In the fields, the sun was already high in the sky, the sunlight a bit dazzling.
Zero had a greasy meat bun in her mouth and a half-finished cup of soy milk in her hand as she returned to the spot where she had fought yesterday.
She planned to follow the traces left on the road to find and kill the man from yesterday.
She had already contacted people from the Spirit Realm and roughly found out the man’s identity and background, and also knew the general course of events.
As expected, it was another absurd bounty.
The man had originally been a little guard guarding the Crossing Passage.
Because he had injured a collateral young master of the Yuan Qing family, he was now being hunted by the biggest power in that area, the Yuan family.
Taking advantage of his familiarity with the area around the Crossing Passage, he had escaped through it to this side.
A little guard injuring a collateral young master?
The truth was probably not as simple as it appeared on the surface.
She knew all too well the faces of these aristocratic young masters.
But Zero didn’t care about the so-called truth.
She only knew that this man’s head was worth 3,000 goods, which was the currency over there.
Through communication between the Yuan family and the government of this world, these goods were converted into about 90,000 RMB.
After Zero settled down here, she started making money through bounties.
Fleeing to the Other World was a way out for many fugitives, because few people wanted to go to the Other World to carry out bounty missions.
But Zero happened to have the right conditions—timing, location, and people.
So under the matchmaking of Yuan Qing and others, Zero smoothly transformed from one of the fugitives into the executioner of the fugitives who fled to this side.
Zero sucked the remaining soy milk into her mouth in one gulp and casually threw the trash into the fields.
After stretching lazily, she expanded her Spiritual Perception to the maximum.
The expression on her face became increasingly cold, and her whole demeanor instantly transformed from a lazy girl into a fierce killer.
After carefully observing the surroundings, she had a rough idea of the target.
She jumped up from the edge of the rice field and slowly walked into the forest ahead.
After trekking through the forest for several hours, even with the ability to control temperature, Zero was sweating profusely under the scorching sun, and her clothes were soaked with sweat.
Finding a slightly shaded spot, Zero stopped, jumped onto a relatively sturdy tree, and sat down at a fork in the trunk.
Having taken those two slashes last night, the man was probably somewhat immobile and couldn’t run far.
Zero felt the man was already not far from her, so she planned to take a short rest before making her move.
Although she didn’t take that Black Blade man seriously, running for so long was indeed a bit tiring.
And it was already noon; she hadn’t eaten yet.
She was a bit hungry, but food was too far away—whether the roadside stalls or the snacks she had marked with Spiritual Power.
After thinking for a moment, she rummaged through her pants pocket.
Surprisingly, she actually took out an Alps lollipop, purple grape flavor.
She tore open the wrapper, put the candy in her mouth, and casually tossed the wrapper away.
It floated slowly down through the air.
Littering again—she really didn’t have a good habit of protecting the environment.
Feeling that enough time had passed, Zero got up again and began searching.
Before long, she spotted a figure in the forest.
At this moment, the man was shirtless, sitting under a tree.
The wound on his chest had been given some simple treatment, but it still looked bloody and mangled.
Since last night, he had been fleeing with his Spiritual Power suppressed, planning to tend to his wounds before acting, but he didn’t expect to be found so soon.
The man looked at Zero approaching from afar and probably guessed her purpose.
“A thousand, give me a way out. (Other World),” the man’s voice trembled slightly.
After their exchange last night, he understood—injured and having already lost his weapon, he might not even be able to escape.
Zero stared intently at the man without speaking, only unfolding her “Dao,” and the temperature of the surrounding space began to drop.
This world was so cruel.
He had tried to kill the stranger Yan Hao to avoid exposing his trail, and now Zero was hunting him down for the bounty reward.
Everyone was just acting for their own interests.
Those who couldn’t adapt and survive—whether human or otherwise—would only be eliminated by this world.
Unexpectedly, the man neither tried to escape nor showed any intention of resisting.
He just sat there.
“Answer one question, and the goods on me are yours, along with my life. (Other World)”
The man’s voice gradually calmed from trembling.
“Am I… the only target of the bounty? (Other World)”
The man looked at Zero, his eyes pleading.
“At least the bounties I’ve come across only have you. (Other World),” Zero nodded and said flatly.
She didn’t care what story lay behind this, but since the man was giving both money and his life, she could quickly finish this messy business and go back to eat.
“That’s… not bad either. (Other World)”
The man muttered to himself, placed the goods from his body on the ground, and looked at Zero with a somewhat pitiful gaze.
Zero picked up the green spheres on the ground.
These deep green balls, called goods, came in various sizes and were the universal currency in the Spirit Realm.
Without any hesitation, Zero quickly condensed an ice blade in her hand and cleanly chopped off the man’s head.
Not experiencing the thrill of battle and pursuit, she was somewhat disappointed.
Zero somewhat disgustedly packed up the head.
Then she used water to clean the bloody scene and used fire to dispose of the rest of the body.
For her, dealing with the scene and the body afterward was the most troublesome and annoying step in completing a bounty in this world.
Compared to searching in the mountains, leaving the forest was easier.
In just over half an hour, she walked out, then opened her phone and made a call.
“It’s done.”
Zero said into the phone, holding the bag in one hand and the phone in the other.
The bag containing the head didn’t seem to be waterproof.
Blood had soaked through the bag and dripped along the path, but Zero couldn’t be bothered with the blood on the road anymore.
“Oh wow, you’re really efficient. Okay, okay, same place as usual.”
A middle-aged man’s voice came from the other end of the phone.
In the classroom, Yan Hao and Tao Feng were receiving their student cards, school badges, and other items.
The student card had what was called an all-in-one card—including functions for door access, bath water, drinking water, making calls, supermarket purchases, and cafeteria meals.
The card’s balance had already been bound to his parents’ WeChat accounts through a mini program.
Yan Hao glanced at his student card; he didn’t know when the photo on the card was taken.
He looked like an elementary school student in the picture.
After receiving the cards, Yan Hao and Tao Feng first found two empty seats in the classroom to put down their backpacks, then prepared to go to the cafeteria for lunch and try out the student cards.
The school cafeteria had two floors.
Since the second and third year high school students had not yet finished class, there weren’t many people in the cafeteria now.
“What do you think, let’s check out the first floor first,” Tao Feng pointed at the cafeteria windows on the first floor.
“Sure, sure.”
Not yet familiar with Tao Feng, Yan Hao was a bit awkward and spoke nervously.
There were about ten windows on the first floor of the cafeteria.
Near the windows were sensors for card swiping.
Yan Hao and Tao Feng looked around.
The food offered at all windows was the same.
The rice was between the seats and the windows, and you served yourself.
After looking around, they ordered two dishes and started eating.
Each dish was priced individually, and overall, the food expenses were not very high.
They had just sat down to eat when they heard a series of heavy footsteps from outside.
Then a crowd of students in short-sleeved school uniforms rushed into the cafeteria, forming long lines in front of the windows.
The entire cafeteria instantly became crowded.
In Yan Hao’s middle school cafeteria, meals were distributed by class, so they didn’t need to sprint to the cafeteria after class like these students.
Yan Hao watched these rushing high school students with some bewilderment.
But then he thought that, given his abilities in running away, adapting to fighting for food shouldn’t be too difficult.