Stuck in a Chinese novel

"How much more do we have to do this training?" Yan Rong asked as she saw Wei Jun heal up and get up once again.

"Why? You getting tired?" Wei Jun asked.

"No," Yan Rong replied, "It's just a little difficult seeing you getting hurt every day and the state you're left in is actually very… disturbing."

"Get used to it," Wei Jun said before he got ready to leave and said, "You're about to see something much worse."

"Do we really have to do it? There can be other ways. Xia Lu isn't that worse yet," Yan Rong tried to persuade Wei Jun from his suicide plan but he wasn't the one to listen.

"If there was another way, I would've taken it. But there isn't and we're stuck with that being our only option," Wei Jun replied as he checked the corruption status of Xia Lu. Compared to earlier in the day when he almost killed Tao Min, the status was progressing much slowly but it was still inching closer to the end.

But just like Yan Rong said; his plan was dangerous. Luckily, his strange training that the system suggested finally gave a result so that was a plus point in his arsenal.

"I still don't have a good feeling about this. I mean, even if I get Li Wei inside, there still won't be enough time to get through this." Yan Rong argued.

"I'll buy you time," Wei Jun said.

"That's precisely what I'm worried about. You're telling me to do the opposite of buying time." Yan Rong replied.

"They're a bunch of men in charge. They wouldn't do what a woman tells them to do even if you're stronger than most of them. That's male ego and he hasn't been able to evolve past that since the beginning of creation. Why would it be any different now?" Wei Jun said with a straight face. Even when he himself was a man, he didn't deny any of that.

"Fine. I will trust you with it for now," Yan Rong conceded and got ready. Wei Jun was about to leave to carry out his plan as night was approaching. She had to do her own part.

~~

"So we got jack?" Zhou Han asked.

"Not necessarily," Zhang Fei replied before he said, "We now at least have one upper hand. This guy made sure to have insurance in case he was caught which means he isn't your typical psychopath who only wants to see the world burn without caring if they're burned with it."

"He isn't wrong," Commander Han said before he added, "Besides, we now have a name. We can go for that."

"I don't think that's a good idea." Yan Rong replied, "True he isn't the usual psychopath and he cares about his life, but I doubt we have any upper hand at the moment. We need to figure out his motive. Why would he get caught? We need to figure that out."

"He's in there because we caught him," Zhou Han replied.

"If he wanted to create public disarray, he wouldn't have needed to deal with us himself. He could have hired someone, and blown up a large part of the town and the people would have still blamed us. His plan was to

get

caught. The 'why' is the part we need to figure out." Yan Rong replied.

"Exactly why I called you. While you do that, in the meantime, we'll figure out who he is." Commander Han said.

"That's another thing," Yan Rong said, "I think it's a waste of time to figure out his identity. What we should be solely focusing on is to find out his goal in here."

"I get that we need that as well, but we need to follow every lead to make sure we're not leaving any stone unturned." Commander Han rejected her suggestion.

"I'm telling you. It's a waste of time and resources," Yan Rong argued.

"Which we'll find out once we do our proper research," Commander Han calmly said and signaled Zhang Fei to carry out his order.

Yan Rong remained silent and did nothing. She turned to Ai Huiying and nodded, "Begin phase two. I'm going in again."

"Stay here to assist the lieutenant. I'll be returning for the day." Commander Han said to Zhou Han and then left.

"I appreciate the assist," Yan Rong sarcastically replied. Everyone in the room knew what assist really meant. It was nothing but a cloaked term for surveillance to look fancy and favorable.

Commander Han didn't say anything to that and left the room. As soon as he did, Yan Rong turned to Zhou Han, her eyes turning light blue but all the more intimidating as she said, "Try and annoy me and I'll make sure you look worse than the guy in there."

Gulp!!!

Zhou Han gulped loudly because every instinct in his body was telling him that this lady wasn't lying. She'd do what she was saying and she'd do it without fail.

Zhou Han nervously nodded while he cursed Commander Han in his heart because of the situation he was put in. 'Uncle, what the hell did you put me into?'

He prayed to any deity out there to help him. While he did that, Zhang Fei left to utilize all of the resources he had at his disposal to check the identity of the biker. But before he left to do that, he decided to visit the infirmary of the facility.

"You're here again," The woman who was in charge of the special infirmary, a mage, said to him while she sipped her tea. She was a middle-aged woman with a few wrinkles on her face. Her mana was swirling around her, keeping up the spell she was using.

"You must really care about her," The woman said.

"She is my captain," Zhang Fei said but no one was buying it.

"I know love when I see it," The woman said before she pointed in a certain direction.

Zhang Fei turned to look there as well and the woman continued, "Her situation hasn't improved since yesterday. And not only that, the change in her appearance seems to be permanent."

Zhang Fei looked at on unconscious Rin while a blue glow enveloped her body. Her white colored hair cascaded down to her thigh and her pale skin which looked like it was devoid of blood glowed under the lights of the room.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"But what about the danger to her?" Zhang Fei asked.

"For now, there's none." The woman replied before she added, "But I will tell you this. I don't think she's

in

any danger. She seems to be awakening. In what though, I have no idea."

"Can she be moved?" Zhang Fei asked before he added, "I'd rather not have her in the same place as that lunatic. He's already made clear that he was after her."

"Honestly, I cannot tell you anything about that. I don't think she's in any danger but that's because I can't tell what's going on inside of her. All I know is that she's stable. But if it's something else, something I can't see and it

is

dangerous to her. You won't find another like me in the empire to tend to such a situation." The woman replied, explaining the possibilities of Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei nodded, understanding that she was the only magician healer in all of the empire aside from the imperial palace and the royal physicians wouldn't care for a captain in the CSF no matter how serious the situation was.

After all, no one was more important than the emperor.

With that out of the way, Zhang Fei thanked the woman and left to carry out his own task. After all, finding out who the biker was, was just as necessary as caring for Rin because that was also a way to save her.

~~

"Hey old man," A young, rowdy man, almost a boy, said to a man dressed in all whites. He wasn't wearing a typical robe or a gown of white clothes. He was wearing a white three-piece suit. With how buff he was, in no way could he have been mistaken as an old man but that was proven otherwise due to his white hair and long white beard.

His face, however, was wrinkles-free, as if his aging had stopped at one point and his hair was white for show.

The old man turned to look at the young man who was acting so rudely while the old man was just minding his own business.

Still, the old man didn't mind and just asked with a benevolent smile on his face, "I'm so glad you reached out to me. I'm a little lost and in need of directions."

The young man, however, knew nothing about kindness or respect and said, "Screw you, old man. Just cough up all you have and get lost. You're being an eyesore."

"Hohoho," The old man benevolently laughed before he reached out and grabbed the young man by his head before he, or anyone else, could even react, "It seems your parents didn't raise you right. I might have to do it for them."

Soon, the hand that was grabbing the head of the young man began to glow and the next moment, the young man began to scream in agony. His agony, while it didn't last long, was excruciating while it lasted.

The young man soon completely turned to ashes and nothing of him was left behind. Those who stood behind the young man panicked and ran away while the people on the streets who were enjoying the show also ran away. Enjoy new adventures at empire

"Don't go away," The old man said with a smile, "I need someone to guide this old man," Before the old man turned in a certain direction and said, "A young angel is awakening. I need to make sure nothing goes wrong."