Gao Wu: I became the minor villain that the protagonist was about to destroy.

Just as Li Yong closed his eyes to face death, a voice came from the side.

"What's your name again, you little rascal, Wang?"

Li Yong suddenly opened his eyes and found that there were two people next to him at some point, one of whom had a girl tucked into his waistband.

"The Hunter...The Hunter King."

Ye Ming turned around: "Tsk tsk tsk, you really dare to call yourself king, even someone at the third level of the county's defenses dares to call themselves king."

"They're all...these are the titles given to us by our brothers in the underworld."

"Baki, Wakatsuki, take these two idiots and get away from them."

Baki said with a hint of resentment, "Master, are you going to have this prey all to yourself again?"

"Otherwise what? I was the one who set my sights on it first."

Baki paused for a moment, then walked directly towards Li Yong.

Leng Ruoxue asked doubtfully, "Baki-kun, aren't you going to help? That's a lord-level monster! It might be dangerous for the guild leader to go alone."

But Baki didn't care at all: "This is the chairman's prey. No one can interfere. It's like the natural law of the biological world. If you want to interfere, be prepared to be slaughtered by the chairman."

In that instant, Leng Ruoxue felt a chill run down her spine, and her body instinctively drew her weapon and assumed a defensive stance.

At this moment, a powerful pressure emanated from Ye Ming, even stronger than what he had felt yesterday.

The bear king, blinded by rage, instinctively took a step back, as if facing some ferocious beast.

Ye Ming slowly walked forward step by step.

"What's wrong, Bear King? Aren't you the lord of this forest? Why are you retreating?"

"roar--!!"

In an instant, a deafening roar ripped through the silence—a king's display of power, the most primal declaration of strength.

The Bear King suddenly exerted force with its limbs, its massive body lunging at Ye Ming like a small mountain. However, Ye Ming, surrounded by surging black energy, neither dodged nor evaded, but simply raised a palm and firmly pressed it onto the bear's head.

Despite the vast difference in size, their strength should have been vastly different; the Bear King was renowned among monsters of the same level for its brute force. Yet, this pounce was like hitting an invisible mountain wall, blocked by the man's single palm, unable to advance any further.

The ground beneath Ye Ming's feet instantly caved in, and then he exerted force with his right hand. With a loud bang, the massive black bear king was crushed to the ground.

The Bear King suddenly stood up with all its might, while Ye Ming retreated backward. Then, with a sudden burst of strength, Ye Ming charged forward like a cannonball, kicking the Bear King hard in the chest. The Bear King's massive body was sent flying backward.

It crashed through trees, snapping them in half, and landed heavily on the ground.

"Roar! Roar~..." It emitted a series of low roars.

At this moment, the bear cub captured by poachers slowly woke up, saw its mother lying on the ground in a sorry state, and quickly ran forward.

"Eek~ Eek~ Eek~".

"Roar~"

As Ye Ming approached, the little black bear instantly became alert.

"ha--!!"

"Don't worry, little one, your mother isn't dead, and I have no intention of killing her."

Then Ye Ming walked around the little black bear and went to the side of the bear king.

"Sorry, I should have let you kill this poacher scum, but I still need to ask these two a few questions."

After the Bear King regained his senses from the beating, and seeing his cubs return unharmed, his anger subsided considerably. He let out a low growl and nodded to indicate that he understood.

However, the intense pain in her chest prevented her from getting up for a while.

Ye Ming smiled and nodded, then returned to the front of the poacher, Li Yong.

"Tell me, why did you come to hunt down the Bear King's child?"

Li Yong's eyes darted around: "Fortune...fortune favors the bold."

With a calm expression, Ye Ming raised his foot and stomped hard on Li Yong's thigh. With a crack, Li Yong's leg instantly bent.

The immense pain caused Li Yong's face to turn bright red instantly, followed by a bloodcurdling scream like a pig being slaughtered.

"Aaaaaah—!!!"

He foamed at the mouth and fainted shortly afterward.

"Baki wakes up the other one."

"Understood, President."

Baki walked towards the thin man and, like Yoru, stomped on him. The unconscious waiter was instantly jolted awake by a sharp pain.

"Ahhhh!! Ahhh!! Mommy!"

Xiao Er's limbs were weak from being intimidated by the Bear King's roar, and now, after being kicked, he couldn't even bend his body. His face was flushed red as he gasped for breath to relieve the pain.

"Our president has something to ask you."

Xiao Er endured the pain and looked to the other side, only to see his boss, Li Yong, with his entire leg in an extremely twisted position.

"Boss... Boss."

Ye Ming slowly walked over.

"Speak, why did you come to hunt the Bear King's child? How did you manage to steal the bear cub from the Bear King's territory?"

When Xiao Er met Ye Ming's murderous gaze and powerful aura, his lower body involuntarily exposed itself.

"I...I'll talk...I'll talk..."

"Yes...yes, someone gave us a large sum of money, saying they wanted to get a battle pet for their child."

"He got the news from somewhere that the Bear King had given birth to a bear cub in the Bear Slaughter Forest, and he wanted to make that bear cub his child's battle pet."

"The boss... the boss saw that the other party was offering too much money, so he simply agreed."

"Just as the boss was thinking about how to poach Xiongzi, a man dressed in black approached us, saying that he had a potion that could knock out lord-level magical beasts."

"At first, the boss was skeptical, but since the other party said it was in the mixing stage and this bottle was a free gift, the boss accepted it."

"After we tested it on several magical beasts, we found that the drug was really effective. So the leader used my stealth ability to let me give the bottle of drug to the bear king who was taking a nap, which gave us the opportunity to steal the bear cub."

"But who would have thought that this medicine would have such a short effect on lord-level monsters? You'll find out what happened next."

Ye Ming held out his hand: "What about the rest of the medicine?"

"In...in my pocket."

Baki stepped forward and rummaged around for a while before quickly pulling a small bottle containing purple liquid from the waiter's pocket.

Just then, a burst of energy shot out from one side, heading straight for the bottle in Baki's hand.

Just then, a pitch-black spiked club appeared in front of them.

They blocked the incoming attack.

"Those guys who were hiding there watching the show, it's time they came out by now."

Baki tossed the bottle into Yoru's hand, and his figure vanished from the spot in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, they appeared behind the man in black.

"You have to pay to see a play."

The man in black paused, "When?!"

But what greeted him was a fist the size of a sandbag.

"Bang--!!"

A dark shadow suddenly flew backward from the tree.