Meng Chao's eyes were clear.
He met Lu Siya's gaze calmly.
Lu Siya forced herself to hold back her anger.
Of course she could not summon a single elite soldier.
"So, you lied to me first, right?"
Meng Chao asked calmly. "When I asked you over the phone whether you wanted reinforcements, you told me that you would send a squad of elite soldiers from the abnormal beast research department to ensure our safety."
"But …" Lu Siya hesitated for a long time.
"With just the two of us, we could have captured Small Insect. Why should we let someone else take the credit? We've already captured him!"
"What's the price?"
Meng Chao retorted. "If Shen Yupeng hadn't appeared in time with the secret police and adjudicators, how many innocent citizens would have been harmed by the biochemical pets that were angered by Small Insect?
"Also, you saw that the area is filled with illegal buildings. It's very easy for them to start fires and collapse. Are you certain that the biochemical pets don't have the ability to create a greater tragedy?
"Perhaps to you, even if you have to sacrifice dozens or hundreds of innocent citizens to capture a key suspect, it's an acceptable price. It's just like how you led a mine explorer to jump into an unknown lake filled with Lion Dragon Fish to get the right to mine the Red Radiance Jade first, but in the end, all of you died.
"But the mine explorer signed a contract with you, and he knew very well what he was doing and how dangerous it was.
"The citizens here are just living here because they're poor or because they were born this way. What reason do they have to become your 'price'?
"Yes, you have a lot of money and connections. I believe that even if a tragedy really happened, you would still be able to give the victims' families satisfactory compensation. You would also be able to deal with all the forces of power in Golden Tooth Lair. You would also be able to snatch the chance from the secret police and beautifully solve a major case that involved many people. In the end, everyone would be happy.
"Only corpses can't speak, and they can't express their anger or joy.
"I'm sorry, but this isn't my style. I won't let this happen before my eyes. If you really did this, there would be no possibility of us working together anymore. You would become my eternal enemy.
"So, I could only look for Shen Yupeng and make … some preparations beforehand."
Lu Siya stared at him for a long time before she sucked in a deep breath and said, "So, when we entered Golden Tooth Lair, Shen Yupeng already knew about it?"
"That's right. At that time, he had already led a team of well-trained secret police and adjudicators to infiltrate through another entrance."
"When we were investigating Jin Yongqiang's network and locking down on Small Insect, he did a lot of searching and sorting through the information we obtained. He also made connections with Black Bone and Golden Tooth. Otherwise, how could we have been able to leave Black Blood Coliseum so boldly after causing a ruckus?" Meng Chao said.
Lu Siya fell silent. "So, you never trusted me from the start."
Meng Chao scratched his head. "From the start, you didn't show me anything that made me trust you! Or do you think that a hot-blooded and inexperienced male university student like me would be infatuated with a woman like you who has fair skin, beautiful breasts, long legs, a mysterious background, and is older than me by a few years and has a mature feminine charm? Or do you think that a hot-blooded male university student like me with no social experience would fall head over heels for you? "
Lu Siya glared at Meng Chao. She gritted her teeth and enunciated each word clearly. "Since you think that I'm full of myself, ambitious, and unscrupulous, why are you still working with me and even treating me as a friend?"
"The law doesn't say that I can't be friends or partners with conceited, ambitious, and unscrupulous women!" Meng Chao shrugged and said matter-of-factly.
Lu Siya was exasperated.
But just when she was about to flare up, Shen Yupeng suddenly stopped moving.
They had reached an incredibly narrow and dark alley.
There were very few windows in the buildings on both sides. All of them were painted black, which was a rarely seen color on the outside of buildings. It was as if there was a narrow path between two cliffs.
Meng Chao looked up and sensed an incredibly domineering presence behind a window on the seventh floor of the building.
In a daze, he had an illusion. It was as if a lion that was so old that its fur had fallen off but its claws and teeth were still as sharp as new was leading its pride. It stood on both sides of the cliff and stared coldly at the prey under its feet.
"Mr. Jin, we've found him. Fortunately, he didn't cause too much trouble. Can we leave now?"
Shen Yupeng looked up.
Meng Chao felt a chill in his heart.
He knew that the person observing them from above was the leader of Golden Tooth Gang, the largest gang in Golden Tooth Lair.
He was also an important figure in Dragon City's history of struggle for half a century. He was a living legend.
Ever since they went through the transmigration, the zombie crisis, and the collapse of social order, gangs were given a completely different meaning compared to when they were on Earth.
When zombies, viruses, monsters, and out-of-control superhumans ran amok outside, the gangs were the only protectors in the paradise known as the lair. They were the inheritors of some ancient chivalrous and courageous spirit.
The man who was now called "Lord Jin" by Shen Yupeng was born in that turbulent Iron and Blood Era.
It was said that he was one of the lucky people who were among the earliest to be infected by the zombie virus but did not mutate or die. Instead, he unlocked his genetic seal.
It was said that he tore off a golden horn from the head of a Golden Horned Beast that occasionally wandered into Dragon City and polished it into a golden saber that looked like a fang. Golden Tooth's name spread like wildfire.
It was said that he used this Golden Tooth Saber to kill more than ten thousand zombies and monsters. He also subdued the leaders of more than one hundred beehive-like buildings. Then, he connected, reinforced, and fused these buildings together to create the largest Golden Tooth Lair in Dragon City. It lasted until this day.
During the bloodiest and darkest era in Dragon City, hundreds of thousands of people were protected by him and could live peacefully in the lair. At the very least, they did not have to worry about their lives.
When the superhumans whose brains were corroded by spirit energy and who lost control of their minds and nerves came to his territory, they had to restrain themselves. Otherwise, his Golden Tooth Saber would pierce through their skulls, which were the sturdiest part of their bodies.
At that time, even though he was not as famous as Battle God Lei Zongchao, he could still be considered a righteous person who protected an area. He could not be considered a hero, but at the very least, he was a good man.
Unfortunately, not all pioneers could grasp the flow of time.
Many of the good men who came from a similar background as Mr. Jin were keenly aware that the tide of time was surging. Soon, it would crush the lairs and gangs.
They immediately obeyed the tide of change and took the initiative to reorganize the gangs into corporations. The corporations then swallowed each other up and turned into mega corporations. With Battle God Lei Zongchao as a witness, the mega corporations formed the Survival Committee and built the Supernatural Tower to manage all the superhumans. This caused the power in Dragon City to be gathered together once more.
Many people took advantage of the situation and rose to power. In the end, they became the controllers of the mega corporations and important people in the Survival Committee. In fact, they could even participate in the mayoral election in a dignified manner.
There were also people who were attacked in the open and in the dark. They could not recover from the setback and sank into oblivion. Some of them even died mysteriously. Their power, wealth, and influence fell apart and vanished.
Mr. Jin had always been hiding in his Golden Tooth Lair and coldly watching everything that happened.
Even when the Survival Committee was formed thirty years ago, he was still like a living fossil. No matter what the outside world did to him, he would not move.
How to deal with Mr. Jin and his Golden Tooth Gang was indeed a problem that gave the Survival Committee and the Supernatural Tower a lot of headaches.
One of the reasons was because he was too experienced. He was an outstanding person in Battle God Lei Zongchao's generation. He had countless disciples, and he had long since infiltrated all walks of life. His power was intertwined with each other, and he was almost too big to fail.
Another reason was that during the initial stages of the zombie crisis and the Monster War, he had contributed to protecting Dragon City. Countless citizens hid in the Golden Tooth Lair he built, which was why they were able to escape the invasion of viruses, zombies, and monsters. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he had saved at least hundreds of thousands of citizens.
But he had half of Golden Tooth Lair and used it as his base to control more than 30% of the gray industries in Dragon City. He also refused to accept the modification plan for the lair, which gradually turned Golden Tooth Lair into a tumor that occupied the heart of Dragon City. This was a fact.
What was even more troublesome was that no one knew how much fighting power Mr. Jin had left.
Decades ago, he had been an outstanding fighter in Dragon City, and he was at least at the peak of Heaven Realm.
Even though the pioneers of spirit energy cultivation did not have scientific cultivation methods and only used their instincts to modify their bodies in the simplest and crudest way, they often left behind multiple hidden injuries. Some even harmed their brains and central nervous systems, which made it very easy for them to enter spirit energy deviation and have their cultivation realms plummet.
But as the leader of Golden Tooth, he had not personally fought for many years, so no one knew whether he had fallen from the peak of Heaven Realm or advanced further and reached Deity Realm.
In this sort of situation, no one dared to brace themselves and kill the true controller of Golden Tooth Lair.
Fortunately, he knew the severity of the matter. Aside from his own territory, he did not want to interfere in the affairs of the outside world.
Occasionally, he even worked with the Supernatural Tower to capture the superhumans who had gone overboard and destroyed the common order between the righteous and the righteous.
He also did his best to ensure the safety of the citizens who came to Golden Tooth Lair to play.
Once a malicious case against a guest happened, he would usually not wait for the police to take action. He would take the initiative to search for and punish the culprit. Then, he would throw the heavily injured culprit out of Golden Tooth Lair for the police to deal with.
In other words, with Mr. Jin and his Golden Tooth Saber around, there was at least a basic order in Golden Tooth Lair.
Before they got rid of the monsters, even judges like Shen Yupeng did not want to easily provoke an old man who understood the laws of survival in the gray areas.
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