155: Chapter 75 Spider Webs 155: Chapter 75 Spider Webs “Big Brother Shell, the dications have been delivered,” Tang Shagu said as he pushed open the door and entered.
Previously, Xiang Shan ntioned a grand plan “to collect potions commonly used to treat brain injuries in Heroes, to force Hero Deborah to show herself, ensuring we can kill her and seize her cultivation technique.”
And this was an important result of that grand plan.
About ten sets of potions were packed into a thermos box and delivered to Xiang Shan.
“Oh, quite efficient, aren’t they?” Xiang Shan nodded in approval of the ng Hand Gang’s efficiency.
Tang Shagu was slightly embarrassed, “We’ve managed to get all the common ones on the market.
Of course, there are so that we could still find if we really looked, but the remaining ones are basically under our surveillance.
No matter through what channels that woman purchases them, we will find her.”
“Hmm, and then regarding the Capacitor Gang’s suspected dealings with Heroes…”
“Apart from that ‘Six Dragons Sect emissary,’ they’ve also taken in another group of Heroes, trying to extract cultivation techniques from them, but they escaped yesterday morning,” Tang Shagu sighed, “Our White Paper Fan is sowhat suspicious that the previous sweeping of the underground areas was done to cover for those Heroes.”
“Hmm?
Quite an insightful thought!” Xiang Shan praised with a nod, “So, what’s your plan based on this intelligence?”
Tang Shagu shook his head, smiling, “There’s really nothing we can ‘do’ about it, Big Brother.
Those tunnels are also where our brothers live and establish themselves.
Sacrificing one to block the Heroes’ escape route is fine, but reporting them all to the governnt would be akin to courting death.”
Xiang Shan smiled, “Tsk, so when it doesn’t involve your own, snitching becos joyous, does it?”
“Isn’t it?” responded Tang Shagu.
Xiang Shan took a mont to inspect the potions in the box, casually took out one bottle, and tested it with equipnt.
The Capacitor Gang also dealt with so illegal potion business, and the one who died, John Kansas, was precisely in charge of that sector, hence they had the necessary testing equipnt on hand.
The composition was correct.
Xiang Shan nodded, “Hmm, indeed.”
As Xiang Shan was testing, Tang Shagu couldn’t help but fidget with his arms.
Before letting these forr gang mbers, now Green Forest mbers, take action, Xiang Shan had specially taught them so Internal and External Skills.
Aside from a small Trojan Horse, all the algorithms and experience were the genuine article.
These new Green Forest mbers were overjoyed, always looking for sothing to test their newfound powers on.
Had Xiang Shan not instructed them to maintain their old behaviors and not to reveal themselves as having switched sides just yet, these guys would probably have been picking fights already.
They managed to suppress themselves, but only barely.
This was also the reason why previously, a high-ranking mber from the gang charged straight to the front lines.
They couldn’t contain their destructive urges.
Of course, this had also added fuel to the fire of the gang mbers’ emotions.
Seeing the normally concealed higher-ups of the gang erging from the shadows, charging into battle and fighting side by side with them, naturally ignited their fervor.
If this primal fervor could be cented into a collective consciousness, it would instantly beco a primary target for Dyson’s principles.
Now, both above and below ground, the entirety of Pine Eagle City’s gang mbers had gone mad with killing.
Xiang Shan was overall quite satisfied with this outco.
So he sat down and continued to ditate.
Tang Shagu activated a simulation program in the courtyard, placing two “ordinary competitive Martial Artists” models into his field of view and adding Hiroshi Matsushima’s overlay to the skins.
He practiced a set of Martial Arts twice in the yard.
Ancient Martial Artists had already practiced “ditation.” This practice varied in interpretation among different Sects, teachers, and schools, but generally involved two aspects.
First, to quickly gather one’s spirit to maintain calm while enhancing self-control; and second, “imagination”—imagining a non-existent enemy and fighting against this “imagined enemy.”
The practice of Boxers maintaining actual combat rhythm through No-target boxing is based on this principle.
However, with the arrival of the Cyber-enhanced era, the forr practice has been replaced by “psychological intervention” and “neurotransmitter regulation,” while the latter has been transford into AR and VR modes.
Tang Shagu’s decision to have Hiroshi Matsushima’s model for his “imaginary opponent” was not for any other reason but simply because in his view, Matsushima was the strongest External Skills Martial Artist.
Using his model as an imaginary adversary was also a form of aspiration, to show his own ambition.
After practicing Martial Arts twice, Tang Shagu sighed again.
Truth be told, he longed to be on the front lines.
So badly it hurt.
Only, Big Brother Shell had ordered him to stay here and oversee the central command.
According to Big Brother Shell, he would be the Second-in-command of the newly ford Wild Myth and needed the patience to not act rashly.
Now, he was genuinely envious of Big Brother Shell.
Even with Green Forest thinking, Shell maintained such a calm deanor, and even used Internal Strength to search for enemies throughout the city.
*Sigh*, the longer you work in this business, the clearer you see that on the surface, the ferocious ones are just that.
But it’s the silent ones with extre emotions that are truly twisted—the calr they appear on the outside, the more disgusting they are within.”
“Looking at Big Brother Shell, who knows to what extent he plays the devil behind closed doors…”
With this thought in mind, Tang Shagu pushed open the gate.
“Big Brother Shell” remained in a ditative pose, deep in thought.
Tang Shagu grew increasingly irritable.
He lowered his head, gazed at the battle map projected onto the wall, and forced himself to think deeper.
Several hours before, Xiang Shan had said to him, “Want to make a bet?” which was actually referring to this.
The plan was to set various traps around the iyii Building, ensuring that the mont a Hero exited the building, they would be detected by the ng Hand Gang, stumbling right into their traps.
The audacity of the plan made even Tang Shagu feel his heart race with fear.
The most thrilling part of the entire plan was undoubtedly “forming a siege around the iyii Building.” That could provoke the governnt to intervene.
By then, the gang landscape of Pine Eagle City would have to change anew.
However, if the plan were to succeed, the rewards would certainly be imnse.
The City Lord of Pine Eagle City, Old Master Zhao, leading the majority of the city’s forces, had gone to eliminate an old Hero who had fallen from the sky.
The Heroes active in the vicinity for the past half year were mostly coming to aid that old Hero.
Just like the City Lord, where was the main force of the Heroes?
They were in an even more southern region.
So what did those Heroes remaining in Pine Eagle City intend to do?
It was nothing more than the ancient tactic of “besieging Wei to save Zhao.”
They would definitely try by all ans to attack the residence of the Scientific Knight Order.
The two most important tasks for the Guardians of Civilization were to “defend the Human Gene Bank” and “guard the Scientific Knight Order.”
If the Scientific Knight Order were to co under attack, then Old Master Zhao would have to co back, taking charge of Pine Eagle City.
At that ti, the Guardian’s encirclent would show flaws.
The besieged old Hero could then easily escape.
Hence, they would certainly choose to attack here.
—Ah?
Why not attack the Gene Bank?
After all, destroying the Gene Bank would an killing the “Seed Humanity” preserved by the Guardians within it.
That’s unrealistic.
Indeed, there are extremist Heroes who believe that those “Seed Humanity” are rely undignified tools and can be killed if necessary, but the vast majority of Heroes do not agree with this view.
From this perspective, the probability of Heroes attacking the Scientific Knight Order is higher than attacking the Gene Bank.
This chain of logic was simply flawless.
In the beautiful vision painted by Xiang Shan, Tang Shagu seed to see Heroes continuously attacking the Scientific Knight Order’s base, being repelled, then crashing headlong into the traps they had laid out.
Just like a spider that had woven its web, waiting for its prey.
Of course, such a future was too beautiful, too unreal.
Tang Shagu also knew that if Old Master Zhao returned, it would probably be the ng Hand Gang who would be extinguished first.
But if they could profit this ti from the cultivation techniques and experience of the Heroes, then the mbers of the Green Forest could flee into the Wilderness, find a suitable place to establish a Great Stockade, raise their flag, and live a carefree life for decades with no problem!
It was for this reason that Tang Shagu spared no effort in attacking the territories of the other two gangs.
It was all to construct this “web.”
Now, the lackeys of the ng Hand Gang were moving out all the landmines, intelligent traps, and automated weapons from the warehouse, building a “trap belt” within the “appropriate encirclent” marked by Tang Shagu, weaving a spider web.
“Great accomplishnts are within reach…” Tang Shagu mused.
What remained was to wait for those Heroes.
He didn’t know when they would finally decide to attack the iyii Building…
At this mont, Xiang Shan lifted his head and glanced in the direction of the Pine Eagle Building outside the window, saying, “Little Tang, can’t hold your excitent, can you?”
Tang Shagu nodded, “Can’t compare to Big Brother Shell.”
“Alas.” Xiang Shan shook his head, “It’s understandable, I suppose.” He pointed towards the Pine Eagle Building, “Living in a city where that thing is visible everywhere can indeed feel oppressive.”
Those words suited the Green Forest’s temperant perfectly.
Tang Shagu nodded, walked to the window, and said, “I never felt it before, but thinking about it now, we truly lived in oppression…
it’s suffocating.”
“So now you’re desperately craving to kill?” Xiang Shan shook his head, “Getting so worked up over killing soone, how can you achieve great things?
Speaking of which, do you still rember the first ti you killed soone?”
“I rember, how could I forget…” Tang Shagu looked up at the Pine Eagle Building, “Back then, I was just an apprentice in a Martial Arts School.
Didn’t know squat.
Once during a competition, I genuinely, accidentally shattered a guy’s Biological Brain…
Heh, it was then I realized, this is killing—I’m a born Thug.
The referee considered it an accident, so I wasn’t deprived of protection.
But I grew impatient with protection.
And then…
I got into this business.
Even though I’ve killed more and more people, I can never forget the way I pretended it was an accident on the stage…”
He didn’t finish his confession.
A Steel Mace struck heavily at the back of his head.
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