Wealth and Honor are from Heaven, Life and Death are Mine

"Tap, tap—"

With two low growls, those two shadows leaped to the ground and arrived in front of Xu Feng's house.

Xiao Dan covered her small mouth tightly, staring at the screen, not daring to make a sound.

Xu Feng was also tense, gripping his combat blade tightly as he stared fixedly at the monitor.

"F-rank low-tier beast soldier, Shadow Hunter Wolf. Ordinary alloy weapons can't even pierce their fur. Only a C-rank alloy weapon will do; it seems I bought the right blade."

Xu Feng muttered in a voice barely audible, recalling the knowledge about mutated creatures stored in his mind.

After digesting these memories for so many days, this knowledge was deeply embedded in his mind, almost like instinct.

It was equivalent to the mandatory content of nine-year compulsory education.

Compared to his past life, knowledge of these mutated creatures was like reciting the multiplication table—something he could rattle off without a second thought.

He waved his hand at Xiao Dan, signaling the little girl to hide deep inside the empty room.

He, meanwhile, stood guard in the hallway with his blade, watching the monitor.

Fortunately, those two mutated creatures did not linger for long.

Following a scream that drifted from afar, the two Shadow Hunter Wolves immediately turned and left.

"Whew—"

Xu Feng let out a sharp breath and swallowed hard, then turned to Xiao Dan and said, "Don't be afraid, Daddy is here."

"Mm." Xiao Dan sat on the mat with her knees hugged to her chest, watching the monitor screen quietly, her small face gradually relaxing.

But soon, she revealed a worried expression: "Daddy, I wonder how Liu Yu is doing? And Lu Fei too."

Xu Feng sighed: "We can't worry about others right now."

Although he couldn't see the full picture outside, he could imagine the chaotic scene.

"You lie down and rest for a while, I'll use the drone to check the situation outside."

Thinking of this, Xu Feng spoke to Xiao Dan, then took a remote control with a screen out of a box nearby.

"I want to see too." Xiao Dan clearly had no intention of sleeping; she crawled into Xu Feng's arms to peek at the screen.

Xu Feng glanced at Xiao Dan, having already anticipated the sights outside.

To prevent the child from seeing anything disturbing, he simply said: "You help me watch the monitor, be careful in case any monsters get close."

"Okay!" Hearing this, Xiao Dan understood the urgency of the situation and nodded obediently.

As Xu Feng maneuvered the drone into the air, a tragic scene of smoke and fire gradually entered the screen.

He saw arcs of artillery fire and corpses everywhere in the direction of the base.

Countless mutated creatures were surging toward the base from all directions.

From time to time, several golden figures swooped down from mid-air.

So this was the war between martial artists and the alien races!

Soon, the drone moved away from the roof of Xu Feng's house and flew deep into the shantytown.

On the streets and in the alleys, the figures of mutated creatures were everywhere.

There were also many people fleeing wildly, but they were quickly swallowed by the beast tide.

Besides that, there were dozens of figures wielding weapons, charging and sprinting through the beast herd.

Xu Feng even saw some people pushing forward toward the base.

Are these people crazy?

He was deeply puzzled.

It wasn't until the drone flew to the trading district that he gasped.

There were even more people and mutated creatures here!

And in the drone's video, several figures were taking advantage of the chaos to smash open shops in the trading district, hauling out various valuable alloy weapons!

Xu Feng immediately sat up straight: "Damn, why didn't I think of that?"

At a time like this, with such chaos, no one was left to manage the trading district.

If he could get his hands on a few C-rank weapons and resell them in the trading district of another base, that would be tens or even hundreds of thousands!

No wonder these people were risking their lives to charge in here.

"Truly, life and death are fated, and wealth is determined by the heavens."

Xu Feng felt his heart stir intensely.

With his current blade technique and speed, if he were to...

But soon, Xu Feng shook his head: No, no, what am I thinking?

With my current speed and strength, I'd be lucky to feed two Shadow Hunter Wolves at most. Wealth?

Wealth is determined by the heavens, but life and death are in my own hands.

Only a fool would go out and mess around at a time like this. Even if I got my hands on the money, would I even be alive to spend it?

Immediately, he sat down in the tunnel, feeling at ease, and began to check the drone while conserving his energy.

But soon, the drone's screen went black, and he lost contact.

Xu Feng didn't know if the drone had crashed or if it had been attacked by something.

In any case, he had completely lost his observation of the battlefield.

The father and daughter hid until noon the next day.

Xu Feng first ate a simple meal in the tunnel, then turned on the surveillance.

It was quiet outside, and there had been no sign of mutant creatures for a long time.

However, Xu Feng didn't take any risks; he and Xiao Dan slept in the tunnel for another afternoon. It wasn't until he received a message from Lu Fei at dusk that he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It was over!

The war alert had been lifted!

The crisis had passed!

Creak—

As Xu Feng crawled out of the tunnel and moved the bed aside, he once again held back Xiao Dan, who was about to follow: "You wait here, I'll go out and take a look first."

"If anything seems wrong, close the tunnel door immediately."

"Mm." Xiao Dan nodded.

Only then did Xu Feng stand up, open the door, and step outside.

The moment he stepped out, he frowned.

The air was thick with the stench of blood and burning.

There were no corpses in his immediate line of sight; after all, his location was on the edge of the shantytown, not the heart of the battlefield.

It wasn't until he closed the door and walked a distance away that he discovered the carcass of a Shadow Hunter Wolf and the body of a woman lying in a ditch in the middle of the road.

Xu Feng took a careful look and realized she had long since stopped breathing. Having no interest in looting the corpse, he continued walking forward.

He didn't go far, however, before he saw several martial artist figures walking in his direction, followed by a cart for collecting bodies.

"There's someone!"

"Brother! Wait a moment!"

Seeing that Xu Feng had turned to leave, the martial artist in the group suddenly called out to him.

The young martial artist leading the group walked up to Xu Feng, took one look, and said in surprise: "It's you! Mr. Xu, we meet again!"

Xu Feng was slightly stunned, then remembered that the young man before him was the same martial artist who had come to knock on his door that night to ask if he had heard the gunfire.

"Hello, Mr. Luo." Xu Feng nodded slightly.

"Oh? Mr. Xu has a good memory. You only glanced at my ID once and remembered my name."

Luo Feng said with a smile.

Xu Feng had no interest in making small talk. He looked at the team busy clearing the bodies on the street and asked:

"Is the war over? What were the losses last night? How many people in the shantytown are still alive?"

Luo Feng sighed upon hearing this: "The losses were undeniably heavy, but we were well-prepared, so we didn't suffer any fundamental damage."

"However, the losses in the shantytown are quite significant. Many residents have suffered casualties to varying degrees, and we are currently tallying the death toll."

Xu Feng took a deep breath, his face showing sorrow.

Immediately following that was a faint flicker of anger.

Sky Moon Martial University had known the attack was coming, yet they hadn't provided a single hint, treating them—the martial servants living in the shantytown—as if they were invisible.

Human life was as cheap as grass.

If you aren't a martial artist, are you just cargo to be discarded at will?

Thinking of this, his attitude toward Luo Feng and the others grew colder: "If there's nothing else, I'll be going. You all carry on."

With that, Xu Feng turned and walked back.

Luo Feng noticed the change in Xu Feng's attitude, but he couldn't say anything.

As for the various speculations regarding Xu Feng, he was in no mood to investigate them now.

Because in last night's attack, he, too, had lost many comrades and brothers-in-arms.