Great Wilderness City, Teleportation Plaza.
A beam of white light descended. Ma Lie knelt on the ground with a sword in hand, exhausted and covered in wounds.
Tucked under his left arm was a little girl of six or seven. Her face was smeared with blood, and her expression was vacant.
"There, you're safe now. Don't be afraid. It's all right."
Ma Lie set the little girl down, held her gently, and soothed her in a soft voice.
Several women dressed as nurses quickly flew over. Ma Lie handed the girl into their care.
Although Nameless could not leave the Great Wilderness Special Zone, he had overhauled the Rescue Network after public opinion shifted and used his vast wealth to fund it.
The Rescue Network no longer issued assignments. Anyone who saved people and passed the Great Wilderness Special Zone's review could receive a reward.
That reward might be money, or it might be tools, weapons, or special benefits.
Rescue work had become a new profession in Great Wilderness City. Many cultivators willingly braved the dangers of the real world to save people, earning resources for their cultivation while answering their own call to justice.
Ma Lie had only joined the rescuers this year, and this was his third trip out. He had never expected to run into a leader of the Ten Thousand Demons Sect. He had nearly died at the man's hands.
Fortunately, Nameless could now mass-produce Special Zone Node Stones and make them into teleportation bracelets. A single thought was enough to return through a bracelet to the Great Wilderness Special Zone.
Even the Ten Thousand Demons Sect's leaders and elders backed away when a rescuer returned, afraid they would be caught in the teleportation and end up in the Great Wilderness Special Zone themselves.
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