Dragon's Origin

Chapter 9: Worry-Free City

The equipment pod has two self-destruct options. One is a corrosive self-destruct that thoroughly destroys everything. Once activated, the built-in corrosive liquid will be released, completely corroding the equipment pod, leaving no trace. The other is an explosive self-destruct.

Explosive self-destruct also has several variations. One is a timed explosive self-destruct, which, as the name suggests, explodes when the time is up. Another is a vibration-triggered self-destruct. Once activated, it automatically detects vibrations in the surrounding area. If it senses vibrations caused by a human body weighing more than fifty kilograms within ten meters, it will explode.

The third type is simpler: remote-controlled self-destruct. The remote control is the single-soldier combat terminal. Wang Sheng chose the third option.

At this moment, more than one figure has appeared at the location of the equipment pod. The one who chased the fastest thought he was the only one who could keep up with Wang Sheng, but little did he know that there were others behind him. He was the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

Why would they look for Wang Sheng's trail themselves when they could just steadily follow a guy with a lot of tracking experience? Especially when this guy thought he was being clever and didn't notice the movements behind him.

The equipment pod was too special and conspicuous, so everyone's attention was immediately focused on it.

Putting everything else aside, just the flashing red light was enough to make people's eyes turn red instantly. What kind of gem could emit such a flashing light? If this gem were brought back, wouldn't those socialite ladies fight to the death to snatch it?

A red light alone made people go crazy, and this red light was just a decoration on such a large box. One could imagine how precious the things inside this box were.

No wonder Song Yan would claim to outsiders that that kid was her fiancé. With such precious things, not to mention Song Yan, a cousin of the Song family, even the real eldest daughter of the Song family, Song Yan, would probably have to bow her head, right?

Who would care where Wang Sheng went now? They had to get the wealth in front of them first. Heaven gives, but to not take is to be blamed!

The guy who was following closest went crazy when he saw the box, and he slashed at it without thinking. Such a big box, he'd cut it open first to see what was inside.

His movements were too fast, so the experts tracking him didn't even have time to stop him. They could only watch as the broadsword hit the box.

The scene of the box being cut open with a single slash and treasures scattering all over the ground that everyone had imagined did not appear. With a ding, the broadsword bounced high, leaving only a white spot on the equipment pod, but not even a crack was opened.

A group of people instantly became even more frantic. The box couldn't be damaged by a knife; it turned out that the box itself was a good thing! At this time, they naturally couldn't let that guy slash a second time. They all revealed themselves and surrounded the equipment pod and that guy from all directions.

Without these people stopping him, the guy who had struck with his blade had already stopped on his own after seeing that his strike was ineffective. It would be a pity to destroy such a good thing, right? Moreover, he might not be able to destroy it.

Next, everyone guarded a direction and prepared to act at any time. Good things couldn't be easily let go. Not to mention the treasures inside, just this box, if they could find a master to use the materials of this box to make a piece of armor for themselves, it would definitely be a master-level armor that was invulnerable to knives and guns, right?

No one could remain indifferent after seeing such a good thing. All those who could see it had already rushed out. If they didn't come out now, they might not even get a corner when it came time to divide the spoils. How could that be allowed?

Just as everyone was guarding against each other and hadn't figured out whether to start fighting immediately or discuss a suitable way to divide the spoils, Wang Sheng didn't give them a chance.

After walking out several hundred meters, Wang Sheng circled back to the vicinity. In this dim forest, the infrared binoculars played an astonishing role.

A dozen red figures were scattered around the equipment pod. In that direction, there were no longer any warm-blooded creatures in human form.

Wang Sheng put down the binoculars, turned to the back of a large tree, opened the screen of the single-soldier combat terminal, and clicked the detonation button on the screen.

Boom, a deafening explosion sounded, and countless echoes began to reverberate between the mountains, booming louder and louder, gradually weakening, and finally slowly disappearing.

Even though he was hiding behind a large tree that could completely conceal him, the blast wave still made Wang Sheng's ears ring incessantly. If Wang Sheng hadn't been prepared and opened his mouth in time to make several swallowing motions, the explosion alone would have been enough to make Wang Sheng deaf for a long time.

Holding the Glock 17, Wang Sheng turned out from behind the tree and slowly walked towards the original location of the equipment pod. He had only cultivated for a few days and his physical fitness had increased several times. Those experts who had cultivated for more than ten or even dozens of years might be able to withstand the power of the explosion.

The power of the explosion was great, but, it must be said, Wang Sheng's caution was still justified. Even under such an explosion, two experts still survived.

However, they were alive, but only half of their bodies remained. Being so close, the explosion was so sudden, the power of modern technology still played a powerful role.

Basically, these two who were still alive were no longer a threat. Wang Sheng slowly walked over, having already assessed everything. Ignoring the two guys lying there groaning, Wang Sheng first searched the equipment pod for the fragmented corpses.

The equipment pod, plus the small stones of suitable size that Wang Sheng had picked up along the way, was simply the densest fragmentation high-explosive mine. At least Wang Sheng was very satisfied with the effect of the explosion.

Several people's weapons had turned into various kinds of scrap, and were of no use. He only found some things that were not easily damaged on the corpses. But what was strange was that among the seven corpses, five had a very unique black metal plate on them.

The metal plate was not large, about the same size as Wang Sheng's dog tag, but it was very thick, about half a finger thick. The overall appearance was more like a modern jade pendant. The front had very complex patterns, and in the middle were two twisted characters. Wang Sheng looked at them several times, but couldn't recognize what the complex twisted traditional characters were.

The back also had several characters engraved on it, some with two characters and some with three characters. Each metal plate was different. This time, Wang Sheng recognized one of them, two simple characters, Ding Yi. Wang Sheng didn't recognize the other ones.

Holding the five black metal plates, Wang Sheng slowly walked towards the most seriously injured survivor while weighing them in his hand.

The other guy had broken his calf and an arm, and was still able to lean against a tree and groan, and wouldn't die immediately, while this one had lost half of his body. If he didn't hurry up and ask, he might die soon.

"Tell me, who are you people?" Wang Sheng squatted in front of this guy who still had a breath left, and asked slowly: "I believe you didn't know me before, and I don't know you. We have no grievances or enmity. You must have been instructed to track me. Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't say it. You're going to die anyway. Your employer must have given you huge benefits that allow you to keep your mouth shut for him even when you're about to die."

Interrogating confessions is also a science, which includes various physiologies and psychologies. It's not enough to just make people suffer to make them submit. For people with faith and persistence, pain is not very useful. Instead, psychological pain is more unbearable.

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Wang Sheng's words happened to hit the other party's psychological weakness. He was just hired by someone, just for money. He wasn't devoted to his employer, and his employer didn't have any life-saving grace for him that required him to protect him with his life, so he decisively betrayed his employer. Why should he die while his employer can still live comfortably?

"I didn't expect that there would be several colleagues." With a miserable laugh, the half-bodied guy motioned Wang Sheng to help him up and lean against the tree, and also motioned Wang Sheng to take out a metal plate from his arms that was the same as the previous five: "Everyone is a colleague from Worry-Free City, but I didn't expect to be folded here."

As soon as this person mentioned Worry-Free City, Wang Sheng immediately recognized what the two characters on the front of the metal plate were. They were the two characters "Worry-Free". This metal plate should be the symbol of each person belonging to that Worry-Free City, and the characters on the back should be their names.

Wang Sheng knew nothing about what Worry-Free City was or what it did. But he could guess that it should be an organization that takes money to do things for people, close to the truth. These guys might even kill people. Just looking at so many people being hired shows that these people should be doing dirty work.

"I was hired by the Third Elder of the Song family to investigate the cause of death of Young Master Huan of the Dai family." The half-bodied man looked at Wang Sheng, and suddenly gave another miserable laugh: "It is said that you killed him, so I followed you. Not surprising, right?"

Wang Sheng nodded. He really wasn't surprised at all. This Third Elder should be the one who knew from that Song Lao Yu that he killed Dai Huan, so he sent someone to investigate. He just didn't know why such a secret matter wasn't handled by his confidants, but instead found someone from this Worry-Free City to investigate.

Without asking, the several dead people who also belonged to Worry-Free City must have also received commissions from various parties to investigate him. The Song family would investigate him, the Dai family would definitely investigate, and even Song Tianze and the others here, including Baoqing Yutang, might send people to investigate him. It's not strange at all.

No wonder these guys didn't have any money or anything besides weapons and some food and water. They were professional dirty workers and didn't need so many burdens.

The two without nameplates should be some guys from the Song family here who were not convinced by him and wanted to give him a lesson or even kill him outside the city, but they were directly blown up by the equipment pod.

"Third Elder of the Song family, I remember." Wang Sheng nodded. This person was so cooperative, very good. Wang Sheng slashed his neck with a knife, giving him a quick death.

Standing up, Wang Sheng turned to the guy who was leaning against the tree and groaning, whose injuries were not fatal enough.

When Wang Sheng just approached to within five meters of that guy, a sudden change occurred.