Get Them All Recruited

"Get the hell out of here! You're not the foreman anymore, and you don't have to come to work tomorrow!"

"Damn, you dare hit him?"

The four workers saw Liang Youde shove Su Jianhong, who had stood up for them, to the ground. They immediately surrounded Liang Youde, rolling up their sleeves and preparing to beat him!

Seeing that things were going badly, Liang Youde immediately shouted, "Security! Security!"

As soon as the words left his mouth, seven or eight young, brawny security guards came running over!

"What are you doing?" The head of security saw his superior surrounded and immediately ordered his men, "What are you waiting for? Beat the hell out of them!"

At once, the guards charged forward with their batons and rained blows on the workers. Soon, every worker had a bruised face.

The guards rescued Liang Youde, who was furious. He pinned Su Jianhong down and kicked him!

"Damn it, you actually brought people to beat me? I'll kill you today!"

Cursing furiously, he stepped forward, grabbed Su Jianhong by the collar, and raised his fist to strike!

Just then,

"Jianhong!"

"Dad!"

Two voices rang out. A young man moved like a ghost, appearing in the middle of the scene in an instant. He kicked Liang Youde, who was pinning Su Jianhong down, flying more than ten meters. It was Su Bai!

"You piece of trash, how dare you hit my dad?"

Ignoring Liang Youde, who lay on the ground writhing in pain, Su Bai darted forward and kicked him again!

Bam!

"Ah!"

This time, Liang Youde flew straight into a metal crate nearby. He let out a scream and spat blood!

"Cough, cough... Damn it, kill him!"

Liang Youde lay on the ground, coughing up blood in agony as he shouted at the security guards. They immediately left the four workers alone and surrounded Su Bai!

"Kill me?" Su Bai narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the seven or eight guards before him.

"Kill him! I'll take responsibility if anything happens!"

At Liang Youde's order, the guards charged forward with their batons. Lin Xiu'e and Su Jianhong watched from the side, their hearts in their throats.

"Xiaobai, be careful!"

"Run! Those men Liang Youde hired are all trained fighters!"

Trained fighters?

Hearing his parents' warning, Su Bai gave them a reassuring smile. He dodged a guard's baton, grabbed the man with one hand, and flung him more than ten meters away.

"Dad, Mom, these guys are nothing to me. Don't worry."

With that, Su Bai used strength and speed far beyond an ordinary person's to knock the seven or eight guards to the ground in a few swift moves. They groaned in pain.

Then he turned his attention to Liang Youde, who immediately screamed in fright!

"Call the police! For fuck's sake, call the police!"

Seeing what was happening, the other guards running over in the distance quickly took out their phones and called the police!

Su Jianhong and Lin Xiu'e hurried to Su Bai's side, their faces full of worry.

"Son, you've really gotten yourself into trouble this time!"

"It's no big deal if I take a couple of hits, but if they call the police and have you arrested, how will you take the college entrance exam? This could affect your whole future!"

Su Bai's heart sank a little. "Dad, even so, I don't regret it."

After living two lifetimes, Su Bai valued his family above all else. His father had been beaten badly enough to bleed. There was no way he could keep calm and handle things rationally.

Chapter 33: Get Them All Recruited

"Alas, Xiaobai, you were far too impulsive! How could you hit him so hard?" Su Jianhong let out a long sigh.

Liang Youde was petty by nature. He held grudges whenever anyone talked back to him, even over something minor. After getting beaten so badly by Su Bai today... Su Jianhong felt certain that Liang Youde wouldn't let this go.

"Old Su, I don't think he hit him too hard. That bastard deserved it!" one of the bruised and battered workers said bitterly.

He was covered in shoe prints, and his arm was broken.

"Stop egging him on. We should be figuring out what to do now." Another worker pulled him back, his face full of concern.

"Beep"—"Beep"—

Just then, an ear-piercing siren sounded. A few moments later, four or five police officers entered the workshop.

"Who was fighting? Take them all away!" The middle-aged officer leading them glared, and his men immediately moved to arrest everyone.

Liang Youde got up from the ground and pointed at his face, putting on a pitiful expression. "Officer, you have to give me justice!"

"Who hit you?"

"That one!" Liang Youde pointed at Su Bai, who had remained silent. "That little bastard beat me up. You have to make sure he gets a harsh sentence!"

The middle-aged officer glanced at him. "That's our business. You don't need to tell us what to do!"

Then he walked up to Su Bai and looked him over.

"Is what he said true? Did you hit him?"

"Yes, I did." Su Bai nodded, then explained, "But he hit my dad first. I couldn't stand by and let that happen, so I beat him up."

"Which one is your father?" The middle-aged officer looked at the injured workers.

"I am! I am!" Su Jianhong immediately nodded and bowed. "Officer, my son is still young. He's only in his senior year of high school and doesn't know any better. Take me away instead."

"Senior year isn't young. He's already an adult and has to take responsibility for his actions."

"You're a victim too. Tell me who hit you."

The middle-aged officer was impartial and handled the matter by the book.

Su Jianhong had no choice but to explain what had happened. After listening, the middle-aged officer went over to Liang Youde and the security guards.

"This is how you do your jobs as security guards? Instead of stopping a fight, you joined in? Arrest them all!"

"Officer, we were just doing what we were paid to do. The boss wouldn't be happy if we didn't."

"Yeah, you have to understand our situation."

"That kid came up and grabbed our section chief, then beat the hell out of him. What were we supposed to do, just stand there?"

The guards wore indifferent expressions. They were thugs from the streets, and fighting was nothing new to them. They were used to it.

Seeing their insolent, shameless attitude, the middle-aged officer was furious!

"So you think beating people is justified? Get back to the station, all of you!"

Then he turned to Liang Youde. "And you. You're a workshop supervisor, yet you were the one who started hitting people. You're coming with us too!"

Liang Youde panicked when he heard that he was going to the station as well. He hurriedly protested, "Officer, I didn't hit anyone! They're making it up!"

"Whether you hit anyone or not, you're coming with us. We'll investigate and get to the bottom of it."

The middle-aged officer waved his hand, and his men immediately handcuffed everyone who had attacked the others!

Lin Xiu'e's eyes brimmed with tears as she held Su Bai's hand.

"Xiaobai, don't be scared. Your dad and I will go find someone right away. We'll get you out as soon as we can so you can take the college entrance exam!"

With the college entrance exam just around the corner, how could any parent not be worried when their son had gotten into this kind of trouble?

Lin Xiu'e was prepared to sell their house and land if necessary, just to get Su Bai out in time to take the exam. After all, this would affect the rest of his life!

Handcuffed, Su Bai forced a smile to comfort her. "Mom, don't worry. It'll be fine."

No matter what, he had to reassure his family first, even though he didn't believe those words himself...

The middle-aged officer sighed at the sight. He let Su Bai exchange a few more words with his parents before speaking.

"All right. You can say whatever you need to at the station."

"You're about to take the college entrance exam, and you still went and did something like this. Now look what's happened. In a fight, regardless of who's right or wrong, you can be detained for half a month. If it's serious, you could even face criminal charges. Your future is ruined."

The middle-aged officer let out a long sigh. He felt sorry for Su Bai, too.

But no matter how much he sympathized with Su Bai, he still had to take him in. It was his duty.

When Lin Xiu'e and Su Jianhong heard how serious it was, they panicked. Their voices trembled as they spoke.

They held on to Su Bai, unwilling to let go for a long time. In the end, Su Bai had to push their hands away.

"Dad, Mom, go home first. I'll be fine." Su Bai managed a weak smile.

This was a serious situation, and his heart felt heavy.

For people at the bottom of society to get ahead, they had to attend a good university. Otherwise, they wouldn't even get the chance to become a ninja.

And now, he most likely wouldn't be able to take the college entrance exam.

Besides, under the Federation's system, the government placed great importance on students' talent. If you failed the assessment once, you couldn't retake it. He'd just cut off his path to a good university and a better life...

Yangcheng City Public Security Bureau, district branch.

In a dark room, Su Bai sat on a cold chair with his eyes closed, deep in thought. A girl's face flashed through his mind.

But Su Bai quickly dismissed the thought. It was true that calling Xia Xueqing could solve the problem, but deep down, he didn't want to do that.

Being poor wasn't frightening. What was frightening was having no pride. Xia Xueqing wouldn't look down on him, but Su Bai's nature made it impossible for him to ask others for help whenever he ran into trouble.

However, the police had taken his personal belongings, so he had no chance to make a call even if he wanted to.

"What a shame. I'd planned to study more ninjutsu at Nine Provinces Academy and grow stronger little by little. It looks like that won't work now."

If he missed the college entrance exam, he'd lose his recommendation to Nine Provinces Academy too. After all, he'd only had one chance.

"But I don't need to worry too much. Even if I can't get into Nine Provinces Academy, I can still join one of the two major guilds and change my fate!"

Su Bai thought of another path: the Hunter Guild and the Guardian Guild.

These two guilds wielded immense power across Blue Star. They had branches in every region, and legend had it that even their branch presidents were Elite Jonin!

The two guilds operated independently of the Federal Government and were not under its jurisdiction. They had their own way of doing things. In fact, quite a few powerful members of the Federal Government belonged to one of the two guilds!

Because the guilds were so powerful, the Federal Government had no way to suppress them, even if it disapproved of them. It could only turn a blind eye and accept their existence.

Over time, the two guilds grew more and more powerful.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that almost every ninja belonged to one of the two guilds!

Ninjas either joined the Hunter Guild or the Guardian Guild. One way or another, they had to join one.

That was because the two guilds held countless resources!

Ninjutsu, Magic Beast corpses, Summoning Beasts, chakra-conductive equipment... If something existed, they could get their hands on it.

And for ninjas to buy any of these resources, they first had to be members of one of the two guilds!

The higher their membership level, the cheaper the goods they could buy from their guild.

Su Bai knew there were five membership levels, with Level One the lowest and Level Five the highest.

He'd read online rumors that Level Five members could buy guild resources at half price, which drew plenty of ninjas into the guilds.

Joining a guild didn't just make things cheaper; it was also a great way for many ninjas to make a fortune.

That was because the guilds had countless jobs for ninjas to take on every day, with generous pay that ordinary ninjas couldn't turn down.

Originally, Su Bai had planned to focus on Nine Provinces Academy for now, study ninjutsu hard, grow stronger with the system, and join one of the two guilds later...

But plans couldn't keep up with change. Everything had happened too suddenly.

"What a shame. I'm not strong enough yet, and I'm not even qualified to enter the Wasteland Zone alone. This is really giving me a headache."

Though he felt some regret, Su Bai believed that if heaven let him live through this again, he would still make the same choice.

He couldn't stand by and watch his father, who had spent his whole life working for the family, get bullied like that!