At this moment, Li Wei walked out. Upon seeing Li Wei, Xue Yan consciously took a step back. The special police officers who had been recruited earlier also knew that the real power figure in the villa area was neither Director Zhang nor Swallow of the Xue Clan. The real person in charge was this young man.
In their eyes, Li Wei was their superior, so upon seeing Li Wei, they all stood at attention and saluted, saying, "Greetings, sir!"
This display of force intimidated the other side.
The fat man glanced at Li Wei, who had just come out, with some surprise, and asked, "You are...?"
"I'm the person in charge of that villa area over there. Didn't you want to enter our base?" Li Wei said with a smile, showing no sign of hostility.
"Yes, I hope you can cooperate!" The fat man seemed oblivious to anything special about Li Wei, and resumed his previous tone. "I'm a bureau-level cadre, and you're the commander of those special police officers, right? I'm now officially announcing that I'm taking command of you and your men. That villa area is also temporarily under government jurisdiction. As for the others in the villa, we will guarantee your safety, so please rest assured..."
The statement sounded grand and dignified, but the special police officers who heard it did not make any move. They did not approach as the fat man had imagined, but continued to stand there. Li Wei, on the other hand, was observing the fat man with great interest.
After a long pause, Li Wei finally laughed and said, "Have you lost your mind? A bureau-level cadre, my foot! Even provincial-level cadres here have to clean every day... So, stop with your bureaucratic airs. You want to enter my territory? Sure! Hand over all your weapons, work 8 hours a day like everyone else, rest the rest of the time, no causing trouble, no holidays. If you want to stay, come; if not, I won't stop you!"
Li Wei's words immediately ignited the anger of the dozen or so people opposite him.
"Damn it, what did you say?"
"Director Wu, let's just kill him. What's the point of talking to him?"
"Yeah, you just say the word, and the brothers are in the bag!"
With a series of clanging sounds, over a dozen guns were pointed at Li Wei, while the SWAT officers on Li Wei's side also raised their weapons, and the situation immediately became tense.
"Hmph, it seems you're going to take the punishment instead of the duel. Let me tell you, we're not ordinary people!" The fat man called Director Wu picked up a stone from the ground and crushed it into powder with a single squeeze of his fingers.
What he didn't know was that Li Wei's strength had already reached 70 points. If he added the aid of true qi, Li Wei could twist even a piece of steel into a pretzel, let alone a stone.
"Oh, not bad? Let me see... uh, Strength 23, not bad at all. With your number exceeding 10,000, it's really not easy to have such a stat. You deserve a round of applause!"
Li Wei clapped as if watching a clown performance.
However, his words plunged Director Wu into an icy abyss, and even the dozen or so reincarnators behind him were shocked. On the contrary, the ordinary people were completely baffled.
"Are you fucking crazy? Believe me or not, I'll shoot you dead!" A thug-looking man behind Director Wu held a Type 92 Pistol and pointed it at Li Wei.
He was Director Wu's nephew. Because he had Director Wu as his backer, he was usually arrogant and domineering. This time, when he saw that this pretty boy dared to insult his uncle, he immediately stood up.
He didn't even look at what time it was.
With a loud slap, the boy's face was slapped, the crisp sound carrying far.
He was clearly stunned by the slap.
"What the hell? Which bastard hit me?" He spun around in a daze before he could see who had hit him.
This discovery greatly surprised him, because the slap was actually delivered by his uncle, who usually doted on him.
"Uncle, what... what are you doing?" Rubbing his swollen face, he wanted to know why.
Director Wu was covered in cold sweat. From the young man's words, he came to a conclusion, but this conclusion was hard for him to believe.
Although he claimed to be the director, he knew that after the apocalypse, the old world order would be completely overturned, and the ruler of the New World would undoubtedly be the reincarnators of Shadow Street.
His position as bureau chief could only fool ordinary people. As a reincarnator whose number was over 10,000, he knew this clearly: the New World belonged to reincarnators.
Therefore, he had the idea of starting his own business on his own.
After gathering a dozen or so low-level reincarnators, he officially organized the convoy, recruiting people and weapons everywhere, hoping to establish his own territory in the New World.
However, when they encountered their first villa district that they wanted to conquer, they ran into Li Wei, a tough nut to crack.
What he didn't expect was that the other party saw through his identity as a reincarnator at a glance.
What does that mean?
In Shadow Street, those reincarnators who can see through other people's numbers and combat power are undoubtedly senior members who have passed the number exam. He had also heard of the 'Insight Technique,' but as a reincarnator without connections, he simply couldn't buy it.
Now, the young man opposite him has revealed his identity in one sentence, and even directly stated his power attribute, which is something that only a senior reincarnator could do.
How could he not be afraid?
Just then, his ignorant nephew uttered some arrogant words, which prompted him to strike in desperation in an attempt to quell the senior's potential anger.
"I don't care who you are. If you want to enter my territory, you have to follow the rules. Of course, you can choose to leave, and I will absolutely not stop you!" When Li Wei saw that Director Wu had guessed his identity, his tone naturally lost its initial politeness.
"I..." Director Wu hesitated. He knew this was an opportunity to join a powerful and experienced leader, but he still preferred to be the boss himself.
"We're leaving, we're leaving!" Finally, Director Wu made the decision.
The dozen or so low-level reincarnators behind him also breathed a sigh of relief.
"Wait a minute!" Li Wei revealed a playful smile, "We've spent so much time here with you, we can't just let it all go to waste, can we?"
Director Wu's face twitched; he naturally knew what Li Wei meant.
This is practically bleeding him dry, but he doesn't have anything of value to offer right now. The car behind him is carrying a lot of gold, but since the other party is a high-level reincarnator, would they even bother with ordinary gold?
Wait a moment!
Director Wu suddenly remembered that he had seen a huge monster corpse on the road, one of those demons that crawled out from the depths of the earth, but he didn't know why it had died there.
He found a crystal the size of a walnut inside the corpse's head.
He fiddled with the stone the whole way, but couldn't find anything different about it. Apart from being pretty, the stone seemed to be just like any other ordinary gemstone.
At this point, it might be wise to use it to do someone a favor.
Upon seeing the crystal that Director Wu handed him, Li Wei's brow twitched. Wasn't this a magic crystal dug out from a demon in hell?
"Level 2 Magic Crystal, a stone possessing magical power..."
Level 2!
This was the first time Li Wei had ever seen a level 2 magic crystal. He had collected quite a few magic crystals himself, but only level 1 ones. Because of a certain premonition, Li Wei always felt that this stone must have something special about it.
"I'll take this. You can leave now, but let me give you some advice: it's very dangerous out there. If you want to come back, you're welcome anytime, but of course, the rules we agreed on before can't be changed!"
Upon hearing Li Wei speak, Director Wu hurriedly bowed and scraped, expressing his gratitude profusely. The group then got into the car and drove south, bypassing the villa area.
"Why let them go? If we could recruit them, we could make up for our numerical disadvantage. Our villa area is large, and we only have less than 200 people now..." Xue Yan asked, somewhat puzzled.
In her view, the other side had only a few dozen guns and a dozen or so low-level reincarnators, which she could handle all by herself.
Li Wei smiled at Xue Yan, then watched Director Wu's convoy leave with a sigh of relief, and said calmly, "Of course I know our base is short-staffed. Don't worry, they'll be back by tonight at the latest. Trust me!"
After saying that, he returned to the villa area with a smile.
Xue Yan, Blood Wolf, and the SWAT officers exchanged glances, completely baffled as to what Li Wei was up to.
Li Wei returned to the villa area and briefly looked at its current development.
The walls surrounding the villa area have been raised and thickened, and the Firearms Mastery that Luo Cheng obtained through various channels have been distributed to the soldiers and special police who accompanied Xue Yan and Li Wei.
There were about 100 of them, including 80 soldiers and more than 20 special police officers, all of whom were highly trained.
As for the Firearms Mastery that Luo Cheng acquired, most of them were purchased from Shadow Street.
As the end of the real world approaches, Shadow Street has also undergone tremendous changes.
As the Taoist He predicted, the old order has almost been destroyed. Only a few regions in the world are still controlled by the governments of the Old World countries, while most regions are occupied by the reincarnators.
They form small groups of three or five, occupying a region in the real world, much like warlords who rule over a mountain stronghold. For this reason, the weapons sold in Shadow Street have also become much more expensive, several times more so than before.
The 100-man armed force required over 80,000 points from Luo Cheng's phone bill, and even that only guaranteed each person one pistol and one rifle. The Firearms Mastery were mainly domestically produced, with the Type 54 Pistol, Type 64 Pistol, and Type 92 pistols being the primary types. The soldiers preferred the Type 92, as its mechanical structure was relatively perfect and its lethality was sufficient.
As for rifles, Luo Cheng purchased Type 03 Automatic Rifle for all of them. He found an acquaintance in Luo Cheng Shadow Street to buy these small-caliber rifles. At that time, due to the apocalyptic crisis, the demand for Firearms Mastery was very high, and well-known domestic Firearms Mastery such as the Type 95 Rifle had become hot commodities and were sold out.
Luo Cheng managed to buy up all 120 newly produced Type 03 rifles, spending 60,000 points in the process.