109: Chapter 109 Hunting and Exploitation

Bad Kids

"Sure, but not now," Qin Ming said flatly, his gaze falling back onto the float on the water's surface.

"I understand," Emma replied sweetly, snapping the dry branch in her hand in two.

Night fell. The temperature by the shores of Eden Lake plummeted.

Deep in the forest, a campfire blazed.

The group of minors who had stolen the couple's car keys, cell phone, and wallet were sitting around the fire, drinking beer recklessly.

Emma crouched on the branch of a thick red pine like a nimble night owl.

Tilting her head, she watched the rowdy teenagers below, her innocent eyes swirling with an icy, intense disgust.

On another tree about a dozen meters away.

Qin Ming leaned against the trunk with his arms crossed over his chest.

The show was about to begin.

The sound of footsteps crushing dry branches echoed through the woods.

The young man who bore a striking resemblance to Magneto held a flashlight and approached with his girlfriend.

The negotiation quickly turned into an argument, then escalated into shoving.

In the chaos.

The man brandished a folding knife he had picked up from somewhere, waving it wildly.

"Awooo—"

The black Rottweiler let out a pained cry as a fatal gash was sliced across its neck. Blood sprayed everywhere, and it twitched on the ground a few times before falling still.

The air fell silent instantly.

Brett looked at his beloved dog's corpse, his eyes instantly turning bloodshot.

"You killed my dog!" Brett let out a beast-like roar. "I'm going to kill you!"

(Keanu Reeves: My dog?)

(Jason Statham: My package?)

(Liam Neeson: My daughter?)

(Denzel Washington: My friend?)

The remaining teenagers pulled out switchblades and wooden clubs.

The young couple turned pale and fled into the depths of the dark forest.

The chase had officially begun.

In the canopy.

Qin Ming watched the figures quickly receding below, slightly raised his hand, and made a downward cutting motion.

It can begin.

The corners of Emma's mouth curled into an exaggerated and bloodthirsty grin.

She kicked off the tree trunk with both legs.

[boots of divine speed] effect activated.

Her petite body turned into a blue afterimage, instantly merging into the darkness.

Deep in the forest.

Cooper had the worst stamina and soon fell to the back of the group.

He leaned against a tree, gasping for air.

A light breeze brushed past.

Emma appeared behind him like a ghost.

Raising her leg, she kicked precisely and violently at the back of Cooper's knee.

"Crack!"

The sickening sound of bone fracturing rang out.

Cooper's knee folded forward at an anatomically impossible angle, and he fell into the mud screaming.

Adam, running ahead, heard the noise and hurried back.

He knelt down, looking at Cooper's ruined leg, paralyzed with fear.

"Shh."

In the darkness, a young girl's soft laughter drifted on the wind.

On the other side.

Reese, a Black youth, was holding a flashlight and searching through the bushes while cursing.

"Damn it, where did they go..."

A small figure blocked his path.

Qin Ming stood with one hand in his pocket, looking at him calmly.

"Hey, kid!" Reese froze for a moment, then viciously swung the baseball bat in his hand. "Get lost! Don't get in my way!"

Qin Ming frowned slightly.

"Your skin color is truly terrifying in the dark."

Before the words had fully left his mouth.

"Buzz—"

Four azure Magic Glintblades materialized out of thin air, instantly tearing through the air.

"Puchi! Puchi! Puchi! Puchi!"

Sharp blades sliced through flesh and bone.

Before Reese could even scream, all four of his limbs were severed from his torso in one clean sweep.

Blood gushed out.

Qin Ming didn't even glance at the human stump squirming frantically on the ground. He stepped over the pool of blood and continued forward.

A nearby clearing.

Harry heard his companion's scream, realized something was wrong, and turned to run.

He hadn't even taken two steps.

A petite figure rushed out from the darkness ahead.

Using the momentum from her sprint, Emma raised her right leg high like a battle-axe and slammed it into Harry's chest.

(Kizaru: Young man, have you ever been kicked by light?)

"Bang!"

A dull thud echoed through the woods.

Harry was kicked off his feet, flying backward five or six meters before slamming hard into a tree trunk.

His sternum was completely caved in, and chunks of internal organs mixed with blood gushed from his mouth.

At the end of the chase.

Brett and his delinquent girlfriend, Paige, stopped at the edge of a foul-smelling swamp.

The two stood back-to-back, looking in terror at the endless darkness surrounding them.

All the voices of their companions had vanished.

Only the rustling of the wind through the leaves remained.

"Who is it? Come out! You sons of bitches!" Paige broke down completely, screaming hysterically at the darkness.

The branch above them shook violently.

Emma dropped from the sky, her feet landing precisely on Paige's shoulders.

With the help of falling gravity and the boots of divine speed.

"Crack—!"

Paige's collarbones were instantly crushed to powder.

She collapsed to the ground like a pile of mud, unable to even scream, her eyes rolling back in despair.

Brett stumbled back a few steps in fear, finally seeing his attacker clearly.

A little girl in a floral dress.

Extreme fear instantly turned into rage.

"I'm going to kill you, you little brat!" Brett raised his switchblade and roared, lunging at Emma.

Emma smiled sweetly and moved forward instead of retreating.

She was so fast that Brett couldn't react at all.

She nimbly sidestepped the blade and gripped Brett's right arm with hands like iron pincers, giving it a violent twist.

The crisp sound of bone dislocating rang out.

"Ah—!"

Before Brett could finish his scream, Emma's knee had already ruthlessly shattered his left shin.

Brett fell to his knees.

Emma grabbed him by the hair and dragged him like a dead dog into the nearby swamp.

The foul-smelling black mud instantly rose to Brett's chest.

He struggled desperately, but only sank deeper.

Emma crouched by the swamp, her chin resting in her hands, watching with a smile as Brett was slowly swallowed by the mire.

A few desperate, murky bubbles gurgled to the surface.

The water's surface returned to its peaceful state.

In the clearing.

Adam was dragging the incapacitated Cooper, wandering through the woods in despair.

A blinding light from a cell phone suddenly hit their faces.

Qin Ming stood three meters away, holding the black smartphone in one hand.

On the screen, green inverted cross code flowed rapidly.

Larry's pixelated smiley face grinned eerily.

"Zzt... new toys discovered..."

Before Adam and Cooper could even cry for help, their bodies vanished into thin air amidst a swirl of distorted pixelated light.

Two more round-the-clock laborers were added to the Digital Cage.

Emma walked out from the depths of the forest with light steps.

Not a single drop of blood stained the hem of her skirt.

"Big brother, I've taken care of everything," she said to Qin Ming as if seeking praise. "Can we go back now? Dad has probably almost finished making dinner."

"You go back first," Qin Ming said, pocketing his phone. "I'll clean up here."

Emma nodded obediently and turned to disappear into the darkness.

With a thought, Qin Ming opened the system's storage space.

He took a walk around the woods.

The severed limbs, broken arms, the dying Harry, and Reese, the Black youth whose limbs had been cut off.

All of them were thrown into Larry's Data Prison.

The living ones were given pixel guns to hunt monsters and farm points day and night.

The dead ones were handed directly over to West.

After being injected with the newly improved Zombie Serum and undergoing secondary mutation, they would become stable and high-yield point-generating ATMs.

He would squeeze every last bit of value out of these underage thugs.

Qin Ming brushed the dust off his hands.

He glanced at the remaining pool of blood on the ground and turned to walk back toward the lakeside campsite.

This weekend's camping trip.

Was indeed very pleasant.