Chen Wan and her group were assigned to the dirtiest and most chaotic Zone, so encountering thugs like the ones in front of them was quite common.
Such incidents happened daily.
Some survivors even gave all their points to Er Hu and his gang just to get inside, only to find life inside was worse than death, being exploited by various thugs.
This was why Liu Zi had previously warned Chen Wan against entering the base.
Already in a bad mood, Chen Wan coldly stared at Er Hu, let out a cold laugh, and threw all the backpacks she was carrying onto the ground.
Seeing Chen Wan's defiance, Er Hu laughed and turned to his buddies, "Damn, this chick's got some fire. I like it."
"Bro, she's an Alpha," one of Er Hu's lackeys reminded him.
"Even better. Your bro's slept with plenty of female alphas. Besides, conquering your own kind is more thrilling. It doesn't matter to me who I sleep with. Looks like I need to teach these chicks a lesson, or I'll lose face at the gate," Er Hu laughed, and his eight or nine buddies laughed along, blocking the people coming out of the security checkpoint behind Chen Wan and her group.
"Don't rush. We'll collect protection fees one team at a time. Once we're done with these girls, it'll be your turn. Just wait," Er Hu said, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth, likely due to a lack of toothpaste.
His words disgusted Chen Wan, worsening her mood.
While Er Hu was still boasting to his men, Chen Wan had already made her move.
With a loud "bang," she kicked Er Hu, sending him flying ten meters back before he hit the ground.
It was unclear if he broke a bone or suffered internal bleeding, but he coughed up blood and couldn't even crawl.
The noisy crowd fell silent instantly.
Everything happened so fast that many couldn't believe it.
Seeing Chen Wan take action, Qin Ke also joined in, flipping a male Alpha over her shoulder and locking his neck with her arms until he lost the strength to struggle.
Er Hu's remaining seven buddies panicked.
They usually relied on their numbers to bully others, wielding wooden sticks since carrying knives was prohibited in the base.
The security in Zones C and D was already poor, and if someone had a knife, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The seven men charged at Chen Wan and her group.
Qin Ke dodged an incoming attack, sprinted forward, and leapt into the air, bringing her elbow down hard against a man's jaw.
Seizing the opening, she unleashed a flurry of punches, battering his face until it was bloodied and he dropped his stick.
Without hesitation, Qin Ke snatched it up and struck him down with a final, decisive blow to the head.
Meanwhile, Chen Wan kicked two men aside and moved to engage the remaining three.
What followed was less a fight and more a one-sided beating.
She held back, relying only on her strength while deliberately suppressing her speed, using barely seventy to eighty percent of her full power.
Even so, the three men stood no chance.
One of them, dressed in beach shorts, swung his stick at her face. Chen Wan caught his wrist mid-swing and applied a slight twist, bending it at an unnatural angle. With a cry of pain, he dropped the stick, clutching his broken wrist.
In one smooth motion, Chen Wan seized the weapon, sidestepped another attack from a man in a black shirt, and brought the stick crashing into the beach-shorts man's face, leaving it bloodied and collapsed.
When she turned her attention to the man in black, he faltered. Seeing his companions defeated, he turned and ran.
Chen Wan didn't give him the chance.
She chased him down in a few strides and, with a sharp swing, brought the stick down on the back of his head. He crumpled instantly, unable to escape.
At the same time, Qin Ke subdued the last man, locking a stick around his throat and tightening it until he went still.
In less than ten minutes, the entire situation had been reversed.
Only those who had stood in line with Chen Wan's group fully understood what had happened.
Everyone else could only stare in stunned silence, unable to comprehend how the local thugs—who had been extorting points just moments ago—had been defeated so quickly.
Even the distant soldiers were shaken.
"Those two women are something else," one soldier murmured. "We might not stand a chance against them."
"Yeah," another replied. "But I've never liked Er Hu. He bullies everyone—men and women alike. This time, he picked the wrong people. Honestly, if I weren't in uniform, I'd have taken him down myself."
Chen Wan tossed aside the broken stick, wiped the blood from her face, and looked at the nine men sprawled on the ground—her expression unchanged.
She coldly scanned the onlookers and said, "Anyone else want to die? Come at me together. I'm not in the mood to deal with you lot one by one today."
The other thugs, who had been complaining about Er Hu taking the lead, fell silent.
With Er Hu's nine men down, none of them dared to make a sound.
Going out now would be like collecting paper money for the dead.
Chen Wan looked around.
The silence was deafening.
She casually pointed at a skinny guy with red hair, who was so scared he fell to his knees in front of her.
"Sister, I didn't say a word. Please spare me. Don't kill me. I beg you," he pleaded, pulling out a stack of point vouchers from his pocket and placing them in front of her, tears almost streaming down his face.
He had witnessed Chen Wan's skills firsthand, and her companion was equally formidable.
They were clearly professionally trained, unlike the thugs who only bullied the weak.
Chen Wan sneered, "Look at you. I just wanted to know how to get to Tent 1267 in D Zone."
"Oh? I know the way. Sister, I'll take you there," the red-haired guy said, relieved, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
His burly buddies were too scared to speak.
Chen Wan glared at him, "Lead the way. Or do I have to invite you?"
"No need, no need. Sisters, follow me. I'll show you the way," the red-haired guy said, his heart aching for the points he left on the ground.
Seeing Chen Wan had no intention of taking them, he didn't dare pick them up, fearing she'd turn them into paper money for the dead.
He signaled to a nearby buddy, who nodded in understanding, and then hurriedly led Chen Wan and her group through the tents.
The people they passed clearly recognized him and made way, some even greeting him obsequiously.
"Bo, you're lucky again. Where'd you find these girls? There's even an Omega among them," a man with a cigarette greeted the red-haired guy, unaware of what had just happened at the base gate.
The red-haired guy named Sun Bo was so scared when he heard the man say that, his legs went weak, fearing he might meet the King of Hell the next second.
He raised his hand and slapped the man holding the cigarette hard: "Are you blind? These sisters are not someone you can offend. You'd better find out how Er Hu and the others died. If you want to die, don't drag me with you."
The man was stunned by the slap from the red-haired guy and quickly bowed and apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, big sister. I didn't know who you were. Look at the mess I've caused. I won't dare next time, really won't dare."
Chen Wan didn't even spare a glance at the man; instead, she looked coldly at the red-haired guy: "Are you done talking? When can we leave?"
The red-haired guy broke out in a cold sweat immediately, "We'll leave right now, right now."
His respectful demeanor made the man holding the cigarette even more shocked.
After walking for about fifteen minutes, the red-haired guy finally led Chen Wan and the others to tent number 1267 in area D.
Chen Wan thought for a moment and asked, "There are all sorts of people mixed here. What if someone enters their susceptible period?"
"Sis, each area has special rooms for the susceptible period. If someone is about to enter or suddenly has their susceptible period, they can go to the nearby isolation point for their susceptible period. Many people came in teams and don't want to be separated."
"Initially, the base divided tents by gender, but since no one listened and moved around freely, they eventually stopped dividing by gender." The red-haired guy spoke respectfully, as if Chen Wan were really his sister.
Chen Wan nodded, thinking that in such an environment, everyone would definitely want to stick together with their own people, not wanting to be separated.
While they were talking, the red-haired guy had already led Chen Wan and the others to the entrance of tent number 1267 in area D.
The curtain at the entrance was lifted, and the smell coming from the tents on both sides almost made Chen Wan gag.
In the middle of summer, with 30 people crammed into one tent, you can imagine the smell!