The Times Have Changed

The purpose of fighting is to gain benefits, not to engage in endless slaughter.

If there are no shared interests, there is no inevitability for them to become enemies.

Without any hesitation, Ren Yisheng attacked the ferocious beast with ruthless force. This was a negotiation tactic, an extremely dangerous one that gave the opponent no time to think.

Badun only needed to say one threat; Ren Yisheng would never give the other party a second chance to speak.

He reached out and pressed down on the ferocious beast inside the truck's cargo box. In this real fight, they were left with only the most direct choice.

Whether they gain nothing, cooperate, or simply concede and seek further retaliation, it all depends on Badun's choice.

When he made his move with a blank expression, Ren Yisheng couldn't help but feel a twitch in his eyelids.

Dozens of meters away, Badun, whose not-so-tall body moved like a whirlwind, made his move almost simultaneously.

When one claw reached out towards Zhang Xuezhou's direction, Ren Yisheng already understood Badun's purpose in trying to control his companion.

His heart pounded, and just as he was about to retaliate, he saw Zhang Xuezhou, amidst the Badun attack, rise straight upwards like a spring rising from the ground.

"I've seen Zhou Xin in Qin Mengzhong, and I've also seen Changkong Luo... You wouldn't happen to be the fourth Seventh Sequence user of the Scarlet Alliance State, would you?"

Badun suddenly lunged at Zhang Xuezhou, his claw Zhang Xuezhou down at him.

Ren Yisheng used the threat of killing ferocious beasts to create a crisis, Badun of Montes made the same choice, also targeting someone to coerce him, hoping to exchange places with Ren Yisheng.

He wasn't Sequence Holder known for his speed, but Badun's running speed was still incredibly fast, unmatched by many Sequence Holder.

He charged close to Zhang Xuezhou, and Zhang Xuezhou practically jumped up right behind him.

Zhang Xuezhou up like a spring up from dry land, while Badun also soared upwards like a cannonball.

As he leaped forward, he reached out to grab Zhang Xuezhou, his words gradually freezing in his throat.

The height of a normal upward jump is limited; the higher the jump, the slower the speed will be.

Badun felt that such an opponent's jump was useless, and he was not going to give Ren Yisheng a chance to come to his rescue.

But Badun could see his right hand getting further and further away from Zhang Xuezhou's body.

His upward jump has its limits; his sprint jump of 13 meters has already slowed down and he is about to fall, while his opponent is still in the air.

Damn it!

After leaping high into the air, he plummeted to his death, and Badun could already hear the screams of the giant ape beast.

Both sides were truly fighting, neither side backed down, so there was no possibility of them holding back.

However, Badun was helpless against Ren Yisheng's companions, and the imprisoned giant ape beast could not withstand Ren Yisheng's torment.

"Ren Yisheng, you didn't give me any face in Qinmeng, so don't blame me for being ruthless!"

Badun reached behind him and pulled out a metal rod, which he then pointed at Zhang Xuezhou, who was rising into the air.

"Your effective range of control over this stick is only two hundred meters, and the height you can strike it upwards should be between one hundred and fifty and one hundred and eighty meters," Ren Yisheng said.

"You think I can't kill him?" Badun asked, raising his stick.

"You still want to negotiate after all," Ren Yisheng said.

"If you give way, he'll be spared this death," Badun said. "From now on, we'll keep to ourselves in Qin Mengzhong. I won't retaliate against you, and you shouldn't interfere with me either!"

"This doesn't sound like an attitude of seeking peace," Ren Yisheng said.

"This is your best option; you have no other choice!"

Badun warned, but Ren Yisheng just smiled and pointed to the sky without saying a word.

"With so much time having passed and he still not fallen, do you think you still have the leverage to keep this up?"

Zhang Xuezhou ascended at lightning speed. By the time Ren Yisheng and Badun exchanged a few words, Zhang Xuezhou had already become a tiny black dot in the sky.

"It didn't fall?"

In Badun's understanding, you fall from the same place you jump up.

Ren Yisheng said a few words, and Badun didn't mind replying, since his opponent, who had jumped up, would eventually fall down.

But as time passed, the person who jumped did not fall; instead, he seemed to remain suspended in mid-air.

Badun stared wide-eyed upwards, finding it difficult to make out the high-tech devices on the other person's body.

"Your Scarlet Alliance State's single-unit flying device is quite good," Badun said, "But this kind of portable device doesn't use much metal, so its power consumption should be limited. It will eventually fall down after it runs out of energy!"

Do you think our spacecraft can only take off in one place and can't move forward or backward?

"As long as he doesn't return from Qinmeng, I'll catch up with him no matter what!"

Ren Yisheng even pointed at Zhang Xuezhou, indicating that Zhang Xuezhou could fly high and move forward and backward, and that Badun could not possibly wait for him below. Badun also responded with a slightly meaningful retort.

"If that's your stance, then we don't need to talk anymore!"

Ren Yisheng shook his head.

While carefully protecting himself from Badun's ambush, he also glanced at the wailing, retreating giant ape beast.

Any metal object could become Badun's weapon, and Ren Yisheng dared not rashly get into the truck and take over the beast as it drove away.

He had very bad luck on this interception hunt, and he ran into the only Sequence Holder he couldn't defeat.

He and Zhang Xuezhou have some advantages at present, but the advantages are not obvious, and they cannot overcome the tough challenge of Badun.

From plundering ferocious beasts to sharing them equally, and now to directly killing them without backing down, Ren Yisheng has been constantly lowering his goals.

"Etc!"

When Ren Yisheng swung his hand to slash at the giant ape, Badun finally couldn't hold back, and his strong personality began to back down.

But his shout was clearly a little too slow. A pitiful roar echoed from inside the heavy truck, which shook violently back and forth. Blood spilled out of the truck bed in a short moment.

"Okay, okay!"

Badun pointed at Ren Yisheng.

Despite being Eighth Sequence individual, Badun's successful hunting of ferocious beasts was no easy feat.

The battle with the ferocious beast was secondary; the real problem was how to safely transport it out of Qinmeng.

He hunted in Qin and Meng many times, but only two or three out of ten live animals were transported back to the Aomeijia Alliance.

Seeing that the giant ape was severely injured, Badun made a simple estimate and knew that once it was sent to the Aomeijia Alliance, it would be just a corpse, and its value would be reduced by 90%.

He had intercepted Zhou Xin several times in the past, causing Zhou Xin to return empty-handed.

When they intercepted Zhou Xin, they were naturally in high spirits. They couldn't get what they wanted themselves, but at least they didn't let Zhou Xin and his group get it either, thus ensuring the leading position of the Aomeijia Alliance. But now it felt like they were experiencing the retribution of reincarnation.

Badun stared with bloodshot eyes, only to be met with Ren Yisheng's indifferent gaze.

"So this is what it feels like for those in the Eighth Sequence to coerce people in Qin Meng," Ren Yisheng sneered.

"You..."

This is no longer your era!

Ren Yisheng also pointed to Montes Badun.

The hood obscured his face, and amidst the dismissive and mocking look in his eyes, Ren Yisheng's expression gradually turned solemn.

The rules of Qin Meng were not set by Ren Yisheng, but by whoever benefits most from them.

Encountering Badun was an accident, but Ren Yisheng didn't mind challenging the biggest beneficiary of Qin Meng's rules.