Wisps of black energy emanated from her fingertips, floating above the flying device and forming tiny red fluorescent lights.

It's like sparks dotting the blade.

The twelve flying instruments lit up with red blade dots one by one. Even though Jin You's consciousness was already fading, her fighting instincts still made her aim at the enemy and thrust forward.

With arms outstretched, the twelve flying objects roamed like dragons.

The enemy grinned and charged forward without dodging or avoiding.

Unexpectedly, he was stabbed by a flying blade midway through, and all his movements froze on the spot. He fell to the ground by inertia.

Lu Gui tried to steady himself, but the resentment in his body suddenly became uncontrollable, as if it had been firmly sealed by something.

As soon as he uttered the curse, the other flying devices fell one after another, piercing between the twelve internal joints of his arms and legs.

When the enemy tried to get up again, his joints cracked and sputtered, his movements restricted by the flying blades, leaving him extremely stiff.

Then, the gray-haired girl's spirit could no longer withstand the onslaught of the two wisps of resentment. She swayed her upper body in a daze and then suddenly fell to the ground.

In the eyes of the Fire Lotus Gang members, the two powerful figures who had just been showing off their skills were now one half-paralyzed and the other completely unconscious.

Two seconds later, Lu Gui of the Living Kill Hall forcibly supported his body with his spiritual form, and crawled forward half a step like an insect by holding one hand.

He slowly approached, roared, grabbed Mi Jian's second form heavy fist, and smashed it down on the gray-haired girl who had fallen unconscious.

call out--

A spearhead flew through the air from the side, knocking away the already weakened punch.

The doctor quickly approached and carried the unconscious Jin You away, immediately examining her physical condition.

Then, the leader of the Fire Lotus Gang swallowed a pill, channeled his energy, and slashed the neck of the fallen enemy, cutting a gash three or four centimeters deep.

Another blow severed his head, deepening the injury.

"Damn it!" Lu Gui injected the muscle-activating liquid, but even so, it only made his muscles swell. His joints were already sealed by the flying device, so he could not fight back.

With each subsequent strike, half of the head was severed.

"Wait! Let's talk this out, I have money!" Just as he was about to call out to buy his life, another sharp blade fell down, severing his trachea and turning his voice into a series of strange, breathy sounds.

"..." The array master on the side also came closer: "Why don't you listen to it first?"

"I won't listen." Shi Liu raised her broadsword high again and slashed downwards.

He repeated the slashes over and over again, until he finally severed the spine and decapitated the head.

He kicked open the skull, leaving a headless corpse lying motionless on the spot.

After death, the corpse no longer possessed the same strong defensive capabilities as before. After a few more slashes with the longsword, the black stone between its chest and abdomen was revealed.

Afterwards, the doctor who was taking care of Jin You manipulated another spider-like machine to retrieve the Oni Stone, while the swordsman returned to the airship to retrieve the storage box that had been prepared in advance for storage.

Once everything was ready, people approached Ima Yu, who was receiving emergency treatment, and asked the doctor:

How is she?

"She's overused mentally, and her body has suffered some damage, but it's not fatal... That peculiar energy is keeping her condition from deteriorating further." The doctor gave her a few standard medications, cleaned her exposed wounds, and then stopped moving around.

"It's good that you're alright. Although I don't know how she did it, she saved us." The team leader breathed a sigh of relief: "Take good care of her."

Having said that, he ordered the troops to retreat.

……

When Jin You woke up, it was already evening, two hours later.

She lay in the rented life support room, with many fine needles inserted into her body, transmitting a certain amount of spiritual light to activate acupoints.

The throbbing in my head subsided somewhat, and the anger dissipated after I woke up.

Opening my eyes, I saw the doctor with a very good physique standing beside me.

The other person was now wearing a light blue long coat, no longer the tight-fitting outfit they wore during missions, and their hair was half tied up, making them look more like a doctor.

"Awake? How do you feel?"

"My head hurts..." That's what Jin You is feeling right now.

"Take it easy."

Xi Heng appeared beside her, sat on the edge of the hospital bed, swung his legs, and hummed a soft melody.

"What song is this..." Jin You asked in his heart.

"I won't tell you," she said with a faint smile.

"Tch." The gray-haired girl on the hospital bed pouted, bringing her mind back to reality, and asked the doctor next to her:

"Is the mission complete? Where is the others?"

"The mission went smoothly. Ghost Stone can also be transformed into a scourge. Pomegranate and the others are busy with this. They will be heading to the company's base soon."

"As expected." Jin You knew the temperament of the Fire Lotus Gang members and nodded, but still asked:

Why did you have to bomb the company?

“Because we are not domesticated livestock that have long been tamed and can only passively endure oppression and enslavement,” the doctor said calmly.

"..." Jin You remained silent for a moment.

The other party changed the subject: "Back then, you were able to spontaneously increase your Yin value and greatly enhance your combat power because you had also cultivated the Way of Resentment?"

The gray-haired girl remained silent for a moment, then looked at the white-haired, eerie woman sitting by the bed, and said only, "I...I don't know either."

Xi Heng hummed a gentle tune from Earth as he gazed at the city outside through the window of the life support room.

She could feel the resentment creeping into Jin You's mind.

My control over this body is gradually increasing.

……

Volume 1: Chapter 271, The Devil's Rot and Filth

into the night.

In the rented life support medical room, Jin You lay quietly on the bed, waiting for the headache in her head to subside.

The needles that had been stuck in her body had been removed. Afterwards, the doctor left her some calming pills and said that he still had a mission in the Fire Lotus Gang and had already left.

Jin You slowly recovered from her mental confusion and headache, and saw that there was a flash of spiritual light on the surface of her left arm spirit body, and several beeping message notification sounds came from it.

So he raised his hand and tapped the collarbone to bring up his personal profile.

Tap the notification and you'll find it's a reminder that interest on your outstanding balance is about to increase.

“I owe eight thousand two hundred…” the girl murmured.

She only has a little over two thousand yuan left. The rewards for the two missions she completed haven't been paid yet, and she hasn't been able to exchange the spirit body crystal cores in her waist pocket for money, so she can't pay back the money for the time being.

After letting out a soft sigh, Jin You recalled what happened before she fell into a coma.

Then, he remembered that he had defeated the leader of the Living Kill Hall, but he had failed to take the fifth-order spirit body crystal core from the other party because he had fainted halfway through.

Anything of the fifth rank is very expensive; even a single spirit crystal from a spirit body, rather than the whole body, can be worth over ten thousand.

"Money," Jin You murmured, gazing at the pure, pale blue ceiling.

"Why are you always short of money?" Xi Heng's voice came from behind him. He looked away from the array book that had materialized in his hand and back at the pale-faced girl on the hospital bed.

"Without a stable income and a stable job, and without any money-making opportunities, of course you'll be short of money... That's how most people are," the other person said expressionlessly.

"Why not get a job?"

"Is it possible to find a job just by looking for one?" Jin You asked rhetorically. "Companies deliberately create a lot of unemployed people and job quotas in order to oppress their own low-level employees. Even graduates from top educational institutions have to compete for a job, and many can't even get one... Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many skilled people in the major gangs."

"I see." Xi Heng asked, puzzled, "Then how do ordinary people in the city support themselves?"

"Why bother supporting them? They can just stay at the fertility company until the young people come out and die. There are plenty of people, we can replace them with another batch after they die." Jin You silently took out his ironwood cigarette case from his chest, took out a cigarette and put it to his lips.

Then, feeling a tightness and pain in his chest, he put the tobacco back.

"People here are like...products produced on an assembly line," she said softly.

"A fixed fate, a fixed soul, as unshakable as the tree in the city."

"..." After hearing this, Xi Heng turned his gaze to the city outside the window.

This rented medical facility is very close to the Mukden district in the city. The room is located in the middle of a high-rise building, and through the window you can clearly see the clusters of gleaming skyscrapers of the inner city.

The advertisement is composed of abundant light, and the projected 3D advertisement is even more dazzling.

Further behind, a giant tree stretched straight to the sky, casting a soft, beautiful golden glow in the night.

From her perspective, the city view was quite nice.

As someone who was once a modern person, she also felt that the city was more beautiful than the palaces and buildings of ancient times.

But this world is so twisted. Technology has developed to such an extent, yet people's lives have become worse than in those ancient worlds.

It can't even compare to the Great Zhao, let alone the peaceful Pure Fire Realm in the mortal world.

"Why is that..."

"What else could it be?" Jin You said, looking at the ceiling.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the blue door of the nursing room.

Knock knock,

The gray-haired girl froze for a moment, then whispered, "Could it be that the company has sent someone because they detected my inappropriate remarks?"

Xi Heng glanced outside with his spiritual sense, ignored her, and continued to look out the window.

Jin You realized there was no danger, breathed a sigh of relief, and told the person outside to come in.

The door slowly opened, and a woman with loose red hair and a mask covering her face walked in.

She wore a loose gray robe, looking quite mysterious.

However, Jin You recognized the other party at a glance; it was Hong Yang, the Fire Lotus Gang member who had initially communicated with her.

She received her 20,000-yuan commission from the other party.

"Don't worry, the array master had already tested the Spirit Eye once when this treatment room was chosen." Her voice was calm.

"Oh, you're here to deliver the payment?" This was what Jin You was most concerned about right now.

"You could say that." Huo Lian helped Hong Yang raise his hand and handed it over, a thread of spiritual light shining through from three meters away.

When the silk thread touched Jin You's prosthetic limb, a message appeared on her personal interface—she had received 20,000 yuan.

Upon seeing this message, the girl immediately relaxed, clicked a few times to pay off the debt to the organ company, and redeemed ownership of her heart and liver.

A few seconds later, he looked at the newcomer again and asked:

"It's just paying money, why did you come in person? Does a gang leader like you need to personally visit a nobody like me?"

The other person chuckled, still speaking calmly, "On your first day as a bounty hunter, your very first mission wiped out the notorious Living Kill Gang. You're no nobody now; news of you is everywhere in the outer city."

Jin You blinked and made a slight correction.

"Actually, it's the next day... Besides, is it really that fast?"

"The word 'first' is what really catches the eye, and there are plenty of guys and small companies in Xiping City who make money by chasing trends. Interesting news can spread throughout the entire city in less than half an hour under their management." Hongyang said, sitting on the chair beside the bed.

"You can try posting a video on the wide area network. I believe that within ten minutes, your inbox will be filled with live streaming contracts and advertising companies."

"Live stream?" The gray-haired girl twitched her lips, completely unable to imagine what it would be like to be a live streamer.

"Live streaming can make a lot of money, but once the hype dies down in two or three days, the opportunity will be gone."

"No way." Jin You shook his head.

Xi Heng's illusory figure appeared beside her and suddenly said, "This should also be considered a job? And it seems to be quite lucrative."

The other party glanced at it:

"Most of the contracts signed for live streaming are essentially servitude contracts. There are a bunch of rules and regulations, and if you're not careful, you can break the contract. The penalty for breach of contract is so high that even if I sold myself, I couldn't afford to pay it... A bunch of live streaming companies and guilds rely on the penalty for breach of contract to make money."

"I see." The white-haired girl said thoughtfully.

Jin You turned her head to look over, but Xi Heng's figure had already disappeared.

Seeing her like this, Hongyang hesitated for a moment before asking, "Are you feeling alright?"

“Of course, no problem,” Jin You replied.

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