Chapter 89: Meeting with Zhang Dahai, Two Women Draw Blood

Xu Lang messaged: "Dahai, which places are easier to find supplies right now?"

Zhang Dahai replied: "I do have some ideas and can recommend a few supply points to you, Lang Ge... but could you come over right now?"

Xu Lang: "?"

Zhang Dahai: "I need your help with something, urgent!"

A few minutes earlier, in an underground warehouse, the hanging lamp flickered intermittently.

Zhang Dahai rapidly searched for supplies and soon found a pile of bottles and containers.

"Heh, basements really do exist for storing good stuff." His expression brightened as he prepared to trade with Ye Fan who was staying back in the dorm.

Bam!

"Let's not interfere with each other!" Zhang Dahai spoke up.

"Zhang Dahai, I know you." The leading muscular man checked Zhang Dahai's information, then suddenly adopted a condescending attitude: "Your dorm only has two people, right? The other one's called Ye Fan... There's no way out here now, and no one's coming to help you. If you don't want to suffer, hand over everything you have obediently."

The other three tacitly blocked Zhang Dahai's escape.

Everyone loves cornering trapped prey.

"You're just a second-cycle player..." The muscular man was still speaking when suddenly a whistling sound cut through the air.

Zhang Dahai threw stones, but not at these players - instead, he smashed the hanging lamp!

As the basement plunged into complete darkness, the muscular man saw Zhang Dahai raise his arm, a mounted crossbow gleaming coldly.

"So you did all this alone?" Xu Lang glanced at the four people lying on the ground, his gaze toward Zhang Dahai somewhat peculiar.

Zhang Dahai's appearance now differed from when they'd met at the supermarket - he wore a dusty cloak draped over his back, making him look like a vagrant.

"Yeah yeah, just got lucky." Zhang Dahai nodded repeatedly.

"They can't move anymore, right? Why did you knock them out too?" Tong Qi asked curiously.

"Learning from past mistakes, to prevent them from shouting to their friends or calling for help or something." Zhang Dahai explained.

"How did you do it?" Tong Qi continued asking.

Precisely knocking out enemies wasn't simple.

But Xu Lang waved his hand: "That's Dahai's own business."

Zhang Dahai had capabilities worthy of his respect.

"Heh, it's nothing I can't talk about - just a skill called 'Sap'." Zhang Dahai lifted the blood-stained wooden club in his hand.

Xu Lang nodded: "Good, I understand the situation now. I can help you kill these four."

Zhang Dahai was overjoyed: "Thank you, Lang Ge!"

To eliminate weeds, you must pull out the roots. These four alive would inevitably cause trouble for him, but he didn't want to incur Blood Grudge, so he'd called Xu Lang.

"Small matter." Xu Lang waved his hand.

"I know the rules - we'll split the loot from these four fifty-fifty." Zhang Dahai smiled.

Xu Lang nodded, took out the Blood Pelican Blade, and handed it to Wang Yazhi.

"Kill them." Xu Lang looked at Wang Yazhi, his tone calm.

Hearing this, Wang Yazhi didn't say much. She held the blade to one person's neck but didn't act immediately, instead looking at Zhang Dahai: "Dahai, we were classmates before. Tell me now - everything you said is true, you haven't lied to us, right?"

Although killing these people only had benefits and no drawbacks, she didn't want to be used as a weapon, nor did she want Xu Lang to be used as one.

Meeting Wang Yazhi's clear, penetrating gaze, Zhang Dahai said frankly: "Every word is true. They definitely made the first move."

"Looking at the fight traces, these people surrounded Dahai." Xu Lang said flatly.

Wang Yazhi nodded upon hearing this.

Right, it couldn't possibly be Zhang Dahai surrounding four people!

Thinking this, she swung the blade and struck.

Xu Lang watched quietly from the side.

His reasons for not doing it himself were, first, to let Wang Yazhi experience bloodshed, and second, to avoid going too far.

With Blood Grudge scattered, the effect wouldn't be as extreme.

This small mechanism had been unintentionally revealed by Xu Ruyan.

Things should be done step by step - he'd already killed over ten people during this rest period. If he kept killing, he feared something might go wrong.

"Tong Qi..." Wang Yazhi left one survivor and handed the blood-stained long blade to Tong Qi, who looked uncomfortable.

Zhang Dahai was secretly astonished.

This senior was quite ruthless - usually she seemed elegant and refined, but this decisiveness was something even most guys wouldn't have, plus she was sharp-minded too.

"I..." Tong Qi hesitated for a moment, then took the blade.

After killing people with the Blood Pelican Blade, the blade's blood color had become more intense, cold gleam mixed with bloody light, quite tragically beautiful.

The long blade thrust out, easily piercing the last person's heart.

Tong Qi sighed with relief as three little ghosts came whistling through the door, circling around her as if guarding her.

Xu Lang patted her shoulder to comfort her while taking back the Blood Pelican Blade.

The Blood Pelican Blade's lethality had directly increased by 40 points, the blade edge becoming sharper.

"What's going on."

Zhang Dahai was startled by the little ghosts, and seeing them circling Tong Qi like attendants, he couldn't help but twitch his mouth.

The women around Lang Ge really don't seem very normal!

"Send the little ghosts out, the scout position shouldn't be left unattended." Xu Lang comforted her but still had to point out Tong Qi's mistake.

Tong Qi nodded and sent the three little ghosts back outside to stand guard.

Next, the four began dividing the spoils.

Since he couldn't be bothered with operations and social connections, Xu Lang took the remaining supplies from the four people, while the room keys went to Zhang Dahai. The former had higher value, while the latter offered a chance to open treasure chests.

After each got what they needed, Zhang Dahai began sharing his floor sweeping experience.

"Generally, newly appeared landmark buildings will hide one or two good items, though most have been searched through by now... But there's one place I think is quite good, of course this is just my personal judgment, can't guarantee it's definitely correct."

Zhang Dahai looked serious, sharing his experience without holding anything back, and finally pointed out a specific location.

After listening, Xu Lang nodded repeatedly and casually smiled: "Dahai, now that Ye Fan has moved in with you, how does it feel having multiple people together?"

"Pretty good, having someone to help out - at the very least, when I go out now, I don't have to worry about backpack space anymore." Zhang Dahai chuckled.

After formal discussions, chatting casually for a bit - this was the Eastern communication tradition, otherwise it would lack human warmth.

After the casual talk, Xu Lang's group bid farewell and left.

Rust Lake Park.

This was the newly revealed area after the dorm building's last game cycle was cleared, and it had been searched from the beginning.

Xu Lang's trio went straight to the lakeside pavilion.

The stone pavilion's floor had been scraped clean by someone using sharp tools.

"Yazhi-jie, are you really going down there later? Maybe we should come back during daytime." Tong Qi hugged her shoulders, feeling this place was eerie.

"Yes, I'm quite good at swimming." Wang Yazhi nodded.

The place Zhang Dahai said might contain items wasn't the entire Rust Lake Park, but the bottom of Rust Lake itself.

Only the lake bottom might not have been explored yet.

"Take this." Xu Lang handed a pearl to Wang Yazhi.

This was a Mermaid Pearl he'd just bought from the Trading Network - holding it in the mouth allowed free breathing underwater. It was a unique second-tier item, but sold quite cheaply since it didn't increase combat power. Its main function might be as raw material for some blueprint.

For such somewhat special and rare items, they might sell for high prices in the future, but the vast majority of players didn't have the qualifications to hoard goods.