Childhood Sweetheart Can't Compete with a Sky-Sent Arrival

"What about the 404 Department? Is it information that doesn't enter the dark web? I haven't seen the existence of this department in the dark web."

Wu Wei had once paid special attention to such matters.

Lan Meng gave him an answer that was within his expectations.

"The 404 Department was founded by you."

"After you became our leader, you deeply felt the insufficiency of the organization's original strength, so you expanded its capabilities and renamed the organization the 404 Department Administration. You also mastered a holy light skill, known as the 'Light of 404'; wherever the holy light passed, demons and ghosts were reduced to ashes, and all manner of monsters and spirits trembled in fear."

Wu Wei's expression was somewhat strange.

[Father, am I amazing?] Wu Xie sent another consciousness feedback to him.

What could Wu Wei say?

You're awesome, this old man is impressed.

"Are our main enemies now the inner demons?"

"Not entirely, but the ghost lineage and the spirit lineage have already been mostly wiped out by you; they can only go to the Federation to linger on in a desperate state. You once said yourself that there are no ghosts within the borders of Great Qin, and that no spirits are allowed to form after the founding of the nation. It is precisely because of this that these two lineages hate you to the bone, willing to act as sacrifices to defy the heavens and change their fate."

Wu Wei took a sip of coffee to calm his nerves.

Although he knew his future self would certainly not do too badly, he was truly impressed by himself for being this formidable.

Why must you be so handsome and yet so capable?

Can't you leave any path for other men in the world to survive?

"However, those who can escape your pursuit are either very powerful or so insignificant that you don't even bother looking at them, and they still need to be guarded against. Wu Wei, you are indeed very powerful in the future, but right now you haven't awakened your abilities. You need help, let me help you." Lan Meng did not give up on her dream.

Sleeping with the Master of the System was her dream.

There was nothing to despise about that; many men's dreams were simply to sleep with a certain female celebrity, like Yuanyuan or Shishi, so it was only natural for this woman to want to sleep with the Master of the System.

Moreover, Lan Meng not only had a dream, but also the drive to act on it.

Unfortunately, she had encountered an impenetrable Wu Wei.

"Lan Meng, are you also very powerful in the future?"

"My combat power isn't particularly high, but my innate ability is very targeted and happens to be able to restrain inner demons." Lan Meng explained carefully: "Inner demons rely on magnifying a person's desires and adding fuel to the fire to change them. I can also subtly change a person's thoughts, which happens to be the natural enemy of inner demons. Apart from you, I am considered the only person who can ignore inner demon skills without relying on external objects. Therefore, in the future, you helped me improve my abilities to restrain the invasion of inner demons, and I am one of your most capable partners."

"Calling me a subordinate would be more appropriate, wouldn't it?" Wu Wei hit the nail on the head.

Lan Meng glared at him: "Wu Wei, don't go too far; things are different between us."

"What is different?"

"We have an engagement."

Wu Wei nearly spat out his coffee.

How could he have never known he had an engagement?

Was this some kind of messy business from the older generation?

But he had never seen his father mention it to him.

Could it be his mother?

Thinking of his mother, Wu Wei's eyes became somewhat gloomy.

If it were his mother, it really wasn't impossible.

"The marriage between us was decided by your mother and my father themselves, Wu Wei. You cannot go back on your word and be an unfilial son," Lan Meng said righteously.

Wu Wei frowned. Was it really so?

He suddenly thought of something.

"Lan Meng, do you have a photo of your father?"

Lan Meng took out her wallet and handed it to Wu Wei.

Wu Wei opened it and saw a photo of Lan Meng and his father together.

This middle-aged man looked somewhat unfamiliar, but if he were twenty years younger, he seemed to correspond to that photo Wu Wei had once seen.

Wu Wei closed his eyes, and memories began to surface in his mind.

If he remembered correctly, it was when he was seven years old, rummaging through things at home out of boredom, when he found an old photo of his mother.

In the photo, his mother was young and beautiful, and the person beside her was also handsome and upright, completely different from his father's decadent appearance.

At the time, Wu Wei took the photo to his father to try and get some pocket money, saying to him: "Dad, you were actually this handsome when you were young, not bad."

As a result, his father's face changed drastically upon seeing the photo, and he said: "Your mother actually still keeps a photo of her and him to this day."

That very day, his parents had a huge argument. Wu Wei's memory had been good since he was a child, so he still remembered this incident to this day.

If his deduction was correct, it seemed that a very melodramatic and somewhat common story had occurred between the elders?

"Do you know the story between my mother and your father?"

"I do. My dad has told me many times; they were partners and often went on missions together."

Lan Meng's words confirmed a suspicion for Wu Wei.

"As expected, my mother is also part of the special department."

He had started to suspect this a long time ago; after all, his mother really did know a bit too much.

"Can innate supernatural abilities be inherited?"

Lan Meng shook her head. "That cannot be inherited. They are all natural awakenings, and the probability for everyone is equal. Besides, to be honest, Aunt Lin and my father's special abilities have nothing to do with ours. As far as I know, Aunt Lin's special ability is simply being good at learning."

Wu Wei: "..."

"Don't look so skeptical. Aunt Lin's learning ability is truly exceptional. No matter what she studies, she can master it in the shortest possible time and quickly become a titan in that field. In our eyes, this is also a very rare ability, which is why she was recruited into the relevant department."

"Then what about your father? What is his superpower?"

"My father's superpower is being rich."

"Eh, Wu Wei, what's wrong with you?" Lan Meng asked, feeling very strange.

Wu Wei waved his hand, calmed his emotions, and then said earnestly, "What you said really makes a lot of sense."

If anyone dared to say that being rich wasn't a superpower, Wu Wei would fight them.

"Aunt Lin is particularly passionate about conducting experiments, but her research isn't always valuable, so the higher-ups don't support it every time. However, my father always supports her. Truth be told, Aunt Lin owes my father so much that she can never pay it back, which is why our engagement exists."

So she just sold her son?

Wu Wei recalled his mother's past deeds. No issues there; that was his mother's consistent style.

The strange thing was, why did she marry his father?

Just how blind were her eyes?

Regarding this, Lan Meng's answer was also quite matter-of-fact.

"Since ancient times, childhood sweethearts have never been a match for the one who arrives later. My father didn't lose unjustly, so I knew about you a long time ago, but I only met you in college. Wu Wei, you must honor this engagement."

Otherwise, what if other creditors snatched him up first? A sense of urgent crisis arose in Lan Meng's heart.

Heaven knows how many people Aunt Lin sold her son to back then; in any case, as far as Lan Meng knew, there were quite a few.

Lan Meng was truly impressed by that legendary Aunt Lin—she never went soft when it came to selling her son.

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