Sunrise Industry

It was also inside the Metaverse Experimental Zone.

Yet this place was a luxurious mansion.

Jiu Zhengxuan bowed slightly toward his father.

Meanwhile, seated on the steps, that middle-aged man wearing a black Zhongshan suit was none other than Jiu Zhengxuan's father, Lu Zun, who served as the supreme commander of both the B5 and B6 sectors.

"How is life inside the academy?"

Lu Zun's tone softened a fraction as he asked slowly.

"The academy is great, the teachers are great, and the classmates are great too."

At this point, Jiu Zhengxuan frowned slightly. "It's just that a few individual students have some issues with their behavior and may have engaged in some less-than-honorable conduct."

"Oh?"

Lu Zun glanced sideways slightly. "You were kept in closed-door training by me for eighteen years, and that academy can be considered your first step into society. Wherever there is society, there will be some rule-breaking existences."

"Even though you are merely one of the ordinary students there."

"You are also the son of me, Lu Zun."

"Within our Lu Family, not a single speck of filth is tolerated."

Lu Zun looked at Jiu Zhengxuan. "Outside of your studies, whenever you encounter injustice, you must also step forward, stand up to point it out, expose all wrongdoers to the public, unveil the truth, and make them receive the punishment and education they rightfully deserve."

Jiu Zhengxuan nodded. "Understood, Father."

Lu Zun hesitated for a split second. "Regarding your previous proposal, I have pondered it for a long time, and I think I should support it."

Jiu Zhengxuan's eyes lit up.

Yet he saw Lu Zun stand up, sweep his gaze across the entire assembly, and speak slowly: "As the foundation of our survival, only the core area within the Metaverse-namely the equivalent Earth surface area-possesses complete order, much like the old era."

"However, that Experimental Zone can be described as utterly chaotic and foul-smelling."

"This makes me very uneasy."

"Our homeland is actually surrounded by a place of utter chaos."

"Yet the Metaverse does not fall under our control."

"The god of this world is the Gemini Superbrain."

"The human government is merely granted certain administrative permissions by it."

"We have also attempted to manage the Experimental Zone in the past."

"Yet all failed. Within it, there are far too many things that exceed our understanding."

"Especially following this latest update: Order -50%."

Lu Zun's gaze flickered as he scanned the room. "I have never given up, and even my son, Zhengxuan, harbors an obsession in his heart."

"Therefore."

"Today I grant Zhengxuan's wish."

"We shall establish an Experimental Zone Order Squad."

"To be precise, a Youth Order Squad!"

Lu Zun pondered for a brief moment. "They will be indirectly authorized by our Metaverse government to start with minor tasks inside the Experimental Zone, doing everything in their power to rectify certain chaotic phenomena! I also wish to use this to prove that the youth are so self-reliant that the Experimental Zone will definitely be able to return to order in the future!"

At this moment.

Whispers broke out among the crowd below.

"Zhengxuan is still so young, even though he is naturally gifted..."

"But that is the Experimental Zone after all."

"Bizarre phenomena occur frequently, and gangs are everywhere!"

"And then there is that Source Matter Ore; every single piece of ore is stained with countless blood!"

"Most importantly, once people enter that place, their thoughts and morals lose all restraint, and they run amok!"

"A Youth Order Squad-this is a very dangerous undertaking!"

"Nephew Zhengxuan is Commander Lu's only heir..."

"Commander Lu is truly selfless!"

Yet Lu Zun waved his hand. "Everyone, I know this matter is dangerous, but our Lu Family was born for this very purpose. I am, and my son Zhengxuan is too. Even if it means sacrificing ourselves, we must contribute a shred of order to this world-a bright, orderly light!"

Jiu Zhengxuan also lifted his chin and added, "As long as one's own heart is bright, one fears no danger!"

"The DOG Group?"

"You are willing to hire me?"

Qin Yiguan stood before a massive church.

The plaque on the door was engraved with three large metal letters.

The youth gazed at it.

If this building were placed in the physical world, it would indeed be considered magnificent.

Yet within the Metaverse, compared to those towering skyscrapers, it appeared rather shabby.

Standing directly before the youth was a middle-aged man wearing a suit and gold-rimmed glasses.

His full name was Chen Fazheng, with an 8% Fusion Rate.

He claimed to be the human resources director of the DOG Group, and their group was willing to help such ambitious young people; things like the Fusion Rate did not matter at all.

Creak...

Boom!

The church's massive wooden doors, a full ten meters wide, slowly swung open!

Inside was an expansive open space, with figures gathered in clusters.

Light slowly spilled into the church, causing the figures to gradually clear into view.

Within, strong-bodied adult males were gathered in groups of twos and threes, numbering at least three hundred people.

The majority of these individuals wore black tank tops, while quite a few were bare-chested entirely, exposing muscular physiques.

Moreover, almost every single person had tattoos.

Sleeved arms could be considered subtle; quite a few people had tattoos covering their entire backs-raging tigers, azure dragons, and certain religious Buddhist statues.

Clatter, clatter.

Some of these men had iron chains hanging from their waists, while others simply tucked machetes behind their backs.

Gaze after gaze, brimming with irritability, fell upon the youth.

"..."

The youth tilted his head. "Director Chen, may I ask what business your esteemed corporation engages in?"

Chen Fazheng said benevolently, "Our business is very simple: we unearth loopholes in grassroots order and leverage those loopholes to generate reasonable economic benefits."

The youth wore a puzzled expression.

"In the old era, there was a specialized term used to describe our industry."

"Although I don't particularly like it, I must admit that the term is extremely precise."

The youth stared fixedly at the director. "What term?"

Chen Fazheng slowly turned around and uttered slowly, "Mafia."

The youth's expression tightened.

At this moment.

Director Chen radiated grand ambition, backed by a crowd of fierce and malevolent thugs. With a flick of his suit jacket tails, he smiled and said, "What you are looking at right now is the sixty-seventh largest mafia in the Experimental Zone-the GOD Group, commonly known as the Dog Gang!"

Only then did the youth understand.

Dog... dog, and the Dog Gang was a mafia.

This Director Chen beside him was simply a 'foot soldier' wandering the streets responsible for recruiting underlings.

--They didn't care whether you had any Fusion Rate or not; if you had the ability, you went and lopped off heads; if you didn't, you went and offered your own head!

"A mafia..."

The youth gazed at the massive church, wondering what he was thinking.

Right at that moment.

The hundreds of mafia members inside the church stirred in commotion, and the crowd slowly parted from the center.

A figure followed by seven or eight underlings appeared from the depths of the church.

He walked outward slowly, his facial features gradually coming into focus.

This was a man of not particularly robust build, his shoulder-length hair slicked back behind his head with pomade, draped in a fox-fur-collared coat and carrying an impressive imposing aura.

He was at most twenty-five years of age, a scar ran across his face, a toothpick was clamped in his teeth, and his entire demeanor reeked of arrogance. Everywhere he passed, countless underlings nodded and bowed.

"Kid, you are fortunate!"

"Your heart will soon have one more idol!"

Chen Fazheng said proudly, "This is our DOG Group CEO, and also the leader of the Dog Gang-NST Wulong Baiyan, famed throughout the Experimental Zone!"

The youth looked toward the man with the fox-fur collar.

NST Wulong Baiyan?

Letters combined with Chinese characters-just what country's person was he?

And what on earth did that NST mean?

Immediately following this, the youth asked, "Then the business Director Chen mentioned-is it all kinds of illegal and criminal activities?"

Yet Chen Fazheng shook his head. "Even though we are a mafia, we operate entirely through commercialized means. In this Experimental Zone where order is at minus fifty percent, this is simply a sunrise industry!"

At that moment, a passerby happened to walk past the church gates.

This passerby glanced sideways at the tough men inside the room and said with utter disdain, "A mafia? Tch, what era is this, still playing at being a mafia? They call it collecting protection money, but they're just a bunch of beggars-and even when they beg, their attitude stinks. Pah!"

This remark happened to be overheard by NST Wulong Baiyan.

The corners of his mouth twitched, taking the scar across his face along with it in a simultaneous twitch.

The next instant, the leader of the Dog Gang roared furiously, "Damn it, some little piece of trash is barking in front of my gang's headquarters?!"

"I am the sixty-seventh largest gang in the Experimental Zone!"

"You must have never heard of my, NST Wulong Baiyan's, great reputation!"

"Do you know what NST stands for?"

"It's an abbreviation of Hanyu Pinyin: Nuke 'S' To 'T'he dead, snuff him out!!!"

"Men, snuff him out for me!"