Such a Nice Big Brother

She looked up.

She looked at the boy in front of her, patiently waiting for her to eat.

A complex emotion flashed in his eyes.

"But this bento box... it's so comforting."

Su Bai had one hand in his vest pocket.

His tone was as gentle as ever.

Eat it while it's hot.

"If you eat it after it's cold and it causes diarrhea, our Volunteer Association won't reimburse your medical expenses."

Bai Jingxuan opened the lid.

I picked up the disposable chopsticks and started eating, taking small bites.

The runny yolk of the egg, mixed with the aroma of rice, spreads throughout your mouth.

For the first time ever, a faint flutter stirred in the Heaven-Breaker of her usually neglected heart.

The delivery guy, despite saying some unpleasant things...

But she was completely different from those adults who looked at her with condescending pity.

He didn't smell like the musty odor that lingers year-round in Welfare Home.

It carried the clean scent of dry sunshine mixed with cheap laundry detergent.

Su Bai.

I watched her finish half of her bento box.

The smile on his lips faded slightly.

Su Bai straightened up.

He casually patted off non-existent dust from the corner of his clothes.

"Alright, the act of kindness has been delivered. I should get back to my other things now."

Eat slowly, don't choke.

Bai Jingxuan held her chopsticks.

There was a hint of barely perceptible attachment in his eyes.

"Thank you... big brother."

Su Bai waved his hand.

He turned around and walked towards the side gate of the Welfare Home without looking back.

You're welcome, just remember to give it a five-star review.

The instant I turned around.

The gentleness in his eyes vanished instantly.

Instead, there is a chilling rationality and the ruthless calculations of capitalists.

Su Bai walked along.

He quickly deduced the scenario in his mind.

"The first step of the plan is complete; the groundwork for building goodwill is laid."

"If I transform right now and give her all my power, she'll just see me as a kind-hearted deity, be grateful for a while, and then it'll all be over."

"Such a flimsy display of loyalty makes it impossible to trust her with dangerous goods containing lethal radiation."

"A person will only act when they are truly at their wit's end, with no way out and nowhere to retreat."

"Only when faced with salvation that comes from heaven will one offer absolute, fervent faith and an unreserved soul."

"I need to wait."

"Wait for an opportunity that will plunge her into utter despair."

"Then, Ziwei descended again, bathed in the halo of the gods."

"By then, signing a 100-year unpaid employment contract will be a natural next step."

Su Bai quickened his pace.

We'll first go around to the outer blind spot.

Find a secluded spot where no one will be watching, and complete the transformation.

By the way, see if we can proactively go to the surrounding area and lure one or two low-level Monster over to "cooperate in the performance".

Kabi disappeared into the air.

Huffing and puffing, I followed behind him.

"Master, your scheming is too insidious!"

"This is even worse than those players in games who deliberately lower their favorability rating to negative numbers and then forcibly lock the save file!"

Su Bai replied coldly in his mind.

"This is called resource allocation that maximizes benefits."

I had just reached the red brick wall by the side gate of the Welfare Home.

The foot hadn't even been taken yet.

Bang!

Kabi, who was following behind, let out a scream.

Ouch, my cat nose!

Its plump, pink body created a semi-transparent ripple in the air.

The whole cat looked like a deflated balloon.

He was thrown back.

He rolled twice on the ground before regaining his balance.

Su Bai immediately stopped in his tracks.

He did not act rashly.

Instead, he extended his right hand.

The fingertip tentatively, little by little, moves forward.

There is a barrier in the air that is invisible to the naked eye.

They blocked his way.

The sensation from my fingertips was extremely sticky.

It felt like touching a layer of animal fat that had been sitting for half a month and had started to smell bad.

Cold and nauseating.

Su Bai narrowed his eyes slightly.

I withdrew my finger and smelled it.

A strong smell of blood filled the air.

The stench, mixed with the fermenting odor of the sewers, filled my nostrils.

This is a low-quality, and violent, dark-attribute Magic Power fluctuation.

Su Bai's eyes flickered slightly.

In his mind, he quickly made a comparison and assessment of combat capabilities.

"The strength of this Magic Power Barrier..."

"His Magic Power Scale is around two thousand, equivalent to a two-star Enforcer- level Extraordinary Being."

"This Barrier of enclosure is strong enough to trap the ordinary people and low-ranking security guards in this Welfare Home."

"Like pigs in a pen, completely locked inside."

Kabi rubbed his red nose and floated over.

There was a hint of panic in his voice.

"Master! It's Barrier! Someone has sealed off the entire Welfare Home!"

"This kind of spell, so full of malice, could absolutely not have been set up by those rule-abiding operators from the Monster Hunting Bureau!"

Su Bai showed no sign of panic whatsoever.

Instead, he smiled.

"I know."

He calmly wiped his fingers, which were covered in Magic Power residue, on his trouser leg.

Then slowly and deliberately.

He pulled out the old, spare smartphone from his vest pocket.

Fingers swipe deftly across the screen.

A black icon, hidden deep within, quickly appeared.

Underground Demon Hunting Bounty App.

Su Bai's gaze swept quickly across the constantly scrolling bounty page.

The fingertip hovered over a highlighted, red-named wanted poster.

"Such a distinctive, fishy stench, coupled with a deployment capability of two thousand scales..."

The cold light from the screen illuminated his calm and composed face.

After staring for a while, Su Bai's Adam's apple bobbed up and down.

"Golden Scale Society's outer Enforcer, with Blacklist bounty of 700,000."

Su Bai swiped the screen and dragged the first avatar into the temporary storage.

"Three lackeys, 500,000 each, totaling 2.2 million."

Kabi snorted in the air, "Master, you forgot about the leader's illegal possession of firearms. The Monster Hunting Bureau will give him an additional 100,000 in compensation."

"Very good, two million three hundred thousand."

Su Bai turned off her phone screen and tucked it inside her coat.

He turned and walked back towards the main hall.

In the courtyard deep inside the Welfare Home, the cicadas' chirping had stopped sometime earlier.

The silence around us was almost eerily quiet.

Bai Jingxuan held onto the swing's iron chains and slowly moved her atrophied right leg.

A strong smell of sulfur filled the air.

At this time normally, the children in the compound would already be lining up on the playground to receive snacks.

But now the corridor is empty.

She used one hand to support herself against the mottled brick wall and moved to the area under the back window of the activity room.

A gust of biting cold wind leaked in through the window crack.

Through the gap in the yellowed curtains, Bai Jingxuan saw several unfamiliar men wearing black leather trench coats.

Those men were carrying heavy, dark-colored rifles.

The gun's surface is inlaid with dark red energy crystals.

Those are Abyssal Energy Gun Firearms, prohibited weapons carried only by black market outlaws.

Bai Jingxuan's breathing stopped.

She carefully crouched down, tucking her disabled right leg into the shadows of the corner of the wall.