First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?!

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He landed beside Yan Feifan.

He immediately spotted the bag Lu Ding was holding.

Iced black tea, cola...

Still radiating cold air, covered with frost.

Yan Feifan instinctively swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"Brother Lu."

Lu Ding looked at him.

Yan Feifan didn't say anything either, grinning cheekily as he opened his mouth and pointed at it.

Lu Ding immediately laughed.

He pulled out a bottle of iced black tea and handed it to Yan Feifan.

He immediately twisted off the cap and took a huge gulp.

Gulp, gulp, gulp, gulp, gulp...

"Ah... that hits the spot, this is the real taste, national liquor!!!"

"This iced black tea of yours, where did you get it from?"

Lu Ding didn't hide it from him. There was nothing to hide. He had plenty of trump cards, so he just said, "I went back to my place in the Third Circle to grab it."

Yan Feifan's eyes went wide.

He wasn't curious about how Lu Ding got back.

He only wanted to say, "Brother Lu, next time can you bring more? We can store them up and drink them slowly."

When it came to Lu Ding's generosity and convenience, Yan Feifan was never one to stand on ceremony. He always wanted a piece of the pie and to enjoy the perks.

But this wasn't excessive at all.

Because when Lu Ding faced hardship and suffering, Yan Feifan wished he could bear all the suffering and carry all the burdens alone.

Lu Ding nodded. "Alright, whenever I get the chance, I'll make a trip back and bring more over. Then, whatever you want to drink, just make me a list, and I'll go buy it."

Having the Corpse-Shattering Taishui himself run errands—that wasn't a privilege just anyone got.

Yan Feifan nodded and got down to business. "Brother Lu, look."

He lifted the stone slab covering the ground in front of him.

Revealing a perfectly preserved pool of water.

Under the sunlight, it reflected faint, strange glimmers.

"Brother Lu, I've checked the little shops around here, but they don't have stuff like this. Everything they sell is loaded with nutrition, all kinds of chaotic herbal extracts, this and that."

"Pouring this into the herb garden can speed up the growth of the medicinal herbs. With this, our first batch of herbs can be harvested soon. After that, we can even plant a second batch, and even better ones."

Lu Ding listened and said, "That's a damn shame, letting Su Yun slip away. Otherwise, I'd have to squeeze every bit of value out of him before killing him."

Yan Feifan didn't care how Su Yun had escaped either.

Whatever Brother Lu said, that was what he accepted.

He said, "Brother Lu, next time we catch Su Yun, maybe we should keep him around a little longer, make him work as a black slave for a while?"

Even though the suggestion was good, maximizing profits.

But Lu Ding shook his head. "Forget it. If we keep him around longer, we'll start thinking, maybe just spare his life, let him work. And then what's the difference between that and atoning for his crimes with merit?"

It was like certain things that toe the line of the law.

You try it once, just once, and then stop.

But once you get a taste of the sweetness.

You won't be able to stop.

Things you can't decide on, you can't control.

But when it comes to things you can decide, Lu Ding absolutely would not let Su Yun live. Although Lu Ding's stance was still firm and his self-awareness above all else, people were all susceptible to temptation.

That was human nature.

Lu Ding was human too. He was only about twenty years old.

To avoid the one-in-a-million chance of being unable to resist temptation, letting Su Yun live again and again, it was better to nip it in the bud early.

Yan Feifan also understood what Lu Ding meant. Some things, doing them was profit, not doing them was restraint.

People couldn't just do anything for profit, could they?

The things Su Yun had done had sealed his fate.

Others might not know.

But at least Yan Feifan, who understood Lu Ding, knew that with Brother Lu, there was no place for him.

"Alright, Brother Lu, I'll follow your lead. So should I just pack these things up?"

"Go ahead, pack them up. They're all treasures."

Yan Feifan started working, while Lu Ding crouched beside him.

He casually asked, "Hey, Feifan, how's the overall situation in Black Phoenix Gathering?"

Yan Feifan replied while working, "The resistance is fierce, but the casualties are acceptable."

"After this, we can use Black Phoenix Gathering as one of our main bases, station here, and then start sweeping through Overcast and Raise Phoenix Mountains, searching the peaks and subduing the demons. What do you think, Brother Lu?"

Lu Ding listened. "The suggestion is doable, but setting up a main base in the heartland is pretty dangerous."

Yan Feifan packed up the pool water and stood up. "Risk and opportunity go hand in hand, Brother Lu. Didn't you say, the bigger the waves, the more expensive the fish?"

"Resting here can save a lot of unnecessary time."

"And if we want to hog everything, we have to move fast. If we take it all for ourselves, we'll have more than enough to fill our pockets. If it was just about collecting a simple reward or something, we should have reported it to higher-ups from the start."

Lu Ding laughed.

That was exactly the logic.

The resources that Overcast Mountain and Raise Phoenix Mountain could bring—if one family took it all, it was profit. If two families shared it, it was still profit. If they reported it to higher-ups, even if they didn't lift a finger, they could still get contribution points.

But the difference between them was like heaven and earth.

A simple example: Overcast Mountain and Raise Phoenix Mountain were business opportunities.

If Lu Ding led the western region to take it all for themselves, after the business opportunity, they'd be multimillionaires. If they split it more, it would get diluted, becoming millionaires, or even hundred-thousandaires.

Both meant having money.

But how much money was the real question.

Lu Ding never denied his own greed. The brothers he led were equally greedy.

But greed could also be a case of the spirit being willing but the flesh being weak.

Just like Su Yun getting away.

But that was no big deal.

Because from the very beginning, Lu Ding wasn't just coming for him.

He was here to conquer these two places and purge them.

To turn those stinking, rotten demonic spirits on these two mountains into fragrant, wonderful contribution points!

Lu Ding spoke up. "Then let's do it!"

"The bold will feast, the timid will starve."

"If you want to get rich, you have to risk your life. Life and death are up to fate, wealth and honor are up to heaven!"

Die and become martyrs, live and become rich.

From start to finish, Lu Ding had never forced anyone.

Since they chose to gamble with him, and he was willing to lead these brothers, then they would all risk their necks on the line and fight for a brighter tomorrow.

Yan Feifan pressed his earpiece beside him. "Okay, got it."

Then he looked at Lu Ding. "Brother Lu, there are some problems at the center of Black Phoenix Gathering."

"The locals aren't cooperating. They're even accusing our investigators. There's already been a conflict."

Lu Ding turned around. "Let's go check it out."

The two of them took off into the air.

Meanwhile.

At the market center of Black Phoenix Gathering.

Two sides were facing off.

On one side were the western 749 investigators brought by Lu Ding.

To avoid the one-in-ten-thousand chance of being unable to resist temptation, letting Su Yun live again and again, it was better to nip it in the bud early.

Someone in the crowd shouted loudly.

"749, get out of Black Phoenix Gathering! We don't need you!!!"

"You only bring disaster!!!"

"We've been living here harmoniously for generations! The moment you came, half of Black Phoenix Gathering was destroyed! Back then, the Great Han wiped out our country, and now it's finally time for you to root us out completely, isn't it!!!"