Chapter 60 Slippers Come in Very Handy

Lu Li was completely speechless. They really were repeat offenders, acting so self-righteous about it.

Seeing Liu Zhen stubbornly trying to stand straight against the heavy energetic pressure exerted by Shen Bing and Luo Mu, he shouted, "Brothers, get them!"

He turned his head to look, only to find his men either collapsed or unconscious behind him, leaving him entirely alone to face formidable enemies. Liu Zhen's courage instantly vanished.

As a tier-four ability user facing a tier-seven and a tier-six, he had zero chance of winning... The defense line in his mind slowly crumbled.

Then, associating this with Shen Bing—the Ice Sculpture Madman, the Ice Sculpture Creator, the Master of Ice, and various other titles—Liu Zhen felt his legs turn to jelly...

With a loud thud, Liu Zhen dropped to his knees, clutching his head in his hands, and begged for mercy with a trembling voice, "Ancestor, I was blinded by greed..."

As he spoke, he shuffled forward on his knees and lunged to grab Shen Bing's thigh.

Shen Bing kicked him away, sending him flying straight toward Lu Li, and said coldly, "Crying out to me is useless."

Liu Zhen understood. So even someone as powerful as Shen Bing had to bow down to this young girl?

What kind of magic did she possess? Too panicked to think further, Liu Zhen scrambled forward to grab Lu Li's thigh.

Begging for mercy came first; as long as the green mountains remained, there was no need to worry about firewood.

Lu Li dodged with lightning speed and sneered, "I don't wish to shorten my lifespan."

Ignoring her, Liu Zhen continued shuffling on his knees to chase after Lu Li, but just as he was about to reach her thigh, he was kicked away again.

Lu Li sternly demanded, "What about the things you looted? Hand them over!"

She found them truly exasperating. Weren't they acting all tough when they smashed her convenience store? Why were they acting like cowards now?

Though Liu Zhen felt a deep pang of reluctance, the pressure bearing down on him grew heavier, threatening to crush him into dust.

With no other choice, he brought out the shelves from his spatial storage. He had originally intended to keep the loot for himself, which was why he hadn't displayed it during their celebration.

The merchandise on the shelves remained completely untouched. Seeing that their boss had given in, the other thugs hurriedly surrendered their own shares of the plunder.

Shen Bing collected everything into his spatial storage one by one. This was all money, after all; not a single piece could be left behind.

Lu Li looked around, still feeling unsatisfied, and kicked Liu Zhen again. "Hand over all your good stuff!"

"You can't—" Before the words even left his mouth, Shen Bing's pressure hit him, bending his spine into a ninety-degree angle and forcing his entire body to curl up on the ground.

When the pressure eased slightly, Liu Zhen gasped for air. Still wanting to put up a fight, his fingers twitched as he tried to summon his abilities.

Before he could channel the energy within his body, Shen Bing flashed forward, appearing right in front of him in the blink of an eye.

He stepped on Liu Zhen's cheek, grinding his face into the floor, and said fiercely, "Don't make Boss Lu repeat herself a third time."

Lu Li felt completely vindicated. Having underlings was truly fantastic—she didn't have to lift a finger, just give the word.

No wonder so many powerful bosses loved collecting underlings. Looking at Shen Bing's obediently sleek hair and Luo Mu standing by her side like a male model, Lu Li silently made up her mind.

She must recruit plenty of subordinates, and they had to be both handsome and strong. That was the true badge of a woman!

Liu Zhen was terrified. The pressure stemming from the gap in their tiers felt like an unmovable mountain...

His lips trembled uncontrollably. Gripped by fear and resentment, he began emptying his spatial storage, spilling crystal cores out like pouring beans in a rattling clatter.

Among them were inevitably high-tier crystal cores. Shen Bing produced a sack from somewhere, waved his hand, and swept every single crystal core into the bag.

Only then was Lu Li satisfied. She crossed her arms and instructed, "Tie them all up."

Luo Mu hadn't had a chance to prove himself yet and was terrified that he wouldn't be invited to the next hotpot meal, so he sprang into action the moment he heard the command.

He skillfully retrieved several hemp ropes from his space and tossed two of them to Shen Bing.

Grabbing his own rope, he walked toward the group with a mischievous grin. The closer he got, the further they shrank back into the corner.

Dozens of men were crammed into a single corner. Seeing this, Liu Zhen yelled, "It was all my idea! If you want to tie someone up, tie me!"

Lu Li walked over holding a hemp rope herself and kicked him twice to vent her anger. "That's for smashing my convenience store, and that's for looting my stuff!"

"You're all going to be tied up anyway, what's the rush? If your mouth is that idle, go perform favors for someone else instead of yelping here," Lu Li scolded.

The rope in her hands wrapped mercilessly around Liu Zhen's body. Fearing that his struggle might accidentally injure Lu Li, Shen Bing intentionally increased the pressure on him, forcing him to remain completely immobile so Lu Li could tie him up obediently.

Lu Li was just an ordinary person, and the athletic type at that; it took a tremendous amount of effort for her to hogtie Liu Zhen securely.

Once she finished, she was exhausted, panting as she sat on the ground and watched Shen Bing and Luo Mu expertly bind the rest of the group into a single bundle.

They looked like pigs on a chopping block, completely devoid of the ability to resist and reduced to awaiting their fate.

"Ancestor, I was wrong! I'll turn over a new leaf, I'll never steal or rob again!" Liu Zhen cried out, unwilling to give up.

Seeing that she was a woman, he figured she must be soft-hearted. He believed that pleading and repeating a few more soft words would definitely work.

Annoyed by the noise, Lu Li pulled off her slipper and shoved it straight into his mouth, snapping, "Shut up, or I'll cut out your tongue!"

Although Liu Zhen's mouth was stuffed with the slipper, it didn't fill it completely, leaving a gap that forced him to keep his mouth open while drool streamed down uncontrollably.

Ever since he became a boss and gathered his gang of underlings, he had never suffered such humiliation—and at the hands of a delicate, defenseless woman, no less!

Liu Zhen thought with venomous malice, *Just you wait! Once I escape and make a comeback, I'll show you!*

Lu Li happened to look down and caught his vicious glare. Annoyed, she removed her other slipper and used the hemp rope to strap it across his face.

The slipper blocked Liu Zhen's vision completely. Now, not only was he unable to speak, but he couldn't see either.

It drove him to the verge of suffocation.

Before long, Shen Bing and Luo Mu completed their grand task of tying everyone up.

Shen Bing asked, "How should we deal with them?"

A flash of ruthlessness crossed Lu Li's eyes as she said, "Break Liu Zhen's limbs and feed him to the zombies. As for the rest, cut off whichever hand they used to smash the convenience store."

Hearing this, some could no longer hold back and begged for mercy, "I—I was just a low-level lackey following orders, please let me go..."

"I have elderly parents and young children to support, they depend on me to live, I can't die!"

For a moment, cries for mercy echoed from all directions, yet Lu Li felt no sense of relief.

The mental image of her convenience store in ruins, littered with shattered glass, flashed through her mind, hardening her resolve.

People had to pay the price for their actions.

Relying on their numbers, these men had grown accustomed to acting with impunity; nearly this entire urban village had been looted by them.

Some of them, banking on Liu Zhen being the boss, had even committed atrocious acts against the female survivors and young girls in the area—they had left virtually no evil deed undone!

Lu Li clenched her fists tightly and coldly spat out, "Cut off their lower bits too."

Shen Bing and Luo Mu exchanged glances, feeling an inexplicable chill run down below, yet they dared not voice any objections and simply obeyed.

She turned and walked out the door. Listening to the chorus of screams and pleas for mercy echoing from behind the wall, she felt a slight restlessness in her heart.

This was the first time she had ever acted with such cruelty, but she also knew that the apocalypse was a place that ate people alive without spitting out the bones.

Here, one had to be ruthless!

Fortunately, she possessed the system and all these resources; otherwise, given her strength and looks, she wouldn't even know how she died.