Chapter 35 The Pick-up Car
This is the road leading to the danger zone.

A vehicle parked on the side of the road, turned off the engine and lights, waiting quietly.

There were two people sitting in the car, one was the driver and the other was a practitioner with activated psychic powers named Zheng Fei, who was responsible for picking up those who participated in the operation.

"Brother Zheng, let's go back. It's so late now, and no one will probably come back. If we continue to stay here, we might encounter danger." The driver whispered at this moment. Now he was the only car parked here, and he couldn't help feeling scared.

Zheng Fei shook his head and said, "No, Yang Yilong ordered me to wait until six o'clock, and up to now, more than ten practitioners have disappeared in the danger zone. This is a big problem. If a practitioner escapes alive during this period and we give up on picking them up, once the news spreads, who will dare to deal with the Yang family in the future?"

"In this world today, the more powerful a practitioner is, the more important his personal credibility and appeal are, because a practitioner is a symbol. Once his credibility is broken, he will be rejected by the entire practice circle, and it will be difficult for him to do anything in the future."

“Why is that? There are so many people who don’t keep their promises in society today, and they are not excluded.” The driver was puzzled.

Zheng Fei looked out the window and smiled: "That's because the law can control scoundrels, but it can't restrain powerful practitioners, so practitioners must restrain themselves, so that others will trust you, respect you, worship you, and even be willing to respond to your call. Let me ask you, would you rather follow a person who keeps his word or a person who goes back on his words?"

"I roughly understand. The higher the status of a person, the more he cares about credit and promises. Therefore, the words spoken by the emperor with the highest status are the imperial edict." The driver was a little surprised.

Zheng Fei said, "That's probably what it means. That's why the emperor can't break his word. Once the beginning is made, the imperial edict will be worthless and will no longer have any effect. Yang Yilong said before that the action time will end at six o'clock, and we must be responsible for receiving the retreating practitioners during this period. If we don't do this, what Yang Yilong says in the future will be bullshit, and no one will believe or listen to him."

"I didn't expect there was such a trick in it." The driver didn't expect that this small action had such a profound meaning.

Then Zheng Fei sighed again: "But I also know in my heart that those who have not been evacuated from the danger zone will probably have a hard time coming back. Most of them have died in there. Hey, wait, there seems to be a figure running towards us quickly."

"I'll get off the car and take a look. You'll be ready to start the vehicle and evacuate at any time."

As soon as he said that, he opened the car door and walked out, then quickly turned over and stood on a high ground to look out.

"who is it?"

Zheng Fei asked in a low voice.

Afraid that some unclean humanoid creature would get close in the dark.

"It's me, Li Yi." The figure responded.

"Li Yi?"

Zheng Fei recalled it immediately in his mind, and immediately remembered: "It turned out to be the practitioner who followed Li Tao. My name is Zheng Fei, and I am the person responsible for picking you up. What happened? Where is Li Tao and Zhang Gao who was traveling with you? Something is wrong. Stop. What is that thing on you?"

"Li Tao and Zhang Gao are dead. They were killed by a group of monsters at the garrison point. I took advantage of the chaos to escape. Don't be nervous. What I'm carrying on my back is a strange tiger. I killed it. I think this prey may be worth some money, so I brought it back."

Li Yi was breathing slightly at this moment. He ran all the way with the tiger on his back. Finally, he got out of the danger zone and successfully arrived near the cordon.

"Did you kill a tiger? So that's it, it's okay, come here." Zheng Fei breathed a sigh of relief and motioned Li Yi to come over.

"What happened? Why are you so alert?" Li Yi approached with the dead body of Ebiao on his back. He was covered in a strong smell of blood and exuded a fierce aura.

Zheng Fei looked at Li Yi, and when he saw the beast on his back, he was shocked and said, "Good fellow, what you killed was not a tiger at all, but a beast. Yang Yilong had sent a message before, saying that there was an abandoned zoo in the danger zone, and an extraordinary creature raised many beasts, including beasts, mandrills, and human bears. Later, he hunted and killed the extraordinary creature and was unable to deal with the remaining beasts, causing the beasts to run wild and run around in the danger zone, so we are on high alert."

"It seems that the tiger Yang Yilong mentioned must be the one you killed."

As he spoke, Zheng Fei moved closer and looked at Biao's body.

When he saw the clear concave fist and palm prints on Biao's body, his eyes suddenly narrowed.

This ferocious beast was actually beaten to death by people's fists and feet.

"You really killed it? Unbelievable. Yang Yilong has reminded us that these beasts are extremely powerful. Even those in the psychic realm will become their prey if they encounter them. If you want to kill these beasts, you have to use powerful thermal weapons, and you have to have multiple practitioners working together."

Zheng Fei couldn't believe it. An assistant who followed Li Tao not only escaped from the danger zone alive, but also killed a ferocious beast with his bare hands. How could this sound so bizarre?

You should know that there are quite a few medium-level practitioners who did not come back this time.

"At the critical moment of life and death, my body was stimulated and evolved. I learned some tricks of fists and feet and killed it." Li Yi put down the body of the tiger, wiped the sweat off his forehead and said, "I was wondering why this thing was so fierce. It turned out that it was not a tiger, but a tiger. I almost got eaten by it."

"So that's how it is. Have you activated your medium?" Zheng Fei noticed. Li Yi's eyes were shining. His medium had been activated. He was a medium practitioner like him.

But he was still confused.

For a cultivator who has just opened the spiritual medium realm, even if he is in a desperate situation, it is not easy to kill a beast with bare hands. However, Zheng Fei did not ask much, he just said: "Do you need help? I have a car to pick you up, and I can take you and the body of this beast back to the stable area. Don't worry, this thing you hunted, we will not swallow it, and we may even buy it at a high price."

"Okay, take me back now. I don't want to stay here for a moment. There are too many dangers. On the way back, I saw evil soldiers and fierce ghosts. I was almost targeted." Li Yi said immediately.

Zheng Fei's eyelids jumped. "Ghost soldiers, evil spirits? Your trip is too dangerous. Fortunately, you only encountered ghosts. They dare not leave the ghost area because the energy field of the earth is polluted. Evil spirits or ghost soldiers, once they leave the ghost area, they will be polluted by the earth. When they die, they will not know how they died."

Li Yi nodded, agreeing with him.

Zheng Fei lent a hand at this moment, lifted Biao's body from the ground, put it on the car, and then continued: "But things are not absolute. If a fierce ghost possesses a human body, it can temporarily avoid pollution with a living body. In addition, some powerful ghosts can also move in a polluted world if they have their own energy field, but those are extremely rare and cannot be used as a reference."

"Okay, that's it, nothing else?"

After hearing what Zheng Fei said, Li Yi regretted it again. He should have bought more things in Ghost Street earlier. Anyway, he was not afraid of the debt collector coming to his house to collect the debt.

But now is not the time to think about these things. He immediately said: "There is only the body of this tiger, nothing else. Let's set off immediately. This place is very close to the danger zone, it is best not to stay too long."

"Okay, I got it. Get in the car, we'll go now." Zheng Fei did not stay long after picking up Li Yi. He told the driver to drive immediately.

The driver had already made preparations. He had long been eager to leave this damn place. He started the vehicle, stepped on the accelerator deeply, and quickly evacuated the vehicle with several people on board.

On the way of evacuation, another car suddenly came towards us and drove towards the danger zone.

"Is there anyone going to the danger zone at this time?" Li Yi was resting in the car. When he saw other vehicles, he immediately became curious.

Zheng Fei explained, "That was the vehicle that Yang Yilong arranged for us to pick us up. When my car left, the next one would be waiting at the place we were in. After all, this is a dangerous area, and we can't arrange too many people to pick us up at once, for fear of accidents. And you may not know that besides you, there are eleven practitioners who have lost contact. And with the information you brought about the deaths of Li Tao and Zhang Gao, it has been confirmed that seven practitioners have died."

"So many people got into trouble?" Li Yi was surprised. "I thought it was just me and Brother Tao who were unlucky and encountered danger, but I didn't expect that others were also in trouble."

"Isn't it? Yang Yilong is having a headache about this matter now. And it's not just you. Yang Yilong's companion, the girl named Qin Qing, was also seriously injured. Several sections of her spine were broken. She is currently contacting major pharmaceutical companies for treatment." Zheng Fei shook his head and told another piece of news.

"Qin Qing? Are you talking about the woman with blue vertical pupils?" Li Yi asked.

He had a deep impression of the woman next to Yang Yilong, and Brother Tao had even taught her about vertical pupils.

"Isn't it her? I heard that she almost lost her life while trying to cover up what happened to Yang Yilong." Zheng Fei said with emotion: "Fortunately, I am just a bodyguard responsible for picking you up. If I had also entered the danger zone this time, I probably wouldn't have been able to come back."

"Don't blame us. Yang Yilong was doing this for your own good. He wanted to let you go to the dangerous area with him before firing you so that you could earn more money. He never thought it would turn out like this."

Li Yi couldn't help but be shocked after hearing these things.

Even Yang Yilong almost overturned the car in the danger zone. This trip was really dangerous.

Now that I think about it, I’m really lucky to have come back alive.

"By the way, what kind of extraordinary creature are they hunting? It's so powerful?" Li Yi asked curiously.

Zheng Fei said, "It's not clear yet, but the body has been taken back. We need to check the data and check it before we can confirm it. But it's useless to hunt. The loss is so great this time, so many people died. I don't know how much money we have to pay. In addition, Qin Qing's injury requires high medical expenses. I don't know if the body of the extraordinary creature can make up for the loss this time."

"We have risked our lives for this mission. It is only right that Yang Yilong bleeds a little and pays some money," said Li Yi.

Zheng Fei looked at Li Yi's bloodstained appearance and nodded: "That's right, you can earn money again if you lose it, but if you lose your life, you lose everything. But don't worry, take a shower, have a good rest, and have a meal when you go back. The supervisor will talk to you about compensation in a few days. You won't suffer any loss. But you are just injured, so the compensation will not be high."

"I know, that's why I'm counting on this thing to make money. I've always heard that the ferocious beasts in the danger zone are very valuable." Li Yi pointed to the corpse of the ferocious beast Biao in the carriage.

"Don't worry. I've said before that Yang Yilong will definitely buy back the body of this tiger at a high price. Just believe me."

Zheng Fei said with a smile that he was very polite to Li Yi, not only because they were both practitioners in the medium realm, but also because he admired Li Yi's strength.

In addition, at this critical juncture, it is actually a good thing for Li Yi to hunt a tiger.

Only by paying a huge sum of money to buy bones can Yang Yilong's damaged credit be restored.

Zheng Fei understands this principle, and Yang Yilong certainly understands it too.

(End of this chapter)