The Self-Cultivation of a Courier? Get a Shot Before You Go!

Nuoding City, Central Plaza.

This place was originally the site of the City Lord's Mansion, but it had been razed to the ground and transformed into a massive plaza paved with smooth alloy, capable of holding tens of thousands of people.

In the very center of the plaza stood a strangely shaped metal device. It resembled a giant glass cabinet, its interior filled with complex piping and energy cores glowing with a ghostly blue light.

At this moment, Li Mude, the former governor of Nuoding Province, along with a dozen captured noble officers, were dragged in like dead dogs by the Tyrant Guard and thrown before the metal device.

"No... don't kill me! Lord Qin Feng! I was wrong! I was truly wrong!"

Li Mude was a mess of tears and snot, having lost every shred of a governor's dignity. He kowtowed desperately, his forehead becoming a bloody mess against the hard alloy floor.

"All my assets are yours! I own dozens of mines! They are all yours! I beg you, spare my life!"

The nobles behind him were also terrified to the point of incontinence, and a foul, pungent stench began to permeate the air.

Above the city walls, Qin Feng watched this scene with indifference.

Around the plaza, and in front of every large screen throughout the city, countless residents of Nuoding City were staring fixedly at the footage. Their eyes were filled with deep-seated hatred and a hint of grim satisfaction.

"Silence."

Qin Feng's voice, transmitted through loudspeakers, echoed across the entire city.

The noisy plaza instantly fell silent.

"Li Mude." Qin Feng's voice lacked even a trace of warmth. "You just said that your life and your property all belong to me?"

"Yes! Yes! They are all yours!" Li Mude nodded frantically, as if he had grabbed onto a life-saving straw.

"Very good." A playful, icy tone entered Qin Feng's voice. "I accept your 'offering'."

"Now, begin to fulfill your value."

As soon as he finished speaking, two Tyrant Guards stepped forward, hoisted the limp Li Mude up, and ignored his screams and struggles as they forcibly secured him inside the glass cabinet.

"Click."

The transparent alloy door sealed shut, isolating Li Mude's cries within.

"W-what is that? Are they going to execute him?" a citizen whispered.

"No." Qin Feng's voice rang out again, like a devil's whisper. "Death is too easy for him."

"Today, I will demonstrate a brand-new science to all the residents of Nuoding City."

"The topic is titled—On the Resource Recycling of Corrupt Officials."

On the screens, Qin Feng's figure vanished, replaced by a close-up of the interior of the glass cabinet.

Countless tiny mechanical arms extended from the inner walls, and probes flickering with electric light precisely pierced into Li Mude's obese body.

"Ahhhhh--!!!"

Li Mude let out a silent scream, his body twitching violently.

A cold, synthesized mechanical voice began to provide commentary for the entire city.

"Subject 'Li Mude' detected. Height: 1.7 meters. Weight: 213 kilograms."

"Body fat percentage is as high as 52 percent, classified as severe obesity. The body contains a large amount of convertible high-purity biological energy."

"Initiating phase one: Fat liquefaction."

"Zzzzt--"

Several pale blue beams shot down from the top of the device, scanning Li Mude's body with the precision of a scalpel.

Under the horrified gaze of the entire city, Li Mude's layers of fat began to melt at a speed visible to the naked eye!

It wasn't burning, and it wasn't evaporating; it was turning into pools of murky yellow liquid, just like butter!

These liquids were forcibly extracted through the pores of his skin and channeled into the collection pipes at the bottom of the device.

Li Mude's body shriveled rapidly, transforming from a fat ball into a skeleton wrapped in skin, yet he did not die! Those probes were injecting life-sustaining fluid into his body, forcing him to remain conscious to experience this torture akin to death by a thousand cuts!

"Holy shit! What the hell is this?!"

"They... they actually extracted the fat?!"

"That's... that's insane! And terrifying as hell!"

The citizens felt their scalps go numb, yet they also felt a morbid sense of gratification.

"Phase two: Biomass energy conversion."

The mechanical voice continued.

The extracted yellow liquid was channeled into the energy core at the center of the device.

"Hum--!"

The energy core flared brightly, and the internal temperature instantly climbed to several thousand degrees!

Under high temperature and high pressure, that "fat" was decomposed into its most primitive elements—carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen—and then re-synthesized into the purest form of energy!

The energy gauge on the side of the device began to soar wildly!

"100 kilowatt-hours..."

"500 kilowatt-hours..."

"1500 kilowatt-hours..."

In the end, the reading stopped at the astonishing figure of "3588 kilowatt-hours"!

Inside the glass display cabinet, the body of Li Mude, now drained of all its fat, completely turned into fly ash amidst the aftermath of this energy surge.

A living, breathing man was just gone like that.

Turned into a string of numbers.

The voice of Qin Feng rang out at the perfect moment, filled with judgment for the old era.

"Governor of Nuoding City, Li Mude. He preyed upon the people for thirty years, plundering countless wealth from the blood and sweat of the masses."

"Today, he has finally made the only, and final, contribution of his life to the people."

"3588 units of electricity."

"This energy will be injected into the city power grid free of charge, enough to provide over five hundred households with a month of free lighting."

"What he squeezed from you is now being returned to you in another form."

The entire city fell into a deathly silence.

A full dozen seconds passed.

"BOOM--!!!"

Thunderous cheers erupted from every corner of the city!

"Good!! Well killed!!"

"This is retribution! This is the damn retribution he deserved!"

"Wuwuwu... My son was killed because of his forced conscription! He died well! He died so well!"

Countless citizens embraced and wept. They knelt on the ground, kowtowing frantically toward the image of Qin Feng on the screens, their faces filled with extreme fanaticism and worship!

Meanwhile, in the square, the dozen or so surviving noble officers had already soiled themselves in terror, collapsing to the ground, where even fainting had become a luxury they couldn't afford.

They looked at the empty glass cabinet, as if they were seeing their own future.

[Ding! Your "Science Cult" faith has been completely solidified! The cohesion of the people in Nuoding City has reached its peak!]

[Ding! Your reputation among the commoner class has reached "Worship," and your reputation among the noble class has reached "Fear"!]

[Ding! Obtained a massive amount of shock points! Total: 1,200,000 points!]

Qin Feng turned a deaf ear to the system notifications.

His gaze swept over the group of nobles who had completely broken down, his voice as cold as ten-thousand-year ice.

"Now, it is your turn."

"Do you want to be like him, becoming a part of the city power grid, or... become a blade in my hand, pointed at the old world?"

"I... we are willing to be the blade! We are willing!" one noble reacted first, scrambling forward and shouting.

"Very good."

Qin Feng snapped his fingers.

"Brother Wolf, install the 'Thought Seal' on them, and then, let them go."

"Let them tell the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, tell all the fools who are still clinging to the old era."

Qin Feng's image appeared on every screen in the city, his eyes seeming to pierce through time and space, landing on a place far away.

"Nuoding City, from today on, is independent."

"Next stop, the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex Clan."

"That is my decree."