After Xing Ming’s death, his shares were transferred to Bei Lihui alone.
Now, only Ren Zhong is left in Lin Wang’s team, and the professional team is barely surviving in name only.
According to usual practice, other shareholders would directly divide the shares that once belonged to Xing Ming and Bei Lihui according to their respective holdings.
But this time, the situation has changed.
Tang Shuying and the professional team members in Jiang Kai’s team, as well as those Citizens, all appeared indifferent to these shares, showing no intention to profit from the deceased.
Thus, Ren Zhong has the right to accept the shares.
After a simple procedure, the daily dividends of Night Long Sleep were allocated to Ren Zhong’s private account.
Once Night Long Sleep’s madam left, seven or eight more people came outside, all responsible for other shops of various sizes.
With the same procedure, Ren Zhong nonchalantly took over all Lin Wang team’s various industries in the town.
The scale appeared quite large, with a wide variety.
A large bar, two small bars, three second-hand appliance sales and repair shops, two second-hand clothing shops, and over a dozen makeshift stalls in the flea market.
The operators of these shops found Ren Zhong to be much easier to talk to than Lin Wang, and they left with faces filled with the joy of impending happiness.
Only after everyone had left did Ren Zhong manipulate the Armor to pour himself a cup of fruit wine and took a heavy sip.
Through these people, Ren Zhong had a deeper understanding of the significance of Lin Wang’s death to the town.
Everyone seemed to have gained a small semblance of relief.
On the way to Night Long Sleep earlier, Ren Zhong also noticed the changes among the lone Scavengers.
Many lone Scavengers, whom he once extorted with money, were casting grateful and hopeful glances at him.
These people all knew that Captain Ren was a genuinely good person, a kind person.
Even if Captain Ren couldn’t change the other two captains, at least one of the three great burdens on everyone’s heads was gone, and the quality of life could improve by at least half.
Some Scavengers even took out their deeply hidden equipment, which they dared not use even after buying.
More Scavengers carrying Second Level scattered equipment began to appear on the streets.
Although the ultimate outcome of these people’s slightly inflated ambitions remains unknown, change leading to the unknown is always better than a straight path to decay.
This lifeless town, as if with the complete annihilation of a malignant professional team, gained a bit of vitality.
Seeing this change, Ren Zhong was quite satisfied.
The long road ahead is not to be discussed for now, at least this time, killing Lin Wang was the right move.
Ren Zhong enjoyed the slight smiles on these people’s faces, much like how he liked to gaze at the embers in the campfire as a child, stirring them to see the sudden sparkle of sparks within the ashes.
If only Starfire Town had another ten years...
If only all the professional captains in Starfire Town were like me...
If only Yang Bingzhong could be like me...
What a wonderful Starfire Town it would be ten years later!
Unfortunately, the higher you stand, the further you see, the more you know.
As he said to Zheng Tian, the more you know, the less happy you become.
All this fleeting happiness and relief for everyone are just destined to be shattered illusions.
The more they laugh happily now, the more despairingly they’ll wail a month later.
Everyone has already been sentenced to death.
Including those who are considered upper-class among the wastelanders like the madams and shop managers, all of whom, without exception, have long become "living dead" commodities.
They are still alive, but nearly dead.
Or maybe, after being bought by the Mengdu Group as lab rats, they may be better off dead.
Having learned of the existence of the Cold-blooded Butcher, Ren Zhong had not even a trace of confidence in certain victory.
Yang Bingzhong, Purple Crystal Mining, and the Mengdu Group have already set up an impeccable trap, leaving everyone as fish in a barrel.
At the moment, he sees not the slightest hope of changing the outcome of the Pu Cha, just as when he once looked up to Lin Wang from the First Level in despair.
Ren Zhong turned his head again to look at the towering tower in the center of the town, his emotions surging.
His gaze flickered, and he silently recited in his heart.
Sorry, Comrade Ma, Mr. Ma.
This time I will disappoint you.
I don’t ask for your forgiveness, but I am true to my heart.
One day you will understand my difficulties.
But perhaps, when the time comes, you may not be able to understand.
But one day, you will be able to taste the joy of victory with me.
His emotions tempted him to live and die with Starfire Town.
But reason told him that as the only solitary Revolutionary on the Source Star, he must make every death more meaningful.
To turn the impossible into the inevitable, this time, I must leave.
I must go out to see the world, to find a way to become stronger, to find the sledgehammer that can smash the cage of despair shrouding the entire town.
No matter how many times I have to die, no matter how long it takes, I will uphold my promise in my heart, I will freeze my time before the judgment descends.
One day, I will return.
I will reclaim Starfire Town from the crevices of time, clutching it tightly in my hand!
This is a betrayal for the sake of betrayal, born from a cold-blooded pursuit of madness.
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