Slaying for Merit! I'll Add Points Directly!

"Brother Tong, I don't want to die! My wife is still waiting for me at home—I want to go home!"

"Brother Tong, hurry and think of something! How can this damned place have so many Barbarians?"

"You're asking me? How the hell would I know?"

Panicked, helpless voices drifted into his ears.

Jiang Bei slowly opened his eyes, feeling a sharp ache in his head.

Hiss... it hurts...

Where was this?

Suppressing the pain, he looked around and discovered that he was curled up inside a narrow earthen passage.

Four or five men clad in leather armor stood to his left, while several villagers huddled in the corner to his right.

Jiang Bei's heart tightened, and he instinctively shrank back. Fine grains of dirt rustled down from the earthen wall behind him.

"Wasn't I on my way home from work? Where the hell did this send me?!"

He pinched his palm hard. The vivid pain confirmed that this was no illusion.

Just moments ago, a large truck had struck him head-on and sent him flying on his way home.

Then his vision had gone black, and he had lost consciousness.

When he opened his eyes again, he was here. The clothing of the people before him looked nothing like that of modern times.

Could it be... that he had transmigrated?!

As a seasoned reader of web novels, Jiang Bei knew that getting hit by a truck and transmigrating was practically commonplace. He just had not expected such an absurd thing to happen to him.

"Hiss!"

At that moment, a flood of memories belonging to the original owner surged into his mind like a tidal wave.

Da Gan Dynasty... Iron Horse Pass borderlands... soldier of the Death Squad Camp...

Feeling those memories, Jiang Bei became certain that he had truly transmigrated!

He had transmigrated into an ancient-like world and become an ordinary soldier of the borderland Death Squad Camp.

By coincidence, the original owner had also been named Jiang Bei. Today, after receiving word from Lin Jie of the same camp that Sunset Village had only three to five ordinary Barbarians, he had come with the men beside him to wipe them out and earn military merit.

Who would have thought the intelligence would be outrageously wrong? Not only had the number of Barbarians doubled, but there was even a Ranked expert hidden among them!

In this world, Ranked and unranked differed by only one word, yet their strength was worlds apart. One Ranked expert could easily crush seven or eight ordinary people.

Unable to resist, the original owner and his group had been led by local villagers into this cellar to hide.

Before entering the cellar, however, the original owner had already been wounded by those Barbarians. In the end, he had failed to hold on, which was how Jiang Bei had come to transmigrate here.

"No hardship, no transmigration indeed!"

Jiang Bei felt incomparably bitter. Though he had been granted another life, this opening hand... was far too miserable, wasn't it?

Where was his cheat?

Where was the system?

Weren't those essential equipment for transmigrators?

Why had neither appeared yet?

"Brother Bei! You're awake! That's great!"

At that moment, several other soldiers from the Death Squad Camp turned around. One dark-skinned man laughed in wild delight.

This man was named Chen Niu, and he had had a fairly good relationship with the original owner.

"Now that you're awake, hurry and think of a way! Stop playing dead! Those Barbarians are searching for people outside!"

Beside Chen Niu, a thick-browed man barked coldly.

Jiang Bei glanced at him, ignored him, and slowly pushed himself up from the ground.

This man was Wang Tong, the oldest among them.

Lin Jie had told the original owner about today's mission, claiming there were only a few ordinary Barbarians.

Wang Tong and the others had eagerly followed along to earn military merit, only to run into a Ranked expert. Naturally, they vented all their resentment on him.

"I need to think of something! I absolutely can't die here just like this!"

Jiang Bei frowned tightly, his desire to survive suddenly soaring.

He did not want to transmigrate here only to wait for death!

He had to save himself!

He steadied his breathing and forced himself to calm down. The more dangerous the moment, the less he could panic.

He casually grabbed a horizontal saber from nearby and gripped it in his hand. The original owner's strength had only barely allowed him to get started in cultivation.

Among these soldiers, that might already have counted as decent.

But compared to the Ranked Barbarian outside, the gap was still enormous. Going out would be nothing but delivering himself to death.

Jiang Bei swept his gaze across the sealed cellar, then turned to the trembling villagers. "Is there another exit?"

"N-No."

A young woman holding a child answered in a shaking voice, her eyes filled with despair.

Jiang Bei's heart sank. This would not do. If the Barbarians were determined to search, finding this place was only a matter of time.

His gaze swept around, and he soon noticed two men at his feet, bound hand and foot with rags stuffed in their mouths, struggling constantly.

They wore animal hides, and vicious glints shone in their eyes. They were precisely those savage Barbarians.

"Why didn't you kill them? Why bring them into the cellar?"

Jiang Bei frowned deeply and asked in a low voice.

"Capturing one Barbarian alive is worth two military merits! If I kill them, what happens to my military merit?"

Wang Tong turned around with a gloomy expression and said.

"At a time like this, you're still thinking about military merit? If they make even the slightest noise and draw the Barbarians outside over here, we'll all die!"

Jiang Bei shouted sternly.

Wang Tong was about to retort when the people beside him hurriedly pulled him back. "Brother Tong, Brother Bei is right. Military merit is good, but you need to be alive to claim it!"

Hearing that, Wang Tong hesitated to speak, but ultimately said nothing more.

"Give me the saber. If you won't kill them, I will!"

Jiang Bei growled, snatched a saber from Chen Niu, and fixed the two Barbarians with a lightning-sharp gaze.

This was his first time killing someone, but he understood that at this life-or-death juncture, if he still hemmed and hawed over killing a person, shrinking back in fear, then the next moment... the one who died would be himself!

Jiang Bei clenched the saber hilt, forcibly drew in a breath, and had the villagers turn their heads away. Then he swung the blade down!

"Splurt!"

Blood sprayed, and a head rolled to the ground.

Then came another slash!

"Splurt!"

Two Barbarian heads lay side by side in a pool of blood.

After killing the two, Jiang Bei let out a heavy breath. The hand holding the saber trembled slightly.

At that moment, electronic notification windows abruptly popped up before him.

Slaying those guilty of heinous crimes grants corresponding Merit Points. The more evil deeds an enemy has committed, the more Merit Points gained.

Merit Points can be consumed to increase martial arts progress.

You killed a Barbarian who had committed countless evil deeds. Merit Points +2.

You killed... a Barbarian. Merit Points +4.

Current Merit Points: 6

"Merit Points? Could this be my cheat?"

Jiang Bei's heart jolted. After confirming that only he could see these notifications, he forcefully suppressed the excitement in his heart.

Though his cheat had arrived late, it had arrived nonetheless.

As long as he killed evildoers, he could obtain Merit Points. In this brief span of time, he had already gained 6 points of merit!

Suddenly, a personal information panel appeared before him.

Name: Jiang Bei

Age: 19

Martial Art: Xing Tian Gong (Beginner +)

Realm: Unranked

Merit Points: 6

Xing Tian Gong discovered. Can be upgraded. Requires 5 Merit Points. Upgrade?

"Upgrade!"

Jiang Bei's eyes lit up. Without the slightest hesitation, he directly chose to upgrade.

This Xing Tian Gong was a Body Tempering Method. He had currently cultivated it to the beginner stage; one more step would take him to the first layer and directly into the Ranked realm!

These Merit Points had come at exactly the right time. Whether he could escape alive depended on this step!

With a thought, a scorching current immediately surged into Jiang Bei's body, and crackling sounds rang from his muscles and bones.

In an instant, surging power swept through his entire body like a tidal wave!

Martial Art: Xing Tian Gong (First Layer)

Realm: Ninth Rank Minor Training

Merit Points: 1

"Good!"

Jiang Bei was overjoyed. The original owner had cultivated bitterly for one or two years without entering the Ranked realm, yet he had done it with a single thought.

This was what it meant to have hacks!

Now that he was Ranked, he felt incomparably powerful.

His confidence in escaping alive and facing the Ranked Barbarian outside had increased by several degrees.

"So what if you killed them? Today, dead or alive, we're doomed anyway."

Wang Tong suddenly muttered in a strange, mocking tone. He stared at the two headless corpses, his eyes full of regret.

If he could have brought those two Barbarians back to the Death Squad Camp, his military merit could have accumulated to 15 points, and he would have had hope of returning to his own camp.

Instead of continuing to remain in this perilous Death Squad Camp, where nine deaths out of ten would be considered lucky.

Jiang Bei shot him a cold glance, ignored him, and turned his attention to listening carefully to the sounds above the cellar.

Now that he had entered the Ranked realm, it was time to think about how to escape.

This cellar would be discovered sooner or later. It was not a long-term solution.

"There's a cellar here. Open it and take a look!"

"Move aside, I'll do it!"

At that moment, rough voices suddenly came from above the cellar.

"Not good, the Barbarians are here!"

Jiang Bei's heart shook violently.

Wang Tong, Chen Niu, and the others instantly turned pale and instinctively backed away several steps. They had not expected to be discovered so quickly.

The villagers nearly screamed outright in terror.