Bi Kai saw that Zhuang Jin had his own ideas and said no more.
Noticing that the conversation had fallen slightly flat, Qian Wende immediately made himself the butt of the joke and opened a new topic. "Well, Brother Zhuang can go to the Herb Fields Outside the City but doesn't want to. I want to go, but I can't even qualify!"
"Besides, I only get one chance per month to choose a Self-selected Mission. I already used this month's chance, and who knows where I'll be assigned next month? If I get sent to South of the City, near the Medicine King Gang, then I'll really be in for bad luck."
He pulled a long face. "I heard that South of the City, near the Medicine King Gang, is far more dangerous than North of the City. They say that out of every ten who walk in standing, half come out lying down. Do you know what we Shen Family people call that place? The Flesh Mill!"
Bi Kai's expression also grew grave at this, but he still had two months of chances to choose his own assignments, so he did not need to worry for now.
"There's no need to worry about that for the moment..." Hearing this, Zhuang Jin repeated the information Ping Yongfeng had told him over dinner at the end of last month: there was an unspoken rule for Martial Students recruited from outside. Only those who failed to break through to the Second Meridian within three months, or the Third Meridian within six months, would be dispatched to South of the City.
Thinking back, Zhuang Jin had just noticed from Bi Kai's reaction that he seemed unaware of this news, which struck him as strange. Chang Hetong had not told Bi Kai? But after