Pokémon: Having just completed the Pokédex, I'm now traversing the world of Beast Taming.

The four met their leader, who was lying on a bed with a face mask on, looking very comfortable.

"Wow!"

Ye Rou looked at the sunset. She was wearing a bathrobe, and her figure could only be described as explosive.

She couldn't resist reaching out and touching a certain part of her body.

"Is it soft?" Sunset asked.

"Yes!" Ye Rou nodded, quite certain.

"Take your hand away! Or I'll chop it off!"

The setting sun rebuked him in a somber tone...

"Want a massage? The technique is excellent!"

"It's very comfortable, perfect for an old person like me~~"

The leader spoke, and everyone found a bed to sit or lie down on.

"That's really abstract. Who would have thought that the leader of the assassins in Jiang Province would hold a meeting in a bathhouse in broad daylight..." Chi Hong couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Moreover, he felt he was incredibly busy, and could be considered a master of time management.

"Let's deal with one thing first," the leader said, and everyone else fell silent and listened quietly.

"Move the Crimson Assassin ID to our small group."

"I discovered that he wasn't receiving our notifications; they all had to be relayed through Huorong, which was very inconvenient."

"Let me do it." Sunset took out her phone, then froze after a few steps.

She looked at Chi Hong and asked in surprise, "Are you doing this part-time?"

"You haven't even joined the assassin organization? You're just nominally affiliated with... Middleman Number 36?"

"Yes, I didn't actually start working..." Chi Hong nodded. He hadn't really started working; Chao Wen had taken him there directly.

"Chief..." Sunset looked at the chief.

The leader sat up, peeled off the mask, and underneath was still a dark, foggy face.

"Use my account to directly upgrade him to a Level A assassin."

The leader casually tossed his phone to Sunset, then lay down again.

He seems to prefer lying down to standing.

There's a sense of relaxation in it, like "I don't care who it is, I just want to lie down and relax."

After a series of actions, Sunset joined a group chat called "Conquer the World"....

"What the hell...."

Chi Hong felt inexplicably awkward. He opened the files in the group chat and, wow, all the basic information about the four of them was there. He wasn't entirely convinced, but the location was still incredibly precise...

"Okay, then."

"I am releasing information about the four of you in order to completely reverse the consistent practices of the assassin organization."

"I can't control other places, but I call the shots in Jiang Province..."

"Mutual distrust, each doing their own thing, and even killing each other, can indeed produce strong individuals."

"But it doesn't cultivate a powerful gang!"

At this point, the leader hesitated for a moment, then continued, "I used the wrong word earlier, it should be 'team'."

"I need the four of you to be able to trust each other even if you have no vested interests."

"That's impossible, Chief. After all, this is the kind of job we do. The strongest relationship should be one based on mutual benefit," Shen Yuzhi said, and Chi Hong agreed.

Let alone four assassins, even among normal people, the strongest relationships are based on mutual interests!

Try it yourself if one of the spouses in an ordinary family suddenly owes 100 million yuan.

Or try having close relatives lend each other 20 yuan and not pay it back.

Interests can be biased or equal, but they absolutely cannot be reversed!

"What you said is true, but it doesn't apply to me. I'm not discussing this with you."

The leader's tone remained calm, but his words began to sharpen.

"So I'll emphasize again, I won't interfere with any of your actions, but you four are strictly prohibited from harming or plotting against each other."

"You can't hurt people who know you either."

"If you're really confident you can do it behind my back, then you can give it a try."

This was already a threat, Chi Hong frowned.

This leader gave him a very contradictory feeling. He was clearly an assassin, yet he wanted to personally cultivate a four-person team that trusted each other.

Chi Hong didn't care what he was up to; he was willing to play this role-playing game with him.

According to the leader's plan, I estimate that I can frequently obtain rare items.

You can even use his power to protect the people you care about. In short, if you have an organization to rely on, many things don't have to be so troublesome.

Although he is very confident in himself, doing everything himself would waste a lot of his time.

"To ensure that the four of you can develop properly..."

"I will personally protect you!"

The leader's cringeworthy lines convinced Chi Hong that he must have read a lot of fantasy novels...

"What about the others? Pfft, what about Qiangjia and the others?"

Ye Rou asked curiously, actually she and Pu Pu had a very good relationship in private.

"There's only one chance. Those who don't appear before me are eliminated. I won't give them a chance," the leader said calmly.

"Good heavens!"

"Shouldn't all opportunities be mine?"

Chi Hong's possessiveness suddenly flared up!

"Just wait here. The rift in the forbidden area will appear here, but the timing is uncertain."

"Don't stray too far from here, or you'll fall behind my pace."

"It should be noted that the forbidden area's rift only appears for 30 seconds."

As soon as the leader finished speaking, Shen Yuzhi immediately got up to change his clothes. To be honest, he had been putting up with this bathrobe for a long time!

"He did the right thing..." Sunset also got up and left.

"Wouldn't this cause a huge commotion?" Chi Hong frowned. This was Yanjing, after all; trouble could easily arise here.

"With me here, you can rest assured." The leader's emotions remained unusually stable, giving Chi Hong the feeling that he was there to reap the benefits.

Chi Hong didn't care. He had a group of big shots watching him. If something really happened, one of them might come to his rescue.

When that time comes, if any top-tier god opens their eyes, they'll be terrified of these natives!

Chi Hong nodded and went to change his clothes. After that, the five of them ate, drank, and relieved themselves all on the fourth floor and didn't go anywhere else.

It just seems...

Chi Hong noticed something strange: it seemed no one remembered them, and every waiter who saw them acted as if they were seeing them for the first time.

This may be one of the leader's secrecy measures.

So the four of them began a long wait, and at Ye Rou's suggestion, they started playing Dou Dizhu (a popular Chinese card game).

"Three to three."

"don't want."

"Pass."

"I can't afford it..."

"You don't want a pair of threes? What's the point of playing then?!" Chi Hong was dumbfounded. He had just played a pair of threes, and all three players passed?

Was it because I was too invincible, or were the other three just coincidentally without a pair?

"Brother... I really don't have any pairs..." Ye Rou said, her face full of difficulty.

"Alright, a 5." Chi Hong said helplessly, and then played his card.

"I'll bomb!" Shen Yuzhi stood up and forcefully threw out four 6s.

"Are you crazy?!" Chi Hong, unable to bear it any longer, stood up and was about to confront him!

Click!

A crisp sound rang out, and the leader, who was dozing off, suddenly sat up and raised his hand to summon a humanoid pet covered in armor!

A crack appeared in space in front of the five people!

The beast stretched out its iron claws and plunged them into the gap. With a low growl, it tore the gap open!

Through the huge gaping hole, the group could see the other side—a desolate wasteland, a place resembling the Gobi Desert.

"Walk!"

The leader waved his hand and jumped in.

Chi Hong threw all the cards in his hand at Shen Yuzhi, and then followed closely behind.

"Hmph...you're really lucky!"

"I have so many bombs, yet I can't kill you!"

Shen Yuzhi looked regretful, but urged on by the setting sun, she jumped in as well.