Phew! Last chapter today.
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Wei Jun opened his eyes to the flashing of the system. There were a few notifications but mainly the ones he had ignored after he killed the cultivator from Shao Chen's team.
[You have defeated an opponent with Qi]
[Stats have been gained]
[Strength 4]
[Agility 6]
[Stamina 4]
[Defense 2]
[Qi 11]
[You have removed two crucial plots of the story]
[Your level has risen by seven]
As much as he was happy about the level-up, he would have been happier if he had received one more level to reach the next level limit because, with his recent increase, so of his stats again hit their limits.
Up next he read the notification of his Death Qi incrent and the ssage of Death swallowing sothing which earned him one point of Death Qi as well.
[That was probably the power from the mage's mana circle runes]
[Mana circle is nothing without runes]
[Just an empty bottle waiting to be filled again]
[The mana in those inscriptions must have also entered your system]
[When Death Qi swallowed it, it earned you a lot of power]
Wei Jun couldn't understand half of the system's explanation but what he could understand was one single point.
'What do you an 'could have'? Why are speaking hypothetically?'
[…]
The system didn't reply and it didn't reply for quite a while before it said…
[I'll be honest with you, host]
[It's like I had a blackout]
[One mont I'm telling you sothing and the next mont you're on the ground, all safe and sound]
[I have no idea what happened in those few minutes]
Wei Jun sighed, he waited for a few seconds and said, 'It happened before as well. When we were discussing the choice of the quest, you suddenly stopped talking mid-speech, then there was a static sound, and after that, soone else's voice after which, you resud speaking as if nothing happened.'
[That's strange]
[But not so much maybe]
'What do you an?' Wei Jun asked.
[Maybe the administrator interfered]
[I an, that's the only person who can interfere with the system]
'And who is this administrator?' Wei Jun asked. Wei Jun had seen enough by now to know that the system, or the entity in it, had a great hold over the system's functions. If soone could bypass that and enter the system without letting the overseer know, then this administrator must be soone big, even more powerful than the system.
[…]
No reply ca. Wei Jun knew when the reply never ca. When Wei Jun would ask sothing he wasn't allowed to know. The system would just say his authority wasn't enough or Wei Jun wasn't so advanced in the story to know about it.
[Your father]
However, this ti the system did tell him. Only this ti, he couldn't understand what the system ant.
His father. The man who was annoying as hell but also the most wonderful father of all ti.
If the system was saying that, then it also ant that his father was the one who put him in there.
However, there was one inconsistency with all of that. It wasn't his father he heard when the system was overridden. It was his brother.
'Can soone else do that?' Wei Jun asked.
[No?]
The system was finding that strange because it thought Wei Jun would ask a lot of questions about that topic but it never expected that question from Wei Jun.
'Are you sure?' Wei Jun once again asked.
[No one]
[Other than him]
Wei Jun was now distraught. He knew what he had heard but he was also sure that the system wouldn't lie to him. So it was either that the system didn't know about this either, or there was sothing else going on.
He went with the latter option.
"You're up!" The door to the hospital room opened and Xia Lu walked in with a coffee cup in her hands.
She set the cup aside and ran to him, taking him in a hug to which Wei Jun couldn't react.
Wei Jun looked at the ceiling, only because he didn't know what to do.
So trusting the words of one person who had done nothing but guide him all this life, he put his hand around Xia Lu's back, closed his eyes, and felt her warmth just for the mont.
"I'm so glad you're okay." Xia Lu said.
" too." Wei Jun said with a smile but Xia Lu couldn't see that smile since her head was buried in his chest.
However, soone else did. Well, many 'soone else' did.
"Do we go in?" Xiao Heiling whispered. Zhan Yi shrugged his shoulders because he didn't know what to do as well.
"Of course, we don't." Quan Li whispered and took Quan Qui nodded in assent so they both grabbed their n by their ears and took them away.
Wei Jun who heard all of that clearly smiled. He was glad that they were gone because he had sothing to say to Xia Lu.
The mont of truth.
"I need to tell you sothing." Wei Jun said.
Xia Lu got up, sat straight next to him, and said, "I feel like I don't want this conversation."
"Yes, we do." Wei Jun said before his expression turned neutral, the one that couldn't be read and he said, "You have seen for who I am. Now I want you to decide whether to stay or not because this can only work then. Otherwise, we're better off ending it."
Xia Lu remained quiet for a while before she asked, "If I say no, would you kill to keep silent?"
"No." Wei Jun said.
Xia Lu nodded, clearly believing him because Wei Jun had never lied to her before.
"Then I want to. I want to go forward with this." Xia Lu said with a smile before her expression turned distasteful and she added, "Though I'm not too sure if I want to forgive you for that cunning little… ugh! I can't even swear."
Wei Jun didn't need a na to know who Xia Lu was talking about.
"I take it you two t?" Wei Jun asked.
"Mhm." Xia Lu said before she added, "She was with you last night. It was her turn."
"Turn?" Wei Jun asked.
"Yeah, we took turns looking after you." Xia Lu replied.
"How long was I out?" Wei Jun worriedly asked.
"Three weeks and two days." Xia Lu replied.
Wei Jun's eyes turned wide. That wasn't sothing good.
In that much ti, he didn't know what would have happened to Shao Chen and where he would be right now and he couldn't ask Xia Lu because she didn't even know who he was.
Wei Jun hurriedly stood up and said, "Where are my clothes?"
"You shouldn't move. The doctors haven't cleared you yet." Xia Lu worriedly said while she also tried to stop him but Wei Jun didn't listen.
"It's important." Wei Jun said.
He didn't know how far Shao Chen's investigation would have happened but he was sure of one thing. If he was processed out of the cri and convicted of conspiracy and fraud, that only ant one thing, he would be sent to prison.
And since he was a cultivator and quite a strong one at that, Golden Gate wasn't sowhere the Cultivator's Special Forces would send him.
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"Yeah, he was processed out long ago and he would be in prison by now." Yan Rong said as soon as Wei Jun called him.
"Can you find out which one?" Wei Jun asked.
"Let check," Yan Rong said before she said, "Uh, he was sent to the Devil's Bane penitentiary."
Upon her reply, Wei Jun hurriedly checked it online but there was no ntion of such a prison so he asked, "Where is that prison? It's not online."
"Of course, it's not. For all anyone knows, this prison doesn't even exist. It's where the most wicked are sent." Yan Rong said.
"Then why was Shao Chen sent there?" Wei Jun asked. For as far as he knew, he was in for fraud and conspiracy. Not sothing he would be sent to such a prison for but he had forgotten one crucial point. A point, he himself was to be blad for.
"Well, that's because he was convicted of a murder as well. He was convicted of killing a woman by the na of Fang i and then he discarded her body. The police found it and matched the connection.
Her neck was snapped so there was no murder weapon and since there were no fingerprints as well, all fingers were pointed at him, and given his past as a rcenary which was dug up during the conversation, it was pretty easy to convince the jury of his involvent." Yan Rong told him the whole tale and every word of that tale struck Wei Jun like a thunderbolt.
"How long was his sentence?" Wei Jun asked.
"For life." Yan Rong replied.
Wei Jun turned his attention to the system panel.
[Main Quest II]
[Shao Chen]
[Ti left: 314 days]
'Fu*k.'
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