Who wants to become a god? Aren't you all forcing me?

The arena was silent, so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Everyone looked at Li Chenqiu in stunned disbelief.

Xu Jiang's eyes widened as he stared at Li Chenqiu in disbelief. "Wait… you want all of them?"

"Yes, swipe the card!" Li Chenqiu took out a bank card from his pocket and placed it on the table.

"Would you like to consider it? Or maybe pick and choose?" Someone asked cautiously.

Li Chenqiu smiled and waved his hand. "I've already considered it. Swipe the card!"

With hundreds of millions in assets, what's there to consider about spending a little money on a revived beast?

Xu Jiang swallowed hard, his hand holding the booklet trembling.

He's… buying them all?

Doesn't everyone haggle when buying groceries at the market? How is this more casual than buying groceries?!

Seeing that everyone was unresponsive, Li Chenqiu raised his hand and waved it. "Why are you all looking at me? Shouldn't you be swiping the card?"

"Ah… Okay, okay, okay!"

Xu Jiang reacted and hurriedly took out the Hunter Association's unlimited credit card machine from the drawer.

Then he ran to Li Chenqiu and asked uncertainly, "Are you sure you want to swipe the card? Don't you want to know more about them?"

Li Chenqiu handed the bank card to Xu Jiang and said grandly, "I know enough."

At this moment, Li Chenqiu finally understood how good it was to be rich. There was no need to haggle or compare prices. This was the life he yearned for!

Click!

The bank card swiped through the sensor.

Beep beep beep beep—

The indicator light on the card machine turned red.

Xu Jiang looked up at Li Chenqiu. "It seems like it's not enough!"

"Not enough?" Li Chenqiu raised an eyebrow, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes. "Then swipe 60 million first, and the rest from this card."

After speaking, Li Chenqiu took out another bank card and placed it on the table, a hint of heartache flashing in his eyes.

He didn't expect a few revived beasts to be so expensive, costing over 60 million. It was truly outrageous, but fortunately, Horse-Face sponsored a lot.

Thinking of Horse-Face, a comfortable smile appeared on Li Chenqiu's face. He hadn't seen him for a few hours, and he suddenly wanted to… wanted Horse-Face again.

Beep beep beep beep—

The familiar sound rang again.

Xu Jiang raised his head awkwardly, revealing a polite smile. "It's still not enough!"

"Would you like to pick and choose? After all, buying all of them is quite expensive," someone suggested.

"Still not enough?" Li Chenqiu sat up straight, hesitated for a moment, and then took out another bank card from his pocket. "Swipe another 60 million from the second card, and the rest from this card."

"Okay." Xu Jiang responded and swiped the bank card through the sensor under Li Chenqiu's gaze.

Beep beep beep beep—

"Still not enough?" The originally composed Li Chenqiu instantly became uneasy. "Really? How could it not be enough? Are you guys scamming me?"

As soon as everyone heard this, they instantly became uneasy and hurriedly began to explain.

"The Hunter Association is a merchant association that spans the entire Tianyuan Federation. How could we do something that would ruin our reputation?"

"That's right, these are all clearly priced. It's impossible for there to be any scams."

"You can check online. The prices are the same in every city."

Li Chenqiu suppressed the shock in his heart and asked in a deep voice, "Can you tell me the specific prices of these revived beasts?"

"Okay." Xu Jiang nodded and took out his booklet again. "The market price for a three-forbidden revived beast ranges from 10 million to 30 million. You want to buy fourteen, so the total value of these fourteen is 210 million.

The price of a four-forbidden revived beast generally fluctuates between 100 million and 200 million. The price of this four-forbidden revived beast is 140 million, making a total of 350 million."

"350 million?" Li Chenqiu's pupils shook, and he subconsciously tightened his grip on his pocket.

Are these people joking with him? A dozen revived beasts cost 350 million? This is going to empty his vault all at once!

Xu Jiang tentatively asked, "Are you alright? Would you like me to introduce you to the information about these revived beasts so you can pick a few?"

"No need." Li Chenqiu waved his hand in refusal. "I want to ask, is there any possibility of a discount on these clearly priced revived beasts?"

"It doesn't seem like it."

Li Chenqiu frowned and didn't speak, seemingly pondering something.

He urgently needed revived beasts, so he definitely had to buy them. He couldn't be penny-wise and pound-foolish, picking up sesame seeds and losing the watermelon.

Since he couldn't bargain, then there was only one path in front of him.

All in!

Under everyone's gaze, Li Chenqiu took out the remaining three bank cards from his pocket and said through gritted teeth, "Swipe the cards!"

"Alright!"

…

After Li Chenqiu paid, a group of people escorted him to a heavy, tightly closed cold storage iron door.

As soon as he approached the iron door, Li Chenqiu felt a chill seeping out from the cracks. "Is the temperature so low inside?"

Xu Jiang explained with a smile, "The three and four-forbidden revived beasts are expensive and almost no one buys them. More and more of them are piling up, so we can only use ultra-low temperatures and other special methods to slow down the rate of corpse decay."

After speaking, Xu Jiang gave the staff in front of the iron door an "OK" gesture.

Clang—

Along with a sound of metal rubbing against metal, the iron door slowly moved to both sides, and white cold air overflowed from the door seam.

Everyone tightened their clothes and retreated, only Li Chenqiu stepped into the cold storage.

"Don't go in yet, wait for it to warm up!" Xu Jiang shouted loudly.

Li Chenqiu waved his hand indifferently. "It's fine."

After speaking, he stepped into the cold storage.

The cold storage was less than a hundred square meters, and the lighting was dim, so everything could only be seen in general.

Thick iron chains hung in the air, constantly swaying due to the cold wind, making crisp collision sounds.

Under the iron chains, revived beasts with a body length of three to four meters were hung in the air, their wide-eyed eyes staring straight at the direction of the cold storage door, which was where Li Chenqiu was.

A hint of anticipation flashed in Li Chenqiu's eyes as he thought to himself, "I wonder if these can push me to the three-forbidden."

He was very clear that although he had broken through to the two-forbidden, his physical functions had not significantly improved. He was like a bottle filled with water that had suddenly become larger, but the amount of water inside had not increased.

If he didn't use the extreme water and extreme fire abilities, he could probably only kill some mediocre four-forbidden with absolute control. Using the abilities and the means of a revived person, he might be able to entangle with the five-forbidden.

It would be difficult to seize the opportunity with such strength, so he had to make himself stronger. Even if he couldn't break through to the three-forbidden, he had to fill the two-forbidden bottle as much as possible.

Xu Jiang, who was standing outside the door, saw Li Chenqiu standing still and tentatively asked, "What do you think?"

"It's pretty good." Li Chenqiu turned sideways thoughtfully. "Do you guys make rare meat with cumin?"

……

……

City 11, North Huangshan.

Unlike the usual lively and relaxed atmosphere, North Huangshan was suppressed and solemn at this moment.

Looking down from high altitude, the top of the mountain was silent.

It was noon, but no smoke rose, there was no sizzling sound in the camping area, and there wasn't even a single car on the road. It was extremely strange.

In a wide and flat square, Gong Ran and his wife, Zhou Huaxiu, stood quietly in place, as if waiting for something.

"Husband, do you think the An Unification Department will protect us well?" Zhou Huaxiu asked uneasily.

Gong Ran didn't speak immediately. His narrow eyes were extraordinarily calm and extraordinarily desperate.

When he learned from Bai Meng that North Huangshan couldn't keep a single person or a single car, he probably guessed his ending—a pawn, an unimportant pawn.

After a long silence, Gong Ran slowly opened his mouth and said, "Maybe!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a few small black dots appeared in the blue sky.

As time slowly passed, the small black dots gradually became clearer.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh—

A burst of roaring sound came from the horizon, and four helicopters gradually approached the square.

The high-speed rotating propellers shattered the stable airflow, and a swift gale poured down from the sky, causing the clothes of Gong Ran and his wife to flutter.

The four helicopters flew to a position 100 meters above the square and stopped without landing.

Then, the cabin door of one of the planes slowly opened, and a young man wearing a black tight-fitting combat suit with cold features walked to the cabin door and looked coldly at the ground.

"Let's go."

The young man said coldly, jumped from the high altitude, and landed steadily on the ground.

After the young man landed, the helicopters in the sky slowly rose and flew away from the square.

"This?"

Gong Ran looked at the departing helicopter in a daze.

Why did they just leave directly? Weren't they going to discuss any countermeasures?

The young man walked up to Gong Ran, and his sharp gaze swept over the two of them. "Hello, are you Gong Ran and Zhou Huaxiu?"

"Uh… we are." Gong Ran nodded honestly.

The young man took out the An Unification Department's certificate from his pocket and held it in front of Gong Ran. "An Unification Department, Disaster Purge Department, 14th Action Squad Deputy Captain, Ying Zhi."

"Ying?" Gong Ran's pupils shook. "Are you?"

"Disaster Purge Department, 14th Action Squad Deputy Captain, Ying Zhi." Ying Zhi repeated again.

Gong Ran immediately reacted and belatedly nodded. "Captain Ying, hello."

"This purge mission concerns the safety of the people. The An Unification Department attaches great importance to it and hopes that you can cooperate with us. For the next few days, I will represent the An Unification Department to negotiate with you. If you have any questions, tell me. If you have any concerns, tell me. If you have any needs, tell me, okay?"

Ying Zhi forced a smile that wasn't good-looking, without a trace of warmth and particularly eerie at the same time.

Gong Ran and Zhou Huaxiu shuddered and hurriedly nodded in agreement.

Ying Zhi frowned slightly at this scene, a hint of incomprehension flashing in his eyes.

Is his smile so eerie? He had clearly grasped the arc. Shouldn't such a smile make people feel kind?

If Gong Ran knew what Ying Zhi was thinking at this moment, he would probably laugh out loud speechlessly on the spot.

You call this kind? It's clearly nuclear kindness!

……

……

Time is like an unstoppable hourglass. It will not speed up because of someone's expectations, nor will it slow down because of someone's worries.

Li Chenqiu and his team of chefs safely huddled in the icehouse, eating rare meat at the rate of one meal per hour, in pain and happiness.

Gong Ran and his wife were completely different from Li Chenqiu. They only had pain and no happiness, and they lived in torment every minute and every second.

After the An Unification Department arrived in City 11, they immediately deployed around North Huangshan. Tanks drove into the city under the gaze of the people, and well-equipped soldiers occasionally showed their faces on the streets…

This series of events panicked even the originally calm people, and they launched heated discussions about it.

"Is this making such a big fuss? Tanks have been deployed!"

"More than that, people aren't even allowed to stay within dozens of kilometers around North Huangshan. The people who live there have been driven out by the Special Abilities Department!"

"This Gong Ran really knows how to pick a place for himself. North Huangshan has good air, great scenery, and it's good to die there."

"It's not certain whether he'll die or not. Disaster Water has already exposed its true strength and can't fight the An Unification Department with information asymmetry."

"That's right. The main reason why Disaster Water was successful last time was that it caught them off guard. This time, the An Unification Department has personally deployed, so going to North Huangshan to kill Gong Ran is no different from throwing himself into a trap."

"But… did that battle really find out the depth of Disaster Water?

The discussion suddenly stopped, and everyone turned to look at the speaker.

……

Under the witness of the sun, moon, and stars, the 48-hour countdown continued to shorten.

The setting sun slanted westward, and the afterglow of the setting sun slowly lowered the curtain.

The pedestrians walking on the road noticed the moisture flowing in the air.

It seemed like it was going to rain.

Rumble!

White lightning tore through the heavy dark clouds, reflecting in everyone's pupils.

Drip, drip, drip…

Raindrops fell one by one, and as time passed, they evolved into an uninterrupted rain curtain, forcing the pedestrians on the street to put up their umbrellas.

At this time, there were three hours left until the end of the countdown.

Under North Huangshan, a tall middle-aged man held a black umbrella and looked up at the rain lines flowing down the umbrella ribs, a hint of imperceptible solemnity flashing in his deep eyes.

This person was the captain of the An Unification Department's 14th Action Squad—Ying Cheng.

"Why did it suddenly rain? The weather forecast clearly didn't say there would be rain!" Ying Zhi stepped forward, looking at the gloomy sky with concern.

Ying Cheng said calmly, "The weather is unpredictable. How can people say it accurately? Have you hidden the people well?"

Ying Zhi nodded. "They're hidden well. There shouldn't be any major problems. Captain, you don't have to worry about these things."

"I don't know why, but I always have a bad feeling." Ying Cheng frowned. "With Disaster Water's strength, he could have killed Gong Ran two days ago. Why did he make such a big show of the countdown?"

Ying Zhi thought and said, "Could it be that he wants to provoke our An Unification Department in this way?"

"If it's just provocation, then naturally everyone will be happy. If he has other purposes…"

Buzz buzz buzz buzz—

At this time, the phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.

Not only him, but the phones of everyone in City 11 began to vibrate.

Looking down from a high altitude, the colorful umbrellas on the street stopped, and the appearance of vibration seemed to make the entire city pause abruptly.

Ying Cheng took out his phone from his pocket and turned on the screen.

There was nothing, everything was normal.

"Strange, why can't I turn off the phone vibration?" Ying Zhi patted his phone.

Ying Cheng said slowly, "He's here."