The Youth Behind the Scenes

Three levels underground from where the venue was located.

There was a small room here, filled with electronic instruments and three little kids.

These three youngsters might have been small, but they were extremely famous.

They were known as the S City Three Bears.

As the name implied, they were three little troublemakers who often did things beyond all reason and had been beaten black and blue more than once.

Their brand of "bear" was somewhat different from the usual kind.

The three little fellows were very clever. Though they knew no martial arts and had yet to reach the age for cultivation, they were proficient in a very new field: electronic Dao patterns.

It was a new industry that had only emerged in recent decades, with an extremely broad range of applications.

And the three of them each excelled in a different specialty within it.

The ringleader was named Zhang Lan, nicknamed Big Head. He specialized in Dao-pattern intelligence. At nine, he designed his own Dao-pattern intelligence and hacked into the military system. His father, Zhang Yu, had been overjoyed on one side while hanging him from a tree and whipping him all afternoon on the other.

Oh, right—Zhang Yu was Minister Zhang Tao's son.

The second-in-command was Zhang Feng, nicknamed Big Ears. Zhang Tiande had fathered him late in life. While other children were still playing with mud and urine, this little fellow had designed the first conventional weapon of his life: a Dao-pattern talisman that ordinary people could use. It only required a small amount of mental energy to activate and explode. Its power was not particularly great, but it generated fierce currents of air. Once, after classmates mocked his oversized ears, he flew into a rage and tossed more than ten of them into the school