Chapter 32: Chapter 26: Start a Massacre
Inside, Marquis and Zhang Baocheng were discussing the details of a kidnapping when they suddenly heard wailing from outside. Both men came out and were immediately stunned to see their own men lying on the ground, wailing in pain, completely incapacitated, with blood everywhere, and a black drone hovering in mid-air.
Although the room where Marquis and Zhang Baocheng were had a hole in it, the door was tightly closed, preventing the drone from entering, so Yan Fei could not attack the two of them. He could only attack Marquis’s men first to earn Merit Points.
Now, seeing Marquis and Zhang Baocheng open the door and come out, the drone immediately swiveled its gun muzzle, ready to take them out with a few steel ball bullets, but he found that he had enjoyed shooting a little too much, and had actually used up all 500 steel ball bullets. His real body was still seven or eight kilometers away from there, and with more than an hour until midnight, Yan Fei could only regretfully control the drone to turn around and leave.
Marquis and Zhang Baocheng, facing such a bloody scene, were immediately terrified. It wasn’t until the drone flew away that Marquis finally snapped out of it and started to make phone calls for help.
Zhang Baocheng was shaking all over; he recognized the drone as the one that disappeared when Xiao Kong went missing. The appearance of the drone here, could it mean that some unknown forces were targeting him? Was this place no longer safe now?
When Yan Fei’s Drone Avatar returned home, its Energy Points were nearly depleted, as shooting steel ball bullets also consumed a lot of Energy Points. Fortunately, this sortie earned him 319 Merit Points, adding to the previous 2 points, making the total number of Merit Points 321. If he could do this several more times, his Drone Avatar could be upgraded to Level 3, and his own Strength would also be further improved. By then, facing Experts like Xiao Kong and Xiao Long, he would also have the power to protect himself.
An hour later, at midnight, the Drone’s data reset, and it immediately returned to peak condition, with Steel Ball Bullet ammunition returning to 100%. Yan Fei once again deployed his drone, heading towards the Marquis’s Lair. Since he had already made his move tonight, he had to completely cripple and crush his opponent; otherwise, once they recovered, he himself would be in big trouble.
After the Drone Avatar left the abandoned warehouse, the Marquis did not dare to send his injured brothers to a regular hospital for fear of police interrogation. Instead, he called back the rest of his men and also the doctors from the Unlicensed Clinic run by gang members, to stop the bleeding and bandage the wounded legs and feet of his men.
So when Yan Fei’s Drone Avatar flew back, he saw that the entire Lair was brightly lit, with at least a few hundred people bustling below. He instantly felt an immense sense of satisfaction, as if these people had come just to give him Merit Points. Without any hesitation, Yan Fei controlled the drone to fly into the crowd and began shooting Steel Ball Bullets at the Marquis’s men who had rushed back.
The stooges didn’t expect the drone to return, and were caught unprepared, attacked once more. Under Yan Fei’s precise control, it took only one or two steel balls to injure a thug. In less than two minutes, Yan Fei’s Steel Ball Bullets were depleted again, and the ground was filled with fallen thugs. This attack resulted in a total of 406 Merit Points, which together with the previous points, brought the total Merit Points to 727.
Yan Fei’s Drone Avatar had a great harvest tonight, and he flew away thoroughly satisfied.
Having depleted his Steel Ball Bullets, and with no means to replenish them shortly, Yan Fei finally stopped his attack on Marquis’s men. It was a pity that during the second attack, Zhang Baocheng and the Marquis, afraid, had left in advance. Otherwise, Yan Fei could have finished them off with a few steel balls and will not have to worry about his future.
Having achieved an unprecedented victory, Yan Fei was very satisfied and went to bed, but both the underworld and legitimate sides of Shanghai were shocked. With so many of the Marquis’s men involved, there were surely spies from all sides among them, so news of the total annihilation of the Marquis’s men by a mysterious drone spread fast, and soon both the dark and light sides of Shanghai were stunned by the news. In the unseen darkness, undercurrents began to stir…
Through the two previous life-and-death battles, Yan Fei deeply realized his own lack of power. Coupled with Wang Yong’s explanations, he recognized the gap between himself and real experts, and so he urgently needed more strength.
Previously, Yan Fei had been somewhat conservative, too afraid to let his Drone Avatar go out to level up. However, after being provoked by Marquis and Zhang Baocheng, he finally let go and decisively struck, collecting 727 Merit Points in one fell swoop, making the Drone Avatar’s third Upgrade no longer far off.
The next day, during the day, Yan Fei rested at home, without any action, just hiding at home, paying attention to the related news. Neither on the Internet nor on Television was there any news about thugs being attacked with Steel Ball Bullets. The thugs who had previously been surveilling his house had disappeared and did not show up again; it was unknown if they were injured in the Lair by Yan Fei the night before. However, both Marquis and Zhang Baocheng were still around, and Yan Fei knew that this matter wouldn’t be so easily resolved.
On the third day, as night fell, Yan Fei quietly left his home and drove under a large bridge in the north of the city. Nearby was a gang’s lair, one that specialized in loansharking and targeted students, particularly beautiful female students. They would do everything in their power to get them to borrow money and then lure them into high spending. Once these pretty girls couldn’t repay the loans, the gang would take their nude photos and threaten to force them into prostitution to pay off their debts, causing complete moral degradation.
Over the years, this gang had harmed many female university students, and more severely, driven several to suicide. However, due to a lack of clear legal definitions regarding campus usury in the country, and it being an area outside the law’s reach, this gang had not suffered any consequences and had enjoyed several good years of stability. Yan Fei had known about this gang for some time, and the local television station had even reported on their wrongdoings.
Previously, Yan Fei had had no way to deal with this gang, but now that he had obtained the Drone Avatar and needed Merit Points urgently to upgrade, he started to target this gang. After all, nearly all of Marquis’s men had been wiped out by him, and after two attacks, they would undoubtedly be on guard, so for safety reasons, Yan Fei turned his gun on this loansharking gang.
It was now eight o’clock at night, but Yan Fei chose a remote location where hardly any people could be seen. Lying in the cabin, he carefully launched the drone, then controlled it as it flew five kilometers away to where the loanshark gang’s lair was located.
When the drone reached the loanshark lair, it spotted some gang members in suits busily making calls, appearing very professional at first glance, but Yan Fei knew they were calling students to press for payments.
Yan Fei didn’t waste words; his steel ball bullets shattered the glass windows, and the drone flew into the room, attacking the gangsters inside. Of course, he aimed below the thighs so as not to cause fatal injuries. Although these loansharks were detestable, they didn’t deserve to die.
The loansharks, busy at work, were shocked to see a drone flying in and attacking them. Yan Fei’s control of the drone had reached an expert level; even in the confined space, the drone moved up and down without hitting any obstacles, and the steel ball bullet attacks were incredibly precise, leaving no one injured above the thigh.
There were female employees inside, and Yan Fei did not spare them either, as they too had played a part in this evil, and were not deserving of sympathy. In just two minutes, everyone in the loanshark office was hit, lying on the ground and wailing in pain, and Yan Fei had gained 62 Merit Points, with 415 steel ball bullets remaining.
Yan Fei began to recall the drone, then drove the minivan in a different direction. In West City, there was a large Pyramid Scheme Organization, which lured job seekers from all over the country to Shanghai over the Internet by offering jobs, then held them captive, brainwashed them, and coerced them into paying to join the scheme. Once these people paid to join, their personalities radically changed, and they began to deceive their own friends and family, drawing them into the Pyramid Scheme Organization, causing it to grow even more powerful.
Similarly, the country had not found effective measures to deal with some practices of pyramid schemes, allowing this organization, which skirted the edges of the law, to thrive. And now, Yan Fei had set his sights on this organization.
Half an hour later, Yan Fei arrived at a secluded street eight kilometers from the Pyramid Scheme Organization, stopped the car, and resumed flying the drone, which quickly reached the organization’s ‘classroom.’ This so-called classroom was actually a farmhouse courtyard, and when the drone flew over, it found the organization’s members resting in their rooms while the core members were holding a Summary Conference. This Pyramid Scheme Organization was very large, with over two hundred core members.
At the Summary Conference, the organization’s leader was passionately recounting the great achievements of the Company in recent times, predicting a grand and splendid future for it. Amidst an almost brainwashing oration, the core members of the Pyramid Scheme Organization listened with great excitement, stood up together to chant slogans, and vowed to recruit more people to join, to expand the organization and create a better future.
Yan Fei watched, his heart pounding at the unnerving scene; the people inside seemed just like Cult members, brainwashed and unaware, constantly thinking about how to make money by pulling in more people. He felt no pity for such an organization or its members. The drone flew in and began attacking the core members.
Two minutes later, having exhausted the drone’s bullets again and seeing the core members of the Pyramid Scheme Organization crying and clutching their legs on the ground, Yan Fei left contentedly. Now, he had more important things to do because after these two large-scale strikes over the nights, the drone’s Merit Points had reached 1,000.
This meant that the drone could finally be upgraded again, and Yan Fei’s strength was about to be further enhanced.