Chapter 38: 38, Set conditions

Ren Xiaosu sat in the back garden of the clinic with his eyes closed, waiting for the arrival of the band, but it wasn't until dawn that he heard the creaking sound of the refuge bastion's gate slowly lifting.

What a pity for the vegetables that had just been planted in the courtyard—those scallions, those garlic sprouts, those greens...

What was meant to come would eventually arrive. Ren Xiaosu opened his eyes and walked toward the room where he received patients, sitting upright in his seat.

Thump, thump, thump—three knocks on the door.

"Please come in, the door isn't closed," Ren Xiaosu said, not lifting his head, as if writing a medical record...

The door opened, and the morning sunlight instantly shone on Ren Xiaosu's face. He looked up and saw a well-dressed girl standing at the entrance, wearing clothes he had never seen in the market town.

Ren Xiaosu had seen her before, leaning on the window—she was the famous singer Luo Xinyu from the refuge bastion.

Fussy and flashy, Ren Xiaosu muttered in his heart and turned his gaze to Luo Xinyu's back, where the band's staff and the refuge bastion's private troops stood. This time, the private troops had dispatched twelve people, even more than the last time.

But what Ren Xiaosu focused on most was the girl in the duck-bill cap... the perfect-level gunman.

She still wore the duck-bill cap, pressing the brim very low, dressed in a dark blue sports suit. She seemed to sense Ren Xiaosu's gaze lingering on her, and slightly lifted her face.

Ren Xiaosu saw her delicate jaw, but never could see the eyes hidden in the shadow of the duck-bill cap.

Behind this group, a large crowd of students from the academy had gathered...

Actually, the band members were a bit puzzled—how had these children suddenly gathered? Li Fucai's sturdy daughter whispered to the duck-bill cap girl: "Are you going to take Ren Xiaosu away?"

No one answered Li Youqian, as if the duck-bill cap girl didn't like to speak.

But at this moment, Ren Xiaosu suddenly heard the palace in his mind say: "Mission, refuse to accompany to Jing Mountain."

Ren Xiaosu froze. Why had even the palace gotten involved in this matter? According to normal logic, the palace should be for his own good, but why didn't the palace want him to go to Jing Mountain? What was there?

After all, Ren Xiaosu had been to Jing Mountain himself—it was certainly more dangerous than the market town, but not so dangerous that the palace needed to remind him.

Had something changed?

Thinking of this, Ren Xiaosu felt a desire to retreat. He wanted to go out and see, but he wanted to see the vast world outside, not to see how dangerous that world was...

Luo Xinyu sat down opposite Ren Xiaosu, smiling: "You must be Ren Xiaosu."

Ren Xiaosu looked at Luo Xinyu and fell into deep thought: "Father's father is called grandfather, father's mother is called grandmother..."

Luo Xinyu: "???"

Was his brain this sick?

At this time, an officer from the private troops walked in from outside, looking at Ren Xiaosu and smiling: "Stop pretending, we've dealt with each other before."

When Ren Xiaosu looked up and saw the man, his whole body went bad—this guy was Wang Chengyang, who had searched him twice!

This time, he couldn't pretend anymore, and Ren Xiaosu knew clearly that if he didn't go, he would probably have to go anyway.

His originally upright body leaned back against the chair's backrest, suddenly becoming lazy: "I won't go!"

"Mission completed, reward basic skill learning chart, can learn others' abilities."

Ren Xiaosu's eyes lit up—mission completed!

Indeed, the palace's standard for judging mission completion wasn't a predetermined fact, but as long as Ren Xiaosu's attitude!

At this moment, a bold idea suddenly arose in Ren Xiaosu's heart...

Wang Chengyang said from the side: "If you don't go, how can..."

"I'll go," Ren Xiaosu said seriously.

Wang Chengyang: "???"

But to Ren Xiaosu's disappointment, the palace didn't issue a new mission this time. Thinking about it, the previous tasks like the one for the sparrow were only given once—how could he keep grinding missions like this?

At this time, Luo Xinyu smiled: "It's best if you're willing to go. I'm sure Boss Luo's message has already been conveyed to you. If you don't go, there's no place for you in this market town."

"I can go," Ren Xiaosu said: "But I have a few conditions."

Luo Xinyu smiled softly at Ren Xiaosu, finding the communication much smoother now: "Go ahead."

"I want thirty thousand yuan in compensation."

"No, ten thousand."

"Okay, then I want ten bags of salt, ten packs of cigarettes, one hundred kilograms of rice, and..." Ren Xiaosu began counting on his fingers.

Luo Xinyu said calmly: "Stop, don't say more. I'll give you thirty thousand yuan."

"Alright, I have another condition," Ren Xiaosu said.

"Can't you say it all at once?" Luo Xinyu grew impatient.

"You interrupted me just now," Ren Xiaosu said: "I can go, but Wang Chengyang can't go."

This Wang Chengyang was clearly a relative of Wang Dongyang, the dead factory manager, who had already investigated him twice. If they went together, who knew what trouble they'd cause on the way.

So Ren Xiaosu couldn't just let a time bomb be buried beside him.

Wait, hold on—wasn't Wang Chengyang sent here because he had privately investigated him twice and offended Boss Luo?

That was very likely. Who in the private troops would willingly go to the wilderness? Had the good days in the refuge bastion become too comfortable?

So Wang Chengyang was dispatched, and his dissatisfaction with himself must have grown even more. That's why he couldn't be allowed to go together.

Someone had said that the most worrying thing on this wasteland was the increasingly strong beasts, but Ren Xiaosu didn't agree. He had encountered and killed some beasts, but on this wasteland, what needed to be feared most was never beasts—it was people.

Luo Xinyu turned to look at Wang Chengyang, not expecting these two to have a history.

At this time, Luo Xinyu actually looked at the duck-bill cap girl, and saw her nod faintly. Luo Xinyu said: "Alright, Wang Chengyang, go back."

Wang Chengyang looked at Ren Xiaosu, and Ren Xiaosu smiled: "Actually, you don't want to go either, do you?"

Wang Chengyang's mouth curled up: "Interesting."

After saying that, Wang Chengyang turned and left.

At this time, Ren Xiaosu said: "I actually have another condition..."

But Luo Xinyu had already stood up, her smiling face turning cold: "Young man, my patience has run out."

Ren Xiaosu thought the people in the refuge bastion were so fickle—she had been smiling just now, and her expression changed faster than flipping a page.

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Thanks to Kevin Zhou Yang and Feng Niannian for becoming the new alliance leader of this book!