Now Ren Zhong was merely a Mechanical Warrior with barely Third Level strength, and just by slightly gaining Lin Wang’s trust, he was already living a life of luxury, like a social elite.
The power and status here were too easy to become addicted to.
These are all traps of assimilation, just like Pan Fenglian’s body and Lin Wang’s tea, sugar-coated bombs.
This is the temptation from around the world, omnipresent, pervasive.
Only the most determined Revolutionary can resist it.
Ren Zhong, who had just recently resolved himself, didn’t know if he counted as the most determined Revolutionary, but he wanted to become such a person.
Therefore, he knew that if he did not actively hold onto these emotions, he would sooner or later sink into this social hierarchy’s Pyramid, becoming a beast that looked like a human but wasn’t truly human, like Lin Wang.
Ren Zhong did not want this.
So he must constantly remind himself that it is precisely because of this deep, indelible sympathy for the weak that a Revolutionary becomes a Revolutionary.
Ren Zhong wanted to help the Scavengers, and how could the Scavengers not be quietly helping him in return.
Their fate was the wall of bricks supporting Ren Zhong in maintaining his sobriety.
At 1:30 a.m., Ren Zhong quietly clenched his fist.
He had just used the rough economic knowledge he learned in the stock market, combined with his 21st-century common sense, to calculate an account.
Raising a High Rank Professional was too costly, the economic Pyramid’s level of crossing was truly terrifying.
Now he hadn’t even started wearing Third Level equipment, and wanting to advance further in equipment involved funding that easily ran into the tens of thousands.
No wonder Lin Wang and other Professional team members aiming for Fifth Level had to transform into blood-sucking gluttons, crouching on the Scavengers of Starfire Town and sucking blood in big gulps.
Because they had no other choice!
This world’s economic system was inherently broken!
No money, no step forward!
Only reckless charge!
I promised everyone to liberate this era!
Every step forward here was a cage, so what I have to fight is the world.
Then I can’t always rely on the distant future, nor rely on pure opportunism, that would only erode my will.
My life can’t have regrets, I must seize every step!
Immediately! Right now! I just live in the moment!
Unless I really try my best and still can’t break through the cage of Starfire Town, I will never admit defeat!
He had already made up his mind.
Though thousands may try to stop me, I will press onward; though cut into pieces, my face won’t change.
Isn’t this how a Revolutionary should be?
If not now, when would be the time to fight?
Even if great risk lurked within the opportunity, he still had to grasp this rare opportunity and test the limits of his full power.
Having killed Bei Lihui once, he could naturally kill him a second time.
If he could kill Bei Lihui, he could naturally kill Lin Wang too.
He must break every visible and palpable cage before him.
At a quarter past seven in the morning, everyone was having breakfast in the small courtyard.
After hearing what Ren Zhong said, Zheng Tian covered her mouth in shock, "What! You’re going to the abandoned mine pit today? Brother Ren, you’re not joking, right?"
A hundred and seventy kilometers west of Starfire Town was a hollowed-out giant molybdenum-iron mine pit.
It was once one of the largest iron mines on Source Star, abandoned two hundred years ago, before the times of Bone Valley and Starfire Town.
The surface pit of the mine was about eight kilometers in diameter.
After the ore in the mine pit was hollowed out and abandoned, underground Ruined Beasts gradually emerged from within, digging root-like spreading pits that formed a three-dimensional network crisscrossing within.
The pit network was frequented by a large number of Second Level Ruined Beasts and Third Level Ruined Beasts, with a small number of Level Four Ruined Beasts.
Hence, the abandoned mine pit was known as the second most dangerous place within the region of Starfire Town, aside from Bone Valley, usually only visited by professional teams for hunting.
Ren Zhong nodded, "I’m not joking."
Zheng Tian: "But we don’t need to take such a risk. Isn’t things fine as they are now?"
Zheng Tian couldn’t quite understand why Ren Zhong suddenly shifted from his usually relatively conservative style to another extreme.
After thinking for a moment, she suddenly realized.
Because Lin Wang and others had left.
Zheng Tian lowered her voice, cautiously asking, "Brother Ren, are you planning to revolt at this opportunity?"
Ren Zhong nodded, "Lin Wang’s leniency towards us now is mostly built on misunderstanding. Paper can’t wrap fire, lies can never be our foundation. Continuing to lurk at most only lets us live a bit longer, but eventually, we still have to die. Only by gaining strength that they too fear can we truly protect ourselves. So, there’s nothing to hesitate about, just do it. This is reality, and I hope you all understand."
In fact, not many people truly understood.
But Ren Zhong had already established absolute authority within the team in a month.
Since he said do it, then do it.
Because Mr. Ren always had considerations that others couldn’t fathom but were correct.