Chapter 53: Chapter 51: However, I Refuse. Bounty Order
Upon learning that Chen Shanshan and her group appeared unharmed at the Hunting Wilderness Guild, Tian Wanrong’s first reaction was disbelief.
Until the people below confirmed again and again that the two bicycles they saw were indeed Lord Wang’s...
Linking this to the recent people from Nongzhuang Village coming to inquire about Steward Li’s whereabouts, Tian Wanrong belatedly realized that something big had happened!
Qi Mountain had not only gotten himself killed but also took the entire team down with him.
Not a single person survived in the end.
This has plunged her into an extremely passive situation.
Ever since Li Chengwu followed Qi Mountain’s suggestion to organize manpower to intercept Chen Shanshan’s group’s Bounty Order and earn the Evolution Potion...
Tian Wanrong had been plotting to replace Li Chengwu as the logistics manager of this Desert Hunting Team.
This way, she could secure her position in the Desert Hunting Team before being abandoned.
She then used her freedom to come and go from the RV to gradually build a special status in Lord Wang’s mind, thereby recruiting some members who were dissatisfied with Li Chengwu...
She smoothly completed the takeover of the camp with the identity of the leader’s woman.
She dared to do this, having already determined that Li Chengwu and his people were bound to fail.
How could a Level 9 Enhanced Person, accustomed to a comfortable life, compare to someone who has fought with real knives and guns?
Even three Li Chengwus couldn’t take down one Chen Shanshan at the same level.
Not to mention, the team also had Lin Feng, the biggest variable.
During an encounter at the bathhouse in Fifth Village, just one look at each other, and Tian Wanrong felt an overwhelming sense of impending death.
Lin Feng’s decisiveness and coldness were like an executioner, who would go all out once he decided to act.
If it weren’t for Chen Shanshan’s dissuasion at that time, she might’ve already died in the bathhouse.
Qi Mountain’s death was also within Tian Wanrong’s expectations, but what she didn’t expect was how quickly Li Chengwu would fall.
When she pried open the camp warehouse door, looked at the messy, burglarized-like storeroom, Tian Wanrong’s blood pressure spiked.
Li Chengwu had given away so much equipment, including the two most valuable shotguns and three bicycles...
He handed everything over to Chen Shanshan’s group!
With such calculations, she lost on both the personal and military fronts.
The key losses were all of Lord Wang’s soldiers!
If the latter were enraged, clearly the entire Desert Hunting Team wouldn’t have a good ending.
Tian Wanrong knew she had to do something, to try to recover the loss in order to gain favor.
She needed to find a way to reclaim the lost equipment.
At the very least, she had to get the shotguns and bicycles back.
The four pieces of equipment and other supplies added up to a thousand points in value, and although Lord Wang had long been famous and wealthy, losing so many points at once would still cause major distress.
Li Chengwu’s self-inflicted demise was one thing, but they had to bring back the highly valuable equipment, otherwise, the pained Lord Wang might throw her into the Slave Market with the other women to make up for the loss.
Thinking of this, Tian Wanrong decided to negotiate with Lin Feng and the others, using her oratory skills and some point compensation to exchange for the shotguns and other equipment.
She instructed a subordinate who discovered Chen Shanshan’s whereabouts to find them, and in the name of the Lord, invite Chen Shanshan and Lin Feng, the two key figures, to the guild for a meeting.
Tian Wanrong then headed to the Hunting Wilderness Guild, taking some unimportant miscellaneous items from the warehouse, as well as Li Chengwu’s personal items, to sell them off.
She managed to exchange for about five hundred points.
It could only be said that Li Chengwu, while holding the position of steward, had not made a small fortune; this was just his personal possessions and with the Hunter ID card, there must be at least a thousand points.
Though five hundred points weren’t enough to match Li Chengwu’s losses, with her eloquent tongue, Tian Wanrong was confident she could persuade Chen Shanshan to trade back the valuable shotgun and bicycles.
With this mindset, Tian Wanrong sat in the guild hall, waiting for Chen Shanshan to arrive...
However, when the person in front of her appeared,
Tian Wanrong instantly felt like she was plunged into an icehouse!
She saw Lin Feng, with someone in tow, suddenly sitting across from her, squinting with a smile.
Tian Wanrong looked at her subordinate who had been sent, beaten to a pulp, and dazed, clearly almost being knocked senseless.
In the village, although attacking someone to kill was a serious crime, if only fists were involved and no life was threatened, typically no one would step in to enforce justice or meddle.
Especially if it was the beaten party who actively sought out the confrontation; without their own witness, it was a mute eat a loss situation, breaking teeth and having to swallow them.
And now, this man who struck so viciously smiled at her, and Tian Wanrong found the handsome, squinting smile on his face all the more unsettling.
"Where’s Chen, Chen Shanshan?"
Forcing down the fear, Tian Wanrong asked with a trembling voice.
She had the confidence to persuade the soft-hearted Chen Shanshan, but towards the man in front of her, all she felt was fear.
Lin Feng smiled and started to speak:
"Shanshan just recently became an Evolver and is resting. We’ve already registered as Evolvers and formed our own Desert Hunting Team."
"Everything you wanted before has already come to fruition."
"So why seek us out? To inquire about Qi Mountain’s whereabouts? Sorry, I left just a breath to bequeath to our former teammate Jiang Zhuo, whom you sold as a slave."
"In the end, it seems that Jiang Zhuo bit off his neck alive; such an outcome is quite fitting, given his character."
Lin Feng’s tone, calm yet slightly joyful, made Tian Wanrong shiver, breaking into a cold sweat in the air-conditioned hall at 28 degrees.
"So, is it for his death or for the steward?"
After Lin Feng finished speaking, he fixed his gaze on the woman in front of him.
Tian Wanrong swallowed, forced herself to calm down, and took out an anonymous Points Chips card:
"Their deaths are their own doing, nothing to do with me. I apologize for what happened back then. Leaving in that situation wasn’t my fault; those words were coerced out of me by Qi Mountain through threats and inducements."
"I was also miserably deceived by him, offered to an Evolver as a female slave."
"And now he’s caused me to nearly lose my life."
"That steward took away a lot of equipment, including the two most important shotguns and three bicycles. I hope Mr. Lin can return them to their rightful owner..."
"This is a 500-point anonymous chip card."
"As compensation for our offense this time."
Lin Feng was dumbfounded, clearly not expecting Tian Wanrong to seek him out for this.
But Lin Feng had already spent a lot of Life Value upgrading the two shotguns, which had become gifts for Chen Shanshan and Ding Yi.
The two bicycles were also excellent transportation and pursuit tools for the Desert Hunting Team in the wild.
There was no reason to return them for just 500 points.
Seeing the man’s furrowed brows, showing no sign of interest...
Tian Wanrong took a deep breath and summoned the courage to speak:
"Though we were at fault first this time, it was Qi Mountain who incited the steward to act privately, which has nothing to do with our leader, Lord Wang, and the Desert Hunting Team."
"The equipment is the Lord’s property."
"You’ve not only killed people but also occupied equipment; the Lord will surely be very angry upon his return."
"The Lord has been an Evolver for many years, and his strength stands out among Tier One Evolvers."
"As long as you agree to this transaction, I can place the blame and killers on the team that collaborated with you, shifting the Lord’s attention."
"Otherwise, the wrath of a Senior Evolver is not so easily dealt with."
After listening to Tian Wanrong’s half-pleading, half-threatening words, Lin Feng laughed coldly instead of getting angry and said:
"You’re right..."
"But, I refuse."
"The Lord you mentioned won’t be back for another four or five days. During this time, I don’t need to have the Lord’s strength, just need to grow to..."
"A level that requires a higher cost than this equipment worth just 500 points."
"Moreover, more than these points and the threat of an Evolver, I would rather see your destitute and ragged look at the Slave Market."
"We’ll... see each other at the Slave Market."
After speaking, Lin Feng stood up, glanced at the servant who brought him here, who was so frightened he collapsed directly on the ground.
After this negotiation ended, Lin Feng did not leave the Guild but instead went to the second floor of the Guild.
With Nongzhuang Village eyeing them covetously,
And Evolvers, threats looming...
He must take action quickly, using the electric car’s sustained endurance to complete more tasks at once.
Thus obtaining more rewards while involving more forces to gather around.
Only by demonstrating the value of Lin Feng and his group will the members of the Desert Hunting Team be safer.
In this world, there are no unresolved grievances.
If there are, it’s only because the benefits aren’t enough.
Arriving on the second floor, Lin Feng immediately searched and examined the posted bounty orders on the notice board one by one.
Before long, he found a mission that could make Nongzhuang Village give up pestering and even be willing to apologize:
"Bounty Task: Capture a Male Rock-Horned Horse Alive"
"No Time Limit, but the Sooner the Better!"