Chapter 005: Injury

Not long after.

The red-haired guy and his gang saw Mu An off again with the same deferential respect they would show their own father.

“Boss, do we really have to work for him?”

A little brother asked in confusion.

“What do you mean ‘he’? From now on, you must call him ‘Young Master Mu’ whenever you see him! Do you understand?!”

The red-haired guy slapped the back of the little brother’s head hard and scolded him mercilessly.

But he accidentally tugged at his bruised wound, causing him to grimace in pain.

It felt like countless ants were crawling all over him, but he couldn’t find the exact spot.

The discomfort was unbearable!

Mu An’s Master-level Fist Technique was no joke.

Not to mention, he’d specifically intended to give these guys who dared bully his ‘potential heroine tool-person’ a proper lesson.

So, his blows were of course very ‘measured’!

Of course, not that much…

He’d just made it so they’d be in continuous pain for about a week!

“You all be smart about it. In a bit, go scout the area and locate that guy called Bai Zihao.”

“Then, according to the ‘excuse’ that Young Master Mu found for us, we’ll give him a good beating!”

“We can’t mess up the first task Young Master Mu has given us!”

After all, the other party had given them a thousand yuan for this!

For such a small matter to cost a thousand-yuan, the red-haired guy didn’t know whether to call the other party wastefully extravagant or just really generous!

The most crucial point was that under the righteous iron fist of the other party, he didn’t dare to refuse!

This must be what they call ‘painful yet happy,’ right?

“But if we just do whatever he tells us to, doesn’t that mean we’re… losing face?”

A confused young lackey asked.

The red-haired guy was almost amused to death by his own ‘talented’ little brother.

How had he never noticed such a ‘talent’ among his lackeys before?

Lose face, huh?

You have no strength, no money!

So, what qualifications do you have to talk about face in front of someone who has both money and power?

Moreover, the other party spent such a large sum; no matter how you think about it, they were the ones who profited!

“Let me ask you, what’s the most important thing for us in this line of work?”

“Is it… being able to fight?”

The lackey said weakly.

“Being able to fight? Are you really that strong? What good is it to be able to fight?!”

The red -haired guy kicked him so hard he landed on his butt.

Image • Arrogant expression looking down from on high, jpg

“To survive out here! You need to have power and connections!”

“Tell me, if we do this job for Young Master Mu well, doesn’t that count as us grabbing onto his super-thick thigh?”

“Doesn’t that mean we also have a chance to become people with both power and connections?”

“Then in the future, when we’re out here, even if the other party gives us a little benefit, we can live quite comfortably!”

“Do you understand? This is what you call ‘knowing how to be a person’! This is what you call ‘understanding human relationships and social dealings’!”

After the red-haired guy’s passionate education, all the lackeys finally saw the light.

“So, do you know what we need to do now?”

The red-haired guy shouted loudly.

The lackeys shouted back just as firmly and loud.

“Follow Young Master Mu and make big money! Beat the crap out of that Bai Zihao!!”

Hearing this, the red-haired guy finally nodded in satisfaction.

***

Mu An didn’t know that the group of small thugs he had impulsively gathered would suddenly become so enthusiastic.

Even if he knew, he wouldn’t really care.

If they actually proved capable, he wouldn’t mind spending a bit of money to support them as his gofers.

After all, as a wealthy great villain, the one thing he wasn’t short of it was money!

Just from the wool he’d skimmed off the two heroines earlier, he’d already made tens of millions.

In less than a morning, he had pure earnings of over ten million; this was something countless people could only dream of!

[Because she accidentally fell in the bathroom and twisted her ankle, Chu Youmeng felt a bit unlucky, emotional fluctuation +9, congratulations, you have gained [Proficiency +666]!]

[Chu Youmeng feels a bit wronged, emotional fluctuation +13, congratulations, you have gained [Proficiency +6666]!]

[Chu Youmeng feels like crying, emotional fluctuation +15, congratulations, you have gained [Fortune +30]!]

Seeing messages about his own tool-person again.

Especially when he saw the reason was that she had accidentally fallen while going to the bathroom, Mu An couldn’t help but laugh and cry at the same time.

He had practically escorted her all the way back just to make sure she wouldn’t run into any more trouble on the way.

He really hadn’t expected she could still twist her ankle just going to the bathroom!

Was she really a heroine with a hundred thousand fortune?

Was that not fake or what!

But the moment he thought about how he only had just over a thousand fortune himself, he felt a bit depressed again.

At this moment, Chu Youmeng was sitting on the steps, with two bottles of mineral water beside her.

Her jade-like fingers lightly touched her already swollen ankle, and she couldn’t help sucking in a sharp breath.

‘Tss ~ It hurts!’

Tears began to well up in the girl’s eyes.

Just forcing herself to walk out of the bathroom just now had already been the best she could manage.

But in her current state, it was impossible for her to go back alone!

“What’s wrong? Twisted it by accident? How can you be so clumsy?”

After wandering around a bit, Mu An quickly found Chu Youmeng’s figure.

Mainly because of the continuous emotional messages guiding him, it wasn’t hard to find her.

“Um! The water… the water isn’t dirty, it’s still drinkable…”

Seeing that it was Mu An who came, Chu Youmeng instinctively shrank her neck in fear and stammered a reply.

She clutched the two bottles of water she’d bought tightly in her hands.

After all, she definitely didn’t want to be dragged off to his house to give birth to have many, many babies!

Just thinking about that kind of thing was super, super, super scary QwQ!

[Chu Youmeng is afraid of being taken back to your home to have babies, fear emotional fluctuation +15, congratulations, you have gained [Entry-level Skill · Medicine]!]

[Entry-level Skill · Medicine]: This is just a Entry-level skill.

You definitely can’t expect any heaven-defying effects like “reviving the dead and regrowing flesh on bones,” so don’t get your hopes too high!

But simple observation, listening, questioning, and pulse-taking are still doable!

Mu An was speechless and rubbed his forehead.

At a time like this, shouldn’t she be worrying about herself, instead of worrying about the water?

Although his instincts as a villain told him he should be ruthless toward heroines, treating them purely as reward-dropping tool-people to use against the protagonist.

Faced with this girl, however, he found he just couldn’t harden his heart!

Could it be that her overwhelming fortune was subtly influencing him?!

“How is it? Can you stand up and walk?”

Mu An asked.

The girl covered her ankle and shook her head.

When Mu An squatted down to check the condition of her ankle, she blocked him.

He could only pretend to be fierce and say, “Let me see how bad your injury is, or I’ll drag you off right now!”

This tactic worked like a charm!

Chu Youmeng immediately released her small hand.

Her eyes seemed to plead with Mu An not to impose such ‘torture’ on her!

Her eyes seemed to be pleading with Mu An not to subject her to such “torture”!

Her eyes were full of tears, and even with those ugly glasses in the way, that pear-blossom-in-the-rain look was still heart-stirring, making one feel an urge to ‘bully’ her for a lifetime!

Mu An suppressed the strange feelings in his heart.

[Using proficiency to upgrade [Entry-level Skill · Medicine]!]

[You used 11,100 proficiency, congratulations, you have gained [Advanced-level Skill · Medicine]!]

Even more professional knowledge flooded into his mind, instantly making Mu An comparable to an experienced traditional Chinese medicine practitioner with over ten years of experience.

After taking a simple look at the girl’s injury, he quickly furrowed his brows.

Chu Youmeng subconsciously drew her foot back a little.

She usually scrimped and saved, so of course her clothes and shoes were nothing good—worn, old, patched up here and there.

They were basically things she’d been using for many years; as long as they weren’t completely broken, she kept using them.

So, whenever she saw her classmates’ clean and pretty shoes, a faint feeling of envy would rise in her heart. But even more than that was… inferiority. A feeling of not fitting in with everyone else at all!