I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 910 - 906: Since It’s Irreversible, Then Annihilate Completely

Chapter 910: Chapter 906: Since It’s Irreversible, Then Annihilate Completely

Therefore, the Mercenary Guild had already violated its fundamental principle as a public organization by taking action against an underground force, even if someone offered a large amount of Yajin to put a bounty on a force, they couldn’t blatantly accept it.

However, the Mercenary Guild had always prioritized interests; those glittering Yajins were irresistible, so there were these covert missions. The spread of these covert missions was limited; after all, not many had heard of them. Taking the residents of the United District, for instance, only a minority knew about the Mercenary Guild’s secretive missions. As for others, even if they heard about it, they merely laughed it off, since even the big shots were uncertain whether such things were true or false.

No one had verified the authenticity of these things either.

As far as Tang Ye knew, the Mercenary Guild’s covert missions specifically targeted employers who put bounties on certain forces, and confidentiality was tightly maintained. It seemed that only certified high-grade bounty hunters could accept them, and the dividing line between high-grade bounty hunters and ordinary or low-grade ones was from B to A.

Only once you advanced from a B-level Bounty Hunter to a Grade A bounty hunter did you become a high-level hunter of the Mercenary Guild. From a certain perspective, these newcomers who advanced to Grade A bounty hunters could already be considered the backbone of the Mercenary Guild.

Just like the Peace Party’s Xu Changchi, Bai Huipeng, and others, they are the core members of the Peace Party. In the Mercenary Guild, information on all bounty hunters who advanced to Grade A had already been thoroughly understood by the guild. If someone observant took notice, they would discover that many of the registered and contracted bounty hunters of the guild were powerhouses from other forces, who registered with the guild merely to earn some extra money.

However, none of these new humans had advanced to Grade A; the highest remained within B Grade, and despite how high their task completion rates were, they hadn’t the slightest chance to become Grade A bounty hunters.

Why was that? Actually, it was simple, because their information wasn’t clean. Upon reaching Grade A, a bounty hunter could receive covert missions. If any of these hunters had ties to underground forces and advanced to Grade A, issuing covert missions with rewards for those forces would become problematic.

Advancing to a Grade A bounty hunter never depended on how strong you were; if possible, even an ordinary person could become a Grade A bounty hunter.

What the Mercenary Guild’s high-level bounty hunters needed were always survivors with impeccably clean data!

Returning to the topic, ordinary bounty tasks were merely about bounty hunters fulfilling some requirements set by the employers, like seeking revenge, retrieving a particular item, or the head of a high-level zombie from the wasteland demanded by some forces—diverse and chaotic, and the amounts offered were not too large, with typical rewards of a few thousand Yajin already considered astronomical.

But most covert missions involved forces placing bounties on their rival forces, and a smaller part involved disgruntled scions or key personnel from a defeated force putting up all they had left to reward for action against a rival force.

However, placing a bounty on an entire force was no simple matter, requiring the payment of expensive Yajin; a casual bounty on a force could be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Yajin, a price no ordinary person could afford. Yet, this was for relatively ordinary forces; for the Peace Party, attempting such a bounty on a force might easily exceed a million or even more!

Millions of Yajin—that wasn’t something underground forces could come up with! Every survivor in the Apocalypse knew how much purchasing power this digit held.

If one had to describe it, these millions of Yajin could exaggerate no claims of buying a survivor base!

At first, Tang Ye had never imagined such a scenario where someone would use millions of Yajin to put a bounty on the Peace Party; it wasn’t strange he thought so, as anyone wouldn’t expect someone to pull out an amount equivalent to several billions before the Apocalypse to knock themselves down.

This was absurd, yet it was the truth. Moreover, the incidents that had occurred during this period only made sense if someone with deep pockets had put a bounty on the Peace Party. If it were an external attempt against the Peace Party, they wouldn’t target the lower ranks within—such actions would only appear boring and utterly pointless.

But if it were a deeply begrudged enemy of the Peace Party who had placed a covert mission at the Mercenary Guild, then all these questions made sense!

That person was retaliating against the Peace Party, so the content of the covert mission targeting the Peace Party must specifically involve its members, but did it include everyone or just those lower-tier members of the Peace Party?

"The Mercenary Guild, what a ’wonderful’ Mercenary Guild!"

A sinister smile appeared on Tang Ye’s face, and a murderous intent seemed to soar to the skies in his eyes!

"Marshal, our suspicion now rests only on the Mercenary Guild. If we rule out the internal forces of the United District and consider external forces, take Jiuge, for example. Although they had significant grievances with the seven-member committee period of the United District, at least there was a truce signed before our Peace Party took over. Considering the United District intermittently lost to Jiuge in battles, even if they feared the combined strength of the seven-member committee, they wouldn’t be foolish to act this way."

"If it were Jiuge, they shouldn’t see us as so foolish; they wouldn’t send someone to negotiate a truce with the Marshal; thus, Marshal, it’s highly likely we misjudged Jiuge."

Tang Ye remained silent, feeling very speechless now—what was the point of knowing the answer in this living world? The fight had already started at the 709 Mine, could he possibly rush there shouting, ’Stop fighting, there’s been a misunderstanding?’

That was completely impossible, alright? Firstly, Tang Ye’s nature didn’t allow him to do so; secondly, the people from Jiuge had already annihilated all 23,177 people stationed by the United District at the condensate area of the 709 Mine. This feud had already been established; what else could be done? They could only keep fighting. Since it was irreversible, they might as well eradicate the other side completely, leaving no trace behind—after all, Jiuge wasn’t anything virtuous either.

Meanwhile, Jiang Chentong continued, "And what about the City of Bright Moon? Although we’ve had minor frictions with them, generally speaking, the City of Bright Moon doesn’t have significant conflicts of interest with us, sending so many powerhouses to do this is completely unnecessary. Therefore, it has to be the Mercenary Guild—it’s them, they dispatched so many powerful individuals to attack us during this period."