Dao Master

After leaving the Shrimp Claypot Rice restaurant, Lu Bai wandered aimlessly.

The good thing about Chikan Bay is that you don't need to show your identification information whether you're shopping or staying at a hotel.

You can do anything in this neighborhood if you have money.

Unfortunately, Lu Bai is currently penniless.

So, in order to solve this problem, he had no choice but to wander around some remote streets and alleys by himself.

After all, in a place like Chikan Bay, illegal activities don't need to be carried out specifically at night.

Given the right opportunity, ordinary residents can be turned into criminals on the spot.

Lu Bai is now providing opportunities for these potential criminals.

With his obedient and harmless high school student image, he walked alone through the secluded streets and alleys.

Given such a great opportunity, the residents of Chikan Bay felt that they would be doing themselves a disservice if they didn't seize it.

In an alleyway reeking of urine, the garbage cans at the entrance emanated a foul stench, and swarms of flies could be seen hovering over them.

However, deep inside this alley...

Click~

Lu Bai had a burly man with a thick beard standing on his feet. He loaded his sidearm and casually pressed the muzzle against the man's forehead.

"I don't need to pay, right?"

He still wore a kind smile, but it frightened the burly man with the thick beard so much that he froze.

The burly man with the thick beard felt numb.

Who knows how he randomly picked a little lamb and it suddenly turned into such a terrifying monster.

The burly man forced a smile.

No, that's alright.

"You people, don't cause trouble for society."

Lu Bai applied a little force with his gun, causing the burly man to shudder.

"Okay, okay, you're right."

"Here's what we'll do, see how much money you have on you."

Burly man. "..." Huh?

It only took Lu Bai ten minutes to borrow money from the strong man.

He didn't linger and quickly walked out of the smelly alley.

This was the burly man's third fish.

He borrowed money from three different people, but unfortunately, all the money they had combined amounted to only a few hundred yuan, not even enough for him to have a nice meal.

Lu Bai stood on the street, looking around, and couldn't help but sigh.

Aren't these grassroots criminals a bit too poor?

He felt the few hundred yuan in his pocket and thought about finding a hotel to stay in first.

There happened to be one right next door, with a neon sign that read "Changlai Hotel".

Lu Bai stepped into the hotel, paid the bill, and checked in in one smooth motion.

The whole process was incredibly fast; they even skipped the step of simply registering a name.

The hotel owner was an elderly woman in her fifties or sixties. She took two hundred yuan from Lu Bai and handed him the room key.

Before leaving, he added, "If you want to pick up girls tonight, just call the front desk."

Lu Bai gave her a silent smile, and after seeing the boss off, he closed the door.

Returning our attention to the room, it's fair to say that although this hotel calls itself a hotel, the room environment feels more like a guesthouse, and a very basic one at that.

A bed, a toilet, and no other furniture or decorations—it was hardly better than a prison.

Fortunately, Lu Bai didn't have high requirements in this regard; he just needed something that was barely habitable.

He searched the room and, after confirming there were no surveillance cameras or anything like that, he moved a stool to sit by the window, feeling reassured.

He chose this room because it had a wide view, offering a clear view of the street.

If a titled Deathmatcher were to walk by on the street, he could absolutely guarantee that he would spot them first.

He sat there for hours.

Unfortunately, he didn't see a single deathmatch fighter, which made him wonder if there were any deathmatch fighters at all in Chikan Bay.

As Lu Bai pondered this problem, another group of people got into a conflict at the street corner below.

A group of people wielding machetes and axes were chasing after a person.

The leader shouted, "Damn it! You swore a solemn oath to Master Wu to follow me, and now you're saying you won't?!"

"Get him!"

The fleeing man was quickly caught and hacked to pieces.

That group was quite particular; after they finished killing someone, they even put the body in a burlap sack and took it away, so as not to affect anyone else's appetite.

Faced with such a sudden event, passersby on the street remained calm, and many even stopped to watch the spectacle.

After all, there are far too many cases like this, where people are attacked in the street, in Chikan Bay. The locals are used to it.

Lu Bai had only been sitting by the window for a few hours when he saw at least four incidents.

The chaos in this neighborhood is evident.

It is worth mentioning that this chaos was not intentional.

It's simply because there are too many forces in this neighborhood; there are hundreds of them, large and small.

Almost every day, new communities or organizations are established, and almost every day, dynamic social organizations are destroyed by hostile forces.

The hotel where Lu Bai is currently staying is within the territory of a gang called the White Shark Gang.

The owner paid protection money, and the White Shark Gang guaranteed that the hotel could operate normally without being harassed by other forces.

However, gangs like this only manage to survive by picking up scraps from the larger powers.

The truly lucrative things are still gambling and prostitution.

However, the profits from these black market industries are simply too great for any single force to monopolize, and a situation that satisfies all parties has not yet been formed. Coupled with the continuous influence of some external forces, chaos in Chikan Bay has become the norm.

However, it should be noted that Chikan Bay actually has a leading head.

Dao Master.

According to rumors, he was an extremely fierce man who single-handedly broke through an entire neighborhood back then.

That was the closest Chikan Bay came to unification, but Dao Master didn't seem to have any intention of dominating. He let Chikan Bay be in chaos, only occasionally sending people to recruit some potential newcomers, and rarely stood up to express any opinions.

Even so, for all the major and minor forces in Chikan Bay, Dao Master could be considered the uncrowned king.

No matter how fierce the fighting, they dared not cause trouble in the territory of the Dao Sect.

Admittedly, after learning about these things, Lu Bai did consider joining the Dao Sect.

Having learned about this Dao Master's deeds, it's safe to say he was an incredibly powerful being, far beyond human capabilities.

Perhaps by joining Dao Sect, one can obtain these supernatural cultivation methods.

"Only..."

Thinking of this, Lu Bai leaned on the windowsill, propped his chin on his hand, and muttered, "What reason would be appropriate?"

It was already dusk outside the window.

Without a doubt, the crimes in Chikan Bay will become even more rampant as night falls.

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Lu Bai noticed a familiar figure on the street— Brother Shrimp with dyed green hair.

Brother Shrimp was visibly dazed; he even bumped his head on a trash can, but it didn't bring him back to his senses.