Everyone wanted him-outrageous offers!

Liu Ruyan had exquisite, seductive features, a soft voice that drew people in, and a figure worthy of Tsunade herself. Those three qualities made her irresistibly alluring!

She seemed like a born temptress, capable of stealing a man's soul with a mere crook of her finger.

Even Lin Dong wasn't immune, but his attention remained entirely on Bai Ruoxue:

"Can you heal Bai Ruoxue?"

"You're so manly, little brother. I just love that cold streak of yours."

Liu Ruyan giggled sweetly and replied, "I can only guarantee she'll be able to get out of bed and walk, rather than end up crippled."

"But her voice... even I can't do anything about that."

Bai Ruoxue hadn't undergone a class change in the first place. Forcing herself to use Curse Words had simply burned through her life force. Saving her at all would already be a miracle. As for her voice?

Even someone as powerful as Liu Ruyan could do nothing.

Lin Dong pondered, his mind racing.

Liu Ruyan seized the opportunity to say, "Be a good boy and stop overthinking it."

"As long as you agree to come with me, I'll save her for you and protect you from the Bai Family's retaliation."

"Don't assume everyone in the Bai Family is useless like those people."

"They have capable people too, especially that shameless vixen of theirs. She's the scariest of them all!"

Watching a young married woman who oozed sensuality call another woman a vixen, Lin Dong found the scene rather amusing.

Did Liu Ruyan not know how sexy she was?

No!

She knew all too well!

Ever since she appeared, she had been exploiting her advantages to throw Lin Dong off balance!

"Saving Bai Ruoxue was the condition I negotiated with the Special Affairs Bureau in exchange for my merits."

Lin Dong stared straight at Liu Ruyan. "In other words, it's your job. Don't try to sell it to me a second time as part of your offer."

"As for the Bai Family's retaliation?"

"I'm currently a martial entrance exam candidate graduating this year!"

"Under Federation law, no individual or organization may harass current-year martial entrance exam candidates during the month before the exam begins."

"So even without your protection, the Bai Family won't retaliate against me!"

"Finally, if you really want to recruit me, offer some tangible benefits."

As he spoke, Lin Dong brazenly looked Liu Ruyan over from head to toe, studying her carefully. "You alone probably aren't enough, big sister!"

Liu Ruyan felt his gaze burn like fire, making her instinctively squeeze her legs together.

But she quickly recovered and smiled delightedly. "Oh my~ I couldn't tell! You're young, little brother, but you've got quite the appetite!"

As she spoke, Liu Ruyan glanced at Bai Ruobing in her wheelchair and giggled:

"So you flew into a rage over a beauty just now?"

"Planning to scoop up both sisters?"

Bai Ruobing's delicate hands suddenly tightened around her wheelchair.

Lin Dong's expression remained unchanged. "Save her first, Sister Liu."

"Don't call me big sister. You're making me sound old."

Liu Ruyan gave him a flirtatious look. "Call me Ruyan~"

"Ruyan, the Special Affairs Bureau sent you here to work, not play matchmaker."

Someone had taken her advice, but it wasn't Lin Dong. An aged yet resonant voice rang out in the corridor.

Liu Ruyan's pretty face darkened. She turned toward the newcomer and snapped, "Old man, are we that close? Who gave you permission to call me Ruyan?"

"Call me that again, and I swear I'll break your idiot grandson's legs!"

Zhou Gong shuddered reflexively.

Lin Dong followed the voice and saw an elderly man with white hair and a stooped figure, but bright, piercing eyes.

"You must be Gong's captain?"

The old man spotted Lin Dong as well and chuckled. "I'm Gong's grandfather, Zhou Shan."

"I heard all about what happened in the last dungeon. Thank you for saving Gong's life."

Lin Dong nodded. "It was only right."

"The Bai Family is getting more and more unscrupulous."

Zhou Shan glanced at the dead old woman on the floor, then turned to Lin Dong. "Lin Dong, I'll demand an explanation from the Bai Family over this. I won't let them make things difficult for you."

"Hey, hey! Have you no shame, old man? You're trying to steal him the moment you arrive?"

Liu Ruyan couldn't stand listening any longer and stepped forward. "The Liu Family has already set its sights on him!"

Zhou Shan replied calmly, "I'm not stealing anyone from your Liu Family. I'm recruiting for Jiangdu Martial Arts School. Is that not allowed either?"

"Jiangdu Martial Arts School?"

Liu Ruyan laughed. "Do you think Nanda Martial Arts School has no one to stand up for it?"

"Jiangdu? Nanda?"

Another laugh suddenly rang out in the hospital corridor.

"Jiangdu? Nanda?"

Another laugh suddenly rang out in the hospital corridor.

It was crisp and sharp, like a blade scraping across glass.

At the end of the corridor, a woman in a dark green Federation military service uniform approached slowly, her army boots clicking sharply against the floor tiles.

She looked about twenty-seven or twenty-eight, with ear-length hair and sharp features. The silver sword-and-shield insignia on her shoulder boards gleamed coldly under the pallid lights.

"Old Master Zhou, you vixen Liu, you're really going backward with age."

The woman wore a faint, mocking smile. "Jiangdu Martial Arts School and Nanda Martial Arts School are throwing away their dignity over a graduating student who hasn't even finished his exams?"

Zhou Shan's expression darkened. "Instructor Qin, isn't Beidu Military Academy overreaching?"

"Overreaching?"

Instructor Qin raised an eyebrow. "The Federal First Military Academy has always recruited based on ability alone."

"We've reviewed the complete records of Lin Dong's performance in the dungeon."

"A combat genius like him would only go to waste at your martial arts schools."

"That's not quite right, Instructor Qin."

Another voice came from the stairwell.

This time, it was a man in a suit and polished shoes, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and carrying a black briefcase. Two black-clad bodyguards followed him.

He looked as though he had just rushed over from some premium office building. His spotless leather shoes were starkly out of place amid the bloodshed in the hospital corridor.

"Lu Ming, deputy director of human resources at the Apocalypse Conglomerate."

The man adjusted his glasses and offered a business card with a smile. "Lin Dong, our conglomerate thinks very highly of your potential."

"Moreover, signing on to our Apocalypse Seed Program comes with a one-million-Federation-credit enrollment subsidy. Upon graduation, you'll join a core department directly, with an annual salary of at least seven figures."

"The Apocalypse Conglomerate?"

Liu Ruyan's expression shifted slightly. "Since when did you start competing for current-year martial entrance exam candidates?"

"You're joking, Miss Liu."

Lu Ming remained all smiles. "Who doesn't appreciate talent?"

"Heh. A corporation?"

Instructor Qin sneered. "Can your money buy military decorations?"

"It can't buy military decorations, but it can buy survival."

Lu Ming was neither servile nor overbearing. "Lin Dong, I know you've offended the Bai Family. The Apocalypse Conglomerate can settle that for you."

"Settle it?"

Zhou Shan scoffed. "With your Apocalypse mercenaries? The Bai Family has a level 69 expert backing it."

"Old Master Zhou, times have changed."

Lu Ming said mildly, "Sometimes, a conglomerate's money works better than fists."

In the hospital corridor, the smell of disinfectant mingled with a faint trace of blood, while the fluorescent tubes gave off a soft electrical buzz.

Zhou Gong huddled in a corner, watching the scene with his mind completely blank.

His legs felt weak, and cold sweat had soaked through the back of his school uniform.

Zhou Shan of Jiangdu Martial Arts School, Liu Ruyan of Nanda Martial Arts School, Instructor Qin of Beidu Military Academy, Lu Ming of the Apocalypse Conglomerate...

Any one of those names belonged to someone who could shake all of Jiangdu City.

Yet here they were, arguing furiously around his captain like housewives fighting over the last live fish at a market.

"C-Captain..."

Zhou Gong stammered, his voice barely audible. "Looks like you're about to hit the jackpot!"

Lin Dong didn't answer. He merely cast him a faint glance.

Zhou Gong swallowed, suddenly feeling as though he had never truly known his captain.

Bai Ruobing sat in her wheelchair, her expression even more conflicted than before.

Born into the Bai Family, she had understood the significance of power and resources from a young age.

Even the Bai Family had to treat these people and organizations with courtesy.

Yet now, they had all crowded into this narrow hospital corridor for Lin Dong alone.

Bai Ruobing gripped her wheelchair's armrests, her knuckles turning white.

The look in her eyes as she watched Lin Dong changed again and again!

"Enough."

As everyone continued arguing, the elevator doors at the end of the corridor slowly opened.

An elderly man in a gray Zhongshan suit stepped out, leaning on a black cane.

He looked utterly ordinary, even a little unfashionable, yet the moment he appeared, the very air in the corridor seemed to freeze.

Instructor Qin, Lu Ming, Liu Ruyan, and Zhou Shan all underwent a drastic change of expression.

Someone from the Special Affairs Bureau had arrived!