"The people from the Special Affairs Bureau will arrive shortly, they’ll take care of everything."
Li Cheng pushed up his glasses and quickly said to Xiao Feng, "The fate theory in that book is complete nonsense, so your child is fine. However, I personally recommend that you liquidate your assets into cash as soon as possible and ask the Special Affairs Bureau for help to let your family of three change your names and move somewhere else."
Xiao Feng was still in a daze, but his wife reacted, holding the child and asking anxiously, "Is it to avoid retaliation?"
"Yes. The gang behind this case are not good people by any means, and they might continue their retaliatory attacks. Moreover, Wang Beipo, who was roped in, was genuinely killed by Old Feng."
Li Cheng spoke indifferently, "Players have relatives and friends too, and they also take out their anger on related parties."
Compared to people like Wang Beipo, the babysitter, and the gardener, who died without knowing why, Xiao Feng’s family was extremely lucky to be alive, and naturally, they couldn’t dare to ask for more, only nodding incessantly to express their gratitude.
As for Old Feng... the drug Cervantes gave him only temporarily sustained his life, and once its effects wore off, he would naturally die.
After a brief conversation, Li Cheng left the mountain villa, changed his disguise, and took an intercity bus back to Yin City, feigning sleep by the window.
The thunderstorm continued, with lightning splitting the sky, reflecting countless points of light in the water droplets on the window.
[Confirmed, Cervantes is from the Wild Laughter Troupe]
The friend communication interface suddenly lit up, a message from Yuan Zhixia, accompanied by a transfer link.
Due to the Wild Laughter Troupe’s troublemaking nature, they are not well-received by official agencies worldwide, and their members have various bounties on them.
Anyone who provides a valuable clue gets rewarded, and key clues earn a significant sum. Catching a member of the Wild Laughter Troupe like Li Cheng did directly rewards 2000 Game Coins.
Li Cheng: [That much?]
Yuan Zhixia: [Is that a lot? It’s not too much. After all, Cervantes is a core member of the Wild Laughter Troupe, deserving his value.]
Yuan Zhixia: [Also, are you sure you’re not considering joining the Special Affairs Bureau? The agency is quite interested in the sources of your information.]
Li Cheng: [Hi, I’m Li Cheng’s girlfriend; he’s in the shower, what’s up?]
Yuan Zhixia: [?? Shared friend communication, right? Seriously, the Special Affairs Bureau isn’t some man-eating beast; why not join it?]
Li Cheng: [Sigh, after watching the movie ’Heroic Sons and Daughters’ I got too emotional and tattooed ’loyalty to the country’ on my back; now I can’t pass the political review because of the tattoo.]
Yuan Zhixia: [So you are Yue Fei, Yue Wumu? You might as well compete in the Paris Olympics this year.]
The two chatted casually, and after closing the friend communication, Li Cheng received a message from Zhangsun Yao.
She had learned the specific details of the incident from both her sword and the Special Affairs Bureau and immediately expressed her apology to Li Cheng.
As an employer, Old Feng had ill intentions, turning what was originally a low-risk bodyguard job into a killing field mission.
Zhangsun Yao, as the broker who arranged the job, also had to take some responsibility.
Besides the three million cash originally promised by Old Feng, she also transferred 300 Game Coins to Li Cheng as compensation for apology—viewing it as Li Cheng, a Lv5 newbie, being unjustly involved in a forced mission.
If it were Li Cheng instead of Wang Beipo staying at the mountain villa, he probably would have been unjustly killed as well.
The unique mechanics of the killing field create a special business environment; even large-scale business guilds, consortia, and offices rarely engage in the practice of bullying customers—since the killing field itself has no court or police, and players all possess Extraordinary Powers, disagreements can indeed lead to fatal attacks on entire families.
Li Cheng happily accepted the two transfers, looking at the rewards from this mission.
[Reward Calculation in Progress]
[Overall Player Performance: S+, game currency and experience points increased to 160%]
[Mission Reward 1: 500 Experience Points]
[Mission Reward 2: 500 Game Coins]
Within an hour’s limit, Li Cheng and two teammates searched the mountain villa, deduced the truth of the incident from clues, and additionally killed the blood corpse after the fact, uncovered the mastermind Cervantes, and helped the Special Affairs Bureau bring him to justice. An S+ rating is completely justified.
With a multiplier factor of 1.6, Li Cheng earned 800 experience points and game coins. From the original Lv5, Experience Bar 240/500, rising to Lv6, Experience Bar 540/600.
Only the last 60 Experience Points needed to level up again.
In terms of game currency, the original 1790, plus the 2000 reward from the Special Affairs Bureau, and Zhangsun Yao’s 300 compensation, reached a whopping 4090.
Additionally, there’s three million in cash rewards waiting to be claimed.
"4090, what an auspicious number."
Li Cheng took a deep breath and looked at the third reward.
[Mission Reward 3: Random item*1, Quality depends on the clearance evaluation]
Under an S+ level mission evaluation, even a random item cannot merely be junk. Li Cheng suppressed his emotions, rubbed his hands together, and clicked open the treasure box.
A strong bright light flashed, and suddenly a lighter appeared in the item slot.
[Name: Nuclear Energy Lighter]
[Special Effect: Constant burning. Opening the lid will stably generate a flame of 1035℃ temperature and 100 lumens brightness. The flame will disregard external environmental restrictions and can continuously burn in conditions like oxygen deficiency, vacuum, dark vision, anti-combustion magic fields, underwater, etc. Total time limit is 200 years]
[Equipment Conditions: Intellect Attribute must be at least 3 points]
[Note: The Nuclear Energy Lighter has five settings, the first setting can burn for two hundred years. Each increase in setting will enhance the flame intensity and brightness, reducing the maximum burning time limit]
[Note: Encountering a shipwreck, stranded on a deserted island, unknown monster roars from the primeval forest, wild human footprints appear beside the beach, and all I have is just a lighter, how to survive?! V me 50, listen to my survival story]
Li Cheng examined the lighter, which was squarish, silver in color, and had an atomic symbol printed on the front, giving it a futuristic feel.
He’s currently on a bus and it’s inconvenient to take out the lighter to experiment, but just the [Ignoring external environment, continuous burning] feature alone could prove remarkably effective in certain extreme conditions.
The equipment condition is quite peculiar, requiring an Intellect Attribute of at least 3 points. Does this mean that those below this standard shouldn’t play with fire?
Next up is the fourth task reward, a Random Skill Scroll*1.
Li Cheng silently roared and unveiled a skill scroll.
[Skill Scroll Name: Experience Playing Method]
[Attribute: Learning Type (one-time only)] For original chapters go to novel✶fire.net
[Special Effect: Immersive Performance. Perform as a character, real or fictional, the more you believe, the more authentic the portrayal. During this process, the Sanity Value will recover at a faster rate than usual, dependent on the similarity of the portrayal]
[Learning Conditions: Charm Attribute must be at least six points]
[Note: As Soviet playwright Stanislavsky mentioned in "An Actor Prepares", there is no true art without experience. True Realism theater is not about acting roles, but genuinely experiencing the roles]
[Note: Who says I have split personality? We are in a good state]