Chapter 130: The King of Taking the Blame—Ye Ming

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“Even the Emperor is like this, let alone people like us. You call me scum? Ha! I’m merely trying to live a better life.” Li Qiang glared at Chen Yun. “Stop showing off that sharp tongue of yours. You ruined my source of income last time, and I let it go. But this time, you killed my brother. I’ll have your life to pay for his!”

“Ah, it seems my guess was right. This empire is rotten from top to bottom.” Chen Yun shook his head and sighed. “Since that’s the case, I have nothing left to worry about.”

Chen Yun raised his head and swept his gaze around. “I’ll give you one last chance. Anyone who wants to live, put down your guns and leave. Otherwise, you’ll end up like Li Qiang’s brother—dead without a complete corpse!”

The others burst into laughter.

This kid truly had no idea how high the heavens were or how deep the earth. He was alone, while they had more than thirty people, and he still dared to make such an arrogant statement. Was he tired of living?

“You’re still mouthing off with death staring you in the face. Who gave you such confidence? Men, take aim and kill him!” Li Qiang ordered as he retreated several steps.

“Player Chen Yun has triggered the Evil-Slaying Bounty: Eliminate Every Member of the XX Brigade. The thirty-five members of the Lan Yun City XX Brigade have committed every imaginable evil under their captain’s leadership, leaving the citizens seething with resentment. To preserve social peace and stability and punish criminals, Player Chen Yun must kill these thirty-six evil NPCs and restore the XX Brigade of Lan Yun City to purity. Quest completion reward: one Purple Gold Coin. Accept?”

“Accepted. Lock onto their foreheads—scattershot!” Chen Yun shouted softly after listening to the announcement, activating the newly unlocked Level 20 Gunslinger skill, Scattershot!

Scattershot: Unleashes a powerful barrage against enemies within a five-by-five-meter area. Attack power equals 150% of the player’s physical attack. Depending on the number of enemies, fires between fifteen and fifty attacks. Cooldown: sixty seconds. Mana cost: three hundred.

Chen Yun instantly leaped into the air, headfirst. His right hand, gripping the gun, pulled the trigger fifty times within one second. Fifty bullets burst from the muzzle and flew toward the thirty-six enemies before him. Fifty blossoms of blood erupted from their foreheads.

With the assistance of the Precision talent and Scattershot’s target-locking function, Chen Yun had truly reached the point where he could hit exactly whatever he wanted.

“Player Chen Yun has achieved the feat of firing fifty consecutive shots within one second. Hidden title acquired: Rapid-Fire Little Expert.”

Rapid-Fire Little Expert: Attack speed permanently increased by one percent.

What the hell was that? Chen Yun stared blankly at his newly acquired title.

Rapid-Fire Little Expert... Why did that title sound so awkward?

“Impossible! How do you know that gun-whirling technique?! Who are you? Who are you really?” Li Qiang stared in shock. He had seen Chen Yun’s move once before in a classic battle recording. It had been performed by an eighth-level cultivator who had entered the path of the gun. With that single technique, the man had broken through and killed the combined assault of more than a hundred sixth-level Imperial cultivators!

“Who am I?” Chen Yun raised his gun and aimed it at Li Qiang’s forehead. As he pulled the trigger, he said, “I’m Chen Yun—the future Gunslinger. Headshot!”

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Headshot: A Level 20 active Gunslinger skill. Fires one precise, immensely powerful bullet at an enemy with an extremely high critical-hit rate. A critical hit to a nonfatal area deals five times physical attack; a critical hit to a vital area deals ten times physical attack. Cooldown: one hundred twenty seconds. Mana cost: one hundred fifty.

Tenfold critical hit.

Fatal attack.

-4689!

Li Qiang—dead!

“Player has killed thirty-five evil NPCs, gaining 35,000 experience and thirty-five gold coins. Player has killed elite evil NPC Li Qiang, gaining 15,000 experience and one Purple Gold Coin.”

“The system has detected that no other NPCs are present nearby. The corpses of all NPCs at the scene will now be refreshed.”

Huh?

Chen Yun froze when he heard that. He had already planned to leave the hotel after killing these people and then find Sister Yuan so they could go to another city to participate in the Young Singers Competition. He had never expected the system to clean up after him by erasing all traces of the corpses. In that case, without sufficient evidence, even if someone suspected that he had done it, there would be nothing they could do.

“Now I just need to destroy the surveillance footage. Even if those thugs identify me, as long as I stubbornly deny everything, who can do anything to a master chef carrying the golden seal of a Great General?”

With that thought, Chen Yun felt completely at ease. He hurried into the surveillance room and formatted every recording that had captured him. After confirming that not even the most formidable restoration expert could recover the files, he activated his disguise skill and transformed into Ye Ming. He then smashed every surveillance device in the room to pieces, leaving behind only an extremely well-hidden pinhole camera aimed at the surveillance room, which recorded everything he did after transforming.

“A perfect frame-up of Ye Ming, the professional fall guy. Take your time looking for him.”

After leaving the Special Police Brigade, Chen Yun did not undo his disguise. With a sly chuckle, he disappeared into the flow of pedestrians on the street.

That afternoon, police officers who came to the brigade to assign a mission found the entire building deserted. Sensing that something was wrong, they went to inspect the surveillance room and, upon seeing the chaos inside, immediately reported the matter.

When officers from the police department’s Criminal Investigation Division arrived and carefully searched the scene, they found the hidden pinhole camera and saw everything Ye Ming had done.

“This person... Why does he seem so familiar?” the division chief said, stroking his chin.

“Chief, isn’t he the last customer who appeared in the gun shop’s surveillance footage we watched last time?” one of the officers with a good memory said.

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“That’s right! It’s him!” The chief slapped his palm. “Report this to our superiors immediately and request a citywide manhunt. I suspect the disappearance of the entire brigade is directly connected to him!”

And so, every police department in the city spent the next month hunting Ye Ming. Unfortunately, they could never have imagined that such a person did not exist in this world at all!

...

After leaving the brigade, Chen Yun did not return to the hotel. Instead, he went straight to the city bookstore!

After reaching Level 20, Chen Yun had access to many more skill books. Before, he could only gaze at them longingly because his level was too low. Now that he had reached the required level, how could he possibly miss the opportunity?

When he arrived at the bookstore, Chen Yun walked to the counter and said to the cashier, “Miss, I’d like to buy some books.”

“You can look for whatever you want yourself and bring them here to pay. If you can’t find something, you can ask one of our staff members to help you.” The cashier was a young woman in her early twenties, with a sweet smile and a gentle voice.

“Er... I’ll be buying quite a lot of books.” Chen Yun smiled. “One or two people might not be enough to help me.”

“Oh?” the pretty cashier asked. “How many are you planning to buy?”

“Miss, I want to buy five thousand books!” Chen Yun declared.

“How many?” The young woman’s eyes widened.

“Five thousand books. Any books will do. I only have one requirement: their content must not exceed intermediate skill level—er... the scope of high-school knowledge. One copy of each title, with no duplicates,” Chen Yun said.

“...”

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