Quit the team, then picked up a beautiful girl with problems

Li Ang nodded at him. After the driver's eyes met his, he seemed to want to say something but stopped.

"Anything can happen in a group. After all, high-end teams are not necessarily elite in every aspect. Most organizations in the world are mostly makeshift teams."

Patting the dazed driver on the shoulder, Li Ang led the group members towards Huadu District.

They were dressed as adventurers and were scrutinized the moment they entered the square.

The three little ones, who had never felt such an atmosphere before, all tensed up. Even Dorothy, who often attended big events, sighed and quickened her pace.

"I know why you don't like this," the half-elf sighed.

"Don't they have their own things to do?" Zoe frowned and glared at those bored people.

"Ever since the guild's position has become solidified, the Holy City has become extremely valuable. Living here doesn't require any hardship."

Li Ang said, "They are either the families of successful Sky Knights or businessmen, or they made their fortunes here. Or they are still making a living by earning the money from the Sky Knights who come to Huadu for entertainment."

He explained that the people in Huadu have a very strange mentality.

Because their comfortable and safe lives depend on the Sky Knights, their lives are full of the shadow of the Sky Knights. However, they also want to prove that the Sky Knights have little influence on them, so they form a mentality of looking up to and respecting the powerful Sky Knights, but looking down on ordinary adventurers.

Dorothy completely understood it, but the other three found it incredible.

"Why, I don't understand." Zoe frowned.

When Li Ang talked to her about "the inevitability of big cities" and "social division of labor", she didn't understand. Finally, he made a metaphor in the form of a story.

"It's like when the hero in a story is about to go on an adventure, before he sets sail, there are always people on the shore who laugh at him."

Zoe still had doubts, but she nodded.

Of course, Leon thought, those who set sail might not necessarily be heroes, but rather people who were doing it for profit and self-realization.

I walked towards my apartment with the group members, but didn't run into anyone familiar along the way.

The five of them stopped in front of an unremarkable small building.

"Is this the place?" Zoe said disappointedly. "I thought Leon lived in a place like a tower in the middle of the city."

"No one is worthy of living there."

Li Ang took them up to the fifth floor and into the corridor facing the street.

As soon as he went upstairs, he ran into a man leaning against the railing smoking.

"Yo." He was a little surprised to see Li Ang.

This man is called Ayang, and he is Li Ang's neighbor.

"I haven't seen you for so many days, I thought you were dead."

"Speak so harshly?"

Li Ang and he were just acquaintances, but this man seemed to have something against him.

"After all, your beautiful girlfriend ran away. If it were me, I would have committed suicide long ago." Ayang said, holding a cigarette.

As he lowered his head, four extremely beautiful girls walked up the stairs behind Leon.

Li Ang used the key to open the door, heard a scream of pain behind him, and saw Ayang put the tip of the cigarette in his mouth.

Although the furnishings in the room were familiar, they felt unreal to Leon.

They all seemed covered in a layer of dust, not falling dust, but a gray mask that was barely half transparent. It was like an experience in another world, another life.

The girls walked past him and began to look around the room curiously.

Because they broke into the frame, color suddenly returned to the world.

Li Ang turned around and locked the astonished Ayang outside the door.

When I walked into the living room, the troubled girls were already in a mess.

"Wow, this chair rocks!"

Zoe sat in the hanging chair next to the balcony window, swinging on it like a swing, making the metal frame creak.

"Are you hiding anything shameful? Let me see, is there anything hidden in your ex-girlfriend's underwear..."

Dorothy rummaged around and rocked it.

"Clothes worn by the master."

The white wolf stared at the clothes basket that Li Ang had not dealt with before, thinking about something.

"Just give me a little more!"

Li Ang was speechless: "The lease is almost up. When I move out, the completeness of the furniture and the cleanliness of the room will affect the deposit."

He stroked his forehead and said, "Although I can afford the money, I don't want to be treated as a weirdo and looked at with strange eyes."

"My brother only uses such a small kitchen... No, my brother doesn't even cook for himself, and all the kitchen utensils are new."

Alulu stood in front of the simple stove at the entrance.

Li Ang's eyes were filled with tears. At this moment, only the innocent calf was gentle and lovely.

Alulu turned around, her pink braids swung: "I want to cook a meal for my brother here."

Her lavender eyes were full of anticipation.

"That's a good idea." Dorothy looked up.

"Agreed." Zoe raised her hand.

"I agree too," said Andasu.

Li Ang looked at them and said, "Didn't we agree to just satisfy our curiosity and then go find a hotel?"

"I want to feel how Li Ang lived before."

Zoe picked up a pillow and held it in her arms.

Dorothy groped her way to the bedroom, turned the handle carefully, then pushed the door open and peeked inside.

"I just saw that the Huadu District is right next to the market in the Adventure District." said Alulu.

"Yeah!" Zoe cheered with her hands raised.

"Why did you decide on your own to cook at my house?"

Li Ang thought about it and found no reason to refuse: "Then I'll take you to the market."

He led the four people out of the apartment again.

They were inexplicably interested and excited to be able to cook at his house. Along the way, the three of them discussed with Xiao Niu what kind of meal to make and what kind of ingredients to find.

Leon was walking, and Dorothy quietly slowed down to keep pace with him.

A smirk graced her charming face. "I wonder why we're so excited?"

Seeing Leon nod, Dorothy stretched out her fingers and poked his chest, making him feel itchy.

"The place where you lived is like a part of you. Anyway, for me, when I think about you and the vixen before using that place as a love nest, I feel like I have to do something."

Although Li Ang really wanted to complain about why the vixen came first, he could probably understand her mentality and tactfully kept silent.

"They may have similar reasons to me, or they may have different reasons, but they all want to paint your house with a touch of our own color," Dorothy smiled.

After saying that, she joined the girls again.

Li Ang let out a long sigh and followed.

They were taken to a market, which was opened for the nearby residents. It did not focus on monster materials, but only sold food ingredients.

The old city of Shengdu was originally planned as a living area, but after its exaggerated development, living service facilities and residential houses are actually interspersed between the major blocks.

After sending them to the market, Leon agreed to meet there later. He did not accompany them, but used the Wind Armor to generate a propulsion tornado, taking him quickly in another direction.

In this adventure zone, there is also the Holy City Bank.

Since I'm here, I might as well wrap up what happened before.

He walked into the bank's front desk and lined up, but using his spiritual power, he quietly cut in line and walked to the front.

He was greeted by a mustachioed, Bullhorn-Tribe teller. Li Ang took out his verification card with magical markings and said, "I need to withdraw something from my personal bank account."

After checking, the bank teller said expressionlessly: "You are in frozen status, next."

"and many more."

Li Ang pulled out a chair in front of the counter and sat down: "Let's talk slowly."

174. Banks are like this

The bank teller glanced at Li Ang and said, "Don't disturb us while we're working."

He pulled out a form from the counter and handed it to Li Ang.

"If you have any objections to our work, please fill out the form."

Li Ang saw that the form contained a lot of content. He had to tick the boxes starting with the matters to be handled. There were options such as special matters, appeals, and unconventional doctrines. Each option then had a bunch of branching spaces and options. If he wanted to go this route to appeal and resolve the freezing issue, it would take him half a day.

According to experience, even if you fill out the form, you will get a reply like "go back and wait" or "processed". You don't know when you will see the real reply from the person, and then you will still be passed around.

The Holy City Bank was established in the early days of the guild. Due to its first-mover advantage, the property safety of many sky knights depends on it. Now it has become a behemoth in the Demonic Disaster Domain.

It is no exaggeration to say that more than 80% of the wealth of the former empty knights may be stored in the treasure house deep in the bank.

Because of this, it has gained the invisible support of many powerful sky knights.

But with the development of Huadu, the atmosphere of the Holy City has changed a bit, and so has the working style of the bank. It is close to the feeling before Li Ang crossed over.

Even if Leon showed them the Grand Knight Medal, they would at most arrange for someone to come and receive him, but that wouldn't necessarily solve the problem. Ramus was definitely operating at a higher level.

Seeing that he didn't move, the teller sneered at Li Ang, "What? Do you need me to call a guard?"

There's nothing much to say to this teller.

Li Ang released his spiritual power and said, "Send someone who can be responsible for freezing it here."

"It's me." The mustachioed man puffed out his chest.

"You are?"

The man with horns pointed at his work badge.

Li Ang looked over and saw that there was indeed a row of words stating his identity, but Li Ang didn't want to read it.

Holy City Bank - Adventure Zone Headquarters - Depositor Management Manager: Malonan.

Even though his willpower was sealed by the spiritual drive, this Ox man named Malonan still retained his pride.

He held his head high, his horns seeming to touch the ceiling. "If the guy at this workstation hadn't disappeared without asking for leave, I wouldn't be here right now with so many customers. Luckily, I've worked in the bank for over a decade and am well versed in all the procedures."

"Then let me ask you, why did you freeze my personal bank?" Li Ang held up the engraved card.

"The leader of the Soul Apex of the Sky Knights, ranked first, no, now second, has complained to our bank, suspecting the previous team leader of abusing his position to embezzle team assets. To investigate, we've frozen their assets."

"Yes, this is the official statement to the outside world."

Leon had heard such words before leaving the Holy City.

"Even if there's an investigation, it should have ended by now, right? Besides, this is against procedure because you don't have any concrete evidence."

According to the provisions of the chapter on banks and personal property protection under the economic items of the Holy City Law promulgated by the Guild, what Holy City Bank did was to some extent non-compliant.

But Li Ang also knew that rules could be torn up in the face of interests and power anywhere.

He said to Manager Ma Luonan, whose willpower he had eliminated, "Tell me what's going on here. Tell me everything you know."

The mustachioed bull man showed a look of struggle on his face. He opened his mouth and tried to utter words, but was forced to hold them back.

Li Ang raised his eyebrows. This guy is quite interesting.

Even for Furkart, the squad leader of the Order Sandstorm Regiment, who is at the level of excellence, his resistance to spiritual drive is mainly reflected in the difficulty of breaking his spiritual structure, rather than being able to resist even after being struck by it.

Is this some big secret?

How did he manage not to say it? Logically, his willpower had been reduced to zero after being sealed, so there must be some other force supporting him.

Li Ang switched to the spiritual vision and observed Malonan's spiritual structure.

He found that although he had lost his willpower, his sociality and desire to survive were still resisting fiercely in his thinking module.

If we say that, will it not only lead to social death but also physical death?

At the same time, the bull-man manager with the mustache was not relying solely on himself to fight. There was a magical reinforcement in his spiritual structure, which seemed to be a law-type spell.