Zongman: Evolution Paradise

Instantly, hundreds of ads marked with an "X" symbol popped up, but clicking them was useless.

Clearly, this lizardman didn't have the money to pay for a membership.

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Tariffs have increased again, and the new mayor has made it so that we can't even afford low-quality protein bars anymore. The city that never sleeps has lost its former glory, and now more and more people are heading to the border to try to smuggle themselves into the paradise.

If you all give me 50 yuan for internet access, I will livestream the assassination of that lousy mayor.

"...A paradise for smuggling?"

Jolyne paused for a moment, looking at the fraudulent advertisement with some hesitation. Next to her, Nakano Nino shifted her gaze from the advertisements that couldn't pass censorship, and also looked at this one uncertainly, asking, "A smuggling paradise?"

"Hmm...it seems so. I think I know where we are now."

"where?"

"We are still in the main world."

Jolyne looked out onto the street.

Because the two of them were too conspicuous, and had just turned several lizardmen into corpses, the various creatures on the street seemed to recognize the presence of the Crocodile Gang, pointing and whispering as they waited for the show to begin.

Just then, a roar sounded, and a truck more than ten meters long, resembling a dilapidated version of Optimus Prime, charged straight toward the two of them. From the front of the truck, which was completely covered in alloy, came the maniacal laughter of the Lizardmen. They sensed the death of their gang members and were determined to smash Jolyne and the other man, who were standing next to the corpses, into a bloody mist.

The orc watching the show was dragged under the car, and spurted out greasy yellow blood.

Faced with this moment, Jolyne simply raised her eyelids to let her clear world penetrate all obstructions. When her blue eyes met the vertical pupils of the lizardmen, the telekinetic power composed of more than two hundred points of intelligence surged like a tide, forcibly blacking out the chips on the back of their brains. The invading consciousness began to rewrite their minds.

Most major crises aren't unstoppable; it's just a matter of whether or not one has insurance and chooses to stop them.

With bits of flesh scattered all over the ground, the truck stopped beside Jolyne and opened its doors. A dozen or so lizardmen emerged from various places like decompressed compressed packages.

"Your Majesty, please get in the carriage."

The slime in the carriage was disgusting, so Jolyne used a golden light spell to clean it up before getting into the carriage and ordering the crocodile gang to take her to their territory.

She then switched to Nakano Satsuki, asking, "What does it mean that we're still in the main world?"

"It means your game has been assigned to our own world."

By using telekinesis to rewrite minds, Jolyne has taken control of the lizardmen. He directly orders them to crowdfund money to top up his terminal, as Jolyne is fed up with the page that can't shut down all sorts of ads.

"You haven't been a player for long, and Nakano Maruo hasn't taught you about this yet."

You can think of it this way: in our world, there's a special place that only players can go to, a blessed land that provides players with daily activity, and right now we're experiencing the game somewhere in this blessed land..."

The VIP top-up failed because the original owner of the device had outstanding debts, which were automatically deducted the moment the crowdfunding funds were received, along with some additional advertisements.

"My lord, we've run out of credits."

"I really am..."

Jolyne suppressed the urge to complain. This dust zone is really damn dusty. You guys have so many weapons on you, yet you can't even afford to pay for internet access.

Is this reasonable?

If those at the bottom have no money, how can those at the top make money?

Or are you really just dust, having been squeezed dry by the company's employees, so that official currency like credits can't circulate in your hands at all?

After finally managing to open the terminal, Jolyne began to read the official daily report of Night City, and finally, exhausted, confirmed that this place really was a blessed land in the main world!

Oswald, which company put forward such a penguin as mayor!

Could they force the Lionheart Knights to cease fire in a single day?

How did they secure such huge investments from Taiqing Heavy Industry and Huanyu Giant Enterprise in just three days?

Overthrowing Baiyujing's hegemony in five days?

Good heavens! 100 days have passed! None of his bold promises before taking office have come true! Three trillion credits have evaporated from the City That Never Sleeps!

Let's see what he's doing now?

Tencent Stocks?

An immigration voucher priced at 500 million credits?

Is this "cuteness" a result of the mayor accidentally being possessed by an evil god from the dark web when he uploaded his consciousness to Eden Garden to take spiritual supplements on Mayor's Night?

Beep —

I strongly suggest that any mercenaries aspiring to become legends bring their best equipment and, during his next speech, pierce his chip with an alchemical bullet.

"It looks like a mission clue."

Nakano Satsuki gestured, "As long as we take down this penguin mayor, the legendary title will be bestowed upon us, and we'll complete the mission directly."

"A very good suggestion."

Jolyne also gestured, "I suggest we call Nakano Maruo to assassinate this penguin mayor."

Chapter 434 The Demon City of Beasts

They can't even spare a single credit point, which shows how trashy the Crocodile Gang is.

A short while later, after the lizardman driver used several helpful citizens as speed bumps to make an abrupt stop, they arrived in front of an alien-themed bar.

"Please, my king."

"This is the Crocodile Gang's headquarters, and also the beginning of our king's expansion."

"Oh, holy one!"

Listening to the lizardmen's strange speech, Jolyne almost wanted to throw them all away. He really disliked these idiotic subordinates who went around killing people wherever they went.

Please, who kills randomly? Don't you even consider the victim's family background? What if there's a pair of cowardly eyes lurking in the shadows who witnessed this and vowed to work hard to become a corporate slave to avenge this day?

"Empty stomach worms?"

Satsuki Nakano read out the name of the bar.

Jolyne glanced around and then sensed the place before realizing where she was.

"Even alien beasts have arrived in the capital? How could you run into such a protagonist-type being just by randomly controlling a few lizardmen on the roadside?" After removing the disguise of the Underworld Emperor, Jolyne twirled the only two pieces of equipment on his little finger.

Unstained Ring: Luck +1

This was his initial equipment. After being modified by Medea, Jolyne no longer needed to wear that overly philosophical mask. His normal 3 points of luck meant that he would be favored even when he was just walking down the street.

He kicked open the bar door, and the sign that read "Empty Stomach Bug" crashed to the ground. The few customers who were still sober all looked over, but most of them continued to chug their inferior Mewtwo, immersing themselves in the strange creatures that fused flesh and machine in the center of the dance floor.

"Still playing? We're here to arrest you."

Jolyne, expressionless, retorted, "This is too much of an eyesore! What kind of human art is that person with centipede limbs doing? You have to pay me with a pair of eyes I've never seen before."

Nakano Satsuki also found it disgusting; this was no longer lust but purely a matter of morbid curiosity.

"hacker?"

Cayman, a lizard-like man who looked like a crocodile, looked up from behind the bar counter of the Empty Stomach Worm Bar. He was playing a board game with Nikaido, who had blond hair.

According to the original storyline of the Demon City of Monsters...

Okay... that's not entirely true. The original plot of Doraemon City is so complicated that even if you listen to the explanation three times, you'll still be completely confused and won't know what the plot is about if you don't carefully read the original manga.

And the situation is definitely different now.

After all, the magicians might all be gone.

When Jolyne appeared, the high-end fabric of the Dark Emperor revealed an aura that did not belong to the Dust Zone, and the lizardmen behind him looked on with expressions of "Boss, we want to volunteer to help you win over these old members of the Crocodile Gang."

Just as Nikaido was thinking, "Could it be that some company hired a middleman to sabotage Cayman?" Cayman, who didn't want to think too much and didn't need to, had already opened his blood-red maw and charged at Jolyne. He was so fast that he appeared in front of Jolyne as if he had teleported, his claws digging into Jolyne's neck. The lizardman opened his mouth, ready to swallow Jolyne's head and begin the interrogation.

At that moment, the [Golden Light Mantra], which had not been used for a long time, shone like a great sun.

Back then, Jolyne's constitution was only 10 points, and the Golden Light Spell she released could block the line of Lei. Now, with the activation of the God of War Body, the golden light transformed from 195 points of intelligence and 250 points of constitution has turned into a dark gold color, blocking Jolyne and Nakano Satsuki. Even when Cayman's claws and teeth bite at it, they can hardly shake it. It looks like the opening animation of the Mirror Blazing Sun God Light skin.

"Wow, they're quite strong. The gap in strength between the strong and the weak in advanced worlds is indeed too great."

Jolyne made a slight comment, but when he activated his Eye of Truth, he discovered that Cayman possessed [Magic Immunity]. Unfortunately, this [Magic Immunity] was rather low-level. The [Fourth Wall] sphere appeared in Jolyne's hand, marking the first time he had used his Stand in battle.

After all, the Cayman Islands have very strong characteristics.

He lacked the power and did not want to burn the various souls that the Underworld Emperor had painstakingly accumulated.

There's no need to waste time.

So Jolyne randomly chose a lizardman behind her whose mind had been twisted. Cayman had extremely strong combat talent and keenly sensed a blinding sense of danger emanating from the small ball in Jolyne's hand. He tried to dodge, but it was too late. The power of a Stand is not so easy to avoid. Cayman's vision went black and when he regained consciousness, his body was already extremely weak.

"what?"

He was in a different body and was shocked to find that his physical body was being controlled by someone, and he was kneeling down to Jolyne in a frenzied manner without any dignity.

A golden light flashed by.

Cayman lost his indestructible body, and blood instantly gushed from his weak abdomen.

"The practical effect is not bad." Jolyne commented on his [Fourth Wall]. This mechanism of forcibly exchanging souls is most suitable for dealing with brutes. Without powerful super armor or similar abilities, even the crudest martial artist will lose the physical body that he has worked so hard to forge.

Two golden beams descended, and Jolyne crippled Cayman's mobility. With a snap of his fingers, more than a dozen powerful monsters descended from the kingdom.

"Clean this place up, and get rid of those who are still obsessed with Mewtwo."

In no time, all the customers in the Empty Stomach Worm Bar disappeared, and even the decor changed from an alien-themed style to a cozy nightclub. The lizardmen, who had been soaking in the stench of corpses in the dusty area for too long and were also emitting the smell of corpses, all came out of the door and stood outside.

Jolyne walked toward the bar, and behind him, a sorcerer with narrow eyes magically produced two bar stools from his robes, then shook and clapped his hands before placing three glasses of freshly squeezed orange juice beside them.

"Hey, why isn't mine here?"

Cayman, whose bleeding had stopped, was very unhappy. He was still using his underling's body, and Jolyne did not intend to undo the soul swap until everything was settled.

"Heather the Wizard, please conjure a glass of orange juice for him as well," Jolyne ordered the ghost beside her. Heather the Wizard had only recently joined the kingdom and had once been the second-in-command of a kingdom that had been destroyed. He was very powerful and was currently in the stage of wanting to gain power.

"As you command, my king."

"That's a really awkward way to address someone."

Nikaido couldn't help but say that she hadn't been moved at all from Jolyne's appearance to the resolution of the Cayman Islands dispute. She had an expression that said, "Someone actually came to my door for free renovations. Looks like a big shot came to place a commission so I can make a fortune." She picked up her orange juice and drank it all in one gulp. Her eyes lit up as she shouted at the silent wizard, "Another cup, please! What is this stuff? It tastes better than E. coli water!"

"Whatever." Jolyne remembered that she seemed to have some kind of time-related ability as well.

"As expected of the company's boss."

Chapter 435 Preparing to Move Backstage

"For someone like you to come to this dusty area filled with the stench of corpses, it seems we have a big business opportunity coming our way."

Having witnessed Jolyne's performance firsthand, Nikaido clearly regarded him as one of the company's employees.

Xu Lun shrugged and asked in confusion, "The company would actually need to hire mercenaries? This is the City That Never Sleeps, a place with supernatural powers. Logically speaking, the company's own armed forces should be far stronger than yours, right? Judging from your strength just now, you couldn't possibly be some mysterious big shot hiding in the Dust Zone."

Night City is Night City.

The city that never sleeps is the city that never sleeps.

The former, the company dog, is just a company dog. In the face of a bullet, all beings are equal. Even a wasteland scavenger has the chance to make a shotgun and try to kill the mayor and become a legend, just like Tetsuya Yamashita.

A city that never sleeps?

Will Luo Feng die from a bullet?

Faced with overwhelming power, the Dust Zone had few options left. To put it bluntly, Jolyne didn't know what the point of the Dust Zone was. After all, they couldn't even afford a few credits. Did the City of Nevers need such cheap labor?

With all these companies combined, shouldn't they have already figured out human cloning technology and automation by now?

"Who knows? The higher-ups always have some troubles that are inconvenient for them to handle and need us to solve them. For example, a new recruit at Osborn might want to make a position vacant and hire us to carry out an assassination."

Nikaido placed his hand across his neck, but his eyes were fixed on the inferior chip on Jolyne's arm, which was clearly from a member of the Crocodile Gang. From his question, he could tell that Jolyne denied being a corporate dog.

"Not a company dog? Trouble's at our door... So who is he?" Nikaido couldn't help but activate the advanced chip in the back of his head to search, and after two seconds, he chose to refill his glass of orange juice and asked directly, "So what brings you here?"