Be more careful in your next life

On a highway a dozen kilometers away.

An off-road vehicle belching black smoke was fleeing at breakneck speed.

Its driver was the young man in black who had led the Feral Wolf Guild to Lin Hui.

The young man in black kept his foot on the accelerator as he watched the rearview mirror, his face filled with panic.

Vroom, vroom...

Two modified pickups raced behind him, clinging to his tail like a pair of ravenous wolves.

They were the two vehicles the Feral Wolf Guild had split off to pursue him.

"Fuck! Why are they still chasing me?!"

The young man in black despaired.

His vehicle was already badly damaged. It couldn't possibly outrun his pursuers' undamaged vehicles.

Screech!

They forced him to a stop by the roadside.

Seven or eight members of the Feral Wolf Guild jumped out, carrying submachine guns and light rifles, and surrounded him with vicious grins.

"Run! Why don't you fucking run some more?"

A horse-faced man leading the group kicked the off-road vehicle's door and dragged the man in black out like a dead dog.

"Hand over the Lv5 vehicle upgrade blueprint! Or I'll chop you up and feed you to the zombies!"

Pinned to the ground, the man in black trembled. "Boss! I really threw the blueprint to that RV! I'm not lying!"

"Bullshit! You think we're idiots? You'd throw away something that important?"

The horse-faced man raised his machete, ready to hack down.

Just then.

Rumble...

A deep engine rumble came from the distance.

The horse-faced man paused and looked up.

At the far end of his field of vision, an absurdly massive black RV rolled slowly toward them, radiating suffocating pressure.

Bits of flesh and scraps of fabric that hadn't been cleaned off still hung from the obstacle-clearing plow on its front.

"What..."

The members of the Feral Wolf Guild froze.

Of course they recognized this vehicle.

It was the one their deputy hall master had just led his men to surround.

"Why's this thing coming after us?"

"Where's Brother Seven?"

The horse-faced man was bewildered.

According to the plan, Brother Seven and his men had more than a dozen vehicles and an RPG. Taking down this RV should have been a matter of minutes. Why did it look completely unscathed?

The RV stopped fifty meters away from them.

Its window slowly lowered.

Revealing Lin Hui's young, cold face.

"Hey! Kid!"

Though a little unnerved, the horse-faced man worked up the courage to shout, "Where's our Brother Seven? What did you do to him?"

Lin Hui rested a hand on the windowsill, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly to reveal white teeth.

"You want to see him?"

"Yeah! Tell me now! Or I'll..."

"No need to make it so complicated."

Lin Hui interrupted him, his voice as calm as if he were discussing something utterly trivial.

"I'll send you to see him right now."

Before his words had even faded.

Rat-tat-tat-tat!

A tongue of flame suddenly burst from the second-floor window.

It came from the assault rifle in Liu Xi's hands.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The Axe Gun in Lin Hui's hand opened fire at the same time.

There was no need for tactics, nor for any more pointless talk.

It was a slaughter with only one possible outcome.

The Feral Wolf Guild members didn't even have time to raise their guns before the dense hail of bullets riddled them with holes.

The horse-faced man clutched his chest in disbelief, blood pouring between his fingers.

He tried to reach for the radio at his waist to call for backup.

Bang!

A bullet struck his wrist with pinpoint accuracy, snapping it.

"Don't bother."

Lin Hui pushed open the door and stepped out, kicking away the radio beside the man's hand.

"Go in peace. Your deputy hall master's waiting down below to play cards with you."

Bang!

A finishing shot.

All dead.

The man in black watched from the side, dumbfounded.

He had thought he was certain to die, but Lin Hui had actually saved him.

"B-Boss! Thank you for saving my life!"

The man in black knelt on the ground, sobbing. "I knew you were a good man, boss! I was blind not to recognize your greatness!"

Lin Hui stared into his eyes and asked coldly, "Where's the vehicle upgrade blueprint?"

"The blue... right, it's on me. I'll get it for you now!" The man in black hesitated briefly, then fumbled a blueprint out of a hidden pocket and offered it with both hands.

Lin Hui took the blueprint and glanced at it.

[Vehicle advancement blueprint (Lv.4 → Lv.5)]

[Required materials:]

[1. High-strength titanium alloy ×300 units (higher-grade materials may be substituted to achieve a perfect upgrade)]

[2. Reconnaissance radar chip (1.0) ×1]

[3. Precision electronic components ×50 sets]

[4. Rubber ×50 units]

[5. High-grade bulletproof glass ×50 units]

"It really is a Lv5 vehicle upgrade blueprint."

Lin Hui nodded in satisfaction and put the blueprint into his spatial dimension.

"Um... boss, since I've given you the stuff, can I go now?" the man in black asked cautiously.

"Go?"

Lin Hui looked at him, a hint of mockery flashing through his eyes.

"You seemed pretty happy when you used me as a shield earlier."

"I..." The man in black turned deathly pale. "Boss, I was wrong! I really just wanted to live. Can this blueprint pay for my life...?"

"Yes, there's nothing wrong with wanting to live."

Lin Hui nodded, slowly raising the Axe Gun in his hand until its muzzle pointed between the man's brows.

"But in this world, mistakes come at a price."

"I don't like being used. Not even once."

"Be more careful in your next life."

Bang!

A gunshot rang out.

The man in black's corpse fell straight to the ground.

Lin Hui lifted the Axe Gun and blew away the smoke from its muzzle, very pleased with his marksmanship.

He had been asking Liu Xi for shooting pointers over the past two days. He had a decent knack for it and could generally hit his targets at short range.

Of course, that also had to do with his improved physique and greater control over his muscles.

Putting away the Axe Gun, Lin Hui looked at Su Qingqian beside him. "Qingqian, time to clean up the battlefield."

"Yes!"

Su Qingqian had already regained her composure and fully adjusted to this routine, deftly dismantling the vehicles and collecting the supplies they dropped.

When a vehicle was dismantled, any supplies inside would drop out.

After dismantling the three vehicles, they returned to the spot where they had killed the man in the leather jacket and continued cleaning up the battlefield.

There was no denying that the Feral Wolf Guild's elite squad was well stocked.

On this trip, besides a large quantity of supplies, Lin Hui had also obtained forty-three intact firearms.

There were military pistols, submachine guns, shotguns, assault rifles, light machine guns, a light antitank rocket launcher (RPG), and all kinds of ammunition...

Even in his old world, this firepower would have been nothing to scoff at. In an underdeveloped country, it would have been enough to become a minor local warlord.

Yet against his RV, they hadn't had the slightest power to resist!

Just as Lin Hui was reflecting on this, Su Qingqian ran over with something in her hands.

"Boss! Look at this!"