Tang Yu stepped forward and first delivered two kicks, knocking Shi Yanming to the ground. Despite the dirt, he began searching Shi Yanming's body.
The onlookers had strange expressions on their faces—could it be...
Eileen looked helpless but kept her magic wand aimed at the team members, freezing them even more solidly.
Grey Blade, however, looked excited and seemed eager to try.
Tang Yu stopped searching, a look of disappointment on his face.
Grey Blade watched, equally disappointed, his face full of regret.
The onlookers stretched their necks but were very disappointed, sighing.
From Shi Yanming's body, Tang Yu found only a few Source Crystals.
"So poor? Isn't Scarlet Hand one of the Four Great Mercenary Corps? Aren't you a squad leader? How did you get this position being so poor, sigh!"
Implying that he was very unsatisfactory.
Shi Yanming was furious!
Several of his teeth had been knocked out, making his speech somewhat slurred as he glared at Tang Yu.
"We Scarlet Hand, no, won't let you go!"
"Scarlet, big wall of Scarlet Hand, you can't understand!"
Within the Mercenary Corps, there were merely twelve squads.
His squad was only the Seventh Squad, ranked in the middle, the strongest were led by the Commander and the Deputy Commander, the first and second squads.
This was the fame of their Scarlet Hand and the confidence with which they acted so recklessly.
Tang Yu was very helpless.
So foolish? Communication had become impossible.
He had initially thought, if Scarlet Hand could cough up tens or even hundreds of thousands of Source Crystals to ransom their people, he might have let these people go, but unfortunately...
His longsword stabbed in.
Shi Yanming's eyes widened, seemingly unable to believe that Tang Yu was so bold and resolute.
As consciousness gradually faded, the last thing he heard was a low sigh, "Blame it on your poverty."
His face showed unwillingness as he finally fell backward, lifeless.
From the remaining Scarlet Hand team members, Tang Yu could not find many Source Crystals either; perhaps these people were truly frightened by their poverty, which led them to rob on the street.
So you see, poverty shortens life, not without reason.
Tang Yu felt he had gained a new understanding of life.
"Kill them, kill them. Keeping them won't change the fact they're poor."
The Scarlet Hand team members each had expressions of terror, eyes wide open.
Some begged for mercy, others cursed in anger, and some tried to stall for time, hoping for rescue from other squads of Scarlet Hand, but clearly, Tang Yu gave them no chance.
If being so decisive, then why initially harm without killing, giving them false hope of survival?
As they fell, each had a look of unwillingness.
If Tang Yu could see the negative emotion value, it would surely be +999 above their heads.
The faces of the onlookers who were Awakeners were also quite a spectacle.
They were there to watch the show, standing around, no matter how rampant the Scarlet Hand became, the Black Market was still jointly managed by the Four Great Mercenary Corps and was located within the Sanctuary...
It was legal to spectate in the Great Heavenly Dynasty, right?
But now, they felt that the Sanctuary might be stirring up a storm.
Some of the Awakeners had already secretly decided to stay put in the Sanctuary for the next few days, lest they encounter the frenzied Scarlet Hand in the wilderness and who knew what could happen!
When they walked out of the Black Market gate, these Awakeners kept their distance.
Wherever they passed, people in front blocked their way, all swiftly making room to the sides.
Tang Yu felt that he was obviously a fresh face, so why did everyone avoid him like a venomous snake.
He touched his face... Oh, it turned out he was wearing a mask, no wonder.
Walking through this tunnel, there were many exits from the Black Market, but this time Tang Yu decided to choose a more spacious route, as the one he came by was really uncomfortable.
Suddenly, there came a "taptap" sound from ahead.
It was footsteps, and judging by the sound, there were quite a few people.
Could it be people from the Scarlet Hand?
Tang Yu thought, walking slowly, was just waiting to see if he could harvest another batch.
In the crowd, a member of the Scarlet Hand's Seventh Squad, who had missed joining the team due to diarrhea, looked overjoyed. Had reinforcements finally arrived?
The other Awakeners looked grave... These people from the large mercenary corps moved quickly, but they also worried that the Scarlet Hand people wouldn't take their anger out on bystanders because of this.
However, the next moment, everyone's faces changed in unison, for the people who appeared in front of them were not from the Scarlet Hand.
The group wore uniform attire, disciplined and solemn. Once they approached, they stood straight, silent, but their formation seemed to be protecting the safety of an elderly man in the middle.
"Flowing Color Uniform, it's Military people!"
"Why would the Military appear here?"
"Are they looking to dismantle the Black Market? But no, the Black Market has been established for so long, and we've seen no position from the Military on it, could it be that the Military had not noticed it before?"
Tang Yu was also puzzled, wondering how Military personnel could appear in this place.
This was the Black Market, and even if its existence was tacitly approved by the Sanctuary officials, for them to come in wearing Military uniforms so openly didn't seem appropriate. Shouldn't they disguise it a bit? Otherwise, placing the Black Market openly would be better, and newcomers like him to the Sanctuary wouldn't bother finding a Black Market and take all that trouble.
While pondering, he saw the elderly man protected by the Military personnel step forward, "Young man, this is what you sold, right?"
In the elderly man's hand was a Demon Slayer… oh, a basic longsword.
Tang Yu was taken aback and did not deny it, as with the Military's capability, it would definitely not be hard to find out.
"That's great, that's great," the elderly man seemed quite excited. "How did you incorporate that special power factor into the longsword?"
Special power factor?
Tang Yu had a guess, but pretended to be confused on the surface, "Excuse me, sir, I don't understand what you mean."
Behind the elderly man, a young man, panting from running despite his youth and strength because he wasn't an Awakener, caught up.
Assistant Lin took a few breaths and then looked at Tang Yu with an unfriendly expression, "How can you be ? My teacher rushes here amidst his busy schedule just to ask you a question, yet you play dumb."
Tang Yu ignored the young man's words.
Lin was about to say more when the elderly man raised his hand to stop him and looked toward Tang Yu, "Young man, I know what you're worried about. I, Sun Weiguo, personally guarantee that this matter won't cause you trouble. Plus, I won't ask for your method for free. Here's what: take any of the Science Academy's research results, whether techniques or materials, anything you're interested in can be exchanged. If you have other conditions, you can name them."
The elderly man was very generous, and the promises he made were substantial enough to turn the heads of anyone in Lindong, even those at high positions.
But Tang Yu knew this was no empty promise.
he had heard of the old man's name, Sun Weiguo, the Dean of the Science Academy. In just over a month after the apocalypse, he had already achieved several major scientific research breakthroughs.
As the Dean, Sun Weiguo was naturally one of the top figures in the Lindong Sanctuary, but he was devoted to research and generally stayed out of other affairs, such as today's outing from the Science Academy, which had been rare after the apocalypse.