The Shadow Swordsman

If all he had to do was take the two children and leave, Jiang Yue knew he could do it with ease.

Even though the threat the triangular-eyed Fourth had made just before he died had sounded terrifying—something about how no one who entered this complex would ever leave alive.

If Jiang Yue wanted to leave now, all it would take was a stomp of his foot.

If those people really came out to stop him, that would be exactly what Jiang Yue wanted.

It seemed that not landing the helicopter directly inside New Moon Bay had been a wise choice. If they had, the helicopter itself might have become an obvious target.

Most of the bastards who had invaded New Moon Bay were Awakened. And from the looks of it, they hadn't merely awakened physically; most of them had also developed all kinds of unique abilities.

If that were all there was to it, they still wouldn't be the hardest to deal with.

What worried Jiang Yue most was that these people had been desperadoes even in the Sunny Era.

After the Era of Strangeness began, awakening powerful individual talents would only make them even more lawless and harder to deal with.

Seeing Jiang Yue lost in thought and silent, the two women assumed he thought the children would be a burden. Disappointment was plain in their eyes.

The younger woman couldn't help saying, "Young man, what would it take for you to help us? If you want money, I still have some at home. If you don't mind that I'm dirty, I..."

That was a little startling.

Jiang Yue knew she had misunderstood, so he could only explain, "You two, I have people close to me here in New Moon Bay, and I still don't know how they're