High Martial: After 18 Years of Silence, My First Word Makes Me a God
Chapter 5

The Art of Burning Money, Mark B. Nan

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As Yang Wei and the others left, the inside of the carriage felt much emptier, but the bloody smell lingering in the air became even more pungent.

The corpses of Wang Shifu and Li Xin lay on the ground, blood still flowing.

Jiangnan frowned.

He knew these hidden dangers had to be dealt with.

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He raised his head, his gaze coldly sweeping over the remaining three.

Chen Tong, Wang Meng, and Liu Yuqing.

The three had just breathed a sigh of relief when Jiangnan's cold eyes made them uneasy.

"Jiang... Jiangnan classmate?"

Chen Tong called out tentatively.

Jiangnan wasted no words. He directly took out a memo pad and, with swift strokes, wrote a line of text.

He then tore it off and stuck it on the damaged window.

[Throw the corpses out.]

Seeing this line, the faces of the two female students instantly turned ashen.

Liu Yuqing looked at Li Xin's tragic, wide-eyed state, and her stomach churned. She instinctively took a step back.

"I... I don't dare..."

Even Chen Tong was somewhat resistant. After all, this was modern society, and having just transmigrated, no one had ever done such a thing as disposing of bodies.

"Can... can we just leave them there?"

Chen Tong asked with some difficulty, "Or cover them up?"

Jiangnan heard her but didn't even lift his eyelids.

He slowly raised his right hand, making the exact same gun gesture he had used when killing.

He pointed at the corpses, then pointed at the three of them.

Although he said nothing, the meaning was obvious.

Either you throw the corpses out.

Or, you become corpses, and I'll throw you out.

In this Apocalypse, disobedient burdens are not needed.

"Gulp."

Wang Meng swallowed. He was the first to react.

"Teacher Chen, Yuqing girl, Jiangnan is right. We have to do this..."

Wang Meng gritted his teeth and stepped forward. Although his legs were trembling, his mind was working fast.

"This Bloody Smell is too strong. It will definitely attract Monsters."

"Throw them far away. They can also serve as Bait... This is tactics."

Although Chen Tong and Liu Yuqing were still terrified, they understood the stakes.

The three of them worked together, using all their might, and finally pushed the corpses of Wang Shifu and Li Xin out of the broken Car Window.

Jiangnan stood by the window and pointed into the distance.

Wang Meng gritted his teeth, jumped out of the car, dragged the two corpses to the edge of the jungle for fifty meters, and then ran back, panting.

After doing all this, the three of them collapsed onto their seats, as if exhausted.

But after this ordeal, the originally equal relationship was completely shattered.

Jiangnan had established absolute dominance through his actions.

Get to work.

Jiangnan pointed at the broken window again.

"Okay... Okay, I'll start repairing it now!"

Wang Meng didn't dare to rest. Using the Toolbox in the car, he dismantled the iron plates from the backrests of several seats.

With a clanging Operation, he managed to seal the broken window.

Although it looked ugly like a patch, it at least provided physical defense.

After all this was done, the night was deep.

It became quiet Inside the Carriage, with only the Breathing Sound of a few people.

To alleviate the Repression brought about by moving the corpses, Chen Tong looked at the two people beside her, trying to break the silence.

"Um... Wang Meng, and Yuqing, Teacher wants to ask, why were you so determined to stay back then?"

Wang Meng, who was wiping sweat, heard this, scratched his messy hair, chuckled, and lowered his voice:

"Teacher Chen, to be honest."

"I was hiding nearby at the time and personally saw Jiangnan make a 'Bang' gesture towards that big guy!"

Liu Yuqing also nodded excitedly, her eyes shining: "Me too! I saw it too!"

"His lips moved, and then that monster's head exploded!"

"Oh! Really?!"

Wang Meng seemed to have found a kindred spirit, "I knew I wasn't seeing things! This is definitely a supernatural ability! Like in the novels!"

The two were extremely excited by their shared realization.

Hearing their confirmation, Chen Tong, who had been tense the whole time, let out a long sigh of relief.

She patted her chest, those magnificent curves undulated, revealing the relief of surviving a disaster.

"So... I wasn't crazy."

Chen Tong looked at Jiangnan's back, her gaze complex and full of gratitude.

"Actually, I saw it too."

"Just as he raised his hand, I saw it clearly..."

"But I was too scared at the time, thinking I was hallucinating from fear, and I didn't dare to believe it."

Chen Tong gave a wry smile: "Now that I hear you both say it, I feel relieved."

Since Jiangnan really possessed this supernatural ability!

Then, even if they faced monsters, they would have real confidence staying in the car!

However, just as the three felt a sense of security from discovering the secret.

Jiangnan, who had been resting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them.

He heard an anomaly coming from the wind.

"Rustling..."

Very dense, very fast!

Without any hesitation, Jiangnan tore a piece of paper from his memo pad. A large character was already written on it.

[Shh!]

He showed the note to the three and then made a gesture to immediately get down.

Seeing Jiangnan's serious and cold expression, the three instantly shut up. Instinctively, they curled up under the seat with their heads covered.

The next second.

"Caw! Caw! Caw!"

Overwhelming roars instantly drowned out the bus!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Countless mutated crows frantically crashed into the car body!

The tin windows, previously sealed by Wang Meng, made twisting sounds, as if they would be torn open the next second.

Through the gaps, illuminated by the moonlight, they saw that the outside was filled with red eyes!

This was a vengeful crow flock!

"It's over... so many..."

Wang Meng looked at the dense numbers and swallowed desperately.

How could they fight this?

Jiangnan also frowned at this moment.

He glanced at his Attribute Panel.

[Current Word Spirit Reserve: 6665 characters]

This was eighteen years of his hard work.

There were no mana recovery methods, no supplies.

Using one meant one less.

To clear out the hundreds or thousands of crows outside would consume at least several hundred characters.

That was a year's worth of accumulation!

Jiangnan felt a pang of heartache, his heart was bleeding.

But if he didn't fight, they would die.

"Damn it, no more holding back!"

Jiangnan hardened his heart. To survive, this money must be burned!

He took a deep breath and suddenly stood up.

He held his arms out level, thumbs up, index fingers straight, striking a dual-gun pose.

If he was going to burn money, he'd burn it to his heart's content!

"Come on, little brats."

Jiangnan began to spin in place, his mouth, closed for eighteen years, unleashing a torrent of words!

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

His speech was incredibly fast! A continuous stream!

Under the petrified gazes of the three, Jiangnan transformed into Mark B Nan!

Wherever his arms pointed, the crows outside the window exploded and fell like raindrops!

Word Spirit: Bullet, ignores defense, absolute straight line!

One after another, they fell like dumplings being made.

Every "bang" represented one day of Jiangnan's life!

He was burning his lifespan!

The roars from outside the car turned from anger to terror. They realized they had encountered a tough guy and wanted to gain altitude to escape.

"Trying to run?"

Jiangnan pointed sharply at the sky, his eye twitching violently.

My savings are all spent, and you still want to run?!

All of you die for me!

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang!!!"

Another series of dense explosions!

It lasted for a full minute, firing over 300 shots!

Until the last crow exploded into a spray of blood at a 100-meter altitude, the world finally fell silent.

Outside the car, the ground was littered with corpses.

"Hoo..."

Jiangnan slowly lowered his aching arms, looking at the numbers on his status panel that had instantly shrunk.

[Current Word Spirit Reserve: 6340 words]

325 characters.

Nearly a year of silence turned to ashes in this one minute.

Jiangnan's mouth twitched with heartache, and his lips were worn raw from speaking too fast, his throat burning painfully.

He turned and looked at the three people on the ground, dumbfounded.

He then picked up a bottle of mineral water beside him and began to cool down...

And at the same time.

Yang Wei's Team was not as "lucky" as they were...

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