Chapter 364 (1/2)

“Why is it a mute?” In the barrack, a man with a brown mask complained, “no one can be f.u.c.king trusted these days!”

There were several darker yellow masked men that had come to choose new masked men for their teams. However, after observing the performance of 10 new masked men, not a single person wanted Chu Yunsheng.

But it was not because he was a mute that no one selected him. It was actually that when Chu Yunsheng lifted up the s.h.i.+eld, he couldn’t trigger the s.h.i.+eld’s earth elemental protection ability, and when he held the spear, he also could not trigger the spear’s earth elemental attack abilities.

He had accidentally absorbed all the energy from both the spear and the s.h.i.+eld.

No one wanted a powerless stranger as their subordinate. The rest of the 10 people were quickly selected by other people leaving Chu Yunsheng standing alone in the field.

“Old Sun, the mute belongs to your team now!” the brown masked men thought for a second and said.

The light yellow masked man walked with a p.r.o.nounced limp. Chu Yunsheng didn’t know whether he was born with it or he was injured during the battle, but what he did know was that the man’s face was twisted behind the mask.

The wonderful thing about the mask was that it was neither opaque or completely fixed. it would change with the user’s emotions. Anyone with a pair of good eyes could even see through the mask.

The brown masked man waved his hand and said, “your team is just responsible for security patrol, so just take him. It has been decided. I won’t change my mind.”

Seeing there was no hope to get his supervisor to change his decision, the man thought for a second and said, “Supervisor, since our team has one more person now, could you give us more supply this time? We also haven’t changed our spears and s.h.i.+elds for quite some time…”

The brown masked man immediately shook his head and said, “nope, don’t ask me for those things, you will need to find the logistics. Besides, your team doesn’t even need to go to the battlefield, why do you need them anyway?”

Then, he didn’t even wait for the reply, just quickly left the place. Because he began to notice that other masked men were also looking at him.

‘Are they short of energy supplies?’ Chu Yunsheng couldn’t help but wonder.

It seemed like the situation in the forest that was controlled by the western force was not that good at the moment.

“Sigh… Mute you didn’t come to this place at the right time. You didn’t get to the glorious time we had… sigh… let’s go…” Old Sun sighed.

…

With the advantages of his occupation, Chu Yunsheng tried to find a way to leave this forest. He even made a map of the “city” behind the wall of trees.

Every day his duty was very simple. He would need to take turns to patrol the forest city with Old Sun and other 15 colleagues.

To put it bluntly, his job was just like a community police officer during the age of light. But at least, he was considered a formal official of the western force and he had a stable food ration, a place to live and at the end of the month, he would also receive some money that was made by special soil as well. Although, due to the inflation, those soil money wasn’t worth that much anymore.

But no matter how the situation in both the legal market or illegal market changed, the price of food never changed.

However, the collapse of the monetary system was not caused by the higher-ups of the western force ma.s.sively producing soil money. It was actually caused by a large number of counterfeit money flowing into the western force from the eastern force.

It was said that the soil money, which only the rulers of the forest had the ability to make, was the main cause of the conflict between the two rulers of the forest.

Chu Yunsheng didn’t trust those temporary economic systems. As earlier as when he was in Jin Ling city, he had already seen a system like this. It also didn’t work out back then.

Being a mute was not all just bad. Without the ability to talk, he was able to quickly fit into Old Sun’s group. Although Old Sun’s group’s main duty was to patrol the city, they were also doing something shady the dark.

….

In a remote dark corner in the forest city, Old Sun counted his group members once again and lowered his voice, “like what we did before, split into three shares! Those f.u.c.kers got a lot of good stuff from outside. Don’t let them fool us. If they don’t agree, let’s confiscate everything!”

“Boss, I have heard that they are protected by some fire energy people. So I don’t think they are easy targets.” a skinny man who was wearing the same colored mask as Chu Yunsheng said concernedly.

“If it weren’t for the fire energy people, I’ll f.u.c.king take 70 percent! This is our 9th unit’s territory. Those f.u.c.kers didn’t even inform us before they conducted their business here. They f.u.c.king ignored us. If we don’t do anything, we will be looked down by other units.” The man was constantly cursing.

“Okay, boss, let’s do it. Mute, you are with us to guard the back door.” The skinny masked man gritted his teeth and pointed at Chu Yunsheng and said.

Chu Yunsheng was speechless. Since the dark age began, he had worked with all kinds of people and many types of departments. But he had never done the activities such as collecting protection fees from others before.

The sad thing was that he had to do it. With just his little supply, he wouldn’t be able to exchange more Earth Elemental Energy Blocks, which was the only thing that was able to stop three forces from fighting each other inside his body at the moment.

He still hasn’t figured out the way to get out of the forest city, so gathering this type of energy blocks became his only interests when staying here.

Chu Yunsheng took over half a self-made “cigarette” from the skinny masked man and leaned against the wall of the tree house. They had openly surrounded the tree house, so they were not worried to be “discovered” by the people upstairs of the tree house. Old Sun had already gone into the building with two other people, what Chu Yunsheng and the rest of the people needed to do was just to wait there for the results.

Chu Yunsheng hadn’t tasted a cigarette for a very long time, although his throat was still in pain, the temptation of cigarettes was much stronger.

He pinched the cigarette b.u.t.t, squinted his eyes and took a deep drag on the cigarette and then blew out a long smoke while squatting in a corner. Through the smoke, he seemed to see his aunty, Dumb Insect…

Suddenly, a rapid whistle appeared from the upstairs of the tree house. It instantly startled Chu Yunsheng’s dream.

“s.h.i.+t! Those f.u.c.kers!” the skinny masked man immediately threw away the cigarette b.u.t.t and cursed. At the same time, he quickly kicked the back door of the tree house and broke in.

“Brothers, get your weapons! Mute, you follow me, everyone else stays here. Don’t let anyone go!”

Immediately, two people began to break in from the back door. There were even more people that got in from the front door truculently.