150: Chapter 150 Then grab me again.

This isn't quite what I expected...

Gu Changming blinked, withdrew his hand, and said slowly,

"I thought you would dodge."

Lin Jianqiu: "..."

No, buddy.

You're so powerful; would we really think you couldn't find anyone and specifically came over just to pass the curse onto us?

You might as well just say you wanted to take advantage of Su Wan just now.

That possibility would actually be higher.

Su Wan was also clearly stunned for a moment, then she looked at Gu Changming and thought about it.

"Hey, then grab it again."

"Hmm?" Gu Changming looked at her, then reached out again toward her shoulder.

This time, Su Wan turned her body and dodged Gu Changming's touch.

"Heh, I dodged it, you didn't touch me."

Looking at her reaction, a hint of a smile appeared at the corners of Gu Changming's mouth.

Beside them, Lin Jianqiu: "..."

Are they children? How can these two play a game like 'do it again'?

"Stop messing around, let's get back to business," Lin Jianqiu had to take the initiative to bring the topic back.

Gu Changming looked over and said, "I just wanted to study the content of this Assessment. There are many people here, so there might be more samples. I came to take a look."

He wouldn't just reveal that he could swallow curses and increase his Spirit.

Lin Jianqiu nodded, not thinking too much about it.

Beside her, Su Wan also followed the topic and started chatting.

"Someone will definitely die from the curse in the end. We plan to pass the curse to some people who commit crimes in the Stronghold. It can be considered cleaning up the trash for the Stronghold and improving the environment."

"What do you think?" Su Wan asked.

Gu Changming opened his mouth and finally nodded, "That's a good idea."

He had some things he wanted to say, but after thinking about it, he felt it wouldn't mean much. He couldn't change anything anyway, and it would only add to their troubles.

"Which part of your area is more chaotic?" Gu Changming asked.

"The South District, probably, but that's not our territory anymore," Lin Jianqiu said.

"Territory?" Gu Changming looked over.

"Yeah," Lin Jianqiu spoke with some pride and showing off, opening her arms to hug Su Wan beside her. "Our Miss Su is now one of the top regional bosses in the Xinhuo Stronghold. She has a Battle Group of nearly a hundred D-Class Ability Users. Pretty impressive, right?"

Being spoken of like that by Lin Jianqiu, Su Wan felt a bit embarrassed and gave her a small glare.

"Don't listen to her nonsense. It's just that everyone trusts me and let me be a leader," Su Wan waved her hand modestly.

"That really is impressive," Gu Changming looked at Su Wan with surprise and appreciation, then nodded.

He didn't expect Battle Groups to appear so early in this life. In the past, it was only during the mid-stage that various forces formed their own Battle Groups.

"Why are you asking this? Are you going over there?" Su Wan brought the topic back.

Gu Changming nodded, "Yeah, to take a look."

Regarding Gu Changming's decision, Su Wan had nothing to advise against.

His strength was so great that he could hang up and whip the managers of those areas in the South District without any problem.

So there was no need for polite words like 'be careful.'

"Then let's talk after the Assessment is over. I want to go over there and look around first," Gu Changming said.

"Okay," Su Wan nodded.

...

After Gu Changming left, Lin Jianqiu looked at his back and sighed softly, "Looks like there's no chance."

"No chance for what?" Su Wan turned her head.

"Winning him over," Lin Jianqiu withdrew her gaze and looked at Su Wan. "I was hinting just now—we have territory, manpower, and our conditions aren't bad."

"But him? He's the same as when we last met: polite but always maintaining a distance. If you had spoken up just now, I bet he would have mostly found some random reason to brush it off."

Su Wan's gaze fell on Gu Changming's departing back. After thinking about it, she felt it was true.

But she didn't feel it was a problem; from the first day she met him, he had always been like this.

...

In the South District, the narrow streets were permeated with a murky smell.

The Tall and Thin Subordinate was dragging a youth, his fingers tightly clutching the other's hair, pulling him forward like a sack of grain.

The youth's feet kicked wildly on the ground as he let out muffled cries:

"Don't... let me go! I didn't do it... I really didn't..."

"Shut up!" the Tall and Thin Subordinate snapped impatiently.

But the youth was struggling so hard that he couldn't get a firm grip.

He frowned and turned to look at Zhao Chenghan with a troubled expression.

Zhao Chenghan let out a helpless, soft sigh and stepped forward.

"Better let me do it."

As the words fell, he crouched down, also grabbing the youth's hair and jerking it upward.

The youth cried out in pain, forced to tilt his face up.

Immediately after, Zhao Chenghan clenched his other hand into a fist and ruthlessly smashed it into the youth's face.

With a dull thud, nosebleed instantly gushed out.

The youth screamed, and his body went limp.

But Zhao Chenghan didn't stop.

He lifted the youth by the hair, pulling his upper body up, then let go while simultaneously driving his knee upward with vicious force.

"Ugh!"

The youth's abdomen took a heavy blow, and his whole body flew backward like a broken sandbag, slamming into the brick wall behind him before sliding down.

Zhao Chenghan walked over unhurriedly and stopped in front of the curled-up youth.

He raised his foot, pressing the tip of his shoe against the other's spasming abdomen, tilted his head slightly, and said calmly:

"What did you just say?"

The youth's face was covered in blood, his lips trembling as bloody froth leaked from the corner of his mouth:

"No..."

Before the word "No" could be fully uttered, Zhao Chenghan's foot had already stomped down fiercely.

Once.

Twice.

Thrice.

The youth's body convulsed violently with the kicks, leaving only painful whimpers.

Zhao Chenghan added a few more kicks until the youth on the ground could only make raspy breathing sounds, unable to say a single complete word, before finally stopping.

He shook his hand, stood up straight, and turned to the Tall and Thin Subordinate.

"Alright, he can't talk anymore."

The Tall and Thin Subordinate looked at him, his eyes flickering, and didn't immediately respond.

Zhao Chenghan seemed to notice the other's gaze and curled his lip.

"There's no other way," he said in a relaxed tone, explaining himself. "With one word from above, people like us have to run our legs off. Those thugs are all shrewd; they've already hidden away who knows where."

"We have to complete the mission, right?" As he spoke, he glanced down at the youth. "Look at him, he's so weak."

"He probably wouldn't survive the Assessments later anyway. Being able to take on the curse now can be considered making a contribution to human civilization, can't it?"

Listening to this, the Tall and Thin Subordinate didn't entirely agree in his heart, but he didn't argue either.

He remained silent for a few seconds before finally stepping forward, bending over to grab the youth's collar, and continued dragging him forward.

Indeed, it was impossible for them to really go looking for those troublesome thugs.

Those guys weren't weak; if things went wrong, they might actually lose their lives.

How many points do they get a month? It wasn't worth risking their lives.