Lu Chen carried Zhao Shan on his back and hurried toward the city, his heart brimming with rage.
This damned world truly did not want people to live.
It would have been one thing if he had no system.
But now that he had a system, he would surely turn heaven and earth upside down!
Not a single person who bore a grudge against him would be allowed to escape!
However!
Just as they hurried toward the city,
a group of three beggars swiftly rushed out from within the city. Reeking to high heaven and clad in tattered clothes, they blocked their path halfway there.
"Well, well, you little beast. Instead of begging properly, you actually dared run around?"
The beggar in the middle, his face covered in scarred sores and a dog-beating staff in hand, glared at Zhao Shan and shouted angrily, "Get your ass over here right now! Believe it or not, I'll gouge out your other eye too!"
"Kid, who the hell are you? You dared touch our people?"
"Are you his family? Put him down at once!"
The other two beggars shouted along with him.
Zhao Shan was terrified beyond measure and hurriedly struggled on Lu Chen's back.
"Brother Lu, they're here! Run! Don't let them catch you..."
"It's them!"
Lu Chen gritted his teeth, a cold glint surfacing in his eyes.
He had been about to go looking for them!
And they still dared show themselves!
"You were the one who gouged out Shan's eye?" Lu Chen roared at the beggar in the middle as he casually set Zhao Shan down.
"Kid, who the fuck are you? You dare talk to me like that? Are you tired of living?"
The beggar in the middle shouted furiously.
One look at Lu Chen's clothes told him that Lu Chen had definitely come from a poor family.
Ordinary impoverished families truly did not warrant their attention.
If they were unhappy, they could poison your family well in the dead of night.
They could even pry open your door at night and kill everyone in your household, ensuring no one ever found out.
"Me? I'm your fucking grandfather!"
Lu Chen's face darkened. He could not be bothered to waste words with them and charged straight at them.
"Kid, you're courting death!"
"Fuck, cripple him!"
The two beggars beside him revealed savage expressions and pulled out iron shards, rushing toward Lu Chen.
Whoosh!
The moment they came up, both of them viciously stabbed toward Lu Chen.
But in Lu Chen's eyes, their movements and strength were far too slow.
The instant they stabbed over, Lu Chen grabbed both their wrists with his hands.
A tremendous force of over a thousand pounds erupted. Their wrist bones creaked under his grip, and pain drained the color from their faces as they let out miserable screams, feeling as though their wrists were about to snap.
That was not all.
Lu Chen seized them and slammed them violently into each other. No one knew how much force went into that full-power collision; the two men in his hands seemed to turn into sheets of paper.
Crack!
Bang!
Their bodies collided like watermelons. In that instant, who knew how many bones throughout their bodies shattered. They sprayed blood wildly, rolled their eyes back, and died miserably.
[You killed two beggars, sparing more orphans from a fate of torment! Merit Points +10]
Lu Chen had not expected these two beggars to provide so many Merit Points.
That was even more than killing his elder brother and sister-in-law had given him.
He tossed the two men aside and looked ahead again.
The middle-aged beggar in the lead was startled when he saw how ferocious Lu Chen was. Terror appeared on his face as he hurriedly backed away. "You... you know martial arts? Who are you?"
Behind him, Zhao Shan was completely dumbstruck. He could scarcely believe Lu Chen had become so terrifying.
Those two beggars had been enforcers of the Beggar Gang.
They fought year-round, yet Lu Chen had sent them crashing to death so easily.
"I'm your fucking mother!"
Lu Chen cursed and shot forward.
The middle-aged beggar turned and ran.
But how could his speed compare to Lu Chen's? Lu Chen caught up with him in an instant from behind, grabbed him by the back, and lifted him up like a straw dummy.
Then, with two fingers like iron rods, he viciously jabbed at the man's eyes.
Squelch!
"Ah!"
A miserable, agonized scream rang out, blood splattering everywhere.
The middle-aged beggar clutched his eyes and screamed miserably. Lu Chen had gouged both his eyes out alive. The pain made him struggle madly, nearly causing him to pass out.
Bang!
Lu Chen viciously threw him to the ground.
[You punished a beggar chief who had committed countless evils. Merit Points +5]
Another line of text appeared.
"Shan, was he the one who broke your legs?" Lu Chen immediately looked at Zhao Shan and demanded.
Zhao Shan was utterly stunned, the shock in his heart beyond all measure.
He simply could not believe it.
The current Lu Chen seemed like a god to him.
Was this still the Brother Lu he knew?
He was practically a god descended into the mortal world!
"N-No. My legs were broken by their Beggar Chief. This man gouged out my eye."
Zhao Shan hurriedly replied.
"The Beggar Chief? Fine. We'll go settle accounts with him. Not a single one of those beggars can be spared!"
Lu Chen gritted his teeth.
Bang!
Crack!
He raised his foot and stomped down, landing squarely on the middle-aged beggar's chest. His breastbone burst apart, blood splashed everywhere, and the corpse no longer moved.
But Lu Chen soon frowned again.
Sure enough, only the first time earned Merit Points!
There were none afterward!
That meant his idea of repeatedly tormenting one person to exploit a bug would not work.
He looked at the panel before him again.
Merit Points: 17
"Add points to Galloping Horse Fist."
Whoosh!
The martial art on the panel changed again, rising from minor mastery to major mastery, then from major mastery to perfection.
His Merit Points instantly dropped by 10.
"Previously, raising it from entry level to minor mastery only cost 3 points. Now, raising it from minor mastery to perfection actually costs 10 points. It seems the further I go, the more Merit Points I'll need."
Lu Chen pondered.
However, this Galloping Horse Fist seemed to be an unranked martial art.
Even after raising it to perfection, there did not seem to be much change in his body. It merely gave him a much deeper understanding of fist techniques.
He bent down and searched the corpses of the beggars, then quickly spat.
"Damn it! No wonder they're beggars! Not even a single coin!"
"Shan, let's go settle accounts with the Beggar Chief!"
Lu Chen returned to Zhao Shan, picked him up, carried him on his back again, and hurried toward the city.
Zhao Shan was so shaken that he could no longer speak.
Brother Lu had truly changed!
He had become completely different from before.
He pinched his thigh hard, afraid that this was all a dream.
But the pain in his thigh told him that this was no dream. It was incomparably real.
"Brother Lu, you've really become stronger."
Tears streamed down Zhao Shan's face as he sobbed.
"Enough. What's a grown man crying for?"
Lu Chen laughed as he ran. Though he said that, he could not help but feel bitter himself.
A person who had once possessed sound limbs had been tortured into this state by a group of beggars. No one could easily accept that.
They ran all the way.
Before long, Panshi City was right before their eyes.
Lu Chen took a light breath, raised his head, and looked at the pitch-black city. Then he suddenly set Zhao Shan down outside the city gate.
"Shan, wait for me out here. Don't go inside."
Once he went in, he would surely embark on a killing spree.
When that happened, the authorities would inevitably come to surround and suppress him.
With someone whose hands and feet were crippled in tow, he simply could not look after him.
"Brother Lu, be careful!"
Zhao Shan looked worried as he spoke.
"Don't worry. They can't kill me!"
Lu Chen laughed lightly. Along the way, he had already asked Zhao Shan about the situation inside the city.
The Beggar Gang in this world was not the Beggar Gang from novels.
The Beggar Gang here was truly just a group of beggars!
They did not know martial arts!
All they knew was stealing chickens and dogs, abducting children, crippling them, and slicing them apart!
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