Chapter 80: The Night is Coming

"Du En, why don't you go and beg Supervisor Ren?"

Facing the current predicament of the corpse buriers, Xu Ran could not help but speak up.

"Look at the state he's in right now; do you think he's capable of listening to reason?"

Du En replied calmly.

The two of them looked over toward Ren Li together.

Because of the timely intervention from the border city, the wasteland side naturally returned to a normal state with equal speed.

Ren Li, who had just felt that a heaven-sent opportunity had arrived, could only watch helplessly as it flowed away and vanished; he was on the verge of a breakdown, his opened eyes bloodshot, as if a single spark would make him explode completely.

You, a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator struggling at the bottom, want to forcefully take me, a peak-stage Qi Refining second-rate expert who can breakthrough whenever I am willing?

Hearing this from Du En, Ren Li was instead so angry he laughed.

"Meaningless?! How can you say it's meaningless?!"

"Watching the fire from across the river?"

So, basically, there won't be any problems; the higher-ups will just turn a blind eye.

How ridiculous!

Ren Li bristled instantly, unable to stop himself from springing up, roaring in a frantic breakdown, "If I were to build my Foundation normally, with my aptitude and my background, at the end of the day, the best I could reach is a second-rate Nascent Soul stage; placed on the front lines of the battlefield, I could only serve as a slightly larger pawn. How could you understand, ah!"

"You?"

They weren't that close; at most, there was a bit of sympathy for a fellow sufferer!

Therefore, between two evils, choose the lesser.

The handcarts that those corpse transporters had discarded earlier, because there were too many and they took up too much space, were cleaned and then gathered and placed in a nearby spot.

Therefore, there was even some spare capacity at the moment to take the more obvious valuables from the corpses while in the process of digging soil and burying them.

This was naturally not his full strength.

After all, no matter how bad things got, he should be able to survive.

Du En was naturally not idle either; while talking to him just now, the shovel in his hand never stopped, and one could only see streaks of afterimages moving back and forth, with shovelfuls of soil flying up.

In that case, having suffered the double impact, they, whose lives were already bitter and miserable, would definitely die off by seventy or eighty percent in this June snow cold snap, and one wouldn't even be able to find a single spirit stone on their entire bodies.

Thus, time quickly arrived at dusk.

Amidst his surprise, he could not help but panic, hurriedly twisting his neck, and soon, while scanning, he caught sight of that calm figure once again.

He was currently holding a bag, picking up and packing away all the dead men's wealth that had been kicked up and scattered during the burial in the afternoon.

You can even do that?!

Ren Li could not help but speak up: "You are splitting hairs and exploiting loopholes in the text like this; are you really not afraid of being held accountable?"

Ren Li's hysteria was interrupted directly by Du En's calmness, and he immediately came to his senses, scanning his surroundings, starting to calm down, trying hard to calm down.

Because there were simply too many corpses this time and the work was being rushed so urgently, the others in the other links of the corpse business simply hadn't had time to profit from the dead.

"Isn't there you here? If you don't look at the monk, look at the Buddha, right?"

He fully displayed the work efficiency that a normal mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator should have.

"You all stop lying around too; go pull over those handcarts we put together earlier and form a circle at the corner of the path to act as a barricade."

"This, you..."

"It's time to leave; you don't expect me to do it myself and forcefully drag you out, do you?"

If they really wanted to pursue responsibility, Ren Li wouldn't be able to run either.

Without Du En's previous intervention and invisible deterrence, those bully gangs would definitely have fought fiercely when carving up the Digging Stone Gang's territory, and then they would certainly have shifted and offloaded the losses onto the miserable people at the bottom afterward.

Because Du En was as calm and composed as ever, Xu Ran was not too worried.

Then he did not see his figure.

Even if they did their best, plus the participation of Du En, this pillar of the mid-stage Qi Refining, they only buried nearly a thousand corpses in an afternoon.

The dark night is coming, so we cannot stay here.

"Anyway, looking at Du En's appearance, he probably has a plan in mind, so there's no need for a mediocre person like me to worry about anything."

"That's right, the regulations only said that if we don't finish burying the corpses on the day, we can't leave this place, but it didn't specify that we have to keep working at night, so only a fool would keep working; tonight we'll retreat to the edge and treat it as a night camp."

"That's still better than throwing your life away right now; if you're alive, there will always be some hope, and besides, don't go throwing your life away and end up implicating us in being held accountable or taking the blame, requiring us to be buried with you."

Having finally survived the great cold snap, if we were to die here tonight, that would truly be unacceptable.

He had originally thought that if the one currently in use broke, he could replace it directly, but he hadn't expected it to have other uses unexpectedly.

Xu Ran sighed and picked up a shovel, joining the ranks of those frantically digging pits and burying corpses.

"Uh..."

"... Indeed."

"I."

"Uh, he really does look like he can't communicate properly right now; sigh, in any case, I can only try my best to help; you should make plans early for tonight's matters!"

Even if the manager He Bo still wanted to hold onto it, that was only a possibility; compared to the abnormal danger that one would almost certainly face if staying on the wasteland at night, it was just a light drizzle, not worth mentioning.

Ren Li was still stammering at this time, seemingly having something to say, but not knowing what to say for a moment; in the end, he just grabbed his hair in frustration, leaving himself disheveled.

This could fully prove that the living conditions of the bottom layer in the shanty area had indeed improved significantly recently, and basically everyone could have some surplus wealth left on them.

Ning Cai and the others were shivering with cold at this moment!

How are you still in the mood to profit from the dead at a time like this!

If we don't make it through tonight, we'll really become dead people!

Du En did not care about their anxious gazes; watching the sun set bit by bit, he walked over to the front of Ren Li's side amidst the lingering cold.

A supervisor, after all, naturally needs to be on-site to supervise the work.

"You're right, the premise for everything is to stay alive... It's dark, time to go, no, that's not right, I forgot, as it stands now, we can't leave, and, right, with so many corpses buried, so many corpses piled up, perhaps tonight, there might be changes..."

Since Du En still had the leisure to do such things, it was clear that he actually felt confident about the current situation and had no worries at all.

For every cause, there is an effect.

Upon hearing this, Ning Caize and the others felt as if they had found a new lease on life; each of them surged with energy, immediately jumping up, shouldering their shovels with brisk strides, and quickly rushing to push over the handcarts.

Du En's tone was remarkably calm, leaving Ning Caize and the others staring in astonishment.

Du En responded calmly, then pointed toward the West Mountain and said, "The sun is about to set; do you still intend to continue your meaningless behavior?"

Having first endured the weather that went from bitter cold to sweltering heat, and then having pushed themselves to the limit to maximize their corpse-burying efficiency, the five of them saw the many corpses still piled before them, their energy suddenly drained, and they collapsed straight to the ground.

The total amount is quite significant; it must be two thousand eight hundred and thirty-three low-grade spirit stones.

"Then we can only watch the fire from across the river, and besides, perhaps there will be unexpected gains this way?"

As for the life or death of the others?

At most, it accounts for twenty percent of the total!

It is truly despairing and miserable!

Xu Ran was not a corpse-buryer; helping to this point was already his limit, so he could only shake his head and sigh, bid farewell to Du En's side, and then leave in a great hurry.

Xu Ran had already left, but the others could not, so they subconsciously turned their gazes toward Du En.

"Who?!"

Although he appeared frantic and on the verge of falling into a demonic state, this supervisor still maintained basic vigilance, and at this moment, he suddenly widened his eyes, the bloodshot veins in them increasing.

However, after laughing, and hearing the surroundings begin to grow quiet, then looking at Du En's back as he turned to leave, he ultimately followed along obediently.

It was just that his gait was reluctant, and his overall state remained concerning.

(End of this chapter)