Chapter 89 The Winner

You’re being sensible after all!

Sun Fei lowered the soul-snaring chain in her hand once more, weighing the weapon’s heft in her palm. It felt fairly convenient to use. This was the reward she had received for completing a mission, and she was still in the process of becoming familiar with her new weapon, so its exact power had not yet been thoroughly tested. Collecting the weapons of all sorts of well-known factions was also one of her hobbies, after all it made framing and harming others much easier.

The soul-binding chain was a standard weapon issued to underworld enforcers. Anything that could be mass-produced was not worth much, so the soul-binding chain had not been as difficult to obtain as one might imagine. The most ironic part was that this weapon’s serial number could still be found in the official records of the underworld, meaning it was, in fact, an officially sanctioned weapon.

Li Han, still as dull and obedient as ever, followed Chu Ning’s advice and continued wandering the rather desolate city, where perhaps a new urban legend would soon spread across the internet.

“At last, we’re here!” Chu Ning stretched lazily. He looked in the direction Sun Fei had gone and felt utterly speechless. Why were there watchers everywhere?

Couldn’t they, the lawless villains, be given even a little private space? If they wanted to commit evil, they had to consider the risk of doing it within the range of surveillance. It only increased the danger of crime for them, and Chu Ning did not know whether to laugh or cry.

Though they all represented dark forces, some people were secretly playing the role of an informant. They truly were making a tremendous contribution to peace and stability in society.

“What should we do next?” Tan Ya was genuinely a little at a loss. She really did not know how to snatch out of an abandoned factory a man with extremely formidable combat power without alarming anyone else.

“Uh.” Chu Ning quietly gave Tan Ya a look and beckoned her to follow. Thus began their operation to rescue their brother’s woman. Chu Ning kept a wary eye on the surroundings.

There were no buildings around the abandoned chemical plant that could provide cover. They could not even find any shelter to hide behind. The ruins of unknown purpose in the distance could serve as a place to conceal themselves, but Chu Ning could guarantee that if they went there, they would be in for a surprise.

When everyone can clearly see that something is a hiding place, concealment has nothing to do with it.

Chu Ning and the others stealthily moved beneath the withered trees nearby, then lay quietly in the yellowed grass, watching the movements around the chemical plant at any moment.

“So we just wait like this?” Tan Ya asked impatiently. She was still not very used to lying low like some ground-bound lurker. Perhaps saying the contrast in expectations was too great would not be wrong; she had thought they would be invading the factory like a certain elite secret agent.

Eliminate every enemy in sight, and rescue the hostage successfully.

Chu Ning blinked. He did not think there was anything wrong with his decision. The brazen people ahead were also lurking around the factory, fully prepared, each one keeping watch on the so-called competitors, after all there was only one reward to be had.

When one does not know what to do, it is usually safest to follow others for the time being. Human beings place greater importance on social behavior, and following the crowd is the choice of most people.

“That’s right. Haven’t you seen that no one else has acted rashly? Everyone is waiting for someone else to make the first move; nobody wants to be the one to stick his head out!”

Chu Ning analyzed the situation before them in an indifferent tone, and he did indeed appear very calm. He understood that in a scene like this, one must not be impatient; otherwise, one would be drawing water with a bamboo basket and come away with nothing.

“True enough. Let’s keep waiting then,” Tan Ya said with a helpless sigh. By her own preference, she did not want to take the initiative in this affair. But since they were already here, they could hardly back down at the threshold.

Tan Ya could feel the atmosphere around them growing increasingly heavy: grim, silent, desolate...

Although people were scattered in twos and threes around the chemical plant, they remained silent throughout, communicating only in low murmurs, and even more professionally by using sign language to convey information.

Ghosts and monsters had the ability to muffle surrounding sounds, so this could be considered a precaution against unforeseen trouble.

The matter involved an astronomical sum of money, wealth that most people could never earn even if they exhausted their lives in effort. There was nothing wrong with treating it with the utmost caution. Opportunities vanished in an instant, and they might never again have a chance to obtain such vast fortunes through desperate struggle.

With malice, Chu Ning thought that perhaps this was nothing more than a gift from others: they were throwing out a bone and letting people play within the rules they had already set. As the makers of those rules, they could savor the warped ugliness of human nature at will and thereby seize even greater profit.

For those who violated the rules, the Terror Expedition Company chose destruction. Within the borders of Mang City, everyone could only obey the rules it established. For rebels, whether good or evil, the outcome was always only one.

At present, the situation merely lacked a spark. Once it came, the silent scene would explode at once. Then the slaughter would spread through the crowd like an unstoppable tide, until the final winner emerged.