The rooftop of the devastated Carrefour supermarket held two figures: Shadow Blade Wang Tong and 'Mighty Bear' Li Kan.

"Brother Wang, I can't believe we took a hit this time," Li Kan rumbled, his deep voice incredibly resonant. "That Iron Armored Dragon just laid its eggs. Some expert must have struck stealthily while you and I were battling it, snatching the dragon egg, which is why the Iron Armored Dragon went berserk chasing after them!"

"Mmm, the supermarket interior is empty, nothing inside," Wang Tong nodded, having already checked upon their arrival.

As for those Warlord-level monster hordes—they possessed the capability to slay Initial Stage War Gods and injure Medium Stage War Gods.

But! Faced with Wang Tong, a 'High Stage War God,' the Warlord-level monster horde could only collapse. After routing the Warlord monster squad, Wang Tong and Li Kan had searched the supermarket thoroughly.

"This person is truly... shameless!" Li Kan muttered darkly.

Shadow Blade Wang Tong chuckled. "A bit shameless, yes! To escape unharmed under the siege of a Warlord-level monster horde, and even manage to spirit away the dragon egg. This level of strength... is at least a Medium Stage War God! A Mid-level War God has plenty of ways to earn money; why resort to stealing this dragon egg?"

Dragon eggs are valuable, but only relatively speaking! For instance, one dragon egg pales in comparison to a set of XX combat uniforms.

If this dragon egg were to hatch, it would only be a 'juvenile Iron Armored Dragon,' and even when fully grown, an Iron Armored Dragon generally caps out at the Initial Lord level. Only through repeated battles and transformations can they gradually advance... It’s not a given that offspring will surpass their parents.

Look at the children of the world’s foremost expert, 'Hong'; striving to reach 'Hong's' level is a near-impossible feat.

A mature, ordinary Iron Armored Dragon, an Initial Lord, is valued around 3 billion.

An unhatched egg, due to its rarity, is actually more expensive than a mature Iron Armored Dragon, though its price is estimated to be around 5.3 billion Huaxia coins. While billions are a lot, for a 'Medium Stage War God,' they could easily earn that by hunting Monster Lords on their own; there's no need to leech off others.

So Wang Tong and Li Kan weren't angry, just remarking on the person's audacity! "A Medium Stage War God comes to take advantage of us," Li Kan shook his head.

"Forget it. The Iron Armored Dragon is severely wounded, yet it's running at its absolute limit! Its injuries must be worse now," Wang Tong smiled. "Our goal is to kill this High Lord-level Iron Armored Dragon; we mustn't let it escape."

"Let's go..."

Li Kan nodded in agreement.

Initial Lord-level monsters fetch prices between 500 million and 3.9 billion. After all, among Initial Lords, prices vary significantly due to differences in species and inherent strength. The Iron Armored Dragon falls at 3.9 billion.

Medium Lord-level monsters range from 1.5 billion to 9 billion.

High Lord-level monsters are priced between 5.3 billion and 20 billion.

The vast majority of Lord-level monsters fall within these ranges, though the world always has exceptions; those select few exceptions scarcely need mentioning.

This High Lord-level Iron Armored Dragon is worth about 18 billion. Unfortunately, across the entire world—aside from beings who have transcended the War God level—among the already extremely rare High Stage War Gods, only a small subset of them possess the strength required to hunt an Iron Armored Dragon.

At the absolute periphery of City No. 003, on the eighth floor of an eight-story residential building, the four members of the Thunder Squad were situated.

Although Wang Tong and Li Kan had previously told them to leave the city and head for the highway for maximum safety, the Thunder Squad members were intensely curious about the impending battle between the two War Gods and the 'High Lord' Iron Armored Dragon. They ultimately decided to hide in the outermost edge of the city, ready to flee the instant things turned sour.

"Rumble~~" Within a radius of tens of miles across the entire suburban area, the roars of thousands of monsters echoed through the sky.

"That Iron Armored Dragon has gone mad, gathering the entire horde; the entire swarm is rioting," the elder surnamed Liu couldn't help but chuckle. "Mr. Wang is indeed formidable; he's beaten the Iron Armored Dragon to this extent."

The rooftop of the devastated Carrefour supermarket held two figures: Shadow Blade Wang Tong and 'Mighty Bear' Li Kan.

"Brother Wang, I can't believe we took a hit this time," Li Kan rumbled, his deep voice incredibly resonant. "That Iron Armored Dragon just laid its eggs. Some expert must have struck stealthily while you and I were battling it, snatching the dragon egg, which is why the Iron Armored Dragon went berserk chasing after them!"

"Mmm, the supermarket interior is empty, nothing inside," Wang Tong nodded, having already checked upon their arrival.

As for those Warlord-level monster hordes—they possessed the capability to slay Initial Stage War Gods and injure Medium Stage War Gods.

But! Faced with Wang Tong, a 'High Stage War God,' the Warlord-level monster horde could only collapse. After routing the Warlord monster squad, Wang Tong and Li Kan had searched the supermarket thoroughly.

"This person is truly... shameless!" Li Kan muttered darkly.

Shadow Blade Wang Tong chuckled. "A bit shameless, yes! To escape unharmed under the siege of a Warlord-level monster horde, and even manage to spirit away the dragon egg. This level of strength... is at least a Medium Stage War God! A Mid-level War God has plenty of ways to earn money; why resort to stealing this dragon egg?"

Dragon eggs are valuable, but only relatively speaking! For instance, one dragon egg pales in comparison to a set of XX combat uniforms.

If this dragon egg were to hatch, it would only be a 'juvenile Iron Armored Dragon,' and even when fully grown, an Iron Armored Dragon generally caps out at the Initial Lord level. Only through repeated battles and transformations can they gradually advance... It’s not a given that offspring will surpass their parents.

Look at the children of the world’s foremost expert, 'Hong'; striving to reach 'Hong's' level is a near-impossible feat.

A mature, ordinary Iron Armored Dragon, an Initial Lord, is valued around 3 billion.

An unhatched egg, due to its rarity, is actually more expensive than a mature Iron Armored Dragon, though its price is estimated to be around 5.3 billion Huaxia coins. While billions are a lot, for a 'Medium Stage War God,' they could easily earn that by hunting Monster Lords on their own; there's no need to leech off others.

So Wang Tong and Li Kan weren't angry, just remarking on the person's audacity! "A Medium Stage War God comes to take advantage of us," Li Kan shook his head.

"Forget it. The Iron Armored Dragon is severely wounded, yet it's running at its absolute limit! Its injuries must be worse now," Wang Tong smiled. "Our goal is to kill this High Lord-level Iron Armored Dragon; we mustn't let it escape."

"Let's go..."

Li Kan nodded in agreement.

Initial Lord-level monsters fetch prices between 500 million and 3.9 billion. After all, among Initial Lords, prices vary significantly due to differences in species and inherent strength. The Iron Armored Dragon falls at 3.9 billion.

Medium Lord-level monsters range from 1.5 billion to 9 billion.

High Lord-level monsters are priced between 5.3 billion and 20 billion.

The vast majority of Lord-level monsters fall within these ranges, though the world always has exceptions; those select few exceptions scarcely need mentioning.

This High Lord-level Iron Armored Dragon is worth about 18 billion. Unfortunately, across the entire world—aside from beings who have transcended the War God level—among the already extremely rare High Stage War Gods, only a small subset of them possess the strength required to hunt an Iron Armored Dragon.

At the absolute periphery of City No. 003, on the eighth floor of an eight-story residential building, the four members of the Thunder Squad were situated.

Although Wang Tong and Li Kan had previously told them to leave the city and head for the highway for maximum safety, the Thunder Squad members were intensely curious about the impending battle between the two War Gods and the 'High Lord' Iron Armored Dragon. They ultimately decided to hide in the outermost edge of the city, ready to flee the instant things turned sour.

"Rumble~~" Within a radius of tens of miles across the entire suburban area, the roars of thousands of monsters echoed through the sky.

"That Iron Armored Dragon has gone mad, gathering the entire horde; the entire swarm is rioting," the elder surnamed Liu couldn't help but chuckle. "Mr. Wang is indeed formidable; he's beaten the Iron Armored Dragon to this extent."

"Indeed, 'Shadow Blade' lives up to his name," Captain Pan Ya of the Tiger Tooth Squad nodded repeatedly.

Even though they were on the furthest edge and completely unaware of what was happening tens of miles away, they could naturally form numerous conjectures based on the commotion they heard.

"A monster riot—I wonder what that looks like," the mixed-race youth Li Wei’s eyes lit up.

"Young Master, with the beast hordes rioting now, even though they are still a dozen miles away, just to be safe, we should depart immediately. After all, we can't hear any other sounds anyway," the elder surnamed Liu said with a smile. The burly white man, Kalong, also looked toward the young master. Mixed-race youth Li Wei nodded: "Alright, let's leave. Back to the base city."

Immediately, the four members of the Thunder Squad left the residential building and headed straight for a nearby expressway, departing City No. 008.

Luo Feng was walking through the underground garage of that residential complex.

The underground garage covered a vast area. What was most peculiar was that the back doors of the basements of the complex’s individual villas were connected directly to the underground garage... This way, the villa owners could drive away their cars simply by going through the back door of their own basements into the garage.

This design was also made with the owners' convenience in mind.

"Haha, brilliant! They actually connect to the individual villas," Luo Feng, carrying his backpack, sent a flying blade slicing through a door, swiftly entering the basement of one of the townhouses.

This basement was partitioned into a pool room, an audiovisual room, a wine cellar, and more.

"They know how to enjoy life," Luo Feng smiled, then quickly ascended the stairs to the first floor of the villa, carefully hiding beside the northern window in the living room to observe the outside.

Sure enough, about a hundred meters away, he could see a deep cyan dragon tail swaying slightly. The deep cyan scales on the tail shimmered with a chilling luster under the winter sun. As for the rest of the Iron Armored Dragon's body, it was blocked by the villa immediately behind it.

"This Iron Armored Dragon is quite clever too. It probably thinks I’m still hiding somewhere in the complex, observing closely," Luo Feng smiled, quickly retreating up the stairs to the third floor of the villa, hunching over so the Iron Armored Dragon couldn't see him through the window... In fact, decades had passed, and these villa windows were long since filthy.

The third floor of the villa, the front bedroom.

Luo Feng peered carefully out the bedroom window, searching for the entrance to the subway station he had glimpsed accidentally while flying earlier.

"Tsk, tsk, it’s right there!" Luo Feng quickly spotted one of the entrances to the subway station just outside the complex.

Based on the overall layout of the subway garage and the topography of the villas...

Luo Feng calculated the shortest route from underground to the subway station! "That's the plan!"

Luo Feng cautiously descended the stairs and went back through the basement to the underground garage. Following his memory, he swiftly ran to a corner of the underground garage! "From here, just dig straight ahead; it’ll be less than thirty meters to reach inside the subway station." Although the distance was considerable, this was the closest viable route.

"How to drill underground?"

Luo Feng glanced around. There were several dusty, discarded cars in the underground garage.

"Got it!" Luo Feng smiled slightly, a thought crossing his mind.

Instantly, a flying blade shot out, silently slicing the sheet metal of the front hoods off two cars. Then, under the control of his mental energy, the two large pieces of metal curled up, forming a cone shape like an ice cream cone! Luo Feng himself lay directly inside this cone-shaped metal shell.

"Go!"

Under mental energy control, the flying blade first ground a large hole in the hard concrete wall of the underground garage, and then this 'cone-shaped metal shell' pierced straight through, burrowing into the soil! Hissing sound— The subway station, long covered in dust, suddenly had an area about half a meter wide burst open with a thump. Rocks and mud tumbled down as a cone-shaped steel tip stabbed out first. A figure then rolled out onto the ground, sheltered within the steel cone.

"This method of drilling, while not as fast as monsters possessing innate drilling abilities, is still quite swift for a human martial artist," Luo Feng’s body was relatively clean.

The subway station had been abandoned for a long time.

Luo Feng examined the subway map, wiping dust off the glass surface of the map, studying it closely: "Hmm, this track leads to Kunshan City? Which city is Kunshan City?" Modern people had largely forgotten the city names from before the Great Nirvana Era.

Luo Feng only remembered major, famous cities like the former Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou.

Kunshan? Who knew where that was, but one thing was certain—Kunshan City was not part of the Shanghai municipality.

"Right, this line it is." Luo Feng walked to the subway tunnel previously used for train passage and jumped into it, then swiftly moved in the direction of 'Kunshan' along the subway route.

There were indeed some monsters in this subway tunnel. As Luo Feng proceeded, he encountered quite a few, mostly weak Soldier-level monsters, but he also ran into three Initial Warlord-level monsters and even one Medium Warlord-level monster. These were all relatively small in size.

Naturally, they were all eliminated under the control of the flying blade guided by mental energy.

The subway tunnel wasn't entirely underground; some sections ran above ground. This particular stretch of the former Shanghai-to-Kunshan subway line was above surface level.

"I've traveled about one hundred miles; I must be outside the boundaries of City No. 003 by now," Luo Feng checked the positioning system on his communication watch. Indeed, he was already about fifty miles away from Shanghai City.

"I should get to the highway and head back to the base city... Who knows what kind of monsters might pop out of this subway tunnel. Besides, I have no desire to visit Kunshan City; who knows what kind of place that is," Luo Feng was smiling broadly, in very high spirits. How could he not be? After all, he had escaped Shanghai City.

Immediately, Luo Feng, smiling, hefted the large backpack containing the dragon egg and the combat uniform, and headed toward the highway direction indicated on his communication watch.

"Time to go home!"