Family Meeting and Military Review

A little after eleven at night, Lu Feng crept back into the house.

He thought his family would already be resting.

But the moment he entered the room, his younger sister in the lower bunk opened her lively eyes and stared at him.

"Brother, where did you go? Why are you back so late?"

"Why aren't you asleep yet?"

"I couldn't sleep without you." Lu Mingxue's tone carried a hint of coaxing. "By the way, is your job at that club your classmate runs going smoothly?"

"Pretty smoothly." Lu Feng replied, then suddenly asked, "Mingxue, do you want to go to Martial High School?"

Lu Mingxue was thirteen this year. In two more years, she'd be old enough for high school.

In this era, most elementary and middle school courses could be self-studied with Artificial Intelligence.

But if you wanted to step onto the martial path and become a Warrior, you had to enter a Martial Arts High School.

Of course, if you didn't want to become a Warrior, there was no need to go to Martial High School or Martial University.

Yet the moment Lu Feng finished speaking, Lu Mingxue's eyes dimmed.

Of course she wanted to become a Warrior.

But how could she, who had relied on a wheelchair since childhood, ever get into a Martial High School?

"Tomorrow I'll have Mom and Dad take you to Jinzhou First People's Hospital and get your legs fixed."

"Brother, stop joking. Where would our family get that much money..." Lu Mingxue said quietly. She had long accepted reality.

With current medical technology, curing her legs wasn't impossible. Her parents had consulted doctors years ago, but a full recovery would cost at least one million five hundred thousand Star Martial Coins.

To this family, that sum was nothing short of astronomical.

A smile hung on Lu Feng's lips. He suddenly turned his Communicator screen toward her, showing his account balance.

When she saw that string of numbers, Lu Mingxue's clear eyes went wide.

9,900,513.17

Nine million nine hundred thousand.

This was what Lu Feng had left tonight at the Beast Fighting Arena, after deducting the money he'd bet.

"Brother..."

Lu Mingxue's voice trembled, her face full of shock. "What did you do tonight...?"

She seriously suspected Older Brother had robbed a bank.

"Relax, this money was all earned legitimately by your older brother."

"How is that possible?"

Lu Mingxue's face was plastered with disbelief. She suddenly shouted toward the door, "Dad! Mom! Come quick, something's happened to Brother..."

That yell startled the couple in the master bedroom next door.

"What are you yelling about? I told you, this money is legit."

Before Lu Feng could cover his sister's mouth, Dad and Mom had already pushed the door open and rushed in.

"What's going on? What happened in the middle of the night?"

Ever since Lu Feng's spot at Martial University was taken, these past two months, the couple rarely spoke to him first.

Especially Father, Lu Dahai.

Before the college entrance exams, he'd bragged plenty to relatives and coworkers that his son would definitely get into a Martial Arts University.

But things didn't go as planned. These two months at the factory, he'd been laughed at by his coworkers and couldn't hold his head up.

They'd originally worried that their son might have been wronged at school, but Lu Feng never talked about his college entrance exam results.

As time passed, the couple couldn't help feeling some resentment. Sometimes they'd go days without exchanging a word.

But he was still their own son. When they heard their daughter's scream, they both rushed over immediately.

Seeing his family's reaction, Lu Feng had no choice but to patiently explain where the money came from.

When they heard it was won at the Beast Fighting Arena, Lu Dahai and Li Qinglan grew even more uneasy.

That kind of place—how could an Ordinary Person's family like theirs go there?

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"You're way too reckless! Don't ever go to a place like that again!" Lu Dahai warned sternly.

He was genuinely shaken. If something happened to his son in a place like that, this family would be finished.

"I know, Dad! I won't go again." Lu Feng brushed it off.

Then he turned to look at Mom, Li Qinglan. "Mom, tomorrow we'll take Sister to the People's Hospital and fix her legs. With the rest of the money, we'll trade up for a bigger house. From now on, you two can enjoy life—your son can Earn Money."

"Are you deaf to what I just said?" Lu Dahai's Facial Expression darkened.

In his view, the son's so-called "earning money" definitely meant going to the Beast Fighting Arena.

"Alright, say a few less words."

Li Qinglan quickly smoothed things over. "Xiao Feng, don't ever take risks like that again. That kind of place really isn't for us."

"Lu Mingxue's leg should be treated, but buying a house is out of the question. I've lived in this house with your dad for over twenty years; I'm used to it. The rest of the money can be saved for when you find a wife and buy a wedding home."

"Mom!" Lu Mingxue suddenly cut in. "I think Older Brother is right. Since we have the money, we should improve our living conditions first. Talking about finding a wife is way too early, isn't it? Besides, Older Brother just turned eighteen."

Li Qinglan gave her daughter a gentle glare. "When adults are talking, kids shouldn't interrupt."

The family had a disagreement over how to arrange the money.

The brother and sister advocated for buying a new house to improve living conditions, while Lu Dahai and his wife insisted on saving the money for Lu Feng's future marriage.

In the end, the brother and sister still couldn't convince their parents.

However, treating Lu Mingxue's leg was unanimously agreed upon as the top priority.

The next day, the whole family went to the People's Hospital together and successfully scheduled the surgery.

The doctor arranged for Lu Mingxue to be admitted first for a few days of medication and conditioning before the surgery could proceed.

August 13th, Monday.

Lu Feng returned to work at the club.

The two new exotic beasts that arrived last Friday were waiting for him to tame.

But he first went to the Cultivation Room to fully convert all the exotic beast energy he had absorbed at the Beast Fighting Arena on Saturday before heading to the Exotic Beast Holding Cell.

Before he even reached the door, the communicator on his wrist suddenly beeped.

A text message from Hong Kun appeared on the screen:

"Lu Feng, don't go to the holding cell for now. Return to the Mecha Department for work today."

Lu Feng's footsteps paused, confusion in his heart.

Not letting him go to the holding cell—what was going on?

Though puzzled, he acted accordingly, since Hong Kun was the club's boss.

He hadn't gone far when he ran into a group of people heading toward the holding cell.

The leader was Hong Kun, along with a military officer in uniform.

Behind the two were three or four military personnel, and further back were over a dozen members of the Skyfire Club.

Lu Feng knew that these dozen or so people were all elite martial artists of the club, each a master above the Three Realm Martial Artist level.

What puzzled him was what those military personnel were here for.

Just then, Hong Kun, not far away, also spotted Lu Feng.

The man immediately shot him a look, signaling him to leave quickly.

Lu Feng understood and hurried away from the scene.

Only then did Hong Kun breathe a sigh of relief.

It turned out that last Friday, he had submitted an application to the Jinzhou Military Base to join an expedition.

According to procedure, the military would send someone to review the club's strength. As long as it was confirmed that there were more than five Three Realm Martial Artists, the expedition qualification would basically be approved.

But unexpectedly, this time the reviewer turned out to be Military Merit Record Officer Xie An himself.

The other party didn't ask much about the elite members' strength; instead, he wanted to see the Exotic Beast Holding Cell.

Hong Kun immediately understood that the military must have already detected that the Skyfire Club had recently completed a large number of beast-taming orders.

So they planned to use the review as an excuse to uncover the club's secret to taming beasts.

And that secret all rested on Lu Feng alone.

Hong Kun absolutely could not let the military discover that his club harbored such a monstrous beast tamer.

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