Chapter 44 – Sun Xuewei

Volume 3

Hearing Kuangliu's final words, Wen Yu fell completely silent.

"So the High Command of your Military no longer thinks of themselves as pure-blooded humans, huh?"

Kuangliu nodded.

"A gap in strength is the root cause of class divisions. When that gap becomes too enormous, all kinds of problems arise."

"Actually, at the very beginning, the Military's War God Plan wasn't called the War God Plan."

"Back then, it was called the God-Making Plan. The idea was to use the full strength of the entire Military to cultivate the most powerful ultimate life-form-to create a god who walked among mortals!"

"Unfortunately… it failed."

Wen Yu raised an eyebrow.

"How did it fail?"

"The cost was too high. That, plus internal power struggles and certain pieces of information."

Kuangliu hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he still spoke.

"Cultivating someone that way would create a whole series of problems. The most critical one was a lack of resources! And then there's the Promotion Trial from Level 4 to Level 5!"

"The Promotion Trial from Level 4 to Level 5?"

Hearing that, Wen Yu raised an eyebrow.

Kuangliu nodded.

"This is something the Military learned from a Treasure Land Guardian. The Promotion Trial from Level 4 to Level 5 will be different from the ones before it. It will be an elimination, and also a cleansing!"

"Those were the exact words."

Wen Yu nodded. There might have been more to it, but that was definitely classified information. No matter how eager the Military was to recruit him, they would not reveal something like that to him!

"I can only say this: after Level 4, it's best to use Magic Crystal exchanged with Point you've earned yourself for Promotion. Otherwise, the difficulty of the Trial will increase dramatically!" Wen Yu said softly.

"Thank you."

"No need to thank me. Besides, with your strength, I'm afraid there will be plenty of times in the future when we fight side by side."

…

After that brief exchange, neither Kuangliu nor Wen Yu said anything more.

Kuangliu drove in silence, while Wen Yu sat beside him, quietly thinking about the Military's attitude.

Their attitude toward Ordinary People, and their attitude toward Wen Yu himself.

One thing was certain: for Wen Yu, a Military so filled with realism and pragmatism was absolutely good news.

Because Wen Yu himself was strong enough. In the eyes of the Military, that meant he had sufficient value, so naturally, they would be willing to invest in him.

This would be a win-win situation. And in Wen Yu's eyes, only an attitude like the Military's current one could ensure the continuation of the Huaxia people amid the terrifying Demon Disaster!

In chaotic times, only harsh laws would do!

…

"We're here."

Just as Wen Yu was resting with his eyes closed, Kuangliu spoke.

Then the Military vehicle slowly stopped in front of a worn-down three-story building.

Wen Yu first observed the surroundings.

The area was desolate. There were not many buildings around, and aside from this building, no Survivor lived in any of the others!

From this position, he could already see the inner wall of the Yanjing Settlement in the distance.

These two facts told Wen Yu one thing.

The small team Sun Xuewei belonged to was not weak! That also meant Sun Xuewei's life had been relatively decent.

"This is the place."

Kuangliu pointed at the small building in front of them, then walked inside first.

"I personally came by a while ago and met Sun Xuewei. She wouldn't come with me, so I gave my men below a heads-up and had them give these women some preferential treatment."

"Thank you."

Kuangliu waved it off.

Of course Wen Yu understood that everything Kuangliu had done was because of him-or rather, because of his strength.

Although this was merely part of the transaction between him and the Military, the fact that a tiny group stationed in the Outer City could make Kuangliu come here in person was enough to prove just how much weight his status as Sequence 2 truly carried!

Kuangliu took a few steps forward, then stopped in front of the small building.

After a long moment, clear footsteps sounded from upstairs, and several fully armed women walked out of the building.

"You again?"

The woman in the lead, who looked to be in her twenties, spoke first. Her tone carried a hint of confusion and impatience.

Kuangliu shook his head with a wry smile, then simply stepped aside, revealing Wen Yu behind him.

…

"What? You didn't reveal your identity?"

Wen Yu took two steps forward. Instead of saying anything else, he first asked Kuangliu a question.

Kuangliu shook his head.

"Independent groups like this don't have much love for the Military."

His voice was very low, and with Kuangliu deliberately controlling it, only the two of them could hear.

After hearing Kuangliu's explanation, Wen Yu nodded.

There had been a saying since ancient times: those with martial power break the law with force.

These groups of Class Holders who refused to join the Military might have done so for some so-called freedom, or for some other strange reason. Toward the Military, the ruler in this place, they were not particularly respectful. In fact, they seemed to hold a certain inexplicable hostility toward it.

Just like Wen Yu himself. If not for Sun Xuewei's matter, Wen Yu might never have come back to Yanjing Settlement in his entire life.

Wen Yu first sized up the women who had come out, then said, "My name is Wen Yu. I'm here to find Sun Xuewei. Her father asked me to look for her."

Hearing Wen Yu's words, the leading woman finally looked him up and down before saying, "Looks like you're with the Military too. To get close to Xuewei, you people really will stop at nothing."

The first half of her sentence was spoken at a normal volume. The second half was more of a quiet mutter. Unfortunately, before Wen Yu's strength, nothing could escape his notice.

Wen Yu said nothing. Kuangliu merely shook his head indifferently from the side.

A short while later, the leading woman spoke again.

"Do you have any proof?"

Wen Yu directly took out the pendant Sun Ruixing had left him from his Spatial Ring and tossed it to the woman in the lead.

The woman carefully examined the pendant that had been thrown to her, then looked Wen Yu over again. Only after a long while did she speak.

"Come with me. But only you."

Wen Yu nodded, then said to Kuangliu, "I'll have to trouble you to wait for me a while longer."

"No problem!"

…

The process of meeting Sun Xuewei went very smoothly. After all, Wen Yu had already produced evidence.

And clearly, although these women had formed a group of their own, they did not have any bizarre rules such as men being forbidden from entering.

On the way to where Sun Xuewei was, Wen Yu also briefly chatted with the Class Holder beside him.

This small group counted as fairly powerful in the Outer City, because their Boss had just completed her Promotion the day before yesterday and become a Level 3 Class Holder, someone who could be considered powerful in the Outer City.

In Wen Yu's eyes, although the strength of a Level 3 Class Holder was basically trash, it had to be said that in a place like this, a Level 3 Class Holder was already more than enough to act like a local tyrant.

The woman leading the way was rather talkative, and she was very curious about the identities of Wen Yu and Kuangliu. Along the way, she kept asking this and that. Wen Yu merely responded with a smile.

Before long, the woman had brought Wen Yu to the door of a room.

"This is our infirmary. Xuewei is in charge of our medical work here."

After saying that, the woman opened the door directly.

Then Wen Yu saw the woman in the white coat.

She looked exactly the same as in the photograph.