Liu Fang's First Brush

After the banquet ended, they returned.

Zeng Mo had arranged his next trip so that he had plenty of time, so he wanted to finish editing the film first. He would pay the small amount of money owed to Xiaoyu, then split the points.

However, when he went back to check, Xiaodao and Xiaoqiang were nowhere to be seen.

Zeng Mo had left a note for Xiaoyu, telling her to follow the editing process of the previous film and continue editing it. At the same time, he had equipped himself with a hand crossbow. After putting down the old editing box, he directly rushed toward the Black Rock Martial Arts Hall, using his mediocre teleportation ability and completing a small task along the way.

In less than an hour, he had quickly earned 1,500 Survival Points.

Unexpectedly, Yu Lin approached him directly and gave him a warning, leaving him feeling somewhat embarrassed.

Afterward, he made another round through the city, passing through the main streets, Fuxing Avenue, the City Zoo, the northern quarry, and the southern Paradise Song and Dance Hall. After spending nearly an hour, he had visited them all, earning 50 Survival Points before finally arriving near the western outskirts of the city.

The taxi stopped beneath the awning of the Golden Sea Hotel. Zeng Mo and Liu Fang exchanged glances, confirmed that the hotel staff were not checking them, and then got out of the car and went upstairs.

The Black Rock Hotel was over twenty stories tall, and its grounds were quite large.

Liu Fang's room was on the highest floor.

Zeng Mo knocked on the door. After a moment, Liu Fang and her female secretary opened it, and he stepped inside.

Liu Fang was wearing a casual white sports outfit. She looked lively, while the secretary behind her wore a fitted black skirt and white shirt, with black stockings covering her long, slender legs. A silk scarf fluttered around her neck.

"I was just about to go downstairs to find you. When I saw you get off the elevator on the ninth floor, I knew you had arrived." Liu Fang smiled.

Zeng Mo nodded. "I thought you were here, so I came up first."

"You're quite punctual. You even arrived before noon." Liu Fang walked out while holding her secretary's arm and stood in the corridor outside Zeng Mo's room. "About the shoulder throw and shoulder slam you taught me yesterday, I went back and practiced them with a friend. I've nearly mastered them."

"Really?"

"You can just let my little assistant attack me." Liu Fang smiled. She reached out and pressed the elevator button on the seventh floor. "I told my assistant that you wanted to teach me some self-defense techniques, so this morning I had someone clear out the unused large room on the seventh floor and set up some exercise equipment."

"Okay..."

After stopping at the seventh floor, Zeng Mo and Liu Fang headed toward the large room equipped with exercise equipment.

Soon.

Zeng Mo and Liu Fang stood facing each other.

"Come on." Zeng Mo waved at Liu Fang. The latter quickly stepped forward, grabbed Zeng Mo's arm, and completed a shoulder throw.

"Your shoulder throw is very powerful, but..." Zeng Mo stood up.

Liu Fang looked puzzled. "But what?"

"If someone grabs your wrist and suddenly uses a shoulder throw, how will you dodge?"

"Oh."

"Try to throw me. I'll stand here and let you throw me. Show me whether you have any strategy."

"Okay."

Zeng Mo grinned. He reached out quickly, grabbed Liu Fang's arm, and used a shoulder throw to send her straight into the exercise equipment.

[The host's wisdom and courage are both complete. Defeating the third-tier Water System Divine Beast earns 100 Survival Points.]

Hearing the pleasant notification in his ear, Zeng Mo smiled. A divine beast above the third tier—or a member of a race capable of defeating a third-tier divine beast—was worth quite a lot of Survival Points.

"You were too fast. I hadn't even reacted before you threw me out." Liu Fang rubbed her shoulder and complained.

Zeng Mo laughed. "If someone launched a surprise attack, it definitely wouldn't be that slow."

"That's true." Liu Fang rubbed her bruised shoulder. "If you were suddenly attacked and someone threw you over their shoulder, how would you dodge?"

"Like this." Zeng Mo paused, then smiled. "Try using the shoulder throw on me again."

"Okay." Liu Fang extended both hands and quickly wrapped them around Zeng Mo's shoulders. Using her waist as the pivot, she tried to lift him and throw him down. Unexpectedly, a large hand directly grabbed the clothes at the back of her waist. It broke through her strength and then pushed toward her lower back.

In an instant, Liu Fang lost her balance and was thrown to the floor.

"That's it." Zeng Mo reached down and pulled Liu Fang up from the exercise equipment. "You try it too."

"Ugh."

Liu Fang gritted her teeth and began practicing the technique. She practiced it several times before finally succeeding once.

Zeng Mo watched her practice for a while. By noon, he said:

"All right, that's enough for today. Go upstairs and eat."

Liu Fang nodded and took the towel and water handed over by her female secretary. "Do you want to wait for me and have some seafood soup together?"

"I have something to do. Tomorrow." Liu Fang said goodbye.

"All right." Liu Fang winked at Zeng Mo, then took the elevator upstairs with him. "I'll see you off."

"No need." Zeng Mo pressed the button for the ninth floor.

The elevator rose to the ninth floor. Liu Fang and her secretary walked out, while Zeng Mo turned around, said something to Liu Fang, and then headed toward the carriage office across the hall.

[Congratulations, host. Under the influence of multiple factors, you defeated a third-tier Water System Divine Beast and earned 100 Survival Points.]

"It seems that as long as I defeat the opponent myself, and my strength is higher than theirs, I can earn rewards for defeating a third-tier Water System Divine Beast." Zeng Mo finished speaking, then drove away from the Golden Sea Hotel.

However, he did not immediately return to the city's western outskirts.

Instead, he lingered nearby, preparing to search for the remaining people and earn more Survival Points.

After all, he had eight people: one at the third tier, three at the second tier, and four at the first tier of the Water System Divine Beast level. Altogether, he could earn 580 Survival Points a day.

Not farming them would simply be a waste.

Afterward, Zeng Mo drove around once more. He searched everywhere for that group, and in the end, he had no choice but to stop near a large spherical building beside the hotel and walk inside.

"Old Liu, let me introduce you to a few people." Zeng Mo said this as he took out a hundred-yuan bill and placed it on the counter.

"Come on, come on." Old Liu picked up the money and walked away.

"The yellow-haired guy nearby seems to be called Huang Zicai."

"What a troublemaker. Deputy Captain Deng was playing billiards at the entrance yesterday, and this guy kept pestering him. I'd just found someone to teach him a lesson when he brought over several of his friends. He even brought his whole family to Black Rock for drinks and demanded an apology."

"Black Rock's bar? Demanding an apology?"

"Those fellows have someone backing them!"

Zeng Mo listened for a while, returned to his room, and set off toward the Black Rock bar.

Soon, the carriage stopped near the Black Rock bar, at a relatively secluded corner with a good view.

Zeng Mo did not get out. Instead, he took out a disguise mask from the storage space in the carriage.

He closed his eyes. A transparent mask as thin as a cicada's wing appeared in his palm.

He carefully placed the disguise mask over his face.

Zeng Mo immediately felt a cool sensation. Then, as though nothing had happened, he picked up a mirror and began adjusting it according to his thoughts, pinching and shaping it for a while.

After a moment, it was finished.

A translucent, dark, wrinkled mask resembling an old man's face appeared over his own. Through it shone a cold, sinister light.

"Even if Yu Lin stood in front of me, she probably wouldn't recognize me." Zeng Mo touched his face, made a few natural-looking expressions, and felt as though the mask had grown directly from his skin. He then put on a bulletproof vest, covered it with a black suit, opened the carriage door, gave a faint smile, and walked out.