Points! Time to rake in the points!

"Since you said you came to help, be careful. You don't know how to enter the origin-return state. Don't let the Devorants spot you!"

After watching the Vulture Squad enter Nirvana, Bai Yuekui left him with those words and turned toward Suixing and the others.

With the unrelated matters dealt with, it was time to prepare for the real business.

Lu Wen stayed where he was, looking down from above as the Vulture Squad geared up to enter the Nirvana Research Institute.

Just now... hadn't Bai Yuekui said it?! The way her system let her earn points was by hunting Devorants!

At that thought, Lu Wen hurriedly summoned his system panel and switched to the system missions section.

The system panel had refreshed again.

[Kill a Spine Beast-bounty: 10 points each]

[Kill a Pan-Species Type I-bounty: 200 points each]

[Kill a Pan-Species Type II-bounty: 300 points each]

[Kill a Pan-Species Type III-bounty: 500 points each]

[Kill a Metamorphosis Type-bounty: 3,000 points each]

[Kill a Mana Flower King-bounty: 5,000 points each]

[Kill a Quasi-King Polar Slasher-bounty: 10,000 points each]

[Kill a Monarch-Class Polar Slasher-bounty: 100,000 points each]

($﹃$)!!!!!!

These weren't Devorants! They were glittering entries!

The price for a Monarch-Class Polar Slasher seemed a little low, but the sheer number of the other types made up for it! There were barely any people left in this world to begin with. Devorants were everywhere!

Back in Marvel, once the Chitauri Army was gone, he had to find criminals and the like to keep doing system missions.

System missions would only be generated when the system determined that a hostile target had appeared for its host!

So whether in Marvel or The Boys, refreshing system missions meant either running into a major event or going out like Tobey Spider-Man to stop crimes as a superhero, all for a pitiful handful of points.

With that kind of time, he was better off continuing to resell low-level entries for a markup! The cost-benefit ratio made it a foregone conclusion: being a busy superhero didn't pay.

But this was different! This place was full of apocalyptic monsters with hostility written into their underlying code! This was practically heaven for farming points!

An all-you-can-eat feast!!!

Fighting down the urge to laugh like a squealing pig, Lu Wen glanced to the side.

"Hey! Wait for me! You're the one who invited me, after all!"

Bai Yuekui's group was already heading toward the top of the Nirvana Research Institute, paying Lu Wen no mind at all.

Only Xiadou kept glancing back curiously, still asking Boss Bai something.

Lu Wen wasn't annoyed. In fact, he thought this felt right.

How could a group of people who had struggled through the apocalypse and barely survived have such low vigilance that they would unconditionally place their complete trust in some random stranger?

"Boss Bai, do you think this guy can really help us sincerely? He looks so powerful. What if..."

Xiadou cautiously glanced back again, just as Lu Wen happened to look over. She hurriedly turned her head back and questioned Bai Yuekui with some concern.

Ever since she had started going on missions, she had seen plenty of people who looked perfectly nice, only to turn around and pull a knife to kill you.

"Let's wait and see, but don't let your guard down! The circumstances of his appearance were too unusual. Better to be careful." Her gaze was icy as she cast a sidelong glance back toward Lu Wen.

"What are you saying about me?"

The next second, Lu Wen appeared beside Xiadou like a ghost.

"Aaaaah!!!" Xiadou jumped in fright. "Why do you keep popping up out of nowhere?! You can scare someone to death doing that!"

Shanda, Suixing, and Xu Tong were startled too, drawing their weapons and aiming at Lu Wen again.

"Enough! Lower your weapons, all of you. Maintain your origin-return state!" With that, Bai Yuekui looked at Lu Wen again. "And sorry for the trouble, but please settle down. Don't draw the Devorant horde over here."

"All right, sorry. I came to ask you something!" Lu Wen rubbed his nose, a little embarrassed.

"What is it?"

"Say, if I tied up half the people down there and brought them to you, would your village have room for them?" Lu Wen pointed at the Vulture Squad left behind below.

Following the direction of Lu Wen's finger, Bai Yuekui looked at the Vulture Squad guarding the hall.

They were all young adults in their prime!

What Dragon Bone Village lacked most right now was young, able-bodied manpower! Its population was aging so badly that even children were being taken along on field assignments to learn how to survive on the surface early.

If so many young, able-bodied people with survival experience really joined Dragon Bone Village, they could become qualified field teams with just a little training!

But that brought the problem of survival! Could Dragon Bone Village's resources really support so many people?

"Hey, give me an answer, Boss Bai. If you want them, I'll tie them up right now!" Lu Wen urged her again.

Xiadou and the other three all looked at Bai Yuekui too, waiting for her decision.

"Yes! If you can tie them all up, of course I want them!" Bai Yuekui said decisively.

Resources could wait. With people to go on field assignments, why worry about not finding resources?!

"You got it! Then I'll get started!"

"Wait!" Bai Yuekui suddenly called out, stopping Lu Wen just as he was about to jump down.

"What now?" Lu Wen frowned. Couldn't she say everything in one go?

"Since you know why we came, please exercise some restraint when you act. Don't interfere with Mark's destiny. I think you should know what I mean."

Seeing Bai Yuekui's serious expression, Lu Wen fell silent for a few seconds.

"Got it. I guarantee I won't interfere with your 'destiny.'"

As his words fell, the Venom Suit rapidly spread over his entire body. Moving like a phantom, Lu Wen vanished into the building's shadows in the blink of an eye.

"My god... Boss Bai! Is this guy really human?" Shanda stared wide-eyed at the spot where Lu Wen had disappeared.

"He should be."

In the first-floor hall, the Vulture Squad was still standing guard, completely unaware of the approaching danger.

Lu Wen stood on the wall, holding two Sting Eels he had crushed to death.

These smaller Devorants camouflaged themselves within the Calyx Beast's derivative ecological community, making them difficult to detect.

But Venom saw things differently! The symbiote had no eyeballs, but could sense faint bioelectric fields as well as heat signatures.

Once that was overlaid onto his host's vision, these camouflaged, lurking Sting Eels appeared as little clusters of green light in Lu Wen's eyes.

And after Venom bonded with him, the symbiote blocked the Mana Ecology's evolved instinct to recognize human biofields.

Lu Wen could see them, but they couldn't see Lu Wen.

Moreover, this biological perception let Lu Wen pinpoint the location of each Devorant's Spirit Breath Seed, making every kill a sure thing!

Just like that, watching the points roll in one notification after another, Lu Wen grew so excited his face nearly twisted out of shape!

But it was a little noisy. After switching the system to silent mode, Lu Wen quietly approached a Vulture Squad member standing guard.

Whoosh, whoosh!

A strand of black webbing shot out and sealed the Vulture Squad member's mouth. A second followed right behind it, dragging the Vulture Squad member into the darkness.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye. No one noticed!

Not even the Calyx Beast preparing an ambush.

The person had been right there a second ago. How had they suddenly vanished?!

When it prepared to grab the next person, that person suddenly disappeared too! As a Metamorphosis Type Devorant, it possessed considerable intelligence. Looking at the signals coming through the Ecosystem Network, it couldn't help falling into thought!

Calyx Beast: Something's haunting this place!

"Gao Ge! Something's wrong. A lot of people have disappea-"

Fang Ning and Gao Ge were being lovey-dovey when they heard their teammate's call. They were just about to go on alert and look toward their teammate when they raised their heads and saw two black webs flying toward them.

Just as they were about to speak, their mouths were sealed, followed by a wave of dizziness.

Lu Wen's Venom carried a biological toxin! It didn't do much beyond paralyzing the nerves! He could actively choose whether the webbing he fired carried the toxin.

In fact, all versions of Venom had this ability, but it consumed large amounts of their own biomass, so they wouldn't use it unless combat made it necessary!

But Lu Wen had no such worries! He was like a walking Arc Reactor, allowing Venom's abilities to function to their fullest.

In just a few short minutes, crushing Sting Eels while capturing members of the Vulture Squad, Lu Wen soon emptied the hall of every last person...