Zhang Chen simply did not want to kill.
With Xiao Bai by his side, he needed to set a good example.
He wanted to teach her through his actions that killing innocents was wrong.
Although Xiao Bai possessed extraordinary intelligence and strong adaptability, her outlook on life, values, and experiences...
needed to be nurtured slowly; they couldn't be taught directly.
Zhang Chen hoped that by being around him, she would develop a sense of moral boundaries, rather than becoming a world destroyer as others might describe.
Xiao Bai remained silent, her eyes blinking as she observed everything unfolding, seemingly touched by what she saw.
Mo Ran poked her head out from Zhang Chen's sleeve and collar, her dark eyes blinking as if she too were trying to comprehend Zhang Chen's actions.
The group departed in a grand procession.
A dozen minutes later, the man on the ground began to stir.
He dusted the dirt off his clothes and grumbled with dissatisfaction,
"This reincarnation came too suddenly; it made me fall asleep on the street!"
"What if I were attacked the moment I woke up?"
The surrounding slaves rushed forward to clean his clothes and offered him food and water.
"Master, while you were asleep, someone tried to step over you, but I stopped them!"
The girl from before reported, her head bowed, a smug smile playing on her lips.
"Oh? Is that so?"
The man said dismissively, his tone implying doubt in the girl's words.
He didn't possess obedience-inducing potions that guaranteed absolute loyalty, only those that enhanced subservience.
However, these were less effective on those who resisted, and any disobedient slaves had long since been executed in the most brutal ways.
Those who remained were the ones with stronger slave mentalities, trained to the point of almost losing their own selves.
"Yes, that's true. This girl is truly so brave!"
"Indeed. The supervisor ordered everyone to stay far away from these people. We didn't even dare to look them in the eye, yet your little slave had the courage to make those people detour!"
"That's right! The most unbelievable part is that those powerful individuals actually rerouted. You should really reward your slave!"
The people around chimed in one after another.
"Is that really what happened? To prevent them from stepping over me and violating my taboos, you scolded them away?"
The man narrowed his eyes at the girl.
"It did happen, Master. I am very loyal to you..."
The girl said with a sincere expression.
*Pfft!*
A flash of cold light!
The girl's head was severed, her body falling stiffly to the ground, her eyes filled with disbelief.
A bloodied short blade appeared in the man's hand.
"Fool! The supervisor said to avoid them, meaning they are exceptionally powerful individuals!"
"How dare you try to stop them? Do you know how much trouble offending these powerful people could cause me?!"
"Stepping over me is indeed a taboo... but angering a powerful person would mean my fate is far worse than merely breaking a taboo! Do you want me dead?"
Seeing the man's fury, the surrounding slaves all knelt to the ground, trembling like leaves.
It was a pity Zhang Chen did not witness this scene.
A loyal slave who protected their master was dispatched immediately upon the master's awakening...
It was hard to say if it was ironic, tragic, or a bit of both.
Simultaneously, in the top-floor office of an office building in the fourth walled city.
A man in his early twenties was shaving his beard in front of a mirror.
Behind him stood the female merchant from the platform.
"Sigh, what a hassle. The accelerated time flow for survivors now forces me to shave every day; it's so annoying!"
"30 days feel like three years. Another cycle or two, and all those old guys with the yellow rings on their hands will be dead!"
After shaving, the man wiped his face with a damp towel, put on a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and returned to his seat.
The previous cycle's reawakened had also encountered an increase in survivor time flow during the second stage of the apocalypse.
When he first transmigrated, he was just a 15-year-old boy, but after 30 days in the third and fourth stages of the apocalypse, and after the ultimate apocalypse, he was now in his early twenties.
He glanced at the woman and asked,
"How is it, is the job done?"
The female merchant nodded and said,
"As per your instructions, supervisor, the gift has been delivered."
The man, named Wang Zihao, was the supervisor of the black market, second only to the manager.
At the current stage, the supervisor was the highest leader of the black market.
Being able to ascend to the position of supervisor at such a young age was not only due to his exceptional talent but also because he was more ruthless and meticulous in his dealings than most people!
Before the reincarnation began, Wang Zihao had already received news of the reincarnation, distributed crystal cores to his confidantes, and arranged for them to find him and awaken him as soon as they woke up.
Based purely on rank, Wang Zihao, a stage three advanced metamorph, was undoubtedly at the pinnacle among all those who had awakened.
"Did you see Gromos? Are those two guys lying to cover up their stupid failure?"
Wang Zihao asked.
"I didn't see Gromos. It's probably that man's trump card; it won't be revealed until a critical moment!"
"However, apart from Gromos... I did notice that this team is indeed somewhat unusual!"
The female merchant replied.
"Unusual? How so?"
Wang Zihao asked casually, taking a sip of his coffee.
"This man is accompanied by a slave with a dark red ring, and within the team, there's a little girl who looks a lot like a world destroyer!"
"The most peculiar thing is that the survivors behind him don't have any rings on their hands."
The female merchant said.
"No rings? And they can still enslave our current generation of reawakened? Heh, interesting!"
Wang Zihao tapped his fingers lightly on the tabletop, pondering for a moment.
"This man must have triggered a fortuitous encounter that neither of our two previous generations of reawakened could trigger! And he must be carrying out a very important mission!"
"Do you know where they are headed now?"
The female merchant shook her head slightly and said,
"I'm not entirely sure, but according to reports from scouts in the market, these people seem to be heading towards the tunnel leading to the fifth walled city, presumably to the fifth walled city."
Wang Zihao shook his head and smiled, saying,
"No, their target must be the seventh walled city. The fifth city is just like ours; they're merely passing through..."