49: Chapter 49 The helpless son-in-law trembles before overwhelming wealth.
"Bang!"
Fragments of the shattered phone scattered into the cold rain.
Lin Tian looked up, staring intently at the black drone hovering above him like a fly.
"Qin Yuan! If you have the guts, come out! What kind of skill is it to hide behind the scenes like a coward!"
Like a trapped beast driven to the edge, he roared frantically at the cold machine.
The drone did not respond.
It merely used its cold camera to silently record his impotent rage at this moment.
No money, no internet, no help.
The once-mighty Asura War God, who had commanded respect overseas and had countless followers at his beck and call.
At this moment, he was like a primitive man completely abandoned by modern civilization, trapped in this indifferent concrete jungle.
The heaven-defying martial arts he was so proud of seemed so pale and powerless in the face of omnipresent Skynet surveillance and the modern social system.
He couldn't even buy a bottle of water or eat a hot meal.
How could he even talk about revenge?
"Woo—woo—"
In the distance, the wail of police sirens sounded again.
Lin Tian's heart tightened; he dared not stay where he was any longer.
Like a startled stray dog, he plunged into the darkest, filthiest alley of the nearby urban village.
...
Two days later.
Underneath the bridge arch of the Jiangzhong City cross-river bridge.
This was a gathering place for homeless people and scavengers, the air thick with a mixture of odors: sweat, stale alcohol, and rotting food.
Lin Tian curled up in a shack made of broken cardboard, staring listlessly at the gray sky outside the bridge arch.
He had been hungry for two whole days.
All the wounds on his body, having not received timely treatment, had begun to fester and ooze pus severely.
Intense pain and hunger, like two venomous snakes, were frantically gnawing at his will.
Now, never mind fighting his way back to the Qin Family; he barely had the strength to stand up.
"Damn it, newcomer, what are you looking at?!"
A filthy, drunken homeless man nearby shoved him and cursed viciously.
Lin Tian didn't even have the strength to talk back; he could only silently shrink further into the corner.
Once upon a time, he would have felt that even glancing at such bottom-feeders, who didn't even count as ants in society, would have dirtied his eyes.
But now, he had become one of them.
Or perhaps, even worse than them.
"Rum-rum—! Rum-rum—!"
Just then, a huge roar of helicopter propellers suddenly came from above the bridge!
The entire bridge arch shook violently!
All the homeless people scrambled in terror, thinking the bridge was about to collapse.
Lin Tian raised his head with difficulty and, through a gap in the bridge arch, saw an all-black private helicopter hovering above the cross-river bridge.
On the fuselage was printed an extremely arrogant, gold-stamped character "Qin"!
Lin Tian's pupils constricted sharply!
It was Qin Yuan!
This persistent devil had come to toy with him again!
The helicopter's cabin door slowly opened.
But this time, it didn't deploy machine guns or missiles.
Instead...
"Whoosh—!"
Sheets of snow-white paper fell from the sky like a blizzard!
They fluttered down, covering the entire river surface and drifting into every corner under the bridge arch.
A homeless man closest to Lin Tian grabbed one at random.
He took a closer look and was instantly struck dumb, standing rooted to the spot as if hit by lightning!
It wasn't ordinary paper.
It was a well-produced color flyer!
In the center of the flyer was a pathetic close-up photo of Lin Tian, captured by a high-definition camera!
Below the photo, a line of shocking, eye-catching red text was written!
[City-Wide Bounty!]
[This person is named Lin Tian, an International Class A Terrorist Wanted Criminal!]
[Anyone who provides effective leads on him, upon verification, will be rewarded with cash—five million!]
Five million?!
"Boom!"
The entire homeless gathering place instantly erupted into chaos!
"Five million! Holy sh*t! I've never seen that much money in my whole life!"
"I'm rich! I'm rich! As long as we find this guy, I won't have to worry for the rest of my life!"
"Damn it, what are you standing there for? Go find him!"
All the homeless people had gone crazy!
In their murky eyes, a greedy and fanatical light instantly erupted!
They were no longer numb, walking corpses; they had turned into a pack of starving wolves that had caught the scent of blood!
Immediately after.
All eyes, with a "whoosh," focused in unison on the "newcomer" in the corner, who was wearing a tattered security uniform and covered in wounds!
The face in the photo was exactly the same as the face before them!
"It's... it's him!"
"Catch him! He's five million!"
"Don't let him run!"
The drunkard closest to Lin Tian let out a strange cry and was the first to pounce!
"Get lost!"
Lin Tian's eyes turned cold. Although he was now a tiger trapped in the lowlands, he was not someone these ants could bully!
He threw a punch, sending the drunkard flying backward, knocking over several shacks.
However.
This punch not only failed to deter the crowd.
Instead, it was like pouring a ladle of cold water into a hot pan of oil!
"He's injured! He's about to collapse!"
"Damn it, all together now! The five million is ours!"
More homeless people, and even some passing citizens who had seen the bounty notice, were red-eyed, rushing toward Lin Tian like madmen!
In the face of absolute financial temptation, laws and morals were all bullshit!
Lin Tian looked at the vast sea of people's war composed of greed before him.
His heart, as hard as that of an Asura War God, felt true fear for the first time.
He punched away two homeless men who tried to grab his legs.
But it only attracted more citizens waving wine bottles and bricks!
Like a rat crossing the street, he was chased by this crowd of crazy people, scrambling in terror.
In this city completely dominated by money.
With eyes full of despair, he fled wildly toward the sparsely populated suburbs!
"Qin Yuan! You're ruthless enough!"
Behind him were the frantic shouts of countless citizens.
"Don't run! Even if you run to the ends of the earth, you're still five million!"