We offered you a summer job, but you went and became a mercenary?

The square returned to tranquility.

Old Zhang, holding the spatula, froze on the spot.

The residents upstairs collectively lost their ability to think.

This cleanup team is so professional it's terrifying!

No police cars, no wrangling, dozens of martial arts masters were taken away in just a few minutes, and the floor was even mopped clean.

Who exactly is this young man?

Even a top young master from the capital wouldn't receive this kind of treatment, would he?!

The people's awe of Lin Ye instantly rose to an unattainable peak.

Lin Ye swallowed the last piece of dough.

He walked to the edge of the square and threw the disposable paper bowl into the trash can.

"belch--"

A loud burp echoed through the quiet neighborhood.

Lin Ye rubbed his stomach, finally feeling full.

After a lot of running around in the middle of the night, I wasn't physically exhausted, but I was really hungry.

He turned around, his gaze passing through the low wall of the residential area and looking towards the north of Jiangcheng.

That's the perfect location; it's the site of the He Family Manor, a place associated with ancient martial arts in Jiangcheng.

Lin Ye lowered his head and looked at the large hole in his chest burned through by the Iron Sand Palm. A cold glint flashed in his originally lazy eyes.

That's a full fifty silver dollars.

Including the seventy-yuan shirt that got damaged during the day, I lost a total of one hundred and twenty yuan in clothes in just one day.

Is it easy for a recent high school graduate like him to work hard in the Middle East and save up some money?

"The He family is like greenbottle flies in summer; you swat one and a swarm comes along, it never ends," Lin Ye muttered, putting his hands into the pockets of his shorts.

He looked up and glanced at the north side of Jiangcheng.

Tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, I still have to go to the dormitory management office to queue up for the key.

Room 302, Building 5, Men's Dormitory, lower bunk by the window.

There's also free WiFi in the dorm, and the big expansion pack for the game is updating tomorrow; he'd been waiting for it for ages.

This was the simple and unpretentious college life he had been looking forward to.

If those He family members go to the school and cause trouble tomorrow...

Lin Ye's brows furrowed into a knot.

If you're in the middle of a raid and a bunch of guys in black suits suddenly burst in shouting and smashing your Alienware computer, who can you complain to?

"The worst thing for working people is having their plans disrupted." Lin Ye rubbed his neck, his joints cracking. "These flies are so annoying. I need to find a super-powerful insecticide to solve this once and for all."

He pulled out the secondhand Android phone with its screen shattered into a spiderweb pattern from his pocket.

With fingers flying across the keyboard, a string of gibberish was expertly typed in.

The phone's home screen went black instantly, followed by a webpage with a pure black background and a blood-red skull icon.

The dark web.

Lin Ye typed with one hand, entering "Jiangcheng, He Family of Ancient Martial Arts" into the search box.

The progress bar flashed once.

It took less than three seconds.

All the details of the He family's activities in Jiangcheng, along with their various assets, were thoroughly exposed.

"Heaven and Earth Club, underground boxing gym, private casino in the south of the city..." Lin Ye scrolled through the screen, looking at the dense red coordinate dots on the map.

"So many venues? It seems the He family has been squeezing a lot of hard-earned money from ordinary people."

These people are used to bullying others, and they probably support their gang of thugs who only know how to bully the weak by relying on these shady businesses.

Just then, a familiar mechanical voice echoed in my mind.

[Ding! Strong host desire detected, triggering part-time task generation!]

Huh?

This can actually trigger a system task?

"In the middle of the night..." Lin Ye stuffed his phone back into his pocket, a wild smile spreading across his face. "Just consider it working overtime and going to take down this fly nest."

[System Task Generated: City Cleaners (Self-Defense Counterattack)]

[Mission Requirements: Completely destroy the He family's underground gray industries in Jiangcheng, eliminate potential threats, and ensure that the host's university life remains undisturbed.]

[Mission Reward: Campus Immunity Privilege (Advance Payment) – Any reasonable act of self-defense during university will be handled by the system, exempting you from all secular legal consequences!]

Lin Ye stared at the virtual panel, his eyes lighting up instantly.

"Privilege to escape liability?"

This thing is so useful.

Jiangcheng College of Arts and Sciences is a comprehensive university; with such a large campus, you'll find all sorts of people.

What if you're playing a raid in your dorm and at a crucial moment, a clueless roommate or a bully comes and unplugs your internet cable?

If you slap someone and send them to the ICU, you'll be expelled from school and might even face legal trouble.

With this privilege, things will be different.

As long as it's a legitimate defense, the system will cover everything!

This is practically a magic trick tailor-made for ordinary college students like him who just want to get a diploma.

"I've accepted it." Lin Ye pressed the confirmation button on the panel without hesitation.

The moment I accepted the mission.

The "ordinary college student" who felt heartbroken over a seventy-yuan T-shirt and worried about grabbing a lower bunk by the window has disappeared.

In its place is Shura, the king of mercenaries who tops the dark web bounty list and strikes fear into the hearts of warlords on the Middle Eastern battlefield.

He raised his wrist and glanced at the digital watch.

Midnight.

"It's still early. I can finish my work and get a good night's sleep so I won't miss picking up my dorm key at eight o'clock tomorrow morning."

Lin Ye stuffed his phone into the pocket of his shorts.

Instead of turning around and going upstairs, he walked towards the gate of Xingfuli Community, wearing flip-flops and with his hands in his pockets.

Old Zhang had just finished cleaning his stall when he looked up and realized that the troublemaker from before hadn't gone upstairs; instead, he had gone out.

He opened his mouth as if to shout, but in the end he obediently kept his mouth shut.

It's best for ordinary people like him to avoid asking about this man's affairs.

Outside the residential area.

Inside the National Security Bureau command vehicle, disguised as a van.

Having just survived a major "clean-up operation," Agent Xiao Wang was slumped in his chair, gulping down bottled water.

"Oh my god, it's finally over." Xiao Wang wiped the water from his mouth, still shaken. "Captain, I feel like I've lost at least five years of my life tonight. From now on, can we let Team Two do the work of cleaning up Mr. Lin's messes?"

The eagle ignored him, holding a thermos and staring at the surveillance footage on the main screen.

In the video, Lin Ye exits the gate of the residential complex and walks slowly along the roadside.

"Something's not right." Eagle put down his thermos and frowned.

"What's wrong, Captain?" Xiao Wang came over. "Mr. Lin might have eaten too much. He should take a walk to digest."

"Stop wandering around!" Eagle slapped Little Wang on the back of the head. "Find out right now, where is he going in this direction!"