"Who's that kid? Never seen him before."
"He has Ye Lanxian and Minister Su accompanying him—what's his background?"
"I haven't heard of any prodigy from a major family arriving lately. Could he be a top seed newly recruited by headquarters?"
"No, look at the way Ye Lanxian looks at him, that attitude—it doesn't seem like she's treating a subordinate at all..."
Countless murmurs arose.
Chu Jiang paid them no mind and followed Ye Lanxian and Su Qingyuan to a window seat with an open view.
Everyone was curious about his background, but seeing Ye Lanxian and Su Qingyuan beside him, no one dared step forward to make a fool of themselves.
After all, one of them was a royal-blood prodigy of Spark, while the other was the deputy minister of the Intelligence Department. Ordinary people did not dare provoke either of them.
The discussions in the booths continued, and the topic soon shifted to the recent battles on the front lines.
"Did you hear? Something huge happened in the Eighth Special Zone!"
"A new holy breed emerged among the demons, called the Bone Demon Saint Body. I heard from brothers who returned from the front that purely with his fleshly body, that guy could withstand attacks close to the Demon Emperor level head-on. The hardness of his bones rivaled the main armor of a Saint-level warship!"
"Spark's Crimson Flame War God was captured alive by him during the defensive battle in the Eighth Special Zone!"
"What? The Crimson Flame War God? He's a peak King-level powerhouse, one of Spark's Ten Kings!"
"That damned bastard!"
The crowd was indignant.
Everyone knew what happened to those captured alive by demons.
Either they would be dragged into the Creation Hall and dissected alive as experimental subjects, or they would be branded with slave