Chapter 22 - 21: Posting Again, [Purifying Heart Spell]!

Chapter 22: Chapter 21: Posting Again, [Purifying Heart Spell]!

Twenty minutes later, Liu Zimo met Lin Hongying at a cafe near the airport. He didn’t beat around the bush and cut straight to the chase.

"Miss Lin, my Time is limited, and I won’t be staying in Shangjing for long, so I can only give you one day’s Time to consider. If you agree, we can sign the contract immediately, and all the benefits I promised will be fulfilled right away!" He still had several cities to fly to and couldn’t afford to waste too much Time here.

Lin Hongying, however, looked with extreme surprise at the young man who had suddenly appeared and immediately offered to recruit her and Yang Sisi.

Lin Hongying repeated the conditions Liu Zimo had just laid out. She looked at him with a face full of wariness and suspicion, asking, "A monthly salary of thirty thousand, full insurance, free room and board, and a year-end bonus of no less than three months’ salary?

"And our job is to spend ten million within a month’s Time, with full discretion over what we buy?

"More importantly, if we choose to quit our jobs today and return to Luozhou with you, we’ll immediately receive a relocation fee of three hundred thousand?

"Sir, are you sure you’re not joking with me? It’s not that I’m self-deprecating or paranoid, but I know what I bring to the table. Offering such generous terms—do you have some ulterior motives regarding me or Sisi?"

Liu Zimo didn’t bother defending himself and said directly, "Miss Lin, let’s just assume I do have ulterior motives regarding you two.

"In short, are you satisfied with the terms I’ve offered?

"If not, we can negotiate. You can state your demands now, though I don’t guarantee I’ll agree to them!"

Lin Hongying purred, rolling her eyes at him reproachfully. "Mr. Liu, you’re being very impolite!

"However, with such tempting conditions, I personally have no problem. But I can’t speak for Sisi. She has never had a boyfriend and is very pure-hearted. It’s unlikely she’ll agree to be someone’s San or side piece..."

Sure enough, this woman was no saint. At the very least, she didn’t seem too resistant to the idea of selling her body or becoming someone’s San. Liu Zimo was already used to this. In the Post-Apocalypse, he had seen countless easy women like Lin Hongying. Sometimes, merely revealing the strength of a Martial Artist or paying a few Federation Coins was enough to have many such women offer themselves to his bed. He didn’t mind these money-grubbing women, as long as they were obedient.

Liu Zimo made no effort to hide his interest in Yang Sisi. "How you handle it is your business. Coax her or deceive her, as long as Miss Sisi is willing to return to Luozhou with me, everything will be fine.

"You don’t need to worry about me being a scammer. Once the contract is signed, the promised three hundred thousand relocation fee will instantly be transferred to your accounts.

"Your subsequent salaries and job duties will also match the contract. No one will restrict your personal freedom, and there will absolutely be no illegal trades!

"Here is my number. Before dark, I hope to get a definite answer from Miss Lin!"

With that, Liu Zimo casually took out a business card he had just printed yesterday and placed it gently on the table in front of Lin Hongying. He stood up and left without the slightest hesitation.

He could tell that Lin Hongying was already completely tempted. Next, he only needed to wait for her to convince Yang Sisi. Since they were best friends, he believed she would definitely find a way to handle Yang Sisi. As long as they went to Luozhou, the two girls would realize that he, as their boss, wasn’t tricking them. He was hiring them because he genuinely had work for them to do, not to make them anyone’s San.

Lin Hongying muttered softly to herself, licking her lips as she picked up the business card Liu Zimo had left on the table. "What is this! No patience or romance at all. A total blockhead!

"However, he’s quite handsome, young, and rich. If I really end up with him, it seems like a pretty good choice!"

After leaving the cafe, Liu Zimo put on a slight disguise and found a nearby internet cafe. Just like last time, he rented a private room to mask his tracks and once again posted the thread about the impending Post-Apocalypse on the same forum.

This time, he left a Spirit Secret Technique called the Purifying Heart Spell at the end of the post.

He stated explicitly, "At the beginning of the Demon Calamity, the Illusion Demons pose the greatest threat. They can bewitch minds, drive people mad, and kill formlessly. This Purifying Heart Spell can awaken people from illusions at critical moments."

Upload complete, traces cleared, he left decisively.

If nothing unexpected happened, the individuals or factions constantly monitoring this account would soon shift their attention from Luozhou to Shangjing. And by the time they turned their investigative focus to Shangjing, Liu Zimo would have quietly headed to the next city. This was a classic misdirection—an endless game of cat and mouse where they would never cross paths.

As long as he could stall these people for a month’s Time, everything would be fine, and there would be no more trouble.

One month later, all electronic devices would be paralyzed and scrapped, beyond any possibility of repair. All traces he left on the internet would vanish into thin air along with them. Moreover, by that time, the Demon Calamity would have descended, and the world would be in turmoil. All factions would be too busy fending for themselves to have the energy or means to investigate an unidentified, mysterious keyboard warrior.

Leaving the internet cafe, Liu Zimo changed clothes and disguised himself once more. After avoiding several surveillance cameras along the way, he headed straight for the subway station.

Ever since discovering Yang Sisi, a "wild" Grandmaster seed, a faint trace of hope had sprouted in Liu Zimo’s heart. If possible, he desperately hoped that in the month before the Demon Calamity arrived, he would have the chance to find more promising talents like Yang Sisi—people who possessed the potential of a Grandmaster or even a Martial Saint but had failed to grow in his previous life during the Post-Apocalypse. Therefore, he didn’t hail a taxi but chose the highly trafficked subway station instead. He did this to see more people and increase his chances of encountering a Martial Dao genius.

A few minutes later.

Inside the subway station, it was bustling with surging crowds. Liu Zimo mingled in the sea of people and looked around, only to be met with a vast expanse of white. Although there were many people, they were all Ordinary people with a white Shadow Lock hovering above their heads. Here, let alone gold, red, or even purple lights, even the lower-tier green lights were incredibly rare to spot.

Liu Zimo sighed softly, shaking his head. "As expected, geniuses aren’t that easy to come by. I was being a bit too optimistic.

"Trying to find a few Martial Dao geniuses with the potential to become a Grandmaster or Martial Saint among billions of people in just a short month’s Time is undoubtedly like finding a needle in a haystack. It’s simply unrealistic!"

He decided that it was safest to focus his efforts on the known future Martial Saints and Grandmasters first. As for the others, he would just have to rely on luck and leave it to fate.

Fortunately, he had already released the Guiding Breathing Method and the Five Animals Fist ahead of Time, causing quite a stir on the internet. Those who, like Lou Yuchen, inherently possessed extremely high Martial Dao talent would surely achieve something before the disaster as long as they started practicing early, thereby increasing their survivability in the early stages of the Post-Apocalypse.

He only hoped that in the future Post-Apocalypse, the Human Race would produce a few more Martial Saints and Grandmasters to lead the entire Federation Human Race in extinguishing the source of the disaster and thoroughly eliminating the threat of the Demon Calamity!