Citywide Search

“What is your esteemed surname?” Ren Anhua stood on a half-meter-high concrete guardrail, holding a person in her hand.

“No need to be so formal. My surname is Yuan.”

“Alright, Brother Yuan. I will now prove to you that knowledge can change one’s fate.”

The location was still the same old residential building Ren Anhua had found yesterday, but the time was already nine o’clock the next morning.

It was a familiar scene.

Ren Anhua stood on the rooftop, holding a person by one leg.

And the person she was holding was the “Brother Yuan” she had mentioned.

She now only intended to teach the other party a very simple life lesson.

And that was that knowledge can change one’s fate.

“For example, if you can recite ‘Spring Snow in the Garden of Qin’ right now, I won’t throw you down to your death. But if you can’t, you’ll have to fall from here and die. Tell me, can knowledge change one’s fate?”

“Yes, yes, yes, but big brother, I beg you…”

“It’s useless to beg me. If you don’t recite ‘Spring Snow in the Garden of Qin,’ you’ll die here today. Oh, by the way, what was your ability?”

“It’s arm strength enhancement. My right arm can become very strong. Keep me, I’m very useful. I can help you kill zombies and earn crystal cores. All the crystal cores will be… ahh!!! My hand!!!”

Ren Anhua cleanly and decisively cut off both of his hands.

“Alright, you don’t have an ability now. If you fall now, you’ll surely die, right? Your chance to change your fate has come. Quick, recite ‘Spring Snow in the Garden of Qin.’ Don’t even think about cheating. Teacher Zhang is listening in the back.”

“I can only strengthen my right arm. Why did you cut off both of my hands!”

“You’ve said enough nonsense. I warned you a long time ago not to talk so much nonsense. Now your chance is gone. Look, you silly boy, you can’t even recite a single line, and you can’t even understand what’s being said. The only thing left in your fate is death.”

From the rooftop of a five-story building, about fifteen meters from the ground, a free fall would reach the ground in less than two seconds.

Brother Yuan’s scream was cut off halfway.

Ren Anhua stuck her head out to look down.

None of the three corpses were missing.

It was confirmed that these scum who had come here early in the morning to prey on ordinary people were thoroughly dead.

“Teacher Zhang, am I right? You have to have a little confidence in yourself. If you encountered a situation like today’s, you could have survived. Although you’re an ordinary person, the power of knowledge is infinite,” Ren Anhua placed her hands on Zhang Youlai’s shoulders, her attitude serious and sincere.

With her current height, there weren’t many opportunities to do this.

She had to do it more often while standing on high ground.

“But I teach math.”

“Hey, how can you say something so unromantic? You shouldn’t focus on memorizing books. You should focus on knowledge. Think about it. With knowledge and cultivation, you won’t do such despicable things as them, and you won’t be thrown off the top floor by me. This is the key point. What does this have to do with whether you can memorize books or not?”

Zhang Youlai had never seen an Awakened like this.

This Brother Tiezhu, whose appearance and name were extremely mismatched, had actually killed three Awakened for an ordinary person like him.

He really couldn’t understand the thinking of this pink-haired person in front of him.

He even felt a little flattered, and the feeling was extremely surreal.

He even suspected that their plan had been exposed and that this person was here to sound him out.

He decided to test the other party’s words.

“Brother Tiezhu, you’re too kind. I, Zhang Youlai, am just an ordinary person who knows some book knowledge. When I encounter an Awakened, I’m just a bug, to be slaughtered at will.”

“Well, you see, you met me, and I didn’t slaughter you, did I?”

“I’m at your mercy to not be slaughtered. It’s the same principle.”

“Heh, you’re an interesting one. So according to you, I have to force myself to slaughter you for you to be considered capable?”

“No, it should be me slaughtering you for me to be considered capable.”

“Then do you have this capability?”

“Of course not. Didn’t I say? I, Zhang Youlai, am an ordinary person, just a bug. You just don’t want me to die right now. If you wanted me to die, I would surely die.”

“Hey, why are you still like this? Wasn’t everyone an ordinary person at the beginning? How long has it been since the apocalypse started, and there’s already such a big divide here? This really pains me.”

The pain was fake.

Ren Anhua was just thinking about how Tang Yunxuan had been harassed yesterday just because he was an ordinary person, and the matter had just gotten bigger and bigger, so she was very unhappy with the current situation of Su City’s Awakened looking down on ordinary people.

In the end, she was just having a headache about her own situation.

Rather than saying she was pained by the status of ordinary people, it was more accurate to say she was pained by the fact that she couldn’t enter the city because of this Awakened arrogance.

But her attitude had given Zhang Youlai a good impression.

It was often said that the Awakened had an arrogant prejudice against ordinary people, but under the catalysis of this arrogance, how could ordinary people not have a prejudice against the Awakened?

It was just that this prejudice, in the weak, could not affect the strong Awakened.

But this was not absolute.

Sometimes, ordinary people could also pose a fatal threat to the Awakened.

Zhang Youlai thought of their plan and looked at the pink-haired person in front of him, feeling a little unbearable.

Although the Awakened were all arrogant and domineering, not all of them were so arrogant.

For example, this little pink-haired one who pretended to be a man, although her personality was a bit strange, at least she had a good heart.

Was what they were doing really right?

A trace of wavering appeared in Zhang Youlai’s heart, but then he thought of his daughter, the experience of his colleagues, and the thousands of oppressed ordinary people.

He felt that some things would not change without bloodshed.

He strengthened his resolve, but at the same time, he couldn’t let go of his compassion for the person in front of him.

“Are you going to Su City?” Zhang Youlai asked such a question.

“I’m going, it’s just not easy to go,” Ren Anhua was still struggling with the matter of Su City.

She really wanted to go in and find the RV team, but the current situation really didn’t allow it.

It was all that damn Awakened prejudice.

“If it’s not easy to go, you don’t have to go. Su City will become very dangerous recently.”

“Yeah, Su City is quite dangerous,” she had just been pinned like a specimen yesterday.

How could it not be dangerous?

She had woken up very early in the morning and, with nothing to do, had gone to Su City to check the situation.

At a glance, she saw the city guard who had taken her money yesterday, because that person had been hung on the city wall for public display.

The inspection at the city gate checkpoints was more than twice as strict, and now the entire city was full of people looking for her.

Ren Anhua found it strange.

She had just hit a person.

Come to think of it, she hadn’t even killed anyone yesterday.

Was it necessary to have such a life-and-death stance?

This Yue family was too exaggerated.

How could they have developed to this size with such a petty mind?

Ren Anhua was troubled by her own affairs and didn’t notice the hidden meaning in Zhang Youlai’s words at all.

The two were like chatting across different servers, not talking about the same thing at all.

But it was impossible for Zhang Youlai to be more explicit.

He was already operating against the rules.

Making Su City dangerous was the top secret of their Anti-Awakened Association.

There were two hot topics in Su City recently.

One was a gem that could grant humans any ability, called the Stone of Ability.

Although it sounded particularly unreliable, this gem was related to the Yue family, and its credibility had become higher.

Such a fantastical thing would naturally arouse people’s discussion.

If the Stone of Ability represented fantastical beauty, then the other matter represented the terror of reality.

Recently, for some unknown reason, some zombies had appeared in Su City.

The city walls were high and had not been destroyed, but zombies had appeared in the city, which was puzzling.

However, fortunately, the number of these zombies was extremely small.

If one wanted to encounter them, one would have to be particularly lucky.

Moreover, there were many Awakened in Su City.

Once these zombies appeared, they often didn’t live for more than a few seconds before they were gone.

So people’s attitude toward this matter was more like treating an urban legend.

Because many people had not even really seen a zombie appear in the city.

But this was after all a good topic that could arouse many imaginations, so its popularity was not low.

However, today, the popularity of these two topics was relatively cold.

Because both the zombies in the city and the Stone of Ability were things that people could not confirm or touch.

But today, this pink-haired, star-eyed girl who had caused a city-wide wanted notice was real.

To say it was a wanted notice was not entirely accurate.

To be precise, the Yue family wanted to find her and invite her as an honored guest.

For Ren Anhua, this point was quite similar to the military.

But this kind of city-wide search attitude was easily associated with some bad things, to the point that everyone ignored the friendly attitude expressed by the Yue family.

Moreover, many people had witnessed with their own eyes what had happened in the Hunter’s Bar yesterday.

The night before, she had hit a member of the Wei family on the Yue family’s territory, cutting down anyone who came, and even dared to ignore the words of the Wei family’s third young master, finally causing Yue Chang to appear in the bar.

No one knew what happened later, because everyone in the bar had been kicked out by Yue Chang.

But although the people were no longer in the bar, the sound could not be concealed.

Ren Anhua had broken many black pillars last night, and the sound of breaking iron and steel was not small at all.

The sound of the battle echoed through the inside and outside of the bar.

Everyone thought that since Yue Chang had made a move, the matter should be settled.

But not long after, a message came from the Yue family to impose a city-wide lockdown, searching for the pink-haired, star-eyed girl.

No one knew what had happened to Yue Chang.

With such facts, what else could people think?

They could only conclude that the Yue family wanted to kill this pink-haired girl.

At least, that was how Meng Fanhai had concluded.

“F*cking Yue family, trying to touch my Brother Anhua!” The portrait of Ren Anhua posted in the South District was torn to shreds by Meng Fanhai.

He had never expected that the first time he would hear news of Ren Anhua after arriving in Su City would be from a search warrant.

“Brother Meng, I think you should calm down now,” the current second-in-command of the Anhua Society, Wei Yidu, was a little nervous.

He was afraid that his boss would do something irrational in a fit of rage.

“What do you think I’m going to do? Take the Anhua Society to fight the Yue family with an egg against a stone? Am I that stupid!?”

Meng Fanhai’s tone was still filled with terrible anger, but it made Wei Yidu feel much more at ease.

Although his boss always seemed crazy and impulsive, he had not made any major mistakes in major decisions.

This was the only reason why he dared to stay by the side of such a madman.

“Send three people each to the north, south, and east districts to wait. Report any information about Brother Anhua to me immediately. If necessary, you can support Brother Anhua. Wei Yidu, you take some people to the third ring of the South District to look. That’s the most likely place for Brother Anhua to be.”

Meng Fanhai was well aware of the Yue family’s power.

If he faced the Yue family head-on, his Anhua Society would have no chance of winning.

He would never do such a thing.

But if he found Brother Anhua first, then this conflict could be smoothly resolved.

Meng Fanhai was not a person who only knew how to be reckless.

In fact, he was much more rational than Ren Anhua.

But if Ren Anhua was really imprisoned by the Yue family, he, Meng Fanhai, would not hesitate to be reckless.

Even if the chances were slim, even if he was alone, he would rush into the Yue family and rescue his big brother.

After all, he was also a fourth-tier.