Resurrection Empire

Chapter 784 295: Teleportation [5200 words]

Ren Zhong once thought Yang Bingzhong was the pinnacle of this world's dark side, but now it seems, he underestimated Source Star.

The evil of Yang Bingzhong ultimately had a motive and reason, as he committed evil for the sake of profit.

But the boss of Xifeng Resources, Wu Ren, let Ren Zhong realize the new heights to which the malicious side of human nature can be amplified under a "slave society."

Unlike other bosses, although Wu Ren also participated in the fundraising, his determination was not firm and only symbolically provided a very small portion of funds as sponsorship.

From the start, Wu Ren had the intention of surrendering.

But unlike the boss of Nanga Resources, he did not rush to negotiate with Ren Zhong but instead conducted a rescue-style "extraction exploration" of resources in Xifeng Town.

While others were trying to preserve their strength and gather the strays, he instead, fabricated a scam of distributing weapons for free, lured all the scavengers in town to the plaza, then aimed heavy artillery at them, robbing them blatantly, seizing the equipment accumulated over the years from tens of thousands of scavengers, regardless of its value, adhering to the principle that even mosquito legs are still meat.

He further demanded the scavengers to pay a "Management Fee Late Charge" of 100 points.

The scavengers were too afraid to speak out, though fuming with anger.

Those who had money pinched their noses and accepted the loss.

Those without enough money faced life-threatening danger and were forced to sign debt contracts with him on the spot, reduced to slavery.

Subsequently, Wu Ren also bribed the manager of the canteen affiliated to Tianlong High-tech to hang up a closed sign despite being affordable.

Xifeng Resources set up a large stall on the side of the plaza selling synthetic food, the same as the canteen, but the price for one portion of food per day was 0.5 points, five times the usual price.

At the same time, the gates of Xifeng Town were tightly shut, so even if scavengers had backup equipment at home, they couldn't go out hunting.

Unable to resist Wu Ren and cut off from the usual economic sources, yet needing to survive, and with some people secretly stirring up trouble, there was almost no suspense as the bottom-level strays immediately began their mutual killings and plunders.

In just two short days, Xifeng Town had already turned into a Hell on Earth.

Yet Wu Ren opened a new business.

Starting yesterday afternoon, he announced his takeover of Xifeng Town's security management, using swift methods to arrest more than eight thousand people, among them, over two thousand truly had criminal records, while the other six thousand were merely secretly discussing Wu Ren's brutality in the past two days and expressed anticipation for Ren Zhong's arrival, then were sentenced.

Their crime was disrespect towards an Advanced Citizen.

These more than eight thousand people were ultimately sold by Wu Ren to Mengdu Group at a price of two hundred points per person.

By this morning, the vast majority of them had already been taken away.

In addition, yesterday afternoon, all related to these more than eight thousand people, over thirty thousand, were forced to sign new slave contracts with Xifeng Resources.

Wu Ren carefully selected from them over a thousand to become his formal slaves, ready to sell the company and take these people to other places.

Among them, about eight hundred had decent combat talents, and over two hundred were young women with good looks.

Afterwards, Wu Ren equipped these more than thirty thousand people with the most basic weapons, First Level firearms or melee weapons.

Yet, the guns were old, the blades dull, reaching a new level of decrepitude.

These equipment, if dropped on the ground in Starfire Town, even a newbie scavenger wouldn't bother to pick them up.

Heaven knows where Wu Ren found so many rare items.

Starting yesterday afternoon, these temporarily equipped strays were forced to go out.

Wu Ren demanded they hunt as many Ruined Beasts outside the town as possible with the utmost speed.

Wu Ren also played a little trick.

He told these people, due to the dangers outside, your lives are not guaranteed, if you die, then so be it, the fear is losing your money as well.

So, upon departure, you should best transfer the wealth in your temporary wrist watch accounts to me.

But the contract clearly stated that if you died outside, your deposit would automatically belong to me, Wu Ren.

Someone protested, saying what difference it makes,

Wu Ren first had his subordinate shoot that person in the head, then laughed, "How about a gamble? I'll give you 10% interest a day. I can sign a restricted contract, making defaults impossible. Additionally, after signing the contract, you can receive one more piece of equipment. Sign, or not?"

Among these thirty thousand people, twenty-six thousand signed the contract.

However, after just one afternoon yesterday, nearly ten thousand of these more than thirty thousand people were dead or injured.