<h4>Chapter 776: Winning over people with virtue</h4>
Ren Xiaosu watched as the steam lotive disappeared into the distance. “He ran off just like that?”
When Ren Xiaosu saw Wang Congyang flee, he lost interest in pursuing him. In order to keep up with Wang Congyang’s speed, he would have to use his own steam lotive for the pursuit until Wang Congyang waspletely exhausted.
Second, Ren Xiaosu felt it was an option to keep the other party alive so he could continue taking the me. Of course, he could not let others know about this thought of his.
Yang Xiaojin nced at Ren Xiaosu before conjuring her ck sniper rifle. “Should we go after him?”
“Unnecessary.” Ren Xiaosu quickly stopped Yang Xiaojin and said, “Look, my questioning just now has already made him so ashamed that he wants to be a good person. Let’s not keep fighting and killing all day. We have to win people over with virtue.”
Yang Xiaojin wondered, “You? Win over people with virtue?”
Honestly, no matter how much Yang Xiaojin glorified Ren Xiaosu in her mind, she would still find it very difficult to associate him with that saying.
But after pondering for a while, Yang Xiaojin took out a dagger from her boot and carved “virtue” in small letters on the ck sniper rifle’s butt.
Then Yang Xiaojin decisively fired at the steam lotive in the distance. She stood steadily as though she were not affected by the recoil at all.
About a secondter, when the bullet hit the train, Wang Congyang nearly spat blood in the carriage. After all, any attacks on the steam lotive would be transferred back onto the user.
But he did not have time for that. The most important thing now was to quickly get out of this damned ce.
Yang Xiaojin put down the ck sniper rifle and said to Ren Xiaosu, “Did you mean this way of winning over people with virtue?”
Ren Xiaosu was startled. What was with this girl’sprehension of things? Her interpretation of “winning over people with virtue” was to carve the word “virtue” in the butt of the rifle and shoot at someone with it?
Using “virtue” to win over someone?
More importantly, she was actually able to carve the word on it. ‘<i>That’s the fucking ck sniper rifle, alright!</i>‘
Ren Xiaosu picked up Yang Xiaojin’s ck sniper rifle and saw “virtue” elegantly inscribed on it. It was like it originally came with the rifle.
Ren Xiaosu was silent for a moment. “Well, if you say so I guess...”
He looked up at the sky andmented how the girl next to him was so much more resolute than him the majority of the time.
But wasn’t this the reason why he liked her?
...
Stronghold 61 was now in a very orderly state. Residents could leave their doors open at night and no one would take things that were not theirs.
Currently, not only were there surveince cameras installed in the stronghold, even the town had them as well.
As such, when Ren Xiaosu finally returned to Stronghold 61’s town again, he somehow felt very ufortable everywhere he went. This was no longer the town he was familiar with.
The shacks in front of them were still dpidated and the roads remained muddy. However, brand new surveince cameras were now installed above their heads.
Ren Xiaosu found it a little ironic. Actually, the Wang Consortium did notck any money since it was located in one of the richest regions in the Central ins. However, they would rather fill the town with surveince cameras than build more brick houses for the refugees to have homes to live in.
It was really a little out of ce for these technologically advanced surveince cameras to appear in the slums.
When Ren Xiaosu led Yang Xiaojin into town, he said to her, “This was where I lived when I first arrived at the Central ins. At that time, I wanted to look for y’all, but I didn’t know where to start and didn’t dare to expose my identity. After that, I got to know about the Anjing House through the storyteller and had wanted to join them to make use of their resources to search for everyone. But I slowly realized that the Anjing House was not as honest as what they say, so I gradually dropped the idea.”
“Mhm.” Yang Xiaojin nodded. “The Anjing House was actually abandoned as soon as it was established. It was just a disguise for the Saboteurs’ external affairs. My aunt never seemed to have any intention of managing it seriously, but even so, the Anjing House has be thergest assassin organization in the Central ins.”
In seriousness, both Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin really admired how capable Yang Anjing was. It was just that they did not approve of what she had done.
Ren Xiaosu continued, “The tavern is just up ahead. When I had free time, I would order a bowl ofmb stew, read some books, and listen to stories about me....”
Yang Xiaojin curled her lips. “Listening to stories about yourself is the highlight, right?”
“Hahahaha, no, that’s not it,” Ren Xiaosu said with augh.
Ren Xiaosu suddenly realized that a surveince camera above his head seemed to be following him wherever he moved. It made him feel like he was being watched from behind by something that had developed a strong interest in him.
But when Ren Xiaosu looked up, that surveince camera stopped moving. Then, when Ren Xiaosu tried walking out of the surveince camera’s field of view, it did not follow him anymore.
“I wonder what the hell this AI thing really is.” Ren Xiaosumented, “It seems that the Wang Consortium really trusts this thing that they’ve created. But I get the feeling that the stronghold residents won’t be too happy about being monitored by the surveince cameras all the time. Or should I say, they won’t dare to feel unhappy....”
Ren Xiaosu had already led Yang Xiaojin into the tavern. He heard the storyteller saying, “But my dear audience, what you don’t realize is that the prominent White Mask is actually only a superpower of some supernatural being. When this fact is made known, the world will be shocked!”
Yang Xiaojin was stunned. Could this tavern be specially catered for Ren Xiaosu? Why did she hear something rted to Ren Xiaosu as soon as they stepped into the tavern?
When she turned around, she realized Ren Xiaosu was already listening to the story with relish!
But something unexpected happened at this moment. Yang Xiaojin suddenly saw a girl re at her. After ring at her, that girl looked at Ren Xiaosu and nearly burst into tears.
Yang Xiaojin could not help but think about what Ren Xiaosu had done during the time she and Ren Xiaosu were separated. Zhou Yingxue had only just left, but here came another girl throwing herself at him.
Ren Xiaosu did not notice Xiaolu’s expression at all. He just said to the waiter, “I’ll have two sets ofmb stew! Top it up with 20 yuan of meat!”
He would have to be more generous! He was treating Yang Xiaojin to a meal after all!
Realizing that Ren Xiaosu was back, the storyteller drew the story to a natural close and proceeded with setting up the highlights of the next session.
He touched Xiaolu’s face and whispered, “Silly girl! Wasn’t he also here with another girl the previous time?”
Although the storyteller did not want Xiaolu to have anything to do with Ren Xiaosu, his heart would still ache when his granddaughter was sad.
Xiaolu whispered in grief, “It’s different this time. He didn’t like that woman from thest time.”
“What about this time?” The storyteller was amused instead.
“The way he looked at that girl this time is different. He really likes her.” After that, Xiaolu went into the kitchen without even greeting Ren Xiaosu.
The storyteller cursed in his head before walking over slowly to Ren Xiaosu. “You’re lucky to havee back at this time. Otherwise, you wouldn’t see us anymore.”
Ren Xiaosu’s expression immediately changed. “Are you serious? You still look quite healthy to me.”
The storyteller spat, “I don’t mean that I’m dying, but it’s just too depressing to be constantly living under the surveince of that annoying Wang Consortium’s AI.”