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“Everyone line up!”

Two or thirty bandits stormed into the mountain village, shouting and brandishing their weapons.

The villagers in the small mountain village were all as quiet as cicadas in winter, not daring to make a sound.

An elderly man from the village stepped forward cautiously and said, “Third Master, thank you for your hard work, coming to collect the dues so late!”

“Stop talking nonsense!” The Third Master, with thick eyebrows and a large beard, shouted, “Your Zhang Family Village has over thirteen hundred people, I can’t be bothered to count them all!

Round it down, two hundred taels of gold, go and get it!”

“Two hundred taels of gold?” The villagers were all anxious, and the elderly man said repeatedly, “Third Master, aren't the dues for half a year usually one tael of gold for every ten people?

Usually, we only pay a little over one hundred and thirty taels!”

The Third Master's face turned cold: “Why so much nonsense?

The price has gone up!

Damn it, everything is going up these days, only the dues haven’t increased — starting now, they are going up!

One and a half taels for every ten people!”

“But Third Master, we followed the usual rules and only prepared a little over one hundred and thirty taels…” the old man said repeatedly.

“Not enough money?” The Third Master grinned, his smile making the villagers' hair stand on end, “If there’s not enough money, it’s easy, the old rules, use people as collateral!”

As he spoke, the Third Master directly pointed at a dozen people.

There were beautiful widows, strong men, and also a few teenagers.

“Let’s take them away!”

“Hey, hey, Third Master, Third Master…” The villagers were all anxious, how could they start grabbing people right away.

Xu Ming's eyesight was so good that even in the dark night, he could see this scene happening thousands of feet away clearly.

“In Xu Ming's previous memories, it was said that in rural areas, bandits were rampant.

I used to be in Yunqi City and never saw any bandits; now it seems that these bandits are so arrogant, it seems that this world is indeed full of bandits!” Xu Ming sighed secretly.

Xu Ming is not a savior, but he is, after all, a civilized person from modern society; now that he has encountered this kind of thing, and it is just a matter of lifting a finger, he naturally cannot bear to stand idly by.

“There’s an expert!” The bandits all became alert.

Soon, they saw a young man walking out of the darkness.

The Third Master couldn't help but frown: “Friend, the martial world has its rules, we are acting according to the rules, please don't interfere, okay?”

Xu Ming only uttered one word: “Scram.”

“You…” The Third Master's face sank.

He was, after all, a well-known figure in this area, and being scornfully told to scram like this, where would he put his face?

However, the Third Master was wary of Xu Ming's full-bodied shout just now and did not dare to act rashly: “This little brother, judging by your demeanor, you should be from a big family out here for training, right?

Didn't your family tell you that the martial world has its rules, and you can't break them casually?”

“Scram, I'm in charge here from now on!” Xu Ming understood that there were many such things in the world, and he couldn't possibly take care of them all; but since he had run into it, he couldn't let it go in good conscience.

Perhaps after coming to this world, Xu Ming had to gradually become bloody, numb, and decisive; because if he was not decisive in killing, the enemy would be decisive in killing him.

However, deep down in Xu Ming's heart, he still insisted on some of the kindness of the rule-of-law world; it seemed that only in this way could he feel that he was different from the people in this world.

The Third Master looked at Xu Ming warily.

A younger brother whispered, “Third Master, an Inner Force expert, not easy to mess with!”

“Hmph!” In the end, the Third Master still didn't dare to provoke Xu Ming.

After all, he was only a Sixth Stage Outer Force martial artist and couldn't afford to offend an Inner Force expert, “Let’s go!”

The bandits sped away.

Xu Ming thought that the villagers would be very grateful and swarm over, surrounding their hero with admiration.

But he didn't expect —

“Oh, this little brother, you’ve caused us trouble!” The elderly man in charge of the village said first.

“Today, you drove away the bandits, but will you still be here tomorrow or the day after?

When the bandits come again, we will only be in a worse situation!”

The beautiful widow who had been pointed out by the bandits also looked at Xu Ming resentfully, as if blaming Xu Ming for ruining her good fortune.

“Really a dog taking a mouse, meddling in other people's business!”

“Where did this guy with overflowing righteousness come from, you’ve harmed our village!”

The villagers were talking all at once, and not a single one thanked Xu Ming.

Listening to the surrounding voices full of blame, without even a word of thanks, Xu Ming was dumbfounded: “Did I do something wrong?

Does this world not need someone to draw a sword to help when seeing injustice?”

Xu Ming remembered chatting with Gu Hanmo once, and Gu Hanmo said that Xu Ming was too indecisive, and gave Xu Ming eight words of advice — kindness is useless, decisiveness in killing!

Decisiveness in killing, Xu Ming had already verified these four words several times; when facing enemies, killing must be decisive, otherwise, it would be harming himself and his teammates!

And today, Xu Ming discovered that he had finally verified the other four words — kindness is useless!

“Does this world have to force people to be indifferent?”

“Big brother!” Not knowing when, a young boy of eleven or twelve years old walked to Xu Ming's side.

Xu Ming remembered that he was also one of the dozen people pointed out by the bandits.

The boy blinked his innocent black eyes: “Thank you!”

Just these two words “Thank you” made Xu Ming feel a trace of warmth from this world.

… …

The next morning.

The city gate of the Savage Wilderness City had just opened, and Xu Ming had just arrived at this prosperous city.

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“Is this the largest city within a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles?”

Xu Ming stood outside the city, seeing the city walls towering like mountains, and the sides stretching endlessly, not knowing how wide they were.

“Gu Hanmo, I've arrived at Savage Wilderness City!”

Gu Hanmo quickly replied: “You should stay in Savage Wilderness City on your own first, I'm being pestered by people from the Liang family, it's not convenient for me to go down the mountain.”

Xu Ming's eyes turned cold: “What's wrong?”

“It's nothing, just annoying!

I'll handle it!” Gu Hanmo said, “But you have to participate in the Savage Wilderness Sect's entry assessment yourself.

However, with your strength, it will definitely be easy.”

“Then you take care of your own affairs, don't worry about me,” Xu Ming said.

A few days, of course, were not enough for Gu Hanmo to emerge from the grief of Qin Ran's death, but at least her emotions were much more stable.

Xu Ming was now also trying not to disturb her, but to give her personal space so that she could slowly come out of the sadness.

As for himself having a certain hope of resurrecting Qin Ran… Xu Ming felt that it was better not to say such ethereal things first; otherwise, giving Gu Hanmo hope, and then failing to realize it, would only make her sadder.

Xu Ming wandered around Savage Wilderness City.

Except for its size, Savage Wilderness City was not much different from Yunqi City in other aspects.

Savage Wilderness City had things like chambers of commerce and martial arts arenas, and Yunqi City also had them.

“However, there are really many experts in Savage Wilderness City!” Walking on the road, Xu Ming had already seen one or two Innate experts; as for Inner Force martial artists, there were even more!

The proportion of experts was obviously not comparable to that of Yunqi City.

“I'm afraid that many ambitious martial artists will gather here!

After all, this is the core of the entire Savage Wilderness Sect area.” Xu Ming had seen in “The Biography of Du Yu” that Old Du had also roamed in Savage Wilderness City, and seemed to have won ten consecutive victories in the Savage Wilderness Martial Arts Arena, which was quite glorious.

Two Inner Force Late Stage martial artists passed by Xu Ming.

“Hey, I haven't been to the black market for a while, do you want to go take a look?”

“Sure!

The last time I went, I found a remnant scroll, which recorded a Mysterious Rank cultivation technique!

Although many key points were missing, after I presented it to my master, I was still rewarded a lot by my master!”

“Innate experts often like to tinker with cultivation technique remnants, borrowing from them to create some unique skills of their own!

I think that remnant scroll of yours should be of some help to your master!”

… …

“Black market?”

Being idle, Xu Ming quietly followed them.

Dig a few small pits first… Continue writing, there will be more tonight.

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