“First put down an advance of a hundred thousand yuan, then the down payment within seven days, and prepare the loan materials.” Lian Yufan read the list Huan Zixu had given him. “Can you put down the full down payment on this price within seven days? The rental apartment is all right, the landlord is just a little jumpy. Can’t you just explain things to them?” 

During the rare times Huan Zixu got to see Feng Kui, he would take him along no matter where he went. Today he had gone to see a 150 square meter residence in the new complex he had taken a liking to. While buying the apartment, he also took Feng Kui along, and Lian Yufan, who was monitoring the two of them, was forced to also come see the apartment. 

“With Yu Hua’s miserliness, do you think I have enough money?” Huan Zixu said. “I put twenty thousand of those hundred thousand on my credit card.” 

“You have a credit card? You can have a credit card?” Lian Yufan said in surprise. 

“The materials your logistics department provided for me are very complete. There’s even a credit history,” Huan Zixu said, holding a printed “Personal Credit History.” “To suit the materials of a sales champion, I also have a complete bank record and spending record. The credit card center reviewed it and issued me a card with a pretty high limit. Fifty thousand.” 

“You’ve earned eighty thousand in one month of livestreaming. The ability to dig out that much money from between Yu Hua’s teeth is truly astonishing, but it’ll be hard to pay the full down payment,” Lian Yufan said. 

“In three days, the advertising company from the last promotional livestream will settle up. I’ve calculated. The total will be enough for the down payment and my credit card payment,” Huan Zixu said carelessly. 

“You dare to use the studio’s public money?” Lian Yufan thought that Huan Zixu had simply lost his mind over this apartment. “Instead of provoking Yu Hua, why don’t you think of a way to get the acknowledgement of the world law and become a Protector. Then you can have an apartment!” 

“I asked Zhen Li how to go about getting the world law’s approval, and he hemmed and hawed and didn’t say anything to the point. And I looked at his apartment. It’ll only belong to him after he’s been a Protector for ten years, and it’s in a commercial apartment block where 40% of the space is shared. Even if you gave me an apartment like that, I wouldn’t want it,” Huan Zixu said disparagingly. “The property management fees in commercial apartment blocks are high, you can’t set up a home, you don’t belong to a quota to attend school, and there’s no room for the property value to increase. They have no value aside from being rented out.” 

Lian Yufan stuck up for the Protection Organization. “We gave him a choice between a residential building and a commercial apartment block. Zhen Li was the one who thought that a loft was more attractive, and the natural lighting was more attractive, and the high quality decoration was more attractive. He insisted on the loft.” 

Huan Zixu was speechless. “…Zhen Li doesn’t value anything but attractiveness, does he!” 

“He also said it was good that there would be no need to decorate. He really doesn’t want to decorate. He must have been scarred from Yu Hua’s torture.” Mentioning decoration, Lian Yufan clenched his teeth involuntarily. “Anyway, the organization undertakes the property management fees. You don’t need to worry about those problems.” 

“But the residences you provide are mostly in old buildings, twenty years old or more. The prices are high, but you can’t sell them on. I incline towards buying a new one,” Huan Zixu said. “First I’ll make the down payment, and then I’ll deal with Yu Hua. At worst he’ll add a few years to my indenture.” 

Feng Kui, who had been silently listening to the two of them argue, suddenly reached out a hand to shield Huan Zixu’s head. “It’s raining.” 

Lian Yufan saw that it had indeed started to rain and hurriedly pulled his shirt over his head. He said, “Let’s run back to the studio. There are umbrellas there.” 

“We’re 3.2 kilometers away from the office. How long would that take? We’d be better off going back to the complex’s sales area to ask for an umbrella,” Huan Zixu said. 

“Ask for an umbrella?” Lian Yufan couldn’t understand Huan Zixu’s reasoning at all. 

Huan Zixu said, in a righteous tone, “I just bought such an expensive apartment, can’t they give me some umbrellas? If they won’t give them to me, then Feng Kui and I will sit at their door until the rain stops.” 

Lian Yufan looked at Feng Kui’s height. With a lummox like this sitting at their door, the sales area would probably be forced to use the umbrellas to get rid of them. 

“You’re pretty vicious.” Lian Yufan gave Huan Zixu a thumbs up. Huan Zixu really was a landslide in the marketing world. 

“Don’t get in my way,” Huan Zixu warned Lian Yufan. 

Feng Kui, who was keeping the rain off of Huan Zixu’s head, made a throat-slitting gesture towards Lian Yufan. The two of them were annoying him to death. Who was watching whom? 

“Forget it. You’ve bought something so expensive, they really ought to give you something. I’ll come with you to get the umbrellas.” The rain was getting stronger, and Lian Yufan compromised. 

The three of them quickly ran to the complex’s sales area, Huan Zixu protecting the folder containing the receipt for the hundred thousand yuan, Feng Kui protecting Huan Zixu, and Lian Yufan all on his own, shielding himself from the rain with his clothes. 

When the three of them reached the sales area’s sign, they heard a rumble from not far away. Huan Zixu looked in the direction of the sound, and his eyes instantly turned red. “My new apartment!” 

The rumble originated from the new complex’s construction site. Building 11, where Huan Zixu had just bought an apartment, had exploded. Countless pieces of reinforced concrete fell, smashing heavily into the ground. 

“How could a new building blow up for no reason?! I’m going take a look!” As Lian Yufan ran, he called the Protection Organization’s emergency number. Instinct told him that something was very wrong. 

Huan Zixu followed closely after him. This was his new apartment! The whole building was gone! 

Feng Kui naturally ran after Huan Zixu towards the complex. The three of them were startlingly strong. Lian Yufan took the lead in leaping over the galvanized iron wall surrounding the construction site. He found that the construction site’s workers were all running away. Luckily, because it had just started raining, the workers had been dispersing. They had already been far from Building 11. No one had died in the building’s collapse, though many people had been hit by falling pieces of cement and had been seriously injured.  

“I’ll call an ambulance, you hurry up and organize the employees to leave!” Lian Yufan said to someone who looked like the head contractor. 

Though he didn’t know who Lian Yufan was, the head contractor could see that the young man in front of him had an austere air. Evidently he wasn’t a layabout. The head contractor agreed decisively and organized the workers to leave the construction site, carrying away the wounded.

Building 11 was the main building in the complex, placed at the center. When Huan Zixu had been buying an apartment, he had chosen the best and most expensive. Now the whole building had collapsed, and he still owed twenty thousand yuan on his card. He went up to the ruins. Suddenly, the folder with the receipt for the advance flew out of his hand into the air. There was a person standing in midair. He opened the folder, looked at the “Commercial Purchase Agreement“ inside it and laughed mockingly. “Huan Zixu, so you really are planning to live in this world?” 

This person was over 185 cm tall. His hair was an unusual sky blue and his eyes fiery red. He held a constantly twinkling crystal sphere in his hand. There wasn’t a single raindrop within a meter of him. 

Lian Yufan, who had given the head contractor simple instructions on how to evacuate the employees in an orderly manner, had just run over when he heard these words. He looked at Huan Zixu. “It’s a Destroyer. Do you know him?” 

Huan Zixu’s long hair was wet from the rain, making him look rather put upon. He looked up and said, “One of the Clearing League’s ten managers. He’s passed 217 levels. His ability is…” 

Before Huan Zixu finished speaking, Destroyer 217 raised his hand, and an invisible wind pressure came from his palm and passed through the rain, rushing towards Huan Zixu’s face. 

Huan Zixu had no time to dodge. He only had time to turn slightly to avoid the wind pressure harming his head or chest or other vital areas. 

But Feng Kui was even faster than the wind pressure. He had charged towards Huan Zixu the moment he had seen Destroyer 217. Before the wind pressure hit Huan Zixu, Feng Kui threw himself forward in time, blocking the attack with his broad arms and shoulders.

When the wind pressure dispersed, Huan Zixu was entirely unharmed, while all the flesh of Feng Kui’s arm was gone, leaving only a mechanical arm. Sweat brought out by the fierce pain mixed with rain and fell drop by drop. 

Rain, blood, and sweat mixed together, soaking into the cement ground. 

“Huh?” Destroyer 217 said in surprise. “The System told us that it had removed the abilities of levelers who had pledged their allegiance to the mission target. Why does Feng Kui still have his mechanical skeleton?” 

Huan Zixu looked at Feng Kui’s arm and began to tremble uncontrollably. Clenching his teeth, he said, “You’re dead!” 

“Me?” Destroyer 217 laughed. “Even if the two of you hadn’t lost your powers, you still aren’t a match for me. What qualifications do you have to say something like that to me? I only came to find you to find out one thing. Where is the mission target? You two must know, right?” 

Lian Yufan, who hadn’t been noticed by Destroyer 217, crouched down and picked up a broken segment of reinforcing steel bar. He squeezed it in his hand and said, “Could you tell me whether I have the qualifications?” 

“What the hell are you? Some low grade leveler or one of this world’s special ability users?” Destroyer 217 said disdainfully. 

“Oh?” Lian Yufan shifted his steps, lining himself up with the collapsed building and Destroyer 217. Destroyer 217 was standing in the middle. 

“Join!” Lian Yufan said quietly when his position was correct, holding the steel bar with both hands.  

The reinforced concrete behind Destroyer 217 that had originally belonged to Building 11 was attracted by the assembly power. Countless scraps of building material crashed into Destroyer 217 like a mountain falling! 

Destroyer 217 hadn’t expected Lian Yufan’s attack method to be this unique. He had only been paying attention to the enemies in front of him and had ignored the ruined building behind him. He quickly opened an air shield to protect himself. 

Before the building materials could collect around the metal bar in his hands, Lian Yufan threw the bar towards Destroyer 217 so he wouldn’t face the weight of the building himself and be crushed under it. 

Building 11 rebuilt itself over Destroyer 217 under the influence of the assembly power, but there wasn’t enough of a foundation to support it. It quickly fell again. Countless heavy pieces of concrete bombarded Destroyer 217. 

“Director, a Destroyer has appeared in the Xuyang District’s —— new complex, 217 levels, requesting support!” In an emergency, Lian Yufan was forced to use voice communication to request support. 

Pulling Huan Zixu and Feng Kui, Lian Yufan said, “You two have lost your powers, and I definitely can’t defeat him on my own. I can only stall for time. We can’t let him go to a populous place and cause destruction, harm ordinary people. The best thing to do is to keep him in this already evacuated construction site and wait for support to arrive.” 

You Zhengping’s squad and Lian Yufan’s squad made thirteen people in all. They patrolled the Xuyang District all day. Support should come soon. 

But Huan Zixu, who was holding up Feng Kui, said, “There won’t be support.” 

“No way,” Lian Yufan said optimistically. “There are many Protectors in the Xuyang District. Support will be here within five minutes.” 

“Did you see the crystal sphere in his hand just now?” Huan Zixu pointed towards the place where the building without foundations to support it was constantly collapsing. “It’s a power probe. It can detect people with special abilities within a certain area. During a mission, you can use it to discover danger and other levelers ahead of time. It’s always been an expensive good for high level masters and needed the highest number of points to equip. Very few people could afford to buy that thing.” 

“That only means he came for us,” Lian Yufan said. 

Huan Zixu shook his head. “No, I saw numbers on the energy probe, ‘5-2.’ That means that five energy probes were equipped in this batch, and he only has the second one.” 

“You’re saying…that there may be four other equally strong Destroyers in the Xuyang District?” When he heard this information, Lian Yufan felt all the blood in his body flow backwards. Were these Destroyers going to destroy the Xuyang District? The Xuyang District had a permanent population of over three million! 

Just then, Director Xiao’s voice came from Lian Yufan’s communications device: “All parts of the Xuyang District have encountered sudden attacks from Destroyers. Support sent from the nearest region will still take over an hour to arrive. I’m with Zhen Li. Captain Lian, you absolutely can’t allow the Destroyer in front of you to harm the Xuyang District’s citizens. That is your mission.” 

Director Xiao finished speaking and cut off the communication. Lian Yufan looked dazedly at the fully collapsed building. 

No support. He was on his own, and he had the wounded Feng Kui and Huan Zixu with him. Both of them had lost their abilities. And he was supposed to deal with a Destroyer who had passed 217 levels and whose strength perhaps surpassed even Director Xiao’s? 

A terrifying stream of air exploded from the inside of the building. Destroyer 217 had used his frightening air pressure to flick away the hundreds of tons of reinforced concrete. And he had only had one lower leg pierced by a steel bar when his air pressure shield hadn’t entirely opened. Otherwise, he was completely uninjured. 

“You’re one of the special ability users who protects this world?” Enduring the fierce pain, Destroyer 217 pulled the steel bar out of his leg and equipped medicine to heal himself. 

He definitely couldn’t win against him. Lian Yufan decisively called to Destroyer 217, “The mission target you want to kill is the clearer. Even if you kill him, the System still won’t let you clear. It’s lying to you!” 

Lian Yufan believed that this news would shake Destroyer 217’s determination and give him an opportunity to attack. But Destroyer 217, entirely unsurprised, said, “The System told us this before we came here.”  

We… There really were more than one of them! 

“But so what?” Destroyer 217 raised his hands. “The System also said that if we don’t kill the clearer, it’ll detonate the bombs in our brains at once. Die at once, or living for a few more worlds? Forgive me, but I don’t want to die at once.” 

Several wind blades powerful enough to destroy a skyscraper were released from Destroyer 217’s hands, attacking the three of them.