue Zhong really dares to burn down the granary!!"

When Du Shan Xiong lost his temper, all his subordinates immediately quietened down. His temper was explosive, and when he lost it, it was impossible for anyone to stop him. If any one of them truly lost their lives to his temper, it wouldn't be worth it.

Right at this time, another commander came rushing into the command post with a pale face as he reported shrilly: "Regiment Commander!! Not good!!! Yue Zhong is starting to burn the granary!! One of the ration stores has already been set aflame!!!"

Du Shan Xiong immediately felt like a cold bucket of water had been poured on him, as he trembled: "What!?! He's burning the granary!!"

Although Du Shan Xiong was bad tempered, he wasn't an idiot, and he was well aware of the consequences once Yue Zhong burns down the granary. It would be hell and Guilin City would lose all sense of its order. The regiment that he painstakingly established would be dissolved in a matter of days.

Chai Zi Cang's eyes were bloodshot by now as he knelt on the floor in front of Du Shan Xiong and begged miserably: "Regiment Commander!! Let's retreat!! He's truly going to burn the place down!! For the sake of our brothers of the 8th Regiment and the people of Guilin City, please retreat now!!"

"Regiment Commander!! Let's retreat!!"

"Retreat, please!!"

All the intelligence officers also started to plead.

Du Shan Xiong raised his hand weakly to wipe his forehead, as he closed his eyes and spat out in agony: "Pull back!!"

"Yes!!"

Receiving his orders, all the intelligence officers immediately issued the commands to pull back.

The huge army that was surrounding Yue Zhong swiftly retreated back towards Guilin City.

"They've finally retreated!!" Inside the granary, Yue Zhong eyed the swift retreat of Du Shan Xiong's army, and heaved a sigh of relief.

Yue Zhong was also aware of the consequences of burning the granary. Guilin City would lose its stability and order, and Du Shan Xiong's troops would also not be able to quell the chaos, before they themselves collapsed from the gravity of the situation.

But if it was like this, then even if Yue Zhong did his utmost to save as many as he could, there would be countless who would be caught up in the fight for food and the ensuing chaos. Yue Zhong was also unwilling to witness such a scene.

Bai Xiao Sheng came up to Yue Zhong and asked loudly: "Leader, why don't we just burn the place down? As long as we burn it, Guilin City would be plunged into chaos and mayhem. Du Shan Xiong won't be able to control his army, wouldn't that be the best case scenario for us?"

Bai Xiao Sheng was also smart, and he had seen Yue Zhong only using a few thousand tonnes of rations to scare the army into retreating, and knew of the underlying reason. To them who had no foothold in such a place, having Guilin City implode from within would be the best for them.

Yue Zhong eyed Bai Xiao Sheng before replying with a solemn tone: "If we burn the granary, Guilin City would lose over ten thousand people at least. How can I do that?! This is our China after all!"

If it was overseas, Yue Zhong could care less about the granaries and number of deaths. As long as it met his objectives, he would do so. If he could use a single fire to burn the ration supplies of Wu Yan Hong, he would not hesitate to do so.

Bai Xiao Sheng asked curiously: "Then Leader, why can't we directly use the chance to force Du Shan Xiong to submit? That way, won't the entire Guilin City land in our hands?"

Yue Zhong eyed the retreating tanks and cannons as he replied slowly: "What if they decided to risk it all and fight it out? If we compare strength, we're simply not their match. Furthermore, if we go through with it, they might really lose their army, so what? If the number of us that makes it out alive can be more than 20%, that would be impressive."

If Du Shan Xiong really went crazy and unleashed everything to eliminate Yue Zhong, it wouldn't be hard. Under the intense barrage of heavy firearms, the moment Yue Zhong was unlucky to be hit by one, he would also be sent directly to heaven. Not to mention any other Enhancer.

Furthermore, Yue Zhong had established the Heaven Union and had absorbed a number of experts who were willing to work for him, there were some who were unwilling, but were forced to submit because of his strength, and many others who just followed the strongest. In a single blast, the Heaven Union would definitely collapse and disintegrate.

It wasn't an era where you could gain favour just by saving someone's life, instead, it was one where, even if you helped to pick an old granny who had unfortunately fallen, it becomes a case of her suing you for knocking her down. Saving someone else's life would not guarantee gratitude nor repayment. Hence, whatever Yue Zhong did, it was aimed for benefits, even the saving of Mu Xiang Ling and her mother back then was not without motive.

There were many decent folk out there in the current world. However, it was going to be tough for them to become a capable leader, nor a dignified hero.

Du Shan Xiong did not dare commit such an act because it was the granary, the moment Yue Zhong razed everything, both parties would be reduced to a level where they were equal, only then could negotiations continue.

Yue Zhong mulled for a while, before ordering Bai Xiao Sheng: "Go get Dan Hong over here."

Dan Hong was called by Bai Xiao Sheng, and he came up to Yue Zhong and asked carefully: "Boss Yue, what's the matter?"

Dan Hong was a smart man, and he knew he would lose his position as a superintendent. Without his position, he was nothing, and his value as low as could be. He could only firmly grasp onto Yue Zhong's leg and lower himself. Otherwise, the moment Yue Zhong kicked him out, he would not live to see another day.

Yue Zhong eyed Dan Hong and replied solemnly: "You shall represent me to negotiate with them! My bottomline is that 20,000 tonnes of the rations here shall be mine! The rest of the rations can belong to whoever else, I won't care! I can let people transport the rations out everyday, but the place will be under my watch. At the same time, Guilin City needs to release all those who worked for me, no one is to stop them. If anyone harms my people, it would be handled according to my rules. Lastly, go inform them of the betrayal as well as the cause of today's matters, those bastards and cowards including Di Ya from Heavenly Dragon Triad, as well as Lu Tao, Chen Luo Yan, Shen Jiang He, Gao Ming Hao…. I want the heads of those bastards! Do this well, and I will definitely reward you!!"

There were currently 500,000 tonnes of rations in the granary, and they had been amassed by Du Shan Xiong's constant effort in scouring the outside vicinity. Yue Zhong also knew he could single handedly swallow everything up, hence he did not request too much.

"Yes! Your subordinate promises to finish his task!" Hearing those words, Dan Hong was elated, but cold as well. He was excited that Yue Zhong was finally using him. If this negotiation went well, he would definitely have a place by Yue Zhong's side. What made his heart cold was, Yue Zhong had actually called for the heads of so many upper echelons of the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad. He could truly hold a grudge and was vicious, but most importantly, it was a tall request.

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Chapter 427 – Negotiations Begin!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

Inside the meeting hall of the Guilin City's government building, the 2 factions from Guilin City and Nan Ning City had come together, with the old farts from the military as they began to discuss the matter of Yue Zhong who had gained control over the granary.

Li Jiu Ming's face was grim with fury as he said: "Yue Zhong and the rest are a virus to us! They will spread. I reckon we should use our forces to wipe him out immediately!! We definitely cannot give in to his terrorist threats! The moment we give in once, there will be a second time, or even third time!! We need to maintain our firm stance, and fight it out with him!!"

Li Hong Zhi was the only son of Li Jiu Ming and he was precious to him. Li Jiu Ming was getting on in years and thus, doted on his son to the point of excessively spoiling him. When he heard that Li Hong Zhi had been killed on Yue Zhong's orders, his logic and reasoning had gone out the window, and everything in his mind was only about getting revenge by killing Yue Zhong.

Hearing Li Jiu Ming's words, everyone in the meeting room frowned. If they forcefully launched an assault on Yue Zhong, Yue Zhong could just casually set the granary ablaze, and the entire Guilin City would fall together with him.

When that time comes, other than a few influential people with their own reserves, the rest who relied on their ration tickets would definitely go crazy. These upper echelons would also be torn apart by the frenzied people in the chaos.

When people are forced to a corner, as long as a person can incite their feelings, and turn it into a formidable force, the entire city would lose its sense of order and stability.

In fact, if the government had not clamped down on the news regarding Yue Zhong snatching the granary, the entire city might have been plunged into chaos.

For the sake of their own families, even the trusted aides of Li Jiu Ming were not willing to support him, as they kept silent.

Right at this time, Guilin City's mayor Chen Ying spoke calmly: "I disagree!! I believe that we should seek peaceful settlements with Yue Zhong! He had not yet burnt the granary, which means that it's possible to negotiate! We can talk things out! Regarding the cause of the matter, it was primarily the fault of some comrades here who had failed in the teachings of their children, allowing them to run amok with people of ill intentions, becoming the umbrella to protect them. They then caused problems and forced Yue Zhong to a corner. I suggest that we let the Disciplinary Committee and the Police Force to jointly form an investigative team, and get to the bottom of this."

Li Jiu Ming's face turned ugly, and slammed down on the table, as he pointed at Chen Ying and asked furiously: "Chen Ying! Are you suggesting that I am the backer of the evil forces? Do you have proof? If not, don't slander people maliciously!! At that time, if it wasn't for me, could you have become the mayor of this Guilin City?"

When Chen Ying heard these words, his face also turned ugly. Initially, he had the opportunity to become the mayor of Guilin City, was largely due to some help from Li Jiu Ming.

However, in this day and age, those who did not know how to curry favour would not be able to become politicians. Although Chen Ying was always doing it, and had the bad habits of those who constantly seek to elevate themselves, he could be considered to be a decent politician. He brought up his kids with decent values, and were unlike most of the other officials who stepped on the ordinary citizens. Comparing him with Li Jiu Ming, was like a gulf between Heaven and Earth.

At this time, Chen Ying's trusted aide An Chang Sheng, who happened to be the former deputy secretary of law spoke up: "I personally feel that Mayor Li Jiu Ming is not fit to continue to help govern over the Nan Ning people. I suggest that we will form a provisional assembly to cast a vote, on removing Li Jiu Ming from his position temporarily, handing him to the Discipline Committee to conduct their investigations!"

After which, An Chang Sheng immediately raised his hands.

Under the wolf-like gaze of Li Jiu Ming, amongst the 2 parties, a number of officials also started raising their hands in favour of removing Li Jiu Ming from his post.

Suddenly, even the hand of somebody Li Jiu Ming had never expected to raise, was raised. Seeing that, Li Jiu Ming's heart trembled, as he gritted and spat out: "Good!! I never thought that even you will betray me! Wang Ru He!!"

Wang Ru He was a secretary of the Political and Law Division in Nan Ning City, and had been boosted up by Li Jiu Ming. They had become the de facto leaders of the Nan Ning City after the apocalypse, and both had close ties. Li Jiu Ming did not expect that Wang Ru He would stab him in the back when he was down just to get his share of power.

Wang Ru He looked at Li Jiu Ming with pity as he remarked: "Li Jiu Ming! You're crazy! We can't go crazy with you, just to be buried together!"

Wang Ru He was truly on good terms with Li Jiu Ming, but even he was unwilling to risk the entire Guilin City to antagonize Yue Zhong. Furthermore, by taking down Li Jiu Ming, then he would replace Li Jiu Ming as the leader of the Nan Ning City's side. Who would decline power?

Chen Ying eyed Li Jiu Ming who had his powers stripped as he mildly commented: "The votes are in! From now on, Li Jiu Ming is temporarily removed from his role!"

Li Jiu Ming's eyes were bloodshot as he snarled loudly: "I don't accept this!! I'm a provincial leader!! You want to remove me from my position?!! You'll need to go through the proper channels!! What are you guys considered? You want to dismiss me? This is not following protocol!!"

Li Jiu Ming knew that the moment he lost the identity as Nan Ning City's mayor, he would die quickly. This was not a world where people bothered about human rights.

At this time, 2 Discipline Committee members came in and announced: "Comrade Li Jiu Ming! We are from the Discipline Committee! Please come with us!"

Li Jiu Ming took a look and suddenly seemed to realise something, as he swivelled to stare at Chen Ying with a venomous look: "Very good! Chen Ying!! You have already planned this beforehand! Seems like whatever I say, it'll be useless! Then I shall go with you, but you guys will surely regret this!!"

After which, Li Jiu Ming followed the 2 members as he was handcuffed and led away.

Right as Li Jiu Ming left, Dan Hong came into the meeting hall, and he was flanked by Bai Xiao Sheng acting as his guard.

Chen Ying pointed towards Dan Hong as he introduced him to the rest: "Let me introduce to everyone! This is the negotiator Yue Zhong has sent, Dan Hong!"

After that, Chen Ying proceeded to introduce all the members in the meeting hall to Dan Hong.

Now that Yue Zhong had forcefully snatched the granary, nobody knew what the future would hold. Although both parties of the government despised Dan Hong, they used a fervent attitude to greet him.

Dan Hong saw that all these upper government officials which he had to bend over backwards for in the past, greeting him warmly, and he could not help but feel excited.

Du Shan Xiong glanced at Dan Hong, his face sullen: "Dan Hong!! Yue Zhong asked you to come, what does he have for us?"

Dan Hong opened his mouth and controlled his excitement, saying: "Truthfully, this time, we're completely innocent! The Heavenly Dragon Triad, and Green Bamboo Triad had betrayed the entire Guilin City at the mountain range. It was our Leader that singlehandedly unified the remaining experts and defended against the 200,000-strong Mutant Beast horde, and saved the 900,000 people of Guilin City! However, how did you guys treat our leader and saviour? The Heavenly Dragon Triad assigned some people to assassinate his parents, and you guys stood by and did nothing. That can be forgotten, but after that, you guys still brought troops to surround the subordinates of my Leader, and everyone present insulted and humiliated my Leader. Let me ask, why is the saviour of our Guilin City was going to be humiliated, insulted, and put to death, while those evil forces are to go free?!! Who can sit idly by and do nothing? Who would still be willing to work hard for Guilin City? Our Leader just wants answers and compensation, and that shows his magnanimity already!!"

When Bai Xiao Sheng heard all these, he almost could not control his facial expression, as the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, almost breaking out into laughter.

Yue Zhong in fact dealt with the Mutant Beast horde because he was forced to, otherwise he would have fallen at their jaws as well. It was purely a selfish reason that motivated him to give his all. However, from Dan Hong's mouth, it seemed as though Yue Zhong had suddenly become a hero that fought for everyone in Guilin City. Furthermore, the Heavenly Dragon Triad was truly insidious, however, Yue Zhong himself wasn't particularly decent, and if there was a comparison, Yue Zhong was a maverick that could go against people as and when he so desired. Compared to the Heavenly Dragon Triad, Yue Zhong was more dangerous.

It was obvious that Dan Hong was lying through his teeth with no remorse, as he casually twisted some facts towards Yue Zhong's favour. Of course, it was to be expected from someone who was adept at navigating the line between good and evil, having weaved through various situations.

Chen Ying was an old fox himself, and knew that not all of what Dan Hong said was true, but they had no choice but to bow, and following the flow of the conversation, he laughed and replied: "Our Guilin City is a righteous place of peace and order. We will definitely not let heroes bleed nor cry. Those evildoers with backers are at most a stain on our otherwise decent society. Since those people are facing judgement as we speak, will Yue Zhong be returning us the granary?"

Dan Hong sipped his cup of tea, and calmed down, mulling over the conditions from Yue Zhong and repeated them slowly: "Firstly: The rations in the granary, 200,000 thousand tonnes shall be ours! The rest can be divided according to your own side! We will allow people to transport the rations out, but the granary will be guarded by our people. Secondly: Guilin City has to release all the people who had worked for us, no one is to block them. If anyone had harmed or injured our men, it will be handled according to our rules. Thirdly: We want the heads of all the upper echelons of the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad. Only by satisfying our 3 conditions, Guilin City's rations won't go up in smoke. We won't do anything that lets Guilin City down!"

Chen Ying frowned as he tried to bargain: "The 3rd condition can be settled. However, 200,000 tonnes of rations!! It's too much!! At most, we can give you guys 50,000 tonnes. Furthermore, the granary is a key location, how can we just let you guys expend your forces to keep watch over it alone? We can send some people over. As for the 2nd condition, our Guilin City is a proper city, everyone has to be judged accordingly, we can't let your faction enjoy special treatment!!"

"No way…." Inside his heart, Dan Hong was elated. Yue Zhong had requested for 20,000 tonnes of rations, and just by opening his mouth, he had gained 30,000 tonnes more. This was proof of his efficient and effective handling. However, he maintained a straight face, and directly rejected, before offering a counter-proposal.

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Chapter 428 – Assassination! The Situation Spirals Out of Control!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

Just as Dan Hong was engaged in negotiations with Chen Ying and the rest, the 2 Discipline Committee members were currently holding Li Jiu Ming in a small room.

All of a sudden, the door of the room was kicked open, and 4 men in special forces uniform rushed into the room, their hands wielding daggers as they attacked the 2 members of the Committee.

In a manner of seconds, the 2 employees of the committee were pierced in the hearts by the dagger-wielding assassins, and they slumped lifelessly to the ground.

Seeing the bloody scene, Li Jiu Ming's face turned pale, as his body trembled. He raised his numb hands and asked through gritted teeth: "Who are you people?"

At this time, with an aura of elegance and the natural dominance of a leader, Gao Ming Hao came strolling into the room as he flashed a charming smile at Li Jiu Ming: "Mayor Li, don't you recognize me?"

At that battle against the Mutant Beast horde, Gao Ming Hao had brought his men and escaped fairly quickly. He was decisive and quick, and with his luck, he only lost about a 100 men. Not a single Evolver of the Green Bamboo Triad was lost. His strength had also become much larger than that of the Heavenly Dragon Triad.

Li Jiu Ming's face regained colour as he stared at Gao Ming Hao and coldly replied: "So it's you Gao Ming Hao!! What're you here for? I've already been stripped of my mayor role!"

Li Jiu Ming wasn't an idiot, and he could guess the intentions of Gao Ming Hao coming here.

Gao Ming Hao laid his voice with temptation as he replied: "Mayor Li, are you going to let those people take away your power then kill you? The debt of your son's death is still not settled, are you just going to let this go?"

The moment Li Jiu Ming was reminded of his precious son's death at the hands of Yue Zhong, his eyes were ablaze with fury again, as he barked out: "Of course I want my revenge!"

Gao Ming Hao chuckled: "Well, there's an opportunity in front of you now! Mayor Li, as long as you work with us, we can work together to gain control of Guilin City. At that time, to kill a single Yue Zhong, all you have to do is pass the command!"

Li Jiu Ming immediately agreed: "Fine! What do you need me to do?"

Gao Ming Hao's pupils narrowed as he asked: "If everyone in that meeting hall was killed, how confident are you in gaining control of the armed forces and the experts in the government?"

The police force, armed forces, as well as the experts under the government control all made up part of a huge force. It was enough to thoroughly exterminate even the likes of the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad. After all, the strongest powers in Guilin City were the government and military, if the government didn't have any experts, that would truly be weird.

Li Jiu Ming thought for a while, before replying: "I have 100% confidence in controlling the experts of the Nan Ning City side. As for Guilin City, I don't have that same confidence!"

Li Jiu Ming was after all one of the heads of Guilin City, and naturally had employed a number of experts. With his status, many people were willing to work for him.

Gao Ming Hao directly responded: "Good!! Then I'll trouble you to go convince those troops!! Leave everything here to us! However, once this is over, the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad have to be declared as orthodox triads!"

Li Jiu Ming replied readily: "Sure! This I promise you!"

Wresting control was the most critical part, if he could gain total power, Li Jiu Ming was willing to betray anything right now.

With the agreement, Li Jiu Ming quickly left under the protection of 2 experts.

With the gathering of the 2 sides of the government, as well as the upper echelons of the military, such an important meeting was currently being guarded.

Near the meeting hall, there were 20 elite soldiers, 30 Enhancers of above Level 30 as well as 6 Evolvers standing guard. With such a tight defence, even if Yue Zhong were to lead a team of numerous experts, they would be hard pressed to breach the defence easily. If not dealt with properly, it could spell even the deaths of those on the attacking side.

Right at this time, 6 men dressed ordinarily came strolling with large steps towards the meeting hall.

"Who're you guys?" A soldier called out warily.

A bespectacled man, who looked extremely cultured and well-mannered handed a piece of document to the soldier, saying: "I'm Tan Teng, a secretary of the Committee. These are my verification documents. The air-conditioning of the meeting hall on the 4th storey is malfunctioning! These are repairmen, I have submitted a report prior, you can check it out!"

"Please proceed!" The soldier gave a glance through Tan Teng's documents and identification, before letting them through.

Tan Teng immediately brought the 5 other men in.

After a certain distance, Tan Teng turned around, his expression one of agony as he begged: "This should be fine right!! Please let my daughter go. She's innocent!!"

One burly man coldly retorted: "Secretary Tan! Relax!! As long as you help us through this, we'll guarantee the safety of your daughter and wife. Move!"

Tan Teng gritted his teeth helplessly as he led the men to the meeting hall.

The 5 of them immediately kicked down the door and rushed in.

One of them was wielding a .05 rifle and he opened fire as he sprayed wildly across the entire room.

Another male immediately activated his skill, brandishing a huge blade as he charged towards Du Shan Xiong like a spectre.

2 of the men pulled out their pistol and proceeded to fire at those officials in the room.

The remaining man pulled out a green dagger, as he made use of a strange movement technique to shorten the distance between him and Chen Ying.

Everything had happened too suddenly, and there was no time for the participants of the meeting to defend themselves, and many fell in a pool of blood as they moaned in agony.

Bai Xiao Sheng had the fastest reaction, the moment things started to go out of control, he had pulled Dan Hong towards a window and broke through it, shouting at the top of his lungs as he went: "Enemy attack!! Enemy attack!!"

Bai Xiao Sheng was extremely experienced, and could tell with a single glance that all 5 intruders were Evolvers. Although they were lower levelled than him, in a battle of life and death, there was the possibility of him losing immediately. Furthermore, there was no favourable impressions of the upper echelons of Guilin City, the moment he jumped out, he had no intention of helping the rest.

Hearing Bai Xiao Sheng's shouts, the experts immediately got into action, and gathered at the meeting hall.

In the hail of bullets, many of the government officials laid in their own blood.

At almost the same time, a 1.9m-tall burly male decked in military wear leapt out behind Du Shan Xiong.

The tall burly soldier was called Du Zi Ming, and was a Strength-based Evolver, and was Du Shan Xiong's nephew. He possessed terrifying combat strength, and could easily slaughter Type 2 Mutant Beasts like it was nothing.

Du Zi Ming blocked in front of Du Shan Xiong, while an ordinary rifle bullet landed on his body and got deflected away by the Type 2 Mutant Beast hide on him.

As long as one wasn't an idiot, after coming in contact with the Mutant Beasts, most intelligent people would have thought to use the hide as defensive and protective wear.

Du Zi Ming watched the bullets hit him and bellowed in rage, as he swung viciously towards the Evolver wielding the huge blade.

Both weapons clashed, and emitted a shrill sound, as sparks flew, and the intruder was actually knocked back by Du Zi Ming, his blade sent flying out of his hands, and blood seeping out the corners of his mouth. It was obvious that he had suffered an injury.

Du Shan Xiong was facing an assassination attempt, but he did not lose his calm, instead diving for the bottom of the table. He was an ordinary man, and even if he wore the bullet-resistant Type 2 Mutant Beast hide, the moment a bullet hit his head, he would die as well.

Just as Du Shan Xiong was bending his waist, one of the Evolvers chuckled coldly and activated his ability.

An incredibly sharp earth spike broke out from the ground, and pierced the head of Du Shan Xiong, causing his head to be turned into minced meat.

If it had been an expert with sufficient strength, he would have felt a sense of danger. However, it was too bad that while Du Shan Xiong was a regiment commander, he was just an ordinary person, and he lost his life just like that.

"Uncle!!!!" Du Zi Ming saw Du Shan Xiong being killed right before his eyes, and his mind went into turmoil, his eyes turning bloodshot, and he became like an enraged tiger that hacked and slashed wildly at the Evolvers. His strength was immense, and every single strike of his contained a few thousand jins of strength, forcing the other Evolver back with a look of fear on his face.

"Mission accomplished! Retreat!!" Seeing that Du Shan Xiong was killed, the leader of the experts loudly called out.

At the next moment, the remaining 4 Evolvers disregarded their targets and headed for the exit, not even bothering to kill Chen Ying.

When the 5 Evolvers left, the Agility-based Evolver who was defending Chen Ying let out his breath. It had been incredibly exhausting to defend Chen Ying, and if all 5 had taken him on, in 20 seconds, Chen Ying would definitely have died.

However, things did not go as smoothly for the assassins, as when they had just left, the experts defending outside immediately charged over and engaged them in battle.

In the end, after an intense bout, 3 of the assassins lost their lives, while the remaining 2 were forced to escape from the building.

Dan Hong quickly came back to the meeting hall, and when he saw Du Shan Xiong's corpse, his face fell, and immediately told Bai Xiao Sheng: "Quick! Let's go back and inform Leader!! Du Shan Xiong's dead!! Majority of the government have fallen! Guilin City is about to be chaotic!!! Chaotic!!"

What kind of person was Du Shan Xiong? He was the main pillar of Guilin City. It was him that had led the troops to exterminate over a million zombies, and saved 900,000 people. He was the leader of the border troops patrolling around Guilin City, and was an extraordinary militant.

Now that he was dead, without a leader, the border troops would definitely break up into smaller factions. Also, a number of the officials in the meeting hall had been killed as well.

Without those officials, the governance in Guilin City would likely come to a standstill. All it would take was for one person to come up to incite, and the rest of the city would follow suit into mayhem.

Although Dan Hong was not in a high position, he had an acute sense of the current events, and he could feel the underlying change of wind in Guilin City. If they were not careful, the turbulent winds could cause him and Yue Zhong to be blown to bits.

Bai Xiao Sheng did not say anything, and exerted all his strength to rush for Yue Zhong's location.

Inside a secretive location, when Di Ya received the report from his subordinates, he laughed coldly and said: "Do it!!"

"Regiment Commander Du Shan Xiong is dead! He had been assassinated by Yue Zhong's forces!!"

"Yue Zhong has gained control of the granary!! Everyone's ration tickets are going to become worthless paper soon!!"

"Everybody! Let's find Yue Zhong to settle it!! Otherwise, our ration tickets will become scrap soon!!"

Those Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad members hiding within the human crowds started to spread the rumor, trying to rile up the masses.

"What?! Regiment Commander Du Shan Xiong had been assassinated?! He was such a good man, why did Yue Zhong send people to assassinate him? What a beast!!"

"Shit!! My ration tickets are about to become scrap?"

Under the inciting of the people, the majority of the survivors began to panic, as they made their way towards the granary frantically.

If the machinations of the government was still around, such rumors would not have easily spread. However, the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad had killed almost of the government's upper officials. It could be said that the government was severely set back.

At the same time, Li Jiu Ming had appeared and convinced those who belonged to the Nan Ning City faction to throw their weights in with him, and he was making preparations to take over control of the entire Guilin City government.

Both sides that used to belong to the same government were currently engaged in a civil war, naturally no one would bother about the survivors.

As for the military that Du Shan Xiong had commanded, it had almost immediately split up into a few factions, the Guilin Faction, the Border Troops Faction, the Enhancers Faction, the Nan Ning Faction, the Youth Faction, the Veteran Faction and a few others. To gain command that Du Shan Xiong had left behind, all the factions were engaged in a contest of power. Some even began to fight.

There were numerous mobs that rushed to the streets, giving in to their darker sides, robbing, pillaging and even raping. Fires began to burn at various places, and there would be cries from women, or screams from men as the thugs laughed without restraint. Many of the survivors chose to hole themselves up in their rooms, as they watched hell unfold on the streets, and they trembled in their houses.

Chaos!! Huge chaos!! The entire Guilin City had been plunged in a fearsome madness, turning into hell on earth in a manner of hours once they lost stability.

Furthermore, under the prodding of the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad, almost a hundred thousand survivors swarmed from all directions, gathering in front of the granary, calling for Yue Zhong.

"Yue Zhong, get the hell out here!!"

"Yue Zhong! You animal! Why did you assassinate Regiment Commander Du Shan Xiong?"

"Yue Zhong!! Open up the granary!!"

"Open up the granary!!"

"Open up the granary!!"

The large crowd of survivors were calling outside the granary, and blocking the nearby roads leading to it. Their enraged voices were calling out curses and insults, and if it wasn't for the various heavy machine guns mounted outside the granary, they would have swarmed in to snatch their own portion of the rations.

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Chapter 429 – Chai Zi Cang submits

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

At this time, Zheng Ming He was in charge of the defence on the exterior of the granary. When he saw the huge crowd of humans, he trembled inwardly as his back broke out in cold perspiration, and he suddenly felt a huge sense of pressure.

This was a crowd of a few hundred thousand people, and they were gathered right here. It seemed that any small thing could set them off.

The moment they erupted, it would definitely become a scene of carnage, and the granary was likely going to be destroyed.

"I am Zheng Ming He, an Elder of the Green Stone Triad." Zheng Ming He looked at the huge crowd as he gritted his teeth to declare loudly. "We did not kill Regiment Commander Du Shan Xiong! All of you had better leave now, otherwise, don't blame us for being impolite!!"

"Dogshit!! He's threatening us!!"

"Everyone, don't fear!! We have a few tens of thousands of us here!! He won't dare to touch us!!"

"Bash that bastard in!!"

"Everyone, let's charge in!! Snatch what's ours!! Whoever can snatch whatever, will belong to them! They won't dare to open fire!!"

"There're so many of us here, if each us were to spit on them, they'll drown!! Everyone, charge!!"

Amidst the crowd of survivors, there were some hoodlums from the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad mixed in, as they tried to incite the crowd.

"Everyone, let's charge together!! Those rations are ours!! Everyone should snatch it all back!!"

"Charge!!"

With the provocation of the joint efforts of the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad, many of the survivors began to get riled up as they inched forwards.

Zheng Ming He watched all these unfold as his head started to hurt, unsure of his next move.

Right at this time, Hu Yi's voice travelled over, his tone resolute: "Open fire!!! Everyone, fire your weapons!!"

The various soldiers stationed at the guns exchanged looks, as they looked at the incoming crowd, not knowing what to do. If it were zombies or Mutant Beasts, they would definitely not hesitate, and immediately firing their weapons. However, they were currently facing other humans, and these were their comrades at that.

Hu Yi's eyes flashed coldly, as he pulled out his blade and hollered coldly: "I'm the vice-commander appointed by our Leader Yue Zhong! Did you guys not hear my orders?! I'm ordering all of you to shoot right now! Kill the threats!! Those who disobey will be executed!!"

One of the soldiers could not help but say: "But Captain Hu!! These are people, they're our fellow countrymen!! Not zombies, and not enemies! They are but just helpless ordinary citizens!"

Hu Yi glanced at that soldier, his expression icy as he continued: "I know that!! But if we don't fire now, we're gonna be buried right here!! Fire immediately!! Otherwise, I'll carry out military punishment!!"

Hu Yi turned around to face Zheng Ming He as he asked solemnly: "Commander Zheng!! You don't have any objections right?"

Amidst Yue Zhong's established powers, it had become compulsory to use military ranks to refer to one another. Using 'Hall Lords' and 'Elders' were too triad-like and lacked the discipline and form of an actual unit.

"Open fire!" Zheng Ming He glanced at Hu Yi before shutting his eyes, and gave the cruel order.

If they still didn't open fire, those enraged survivors would soon charge into the granary, and would destroy everything!

In an instant, all12 heavy machine guns started spewing bullets, firing wildly at the frenzied crowd below, punching holes into an unfortunate number of them.

"Murder!!"

"Quick escape!!"

"They're firing!!"

Following the shrieks and screams of fear, the originally-enraged crowd became fearful as they saw those on the frontlines lying in pools of blood, as they tried to swarm back.

When those survivors that were coming in from further away heard the gunshots, they turned tail and ran in various directions, running for their lives.

Even before the apocalypse, there had been incidents before, where tanks were deployed to quell insurgencies, not to mention a new era where all order has been lost. When those survivors heard the gunshots, their unity crumbled totally, as individuals scrambled for their lives.

In the midst of the chaos, countless survivors were only concerned about their own survival, and the casualties mounted as a result of the stampede. Along the way, countless bodies which had been trampled could be seen.

Some time later, Yue Zhong appeared atop the granary, looking at the corpses in front of the granary, his face grim.

"Leader!" Zheng Ming He went up to Yue Zhong who had appeared, his heart shaken, as he saluted. He noticed the ugly expression on Yue Zhong's face, and glanced at Hu Yi, before gritting his teeth and said: "Leader! I had passed the command! I'm willing to shoulder all responsibilities!"

The fact that Hu Yi was a close brother of Yue Zhong was widely known amongst those in his faction. Hu Yi was also an Evolver with a Second Order skill, and had contributed greatly at the battle of the Mutant Beast horde. He would naturally be in charge of many things, and Zheng Ming He dared not push the blame on Hu Yi.

Yue Zhong patted Zheng Ming He's shoulders and said solemnly: "How were you wrong!! Those who were in the wrong were those bastards from the Heavenly Dragon and Green Bamboo Triads causing trouble. Even those idiots who blindly followed their instigation were in the wrong!! As long as they're our enemies, we're free to open fire on them, regardless of who they are. However, you could have handled it better. At the very least, you should have fired a warning shot first, after that if they still didn't retreat, then you can fire! You shall be demoted by a rank, and your position is only vice-battalion commander. The 1st Battalion of Guilin City is still yours to lead."

Zheng Ming He had been an ordinary person before the apocalypse, and had not experienced something like this, hence, his handling of the matter had been rigid. If it were up to somebody with experience, it would definitely have been handled better.

"Yes!" Zheng Ming He's eyes turned red, and this moment caused him to feel extremely grateful. He had thought Yue Zhong was going to demote him to a foot soldier. After all, they had killed a number of survivors, and because of that, the resulting stampede had claimed the lives of 200 others.

Yue Zhong's forces were still considered young, and they had just pushed on in. There were countless good fighters, but people with the skills to lead were lacking.

Just then, Hu Yi stepped forwards and said "Leader, don't blame Commander Zheng! It was an order that I gave!"

With other people around, Hu Yi would refer to Yue Zhong as leader, only in situations without others, would he call Yue Zhong 'Big Bro'.

Yue Zhong eyed Hu Y1 and replied solemnly: "Since it's like this! You're demoted 2 ranks, to a Platoon Commander! Your rank is now lieutenant."

Hu Yi's expression was strict as he replied: "Yes! Leader!!"

Hu Yi then asked: "Leader! What are our moves next? Guilin City is now in chaos, should we step in as well?"

Bai Xiao Sheng's speed had been extremely fast, and had related the assassination of the upper levels of the government to the Yue Zhong.

Hu Yi did not understand, since he knew Yue Zhong to be extremely decisive, the reason as to why Yue Zhong was still not acting, instead wasting 2 very precious hours.

Yue Zhong eyed Zheng Ming He as his killing intent billowed out: "En! Zheng Ming He, I' ll leave this place to you! You must defend this place properly, no one else other than me is allowed near the granary, any offenders, execute them on the spot!"

The granary was the most important card held by Yue Zhong right now, the moment it landed in someone else's hands, it would become the time where it could be used against him.

Zheng Ming He faced Yue Zhong as he swore solemnly: "Yes! Leader! As long as I still have a breath left, this place will not be taken from me!"

"Good!!" Yue Zhong's eyes flashed with satisfaction.

Just as Yue Zhong was preparing to issue the command to mobilize, Hu Yi looked out and called out: "Leader! Someone's coming!!"

"Oh?" Yue Zhong turned around, only to discover Chai Zi Cang who was released by him, walking towards the granary with his hands waving a white flag.

Yue Zhong looked at Chai Zi Cang and his heartbeat immediately sped up: "Let him in!"

Just a single Chai Zi Cang would not be a threat to the entire granary's forces.

Chai Zi Cang came to Yue Zhong and immediately declared: "This subject is willing to work for Leader, please accept this subject!"

Yue Zhong eyed Chai Zi Cang, and was extremely pleased: "Good! What are your requests, name them!"

Gaining Chai Zi Cang was a huge opportunity. On one hand, he could show the example of those who submitted, on the other hand, Chai Zi Cang knew the inner workings amongst Du Shan Xiong's generals. With his support, Yue Zhong would be able to make a better judgement.

Chai Zi Cang immediately said: "I alone am weak, I hope that Leader can set my brothers free!! Allow us to work for you!"

With Du Shan Xiong's death, the army had split up into multiple factions. In such situations, those with strength made the rules. Without Du Shan Xiong, Chai Zi Cang was nothing, and hence, upon consideration, he had decided to throw his weight in with Yue Zhong. After all, there were over a few hundred captive soldiers.

Yue Zhong frowned and asked: "Do you have confidence in convincing your brothers?"

Chai Zi Cang replied solemnly: "If Du Shan Xiong was still alive, there would be no guarantee! However, since he's dead, I have 70% confidence in persuading them."

Yue Zhong grinned and said: "Alright!! Chai Zi Cang, from now on, you're the 9th Platoon's Platoon Commander! Your entire platoon will be made up of your brothers. How's that?"

Chai Zi Cang was overjoyed, and immediately prostrated himself in front of Yue Zhong: "I'm willing to fight to the death for Leader!!"

The moment he joined, he was immediately placed as a platoon commander, and he had the strength of his troops to boot. This was good news to him.

In such a world where strength spoke, Chai Zi Cang had just gained his subordinates again, and soon he would be able to have a say amongst Yue Zhong's forces.

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Chapter 430 – Fractured Military!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

Yue Zhong had always liked to reorganize the troops that he had absorbed from his enemies. However, things were different for Guilin City. It was a time where he needed to make use of the manpower, and it had to be utilizable. Allowing Chai Zi Cang to control his troops would swiftly draft them into formation. Therefore, Yue Zhong had chosen that option.

Chai Zi Cang came alone to the captive zone, and under his persuasion, 90% of the captives agreed to work with him. There was still that 10% that was unwilling, and hence remained within the captive battalion.

After making preparations, under the orders of Yue Zhong, the Heaven Union group of experts, Larman's foreign troops, Ying Kai Shan's two infantry battalions that were armed to the teeth, as well as Chai Zi Cang's military troops that strengthened the front, all gathered. The 2,000-strong army made their way towards Guilin City.

Yue Zhong also assigned for those scattered troops that weren't too stable to leave the granary, leaving the place to Zheng Ming He and his 2 battalions. Amongst the 2 battalions, there were numerous experts who had followed Yue Zhong on his conquests along the way, as well as some who had taken part in the battle of the small town, gaining huge benefits against the Mutant Beast horde.

Upon entering Guilin City, and establishing control over a territory, Yue Zhong brought Chai Zi Cang over and asked: "Chai Zi Cang!! I want to settle the side of the military! Which faction do you think I should set my sights on first?"

With regards to the relationships among the military powers, Chai Zi Cang was more familiar, and with him around, Yue Zhong can make a more informed judgement on his next move.

"Boss Yue!! The military has now fractured into 6 main factions. These 6 are separated into the following: The 1st Battalion led by Zhang Xue Wang. The 2nd Battalion led by Wang He. The 3rd Battalion led by Zhu Lei. The 4th Battalion led by Chen Yu. The 5th Battalion led by Ma Fang. The 6th Battalion led by Murong He. These are also the strongest 6 battalions trained up by Regiment Commander Du. Each of them consists of a thousand soldiers, and there are 5 other infantry battalions that are situated near the 6 powers. However, these 5 are just recently conscripted, and the recruits are still in the midst of training, without proper equipment, and lack any combat strength."

"Of the 6, Zhang Xue Wang's 1st Battalion is the strongest, and best equipped battalion. They have an entire armed division. They have tanks, cannons and even assault helicopters. Zhang Xue Wang was the first troop that had followed Du Shan Xiong since the beginning. He's absolutely loyal to Du Shan Xiong, and has a proud temperament. It's extremely hard to convince him. He had fought with Chen Yu in the past over a woman, and in the end, he lost to Chen Yu, which caused their relationship to be strained, even up till now. They have come to blows before. Because of his ego, his relationships with the other battalions are not that great either."

"Wang He's 2nd Battalion consists of the most experts. Truthfully, the 2nd Battalion is the battalion with the most number of experts amongst the whole army. Inside the 2nd Battalion, there are 20 Evolvers. Wang He is also a slippery guy, his relationships with the rest of the 5 battalions are so-so."

"Zhu Lei is rumored to be the backer of the Heavenly Dragon Triad. He's a violent man, lustful and perverse, and is alleged to have over 50-over women in the camp waiting on him."

"Chen Yu is an upright man, and is a bit rigid."

"Ma Fang is said to be the backer of the Green Bamboo Triad. He's cunning and insidious, petty as well. He's domineering in his own ways, and there was one time where he didn't buy a ticket when he went to the bus-stop. The conductor stopped him and requested for him to get a ticket, he actually slapped the conductor, before barking loudly saying that he was a commander, and that the conductor had best scram! His character is not much, and if not for his family, he could not have gotten to his position."

Chai Zi Cang finished off: "As for Murong He, I'm not clear about his background, I just know that he's honest and straightforward, although he's a man of few words. However, whatever responsibilities Du Shan Xiong handed to him, he would carry it off extremely well!"

Yue Zhong started pondering over the information he got.

The 4 Great Triads of Guilin City all had backers, Yue Zhong knew this very well.

It was almost impossible for a triad to expand the way the 4 Great Triads did without sufficient backing. Yue Zhong had brought in his own experts to launch a sudden move and swallowed up the Hong Triad's position.

Within Guilin City, Yue Zhong was considered a wildcard, and had broken the balance of the games. That was why Li Hong Zhi and Chang Yu Feng had tried to thrash the newly established Green Stone Triad. However, they had not expected that Yue Zhong did not follow the rules, and instead, finished them off quickly and cleanly, as well as taking over the granary, and causing Du Shan Xiong to become anxious.

Yue Zhong mulled silently: "With the backing of 2 commanders, no wonder they dared to kill government officials, even killing Du Shan Xiong!"

With Zhu Lei and Ma Fang sitting behind the scenes, as well as causing mayhem within Guilin City, the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad could be said to possess some capabilities.

With the aid of 2,000 experienced soldiers, as well as the police force, armed forces and special forces under the control of Li Jiu Ming, by now, the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad had gained the upper hand in this conflict.

Right at this time, a soldier came running towards Yue Zhong: "Leader!! There's an envoy from ,the Green Bamboo Triad that requests an audience!!"

Yue Zhong's eyes flashed coldly, as he said: "Let him in!"

A proud and arrogant young man in a suit came sauntering in as he grinned slightly at Yue Zhong: "Hello Boss Yue!! I'm the Green Bamboo Triad's Peng Biao. I'm very pleased to meet you. This time, I'm here on the orders of Chief Gao, to establish an alliance with you. As long as you're willing to become allies with us from the Green Bamboo Triad, after this matter is settled, the 3 conditions that you had sent someone to request for, other than the 3rd condition, we can accept the rest. Furthermore, as an expression of our goodwill, the Green Bamboo Triad is willing to offer a hundred virgins to you."

Yue Zhong eyed Peng Biao coldly and said: "Capture him!"

2 soldiers immediately stepped forward to press Peng Biao harshly to the ground, before tying him up.

The moment Peng Biao felt his face touching the ground, his expression changed as he shouted: "Yue Zhong! Armies do not kill envoys in battle!! You can't kill me!!"

Yue Zhong eyed Peng Biao coldly and replied: "Don't worry, I won't kill you! If you have the abilities to escape, you can go back and notify Gao Ming Hao! If he surrenders now, I can let him off with his dog life. Otherwise, I will definitely wipe the earth clean of you scum from the Green Bamboo Triad and HEavenly Dragon Triad. Throw him into the jail cell!! Without my orders, no one shall go close to him."

After settling the issue of Peng Biao, Yue Zhong turned to Chai Zi Cang and said: "Go find someone to lead me to Zhang Xue Wang!! I want to talk to him!!"

Chai Zi Cang's face promptly turned pale, as he tried to persuade Yue Zhong: "Leader!! That's not prudent!! While Zhang Xue Wang might be obstinate, he's not an idiot, and he might possibly throw you in captivity!"

Yue Zhong frowned and muttered: "Enough! I've made up my mind! I need to make this trip! At this juncture, while we can ensure our survival, it's hard to attain victory. Conquering any one side might give the others a chance to jump on us. I need to convince Zhang Xue Wang to work together with us, only then is there a hope for victory."

Yue Zhong led an army size of more than 2,000, and it seemed imposing. However, within them, a thousand plus were still not trained fully, and could be said to be a motley bunch. If it was a casual clash, it would still be ok, but if more than a few die, then the rest would definitely collapse. Of the remaining 1,000-some, the Heaven Union's experts make up the most of the number, however, the human heart was difficult to conquer, and there were a few who were still not satisfied with Yue Zhong. They could betray at any time. Of the entire 2,000-over, it seemed that only 400-over could truly fight.

Hence if Yue Zhong wanted to deal with the rest of the fractured military factions, he needed another way. If 2 sides engaged him at the same time, it would be worse.

Chai Zi Cang mulled for a few seconds, before his eyes flashed with resolution: "Alright!! I'll go with you!!"

This was a risk for Chai Zi Cang, and he wanted to gain Yue Zhong's trust and reliance, hence he decided to follow Yue Zhong to prove his loyalty.

No one would dislike a loyal subordinate. Although some were capable, ambitious people would leave their superiors with no choice but to limit their dependency on them. Whereas there could be less capable but more devoted subjects, these were the preferred aides.

Yue Zhong looked at Chai Zi Cang and smiled slightly: "Good!!"

After granting control of the troops to Hu Yi, and passing the order to keep watch over their current location, Yue Zhong and Chai Zi Cang left for Zhang Xue Wang's location swiftly.

As they neared the camp of Zhang Xue Wang, they were met with a wary warning. "Who goes there?" 2 soldiers wielding .03 Type rifles raised their weapons and blocked the paths of Yue Zhong and Chai Zi Cang.

Yue Zhong looked at the 2 of them, replying indifferently: "I'm Yue Zhong, the Chief of the Green Stone Triad that occupied the granary! I have something to say to your commander Zhang Xue Wang! Take me to him!"

Hearing that Yue Zhong had taken the initiative to come to their camp, the soldiers sucked in a breath of cold air, as they retreated slightly, gripping their weapons tightly: "You're Yue Zhong!!"

Yue Zhong's infamy had spread amongst the entire military. Almost every soldier knew this person in front of them had simply taken a troop to subdue the entire granary that was guarded by a battalion within an hour. He had also mercilessly executed an entire company of soldiers under Chang Yu Feng.

One of the soldiers responded gravely: "Wait a moment! I'll need to report this!"

After which, the soldier hastily withdrew into the camp.

Not long after, 12 soldiers emitting a strong killing intent following a 1.8m-tall and burly commander came striding towards Yue Zhong.

The burly commander stared at Yue Zhong with a wary gaze and said: "I'm Guo Huai Lian! Please come with me!"

Chai Zi Cang gave Yue Zhong a heads up by whispering: "Guo Huai Lian is the top expert in Zhang Xue Wang's ranks! He's an Agility-based Evolver! His skills are truly top-notch!"

Yue Zhong turned to Guo Huai Lian and chuckled as he agreed: "Sure!"

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Chapter 431: Forced Mobilization!

Guo Huai Lian had come out to receive them, it was apparent that Zhang Xue Wang was filled with wariness towards Yue Zhong.

In this post-apocalyptic world, there were some experts who could single-handedly decimate an entire troop and cause the tides of the war to turn. While Zhang Xue Wang was proud, he wasn't an idiot, and he would not be unprepared as he accepted Yue Zhong who was equivalent to a powerful killing machine in his base.

As Yue Zhong walked, he saw numerous armored vehicles, like tanks, assault vehicles, self-propelling cannons, missile launchers, etc. Seeing these tools of war, his eyes went red.

Guo Huai Lian brought Yue Zhong to a small office, and within, there was a man of about age 32-33, wearing a crisp military uniform. He possessed a face full of pride, yet his body radiated a vigor while sitting in the office. This man was the commander, Zhang Xue Wang.

Beside Zhang Xue Wang, there were 8 men standing quietly, as they stared at Yue Zhong fixedly. They had the aura of experts as well, and they were obviously powerful enhancers under Zhang Xue Wang.

When Du Shan Xiong was assassinated, everyone got alarmed, and increased their own security. Zhang Xue Wang was no exception.

Zhang Xue Wang was also an Enhancer, however, his enhancement level wasn't high, only about 11 or so. After all, he was the commander of the armored division, and as long as they continued utilizing their modern weaponry to annihilate any zombies or mutant beasts, he had little opportunities to strengthen himself.

Zhang Xue Wang eyed Yue Zhong coldly: "Yue Zhong, what you here for?"

Yue Zhong eyed Zhang Xue Wang as he replied slowly: "You are Commander Zhang Xue Wang right? Du Shan Xiong was assassinated! The people behind it are the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad! I hope that you can work with me to eradicate them."

Zhang Xue Wang stared back and his expression was one of ridicule: "You're saying that Regiment Commander Du was assassinated by the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad?! Where's your evidence? Who's to say that you weren't the assassin yourself? You just come tell me this and now you want to come and tell me to catch someone else!! Do you take me for a fool?"

Zhang Xue Wang eyed Yue Zhong coldly as he continued: "The death of Regiment Commander Du, I will naturally get to the bottom of this! At that time, I will personally lead my troops to punish those responsible as revenge for Regiment Commander Du! If you're here to waste your breath, then I suggest that you scram right back to where you came from!"

One of the experts standing beside Zhang Xue Wang suddenly came forward and urged: "Wait, commander!! Since he's here, let's kill him! Once he's dead, the Green Stone Triad would collapse, and we can reclaim the granary!!"

When Zhang Xue Wang heard that, his heart rate quickened. True, it was an opportunity that was hard to come by, and it was his territory here, and there were 6 Evolvers as well as 20 other experts that were above Level 30 inside the room. If they all worked together, it was more than enough to take care of Yue Zhong. Once he was dead, the Green Stone Triad would definitely collapse. He could then swallow up Yue Zhong's power. When he thought up to that point, he immediately came to a decision and ordered: "Capture him!!"

When Zhang Xue Wang's words had just resounded, the Agility-based Evolver Guo Huai Lian immediately exploded forwards with an insane speed, appearing beside Yue Zhong and locking his arm.

Yue Zhong was however prepared, and as his eyes flashed, he activated his [Art of Fear] at the first moment, and sent it radiating outwards with him at the centre.

With the pressure of that strong Spirit attack, Guo Huai Lian immediately slowed down, his heart trembling at the force of that attack.

A tear appeared in space, as a sharp bone spike shot out from the tear and pierced Guo Huai Lian in between his brows, nailing him directly against the ground.

As the [Art of Fear] continued to emit outwards, of the 11 other experts standing behind Yue Zhong, 7 were immediately affected by it.

7 more sharp bone spikes shot outwards like spears and impaled the 7 experts through their heads, nailing them to the walls.

"Assassins!!! Assassins!!" In just merely a few breaths, 8 experts had died at the hands of Yue Zhong, and the proud expression of Zhang Xue Wang was replaced by one of fear, as he screamed and shouted while pummelling the glass window, breaking it and trying to escape.

At that instant, Zhang Xue Wang's heart was filled with regret. He had never expected Yue Zhong to be this insanely strong, and had made short work of 8 of his experts. Even the strongest Guo Huai Lian under him was killed immediately.

Yue Zhong shot Zhang Xue Wang a look, and his pupils narrowed, as he focused the [Art of Fear] on him, engulfing his body.

Radiant green light emitted from Zhang Xue Wang's body, negating the effects of the [Art of Fear]. It was obvious that there were still some powerful defences on his body. Otherwise, that single-target Art of Fear attack would have easily killed such a low-levelled Enhancer.

A Spirit-based Evolver waved his hands, as a bunch of poker cards flew like projectiles towards Yue Zhong, and in mid-air, they split into numerous more cards.

The main ability of the Spirit-based Evolver was controlling poker cards, and under his power, those weak cards could become sharp enough to slice armored vehicles, and even an L2 evolved zombie which was impervious to bullets and knives would be sliced into pieces by the poker cards.

The poker cards that were filled with power filled the entire room, and sealed off Yue Zhong's movements. Like a rain cloud that blots out the skies, no one would be able to evade the raindrops. This was the threat of those poker cards. Many experts had watched helplessly before being sliced apart.

Yue Zhong's eyes flashed with coldness as he slapped his hands once, and a fearsome fireball blossomed out of thin air, shooting towards the Spirit-based Evolver.

With that fearsome blazing tornado, the cards that could slice apart armored vehicles started to burn and turn to ashes, while the flaming tornado continued in its attempt to engulf the Spirit-based Evolver entirely.

Facing the fiery carnage about to envelope it, the card-controlling Spirit-based Evolver looked on in horror.

An earthen wall immediately congealed in front of him, blocking the path of the fiery tornado. It was the work of an Evolver with the [Ground Manipulation] ability standing near the Spirit-based Evolver.

The fiery tornado assaulted the wall, and an immense explosion resulted, causing a hole in the wall, before it continued to rage on towards the card-controlling Spirit-based Evolver.

A Level 43 Enhancer quickly came up and started to activate a [Psychic Barrier] in front of the card controller, his face resolute.

The fiery tornado landed against the psychic barrier powerfully, burning for a while before finally collapsing.

This was the pros of having comrades. One by one, they managed to defend against an attack that each of them would not be able to handle singly.

Peng! Peng! Peng!

The [Psychic Barrier] user had just heaved a sigh of relief, when 6 Stinger bullets came from behind the fiery tornado and exploded on his weakened barrier, immediately disintegrating it! 1 of the bullets penetrated his head, and instantly caused his cranium to be blasted apart.

A sharp bone blade came slashing out of nowhere, and the [Ground Manipulation] user was likewise decapitated, as a huge gush of blood splattered everywhere, his lifeless body slumping to the floor.

Another sharp bone spike then shot out explosively, piercing the head of the card controller, nailing him to the wall.

With the slashing of the bone blades, another 3 close-combat experts were immediately sliced apart, splattering the room with blood.

In a few moments of breath, 14 experts with decent strength had died at the hands of Yue Zhong and White Bones, and the scene in the room was like hell.

"So strong!! He's too strong!!" Chai Zi Cang who had just exited the illusion of [Art of Fear] stood behind Yue Zhong, his body trembling slightly as he looked at Yue Zhong with eyes of respect and awe. It was the first time he witnessed someone actually making short work of 14 experts, amongst which were some Evolvers even. Yue Zhong's strength had totally surpassed his imagination.

Yue Zhong stared coldly at the remaining experts, his gaze icy, while his aura intimidating the remaining 6 experts.

Yue Zhong had not yet activated his [Art of Fear, but being stared at like that caused an equally knee-shaking fear within the 6 experts.

One of them, an Evolver wielding a large blade could not withstand the terror of facing death and immediately kneeled as he pleaded: "I surrender!! Don't kill me!!"

Yue Zhong pointed to the other experts as he barked: "Surrender! Or die! You only have one second to consider!"

"I surrender!! Don't kill me!!"

Under Yue Zhong's stern warning, another 3 experts could not withstand the fear of death, and immediately threw their weapons down and knelt down.

"Yue Zhong…." One of the experts seemed to hesitate before lifting his heads to say something.

White Bones, whose entire body was covered in the blood of the enemies it killed, charged forwards wildly with its 2 bone blades, its demonic fiery eyes flashing. The remaining 2 experts had not yet the time to bargain nor finish their words before they were sliced in 2, splattering blood all over the place.

Yue Zhong did not cast another glance at the 4 experts who had submitted as he activated his [Shadow Steps] and rushed towards the window, but not before saying: "Protect Commander Chai out of here! Otherwise, all your families will die!"

Yue Zhong then immediately leapt out the 2nd storey window, and chased after Zhang Xue Wang like an arrow.

"Assassin!! Assassin!!" Zhang Xue Wang shouted as he ran, and his heart was now filled with regret. If he hadn't acted against Yue Zhong, then by now he would have chased Yue Zhong away.

A large number of soldiers and the remaining experts of the 1st Battalion began to gather towards them.

The 20 experts in the meeting hall only made up half of the experts within the 1st Battalion. Of course, they happened to be the elite of the elites as well.

When the soldiers saw their own commander being chased by Yue Zhong, they began to raise their weapons and fire at him.

A large number of bullets shot towards Yue Zhong, bet he did not try to evade them. Instead, the Bronze Spiritual Bell flew out from his chest, enveloping him with a radiant shield of light, blocking the incoming bullets.

In that intense moment, after barely 3 seconds, Yue Zhong managed to reach Zhang Xue Wang as he raised his hands to make a grab for the latter's neck.

"Release the Commander!!"

"Release the Commander! Otherwise, I'll fire!!"

When the soldiers saw Yue Zhong grabbing their commander by the neck, all of them stopped their attacks, instead surrounding them, as they stared intensely at Yue Zhong, threatening him.

When Zhang Xue Wang was caught by Yue Zhong, his fear arose, and he quickly shouted: "Yue Zhong! Let me go! I can co-operate with you!! Let's eradicate the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad together!"

"Good!" Yue Zhong then placed Zhang Xue Wang on the ground, not doing anything, instead ordering: "Immediately order your men to assault Zhu Lei!!"

"Fine!!"

Zhang Xue Wang could only helplessly give the order through gritted teeth.

Under Zhang Xue Wang's orders, the entire 1st Battalion of Guilin City was activated, and the armored vehicles made their way towards Zhu Lei's base.

Zhu Lei troops had been on standby since the start of the civil war, furthermore, there were fortifications done to enhance their defence against any potential attacks.

Within a lavish room deep inside the camp, there were 20 extremely outstanding beauties standing in various poses like decoration, while 2 men were seated and enjoying wine as they chatted.

One of them, who was burly and had a face full of beard and a mouth of yellow teeth was currently embracing a naked girl with one hand, while his other holding his wine glass. He was laughing out loud: "Di Ya! This time, you did beautifully. Du Shan Xiong that old thing is finally dead! From now on, this place is ours!"

The bearded burly man was Zhu Lei of the 6 military factions. He was violent in temper and lustful in nature. Although it had irked Du Shan Xiong, Zhu Lei truly had the strength in his unit, and thus Du Shan Xiong had no choice but to make use of him in the past.

While Zhu Lei had an explosive temper, he was not a fool, and in exchange for being a backer for the Heavenly Dragon Triad, they helped to deliver numerous experts and beautiful women, in addition to large amount of resources, allowing him to grow his forces right under Du Shan Xiong's nose.

However, Zhu Lei had still remained fearful of Du Shan Xiong. With his death, Zhu Lei was now without fear.

Di Ya revealed a cunning smile: "Big Brother!! From today onwards, Guilin City will be under Big Brother's control! As long as this little one gets a taste of what Big Brother has to enjoy, it will be more than enough for me!"

Zhu Lei looked at Di Ya and laughed with satisfaction, at the same time, twisting the breasts of the naked girl beside him: "Haha!! Di Ya, just follow me tightly! I won't mistreat you!!"

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Chapter 432 – Defeat of Zhu Lei's Troops!

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[Book 3: The South]

Zhu Lei eyed Di Ya, as he pointed to the various beauties in the room and chuckled: "These chicks, whoever catches your eye, just state it! Treat it as my gift to you!"

There were a total of 28 naked women standing around, their figures truly eye-catching, and they seemed to brighten up the room with their looks.

After society had collapsed due to the apocalypse, many allowed their inner demons and desires to fester. Zhu Lei was lustful and while Du Shan Xiong was still alive, he had been controlled, now he was truly unreserved in his indulgence.

Di Ya's face put on a humble expression as he flattered: "How can this little brother covet your women, Big Bro?"

Zhu Lei's mouth curled upwards in a smile, his eyes flashing with a perverse gaze, as he threw the voluptous woman in his embrace onto a glass table: "You're my good brother! How is it not possible!! Come, let us have fun with this woman together!"

Di Ya's eyes lit up in a similar obscene manner and took off his pants immediately: "Then I shall help myself!"

Right at this time, a military office suddenly charged in as he spoke in an urgent matter: "Commander!! I have something urgent to report!"

Zhu Lei had just taken off his trousers, and his rod was sticking out in excitement, and when he saw the officer bursting into the room, his expression turned to one of fury as he scolded loudly: "Get the fuck out!! Liu Xiong, do you still want your position or not?!"

The officer's face turned a shade of green then white when he was reprimanded. He felt his anger rising, and he clenched his fists tightly, eyeing the obscene scene in front of him, before he lowered his head and replied: "Yes!"

"Come, let's continue!!" Zhu Lei then laughed and grabbed hold of the woman before penetrating her.

On the other side, Di Ya chuckled perversely and grabbed her head.

Liu Xiong stomped back towards his office as he cursed: "Zhu Lei you fucking bastard!! You're still playing with women at this time? You'll definitely be buried!!"

The vice-captain Zhou Zi Xuan came up to Liu Xiong's side and asked: "Old Liu! What did Commander say?"

Liu Xiong's face was still steely as he replied coldly: "He told me to fuck right off!!"

Zhou Zi Xuan's face turned pale: "What the fuck is wrong with him? Zhang Xue Wang is attacking right now! If we don't prepare, how can we hold the fort?"

Liu Xiong mulled silently before starting at Zhou Zi Xuan: "Old Zhou!! Zhu Lei is just a bastard! I've decided to pull the troops out! Are you coming with me?"

When Zhou Zi Xuan heard that, his eyes went wide, and stammered with disbelief: "Old Liu! That's treason! Traitorous!"

Men of military viewed orders with paramount importance. Such a doctrine was ingrained in every single one of them. Liu Xiong's troops were also of the border troops in the past. Hence, although Zhu Lei was a lecherous and despotic person who got in with family relations, he was still the commander placed in charge of them, and Liu Xiong and the rest had no choice but to obey his orders, even though they did not approve of him.

Liu Xiong's current suggestion to pull his troops away, it was proof that things had changed, and this caused Zhou Zi Xuan to be at a loss.

Liu Xiong's face was one of disgust: "If I have to continue slogging for that kind of person! I'd rather turn against him!!"

As long as one was still upright and humane, they would be unwilling to work for an obscene and rude leader. Liu Xiong had closed one eye to Zhu Lei's behaviour because the country and military were behind him in the past.

Now that the military was fractured, and the country on the brink of collapse, the unhappiness with Zhu Lei had been building up inside Liu Xiong's heart, and had burst out.

Zhou Zi Xuan seemed to ponder for a while silently, before his eyes flashed with a similar glint of resolution: "Fine!! I'll come with you!!"

"That's great!!" Liu Xiong's face expressed his joy.

Zhou Zi Xuan then continued asking: "What shall we do with Chen Zheng Wei?"

Liu Xiong's eyes glinted with a ferocity: "Since we're about to fall out with Zhu Lei, let's just do away with him!!"

That Chen Zheng Wei was a pawn sent by Zhu Lei to watch over Liu Xiong and the rest, and both sides did not get along well.

Right at this time, Chen Zheng Wei came striding into the camp, seeing Xiong Lei, his expression became extremely ugly: "Liu Xiong! Why are you still here? Aren't you supposed to hurry and take some troops to stop Zhang Xue Wang?"

Liu Xiong and Zhou Zi Xuan exchanged a look, as they stepped forwards: "Chen Zheng Wei!! I have something to say to you!!"

"What! It can wait! The priority now is to mobilize the troops to defend against Zhang Xue Wang's assault…."

Before his words were even finished, Xiong Lei grabbed Chen Zheng Wei's head and twisted viciously, with a "kacha", Chen Zheng Wei slumped to ground with disbelief on his lifeless face.

"Let's go!"

After killing Chen Zheng Wei, Liu Xiong and Zhou Zi Xuan quickly mobilized their own troops before escaping from the camp.

Liu Xiong and his troops had left the camp not long, when the situation became a whole lot worse.

Hong!! Hong!! Hong!!

In almost an instant, countless artillery rounds blanketed the camp of Zhu Lei, and under the bombardment, countless houses were instantly destroyed, and a number of armored vehicles also became scrap metal as they combusted and exploded in balls of fire.

One particular rounds ended up beside the residence of Zhu Lei, and with an explosive sound, it decimated a building, causing the soldiers within it to be buried alive.

At the blast area, a dust cloud rose up and blanketed the area, with the debris falling around. The scene looked like the aftermath of an earthquake.

Those naked women that had been treated as trophies within the room of Zhu Lei were currently screaming and could not care about Zhu Lei's threats, as they ran from the room.

"What's going on? What is the meaning of this artillery fire?"

Zhu Lei had also been frightened by the sudden blasts, without even wearing his pants, he ran out naked, his face pale as he looked around for the source of the problem.

When Di Ya heard that explosive artillery, he had kicked the woman kneeling in front of him away, as he ran to the window: "Shit!!! What's going on?"

At almost the same time when Zhu Lei and Di Ya were both shocked and trying to find out what was happening, 2 artillery rounds landed on this particular building, causing an earth-shaking blast, and the entire building was destroyed. Everyone within it were blasted to pieces, even Di Ya who was a Level 48 Evolver had his body blasted apart, without a chance to resist.

"Attack!!"

"We're under attack!!"

Facing the sudden bombardment of heavy rounds, all the soldiers rushed out from their various buildings within the camp, of which, there were over 300 Enhancers. These 300 Enhancers were the subordinates that Di Ya had brought over and offered to Zhu Lei's forces. Zhu Lei had relied on these soldiers to kill a number of Mutant Beasts and zombies.

Hong!! Hong!! Hong!!

5 rounds landed consecutively amidst the gathering of those Enhancers, and an entire patch of them were instantly blasted into pieces. Amongst them, there were even 2 other Evolvers that were directly bombed to death.

"Help!!! I don't wanna die!!"

"Run!!"

"Run!!"

Facing the constant bombardment of artillery rounds, those originally proud and arrogant experts totally collapsed. Under the might of the heavy firepower, they suddenly felt the weakness of their pitiful existences.

However, regardless of how quick they were to discover the true threat of those heavy rounds, the blast area of each round was too large, furthermore, there were consecutive shots being fired, which caused even the faster Agility-based Evolvers to have trouble evading.

Those Enhancers were ordinary folks before the apocalypse, and the training they received was too little. Most of the time, they only had to face the dumb zombies, or battle against the Mutant Beasts, but never against other humans with modern weaponry.

As Zhu Lei, the highest commanding officer had been blasted to pieces, other than a few platoon commanders that gathered their forces to try and resist, the rest of the division had totally collapsed, escaping to various directions.

Hu Yi had led a number of soldiers to surround the troops of Zhu Lei, and those scattered Enhancers were all apprehended, and placed inside the Captive Battalion.

Yue Zhong went into the command centre and observed the plight of Zhu Lei's troops, before turning to Zhang Xue Wang standing beside him and ordered: "Alright! Time to go persuade them to surrender!"

Zhang Xue Wang himself was watching the state of the camp, and his heart was conflicted. Not long ago, these were fellow comrades. Now, his own artillery had caused such carnage, and it caused him to be unsettled.

However, Zhang Xue Wang's life was in Yue Zhong's control, thus, he had no choice, and did not hesitate as he ordered a subordinate officer beside him: "Go send someone to talk to them!"

One officer held up a loudhailer and blasted his voice across to the entire camp: "The people inside, listen up! Zhu Lei had been involved in a plot to assassinate our Regiment Commander Du Shan Xiong!! He's considered a traitor to the country and the people!! You had better surrender now, so that we can let you off with your lives! Otherwise, we will not show any mercy, and as long as we see any resistance, we will execute you on the spot!!"

By now, there were over 200-soldiers still standing guard inside Zhu Lei's camp. They had not collapsed like the Enhancers when they were faced with the artillery attack.

With Zhu Lei's death, the remaining troops did possess some combat strength, but without a target or fighting will, they all came out subdued and surrendered as Yue Zhong's captives.

After thoroughly eradicating Zhu Lei's troops and absorbing the captives, Yue Zhong did not pause and immediately ordered: "Continue! Attack Ma Fang's camp now!!"

Under Yue Zhong's orders, Zhang Xue Wang's First Battalion began their advance towards Ma Fang's camp.

Within Ma Fang's base.

Ma Fang, who was decked in military wear, swung a cup onto the ground with full force, shattering it as he bellowed out in rage: "Fuck!! Why is that bastard Zhu Lei so weak!! He couldn't even hold out for an hour! Fuck!! Zhang Xue Wang is also a bastard, he actually submitted to Yue Zhong!! Damn it!!! Damn it!! Fuuuuuuuuck!!"

An intelligence soldier immediately came up: "Commander!! Be appeased!! We can go and join forces with Chen Yu, Murong He and Wang He!! With the 4 of us, Zhang Xue Wang and Yue Zhong are definitely not our match!!"

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Chapter 433 – Continuous Submissions

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Ma Fang's eyes lit up: "Great idea!! You, go and find them now! Go speak to them about an alliance!!"

The intelligence officer immediately acknowledged and left.

The moment that intelligence officer left, a voice through a loudspeaker came resounding throughout the camp: "To the people inside, listen up! Ma Fang was involved in the plot to assassinate Regiment Commander Du Shan Xiong! He's now termed a traitor of the country and people! You guys had better surrender now, and you'll be left with your life. Otherwise, we won't show you mercy, can only treat you as accomplices to revolt and will execute you on the spot!!"

Ma Fang's face instantly fell, as he cursed out loud: "Zhang Xue Wang that bastard!! Since when did I take part in any plot to assassinate Regiment Commander Du? We'll fight to the death! Convey my orders. Everyone is to defend their post, not a single one is allowed to retreat. We will trade soldiers with them, and definitely not give in."

Hearing the loudhailer, numerous soldiers within Ma Fang's camp started to be doubtful.

The commander of the infantry unit dependent on Ma Fang immediately ran, and those soldiers who had just been training for one or two months under him also collapsed, escaping in all directions.

With Du Shan Xiong's death, the hearts of the ordinary military men faltered, that was why there was a fracture into 6 divisions. Furthermore, there was unrest within the hearts of the soldiers, and now Yue Zhong had claimed loudly that he was carrying out judgement on those actually guilty of the death of Du Shan Xiong, this immediately led to a breakdown in the troops under Ma Fang, as they sought to escape.

A leader in these times was extremely important, the moment he was dead, the troops would collapse and follow suit. If Yue Zhong died, all his establishments would immediately be torn down, and everyone would split. Regardless of his women, or Chi yang, no one would be able to hold on to his legacy. Likewise, as the commander of the entire Guilin City's military, with the death of Du Shan Xiong, countless ambitious people sprouted up, and caused the lower ranks soldiers to be uneasy.

At this time, a particular intelligence officer suddenly ran in urgently and called out: "Commander, not good!! Commander Zhu has just escaped. The entire 11th Infantry Battalion has just collapsed!!"

Ma Fang was in disbelief as his expression turned ugly: "What?! Zhu Zhi Hua ran?!"

Another intelligence officer came running in: "Commnader! Commander! OC Zhang has just brought his company and left!

Ma Fang was livid yet pale at the same time, as he stammered: "What? Zhang Ming Tao also ran??"

Zhang Ming Tao was an exemplary officer who had shone even before the apocalypse. During the purge of the zombies, his performance was valiant and courageous. The fact that such a military officer had taken his troops and ran, was a huge blow and reflection on their current situation.

Right at this time, a huge explosion resounded, as an artillery round landed on a nearby military building, causing the building Ma Fang was in to be affected by the blast radius as well.

Ma Fang was thoroughly frightened by that huge impact, as he muttered: "Damn it!! They're firing already!! They're using heavy artillery!! Shit!! Shit!! I need to leave… I need to leave right now!! As long as the mountain remains, there won't be a lack of firewood!! If I'm dead, nothing else matters!!"

Ma Fang had been integral in the commanding of the troops when fighting against the zombies, but he had remained in the safety behind his troops, and while he possessed the experience, it was with regards to command. Now that he felt the impact of the artillery first hand, it frightened him greatly.

"Cover my retreat!!" Without any hesitation, Ma Fang immediately gathered a few of his trusted aides as he tried to escape.

"Commander, You can't leave now!! If you leave, there will be no one to lead the troops here!!" One of the intelligence officers rushed up and tried to stop Ma Fang.

'Hong!' Another huge explosion rocked the earth, as an artillery round blasted another nearby building into oblivion, causing a huge dust cloud to rise, and the ground to shake.

The entire building that Ma Fang was in also started to shake, as dust began to fall and the building threatened to collapse!!

"Fuck off!!" Ma Fang became infuriated, pulled out a pistol, and pointed it at that officer before cocking the trigger.

Peng! A gunshot rang out.

A bullet hole appeared in between the brows of the intelligence officer, and his face was still in disbelief as his body slumped to the floor lifelessly.

Seeing that, no one else dared to stop Ma Fang, and they watched helplessly as Ma Fang left.

The remaining officers inside the room exchanged looks, before dropping everything and fleeing as well.

"Ma Fang escaped!!"

"Commander Ma abandoned us and ran!!"

The message was passed swiftly amongst the soldiers, and the order of the soldiers promptly collapsed, as they tried to run in various directions, or making their way towards Yue Zhong's troops to surrender.

Yue Zhong watched the collapse of Ma Fang's troops, and heaved a huge sigh of relief. If Ma Fang had insisted on defending the post with his soldiers, it would have been a lot tougher to conquer the base. The price to pay would not have been small either.

Yue Zhong passed an order: "Next target! Wang He's 2nd Battalion!!"

Yue Zhong intended to subdue the fractured divisions of the military before they had a chance to regroup and form an alliance. If the military came together again, and allied with each other, Yue Zhong would be hard pressed to subdue them.

Wang He had numerous experts, but in exchange, the number of people under him who knew how to operate modern weaponry were lesser. In an exchange of firepower, their combat strength was weaker, and definitely was not a match for Zhang Xue Wang's armored division. Even if they had assassins or top experts, Yue Zhong could deal with them himself.

With Yue Zhong's orders, the troops adjusted their target after subduing 2 major battalions, and made for the 2nd Battalion.

"Leader!! Wang He requests an audience!!"

Just as Yue Zhong and his troops were halfway to their destination, a soldier came running up to Yue Zhong and reported.

Yue Zhong's eyes brightened up and ordered: "Bring him in!!"

Not long after, a 1.7m-tall man of about 38 with a body full of muscles and vigor, came walking towards Yue Zhong, his eyes holding a penetrating gaze.

Wang He looked Yue Zhong up and down, before saying slowly: "Hello! I'm Wang He! May I ask, if you're Yue Zhong?"

Yue Zhong pointed to a sofa opposite him, indicating for Wang He to take a seat, as he smiled and said: "That's right! How do you do, Commander Wang?"

Wang He sat down as invited by Yue Zhong.

Mu Xiang Ling came up with 2 cups of red tea, and served them to Yue Zhong and Wang He, before taking a seat beside Yue Zhong.

Wang He sipped the cup of red tea, and immediately spoke openly: "This time, I've come alone, to represent the brothers of the 2nd Battalion to submit to Leader Yue Zhong. We hope that Leader Yue Zhong will accept us!"

Zhang Xue Wang's armored division was simply too tyrannical, with their tanks, cannons, assault helicopters, they were enough to annihilate the 2nd Battalion totally. Wang He did not wish for any of his brothers to be killed so pathetically, hence he made the decision to surrender with his troops.

Wang He was also extremely clear, surrendering voluntarily and being forced to submit were 2 different treatments. If Yue Zhong did not treat those who surrendered kindly, in the future, no one would be willing to submit to him.

Yue Zhong chuckled at Wang He: "Fine!! From now on, you're my subordinate. How about being a Lieutenant-ranked Platoon Commander? Your brothers will still be yours to command!"

Wang He immediately saluted Yue Zhong: "Many thanks Leader! I'm willing to die for Leader!"

Yue Zhong smiled slightly and waved his hands, Wang He then sat down.

Wang He took another sip of tea, mulling silently, before suddenly asking: "Yue Zhong! If I hadn't come, how would you have dealt with us?"

Yue Zhong chuckled indifferently, and did not mask his words: "I would have labelled you guys as traitors, then made use of the cannons and tanks to wipe everything out!"

Wang He laughed bitterly, even in death, they would have been termed as traitors, it showed how vicious Yue Zhong was.

Yue Zhong then commanded: "Wang He! Immediately go and get your troops to merge with mine. Our next target is Murong He's camp!!"

Wang He saluted and stood up to leave: "Yes, Leader. I will not disappoint you!"

"Ge-ge!! Why didn't you reorganize his troops?" Mu Xiang Ling, who had been sitting quietly like a doll along suddenly piped with curiosity.

Yue Zhong pinched her cheeks slightly and laughed: "He had come of his own initiative to surrender. It's not that I can't dissolve his troops and reorganize them, but now's not the time. I still need their strength. It isn't the time to be reorganizing any of the troops now!"

"Oh!!" Mu Xiang Ling nodded with understanding as she glanced at Yue Zhong.

Wang He quickly brought the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion and joined Yue Zhong, and the huge troop continued onwards towards Murong He's base.

By this time, the total number of soldiers that Yue Zhong had completely outnumbered those from Murong He and Chen Yu's side. However, Chen Yu was dedicated and had won the loyalty of his men, while the men under his control weren't as well equipped as Zhang Xue Wang's, it was still decent. Hence, Yue Zhong decided to go for Murong He first.

Just as Yue Zhong's army was about to depart, a subordinate suddenly came up to him: "Leader!! Murong He and Chen Yu's envoy are here to request an audience!!"

A joyous glint flashed in Yue Zhong's eyes, yet he maintained his composure, saying: "Let them in!!"

Under the guidance of a soldier, 2 men walked into the mobile command post that Yue Zhong was in.

Murong He was an ordinary looking man, except that his nose was slightly red. The moment he saw Yue Zhong, he said: "Murong He brings the men of the 6th Battalion to submit to Leader Yue Zhong, and hopes that Leader Yue accepts us!"

Yue Zhong asked: "Good!! What are your conditions?"

Being able to conquer an entire troop of elites without using any weapons, Yue Zhong was naturally elated.

Murong He replied craftily: "We leave it all to Leader!"

Murong He naturally had numerous conditions in his heart, but at this time, not mentioning any would be best. Yue Zhong would definitely not mistreat those who submitted to him willingly.

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Chapter 434 – Gaining Guillin City

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[Book 3: The South]

Yue Zhong immediately saw through Murong He's meaning and said: "Good!! Then I shall first confer upon you the rank of a Lieutenant, is that fine? Your brothers will still be yours to command!"

Murong He's expression was one of joy: "Thank you Leader! I'm willing to die for Leader!!"

Yue Zhong then turned to the envoy sent by Chen Yu, saying: "What did Chen Yu sent you for?"

The envoy immediately replied: "My name is Luo Yang He! Leader Yue Zhong! As long as you promise us some conditions, we from the 4th Battalion are willing to submit to your command."

Yue Zhong's eyes flashed with an icy glint, yet his expression did not change as he replied indifferently: "Fine! Speak!"

Luo Yang He spewed out the 3 conditions at one go: "1st: You can't dissolve our team! Second: The affairs of the 4th Battalion would be handled by ourselves. Third: We want to have the right to decline any orders that go against the interest of the people of Guilin City or betray the country."

Yue Zhong's eyes shone with a strange light as he replied: "Sure! Not a problem! You have my word!!"

Chen Yu wasn't willing to hand his subordinates over, and wanted to retain his own faction, which was the same as listening but not necessarily obeying.

When Luo Yang He heard Yue Zhong's agreement, he heaved a sigh of relief, and saluted: "Thank you Leader!"

Wang He and Murong He looked at Luo Yang He with pity in their eyes. The moment Yue Zhong gained control of Guilin City, as long as he employed some methods, he could make the soldiers of the 4th Battalion suffer. If Chen Yu could not even see past this, his governance was really too weak.

Yue Zhong observed the surroundings before solemnly declaring: "Now, our next move, will be to annihilate Li Jiu Ming for orchestrating this chaos in Guilin City! Who's willing to be the vanguard?"

"I'm willing!!" Wang He and Murong He replied loudly.

Wang He and Murong He had just thrown in their lot with Yue Zhong, and were anxious to prove themselves.

Yue Zhong looked to Wang He and Murong He as he grinned slightly: "Then I shall leave it to Commander Wang and Commander Murong!"

"Yes! Leader!"

Upon receiving Yue Zhong's order, Wang He and Murong He immediately led their respective troops as they advanced towards the centre of the city.

In just a few moments, numerous armored vehicles arrived in the middle of Guilin City, followed by a vehicle that was broadcasting a voice: "Li Jiu Ming had plotted to assassinate Regiment Commander Du Shan Xiong, and had betrayed the country and her people! He's now recognized as a dangerous traitor! All those who had heard this broadcast, immediately abandon your weapons and submit to us! Otherwise, you'll be labelled as a traitor in cahoots with Li Jiu Ming, and we will execute without mercy!!"

"That's the military!!"

"So Regiment Commander Du was really assassinated by Mayor Li?"

"Damn it!! We were tricked!!"

Seeing those military armored vehicles rolling into the middle of town, all those police forces, special forces and armed forces that had been following Li Jiu Ming blindly, and chasing Chen Ying began to fall apart, as many of them put down their weapons, and began to submit to the army.

The moment Li Jiu Ming's faction began to collapse, only a few trusted aides remained by his side.

The fact that Li Jiu Ming had such a number of experts by his side was because he was the mayor of Nanning City previously. Without his title, he's nobody. Hence, the moment the army had declared him as a traitor, he had lost his position as the Mayor of Nanning City, and the forces under him would naturally not listen to him.

Li Jiu Ming saw his troops abandoning their posts and weapons, surrendering to the army, and his face turned ashen as he cried out pathetically: "Damn it!! Why did you guys betray me!!! Why!!! I'm the Mayor of Nanning City!! I'm the Mayor!!!"

One of the trusted aides pulled on Li Jiu Ming frantically as they tried to get him to leave: "Mayor! It's time to leave!! Otherwise, they're gonna arrest you!!"

Li Jiu Ming had been in Guilin City for so long, and naturally had a small team of loyal supporters, as they held up the nearly-insane Li Jiu Ming and made a run for it.

All of a sudden, 2 silhouettes flashed by, as 2 experts decked in military uniform blocked the path.

One of the experts stared fixedly at Li Jiu Ming as he laughed out loud: "Isn't this Mayor Li Jiu Ming? Haha, we've caught a huge fish!"

Seeing the appearance of those 2 military experts, everyone present felt a chill in their spines.

"Go to hell!!" The loyal subordinate beside Li Jiu Ming suddenly pulled out a gun, and fired 2 shots at the 2 military experts.

Li Jiu Ming's subordinate had just moved, when the 2 experts also moved at the same time.

"Die!" The military expert who had laughed unleashed a speed that was frightening, and the distance of more than 10m was instantly closed up in a second. The long blade in his hands turned into a flash of blade light that slashed in the midst of the subordinates of Li Jiu Ming, slicing them into multiple parts, and fresh blood exploded out in every which direction, dyeing the ground.

Li Jiu Ming was stunned silly by the cruel scene unfolding in front of him, as he trembled uncontrollably, screaming: "Don't kill me!! Don't kill me!! I'm willing to do anything!! Please let me go!!"

The military expert placed the long blade beside Li Jiu Ming's neck, as he turned to face the other expert and asked: "Can I kill him?"

The other expert replied indifferently: "The orders were, dead or alive! It's up to you!"

The military expert's eyes flashed with a vicious glint, as he swung with force, instantly decapitating Li Jiu Ming, while saying: "Then, let's just kill him! Such a disgusting politician, I hate these types the most!"

Li Jiu Ming's head rolled onto the floor, his eyes set forever with a look of disbelief and helplessness.

The military expert who had executed Li Jiu Ming then asked his comrade: "Say, why do you think Commander led us to submit to Yue Zhong? Based on our strength, we can totally control Guilin City."

The other cool military expert replied coldly: "No matter how strong you are, a single heavy firepower round is enough to send you to heaven. Commander's foresight is more than what we can imagine! Let's go!"

After which, he turned around and left quickly.

"Wait for me!!" The military expert who had executed Li Jiu Ming, called out, and chased after him.

Inside the small alley, there was only the corpses of Li Jiu Ming and his trusted aides strewn about, with blood splattered everywhere. It was truly a cruel scene.

Not long after the 2 military experts had left, a figure stepped out from the shadows in the alley, and it was precisely Green Bamboo Triad's chief Gao Ming Hao.

Gao Ming Hao eyed the corpse of Li Jiu Ming, and lightly sighed: "What a pity!"

At the next moment, Gao Ming Hao's eyes seemed to be ablaze with a ferocity: "Yue Zhong, it's your win this time! Next time, I will definitely overcome you!!"

The moment the words left his mouth, Gao Ming Hao turned around, and his figure disappeared.

With the army occupying the centre of Guilin City, and Li Jiu Ming's faction collapsing, Gao Ming Hao directly brought the remnant members of the Green Bamboo Triad and fled Guilin City.

With the suppression from the military, the troublemakers within the city were subdued quickly, and the entire city regained its former peace.

However, because of the assassination of Du Shan Xiong, the resulting chaos had cost the lives of over 2,000 people.

While Guilin City did regain its peace, there was still an unsolved issue, which was the faction led by Chen Ying within the city.

This was a faction that was made up of the police, armed forces as well as special forces, together with the various experts working for the government. While their total combined power was not a match for any of the military divisions, it was still a decent force not to be underestimated.

Within the meeting hall of Guilin City, seated at a long conference table, on one side was Yue Zhong and his numerous subordinates, on the other, was Chen Ying and the other government officials.

Yue Zhong eyed the various upper echelons of the government and used a domineering tone to speak: "I'm Yue Zhong! I'm currently the commander of the military. I hope that you guys can hand over all your weapons, and accept my reorganization! In exchange, I'll protect your personal property."

By now, the forces in Yue Zhong's control was more than enough to deter any resistance, and this was why he decided to be direct and forceful as he ordered the government.

When his words came out, all the officials were instantly agitated. No one was willing to give up their power, and they turned their gazes to Chen Ying.

Chen Ying mulled for a while, before replying slowly: "Fine! We can hand over all weapons! We'll accept your reorganization as well. However, you must promise to protect our personal property and families as well as the stability of Guilin City."

Yue Zhong nodded when he heard that: "Sure!!"

At this time, a middle-aged man stood up in the hall and berated Yue Zhong: "Wait a moment!! I refuse!! This is Guilin City! Not yours, Yue Zhong's Guilin City! What right do you have to demand us to surrender and accept your reshuffling?!"

Yue Zhong frowned, and a military expert immediately stepped forward to grab the man by his neck and twisted forcefully. With a 'kacha' sound, the man died instantly with his neck turned backwards, his eyes wide with shock.

Witnessing this, the various officials broke out in cold sweat.

Yue Zhong surveyed his surroundings and asked coolly: "Is there anyone else?"

No one else dared to voice their two cents.

After Chen Ying had handed over all the forces, Yue Zhong allowed the officials to take away their personal belongings, while staying in Guilin City to live as rich men.

From the 2nd day on, Yue Zhong began reorganizing his troops on a huge scale.

The original armored division or 1st Battalion led by Zhang Xue Wang was turned into Yue Zhong's direct battalion, with Hu Yi as the vice-Commander. He inserted a number of the experts that he brought from Tianxin District. Larman's foreign forces troops were also integrated into the 1st Battalion. Yue Zhong then assigned the captive troops from Zhu Lei and Ma Fang, the experts from the Heaven Union as well as the various members of the Green Stone Triad into the 2nd Battalion, with Zheng Ming He as the Commander. The 3rd Battalion comprised of other members of the Green Stone Triad, as well as the experts from Zhu Lei and Ma Fang's troops, with Ying Kai Shan as the Commander. Yue Zhong then set the elite experts of the Heaven Union, Zhang Xue Wang's troops as well as the various elites from the other troops into the 4th Battalion, a Special Forces troop, with Bai Xiao Sheng as the commander. The 5th Battalion was made up of Chai Zi Cang and his troops, the 6th Battalion was Wang He and his troops, the 7th Battalion was Murong He and his troops, and the 8th Battalion was made up of the armed forces, special forces as well as other experts that had surrendered during the civil war. The commander was Chen Sheng Gang. The 9th Battalion was made up of the new recruits that had been trained under Zhang Xue Wang previously, and finally the 17th Battalion, made up of Chen Yu and his troops that might listen, but not entirely dependent on Yue Zhong. Other than all those, there were 4 other battalions made up of new soldiers preparing to be trained.

After a round of reorganizing, Yue Zhong could be said to have established control over the entire force.

Other than the 17th Battalion led by Chen Yu, the rest could be deployed by Yue Zhong as and when he wished. In fact, the 17th Battalion was likewise the same, however, he decided to abide by his agreement and did not take away the commanding rights from Chen Yu.

After the cleanup, Yue Zhong's military size had now reached 10,000 people, and they could be said to be decent soldiers that were trained in modern warfare from before the apocalypse as well as experts that had become stronger through enhancements. Their combat strength was not ordinary, and regardless of Mutant Beasts, zombies or other human enemies, they would prove to be a threat.

Guilin City's inhabitants were numerous, hence there were more Evolvers on the whole as well. After reorganizing the troops, Yue Zhong could be said to have truly established a force with numerous experts, with the ability to activate over 20 Evolvers as and when he wished.

After settling the issues of the military, Yue Zhong commanded the whole troop to undergo training, as he began to establish a government.

With regards to the government, Yue Zhong directly brought back Chen Ying whom he had stripped of all authority to act as the governor. With regards to Chen Ying, Yue Zhong actually appreciated his values and way of handling matters, especially his children, who knew not to toe the line, unlike other despotic 2nd-generation ne'er do wells. Furthermore, Chen Ying's governance was solid, and although Yue Zhong was growing in terms of governing, compared to Chen Ying who was an old-timer, he was still lacking.

With the help of Chen Ying, the cabinet of the government was quickly established. After a few days, Guilin City not only regained its stability and peace, but even showed signs of prospering.

Furthermore, Yue Zhong made use of the time to send people to transport the countless Mutant Beasts' corpses back to Guilin City, as it was the winter season, and the weather was much colder and harsher than normal. An entire day would feel like the inside of an industrial refrigerator, and those Mutant Beast corpses had not shown signs of decay yet.

The moment the corpses were brought back to Guilin City, under Chen Ying's supervision, countless Mutant Beast processing plants popped up, and began to prepare the corpses into materials as well as food sources. Even the hair was used for various means.

Gaining such a wealth of resources, the entire Guilin City could partake in this huge benefit. Many found jobs, and gained more food as a result. Yue Zhong also gained more Mutant Beasts hide as well as other usable melee weapons made from the carcasses of the Mutant Beasts. It was truly a win-win situation.

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Chapter 0435 – Chapter 435: Yu Xin's First Night!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

In the evening, Yue Zhong held up the blood essence of the Type 3 Mutant Beast and looked at it, as he was submerged in his thoughts. That Type 3 Mutant Beast's blood essence was an important ingredient in the manufacturing of the 'Ou Ming Ver 1'.

With a single blood essence, adding on some other ingredients, it could produce 20 vials of 'Ou Ming Ver 1'. All Yue Zhong had to do was to pick out 20 of his experts that were above Level 30 and he would have 20 experts with a Second Order skill each.

However, it was precious and valuable to Yue Zhong as well, due to its potential in strengthening himself. This fact made him hesitate.

Yue Zhong considered for quite a while, before his eyes flashed with decisiveness and swallowed the blood essence into his stomach: "Forget it!! Raising my own strength is the priority now! There are so many experts under the sun, if my strength is insufficient, the moment I die, everything will be for naught!"

The fact that Yue Zhong had reached where he was now, was largely due to his own strength. If he wasn't tyrannical enough, he wouldn't have made it to this point. After all, he had been an ordinary person prior to the apocalypse, unlike Du Shan Xiong who was a regiment commander. Without strength, it would be hard for others to acknowledge him.

When the blood essence entered Yue Zhong's abdomen, it turned into a hot source of energy that spread across his entire body, enhancing every cell continuously.

At the same time, there was a faint pink gas within that blood essence that wafted within his body, causing, his temperature to rise rapidly.

Upon swallowing that Type 3 Mutant Beast's blood essence, Yue Zhong had immediately come to an understanding, as he pressed a button by his bed: "As expected, there's an aphrodisiac poison within."

Soon after, the bedroom door was pushed open, and Ning Yu Xin appeared, dressed in a light nightgown. She saw Yue Zhong laying down on the bed, as his body seemed to be heating up, and immediately rushed over and asked in concern: "Yue Zhong, what's wrong?"

Yue Zhong raised his head, his eyes suddenly flashing with the ferocity of a beast, as he stared fixedly at Ning Yu Xin.

He discovered that the snow-white skin, coupledwith her voluptuous figure, that pair of full breasts that might not be considered explosive, but still a stunning C-cup, in addition to her exquisite looks and that slight air of haughtiness, all combined into a single beautiful sight.

Yue Zhong had felt that Ning Yu Xin was truly a beauty out of the ordinary when he saw her normally, but now that his heart was set aflame by the aphrodisiac poison, he felt that the her currently standing in front of him was like an angel that had descended from the heavens.

Yue Zhong's body flashed forwards, embracing Ning Yu Xin in his arms, and then pushing her under him, like a wild beast.

Ning Yu Xin, being pressed under Yue Zhong, seeing his ragged breath and rising body temperature and started to get frightened: "Yue Zhong, what's wrong with you? Did something happen?"

On the battlefield, regardless of the amount of damage and injuries he suffered, the bones that he shattered, or the limbs that he lost, Yue Zhong had always rebounded back like a devil with a vigor as he stood proud and unyielding. It was the first time that she saw Yue Zhong losing his control like this, and it caused her to be a little anxious.

Yue Zhong looked at Ning Yu Xin and admired the beauty that could cause most men to go crazy, and tore her clothes off, revealing her stunning, youthful figure.

"Mm!!" Ning Yu Xin was currently flushed red and felt light-headed, as her heartbeat quickened.

Yue Zhong grabbed hold of her slender hands, and suddenly penetrated her.

A sharp pain coursed through Ning Yu Xin's body, as a blood-red stain appeared on the snow-white sheets, and her sharp eyes were currently brimming with tears, at the same time, betraying an expression of loss. *

Ning Yu Xin had been a hardworking student, with an extremely good upbringing, and was considered a lady. She was not like her young sister Ning Ruo Zi that had a weird temper, and had her dreams of having a dashing Prince Charming sweeping her off her feet. Being taken suddenly by Yue Zhong, whose looks was definitely far from the ideal Prince Charming in her mind, this caused her to be at a loss. Although she knew her fate, she couldn't help feeling like that when it finally happened.

"Big Brother! I'm here!!" Right at this time, the door was pushed open, and Mu Xiang Ling entered the room carefully.

She was different from Ning Yu Xin, and was prepared since long ago. She knew that she had become Yue Zhong's, and she didn't resist her fate, instead, choosing to get on good terms with Yue Zhong, in order to become indispensable. Hence, she had entered in between the bedsheets with Yue Zhong every night stealthily.

Inside Yue Zhong's room, White Bones was standing guard, as long as it did not detect any killing intent, it would not act, keeping still as though it didn't exist. If it felt the tiniest sliver of killing intent, it would instantly shoot out a bone blade to engage the enemy,

Mu Xiang Ling entered the room, and immediately saw Yue Zhong and Ning Yu Xin embroiled in an intense physical exchange, and she wasn't shy in the slightest, instead her face was one of curiosity as she chuckled: "Wa! So intense!! Yu Xin-jiejie! You're stealing a quick bite eh!!"

"Don't look!! Ah!! Don't look!!" Ning Yu Xin caught sight of Mu Xiang Ling who had suddenly appeared, and her careful upbringing immediately kicked in, as she felt incredibly ashamed, before arching her body in an extremely seductive peak, reaching her climax, and slumped to the sheets, exhausted.

Mu Xiang Ling saw that Yue Zhong was not in a right state, and immediately grinned, before tiptoeing out: "Yu Xin-jiejie, I shan't disturb you guys tonight! Hehe!!"

Ning Yu Xin's heart was currently full of embarrassment and shame as she moaned silently: "Nooo! I was seen!! How can I face others now!!"

At this time, Yue Zhong resumed his ravaging of her, causing her to be engulfed in a chaos of emotions and pleasure, leaving her with no room to think.

"Congratulations! You have gained 5 in all attributes, and an additional increase of 10 points in Strength!"

As Yue Zhong hugged Ning Yu Xin tightly and was about to fall asleep, the notification resounded within his mind.

The blood essence of the Type 3 Mutant Beast was truly shocking, instantly giving Yue Zhong an enhancement of 40 points. However, it was the first time using it, hence the effect was much more distinct. After this, if he took any more Type 3 Mutant Beast blood essence, the effects would be diminished.

Early the next morning, Yue Zhong woke up groggily, and saw the ravishing Ning Yu Xin lying next to him.

He immediately thought to the previous night and his actions, and felt his head hurting. At that time, he had been inflamed with desire, but he didn't lose his consciousness nor memories, and he could remember every single detail of what he did very clearly.

Yue Zhong admired her delicate face and bent down to kiss her forehead. No matter what, this beauty had already become his, and he would not let go.

The moment Yue Zhong kissed, the spot he touched flushed slightly red, before her entire face turned red as well, and her body trembled slightly.

Seeing this, Yue Zhong knew at once that this alluring woman was already awake, but she was so shy that she did not dare to open her eyes.

Yue Zhong looked at the trembling Ning Yu Xin and felt mischievous, lightly licking her neck and bit her collarbone gently before chuckling: "So damn fine! Shall we have one more round?"

"Wuu!!" Ning Yu Xin immediately moaned out like a frightened kitten, and shot upwards, grabbing the blanket and wrapping that gorgeous body of hers, curling into a ball and begged Yue Zhong: "Yue-gege, not now!!"

Right at this time, Mu Xiang Ling bounded through the door, dressed neatly as she revealed a vibrant smile and said: "Ohhhh!! Good morning Big Brother!!"

Mu Xiang Ling wore that innocent smile as she bounded up on the bed, and grabbed Yue Zhong's arm as she teased: "Hehe!! Are you guys playing a game? I want to join in."

Yue Zhong ruffled Mu Xiang Ling's head and threatened: "Go eat your breakfast!! Otherwise, I'll spank your bottom!"

Mu Xiang Ling's eyes scrunched up as she shot them a meaningful smile: "I got it! Big Brother, better have some fun with Yu Xin-jiejie! Hehe!!"

Ning Yu Xin saw that smile of Mu Xiang Ling, and thought back to last night, and her face immediately flushed red with embarrassment again.

After washing up, Yue Zhong brought Ning Yu Xin to the dining hall.

At the table, Yue Zhong, Ning Yu Xin, Xin Jia Rou and Mu Xiang Ling sat down to dine.

There were 8 beautiful maids standing in 2 rows on either side of the table, waiting on them.

These 8 maids were offered by the various factions after Yue Zhong had eradicated the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad. Yue Zhong had not stood on ceremony, as he immediately accepted them and assigned them tasks. After all, having beautiful girls working within the house was like having beautiful decor.

On the table, each of them had a piece of Type 3 Mutant Beast meat, a piece of sausage as well as a cup of milk.

Yue Zhong took up his chopsticks and picked up the Type 3 Mutant Beast meat and placed it in his mouth. As he chewed an amazing flavour burst forth within his mouth, and the energy inside flowed out, filling him up.

The meat of the Type 3 Mutant Beast brought about lots of benefits, with ordinary folks gaining at least 1 or 2 points of enhancement after consuming it. Although it was not effective for Yue Zhong, it could replenish his energy.

Mu Xiang Ling finished up her Type 3 Mutant Beast meat, when suddenly, she started to become feverish, as her eyes went out of focus, and she slumped to the table.

*1 Dedition: Another white bed ruined by red blood…

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Chapter 436 – Strange Movements in Europe!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book 3: The South]

Xin Jia Rou who was seated beside Mu Xiang Ling saw this, she immediately went to prop her up as she asked worriedly: "Xiang Ling!! Xiang Ling!! What's the matter?"

"This is…. Natural Evolution!!" Yue Zhong's eyes flashed with wonder as he reached out to feel her forehead, noticing that her temperature was feverish. He had felt shocked and immediately came to that conclusion.

Such a natural evolution had occurred once in front of Yue Zhong, which was Zhuo Ya Tong's evolution. At that time, Zhuo Ya Tong had awoken in front of Yue Zhong, causing the him who was not yet an Evolver to be filled with envy.

Xin Jia Rou looked at Yue Zhong with a face of worry as she asked: "Master, is Xiang Ling alright?"

Yue Zhong consoled her: "Don't worry!! I'll get a doctor to look at her!"

By now, Yue Zhong was in control over the entire Guilin City, getting a doctor wasn't a problem.

Very quickly, a few doctors were summoned to their place, and as they took a look at the feverish and unconscious Mu Xiang Ling, they could only prescribe medicine to help control the fever.

As Yue Zhong was busy taking care of Mu Xiang Ling, on the other side of the globe, within a luxurious mansion in Berlin, Europe. A few Aryan men were seated around a table engaged in discussion.

One of them was dressed in a neat suit, and he had a hook nose as well as eagle-like gaze, his face chiselled, and his golden hair slicked back. He had a scepter in his hands, and as he sat there at the sofa, he was emitting an intense aura. Just by sitting there quietly, it felt like the entire room belonged to him. If any ordinary person were to sit beside him, they would be pressured by that aura, to the point that they would not dare speak.

The scepter-wielding man spoke out solemnly: "The Judgement Corps at the Guangxi area of China had failed. They have instead, just recently established a new form of authority, whose leader seems to be called Yue Zhong, and he's Chinese. I would like to hear your opinions?"

A burly and muscular man, with blond hair and blue eyes and a handsome look stood up as he spoke in a ringing voice: "Those damn retarded Chinese that grew whips behind their heads dare to go against us Aryans? They truly deserve death. We should just set fire to their entire place and burn them all to the ground!! Esteemed Apostle, do grant me, Andrew, the permission to head to Guangxi, and I will definitely bring my men to take care of them!! We will seek redress for our fallen comrades. Glory to the great Aryan race!"

The scepter-wielding man with blond hair was the 5th Apostle of the 12 Apostles in the Kingdom of God, Hallex. He was one who held considerable power and authority within the Kingdom of God as well.

Hallex looked at Andrew as he spoke severely: "Andrew, your intentions and resolve are good! However, those yellow-skinned monkeys are no longer those buffoons with plaited hair! Although they're a lowly and despicable race, we cannot help but acknowledge, their combat strength is truly astonishing. Even the United States in the Korean-War were forced to sign a humiliating treaty. If we are to restore the Master Race's glory throughout the world, we have to take our enemies seriously. Even if they're an ant, we must use all our force to stamp them out!"

Andrew lowered his head in shame as he replied: "Yes, Great Apostle Sir!!"

The 5th Apostle Hallex wasn't just a white supremacist. In fact, he was a huge supporter of the 'Aryan master race' belief. He shared in the extremist views of the propagator and instigator of World War 2, Hitler, and in his mind, only the Aryan race were the rightful and elevated race, all other races were lowly in comparison.

Hence, Hallex had gathered a number of like-minded fanatics, and they all held the restoration of the Aryan's glory as their single-minded purpose.

Nationalism was a double-edged sword, it could cause people to be extremely narrow-minded and stubborn, but at the same time, it could cause like-minded people to gather together. Hallex relied on that nationalistic view to gather his subordinates, and they were all loyal to him, even willing to die for their ideals.

One guy in the west side, who has dressed simply and had a pair of glasses mulled silently, before saying: "Apostle, sir! I feel that we should try and rope Yue Zhong into our Kingdom of God. If he could join us, then we would gain a pawn over at the China region. Furthermore, if he becomes one of us, we can become stronger as well."

Andrew immediately glared at that middle-aged man in glasses and roared: "Porter! What are you talking about? How can we let those lowly yellow-skinned monkeys into our Kingdom of God? Are you crazy? Just breathing the same air as those monkeys makes me sick! And you want them to join us? Are you trying to drive me crazy?"

Porter replied solemnly: "Andrew!! Even Hitler had formed an alliance with the Japanese during the war. For the sake of restoring glory to our Aryan race, we need to make concessions and compromise when necessary."

All of the people gathered in the room were Aryan supremacists, and in their eyes, any other race was lowly. Amongst them, besides other white races, they would look down and refer to the rest with derogatory terms.

Hallex turned to another lean man who had been silent all this while, and asked: "Ralph, what're your thoughts?"

Ralph spoke slowly: "Apostle sir!! I reckon that in the current world, manpower is strength! The number of people in Guilin City is too high! We should decrease that number. That's my first proposition. Otherwise, when Yue Zhong joins our Kingdom of God, he would not rely on us entirely."

Hallex's pupils narrowed as he asked: "What's your recommendation?"

Ralph laughed: "Wuyan Hong of Vietnam in Lang Son City especially hates the Chinese. He detests their land and people. We just have to instigate the battle between him and Yue Zhong."

Porter lifted his glasses and piped in: "Ralph! It's winter now! Furthermore, the weather has been especially harsh across the globe this year. Even Guangxi has been reported to have some crazy winds and hailstorms. With such strange weather, both Wuyan Hong and Yue Zhong would not be so stupid as to deploy their troops to fight."

After the apocalypse, the winter had become abnormally cold, and the entire world seemed to be enveloped in a blanket of ice, as all hustle and bustle slowed to a crawl.

Other than a selected few, the majority of fighting forces had all but ceased battle. The risk was too huge, as a sudden hail storm could cause an entire troop to be wiped out.

Especially the Europe region, which was snowy to begin with, now that the weather had turned horrid, and snow was everywhere. If it wasn't for the vast resources of the Kingdom of God, where they diverted some to provide warmth for their facilities, a large number of their forces would have perished from the cold.

Ralph replied mildly: "I know. But we should still send some instigators first, otherwise when the snow melts, if they don't clash, then there's no point."

Hallex eyed Ralph and said solemnly: "Fine! This will be handled by you Ralph!"

Ralph immediately bowed in respect: "Yes, Apostle Sir!"

Yue Zhong was unaware that he was already noticed by his enemies on the European side, as he sat beside Mu Xiang Ling and kept watch over her.

Early the next morning, Mu Xiang Ling groaned, as she slowly opened her eyes and saw Yue Zhong and Xin Jia Rou sitting by her side.

Yue Zhong asked Mu Xiang Ling: "How are you? Feeling better?"

"Much better!! Oh yes! Big Brother, I'm now already an Evolver! I'm a Spirit-based Evolver, with the Level 3 Skill Telekinesis." Mu Xiang Ling broke out into an excited smile, as she made a grab in mid-air, and a vase came flying towards her from afar.

Yue Zhong waved his hands, and a set of high-grade equipment appeared on the bed: "Congratulations on becoming an Evolver! This set of equipment is your reward!"

Yue Zhong had executed a number of experts, and these experts had their equipment as well, hence giving a set wasn't a hard thing. It was just that anything of Level 4 Type equipment or better was harder to obtain.

"Thanks Big Brother!!" Mu Xiang Liang grabbed the equipment and could almost feel the enhancement she would be gaining. She leapt into Yue Zhong's arms in excitement, kissing his cheeks twice.

A set of quality equipment could bring about an earth-shattering change, by now Mu Xiang Ling was Level 11, and wearing that set of equipment could allow her stats to be on par with an ordinary Level 30 Enhancer.

Xin Jia Rou looked at Mu Xiang Ling and felt comforted as well. Now, both mother and daughter were Evolvers, and with such strength, regardless of what happens in the future, at least they will have the strength to protect themselves.

Mu Xiang Ling hugged Yue Zhong's arm as she pleaded: "It's been a boring day! Big Brother, bring me out to play!"

"Fine!!" Yue Zhong was also itching to go out with Mu Xiang Ling pestering.

Mu Xiang Ling pounced into his embrace again and kissed his face: "Yay!! Big Brother is the best!"

Yue Zhong chuckled and brought Mu Xiang Ling out.

The moment they left the villa, a harsh cold wind blew over, causing Mu Xiang Ling's face to be flushed red, as she let out a breath, causing a small fog to rise in front of her.

There was a huge snowstorm in the previous night, and there was a layer of ice on the ground.

Guangxi was generally warm, and even during winter, there would hardly be snow, Guilin City had never seen snow in the past decades. This first winter since the apocalypse had seen a number of snowstorms, and there was even an incredible hailstorm in the past few days, directly freezing over 200 survivors within Guilin City to death.

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Chapter 437 – Falcon Type I 14.5mm Sniper Rifle!

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

[Book Three: The South]

"Come, let us hunt and kill Mutant Beasts!" Yue Zhong was in high spirits as he pulled Mu Xiang Ling and they came to the Pearl River Bridge.

The entire Pearl River ran through Guilin City, and there were numerous aquatic Mutant Beasts residing within. It was just that, since there were many experts in Guilin City, as Yue Zhong brought Mu Xiang Ling over, there were already people gathered around.

A number of fishing experts were throwing poles into the river as they conducted their fishing.

There were also a number of Guilin City experts that stood quietly near the river bank, awaiting the aquatic Mutant Beasts to come ashore.

Compared to the mountain range, the Pearl River wasn't some decent training grounds. Because no one knew exactly when the aquatic Mutant Beasts would swim ashore or fall for the bait.

There were too many people in Guilin City, and the number of experts was high as well. Initially, when the aquatic Mutant Beasts within the river had started hunting, they had gained decent harvests, gobbling up numerous humans. However, as the city grew and developed, more experts appeared on the scene, and it became a reversal, and the river turned into hunting grounds for the humans to fish and train.

After an intense period of slaughter, the high level Mutant Beasts were all hunted to near extinction, and few dared to come near shore.

Pearl River was after all a small river, and not some huge riverbed, hence the amount of Mutant Beasts it sustained was not high. If it were a huge riverbed, or even a small sea, then the Mutant Beasts inside would be terrifying.

"Coming!! Coming!!"

All of a sudden, there was activity near the surface of the water, and the ordinary humans immediately fled the scene.

At the next moment, a huge water spout gushed to the skies, and a huge Mutant Black Fish popped out from the water, pouncing towards the shore.

At this time. 7 experts came rushing over with military blades, as a flurry of blade strikes lashed out on the body of the Mutant Black Fish, directly slashing it into a dozen pieces.

"Mine!! This is my prey!!"

"It obviously is mine! What are you snatching for?"

"Don't quarrel! Let's split it evenly!!"

After making short work of the Mutant Black Fish, the 7 experts began arguing intensely over the rights to the Mutant Fish. At the end, they agreed to a compromise, and the expert who contributed the most gained the largest portion, and the rest split the remainder equally.

"Sell me 1 jin of fish meat. I'll buy for 8 jin ration ticket!!"

"I want 10 jin of fish meat, I'm willing to pay 80 jin ration ticket!!"

The moment those experts had finished discussing, the ordinary humans came swarming over, raising their tickets in order to purchase the fish meat.

Ordinary survivors would usually be unable to feast on the flesh of the Mutant Black Fish, however, Evolvers and Enhancers could get to enjoy such nourishing food, especially those who were merchants as well. Using the Mutant Black Fish meat as an ingredient, they could prepare some dishes that were worth more money.

Mu Xiang Ling looked at the commotion and spoke with a little concern: "So many people!! Big Brother!! There's are so many people here, the competition is bound to be strong!!"

Since hunting strange beasts would give opportunities for enhancement, there would be instances of quarrels and even fights over the Mutant Beasts. Such incidents were endless.

"Not an issue!! Watch me!!" Yue Zhong chuckled and pulled out a Type 2 nuclei and after tying it with a steel wire, he threw it into the water, and pulled out a vial of blood from a Type 2 Mutant Beast and dripped some in the water.

When the Type 2 blood just entered the water, there was suddenly a bustle of activity under the surface, as a whole school of fish swam furiously towards them, trying to swallow the blood of the Type 2 Mutant Beast.

After another 5 minutes, huge waves appeared once again, as numerous Mutant Black Fishes appeared from the water as they pounced towards the Type 2 nuclei.

The Type 2 nuclei was like a treasure that helped these Mutant Beasts evolve, hence the moment they caught scent of the blood, and sensed the existence of a nuclei, they would charge over in a frenzy.

Yue Zhong smiled lightly, as he handed the Level 4 Black Tooth Blade to Mu Xiang Ling and said: "Look! Aren't they out now? I shall hand them to you!"

Mu Xiang Ling activated her [Telekinesis] power and grabbed the Black Tooth Blade in mid-air, before controlling it to shoot towards the Mutant Black Fish, and with a flash of the blade, the Mutant Black Fish was easily sliced in two, fresh blood spraying everywhere.

The Black Tooth Blade was a Level 4 Treasure, and its sharpness was incredible. With Mu Xiang Ling controlling it with her power, it was easy to deal with the Mutant Black Fish. If it had been any other normal weapons, it would be harder for her to use them to penetrate the armor of the Black Fish. Decent equipment would raise the combat potential.

After killing that Mutant Black Fish, Mu Xiang Ling instantly rose by 2 levels, and her confidence gained a huge boost as she charged on once more, slicing another Mutant Black Fish into two.

With the control of her Telekinesis, the huge Black Tooth Blade was slashing through the air as though it was being used by a person to execute a set of sword-arts, flowing beautifully as it slaughtered the Mutant Black Fishes. The moment any of those Mutant Beasts leapt out the water, they would be immediately dealt with, and soon, the riverbank were filled with Mutant Black Fishes' corpses.

Seeing this Mu Xiang Ling easily slaughtering a number of those Mutant Black Fishes, many of the eyes present turned bloodshot.

When those Mutant Black Fishes came up to shore, they would become dishes for the human experts. However, since those Mutant Black Fishes had been hunted aggressively, few dared to come up to feast. Today, Mu Xiang Ling had managed to slaughter a dozen at one go, and they were extremely jealous. It was a decent haul, if converted to ration tickets, it was enough for them to head to the most lavish nightclub and live freely for a certain period.

Just as Mu Xiang Ling killed about over a dozen Mutant Black Fishes, the 7 experts that were not weak came up to Yue Zhong, and their tone extremely unfriendly as they barked: "Wait a moment!! Who allowed you guys to hunt Mutant Beasts here? Don't tell me you guys don't know that it is our gang's, the Tian Nan Triad's, territory?"

Yue Zhong eyed them as he replied indifferently: "Oh! How can you say I don't know that it's your turf? Did you guys buy this piece of land?"

One of the expert glared at Yue Zhong and shouted: "Brat!! If our Boss Liu say that this is our Tian Nan Triad's turf, it is our Tian Nan Triad's turf. Are you courting death? All those Mutant Black Fishes are ours from now on! Get lost! Otherwise, this Daddy will not be courteous with you!!"

Although they had seen Mu Xiang Ling killing the Mutant Black Fishes easily, they had not been intimidated. They were also experts of above Level 20, and combining their forces, killing a Level 30 Enhancer wasn't a problem. Furthermore, while Mu Xiang Ling was just a little loli, they disregarded Yue Zhong even more.

Regardless of era or time period, there would always be hooligans out to create trouble. Although Yue Zhong had dissolved the Heavenly Dragon Triad and Green Bamboo Triad, within Guilin City, the various other smaller gangs and triads were starting to act up.

Mu Xiang Ling called out back at the 7 experts in a sturdy voice as she scolded them: "Scram!! If you don't, this lady won't treat you nicely!!"

"Little bitch, you're courting death!!" The chief of the Tian Nan Triad, Chief Liu instantly got enraged, and shot forwards, his hands reaching out to slap Mu Xiang Ling.

Mu Xiang Ling immediately darted behind Yue Zhong.

Yue Zhogn directly lashed out viciously with a kick on the chest of Chief Liu, causing this Level 31 Enhancer to instantly fly back 6, 7 metres, crashing onto the ground.

"Everyone, attack together!! Kill him!!" The remaining 6 were furious as well, as they charged at Yue Zhong together.

These 6 were all Strength and Agility-based Enhancers, with no special skills. Furthermore, their Strength and Agility weren't enhanced much.

With a single movement from Yue Zhong's fist, a flurry of shadows came assailing the 6 men, causing them to be knocked to the ground as well.

From afar, the various experts of the other triads saw this scene, and their hearts turned cold, not daring to challenge Yue Zhong's authority.

"Leader!" The moment those 6 men fell to the ground, Bai Xiao Sheng came swooping in like a spectre, with 6 other men in black uniform behind him, all emitting the auras of sharp swords, as they appeared beside Yue Zhong.

Bai Xiao Sheng and the other 6 men in black were all experts that Yue Zhong had selected specially as his trusted elite team. Each of them possessed tremendous fighting power, and had followed him through countless battles. They were also his personal guards.

Yue Zhong personally had great strength, but if all the experts present were to surround and attack together, there was a possibility of him falling at their hands. Hence, he had established a small unit whose primary objective was to ensure his safety. The team was named Zhongnan Sea Bodyguards.

Yue Zhong pointed to those 7 experts who had been defeated by him as he declared: "Arrest them! Throw them into the Scum Battalion to be trained harshly. Each of their targets will be to hunt 500 zombies."

Yue Zhong's Scum Battalion went by different standards and different instructions. Some of the scum were Enhancers, and killing zombies were extremely easy to them. Towards such people, their targets compared to ordinary humans were different.

Bai Xiao Sheng waved his hands, as the 7 Tian Nian Triad members were dragged away like dogs: "Bring them away!!"

Out of the blue, the water surface rippled again, as a Type 2 Mutant Black Fish the size of a house broke out of the water, moving towards the shore.

When the various experts saw that, their faces turned in fright, as they retreated backwards hastily.

The Type 2 Mutant Black Fish was also an existence which only some top-tier experts could handle. And these top-tier experts were either in the employment of bigger factions, or currently undergoing training in the mountain range, hence it was not possible for them to be present.

Of those present, there were no experts who were able to deal with the Type 2 Mutant Black Fish.

"Right on time!! We've caught the big one!" Yue Zhong saw the monstrous Type 2 Mutant Black Fish and there was a hint of glee in his eyes, as he tugged hard, pulling the Type 2 nuclei back into his hands.

The Type 2 Mutant Black Fish felt the nuclei that could enhance itself landing on Yue Zhong's hands, and it immediately swam towards land in agitation.

Mu Xiang Ling saw the Type 2 Mutant Black Fish, and her eyes flashed in excitement as well, controlling the Level 4 Black Tooth Blade to slash towards the Type 2 Mutant Black Fish.

If she could kill this Type 2 Mutant Black Fish, it would be a huge boost to her enhancement level. Although Mu Xiang Ling was young, she was wildly ambitious. In this apocalyptic world, being weak was a sin. Those who were weak could not hold on to their dignity, and were trampled on. Since she had become Yue Zhong's, she was not willing to stay weak forever.

The 2m-long Black Tooth Blade slashed the head of the Type 2 Mutant Black Fish viciously, but was deflected off by the layer of mucus covering the skin. The blade left only a slight mark, before flying away.

Mu Xiang Ling's Telekinesis was not of a high enough level, and hence the control she had was not strong enough, there was no way she could penetrate the protection of the Type 2 Mutant Black Fish.

If it were a Level 40 Strength-based Evolver that was using the Black Tooth Blade, then it was possible to use strength to cleave into the meat of the Type 2 Mutant Black Fish.

Mu Xiang Ling saw that her attack had no effect on the defence of the Type 2 Mutant Black Fish and her eyes flashed with disappointment, running to Yue Zhong's side. The Type 2 Mutant Black Fish, on the other hand, had been enraged by that blow, as it opened its huge mouth, and show a green glob of mucus towards Mu Xiang Ling.

Yue Zhong shot forwards, standing in front of Mu Xiang Ling, as he raised his hands, conjuring a Devil Flame tornado in front of him. It swallowed up the incoming green projectile, incinerating it cleanly till there was nothing left.

From within the Devil Flame tornado, a sudden sharp arrow of flame shot outwards, piercing the head of the Type 2 Mutant Black Fish and exploding within, causing the brain of the Type 2 Mutant Black Fish to be melted into nothing, directly killing it.

The gigantic Type 2 Mutant Black Fish then slumped lifelessly onto the ground, dropping a Green Treasure Box and 100 survivor coins.

Yue Zhong eyed the dead Type 2 Mutant Black Fish and felt a sense of lament, just a few months back, he had been a weak existence in the face of such a Type 2 Mutant Beast. However, now, he had grown to become an expert who could easily make short work of such a Type 2 Mutant Beast.

Yue Zhong opened up the green Treasure Box and after the glowing light dissipated, a 2m-long sniper rifle that was covered with shining metal lustre and sci-fi colours appeared in front of his eyes.

"Level 4: Falcon i-Type 14.5 mm Sniper Rifle, with an effective range of 3,000 metres. Everyday it will automatically generate one round."

"Good stuff!!" Yue Zhong immediately grabbed it and used the scope to test the Falcon i-Type 14.5 mm Sniper Rifle, and was pleased with the result.

Currently, of the snipers in the world, the top-tier ones had a maximum effective range of about 1km, maybe even 2km. It was not that they were not strong enough, but they had lacking decent sniper rifles. This Falcon i-Type 14.5 mm Sniper Rifle had an effective range of 3km, surpassing the top sniper rifle in the world right now. With it, Yue Zhong could easily snipe any expert at a 3km distance. The only shortfall was that, its ammunition was too little, and could not be used as a main weapon.

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Chapter 438 – Conflict At The Restaurant!

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The Mutant Beasts corpses laying by the riverbank would naturally be handled by Yue Zhong's subordinates.

Yue Zhong held Mu Xiang Ling's hands as they came to the city centre of Guilin City.

They discovered that currently, there were all sorts of vendors and people walking about and browsing, the bustling activity a close shadow of the pre-apocalyptic glory.

Although there had been incidents of riots and instability, there were still many people in Guilin City. So while there were deaths, it was not heavy enough to impact the energy level within Guilin City.

Yue Zhong observed the flourishing scene and felt a sense of pride, this huge city of about 900,000 survivors now belonged to him. In this apocalyptic world, humans were the most precious treasure, with about 900,000 people, he possessed a decent amount of fighting resources.

All of a sudden, a rumbling sound came from beside Yue Zhong, as Mu Xiang Ling lowered head in embarrassment, saying: "I'm hungry!!"

"Let us eat then!"

Yue Zhong looked around the busy street, before pulling Mu Xiang Ling along, and entered an extremely clean and simple shop, which was filled with customers.

The moment they stepped into the shop, they caught a whiff of an exotic aroma of herbs and fresh meat.

The customers inside the shop were stuffing their faces with fragrant bowls of Mutant Beast meat.

"Esteemed customers!!" When Yue Zhong and Mu Xiang Ling entered the shop, they were greeted by a pretty lady, whose exquisite features including a pair of big eyes and a healthy colour, was smiling brightly. Her long hair was tied in a ponytail, and she welcomed both of them to a table to be seated.

Upon sitting down, Mu Xiang Ling eyed the young, beautiful waitress warily, her eyes filled with dislike.

The young lady in ponytail asked: "May I know what would you guys like?"

Yue Zhong asked: "What would you recommend here?"

The waitress smiled and introduced a few dishes: "Our famous dish here is the Braised Mutant Pork Shoulder, as well as the Braised Mutant Black Fish. These are our signature dishes! Other than those, we also have some common dishes."

Yue Zhong nodded: "Let's have those 2 then!"

"Great!" The waitress immediately noted their order and left swiftly towards the kitchen.

Mu Xiang Ling then broke into a sweet smile: "Hehe! Big Brother! That young miss is quite the beauty, isn't she? Do you want me to help you chase her? If I act, she will definitely be yours."

Yue Zhong reached out to pinch Mu Xiang Ling's cheeks, as he chuckled: "Silly! If I want any beauty, it's just a simple matter of opening my mouth. Why should I need you to do it for me?"

Being together with Mu Xiang Ling, Yue Zhong was extremely at ease. At least this little loli didn't fear him like other people. In his path to reach where he was, to gain control and authority over Guilin City, he had killed without blinking. Even his subordinates and trusted aides viewed him with a little fear amidst their respect, hence they didn't dare crack jokes openly.

Even his close brother Hu Yi had been assigned to be trained together with the new recruits, and did not have the time to chat idly.

Hu Yi's combat strength was tyrannical, but he was lacking in his military bearing. Hence, to fit in the modern warfare tactics, Yue Zhong had him thrown into special training, using the training of the elites with twice the difficulty to polish him.

If Yue Zhong wanted to utilize his brother, he had to have the capabilities. Hence he had decided to get Hu Yi whipped into shape.

In this apocalyptic world, personal strength was important. However, the strongest force would still be an army made of individual experts. Yue Zhong could single-handedly deal with 2,000 zombies on his own. However, against a million-strong horde, even if he hacked and slashed till his arms rot, it wouldn't be enough. He would have to retreat in the face of such numbers. However, with a 10,000-strong army, he wouldn't need to fear a million-strong army.

Mu Xiang Ling slapped Yue Zhong's right hand away, as she pouted: "Wuu!! Don't pinch my face!! It's gonna become round because of you! Then I won't look pretty anymore!"

Yue Zhong chuckled as he looked at Mu Xiang Ling, seeing this bundle of joy, he naturally felt more light-hearted. Since returning to Guilin City, he had been under a lot of stress.

Mu Xiang Ling seemed to have turned into a little devil as she taunted: "Gege! A sentence from you can get a beauty to accompany you. But in the end, these people accompany you because they fear your power, not that they truly want to be with you. What's the meaning in that? If you truly want to be a casanova, you must obtain their hearts, then you can be considered a true playboy. Furthermore, by getting any beauty to fall for you, wouldn't that be proof of your charm?"

If it were any other lustful man, they would be inspired by Mu Xiang Ling's words. However, Yue Zhong merely ruffled her head as he smiled: "I don't have the patience or time to chase them slowly. It's just a short break for me to breathe. There are still many things I have to do."

The Kingdom of God had monopolized all the resources on Europe's end. Europe had cutting-edge technology and the moment they finished their researches and wiped out the zombies, they would be able to progress and develop extremely quickly.

In comparison, China had plenty of lands, which were currently controlled by who knows how many ambitious and power-hungry warlords who had risen. Considering all these gave Yue Zhong a headache.

It was not only Yue Zhong who was busy expanding his power and influence. With the change of the world, all sorts of strange characters that had been oppressed by modern society laws and norms, had all risen. If Yue Zhong wanted to unify the entire country, it would require an unknown amount of energy and resources.

If one was backward, they would invite bullying. It was a proven course of nature, everyone in modern society knew that well. The moment Europe consolidated their power, and Asia was still in chaos, it was not improbable for the Opium War to repeat itself. Europe was never willing for a strong Asia that could rule the entire world, and they were filled with fear towards the race that had the most number of people, as well as the glory of their past ancient civilizations. If they had the power, they would definitely not allow that. And the opposite was true, if Yue Zhong had the chance, he wouldn't mind giving the Kingdom of God a stab.

Other than Europe itself, the rest of Asia was still unsettled. Wuyan Hong was filled with hatred against the Chinese, and he was currently on the top of the priority list. If he was still weak, he had no choice, but now that Yue Zhong had the power, he could not stand by allowing his fellow countrymen to be used as dogs and pigs for others.

Mu Xiang Ling was dejected as she pouted: "Cheh! I'd thought that you would say, for beautiful women, you would even cross the fires of hell!"

Yue Zhong raised his eyes: "Do I look like that sort?"

Mu Xiang Ling's eyes widened as she looked at Yue Zhong for a long while, before she suddenly grinned: "Yes! You're even the sort that would push a loli into a small ditch! Lolicon!"

Yue Zhong was caught unaware, as he flared, and reached to pinch her face:" What?! It was you who pushed me ok?"

Mu Xiang Ling giggled as she threatened: "Bully me some more! I'll cause a scene!! I'll shout out loudly that Yue Zhong is a lolicon! You won't ever have face again!!"

"Forget it! I won't stoop so low!" Yue Zhong immediately waved his hands and ruffled her hand. If he was really labelled as a lolicon in front of so many people, his reputation would take a dip. This devil definitely had the capacity to do so. Because she knew where Yue Zhong's threshold laid.

Mu Xiang Ling shot a proud look as Yue Zhong gave in to her, and she knew she could tease Yue Zhong. In any case, she was still young, at most, Yue Zhong would just give her a spanking, and would not actually punish her.

The waitress quickly came back with the signature dishes as she placed them on the table: "It's here!! These are the braised Mutant Pork Shoulder and braised Mutant Black Fish! Do enjoy!"

A delicious fragrance wafted into their noses, as Yue Zhong looked at the sumptuous dish in front of him, and made to quickly grab a piece of pork shoulder, and immediately tore the meat from the bone, feeding it into his mouth. Upon entering, the meat instantly melted in his mouth.

"Delicious!!" Yue Zhong's spirits were lifted as he began to eat voraciously.

Mu Xiang Ling also quickly used her chopsticks in a bid to grab food: "Gege, you're too crafty! Eat slower, leave some for me!"

The pretty waitress looked on at this funny scene, and her eyes twinkled in amusement.

Right at this time, at another table, a burly man slapped the table as he shouted: "Waiter!! Why is there a fly in my food!! What the hell is wrong with you guys? Do you know how to run a business?"

"Where's the boss? Get him out here!!"

"Get your boss out here! If not, we'll wreck your lousy shop!!"

A few of the men beside the burly man immediately hollered aggressively.

Seeing this, a number of the customers in the restaurant became frightened as they stopped eating, paid their money and left. There were even a few with no manners that directly left without paying.

A middle-aged man whose skin was slightly dark and yellow, his entire face filled with wrinkles came over with a careful smile, as he bowed and said: "Friends! Our dishes are carefully scrutinized to ensure quality, and there would definitely not be a single fly. Is this a misunderstanding?"

The burly man laughed coldly, as he grabbed a spoonful of soup, in it, a large fly laying dead: "Not a single fly?! What's this?"

The pretty waitress took a step forwards as she stared at the burly man and said: "I've checked every single dish that comes out of the kitchen. There was no fly!! This is your doing!!"

The burly man instantly frowned and hollered, pulling out a bat, as he flipped the table: "You dare frame me?? Brothers, fuck these people! Trash the place!! Do it!!"

The 5 men beside the burly man instantly pulled out their weapons as well as they started to unleash carnage.

The sounds of breaking and destruction rang out within the shop.

"Stop it!! You bunch of hooligans!!" The waitress screamed as she watched her family's store being wrecked. This store was the hard work of her family, and the moment it was destroyed, her family's livelihood will be gone.

The shop owner and the rest of the workers just stood at a corner as they watched helplessly, not daring to move. The hooligans had baseball bats, knives and if they were to rush into the heat of things, they might get injured or worse.

In this apocalyptic world, there was a loss of medicinal manufacturing plants, and their quantity had lessened considerably. With each usage, the amount left was dwindling. Hence, medicine was even more expensive now. They did not dare to get hurt.

A hooligan came up to Yue Zhong and Mu Xiang Ling and his eyes flashed with ferocity as he barked: "Get lost! Can't you see that we're conducting business here? Do you want to die!"

"Quickly flee!!" The waitress looked at them and shouted out in worry. She knew that these hooligans were not any decent people, and would not hesitate to hit or even kill a little girl.

There were simply no hooligans that held to the principles of not hitting women or children left in the apocalyptic world.

Mu Xiang Ling's eyes flashed angrily, as she lashed out with a vicious kick at the groin of the man like a cheetah: "Trash! You dare spoil the mood of my meal!"

After gaining a set of equipment, she had the strength equivalent to 2 grown men, and this single kick actually caused the hooligan to be sent flying back 2 to 3 metres.

When the hooligan received that blow, his eyes looked like they were about to pop out, his hands grabbing his stomach as he doubled up in pain. Tears streamed down his eyes.

Mu Xiang Ling sent the hooligan flying with a kick, and turned around to look at Yue Zhong smugly, before her gaze travelled to Yue Zhong's groin.

"What a vicious loli!" Yue Zhong suddenly felt his back break out in cold sweat, and his legs immediately snapped shut. Even with his Endurance reaching a high 151 points, that bullets could not penetrate his skin, that part was still his weak point, for that matter, it was the weak point of all men.

The waitress witnessed this and her eyes flashed with a glint: "So strong!!"

The leader, who was the burly man, looked at Mu Xiang Ling, his eyes gleaming fiercely as he roared: "Everyone together!! Catch that bitch, and we'll have some fun, before we sell her off to some nightclub!!"

Led by that burly man, the remaining 4 thugs quickly charged towards Mu Xiang Ling.

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Chapter 0439 – Cleaning Up the Gangs!

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Yue Zhong eyed the 5 incoming hooligans, grabbed a piece of meat and placed it in his mouth with disinterest: "They're yours! Do your best!"

"Eh~~!! Yue-gege, how can you expect a loli like me to handle 5 of them? Aren't you ungentlemanly~~!" When Mu Xiang Ling heard Yue Zhong, she got excited, and started to warm up: "Oh right! Is it ok to cripple them?"

Yue Zhong replied mildly: "It'd be best not to! They still have some use. We can throw them into the Scum Battalion! If you cripple them, then we'd just have to kill them!"

Yue Zhong had no favourable impressions of such hooligans that bullied the weak commoners. He had intended to punish these hooligans by sending them to the Scum Battalion as cannon fodder. If they were crippled, he wouldn't spend any medicines to heal them. He would only do so for good people.

"Got it~~!" Mu Xiang Ling let out an excited smile, as she lifted her hand, and activated her ability, as 5 chairs suddenly flew towards the 5 hooligans viciously, controlled by an unseen force.

At that instant, the 5 chairs hit the 5 hooligans heavily, and were destroyed by the impact, at the same time, causing the 5 hooligans to be injured gravely, spitting blood from their mouths as they fell to the ground.

"A high-level Enhancer!! Damn it!! You actually dare to injure me!! I will definitely make you wish you were dead!! If you have the guts, just wait here!"

The leader of the hooligans glanced resentfully at Mu Xiang Ling and Yue Zhong, before directly taking out a bamboo flute and forcefully blowing it.

Looking at the hooligan whose face was filled with hatred, a strange light flashed past Yue Zhong. He didn't leave, but quietly stayed sitting there, continuing to eat the shop's signature dishes.

"Oh! Interesting! So you still have backup! Good!! I really want to see what sort of person is supporting you from behind the scenes."

The resentful hooligan glanced and Yue Zhong and smiled coldly, "You'll know soon!!"

"Who dares to touch my men!! Do you not want to stay in Guilin City anymore?"

Following an indignant shout, a young man, accompanied by four police officers, strode into the shop.

The leader of the hooligans instantly rushed up to the young man and implored loudly,

"Young master Dan!! It was these two!! It was them who hit us!! Young master Dan, you have to give us brothers justice!!"

Yue Zhong glanced at the young man who had been escorted in by the four police officers and he smiled faintly, "So it's actually Dan Yu, long time no see."

As soon as he saw Yue Zhong sitting at the table, Dan Yu's heart instantly exploded. Both his knees softened, and he was so frightened that he directly fell paralyzed onto the floor. After all, he knew that the person in front of him was actually the controller of Guilin City; just one order from Yue Zhong would be enough to make him die a miserable death. Moreover, the reason that his father was able to regain his original post was because he had correctly chosen to stand on Yue Zhong's side at a key moment. Even if it were Dan Yu's father, Yue Zhong would still be able to make him die with ease.

"Young master Dan, young master Dan, what's wrong? Right, it was those people who attacked young master Dan!! Go capture those two people and bring them back to the police station!!"

One of the police officers instantly propped up Dan Yu and directly pointed at Yue Zhong, his brain working like lightning as he attempted to curry favor with the young master.

"Attacked your mom!!" Dan Yu was so scared that his soul almost scattered. He viciously gave the police officer a slap to the face.

"Luo Ping you bastard! Are you trying to kill me?" Following that, Dan Yu ruthlessly kicked the leader of the hooligans onto the floor, his face flashing with an ominous glint.

Only after finishing all this did Dan Yu bend his waist, kneeling down before Yue Zhong with a flattering smile on his face and saying, "Apologies! Young Master Yue!! It was I who had eyes but failed to recognize Mount Tai. Sorry!! Sorry!!"

Upon seeing this scene, apart from Yue Zhong himself and Mu Xiang Ling, everyone else was stunned.

The fact that there were four police officers escorting Dan Yu was already enough to show that his background was extraordinary, yet upon seeing Yue Zhong, this extraordinary son of an official was actually so scared that he instantly fell to the ground. This made everyone feel incomparably astonished.

Yue Zhong glanced at Dan Yu, who was kneeling before him, and said indifferently, "Bai Xiao Sheng! Come out! Take all of them away and lock them up!! The people over there on the floor, you can directly throw them into the Scum Battalion."

"Yes! Head!"

Very quickly, eight experts wearing black suits, each of them exuding a terrifying aura, entered the shop.

"Personal guards of the head?" As soon as they saw the eight experts, the four police officers' faces all paled as they instantly guessed Yue Zhong's identity. They didn't resist at all, letting the guards restrain them.

Yue Zhong's personal guards very quickly took away the pale-looking Dan Yu, the four police officers and the 6 hooligans lying on the floor, only leaving behind the wrecked little shop.

The energetic ponytail girl filled with youthfulness then came up to Yue Zhong, bending down slightly as she thanked sincerely, "Thank you!! I am called Chen Bing Xia. Many thanks for helping out."

If it wasn't for Yue Zhong, perhaps the entire shop would've already been smashed by those hooligans.

Yue Zhong smiled slightly as he handed over a ten-tonne food stamp to Chen Bing Xia, saying,

"I am called Yue Zhong! There's no need to be courteous!! Your shop's signature dishes are truly delicious. I hope to have the chance to savour them again! This is a year's payment of meals."

Chen Bing Xia received the 10 tonnes-worth of ration tickets and her eyes immediately started to tear, as she thanked Yue Zhong profusely: "Thank you!! Thank you!!"

With this huge amount, Chen Bing Xia's family would be able to continue running the shop. Without it, they would be hard-pressed to continue running due to the damages incurred earlier today.

"If anyone else dares to bully you guys, just report my name! Alright! We're leaving!" Yue Zhong laughed before standing up and led Mu Xiang Ling out.

Chen Bing Xia gripped the tickets in her hands tightly, as she watched Yue Zhong's back leaving in the distance, her beautiful eyes flashing with a strange glint, her mind brimming with confusing thoughts.

Mu Xiang Ling teased Yue Zhong: "Wa!! What a hero saving the damsel in distress! Regardless, continue working hard like this, and that pretty lady might have her heart stolen by you!"

Yue Zhong flicked her forehead and chuckled: "Enough of your mischief! This time, once we go back, we're gonna be busy for a while!"

Soon after Yue Zhong returned to the government office, Dan Yu's father Dan Hong came scrambling in front of Yue Zhong, kneeling and pleading profusely: "Leader!! My worthless son was lacking, and had offended you, I plead for your magnanimity and mercy! Please! I only have one son."

Yue Zhong sat on the sofa, with Mu Xiang Ling beside him who was helping to massage his leg. He looked at Dan Hong coldly, "Dan Hong! Initially, on account of your merits, I've given him a new lease on life. Now, he's still out there instigating hooligans and ruffians to bully the commoners, this truly is a leopard that cannot change its spots! I'm giving you 3 options! First: Lock him up for 20 years. Second option: Send him into the Scum Battalion and only after he has killed 40 zombies will he be set free. Third: You can give up your position and be a sanitation worker. Your choice!"

Dan Hong knelt there, his back in cold sweat. All 3 options were incredibly unappealing. Sending his son into jail for 20 years was tantamount to wasting his life. On the other hand, being in the Scum Battalion, Dan Yu would not last past a year. And for Dan Hong to give up his post as a superintendent, he obviously could not bear to sacrifice his current standard of living.

Dan Hong gritted his teeth and made the painful choice: "I choose 1! Let him stay in jail!! It would be better for him!!"

In comparison, his own position was more important.

Yue Zhong eyed Dan Hong indifferently and replied: "Alright! You're dismissed!"

"Yes!" Dan Hong heard that and left the office obediently.

After Dan Hong had left, Yue Zhong thought back to the events earlier and spoke softly: "Seems like the problems of the triads have to be dealt with!"

Amongst the various gangs and triads in Guilin City, there were numerous who had the backing of some government officials. Yue Zhong had busied himself with the reorganizing of the military and government, and neglected the disease that was growing within Guilin City, namely the problem of the triads. Now that he had seen the despicable measures of some of these triads, it caused a fury to arise in his heart.

Yue Zhong was a decisive man, and quickly deployed various troops throughout the city, embarking on a cleanup.

The Golden Wolf Triad was a small triad that had 40 members at its core, and had control over a street as well as a nightclub.

On this evening, inside the nightclub, the dim red lights were lit, and the scent of liquor and wine hung heavily in the air, as numerous young men and women were intoxicated in their partying.

All of a sudden, a 30-man troop came bursting into the club, dressed in the Nano Combat suits, hoisting a single assault rifle each.

Hu Yi, who was leading, hollered at the top of his voice: "I want everyone to stay where you are! Get down on the ground! We will execute anyone who disobeys!"

With the sudden presence of this team as well as the threat from Hu Yi, all the young men and women in the nightclub immediately got down on the ground.

Hu Yi's booming voice rang out: "All the men from the Golden Wolf Triad get out here! If you don't turn yourself in, the moment you're caught, I will execute you on the spot! All your family members will be implicated as well!"

Not long after, a middle-aged man brought over 30 men as they came out slowly with bitter expressions, saying: "I'm the chief of Golden Wolf Triad, Sheng Sheng Yi, I'm here to turn myself in. I plead with this officer to have mercy on my family."

Hu Yi replied coldly: "Come with us!"

Sheng Sheng Yi sighed, as he led the rest of his members and followed Hu Yi and his team.

It was not that Sheng Sheng Yi had no intentions of resisting, but upon seeing those soldiers with strong killing intent, all thoughts of resisting was immediately vanquished. He was extremely clear that the only outcome for resisting was death, and hence they could only follow obediently.

With the government's iron fist clamping down, all the triads became paper tigers overnight. In the midst of a city-wide sweep, all triads and gangs, big or small, were instantly dissolved, and all the core members and chiefs were apprehended by him.

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Chapter 440: The Zombie Horde Moves!

Of the 4 Great Triads that used to exist in Guilin City, the Scarlet Phoenix Triad led by Ding Mei had by then submitted to Yue Zhong when he started the cleaning process. They handed over their weapons and accepted the reorganization of their forces, becoming part of Yue Zhong's troops.

Yue Zhong cleaned up every single gang and triad in order to purge any evil intentions and characteristics. The feel of the city instantly became better, and seemed to flourish even more. Those who had wild ambitions to try and rile up trouble began to kept themselves in check.

There were a few companies started by Enhancers and hunters specializing in hunting zombies as well as embarking on other scavenger missions. Yue Zhong did not force them to close down nor change anything, because with their existence, he had these people voluntarily cleaning up some of the loose corners that he could not afford to spare time with, at the same time, these people were largely passionate in their jobs, and could help drive resources back towards Guilin City.

With regards to these factions, as long as they did not threaten the development plans of Yue Zhong in any way, Yue Zhong would not touch them.

Yue Zhong threw the hooligans into the Scum Battalion, and those who had not engaged in any despicable acts of bullying or oppression, he placed them within the preparatory army's training groups, and the Enhancers were be placed with the Experts Battalion to be trained specially. With such a reorganization, Yue Zhong gained another over 200 experts that were above Level 20.

After eradicating all signs of the triads from Guilin City, Yue Zhong did not stop there, instead dispatching numerous shifts of policemen to instil order and patrol the streets, rounding up any small-time criminals. The moment any thieves or robbers were caught, they would be thrown into the Scum Battalion and put through strict training.

From a mere few hundreds of people inside the Scum Battalion, through the methods Yue Zhong employed, it swelled to over 2,000 people, and were filled with thieves, bandits, hooligans, rapists, perverts, liars, and other ne'er-do-wells. The moment they were drafted in, although they got to eat their fill, they had to go through strict military training and instruction, over and over again. It caused them to feel that even death was more inviting than this hellish life.

Inside the Scum Battalion, if any of these scum were to show the slightest resistance, all that awaited them was further punishments. They had no basic rights to speak of. Under those harsh conditions, many of them became like robots, suffering endlessly till the point of numbness. The majority looked forward to killing enough zombies or being killed by zombies just to be rid of this hell.

After such a large-scale cleanup, the entire Guilin City seemed to have undergone a total makeover, so much so that even the streets were safe at night. Everyone knew of the plights of any wrongdoings, and the moment they thought of what went on in those camps, any potential thoughts of mischief would be immediately quashed.

While a small minority felt that Yue Zhong was too overbearing and tyrannical, many others were elated at the beneficial changes. This was because there were no more instances of protection fees, or free meals or bullying for the majority of the commoners.

Once he had brought about peace and stability, Yue Zhong dove into training his troops again. It was the winter season, and the troops could not go anywhere, hence he made them go through intense training, to increase their combat potential.

With the flow of time, a month had passed.

On this day, a surveillance drone flew over Nanning City.

As long as the weather was decent, Yue Zhong would deploy some forces to scout out the situation in Nanning City.

The 3 million-strong zombie horde in Nanning had slowly begun to move towards Guilin City.

The strange development had quickly been picked up by the drone, and the information was quickly transmitted back towards Guilin City.

Although Yue Zhong did not control any satellites, and could not observe the entire earth, with the drones, gaining intel on the surrounding hundred li of land was not an issue.

Once he learnt that the zombie horde had begun to move, Yue Zhong did not dare to dally, and summoned every important member of his government.

Yue Zhong looked around and declared solemnly: "I've gained information! The zombie horde from Nanning has begun to move towards Guilin City, towards us. Based on their speed, in just 5 days, we will be facing 3 million zombies. Does anyone have any suggestions?"

Hu Yi directly offered: "Leader! Why don't we take the fight to them at the Chang Yue ridge? The terrain is most suitable for the tanks to charge in. We can make use of the tanks to annihilate them."

Murong He frowned and said: "The Chan Yue ridge is indeed suitable for an assault from our tanks. The problem is the weather! If there were to be a sudden change in weather, the troops there would lose the support and become stranded! The moment that happens, they would be finished off by the horde. I reckon that we should defend Guilin City!"

Zhang Xue Wang replied coldly: "Holding them off here is too dangerous!! If the fort was to be broken? The more than 800,000 survivors here would have no place to run to. Furthermore, our heavy rounds are lacking. With the number of zombies ranging in the millions, without sufficient ammo, what do we use to defend with? Meat shields?"

A modern army's criteria was having enough logistical support. Du Shan Xiong had a regiment of elites and strength, and the reason why he could only occupy Guilin, was primarily due to the shortage of ammo.

Du Shan Xiong had brought his troops to reclaim Guilin, and also led them to slaughter their way into Nanning. In addition, he had been cleaning up the surrounding areas of Guilin City, annihilating a few million zombies. However, as a result, the troops were nearly depleted of their ammo, and the ammo dump had only 2 bases' worth. It would be tough for them to deal with the 3-million strong horde with just that.

Everyone frowned, although the words of Zhang Xue Wang were hard to listen to, it was the truth, and the impending danger loomed over everyone's heads. It felt hard to breathe.

Guilin City was not an industrial city, and within it, the only thing they could do now was to refill ammunitions. In each month, they could reload up to about 10,000 rounds. The current count of reloaded ammunition in Guilin City was about 30,000 rounds. These reloaded rounds were lacking in effectiveness, and could damage the guns. The majority of it was given to the scavenger teams to use, and no one from the military liked to use it. As for the heavy artillery rounds, not only are there no ways to manufacture them, there are no known ways to reload them.

Yue Zhong eyed Chen Ying on one side and asked: "How's the construction of the wall coming along?"

When Yue Zhong obtained control, he had assigned a huge number of young males to start working on a wall. In society, there were countless city walls breached due to the existence of heavy artillery that could easily demolish walls. However, for the apocalypse, a sturdy wall would be extremely useful against a zombie horde, as well as the attacks of Mutant Beasts. Hence, Yue Zhong had placed great importance on it. After all, constructing a wall was much simpler than manufacturing heavy artillery rounds.

Chen Ying replied directly: "There's a 5m-tall defensive wall built in the direction of Nanning, however, with the time we have, that's the limit we can do now."

As the majority of the zombies surrounding Guilin City had long been wiped out by Du Shan Xiong and his army, only the zombies in the direction of Nanning posed a threat. Even Du Shan Xiong did not dare to provoke them. Hence Yue Zhong had given priority towards that direction with respect to the construction of the wall.

"5 meters eh? Do your best!" Yue Zhong frowned when he heard that, before slowly replying.

A 5 meter-tall wall would not be enough to defend against a huge horde of zombies. However, being able to construct such a wall within the time limit of a month was impressive.

Yue Zhong pondered for a moment, before ordering: "Chen Ying, you delegate the job, immediately begin defensive fortifications all around Guilin City. Dig traps!! And organize the residents from the Gang Xi District to move towards the south. Try to clear the area, to act as a buffer."

"Yes!"

Yue Zhong continued: "Hu Yi! Go take 200 experts, head to the frontlines and snipe the horde. Do your best. As long as the situation turns for the worse, immediately retreat! Try to preserve your lives and energy!"

In such conditions where the weather was unpredictable, it was the most that Yue Zhong could do. If it wasn't for winter, Yue Zhong would have deployed all his troops to go hunt the zombie horde.

"Yes! Leader!" Hu Yi replied excitedly.

Yue Zhong then swept everybody present a glance as he said solemnly: "Everyone else, resume your training, await further orders! For this battle, I've decided to take the fight to them outside. Our lives are on the line this time, I hope everyone will give their all to prepare for it!"

Everyone's heart shuddered as they replied: "Yes!"

Under Yue Zhong's orders, everyone began moving.

With the assignments set by Chen Ying, the residents of the Gang Xi District began to move towards the south side of Guilin City.

At the same time, over one hundred thousand young men were mobilized and began fortifications outside Gang Xi District.

As there were many people working on it, with their combined efforts, countless fortifications and simple works were completed within a night outside the city walls.

Within the city, many females were activated as well, preparing numerous bowls of food to be sent to those men toiling outside the city gates, everyone doing their best in order to protect their place.

On the other side, Hu Yi led 200 experts and they lugged over a hundred jin of equipment, put on the nano combat suits, and rode their motorcycles towards the distance.

Yue Zhong had intended to be on the front lines himself, but as he had just obtained control of Guilin City, the sentiments of the masses had not stabilized yet, and he had too little trusted aides. The moment he left, there would bound to be some ambitious joker. Hence, for the sake of the whole picture, he chose to stay here. This battle was one he could not afford to lose, the moment he lost, close to 900,000 people would fall prey to the zombies.

Hu Yi and his team rode non-stop for almost 4 hours before they came near the zombie horde.

"What a spectacular sight!!" Hu Yi and the 200 experts looked over from a high point not far from the horde, and could see the mighty undead force, seemingly with no end, threatening to envelope everything as they moved.

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Chapter 441 – Devourer

Translated by: Kun

Edited by: Ulamog, Dedition

"Let's start!!" Hu Yi observed their surroundings once, before pulling out a sniper rifle, aimed at the horde, and fired.

With a single 'peng', a zombie's head was blasted apart.

Attracted by the sound of the gunfire, the huge horde shifted, and swarmed towards the direction of Hu Yi and the rest, who were atop the hill.

"There're simply too many of them!! We would rot before we manage to kill them all!" One Enhancer whose level reached 38 waved his hand as he spoke, and a number of blades made out of air sliced towards the zombies in front, instantly decapitating 20-over of them.

Another who had the [Gun Specialization] Skill pulled out 2 .03 rifles, and began to fire without stop, every single round fired from each gun would kill a zombie.

One of the Enhancers had [Plant Manipulation] and he planted a Mutant Seed under the tree, and soon, countless vines exploded out from the ground, wrapping around a number of the zombies, shredding them into pieces.

The rest of the warriors raised their own .03 rifles and aimed at the zombies without haste, making sure to kill them with a single shot each time.

There were about 200 experts on this side, each of them being above Level 30, and had plenty of experience in killing zombies. None of them had any fear towards the zombies. As long as their Stamina could hold out, it was hard for them to die.

With the combined efforts of those 200 experts, although the small hilltop seemed to be surrounded by the dense horde of zombies, none of the zombies could break past the defences.

Huge numbers of the zombies were being decimated constantly, while those in front would be trampled by those behind.

Soon, the total number of zombies killed by this team of elites had reached more than 2,000.

At this time, the horde suddenly parted, and a number of 3m-tall strange zombies appeared. They had protruding bellies, their limbs were coarse and bulky, and they had long tails, with bodies covered in a layer of scales. Their eyes were completely milky-white, and their hands had long sharp nails, matching their teeth.

The moment these strange zombies appeared, they began to swallow up the corpses of the ordinary zombies, and there seemed to be no end to their appetite, as they continued to gobble up the ordinary zombies into their bodies.

Hu Yi looked at the strange zombies swallowing up the rest, and a notification appeared in his mind.

"Level 60 Strange Monster: Devourer I-Type. It can swallow ordinary zombies to constantly evolve and grow stronger. Its initial level is 50. Swallowing enough ordinary zombie corpses will allow it to reach Level 70. Swallowing higher-grade corpses may give rise to potential further growth and evolution."

Hu Yi took a look at the Devourers, and his heart went cold. He quickly aimed a rifle at the head of one of the Devourer and fired wildly.

The dense hail of bullets assaulted the Devourer, and simply bounced off, not hurting it in the slightest.

"Allow me!!" The expert who could control blades made of air stood forward, his eyes flashing with a glint, and he expended a huge amount of Stamina to conjure a huge blade that could bifurcate even an armored vehicle, as he sliced towards the Devourer.

The huge blade made of air landed on the body of the Devourer, and the skin dented inwards slightly, before causing the blade to be dispersed. At the next instant, the Devourer immediately opened its mouth and shot out a black, murky poison arrow at the Enhancer who controlled the air-blade.

"Ah!!!!" The expert immediately wailed in agony when he was struck. His body instantly rotted, and his eyes lost the colour of health, before he suddenly pounced towards Hu Yi.

Hu Yi's face changed in horror as he kicked the expert towards the ground, before roaring: "Zhang Zhen! What are you doing?"

The expert looked up with soulless eyes, as it climbed up and pounced towards the others.

Hu Yi immediately shot forward and pulled out his Dark Magic Blade to slice off the head of Zhang Zhen, as he roared: "He's infected!! Shit!! Everyone, be careful! That Devourer can cause someone to turn almost instantly with its spit, don't let it get on you!"

Hearing those words, the expressions of everyone fell. They had worn the Mutant Beasts hides and few things could endanger them. However, at the initial point of the apocalypse, the scene of their friends and loved ones turning into zombies right in front of them had been deeply embedded in their minds. Their attacks became a lot more guarded, and did not attack the Devourers, instead choosing to deal with the ordinary zombies.

Those Devourers also seemed to ignore the humans on the hill, instead choosing to swallow the corpses of the zombies unhurriedly.

Hu Yi looked at those Devourers hanging around the foot of the hill, and his eyes flashed with a hint of urgency: "Damn it, what do we do? Are we going to stand here and watch as those freaks become stronger?"

The experts on the hill were killing the ordinary zombies without stopping, while the Devourers were swallowing up the corpses, and both sides came to a standstill.

However, Hu Yi was clear that if they were to allow the Devourers to evolve, they would be wiped out.

As Hu Yi and the rest were engaged in a crisis, within a villa in Guilin City, Zhang Xue Wang was sitting with his vice-commander Yu Hong, as they drank liquor together.

Yu Hong drank a gulp of the soju, as he belched and cussed: "Damn it!! Yue Zhong isn't worth shit!! We helped him gained the city, and he actually shoved us to the new recruits battalion to lead these greenhorns!! Isn't this obviously not trusting us?"

Zhang Xue Wang eyed Yu Hong and frowned as he growled: "Old Yu, you drank too much. If your words were heard by Leader, we would all be in trouble."

Hearing that Yu Hong grinned in contempt: "What leader? That position was also snatched by him! If it wasn't for us, how many of the survivors would be dead be now! The moment he came, he stole all our positions, and forced us into this meagre place. He is shit. Commander, let's rebel!!"

Zhang Xue Wang was alarmed, as he shot Yu Hong a look, and replied: "Old Yu, you've had too much to drink!"

Although he was advising him otherwise, Zhang Xue Wang was undeniably affected by those words. While being a commander of an elite force was the same post as a commander of a recruits battalion, the positions of those 2 were different. The commander of the elite force would definitely have more authority than a commander of a recruits battalion.

When Zhang Xue Wang was re-allocated as the commander of the recruits battalion, he was naturally unhappy. However, he was clear that Yue Zhong had managed to gain a steady footing in Guilin City, and if he were to jump up now to voice his disapproval, there would be countless who would automatically step up to do him in.

Yu Hong's eyes glinted strangely, as he clapped once: "Commander!! I know you're worried about Yue Zhong's forces being too strong, and we can't defeat him. Don't worry. We have the manpower!! Come out!!"

"Commander Zhang, how do you do!" A 26-27-year old male came walking into the room as he smiled and greeted Zhang Xue Wang.

Zhang Xue Wang eyed this young man, and his heart was filled with caution as he asked: "Old Yu! This is?"

The young male, who had squinty eyes, chuckled before introducing himself: "Commander Zhang! Let me introduce myself. My name is Lin Chang Hai. I'm a member of the Greater China Alliance. We of the Greater China Alliance aim to restore the glory of China, and we have countless experts with us. We are currently based in Guang Xi, and we have over 70,000 members, and a force of 10,000."

"Our Alliance Chief knows that Guilin City had been overtaken by this small fry called Yue Zhong, and was extremely infuriated. Hence, he assigned me to come and form an alliance with you, Commander Zhang. We can work together to topple Yue Zhong's tyranny. After this, we hope that Commander Zhang will join our Greater China Alliance, and help to establish our control over Guilin City."

Zhang Xue Wang's eyes flashed, before he slowly replied: "Yue Zhong has a force of 10,000. How are you going to topple his governance?"

Lin Chang Hai chuckled mysteriously: "Commander Zhang, other than you, there are already 2 other high-ranking officials who had been unhappy with Yue Zhong's rule, and have joined us already. Furthermore, Gao Ming Hao from the Green Bamboo Triad as well as other experts from the Heavenly Dragon Triad, even Chen County's Wen Fu Xin* had all agreed to join us. At that time, once the army of the Greater China Alliance reaches, you guys work from the inside, we attack from the outside. Such a prong-attack will guarantee that Guilin City will become ours. Yue Zhong is now busy dealing with the zombie horde, and he would not think of acting against us."

Zhang Xue Wang mulled silently, before asking softly: "Currently, the 3-million-strong zombie horde is making its way towards us. After gaining Guilin City, what does the Greater China Alliance intend to do?"

Lin Chang Hai laughed indifferently: "Since the aim of the zombie horde is Guilin City, after we have done away with Yue Zhong, we will organize for everyone to evacuate the city.After which, we will slowly chip away at the zombie numbers, and one day, we will regain Guilin City and Nanning City. Ensuring the survival of everyone is of utmost importance."

Zhang Xue Wang seemed to have resolved the questions in his heart as he replied: "Alright!! I'll promise you guys!! Tell me your plan!"

Lin Chang Hai was elated, and proceeded to divulge every single detail of their plan to Zhang Xue Wang.

From the direction of Bin Qi City, a 10,000-strong force dressed in all sorts of garbs, carrying various weapons were currently marching on towards Guilin City.

[Kun] *Wen Fu Xin was the guy who tried to take down the Heaven Sect, but faced defeat at the Leader before Yue Zhong managed to cut in at the right moment and won the Heaven Sect. (Chapter 383 – 384)

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