After waiting for a few minutes, Zheng Tian’s team entered the villa and stepped into the living room.
This is a Citizen’s private residence.
Typically, it’s a forbidden place for ordinary wastelanders to step into lightly.
Zheng Tian’s group had entered the White Wall before, but this was their first time inside a Citizen’s villa.
The exquisite little villa, alloy walls, beautiful plants, intelligent weaponry lurking in the buildings with the muzzles of guns, rocket launchers, hidden Flying Bomb launchers, and other firepower equipment — all these can create an intangible hierarchy pressure on the wastelanders.
This isn’t a Third Generation Iron Curtain, but undoubtedly, its performance is certainly stronger.
Probably only someone like Ren Zhong could come to such a place for the first time without feeling any sense of oppression.
At this moment, everyone was somewhat tense, daring only to stare wide-eyed and look around, each person’s hands tightly pressed against their own torso.
In terms of body language analysis, this behavior is known as "awkwardness."
Ju Qingmeng did not come downstairs to greet them, and no one dared to wander around indiscriminately.
Ren Zhong shot a puzzled look at Ju Qingmeng, only to see her blink mischievously and softly say, "Turn on the living room surveillance."
A flash before the bed in the bedroom, the scene in the living room was clearly projected — it was the group at a loss.
Apart from the five members of Zheng Tian’s team, Yujin was also present.
The group was gathered, discussing with various reactions.
Ren Zhong had not informed everyone in advance about this operation.
They were inevitably nervous upon suddenly hearing this terrifying news.
Wen Lei scratched his head anxiously, "Could Mr. Ren truly be in trouble?"
Zheng Tian shook her head, "He shouldn’t be. Brother Ren is someone who considers everything before acting."
Ou Youning, simple-minded as he was, only cared about examining the room decor up and down, sighing, "This house is really beautiful. It’d be great if we could live in such a place too."
Zheng Tian slapped Ou Youning’s back, "Didn’t our newly installed Second Level Iron Curtain shut your mouth? Brother Ren is so badly wounded, is this what you should be thinking of now?"
Ou Youning held his head and complained, "What’s there to think about? You all know Brother Ren. When has he ever suffered a loss? Lin Wang’s little smart tricks aren’t even worthy of carrying his shoes. I bet a hundred points that Brother Ren is alive and kicking right now."
Chen Hanyu remained silent throughout.
Like Yujin, as a member of the night team, she had somewhat heard Ren Zhong mention the abandoned mine pit.
The two had a hunch that place couldn’t hold him back.
Meanwhile, Ren Zhong, who had been spying on the group through the projection, smiled subtly and commented, "Though Ou Youning is sometimes not too smart, his intuition is strangely accurate. Zheng Tian tends to overthink things, otherwise, she would have realized it long ago."
Ju Qingmeng nodded, "The companions you found in town were indeed the right choice. If it weren’t for the suppression by Starfire Resources and the professional team, they should have all been Second Level Professionals long ago."
Over there, listening to Ou Youning’s analysis, Zheng Tian reflected, "That makes sense. But why hasn’t he come downstairs to see us yet? We’ve been here for two or three minutes already."
Ou Youning shrugged, "Isn’t it obvious? Brother Ren is pretending to be injured. Where should a wounded person be?"
Before anyone could answer, Ou Youning answered his own question, "On the bed! Now, here’s the question — what’s the bed for? Hehe... Considering Brother Ren’s stamina, we still have to wait at least..."
Ju Qingmeng turned off the projection.
She didn’t blush or get flustered, but stood up and said, "The others are fine, but I suggest you get rid of the pocketed guy."
Ren Zhong also felt this advice was reasonable.
Ju Qingmeng quickly went downstairs, not genuinely angry, just simply greeting the group before instructing them to head upstairs on their own to meet Ren Zhong in the study to the left of the staircase.
She herself went to the Military Weapon Store.
She wasn’t there for a proper job, but for Ren Zhong’s armor.
After some routine small talk, Ren Zhong helped the group reassess their equipment, plan their hunting routes for the next ten days, advising them not to worry about damaging their gear, wasting ammo, or focusing on hunting for gains, but to prioritize enhancing their combat capabilities to the extreme.
Afterward, he transferred 150,000 and 30,000 points after-tax to Zheng Tian and Yujin, respectively, keeping only 103,000 points for himself.
His major expenses had been mostly settled, and there wasn’t anything left that required large amounts of money, so keeping it was just a number. It was better to make full use of the resources, investing the money in his team to further accelerate their growth.