Chapter Forty-Four: Chen Ming Awakens as a Summoner

Yang Fan was certain there was something fishy going on. No matter how he looked at it, Chen Yu didn’t seem like the kind of man who was excessively driven by desire. But whenever the topic of women came up, it was as if someone had touched a nerve, especially considering the matter of those five men. The more Yang Fan thought about it, the more convinced he became that his suspicions were right.

So now, Yang Fan fixed his gaze on the handsome Chen Yu, his expression rather grim. Chen Yu’s face also grew colder. After glancing at the women, he turned and left without saying a word, for he knew Yang Fan would do exactly as he had said.

“Don’t be afraid. I won’t harm you,” Yang Fan shouted to the frightened crowd. “On the contrary, I will grant you great power so that you can survive in this apocalypse.” Then he asked his subordinate to take them upstairs.

“I hope they make it.”

“We’ve heard this kind of nonsense too many times.”

“Every night, the screams are still there. These people won’t last long.”

…

Yang Fan’s sharp hearing picked up the murmurs of the others, but his expression didn’t change as he walked away. The seventy women were led upstairs.

Elsewhere, Chen Yu, his face gloomy, entered a hidden chamber used for storing food. He moved aside a few sacks of rice, then said in a measured voice, “Big Brother, we’ve brought a wolf into our midst. That guy is completely uncontrollable. Looks like we’ll have to put our plan into action early and let the tigers and wolves tear each other apart.”

He stood in the dark storage room. Silence lingered in the secret compartment for a long time before a faint “Mm” drifted out.

The seventy women barely filled the room. Yang Fan shut the door behind them. Among them, the youngest was around fourteen or fifteen, the oldest twenty-seven or twenty-eight, all rather attractive. Liu Xue was still asleep, likely exhausted, completely unresponsive. As soon as Yang Fan closed the door, a portion of the women immediately fell to their knees.

“Please, don’t hurt us, please!”

“I’ll give myself to you, just spare my daughter—she’s only fourteen!”

“Don’t kill us, please, don’t kill us!”

Their desperate pleas came all at once, making Yang Fan’s head spin. In the end, he barked out a sharp command, instantly silencing the room.

He pointed at one woman at random. “What exactly has been happening here? Don’t worry, I won’t harm you. If I wanted to kill you, I could do it at any time.”

Their extreme distress unsettled Yang Fan even more, making him determined to get to the bottom of things. In his memory, on the third day, the Baisheng Supermarket had been overrun by mutated beasts, completely lost, with many perishing to those monsters. Those five had only appeared later. Could his rebirth have changed the course of events, triggering a butterfly effect, with the Tiger Gang occupying Baisheng and recruiting those five beasts while plotting something? If so, his own position was perilous.

Those five were ranked number one on the NC region’s list of villains. Tens of thousands from the forum had banded together to hunt them down, but not only had they failed, hundreds had been slaughtered by the five—a truly abhorrent crew.

Now that he had been reborn and had the power, Yang Fan was determined to kill them.

The women were cowed by Yang Fan’s aura and knelt in silence. The one he had pointed to looked about twenty-three or twenty-four, beautiful, and she lifted her lovely face to speak.

“It was like this: a few days ago, five men suddenly arrived here. The officers welcomed them. Then, a few of our sisters were called away. At first, we thought it was just to satisfy their desires, but that night, we heard terrible screams—it was the voices of those sisters. The next day, another group was taken, and again that night, there were horrific screams, as if they were being tortured. We never saw them again. So… please, don’t kill me. I can be your concubine, just don’t hurt me.”

As she spoke, she fell to her knees and burst into tears.

Unbeknownst to her, Yang Fan’s face had become icy cold. From her words, he knew for sure that the Tiger Gang had indeed taken in that notorious group of five.

Taking a deep breath, Yang Fan opened the glowing portal of the Ladies’ Scroll, letting the women inside. First, it was to shelter them; second, it would strengthen himself. But the sight of the mysterious portal terrified them even more, and their cries grew louder, convinced they were being sent to some hellish abyss.

Yang Fan understood their fear. Falling into the hands of those five would be a fate worse than death. So he awakened the God’s Crown, the golden point at his brow turning into a radiant, gentle crown atop his head.

“Go on in, don’t be afraid.”

The crown’s divinity, combined with the Cloak of the Deity, made Yang Fan appear as a youthful king, driving away their fear, despair, and helplessness, and filling them with hope and warmth. Such was the power of a god.

As if under a spell, the women’s terror faded. One by one, they stepped into the portal. When they awoke again, they found themselves in a paradise, surrounded by mountains and rivers, pure air, quaint cottages, and others training on the fields.

“Seventy people meet the requirements. All abilities increased by seventy points. Among them, three qualify to be trained as War Goddesses, and two as Support Goddesses.”

The voice of the Ladies’ Scroll sounded. Then came a long list: if he wished to train them all, the current food supplies would suffice, but it would leave them quite depleted. No need to go out for more, just a warning that training would be suspended if the food ran out.

Previously, Bai Su, Liu Qiaoqiao, and the giant python had received quotas. Of the remaining seven, Yang Fan gave five more women the training slots, leaving just two free spots—he would have to choose wisely.

Having settled the women, Yang Fan repeated the words he’d once told Liu Qiaoqiao and the others: “Do you want to live in humiliation, or protect yourselves and your loved ones?”

Unsurprisingly, none of them wished to live as slaves. Every one of them chose to undergo training.

…

Just then, from outside the portal, Chen Ming’s excited voice rang out.

“I did it, I did it—ha ha ha! I’ve changed class to a hidden profession, a Grand Summoner!”

“You’ve awakened and changed class?”

Yang Fan was stunned, then overjoyed. Chen Ming was known as the most unexpected summoner. He couldn’t wait to see what Chen Ming could summon.

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(What will he summon? Brothers, it’s up to your recommendation votes!!!)