Qing Chen seemed to be deep in thought. In fact, the world's evaluation of knights was not the knight's evaluation of himself.
The knights' beliefs gradually converged on the road to life and death, but their personalities became increasingly diverse.
In fact, the only thing the knights have in common in terms of personality is their authenticity and sincerity.
Now, Qingchen himself is also using this standard to view those challengers in the academy.
What he liked most about Chen Zhuoqu was that as soon as she completed the task, she would immediately ask Xiao Qi for the reward, without delaying for even a minute.
Do whatever you want, let your mind be clear.
Regardless of how others see her, that is the real Chen Zhuoqu.
Only someone as simple and pure as Chen Zhuoqu can go further on this path.
If she clearly wants double the reward but doesn't dare to say it herself, she will never be able to live with herself.
Because she even deceives herself, and never does so at the cost of hurting others.
Hu Jingyi has experienced so many failures in his life, yet he still loves this world and his own life. If this is not sincerity, then what is?
Qin Sheng sighed, "When that kid Li Shutong told us before that you would lead the Knights into a new era, I was just skeptical. Now it seems that I underestimated you."
However, while Qin Sheng and the others finished asking their questions, Qing Chen did not.
He sat in front of Qin Sheng's tombstone and asked curiously, "Speaking of which, when a new knight comes here to visit the senior figures, there should be forbidden items as gifts, right?"
The forbidden area number 002 suddenly fell silent again.
For some reason, everyone has been unusually silent since Qingchen arrived.
Qingchen counted on his fingers: "My master, Li Shutong, prepared gifts for Jinguji Maki and Li Ke. They were the 'Forbidden ACE-049 Amulet' that he obtained from the Forbidden Tribunal after killing the witness with the forbidden ACE-, and the 'Forbidden ACE-119 Tissue Box.' He still owes Hu Xiaoniu one, saying he'll give it to him later. What about you guys? What are you going to give them?"
Qingchen even suspected that Li Shutong was currently in the north, busy seizing...forbidden items for himself.
At this moment, an old man said weakly, "Your challengers haven't become knights yet, have they? They'll become knights when they do... right?"
The old guys are starting to panic!
Qing Chen confirmed, "So, once they become knights, there will be forbidden items as a greeting gift, right?"
"Oh, this!"
"That person doesn't represent all of us!"
"There's no need for each person to have one..."
Qing Chen raised an eyebrow: "A knight doesn't even have a single forbidden item. If word gets out, people will think our knightly organization is poor. Everyone must have a forbidden item, one for each person!"
Qin Sheng sighed and said, "Just focus on training them. I'll do my best to find forbidden items for you... Right now, Forbidden Land No. 002 doesn't have that many forbidden items to give you."
Qing Chen asked curiously, "Over the past few hundred years, so many explorers have died in Forbidden Land 002. You must have a lot of treasures hidden there. Where are they all hidden? Let me look for them... What about the forbidden items that you extracted yourself?"
Qin Sheng: "?"
What the hell? The forbidden substances we extracted ourselves, haven't we just given them away generation after generation?!
"Don't do anything reckless. When it's time to give it to you, we will naturally give it to you!" an old man said.
Qin Sheng said, "Here's what we'll do. Right now, there are only two people who truly care: Li Ke and Jinguji Maki. They already have their forbidden items. I'll give you one more now, and you can give it to Hu Xiaoniu. As for the rest... we'll think of a way."
The old folks suddenly felt a bit stifled.
They had dominated the Forbidden Land No. 002 for hundreds of years, yet one day they found themselves penniless. They couldn't bear this humiliation!
"Gudong, countless people have been killed in these forbidden places. There must be explorers who brought forbidden items in. You must quickly organize your people to conduct a thorough search and find all the strange and unusual human relics for us. We will pick out the forbidden items from them."
Gu Dong scratched his head: "There aren't that many forbidden things in the forbidden land, are there?"
"Then go and conquer a few more forbidden lands!"
Gudu said, "Okay, I'll set off tomorrow..."
Qing Chen smiled; this was the result he wanted.
The Daylight Organization and the Knights Organization want to change the world. How can the old guys stay comfortably in the forbidden land? We need to all get involved!
Qin Sheng asked, "What are your plans next?"
Qing Chen thought for a moment and replied, "I'll stay here with Ding Dong for a while, and then go to City 10 to kill someone."
...
...
Within City 10.
Eight young men hid in an alley in the fourth district. One of them glanced at his watch and said, "Why hasn't that old bastard come out yet? It's been two hours. A date with a mistress shouldn't take this long. I thought the task of tracking him and keeping track of his whereabouts would be easy, but it's such a waste of time. Hey, Li Chao, why don't you go and beg Sun Chuci again? We're just buying fruit anyway, why not make some money?"
“I’m not going,” Li Chao, who used to be in Sun Chuci’s team, said with his head down. “If I had gone to the Agricultural Academy with him back then, I might not have had to work so hard on the missions.”
“What are you thinking?” a new friend said with a laugh. “Even if they go to the Agricultural College, they won’t get much benefit. How could the college allow them to enjoy such precious things in private? Don’t think too much about it. Once this mission is completed, we’ll go to the ‘Tonight, Who Doesn’t Get Drunk Is a Dog’ bar to celebrate.”
Li Chao thought for a moment and said, "Okay, one of the dancers there is very pretty."
"Haha, it'll cost you a lot of money to pick up those dancers there," the new friend muttered.
Just then, in the dirty, garbage-strewn alley, someone suddenly said, "Did you guys feel... those two little mice in the corner seem to be sizing us up?"
"Aren't the rats in this fourth district afraid of people?" Someone picked up a beer can from the ground and threw it, but the two little rats just dodged it for a moment and then continued to look at them without any fear.
“That’s strange,” Li Chao said.
For some reason, he had a very uncomfortable feeling. The two little mice didn't seem to be just curious... rather, they seemed to be scrutinizing their prey.
One of the girls said, "A few days ago, when I was doing a school quest, I went to the Lower Three Districts and found that it was much better than where we live. It was clean and hygienic, and the security seemed pretty good too. Why don't we move there?"
The new friend laughed and said, "How could that be? The lower three districts are notoriously dirty and chaotic."
Li Chao interrupted, "Stop talking now. I feel something's not right. The target we've been following has been up there for too long. Either something happened to them, or they've discovered us. What should we do? Shall we go upstairs and take a look?"
The new friends shook their heads: "Our mission is to follow them, don't take such risks."
Li Chao frowned. In the past, Sun Chuci would probably have taken the initiative to assume the responsibility of the team leader by this time, and Sun Chuci would have been the one to do the dangerous tasks.
Things are different now; nobody is willing to step forward anymore.
Li Chao sighed and said, "You all wait here, I'll go take a look."
He took the elevator to the 10th floor and quietly walked towards room 1023. However, he noticed something was wrong as soon as he reached the door: fresh blood was slowly flowing out of the room.
Li Chao kicked the door open and saw the gang leader and his mistress lying in a pool of blood, with three palm-sized rats on their bodies. They suddenly looked up at him.
There was no fear in the eyes of those rats. Just like before, Li Chao was being scrutinized by them as if he were prey!
Li Chao slowly retreated, but the rat did not attack him. Instead, it turned and scurried into the dark cracks of the room, disappearing without a trace.
Chapter 669, Bloodline Suppression
Return countdown: 144:00:00.
Midnight.
"Li Hao, come up here quickly! The gang leader we were tracking has been killed by a few rats!" Li Chao said urgently on the phone. "Those rats looked fierce, with bloodshot eyes, but they were probably afraid of people. They ran away when they saw me."
As he spoke, Li Chao slowly peeked into the room. The central air conditioning vent on the ceiling was dilapidated, and the rats must have entered the apartment through there.
"Are you kidding me? A rat killed the gang leader?" Li Hao replied on the other end of the phone, "What kind of rat is so bold? Stop joking around, come downstairs, let's go to the bar for a drink."
This Li Hao is Li Chao and his friends' new friend after leaving Sun Chuci. He is a rich young man from the outer world who usually makes a living by talking about transporting gold bars. He lives a fairly comfortable life in the inner world.
“I’m not kidding, we must stay away from rats,” Li Chao said. “I’ll leave here first, and we’ll talk when we meet.”
"You're such a coward, they're just rats," Li Hao glanced at the two rats in the alley, walked over nonchalantly, and kicked them, trying to scare them away.
It can undergo sudden and unexpected changes.
Li Hao failed to kick either of the rats, but they crawled up his calf.
Their purpose was extremely clear: they wanted to bite off his carotid artery!
"Holy crap!" Li Hao kept slapping his body, and it was only when the other people rushed over that he was saved and they slapped the rat to the ground.
The group looked on in shock, only to see that the two rats had not left, but were staring intently at them all, making squeaking noises.
Just then, a voice came from outside the alley: "Mistress, how does it feel to become a member of the Golden Family?"
"Hehe, of course it's incredibly awesome! I heard from the Black family that the elders have allowed me to come to the island to cultivate," a voice boasted. "What an honor that is!"
"Holy crap, is this for real? Your parents are calling you to the island? Xiaoqi and the others are in the first batch, and you're in the second?"
“That’s right, there are 48 people in the second batch,” Xiao San said with a smile. “Although we weren’t selected for the first batch like Xiao Qi, it’s still pretty good that we were able to get on the island.”
"Isn't that obvious? They're with their parents!"
Looking at the neon lights of the city, Xiao San exclaimed, "The Fourth District is so lively at night, it seems even more prosperous than City 18."
Someone laughed and said, "The House of Representatives and the Senate of the Federation are all here, and there are probably hundreds of administrative agencies of all sizes. If you go out now and throw a punch at anyone, you might hit a member of Congress. Moreover, this is the place with the most celebrities in the entire Federation. All the top-tier and super-top-tier celebrities are here."
“In City 10, dozens of banquets are held simultaneously every night. Those important figures live a life of debauchery. If this place is not prosperous, then the Federation has no prosperous place.”
Someone else said, "Xiao San, you just came back from City 22. Today, the brothers chipped in and brought you to the biggest venue in District 4 to broaden your horizons. Lao Luo said in an internal email that you and Xiao Qi did a great job this time, and the parents have agreed to grant you the third level of breathing techniques."
At this moment, Xiao Wu and the others passed by the alley.
"Help..." Li Hao had just started to speak when he noticed that the two tiny mice seemed to have seen something terrifying, and they turned and ran away!
Without hesitation!
Li Hao and the others were stunned. The two little mice escaped so suddenly that they had no time to react.
The rats, who were fierce just a second ago, suddenly became cowardly!
"What happened to those two rats just now?" Li Hao asked.
"I don't know! Quickly call Li Chao down! Something's not right here!" a girl said. "The rats in City 10 have mutated! We have to tell the academy about this right away!"
Li Hao picked up his phone from the ground: "Hey, Li Chao, come down quickly, we need to hurry up and get back to our place first."
He waited for several seconds but didn't hear a response from Li Chao: "Hey? Li Chao, what's wrong? Say something!"
A chilling atmosphere filled the air, and no one answered the phone.
Li Hao turned on speakerphone, and everyone could still hear strange sounds.