Stop pretending, I'm a security guard, a five-star general!

"Wei Zi, don't be discouraged. Although your combat ability is not as good as Xiao Qin's, and your support ability is not as good as Xiao Qin's, you are still my good brother."

Seeing Zhang Dawei looking dejected and frustrated, Zhao Hu walked over and patted him on the shoulder to comfort him.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Dawei was immediately moved: "Tiger, it's always you! You're truly my good brother!"

Zhao Hu smiled broadly and gave Zhang Dawei a heartfelt hug, then turned to Qin Yu and said:

"By the way, Xiao Qin, are you interested in joining our team?"

“There’s a slacker in our team who’s inferior to you in every way, but he’s shamelessly hogging the spot without doing anything. I’ve wanted to kick him out for a long time.”

“…” Zhang Dawei: “Why don’t you just give me your ID number?”

Upon hearing this, everyone burst into laughter.

"Roar!!!"

However, at that moment, more than a dozen demonic beasts suddenly sprang out of the dense forest, their eyes also bloodshot, and charged towards Qin Yu and his group with ferocious expressions.

"Damn it, another monster has appeared!?"

The group cursed and swore, then picked up their weapons again and began fighting the charging monsters.

After a while, the group finally finished the battle, cleaned up the battlefield, and prepared to return to their tents to rest.

However, just as they turned around, more than a dozen monsters suddenly sprang out from the dense forest behind them.

"I swear! This isn't going to end anytime soon, is it!?"

Everyone cursed angrily, but the next moment, they suddenly felt a slight tremor from the ground.

"Huh? Was that an earthquake?"

"Something's not right, something's definitely not right!"

Ma Long frowned, a sudden alarm rising in his mind: "Wang Jie, check the surroundings."

Wang Jie nodded, and then his eyes flashed with purple light again. He looked up at the sky, invaded the brain of one of the crows, and shared its vision.

Then, the next moment,

Wang Jie's pupils contracted sharply, and his face turned deathly pale instantly.

"Holy crap! The beast tide has rioted!"

In his field of vision, a dense horde of at least tens of thousands of demonic beasts was charging toward them like madmen. Just one glance from afar was enough to make Wang Jie's scalp tingle.

"What!?"

Upon hearing this, everyone's expression changed drastically, their faces filled with shock.

"Retreat immediately!"

Ma Long made a decisive decision and shouted loudly.

In an instant, everyone took off running and sprinted backwards.

After all, the monster tides in dangerous-level secret realms are no joke; even Martial King level experts could perish if they encountered them, let alone them.

"Damn it, how unlucky! We ran into a beast tide!"

Everyone was so frustrated they felt like they wanted to vomit blood.

They actually encountered something that rarely happens in secret realms, perhaps only once every few decades!

What kind of incredible luck is this?!

"Don't panic, everyone. I still have nuclear weapons. If all else fails, I'll just use them to blow them all up!"

Qin Yu remained calm and unhurriedly took out a remote-controlled truck model, which was a miniature nuclear remote-controlled bomb that the system had previously rewarded him with.

I've been itching to give it a try for a while now, and the opportunity has finally come.

Upon hearing this, the crowd, who were running at full speed, brightened up and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

With nuclear weapons, at least their lives are safe.

As for the absurd reason why this kid would carry a nuclear bomb with him, no one bothered to think about it anymore.

"I made it!!!"

However, at that moment, Wang Jie, who was in charge of scouting the movements of the monster horde, suddenly shouted in alarm.

"There are three five-star monster lords among the monster horde!!!"

"Wotfa!???"

Upon hearing this, everyone was so frightened that their underwear almost flew off.

A five-star monster lord? Aren't these supposed to be the ultimate bosses lurking in the deepest parts of the secret realm? How come they've shown up too?!

The hearts of everyone who had just gone down were instantly in their throats again, and they were completely dumbfounded.

This is like you've just left the beginner village and immediately encounter a max-level boss.

That’s ridiculous!

Qin Yu silently retrieved the nuclear bomb, and his running speed increased by three times compared to before.

After all, nuclear bombs are useless against five-star monster lords; they will only provoke them further.

The group fled at breakneck speed into the distance, pursued relentlessly by the horde of demonic beasts that surged forward like a tidal wave.

Wherever it passed, the earth cracked and nothing grew!

Meanwhile, more than 50 kilometers away from Qin Yu and his group, in a clearing in the woods, the Ninth Prince Zhou Tianrun and his entourage were still on their way.

Hearing the distant roars of wild beasts, a sinister smile of triumph appeared on Zhou Tianrun's lips.

"Looks like some unlucky guy fell for it and accidentally stepped on the β-II seduction agent hidden in the speaker."

The β-II type potion is a newly developed lure by the Royal Research Institute. Its scent can cause monsters within a radius of 500 kilometers to go berserk and attract them to the source of the scent.

Furthermore, this odor is extremely sticky. Once it adheres to you, no matter how you clean it, it will not dissipate in a short time. It will take at least half a month for the odor to be completely eliminated from your body.

The riot of the demon beasts would just keep all the latecomers at bay, allowing him to easily seize the ten Wood Spirit Fruits.

"Hmph, a bunch of lowly commoners dare to try to fight against me. Like ants trying to shake a tree, they're just asking for death."

Zhou Tianrun stood with his hands behind his back, a cold smile on his face.

"His Highness the Ninth Prince is truly a man of brilliant strategy, a contemporary Zhuge Liang."

A slightly thinner subordinate beside him smiled obsequiously and flattered him.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Tianrun waved his hand with a proud smile.

"It's just basic stuff, nothing to mention."

Upon hearing this, the skinny man's subordinate exclaimed with admiration:

"His Highness the Ninth Prince's seemingly insignificant basic skills are, to us ordinary people, nothing short of divine intervention!"

"Hehehe."

Zhou Tianrun's smile deepened; the kid's flattery had really pleased him.

"You're a good kid, this is yours."

Zhou Tianrun casually tossed him a jade pendant with the character 'Run' engraved on it, clearly indicating that he intended to recruit him into his own ranks.

Upon seeing this, the skinny man's subordinates were immediately overjoyed and bowed deeply to express their gratitude for the Ninth Prince's generosity.

The surrounding subordinates, seeing this, all curled their lip in displeasure, secretly chuckling to themselves.

“High-visibility bag!”

At that moment, a slightly overweight subordinate, seeing this, immediately decided to follow suit and chuckled flatteringly at Zhou Tianrun:

"His Highness the Ninth Prince is truly insidious and ruthless, a modern-day Ouyang Feng."

Everyone: "..."

Zhou Tianrun's lips twitched, and black lines appeared on his forehead.

He looked at the fat subordinate with a somber expression and asked in a calm voice:

"May I have your name."

The fat man's subordinate chuckled and scratched his head: "Your Highness, Ninth Prince, my name is Wang Tieniu."

"Wang Tieniu, right? Good, very good, excellent. I'll remember you." Zhou Tianrun narrowed his eyes slightly and said calmly.

Upon hearing the prince say that he remembered him, the fat man's subordinate immediately became excited.

What a great honor it is to be remembered by His Highness the Prince!

It seems the Wang family is about to have their ancestral graves emitting auspicious smoke!

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P.S.: Sigh, I'm so sad. I received so many 520 red envelopes on Qixi Festival the other day, and I don't know what to do with them. Maybe I should just give them all to my readers.