Chapter 452: Ning Lang and Ning Xing

Qin Hu was very efficient.

He did not spend a second more or use a second less. A full five minutes later, he called Meng Chao.

Big Brother Wolf’s real name was Ning Lang. He was twenty-four years old and was a resident from Nine Sands Region.

He did not come from a rich family. His father passed away due to an illness when he was nine-years old, and his mother brought him and his five other siblings up through great difficulty by working odd jobs and receiving social relief.

Even though he came from a poor family, he showed cultivation talent when he was young and relied on his own power to get into a key middle school and high school even though he did not have sufficient cultivation resources. For a period of time, he became the hope of the entire residential area.

However, when he was in high school, he worked too hard on his cultivation without enough resources. It resulted in him being heavily injured, and he was hospitalized for a long time. From then on, all hope of his awakening to supernatural abilities was gone.

His experience growing up was very similar to Meng Chao’s.

Since there were so many people from poor families, there were always a few people who had great talent.

However, because they lacked resources, there were only a handful of lucky people who could turn their talent into fighting power. Not everyone was like Meng Chao who could return from the apocalypse and gain a second chance.

In any case, Ning Lang was unable to climb back up to his feet during his high school years, and it only made sense that he did not manage to get into an undergraduate course. Because of it, he started fooling around in society.

Even though he was not a superhuman, the foundation he built since he was young was good. Besides, he was ruthless and fearless, so his fighting strength was at the top among normal people.

He got to know a lot of people while he was studying in a key high school. All of them were from powerful families, and they pitied him for what he went through, so they were all willing to help him a little.

After all, there was an iron-clad rule in the Supernatural Tower that superhumans were never to hurt normal people, but it was impossible for there to never be conflicts between superhumans and normal people. Thus, when something displeasing to superhumans happened, some superhumans would require people like Ning Lang to solve their “problems”.

Like that, Ning Lang gradually gathered a group of toxic friends whose situations were like his, and they became “problem solvers”.

This was an ancient profession in the gray area.

Ning Lang was like a fish in water, and soon, he became famous.

But no matter how famous he was, he was still just a hooligan.

With his skills, he did not have a problem filling his stomach, but in a world with superhumans, it was a joke for a normal lackey like him to want to drive a luxurious car or live in a mansion.

Even though plenty of people called him Big Brother Wolf, he still lived obediently with his old mother and five siblings in the public renting house that was slightly more than sixty square meters.

And during one monster invasion, that smoke-filled, small public rental house that they had lived in for half of their entire lifetimes was destroyed by the monsters.

Ning Land was forced to move with his family to the temporary shelter, which offered an even worse environment than the public rental house. There, he got to know a hooligan from another residential area—the mohawk man.

There was also another crucial piece of information among what Qin Hu.

Ning Lang’s youngest sister was fifteen. She was born after their father passed, and her name was Ning Xing. She was also gifted in cultivation, just like Ning Lang, and she had been studying for half of a year in Ms. Xiao Fanghua’s martial arts refresher course in the temporary settlement.

This meant that Meng Chao should have taught her before.

“Ning Xing... is she a girl with freckles on her nose, a crew cut, and looks like a boy?” Meng Chao asked.

“That’s her. She’s the student with the most potential in the entire martial arts refresher course, and I even gave her two scholarships on behalf of Superstar before!” Qin Hu answered.

Meng Chao had a deep impression of Ning Xing.

She was the first to master Reckless Bull Technique among the children he taught, and she had a punching force of 300 kg.

A maximum punching force of 300 kg was a ridiculous result in the third year class of a regional key high school like Ninth High School.

And she was only fifteen!

Before going into the wild, Meng Chao asked Qin Hu to pay attention to the talented children in the martial arts refresher course, and among them was Ning Xing.

He did not expect that she would be Big Brother Wolf’s younger sister. The world was really a small place.

But when he thought about it, it made sense. Ning Lang was a talented person, so it was not strange if one of his siblings got similar talent.

“I’ve never heard Ning Xing mention that she has such a powerful older brother before, though?” Meng Chao said. “Besides, it’s impossible for her older brother to not see that she’s talented.

“Even if he doesn’t earn a lot of money by being a hooligan, he could still change his sister’s cultivation conditions. The girl just doesn’t have enough nutrition. If he could have gotten her more cultivation resources, her maximum punching force would have gone over 500 kg a long time ago.

“He gave up on cultivation because he was heavily wounded in the past, so he shouldn’t let his sister repeat his mistakes!”

“I know, right? But I heard that Ning Lang hasn’t been that lucky in the past year. He’s in a lot of debt.”

Qin Hu said that the word about Ning Lang being a pathfinder in the past should be real.

Last year, when he came back to Dragon City while covered in wounds, he boasted to everyone in sight as if he had fought in hundreds of battles in the wild and killed countless monsters.

But based on what Qin Hu heard, his pathfinding operation completely failed. It seemed like he lost a lot of weapons, equipment, and engineering machines. He also got the friends who trusted him in trouble, so he suffered a major loss, even though he thought about trying to profit from it.

He was currently running away from his debtors, so he did not have the energy to care about his sister’s cultivation.

“I see...”

But that made even less sense.

If Ning Lang was poor and in huge debt, where would he get the money to buy the Deification Pills and sell them to the mohawk man?

“What is it? Is this Ning Lang involved in some major case?” Qin Hu knew that Meng Chao was connected to the abnormal beast research department, so he asked the question in a semi-teasing manner.

“He’s just a normal person, so I don’t think so.” Meng Chao pondered it for a while. “How about this? Send Ning Xing’s address to me. I might be able to get back to the city tonight. I’ll then visit her house to take a look. I’ve always regarded Ning Xing’s cultivation talent highly, after all.

“Since our company has given her a scholarship, even if I were not visiting for Ning Lang’s case and were just going over to see her progress over the past three months, it would still make sense.”

“Alright, I’ll have more people ask around over here and see what Ning Lang has been doing over the past few months. If I learn anything, I’ll send you news right away,” Qin Hu said and hung up.

At that moment, the drug monitoring department made a video call to Soaring Dragon Constructions’ forward operating base.

Ye Xiaoxing had already alerted the drug monitoring department, so the staff from the department paid great attention to the Deification Capsule.

Once they watched the surveillance footage from the developing land and read the test results from Soaring Dragon Constructions, they paid even more attention to it.

The drug monitoring department quickly stated that they would immediately send someone to take the Deification Capsule, the survivors, and the pathfinders who died unfortunately and tragically to conduct an investigation.

However, just as Meng Chao expected, the investigations from the drug monitoring department were restricted to only analyzing the components of the Deification Capsule.

If they wanted to find the manufacturers, they had to go through a lot of procedures to do it.

After all, the tragedy that happened in the depths of the wild could only be dealt with as a case where the people had taken in forbidden drugs and ended up going through spirit energy deviation.

Before a drug caused major harm to society, it was impossible for the department to send a large number of people to organize an emergency operation.

But Meng Chao had never thought about relying on the drug monitoring department to handle the case.

If there were really the claws of the abnormal beasts hidden behind the Deification Capsule, it would be a case that the drug monitoring department would be unable to handle.

Meng Chao got the surveillance footage from Manager Jiang, a copy of the test results, some drops of the Deification Capsule, and the spoils he harvested from the Tyrant Mammoth. Then, he returned via a light armored vehicle belonging to Soaring Dragon Constructions.

He asked the people from Soaring Dragon Constructions to send most of the spoils back to Superstar. He only took some of the Tyrant Mammoth’s nose and a whole Demonic Halberd Pig’s leg that was wrapped up nicely, which he brought to Settlement No.4 in the eastern part of the city.

Since the training in the wild had changed his appearance and he also wore a pair of sunglasses with really thick glass, not many people were able to recognize him under the dark sky despite his fame.

Meng Chao felt relaxed because of it. So he spent the time to observe how much the settlement had changed compared to three months ago.

Lu Siya had mentioned that the monsters forced the superhumans to reform, and what she said made sense, even though she had sounded really crude when she spoke.

Ever since the abnormal beasts developed the new zombie virus and turned the Blood Flower’s spores into a weapon, the squatter areas, old residential areas, and temporary settlements with dense populations and horrible environments became hotbeds for zombie hordes.

To destroy the possibility of the new zombies and undead wreaking havoc in Dragon City once more, the superhumans who stayed in high-grade commodity houses and mansions were forced to pay attention to the hygiene and living conditions of the normal people.

Ambitious people like Qin Hu and Lu Siya did not miss the opportunity to create their images and increase their exposure rate to seize the chance to have people support them. Not only did they offer monetary support and manpower to change the living conditions in the squatter areas and temporary shelters, they often came over to perform voluntary work and become close to the normal people.

It was not important as to whether their goals were 100% pure.

In this world, there was not a single person who would be completely selfless, not ask for fame and benefits, and only love contributing.

In any case, under their lead, more superhumans offered money and manpower to help solve all sorts of problems for the citizens who were in trouble.

Take Settlement No.4 as an example.

Three months ago, when Meng Chao left Dragon City, there were still a lot of tents here. The drains would often become clogged because of the huge population, causing dirty water to spill all over. There were also several piles of stinking garbage around the settlement, which made it no different from a refugee camp.

Today, most of the tents had been upgraded to simple shacks with aluminium alloy frames. They had from five to six stores, and the families in them had their own kitchens and bathrooms. Even though this did not solve the problem of people being exposed to the weather and having to endure bad soundproofing, it was still better than them having to live in tents.

The garbage piles near the settlement had been dealt with, while the drains seemed to be wider. Meng Chao could not see any dirty water spilling out of them. The air had become much fresher as well.

While the citizens staying here were not all smiles, their moods were still considerably better compared to three months ago, when they were agitated, gloomy, and could not see a future for themselves.

‘Looks like we’ll be able to slowly change for the better if we’re given a bit of time.’

With this thought in mind, Meng Choa headed to the address provided by Qin Hu.