Then, to his surprise, he discovered that Mr. Harris, the local tyrant in the begging district, was also on the hunting list. Although he was ranked at the very bottom, all the information matched perfectly.

There was even a picture of his face.

The first target for action was locked in almost immediately!

William Carter’s evaluation: ‘Mr. Harris, beggar leader; wolfish ambition, has repeatedly stolen children, broken their legs to force them to beg, trafficked young girls, forced good women into prostitution; has caused thirty-one families to be torn apart, his crimes deserve death, unforgivable.

Order William Carter’s subordinates to kill him, to report to the heavens above and answer to the people below.

Mission level: Card.’

The card level mission is the lowest level among William Carter’s subordinates’ missions.

But Ethan Brooks judged himself and thought... it seemed he couldn’t handle Mr. Harris, at least not in a head-on confrontation—he basically had no chance of winning, so he had to rely on cunning.

Still on that same day, Mr. Harris fought with others over territory, got into a fierce brawl... and ended up utterly defeated, seriously injured, barely escaping to a hidden corner, clinging to life.

In the deep of night, when all was quiet, Ethan Brooks snuck into that hidden corner and used a large stone to smash Mr. Harris to death on the bed.

Blood splattered everywhere!

With every blow of the stone, as the blood spurted, it seemed to accelerate Ethan Brooks’s transformation.

And this battle also completely awakened that trace of ferocity deep in Ethan Brooks’s heart, utterly shattering his former illusions and ties to his previous life.

After that, he received his well-deserved reward.

Within the card, in the assassin’s space of William Carter’s subordinates, there appeared a basic cultivation manual and a physical reward of a lowest-grade Yuan Power Pill.

Oh, and a steamed bun.

Much later, Ethan Brooks learned that the cultivation manual was the standard reward for all assassins who joined William Carter’s organization and succeeded in their first mission.

The Yuan Power Pill and the steamed bun were the actual rewards for this mission.

Don’t look down on the so-called lowest-grade Yuan Power Pill—just that one pill made his body twice as strong.

And that white steamed bun...

That bun was, since he transmigrated to this world, the best thing he had ever eaten—bar none!

After vomiting wildly from his first killing...

He ate that bun, and almost swallowed his own tongue along with it.

After two years in this world, it was the first time he’d eaten until he was seventy percent full—what a joy!

No one noticed that under the lowered head of that little beggar back then, a pair of eyes shone with a wolf-like gleam.

As he wolfed down the bun, the wolfish light in his eyes grew brighter and brighter.

……

Although he didn’t understand why there was a mysterious space inside this card, nor why he could get such a vast amount of information about this other world from it.

He understood even less how, after completing a mission, the card would know immediately and synchronize the reward.

How did it know?!

This just didn’t make sense!

But what he understood least of all was, how could a plain white card produce a bun, a pill, and a manual?

How did they come out?

This wasn’t the internet world of his previous life... No, even in his previous life’s internet world, such things were absolutely impossible...

He could play games online, sure, but who had ever seen a bun come out of a computer screen?

But Ethan Brooks didn’t choose to keep investigating.

If it exists, it’s reasonable.

If it exists, I accept it—such a simple truth.

Why bother with so many whys?

Being able to eat his fill and breathe was already happiness enough.

He once thought this thing was a unique golden finger he’d obtained, and was quite pleased with himself for a while, but later learned that it was actually developed by the William Carter organization.

As long as you joined the William Carter organization as an assassin, you’d have this magical experience, imagining yourself as the protagonist of destiny.

Suddenly, it all felt dull.

He even felt his own wishful thinking about a golden finger was laughable and shameful...

People should keep their feet on the ground!

And with that, he felt even more at ease...

It was just an identity card, after all—wasn’t it just that simple and real?

In my previous life, I even had an ID card... is that so strange?

……

Just a few days after Ethan Brooks possessed the little beggar’s body, he completely threw away all his previous life’s memories and behavioral codes, tossing them to the winds, abandoning any fantasy of using his past life’s knowledge to gain anything in this world...

Even if you could create many valuable things, possess much valuable knowledge and foresight, in this chaotic world, the best you could hope for would be to get caught and become a slave in some rich family—a slave for life, for generations, never able to break free.

—For those with skills or value, how could they possibly allow you to roam outside their control?!

Talented?

Hehehe...

This world, the current times, just love talented... slaves!

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