How Am I Still Alive?
Chapter 44 - 44 36 Happiness is all that matters

44: Chapter 36: Happiness is all that matters 44: Chapter 36: Happiness is all that matters Familiar territory, and even more familiar scenery.

On the way back, near the entrance to the forest, there’s still that Dragon Snake Gang checkpoint.

“Did you hear?

The top brass is pissed.

They want us to find the Bomb-demon in three days.”

Hu Yihang, somewhat chubby, was a bit surprised when he heard his companion say this.

“…I thought they were just looking for an excuse to loot more.

I heard that the boss of our boss, that big shot from Green New, is not satisfied with our recent hoard?”

“It doesn’t conflict.

Wanting to loot more is one thing, and finding that person is another.

The boss said that that Bomb-demon is slapping us the Dragon Snake Gang in the face.

It’s a slap in the face to our BOSS, an insult to the entire Green New Company!”

Hu Yihang didn’t know how a Keda professor and Green New consultant had suddenly become the face of the Green New Company, but as a little brother, he naturally wouldn’t object at this time.

“It’s going to be hard…

I was at the scene when the explosion happened, didn’t see any people.”

Hu Yihang was more than present at the scene, he was right in the center of the explosion.

He had just “taken” a batch of seeds from a 0-tier newbie and hadn’t had time to check when he was blown sky-high.

“Even if it’s hard, we need to find him.

But Brother Leopard confided that even if we find him, we just need to report it, and leave the rest to the bosses.

You know what I mean?”

Understand?

Of course, he did.

Why would he risk his life for the bigwigs?

“I understand, I understand.

By the way, where are we going after we change shifts?

I heard that there are some new princesses at the KTV on Decadent Street on the west side…”

As Hu Yihang talked enthusiastically about this, he got a little excited.

He couldn’t help it, he had a thing for this.

Actually, mixing with the Dragon Snake Gang didn’t bring in much money.

How could the BIG BOSS, who would do anything to save money, give money to his followers?

But his little brothers would make their living…

“Did you hear?

That girl from last month, the stiff one, the one with a ponytail, she committed suicide.”

“No way, she only had some photos taken and used her face to borrow some money, yikes, bad luck.”

At those words, Hu Yihang was stunned, but in the next moment, he laughed it off.

It wasn’t me who incited her.

She was the one who got photographed, and then the bosses found her downtown.

She was just unlucky.

“Small girls just aren’t enough.

Last time I met this beauty…”

The Dragon Snake Gang had strict rules, they didn’t touch those above the 2-tier, and powerful first-tiers like Disaster Fist were avoided as well.

So, who were their targets?

The weak, the newbies, especially those vulnerable students who seemed to have promising futures.

Death in the Secret Realm is not the end.

Once they found a suitable target, they would show up, take pictures, extort, and collect debts…

After all, that was what they did when they were students not so long ago.

“There’s no choice, without crossing some lines, how could I possibly support a gang?

The Big Boss doesn’t pay anything.”

This was what the boss said.

After all, the victims were weak, were insignificant students.

So, it’s not a big deal, right?

You’re a student just out of school, I am too, this is just an adult version of “school bullying”.

The fruits of their labor in the Secret Realm, mostly given to the BIG BOSS, exchanged for the tacit consent of the local person in charge of the Green New Company to their behavior.

Hu Yihang quite enjoyed this life, it wasn’t much different from his lazy school life, in fact, it was even more relaxed.

Although they were part of a gang, they didn’t have to fight or kill most of the time.

They just had to stand there, threaten a few words, and the good kids would tremble, giving whatever they wanted.

Every time Hu Yihang recalled the feel of the ponytail girl beneath him, he couldn’t help but feel regret.

“What a pity, huh, she was a university student from a prestigious university.

She had a promising future.

How useless, I should have gone a few more times.”

Hu Yihang always believed, continuing to follow the boss was the best decision he ever made.

Otherwise, he would never have had the chance to touch women of this level.

In the beginning, they were very timid, only daring to bully those lone newbies.

But as they got more proficient, and more manpower on their side, their guts got bigger.

“I really hope this kind of life continues forever.”

Desire is never satisfied.

It only grows…

“By the way, we ran into two first-tier Gardeners yesterday, the female one was quite good.

They had two bodyguards with them, but they seemed to be newbies, maybe we can…”

“Sure, I saw them a few times before.

I’ve asked around, both of them don’t have any backing.

We can follow them after having some brothers wait outside…”

The so-called divide between reality and the Secret Realm has never truly existed, just like the seemingly existing moral bottom line…

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“By the way, is it illegal to kill people in the Secret Realm?”

Walking along the road, Ping’an remembered something and asked.

“You don’t know?

Oh, you can consider the Secret Realm as a ‘foreign country’.

Only the holder has law enforcement power, no matter which country it is outside, they have no jurisdiction over it.

This is an unwritten rule in this line of work.”

Ping’an was rather surprised, wasn’t this just like a Concession?

Could the sovereign countries really accept this?

“There’s no other way.

You haven’t been to some of those large Secret Realms.

They are no different from a real world, with kingdoms and foreign tribes, even wars have happened there.

It’s complicated, but to simplify, the sovereign countries of the world now recognize the independence of the Secret Realms.”

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