How Much Do You Earn in a Month to Risk Your Life?

On the night road, Gu Yuena held Lan Xuanyu's hand as they walked home.

Suddenly, Lan Xuanyu, who had been silent the whole way, asked Gu Yuena a completely out-of-the-blue question.

"Teacher Nana, is my brother really strong?"

"Hm?" Gu Yuena looked at the somewhat dejected Lan Xuanyu, a trace of heartache flashing through her purple eyes. She crouched down and met Lan Xuanyu's gaze. "Yes. Your brother is stronger than I expected. Although there are some things I can't remember, I'm certain that among those who could fight me at the same level, not a single one is stronger than your brother. Even I, at the same level, would be far from his match."

Gu Yuena stroked Lan Xuanyu's head, her voice gentle. "So, Xuanyu, you must train properly with your brother in that Rasengan of his. The technique within it is astonishing. As long as you can understand the principles behind it, once you master other elements in the future, you can try mixing in those elements. The power it brings will increase exponentially."

"So Brother is just that strong, that much of a genius." Lan Xuanyu sighed, sat down to the side, propped his chin in his hand, and looked at the moon as he murmured, "Then how am I supposed to surpass Brother?"

"Why do you want to surpass him?"

"Only by surpassing Brother can I help him do the things he doesn't want to do."

"So that's why." Gu Yuena thought for a moment, her voice growing even softer. "But you don't necessarily have to surpass him. You can treat him as someone to chase after. I have a feeling that in the future, Lin Yuan will definitely become extremely powerful, and the only one who will be able to keep up with Lin Yuan's footsteps will probably be you, Xuanyu."

"Only me...?"

Hearing that, Lan Xuanyu froze for a moment. The restlessness in his heart eased considerably at that moment.

Time always flew by without anyone noticing.

In the time that followed, aside from training his two Soul Skills, listening to the voices of the stars, and cultivating that special state, Lin Yuan spent more of his time investigating Sin Planet.

Unfortunately, however...

After investigating for this period of time, Lin Yuan had only found a few faint traces that could hardly even be called evidence.

They were far from enough to point directly at Sin Planet.

Lin Yuan even had a thought himself: the evidence the military had on Sin Planet was probably more than what he had!

And the people from Sin Planet were not truly a bunch of idiots with worrying intelligence. Even though Lin Yuan acted carefully, those people from Sin Planet seemed to have discovered that someone was investigating them in secret, and their movements became even more concealed.

Only after an unknown amount of time did Lin Yuan finally find someone from Sin Planet beneath a bridge tunnel. Mm, and a little girl he had casually abducted.

The man was acting furtively, wearing a micro mecha. Behind the micro mecha was a rather pretty little girl, her mouth gagged and her eyes covered. The little girl struggled nonstop, huge tears rolling down her cheeks.

"Be quiet. Keep making noise and I'll kill you right now, so you'll never see your mom again!"

The person from Sin Planet spoke in an icy voice, and after being threatened like that, the little girl instantly fell silent, leaving only soft sobs.

"Mm, the mission data should count as completed."

The middle-aged man nodded in satisfaction. He was holding a Soul Guidance Device similar to a scanner, seemingly scanning something and collecting some kind of data. Just as he finished gathering the data and prepared to run...

All of a sudden, he felt himself being firmly pulled in place.

"Rise."

In an instant, the middle-aged man rose into the air as if defying gravity.

"I've been watching you sneaking around these past few days. You really are from Sin Planet."

Lin Yuan stretched out his right hand and walked out from the darkness.

"Ahhh!"

The little girl flailed wildly, and then suddenly, she landed in someone's arms.

"It's dangerous at night, so don't run around. Hurry home."

After Lin Yuan tied up the person from Sin Planet with the man's own high-tech binding rope, he used Universal Pull to control the earth and bury him in the ground.

Only after confirming that the man had completely lost the ability to move did Lin Yuan ask the little girl where her home was. After learning that it was nearby, he sent her home, then returned to this place once more.

As Lin Yuan expected, the man had no way to break free from the ropes and the restraint of the earth.

"Uncle, just how much money did those bosses from Sin Planet pay you? Was it really worth risking your life like this?"

Lin Yuan used Universal Pull to suppress the four-ring Soul Master whose half body had almost entirely been replaced by machinery, then sighed. Just now, he had pulled this man out of the ground and interrogated him harshly!

"Torture me all you want. I'll never tell you any—ahahahaha!!!"

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Yuan used a few strands of Blue Silver Grass to tickle the soles of the man's feet, making him laugh so hard he rocked back and forth.

"You really are a warrior. Then I'll satisfy you."

Seeing the man face death as if returning home, Lin Yuan sighed.

Forget it. People who carried out this sort of top-secret mission were basically death warriors, with some kind of leverage held by the people of Sin Planet.

Thinking of that, Lin Yuan casually snapped his fingers.

In an instant, the man's eyes went blank. The next second, his eyes rolled back, and he actually fainted on the spot.

All he could say was, those fanfics from his previous life were fucking lies!

What "domineering aura" getting switched on and making everyone spill every truth? Anyone capable of carrying out a mission like this across such a vast distance had to be an absolutely loyal death warrior.

The butterfly effect really was no joke. Sin Planet was, after all, one of the major powers in the universe. If they did not even have this level of counter-reconnaissance, they might as well disband on the spot.

"Why is there nothing in here?! What's the point of carrying around this crappy backpack?!"

Lin Yuan suddenly shouted in anger, then slammed the man's backpack hard onto the ground!

"Forget it. I'll just count today as doing a good deed." Lin Yuan stretched lazily, clasped his hands behind his head, and hummed a little tune as he headed home.

Not long after Lin Yuan left, a figure suddenly appeared. He held a communicator and said something to the person on the other end.

"Reporting to the Eternal Night Monarch... Hyena is dead, but his secret wasn't exposed..."

"That person didn't check the storage Soul Guidance Device?"

"He didn't seem to recognize it. After all, Eternal Night Monarch, you see through the human heart. You knew the best concealment is no concealment at all. He probably thought it was just an ordinary backpack, not a storage Soul Guidance Device."

The person on the other end of the communicator fell silent for quite a while before finally speaking. "Go take a look. See whether this storage Soul Guidance Device has been searched."

"Yes."

That person held the backpack and examined it for a long while, then said happily, "Reporting to the Eternal Night Monarch, there are no signs it was searched!"

"Very good. I thought there were a few smart people in the Federation, but in my eyes, they're nothing special..."

From the communicator came the Eternal Night Monarch's faint voice.

"Well now. If I'm guessing right, this should be the exact location where the Eternal Night Monarch planted the bomb in Skyscraper Tower in the original work, and also the Eternal Night Monarch's hideout in Ziluo City, right?"