[20:00, October 4]

[New Moon City Lakefront Business District, Moonlight Mansion, Xinghai Cinema]

Muto Dongying sat on the ground after dinner, facing the wall in meditation.

“Beep, beep…” The alarm on his wristwatch went off right on time. He opened his deep eyes.

“Father, Mother, I will carry out my Samurai Way. Be proud of me.” He murmured, standing up from his samurai sitting position.

He found a companion to ask: “Did the authorities respond?”

The companion shook his head: “No, no messages have come through.”

“Hah, looks like the pressure isn’t enough yet.” Muto Dongying headed toward the screening room, his tone turning bloody, “It’s time to give them another wake-up call!”

Earlier, the teachers and students of Chiyang Attached Primary School had already learned of Nannan’s unfortunate fate.

The screening room was filled with gloom and despair, Teacher Xiao Mei, Nannan’s homeroom teacher, had fainted from crying several times, while the classmates held each other, crying profusely.

Muto Dongying was like an embodiment of evil, his mere presence made the children scream and wail.

He walked to the two children crying the hardest and sneered viciously, “Miss her a lot, right? Don’t worry, you’ll soon be hanging with her!”

Teacher Xiao Mei crawled over, clutching Muto Dongying’s leg, pleading through tears, “Please… don’t hurt these children anymore…”

The execution last night had a strong reaction, making Muto Dongying realize that children were far more useful than adults.

He kicked away Teacher Xiao Mei and grabbed the two kids, carrying them off.

Teacher Xiao Mei tried to follow, but was restrained and beaten by two Crow’s Nest Thugs, helplessly watching the two crying children being taken away.

…

With the top brass having ordered a ceasefire to the armed forces, half of New Moon City had already become a playground for thugs.

The Lakefront Business District had fallen by dusk, the streets filled with celebratory mobs.

Some were group thugs, vandalizing, looting, and arson the shops, directly attacking Inner City People upon sight, wantonly unleashing violence.

Others were peripheral residents sneaking in amidst the chaos, following the thugs to swarm into smashed shops, seizing anything valuable.

Among the crowd were many who were not fringe people but impoverished Inner City People.

These people weren’t concerned about the city’s fate, without any sense of belonging to begin with, focusing solely on zero-dollar purchases, joining the masses to empty out the shops.

The plaza outside Moonlight Mansion was the epicenter of the chaos, diverse groups of thugs in different uniforms surged wildly, everyone raising their arms in chants.

“Crow’s Nest, our king!”

“Crow’s Nest, our king!”

“Crow’s Nest, our king!”

A security unit was blocked here, utterly helpless against the insults, middle fingers, and thrown objects from the thugs opposite them, only able to raise their riot shields, sticking close to each other to prevent being scattered by the mob.

Even when thugs unzipped their pants and urinated on their boots, these soldiers could only endure, awaiting uncertain orders for a counterstrike.

A cordon was drawn around the perimeter of Moonlight Mansion not by the security forces but by Muto Dongying’s men, barring anyone from nearing.

A Crow’s Nest thug stood brazenly outside the cordon, receiving the homage of his fringe compatriots.

He was Muto Dongying’s liaison, serving as the conduit between inside and outside of Xinghai Cinema.

Currently, Nannan’s parents were kneeling before this Crow’s Nest thug.

Nannan’s mother was in tears, sobbing uncontrollably, “Please, return our daughter’s body… Our Nannan easily catches cold… hanging up there must be freezing…”

The Crow’s Nest thug laughed crazily, spitting in her face: “You rich folks also have a day you must beg me in tears? First, kowtow a few times to show your sincerity.”

Nannan’s mother, like a walking corpse, her hair disheveled, knelt and kowtowed repeatedly to the Crow’s Nest thug, “Please… please…”

Just ten meters away, there was a security unit from the authorities, but these spirited men could only watch this pitiful mother being humiliated, powerless, their eyes turning red.

The Crow’s Nest thug was gleeful, raising his foot to stomp on Nannan’s mother’s head, “Kowtow harder for me!”

Without any warning, a fierce gust blew by as the Crow’s Nest thug suddenly noticed a silhouette before him, heavy resistance met his foot.

Standing face-to-face with the Crow’s Nest thug was a young man. He looked quite refined, his face expressionless, legs raised in the air, intercepting the thug’s stomp with the back of his foot.

Despite exerting his strength, the thug found he couldn’t budge the young man’s foot.

He squinted, thinking: A master has arrived?

He remained unfazed, as Muto Dongying still held hostages and had declared that harming a single Crow’s Nest cohort would lead to the execution of ten hostages.

The Crow’s Nest thug sneered coldly, “Kid, you sure are cocky, I…”

“Bang!!!” The young man suddenly lashed out with a powerful whip kick, shattering all of the thug’s teeth, bloodied fragments scattered all over the ground.

This thug, handpicked by Muto Dongying for his prowess, flew several meters away, rolled on the ground, and to the shock of youth, he managed to stand up again, clutching his bleeding mouth, staring incredulously.

Someone actually dared to attack?!

The Crow’s Nest thug raged uncontrollably, teeth whistling as he shouted into his communicator, “Wuteng Xun! There’s a damn brat attacking me here! Execute the hostages quickly!”

Muto Dongying had just pulled the two children to the window ledge, witnessing the earlier scene.

He picked up a megaphone, coldly demanding: “Hey, brat, you’ve got some nerve, daring to attack my men, do you know what consequences this will bring?”

The young man lifted his leg to dust off his pant leg, then picked up a megaphone to respond, “I know the consequences, that’s why I’m here to negotiate with you.”

The young man waved his hand as armored vehicles drove up from the end of the street, each vehicle bearing the pitch-black scythe emblem.

Someone on-site recognized them: “Death Scythe Military Industry!”

The armored vehicles from Death Scythe Military Industry sequentially halted, rear doors swung open, a large number of fully armed Death Scythe Mercenaries rushed out, numbering at least two or three thousand at a glance.

The Death Scythe Mercenaries pushed into the crowd, violently dispersing the assembled thugs, giving anyone unwilling to comply a baton beating, clearing out a makeshift restricted zone amidst the clamor.

Muto Dongying frowned at this sight.

His first puzzlement was over why mercenaries would meddle in this matter.

The second was shock at their audacity in disregarding warnings and assaulting the fringe thugs present.

Didn’t they fear him executing hostages?

Muto Dongying was deeply perplexed, examining the young man at the forefront, asking: “Are you with the authorities?”

Young Man: “I’m not.”

Muto Dongying: “Then who are you?”

The young man stood against the armored vehicle’s searchlights, his face obscured by the backlighting shadows, yet the cold gleam in his eyes remained visible.

“Captain Edge of the Edge Mercenary Corps, Su Mo. I speak on behalf of New Moon City.”

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