Chapter 7 Underground Alliance

Li Ping'an just wanted to look more carefully to see what Kunpeng's figure looked like. But the familiar tiredness all over his body suddenly stole over him again.

"Holy crap!"

Li Ping'an tried desperately to resist it, but his body was completely out of control. His eyelids grew heavy again, and he instantly fell asleep heavily.

...

Early in the morning.

The soft sunlight shone on Li Ping'an's eyelids, and an indescribable comfort pervaded his body. Li Ping'an moaned comfortably.

But he also woke up suddenly.

"Holy crap!"

"What the hell is going on? Yesterday, I obviously had a big fight with Sanggou and the group and got some injuries. But why do I feel so comfortable and full of strength now? I even feel that I can smash through the wall with one punch!"

Swish.

Li Ping'an shook his fists in the air one after another. Every fist generated wind, and the air seemed to fluctuate.

Even there was no fist power tester, Li Ping'an could clearly feel that his fist power was definitely stronger than that of yesterday. Maybe it had exceeded 900 kg.

The feeling of comfort that pervaded Li Ping'an's whole body was almost comforting his every cell. It also made Li Ping'an realize that probably he had improved both his speed and neural response.

"That stone is really too weird."

While Li Ping'an was excited, he also felt scared faintly.

Even without a strong psychological quality, he always felt that there was something unreliable when he encountered such a sudden thing, although it showed a positive trend.

Li Ping'an came to the bathroom naked. He did not take a shower immediately. Instead, he stood in front of the mirror and carefully checked his body.

Sure enough, the minor injuries from the fight with the group led by Sanggou yesterday had disappeared. And on his chest, the familiar stone mark on the hideous scar was looming again.

The key was that there were still some marks of yellow-red viscous liquid on it.

Li Ping'an touched a little liquid, and after smelling it with his nose, he almost jumped up, "F**k! My Nutrition Drop!"

Li Ping'an ran back to the bedroom like the wind. After seeing the scene in front of him, his face immediately turned black.

Sure enough, the one-star Nutrition Drop and two-star Nutrition Drop that he had collected yesterday from Sanggou and others had disappeared. The bed was full of Nutrition Drop bottles.

It was mainly because both Li Ping'an's sheets and quilt were vintage old-fashioned embroidered, and the color of these were almost the same as the color of those one-star Nutrition Drop and two-star Nutrition Drop. Additionally, he was too excited when he got up just now. He was still a little confused, and his attention was all on himself. He had not noticed it at all.

Now, Li Ping'an looked at these empty Nutrition Drop bottles and then at the looming stone marks on his chest scar. He took a deep breath and also tried to force himself to calm down.

"What the hell is going on?"

"Last night, I definitely didn't open the Nutrition Drop bottles, but they..."

Li Ping'an continued to calm himself down and tried to enter a state of meditation.

However, he tried half an hour in succession and used all means. But he could not wake up the stone again. Instead, he felt unspeakable fatigue in his brain, and even the stone marks on his chest had disappeared.

"Could it be that the Kunpeng pattern provided me with power? Was it my previous enhancement that consumed a lot of energy of it, thus making it become smaller?"

Li Ping'an frowned for a long while and made a somewhat frightening assumption.

"When I fell asleep, was the power from Kunpeng pattern manipulating me? Did it obtain the energy from Nutrition Drop through the stone marks on my chest?"

Li Ping'an's eyes suddenly became sharp, and his handsome face contour was even more clear-cut.

Although there was no more evidence to confirm this assumption at this time, the more Li Ping'an thought about it, the more he felt it was possible.

It seemed that this mysterious stone appeared because of the five-star Nutrition Drop that Jiang Zhiyan gave him before.

As Li Ping'an grew up alone and lonely since childhood, he was a very inner-directed and well-organized person.

Even though technology was the mainstream at this time, there were still many things on the earth that could not be explained by scientific principles.

According to Li Ping'an's judgment, the evidence in front of him was almost enough to prove it!

"This is really so weird. But I do not think it is a bad thing to me. To testify whether it is the same to my suspicion, I should get some Nutrition Drop and try it again. It will all be clear."

Li Ping'an was not a hesitant person. He took a quick shower, briefly washed his body, and put on his sportswear. He put a stick of incense in front of the memorial tablet of his parents and went out quickly.

"Growl..."

But when Li Ping'an just got out, he suddenly heard a familiar sound from somewhere.

For a moment, a terrifying hunger suddenly came, and Li Ping'an found out that he had already been famished...

"D*mn it! I didn't eat last night. After all the fuss, I was so excited this morning. No wonder my stomach protested. Let me fill my stomach first."

Before, Li Ping’an would feel hungry every time he evolved. This had a corresponding scientific explanation. To put it simply, this was a manifestation of cell evolution.

The energy of the cell was enhanced, and naturally, his body needed to supplement more energy.

"Ping'an, my boy! Are you going to school?"

“Li, you are so good! Very promising!"

"Ping'an, come to play at my home another day. I, as your uncle, will buy you dinner. And come to teach my boy Hutou who was good for nothing when you are free..."

When Li Ping'an just came downstairs, many people greeted him.

Their attitudes to him obviously became much closer and more enthusiastic than before.

Li Ping'an responded to them with a smile one by one and hurried to his old stronghold at the gate of the community.

"Power. It’s all because of power."

"Those people haven't been so close to me before. They must have seen me beat the group led by Sanggou last night."

"Human beings are really realistic."

Although they were his old neighbors for many years, the pace of their life was too fast now. Everyone was busy with their livelihoods and was under a lot of pressure. Li Ping'an and these neighbors were just nodding acquaintances, and there were no deep friendships. Li Ping'an soon put them behind him.

"Uncle Huang, I want ten big stuffed buns, a bowl of porridge, and two more eggs."

In a breakfast shop at the gate, Li Ping'an smiled and talked to the shopkeeper Uncle Huang.

Li Ping'an had eaten breakfast at this shop every day in these years, and he had been already very familiar with him.

"Okay!"

"Ha-ha! Ping'an, boy, your appetite has grown again! Oh! I heard that you beat the terror Sanggou last night. Is that true?"

Uncle Huang asked Li Ping'an with a smile while preparing the food for him.

Li Ping'an was also a little speechless.

This kind of "gossip" was spread faster than the wind in the community.

However, Li Ping'an totally understood this kind of this thing. After all, a common community like here was too boring in ordinary times, and residents who lived here were under great pressure. There was almost no other pastime normally.

Not to mention the magnificent feat of the big guy Sanggou whom Li Ping'an beat, even if a couple’s quarrel would become a topic for people to talk about.

It was no wonder that many teachers were saying, "It is hard for a poor family to have a great child."

Kids who grew up in this environment had been almost shackled since childhood, so how could they break free easily?

If Li Ping'an's parents were also like this, it might also be hard for him to be so ambitious. Because all ambitions were too easy to be obliterated in trivial things.

Finished chatting with Uncle Huang, Li Ping'an tucked into his meal.

According to what Li Ping'an knew, the wealthy people usually took the three-star or above Nutrition Drop to recover when this state of hunger occurred after enhancement.

Three-star Nutrition Drop was the highest level. The effect of it was powerful, and it would maintain the vitality of the cells in the body to the greatest extent after enhancement, so it had the best recovery effect.

But three-star Nutrition Drop was too expensive.

Even the most ordinary of it would cost over a million. How could a poor guy like Li Ping'an afford it?

He only had taken two bottles of three-star Nutrition Drop because of the two rewards from school.

After filling his belly, Li Ping'an wanted to go to the school's training room to train for a while first before going to class. For so many years, he had always been the first one to arrive here.

But soon, Li Ping'an gave up this idea.

"In my current state, even if I go to the training room to train, it will not have much effect. What I need more now is Nutrition Drop."

"Liu Qingyun was forced to yield last night. He will not let it go! "

"That good-looking young man looks like a human, but his heart is actually more venomous than a snake! I remember that last year, a very powerful senior was ruined by Liu Qingyun's trick, and his knees were kicked to pieces by Liu Qingyun. Not to mention to take the college entrance examination, he was completely disabled."

"I offended him completely this time. How could he not get back at me?"

"I should go to the Underground Alliance first."

"I have 2 million yuan now. I should buy some one-star and two-star Nutrition Drop first to test what is going on with that weird stone!"

"Also, I have to find a place where no one is there to test my power."

...

Whoosh!

A dozen miles away from Lanyuan Community, at a barren beach, a figure in blue sportswear burst out hundreds of meters like a beam of blue light in one swift moment, and the air seemed to be violently shaking.

"The speed is 36.89m/s, and the fist power is 928kg. The neural response is junior excellent."

"Ha-ha."

"As expected, I have enhanced a lot. This had already been the strength that absolutely reaches the Awakening Stage! With my current state, I can definitely beat Liu Qingyun into a pig's head!"

"However, Liu Qingyun is a rat-face. Maybe he hides deeper than what Jiang Zhiyan said. Moreover, based on his family background, he definitely has high-end martial tools. If I am overconfident, I would be too stupid."

"Let me take my chance at the Underground Alliance Mall first. I have not thanked Ms. Hong for what happened yesterday."

Thinking about it, Li Ping'an took out the communicator and dialed the number of Mrs. Xu, the headteacher. He asked her for leave and hurried to the Underground Alliance Mall at the same time.

As an absolute top student in school, Li Ping'an not only had first-class physical fitness but also had a high-ranked academic performance which was among the top 100 in the grade.

Mrs. Xu had been Li Ping'an's headteacher for over two years, she naturally knew about Li Ping'an's situation. About Li Ping'an's request, she approved soon. She did not say anything else but enjoined Li Ping'an to be careful and not to try too hard. After all, Li Ping'an was young. He still had many chances in the future.

If the treatment like this was seen by other students in the class, they were afraid to vomit blood with envy and jealousy.

As known by all, Mrs. Xu was in menopause, and she was totally severe. Not to mention asking for leave, even if whispered to each other in class, students would definitely incur her rage.

After thanking Mrs. Xu, Li Ping'an was like a light and cheerful fish in this bustling metropolis. In less than ten minutes, he had arrived at the Underground Alliance Mall, which was located in the most prosperous business district of Shibei District.

...

The so-called Underground Alliance was actually a very general name.

To put it simply, it was a prosperous business district. But it was a prosperous business district located in the intersection area of many plutocrats' industries.

A large number of goods and materials were exchanged and flowed here. Also, a lot of things and transactions couldn’t be displayed on the table. So the Underground Alliance was born at the right time.

It was rumored that every big city had Underground Alliance, and even in some super metropolises, these Underground Alliances had international giant-level plutocrats' supports.

It was a pity that Li Ping'an had never been out of Lanhai City since he grew up. He had never seen the prosperous scenery of other super metropolises.

But Li Ping'an knew that the Jiang Group behind Jiang Zhiyan had a fairly great right to speak in the Underground Alliance of Lanhai City.

"Hey, Li, you look so energetic today!"

"Li, you look so handsome today. Come to take assignment again?"

"Ah! Li, don't you go to school today? Come to my shop for tea when you are free."

Like how he was treated in the Lanyuan Community, everyone who knew Li Ping'an greeted him very eagerly.

Obviously, what happened last night about the group led by Sanggou was no longer a secret here.

Li Ping'an had adapted to this. He smiled, exchanged a few words with them, and went directly to the headquarters of Underground Alliance, a landmark and well-known CBD business district building in Lanhai City.

In the bathroom on the first floor, he simply tidied up his clothes, took another deep breath, and adjusted himself to the best state. Then Li Ping'an went straight to the office of Ms. Hong on the 58th floor.

Li Ping'an also had a little self-motive in seeking Ms. Hong first.

On the one hand, he wanted to show his gratitude to Ms. Hong. On the other hand, Li Ping'an wanted to get a special offer or a discounted price to get more Nutrition Drop by Ms. Hong's relationships.

The 1.98 million in his pocket seemed to be a lot. But in the market where Nutrition Drop could easily be sold for one million yuan, ten million yuan or even one hundred million yuan, his money was far from enough.