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

Inside the Iveco communications vehicle, 200 meters away.

Agent Xiao Wang gripped the edge of the keyboard tightly with both hands.

He stared at the few high-energy reaction points that had instantly gone out on the radar screen, his voice trembling uncontrollably.

"Team leader, captain..."

The eagle had just brought the thermos to its lips when it heard this and stopped.

"What happened? Did Lei Zhentian unleash a powerful attack?"

"N-nothing." Xiao Wang swallowed hard. "Five Grandmasters of Internal Energy...all dead!"

"It only took ten seconds!" Xiao Wang pointed at the screen, slapping his thigh in frustration. "Mr. Lin didn't even finish warming up before wiping out the entire Jiangcheng Martial Arts Association's top brass! Lei Zhentian's protective inner energy was shattered by Mr. Lin's shoulder strike!"

The eagle snatched the mouse and brought up the on-site surveillance footage.

Seeing the old man groaning on the ground, the eagle gasped.

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At the entrance of the residential compound.

A gentle morning breeze swept by, stirring up a few fallen leaves on the ground.

Lei Zhentian, supporting himself against the wall of the security booth, struggled to his feet.

He felt as if his internal organs were shifting, and every breath was accompanied by excruciating, tearing pain.

Lei Zhentian looked up at the scene before him, his face filled with terror.

All five vice presidents he brought with him were seriously injured and collapsed to the ground; not one of them could even stand up.

The young man carrying the snakeskin bag was brushing the dust off his trousers, his hair perfectly neat.

What kind of monster is this?!

He's at the mid-stage of the Transformation Realm!

A force to be reckoned with in Jiangcheng!

Today, I was actually defeated instantly by a mere twenty-something kid using the most ordinary wild punches and whip kicks?!

Lin Ye raised his wrist and glanced at his watch.

He walked over to the huge snakeskin bag, picked it up with one hand, and slung it over his shoulder.

Then, Lin Ye walked step by step to Lei Zhentian.

Lei Zhentian was so frightened that he retreated repeatedly, his back pressed firmly against the wall, with nowhere left to go.

"You... what do you want to do?" Lei Zhentian's voice trembled as he shouted, his bravado masking his fear. "I'm warning you, I'm the president of the Martial Arts Association! If you dare touch me, the entire martial arts world of China will not let you get away with this!"

Lin Ye sighed in extreme frustration.

"Who has time to bother you?"

Lin Ye pointed to the watch on his wrist.

"It wasted so much of my time, and I missed the bus. Now I have to take a taxi."

"Hurry up and settle your taxi fare, or I'll have to reach into your pocket."

"How much money do you... how much do you want?" Lei Zhentian's teeth chattered as he reached into the inner pocket of his oversized training clothes and pulled out a brand-new iPhone.

A wise man doesn't suffer a loss he can avoid.

This kid's physical body is so strange that even the combined strength of five masters couldn't break through his defenses.

For now, we can only pay to avoid further trouble and go back first.

Lin Ye's expression softened slightly when he saw that the other party was willing to pay the bill.

He put the snakeskin bag on his shoulder at his feet and began to seriously calculate the accounts on his fingers.

"Taking a taxi from here to school will cost about 35 yuan, including the starting fare and the distance traveled."

Lei Zhentian was stunned when he heard this as soon as he opened the transfer interface.

Thirty-five yuan?

After beating six masters of internal energy to a pulp, this kid only wanted thirty-five yuan.

Lei Zhentian felt his intelligence had been insulted, but he dared not show it.

"Okay, I'll transfer you 100." Lei Zhentian tapped the screen a few times with his finger.

Lin Ye frowned and raised his hand to interrupt him.

"Wait, I haven't finished settling my score yet."

Lin Ye pointed to the watch.

"You guys came to block the door so early in the morning, making me miss the first bus. It wasted a full twenty minutes of my time."

"And the aura you guys had just created seriously interfered with my phone signal, which resulted in me only getting one cent in my first red envelope."

The more Lin Ye calculated, the more he felt he was losing out, and his tone became extremely displeased.

"The most crucial thing is that I was originally supposed to be the first in line to get my dorm key and choose a lower bunk by the window. Now that you guys have delayed me, I don't know if I'll be able to get a good dorm!"

"Do you know how troublesome it is to be assigned to the top bunk? Climbing up and down every day, there aren't enough power outlets, and you have to be careful not to let the dorm supervisor check your rooms when you play games at night."

Lin Ye stared at Lei Zhentian and gave his final offer in a very serious manner.

"The taxi fare was 35 yuan, plus lost wages, losses from grabbing red envelopes, and mental anguish damages that affected my sleep quality during my four years of university."

"Transfer 20 million to me."

Lei Zhentian's hand holding the phone trembled violently, and he almost dropped it on the ground.

A taxi fare of 35 yuan was somehow calculated into 20 million yuan in lost wages.

Why the hell don't you just rob someone?!

Lei Zhentian's chest heaved violently, and the blood and qi that had been suppressed surged up again.

"You...you!" Lei Zhentian's face flushed red as he pointed at Lin Ye and cursed, "You beat us up like this! And you still want twenty million from us?!"

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Two hundred meters away.

Inside the communications vehicle disguised as an Iveco van.

Agent Xiao Wang looked at the monitor screen and gasped.

"Captain, Mr. Lin's pricing standards are so outrageous, even the Price Bureau would be crying." Xiao Wang's fingers tapped on the keyboard. "A fare of thirty-five yuan costs twenty million? This inflation is just too severe."

"You don't know anything." Eagle rolled his eyes and said slowly, "Mr. Lin is giving them a chance. In the Middle East, anyone who dared to delay Mr. Lin from getting off work is already two meters old with grass growing on their grave. Twenty million for the lives of six Grandmasters of Internal Energy is practically a steal."

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At the entrance of the residential compound.

Lin Ye sighed, looking extremely helpless.

"I've always been fair in business, treating everyone honestly, young and old. Is 20 million a lot for your lifelong security?"

Lei Zhentian's defenses were completely breached.

He finally understood that this kid had no intention of letting him go.

Taxi fare, compensation for emotional distress—these are all just excuses!

This kid is blatantly humiliating him!

If he, the president of the Jiangcheng Martial Arts Association, really transferred 20 million today, how would he maintain his standing in the martial arts world?

"You little beast! You forced me to do this!"

Lei Zhentian let out a roar that sounded inhuman.

He suddenly bit his tongue, and a mouthful of scarlet blood sprayed into the air.

Immediately afterwards, Lei Zhentian quickly pressed several acupoints on his chest with both hands.

The forbidden secret technique of the Jiangcheng Martial Arts Association: the Blood Burning Technique!

This technique, by burning one's heart's blood and overdrawing one's life force, can forcibly elevate one's skill to a higher level in a short period of time.

The price was that his meridians were completely severed afterward, rendering him a cripple.

But at this point, Lei Zhentian couldn't care less about anything else.

He had to kill this young man in front of him!

The cracking and popping sounds of bones coming from inside Lei Zhentian's body.

His originally emaciated body swelled up at a visible speed, and the wide silk training clothes were stretched to pieces.

Muscles as hard as rocks bulged high, covered with twisting blue veins like earthworms.

Lei Zhentian's eyes turned bloodshot, and he lost all reason, like a mad beast.

An extremely violent shockwave swept outwards from him.

The outer wall of the security booth, which already had a shallow crater, collapsed more than halfway under the impact of this blast wave, with bricks falling all over the ground.