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

The fawning yet terrified expression on Bloodhand's face froze instantly, and a bloody hole slowly widened in the center of his brow.

He fell straight backward, never understanding until his death why anyone would refuse an easily attainable underground kingdom.

[Ding! High-value target has been eliminated; $100,000 reward has been credited to your system account.]

Lin Ye blew away the gunpowder smoke from the muzzle, feeling satisfied.

This trip was a huge success!

But the smile on his face didn't last two seconds.

Woo-woo-woo!

A sharp alarm, loud enough to echo throughout the entire underground base, suddenly sounded without warning!

On the wall, rows of red warning lights flashed wildly, turning the entire space a blood red.

A cold, emotionless, mechanical synthesized voice resounded throughout every corner via the radio.

[The base's self-destruct mechanism has been initiated!]

[Repeated, base self-destruct sequence has been initiated!]

[Explosion countdown... 30 seconds!]

The red alarm lights on the wall flashed wildly, casting a blood-red glow on Lin Ye's expressionless face.

Any normal person would probably be scrambling to escape for their life right now.

But Lin Ye did not.

He simply raised his wrist, glanced at the thirty-yuan digital watch, and muttered an impatiently.

"Thirty seconds? Why the rush? They don't even give us time to count the spoils. Even the worst factories don't exploit their employees like this."

He kicked away the still-warm corpse with bloody hands at his feet with disdain, as if it were not a once-powerful terrorist leader, but a bag of trash blocking his way.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Ye's gaze fell on the half-open vault door made of heavy steel plates next to him.

His eyes lit up instantly.

[Explosion countdown... 20 seconds!]

Without any further hesitation, Lin Ye rushed forward, raised his foot, and slammed his right foot, clad in flip-flops, heavily against the vault door.

boom!

With a loud bang, the entire door was kicked inward and flew into the wall, making a deafening roar.

The sight behind the door made Lin Ye's breath catch in his throat for half a second.

The stacks of green US dollars, neatly arranged, resembled a small mountain.

Rows of gleaming gold bars were carelessly piled in a corner, reflecting a blinding light.

Various perfectly cut diamonds, rubies, and sapphires are displayed in open velvet boxes, creating a dazzling display of colors.

"I'm rich! This overtime was totally worth it!"

Lin Ye's Adam's apple bobbed up and down. He immediately ripped off the red, white, and blue snakeskin bag from his back, unzipped it, and moved so roughly that it looked like he was going to tear the bag apart.

[Explosion countdown...15 seconds!]

He knelt down, threw himself into the pile of banknotes, and spread his arms like a human bulldozer, frantically shoveling bundles of US dollars and jewelry into the snakeskin bag.

His movements lacked any grace, yet they were filled with the primal, pure joy of a migrant worker's harvest.

"Mine! Mine! All mine!"

He stuffed the bag into it while muttering to himself, revealing his greedy nature.

[Explosion countdown... 10 seconds!]

The burlap sack was filled rapidly at a visible speed, becoming bulging and incredibly heavy.

Lin Ye stood up, feeling it wasn't enough.

His gaze swept quickly around the room, finally settling on Bloodhand's huge mahogany desk.

On the corner of the table sat an ashtray made of pure gold and inlaid with diamonds.

"Every grain must be harvested and stored properly, leaving no waste!"

Lin Ye rushed over, grabbed the heavy gold ashtray, and stuffed it into the gap of the snakeskin bag without even looking at it.

After doing all this, he finally zipped up the snakeskin bag with satisfaction.

[Explosion countdown... five seconds!]

Lin Ye casually hoisted the snakeskin bag, which weighed at least several hundred pounds, onto his shoulder as if it contained not gold bars and diamonds, but a bag of cotton.

He didn't choose to return the way he came because it would be too slow.

He turned his head sharply, his gaze locking onto the huge floor-to-ceiling bulletproof glass on the side of the office.

[Four seconds!]

Lin Ye's leg muscles tensed instantly, and he shot towards the glass like an arrow released from a bow!

[Three seconds!]

He carried a heavy snakeskin bag on his shoulder, looking like a raging humanoid rhinoceros.

Two seconds!

Crash—!!!

The special bulletproof glass, which was strong enough to withstand heavy machine gun fire, was as thin as paper in the face of Lin Ye's terrifying impact. It was instantly covered with spider web-like cracks and then exploded with a bang!

[One second!]

Lin Ye, carrying a snakeskin bag, leaped from the top-floor office, which was more than ten meters high, his body drawing a graceful parabola in mid-air.

【zero!】

At the very moment his body leaped out of the building.

boom--!!!

A terrifyingly loud bang, loud enough to tear eardrums, came from behind him.

The entire stronghold of the "Fang" organization, the chemical plant that stood like an iron fortress in the desert, was completely ignited from the foundation by a series of violent explosions.

A huge mushroom cloud, filled with black smoke and steel fragments, rose into the sky, illuminating the night sky for several kilometers around as bright as day.

A violent shockwave swept in, and the heat even made Lin Ye's back feel hot.

Lin Ye was in mid-air, but he didn't even bother to turn his head.

Just before landing, he adjusted his posture, landed firmly on both feet, and then did a forward roll to perfectly dissipate the enormous impact on his body.

He stood up, patted the dust off his shorts, and straightened the slightly crooked pink children's helmet on his head.

He looked at the ruins in the distance, now engulfed in flames, and nodded in satisfaction.

"That's it for the day, time to go home."

Just then, that familiar mechanical voice rang out in his mind right on time.

【Ding! 】

[Congratulations, host! You have perfectly completed the S-rank timed bounty mission within the specified time limit: Eliminate the 'Fang' organization's stronghold!]

[Task settlement in progress...]

[The mission reward of one million US dollars has been automatically transferred to the host's linked Swiss offshore bank account!]

[System bonus rewards have been settled!]

[Congratulations, host, you have obtained a divine reward: Advanced Martial Arts!]

[Note: This is a passive skill. It has instilled all the fighting techniques, killing methods, and top-level muscle memory from all schools of human history into the host's body.]

A massive flow of information, larger than ever before, instantly flooded Lin Ye's brain.

Boxing, Muay Thai, Karate, Jiu-Jitsu, Bajiquan, Wing Chun...

The essence of thousands of martial arts techniques and the experience of countless life-and-death battles seemed to have become his innate instincts at this moment.

He felt his body had transformed into a perfectly crafted, humanoid weapon.

Standing on the wilderness, Lin Ye felt the new power surging through his body. He then thought about the extra string of zeros in his bank account and a genuine, simple smile appeared on his face.

What he failed to discover was...

Behind a sand dune a few kilometers away, Su Qingqing was holding up military binoculars, taking in everything that had just happened, from him tearing apart the bulletproof glass to the explosion of the base behind him.

Her hand, which was holding the binoculars, was trembling violently and uncontrollably.

Her mouth was wide open, and her delicate face was blank and expressionless.