“Zhang Tu, first of all, my two brothers are members of the Shen family’s defense force. If I give the meat to the Shen family, even if the higher-ups find out, they won’t say anything.”

Yi Yun smiled slightly at Zhang Tu, not taking his threat to heart.

"Secondly, even if I lose my income, my two brothers would not mind taking over my responsibilities and taking care of my family in my place."

Finally, if I leave the Beijing base research institute, you'd better be careful when you walk alone at night. You might suddenly die in the wilderness one day, and you won't have any brothers to take care of your family.

Finally, Yi Yun glanced at the picture with a sinister look, a meaningful smile playing on his lips.

"you!"

Zhang Tu moved his lips, but ultimately chose to remain silent, wary of Yi Yun's words.

The Shen family has always been generous to its own members, offering substantial salaries and rewards for completing tasks.

Yi Yun's two brothers were well-off and would occasionally send him crystal cores to improve his strength.

With Yi Yun's current level four strength, killing someone who is only level two without making a sound is more than enough.

Everyone else in the lab kept their heads down, not daring to utter a sound, pretending to be quails.

Only after Zhang Tu gritted his teeth, sat down, and pretended nothing was wrong to continue his experiment, and Yi Yun went to check his own experimental progress, did the others silently look up, exchange glances, and gossip for a while.

Zhang Tu knew they were criticizing him in their hearts, but he couldn't say anything, so he could only suppress his anger and stare at the experimental data in front of him.

The laboratory returned to silence, as calm as if nothing had happened.

Only Zhang Tu knew that a thorn was stuck in his heart, and he wouldn't feel at ease until it was pulled out.

This drove him to constantly seek opportunities for revenge, ultimately leading him down a dead end.

Of course, that's a story for another time.

On the other side, Qiao Yuan and Ye Xiangzhe had just walked from the research institute to the vicinity of the Beijing base market when they sensed that at least a dozen pairs of eyes were watching them.

Like greedy venomous snakes, they were ready to pounce and bite them at any moment.

The two remained expressionless and continued walking out with their bags on their backs.

Those gazes followed them all the way, and there was a constant rustling sound behind them.

As soon as the two left the Beijing base, a group of poorly dressed, malnourished people suddenly emerged from the base and surrounded them.

"Hand over what's in your bags!"

A group of people shouted and yelled, and some even waved their fists, trying to threaten and intimidate the two.

"Heh, you've got some nerve, daring to steal even from the Shen family?"

Qiao Yuan sneered and swiftly pulled a gun from his waist.

The dark muzzle of the gun was pointed directly at the man at the front who was shouting the loudest.

"I can tell you definitively, based solely on what you just said—"

He pulled the trigger without hesitation.

The bullet, trailing a dazzling spark, whizzed past the man's feet and shattered the support frame of the signboard behind him with a bang.

The signboard wobbled a few times before crashing to the ground with a thud.

Rule 5: "The use of weapons is prohibited near the base in Beijing." The words gleamed in the not-so-intense sunlight.

"I could just kill you outright!"

Qiao Yuan gently blew on the muzzle of the gun, not forgetting to show off.

Her smile vanished completely, replaced by a cold stare at the man.

The man's eyes widened in horror, the color draining from his face in an instant. His legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground, unable to support his weight.

He never expected that Qiao Yuan would dare to take action at the entrance of the Beijing base, and even use a gun.

"No...no use of weapons near the Beijing base!"

The shadow of death loomed over him, and he was so terrified he almost cried. Trembling, he crawled to the notice board and hugged it tightly, his finger pointing shakily at the fifth rule as if it were his lifeline.

The people around scattered like birds and beasts, running into the Beijing base in a flash, disappearing into the crowd in the blink of an eye.

Qiao Yuan and the other person did not chase after them.

Ye Xiangzhe glanced at the Beijing base, then frowned as he looked at the man.

"With such a cowardly attitude, they probably aren't one of their people."

"That's not necessarily true."

Qiao Yuan, however, thought differently. He looked the man up and down, his eyes probing.

"Those who can enter the research institute are either military personnel or members of the six families. Even a family like the Yun family has to go through layers of applications. Survivors living in the Beijing base must know this."

Neither the military nor the six families are people they can afford to offend, yet they dared to rob us…”

"So what do you mean?" Ye Xiangzhe looked at Qiao Yuan.

Qiao Yuan curled his lips into a smile, and a golden thread shot out from his fingertip, binding the man tightly amidst his terrified screams and pleas for mercy.

"Whether they are truly innocent or feigning innocence, their attempt to rob us is real."

With a swift movement, he pulled the man close.

"Of course we need to take him back and question him thoroughly!"

"I was wrong, I won't do it again, please let me go!"

"I'll kowtow to you, please don't kill me, I'll kowtow to you, waaaaah!"

The man wailed and struggled desperately, trying to kowtow to the two men and admit his mistake.

"It's so noisy!"

Qiao Yuan's eyes turned cold, and he pulled a wad of somewhat dirty tissue from his pocket and stuffed it directly into the man's mouth.

"Let's go home!" He winked at Ye Xiangzhe.

Ye Xiangzhe understood, and the two of them slowly dragged the man towards the Shen family's house.

"That really scared me to death!"

"They just took them away like that?"

After Qiao Yuan and his companion had walked away, the survivors who had been secretly watching the situation unfold from the Beijing base began to discuss it amongst themselves.

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