Pass Permit

Using his Inner Academy status, Chen Xu successfully obtained a great deal of detailed information from Professor Mei about Culture Capital—information ordinary people could never learn.

Culture Capital was the place where Great Abyss Technology was most advanced, home to over a thousand research institutes of all sizes developing all kinds of high-tech, cutting-edge technologies.

Led by the dozen or so largest institutes, they had established Culture Capital First Academy, whose reputation among Great Abyss's upper ranks was second only to Great Abyss National University and which specialized in training Armed Envoys.

The Inner Academy's private plane landed at the Military Department airport in Culture Capital. Chen Xu and Mu Suyi stepped off the plane, yet strangely, no one had come to receive them.

By rights, given their status, they were at least equivalent to deputy governors of a state city. They should never have received such treatment.

Yet Mu Suyi seemed used to it and took the lead toward a building within the base.

"Most people in Culture Capital worship technology above all else. They see Martial Artists as brutish idiots with strong limbs and simple minds. It's perfectly normal that we aren't welcome."

Though her tone was calm and flat, Chen Xu could hear the suppressed anger beneath it.

No one would feel good if the thing they had devoted their entire life to was dismissed as worthless by others.

"Now, we need to obtain a document called a [Pass Permit]. Anyone without a [Pass Permit Certificate] in Culture Capital will be treated as an illegal intruder. Culture Capital's enforcers may decide for themselves whether to arrest them or execute them on the spot."

The building's exterior was covered in camouflage, and the guards stationed outside stared straight ahead without shifting their gaze.

Chen Xu noticed that their