Zhang Meng still had to go level up, so once they finished talking, he wolfed down a couple of bites and left.
Liu Xuan stayed behind to eat for a while longer before getting up and heading out as well.
Not far away, three figures were watching him furtively.
Two of them were Shen Zhou and Chang Feng.
“There’s no mistake. That guy is definitely Liu Xuan. Look at his gear—it’s clearly not ordinary. And he’s eating the chef’s special meals, which don’t come cheap.”
“He’s so familiar with that Zhang guy, too. It has to be Liu Xuan!”
Shen Zhou turned to the man beside him and lowered his voice. “What do you think, Wang Dafu?”
Wang Dafu had originally fled to America, but life there hadn’t gone well for him. In fact, he was practically destitute.
Still, he refused to come back no matter what. No matter how much his family tried to persuade him, he insisted that he was happier over there than in China.
When the Ascension Battlefield first appeared, Huaxia had fallen behind in progress. Wang Dafu had been so proud that he went online picking arguments with people everywhere.
“See? Coming to America was the right choice. Huaxia is useless!”
But then Huaxia’s progress began skyrocketing, while America suffered heavy casualties and started randomly drafting people.
Wang Dafu panicked. He was in America, after all, and had even been calling himself an American all this time. What if the battlefield really treated him as an American and drafted him?
He wanted to shout at the battlefield, “I may not be Chinese, but I’m not American either!”
Just then, someone approached him and offered him five thousand dollars to return to China and immediately enter the Ascension War.
If he happened to be randomly assigned to Battlefield No. 2468, he was to find a way to cause Liu Xuan some trouble.
At that point, Wang Dafu was already afraid of staying in America and being drafted. Since he could also pocket five thousand dollars for free, he agreed without much thought.
He had originally planned to return to China and then refuse to enter the battlefield. Who would have thought those people could still track him down?
They threatened to expose him as a traitor to China if he didn’t cooperate, while also dangling a tempting promise in front of him.
If he actually accomplished his objective, then once America unified the world, he would receive unimaginable benefits and official American citizenship.
With both the carrot and the stick brought into play, Wang Dafu could only grit his teeth and enter the battlefield.
What he hadn’t expected was that he would be assigned to Battlefield No. 2468.
Now that his target was right in front of him, Wang Dafu had considered simply ignoring everything happening outside. Surely those people couldn’t chase him into the battlefield and kill him, could they?
But when he thought of this being a request from his American masters—and the possibility of obtaining official American citizenship in the future—his heart wavered again.
“I’ll go over and sound him out. If he really is Liu Xuan, we’ll proceed according to plan. Brothers, once we pull this off, wealth and glory will be waiting for us!”
……
After eating his fill, Liu Xuan left the inn. He was just about to find somewhere to keep farming attributes and wait for the riverbank on the other side to open when he suddenly saw someone rushing into the inn.
The man wore an anxious expression, as if something urgent had happened. As he passed Liu Xuan, he “accidentally” bumped into his shoulder.
He turned around and said, “Sorry,” then was about to continue running into the inn. Suddenly, he stopped and turned back to look at Liu Xuan, as if he wasn’t quite sure.
“You’re… Legendary Liu Xuan?”
This man was Wang Dafu.
Liu Xuan had no idea who he was, and didn’t think much of being recognized.
After leading so many people through dungeons before, it was impossible for the news not to have gotten out.
“That’s me. Do you need something? You look like you’re in a hurry.”
Wang Dafu wiped the sweat from his forehead. “I came to find Brother Zhang Meng. I have something important to report to him!”
“He just went out to level up.”
“What? Where did he go? I’ll go find him!”
Liu Xuan glanced at him and noticed that he was only Level 4.
“You just joined the battlefield? How are you planning to find someone in a high-level monster area at your level?”
Wang Dafu said anxiously, “Then what should I do? I could find my captain and ask him to pass the message to Brother Zhang Meng. But I don’t know if we’ll make it in time!”
Liu Xuan patted him on the shoulder, signaling him not to panic.
“What exactly happened? You can tell me first.”
“You…” Wang Dafu’s eyes suddenly lit up. “Right, right! With your strength, Legendary Liu Xuan, you can definitely save them!”
“Save who?”
“Legendary Liu Xuan, it’s like this. You may not know this, but there’s a monster camp in the mountains east of the village. It’s full of high-level humanoid monsters—an entire group of soldiers.”
Liu Xuan fell silent.
Why did that description sound so familiar?
How could he not know about it?
He had just come back from there.
Wang Dafu didn’t notice the strange look on Liu Xuan’s face and continued talking to himself.
“If you head toward that mountain from here, there aren’t many monsters along the way. Two of my friends went ahead to scout the area, but they were unexpectedly captured by the monsters there.”
Liu Xuan glanced at him. “Captured?”
“That’s right. All the monsters there look like human soldiers, and they’re intelligent. I don’t know why, but they captured my friends without killing them and took them straight up the mountain.”
Liu Xuan thought to himself that he hadn’t seen any prisoners when he went up the mountain. There hadn’t been any in the dungeon, either.
“When were your friends captured?”
Wang Dafu assumed that Liu Xuan was trying to confirm whether the two men were still alive. If they were already dead, there would be no point in risking himself to rescue them.
So he hurriedly made something up. “Just now! I came back to ask for help the moment they were captured.”
At that, Liu Xuan became completely certain that this guy was lying through his teeth.
Your friends were just captured at Eagle Spirit Mountain? Then what were all those people I killed earlier?
But what was the point of deceiving him? He didn’t even know this man.
From the looks of it, the guy wanted to trick him into going to Eagle Spirit Mountain.
But what would happen if he went there? There wasn’t anything there—
Oh, I get it!
Liu Xuan suddenly understood. This guy must think that Eagle Spirit Mountain was full of high-level monsters and that he would be in danger if he went there.
But I already killed them all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Still, why would he do this? What benefit would harming him bring?
Liu Xuan remembered what Zhang Meng had told him earlier.
Could this Wang Dafu be working with those two?
“What are your friends’ names?”
“Uh… Shen Feng and Chang Zhou,” Wang Dafu answered casually.
The moment Liu Xuan heard those two names, he almost laughed.
Wasn’t this practically a confession?
Zhang Meng had just told him that two people named Shen Zhou and Chang Feng might be planning something.
And this guy had simply switched their given names and surnames around and used them as aliases?
Seeing that Liu Xuan remained silent, Wang Dafu grew anxious.
“Legendary Liu Xuan, please help them! You’re the only one who can save them.”
Liu Xuan deliberately hesitated. “But I need more accurate information about that place. It doesn’t make sense for such a group of high-level monsters to be hiding near the Novice Village. We’re about to cross the river, too.”
Wang Dafu continued his performance. “Everything I said is true! If you don’t believe me, go ask the village chief. There really is a monster camp over there!”
Liu Xuan nodded. “All right. I’ll go ask the village chief. If I can get some information about those monsters, all the better.”
Wang Dafu sneered inwardly.
Hmph, ask the village chief? The village chief will tell you that there really are monsters there, but he’ll also say that you shouldn’t worry about them for now.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
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