(A 6000-word chapter in a trio)
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The loaded drone flew to the safe zone and landed.
After Su Mo landed, he waved at the drone cara, "I'm all good here."
Future's voice ca from the drone speakers, "Boss, you're really pushing it, talking about pulling out the bomb fuse, and you just pull it..."
"Explosives?" Su Mo laughed and removed the fake dynamite strapped to his body, throwing it into the river beside him, "Fake, it's all filled with laundry detergent. Living well, why would I blow myself up with them? Am I stupid?"
Future: "Uh... what if you didn't fool them?"
Su Mo: "If I didn't fool them, then I'll just jump out the window early and escape. Those rcenaries and Haywood would have to fend for themselves, I've done my best."
"Alright, no more talking, retrieve your drone, I'll head ho myself later."
After the drone flew away, Su Mo found his motorcycle and returned to the Inner City.
The flickering lights ahead danced, looking at the lights and glamour of the big city, he couldn't help but let his thoughts wander.
In this world, lone wolves find it hard to survive.
Unless you beco the strongest, strong enough to crush anyone.
Su Mo wants to step onto the Peak of Dawn and becoming the strongest is certainly his goal, but this goal is still too distant.
The hardships encountered midway, so can be solved by force, so cannot.
Those issues that cannot be solved by force often rely heavily on backing and connections.
Just like Ou Chenyu, if he hadn't clung onto Lucio, today he would've had a hard ti at Dragon Gate Restaurant.
But because he held onto his father-in-law's support, with the backing of local forces, he could face Simon with ease.
Su Mo has been a rcenary for less than two months, and although he's acquainted with two renowned middlen, Audiana and Dress, he has a better future than 99% of rookie rcenaries, but his backing is still not strong enough.
First, his relationship with the two middlen is only collaborative, and the direct benefit of their networking resources is limited.
Second, middlen, after all, are just middlen, there's still a big difference compared to Lucio's kind of local councilor.
Now as his influence grows, the enemies he encounters are also getting stronger.
While ensuring he becos stronger, he also needs a powerful backing to settle those troubles he currently finds difficult to handle.
Otherwise, similar situations to Dragon Gate Restaurant will keep recurring...
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The next morning, Su Mo was having breakfast, tuning in on ti to the "New Moon Morning" program.
The host teased, "Good morning! New Moon City! The sun has just risen, and we're greeting so sensational news!"
"From last night till early this morning, our communications agency received a large number of video sources, multiple rcenaries issued statents in these videos, declaring they will no longer accept any commissions related to the Border District."
"What exactly prompted many rcenaries to issue such a statent simultaneously? Martin, what do you think?"
The host's side, a fat bearded guest said, "In my opinion, it's an assault on the Inner City rcenary forces by the border group, and the mastermind behind the scenes is very likely the King of the Borderlands, Wangya Nest."
"We all know, as the rcenary City, New Moon City has extrely frequent rcenary activities, even more so in the Border District. And Wangya Nest, as the de facto ruler of the borders, would certainly find the rcenaries' excessive involvent intolerable."
Host: "So you believe it's Wangya Nest who used so ans to coerce these rcenaries to issue video statents, is that it?"
Martin: "Yes, that's my view. There's no way rcenaries would voluntarily put out statents of this kind, it's a career-destroying act."
Host: "What's your comnt on this then?"
"I want to tell those rcenaries who issued the statents—" Martin stood up, raising both middle fingers to the screen, "Go eat shit! Cowardly wimps! The rcenary realm doesn't need you softies!"
The screen tily inserted a series of videos, all without a blur, showing those rcenaries making statents openly to the audience.
These rcenaries were all unfamiliar faces, not the sa batch as those Su Mo encountered at Dragon Gate Restaurant yesterday.
Clearly, Wangya Nest didn't just send Simon but dispatched many people, broadly intimidating those rcenaries who stretched their reach too far.
No matter their past experience, releasing this kind of statent essentially ant social death.
The rcenary realm is very ruthless.
If reputation is a middleman's solid asset, then a rcenary's hard asset is strength.
Recording such a video is undoubtedly a covert way of telling everyone—I've been threatened by the border group, I can't handle them, I'm useless.
Middlen won't issue commissions to a useless person.
The rcenary realm doesn't need useless people either.
These rcenaries' fates have only two choices left.
Either spend a lifeti accepting leftover junk commissions, doing dirty work even dogs wouldn't do.
Or simply retire and change careers.
Dongdong was also having breakfast, frowning at the television, "These rcenaries are really useless, what's so scary about Wangya Nest? I even beat up people from Wangya Nest before."
Su Mo was stunned, "Ah? Who did you beat?"
Dongdong: "An outside lackey, saw I was young, tried to touch , so I knocked out seven or eight of his teeth with a stick. His big brother felt ashad and didn't bother anymore."
Su Mo laughed, he thought for a mont and asked, "Dongdong, let ask you, if Wangya Nest's people threatened you to record such a video, what would you do?"
Dongdong replied without hesitation, "Fight them! How can I tolerate this?"
Su Mo: "What if they're stronger than you, and you can't beat them?"
Dongdong's prosthetic tail, which can sense human reactions, puffed its fur upright, fiercely cute she said, "Then I'll strap a bomb and go down with them! If I can't have peace, then nobody else will!"
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