The sun was high in the sky, and the weather was overcast.
Dozens of law enforcement officers were stationed at several key points along the Eagle Cry Gorge, their expressions stern, their eyes piercing, and their hands gripping their rifles motionless.
"As a senior, what do you have to tell me?"
Ye Li sat on a blue stone and turned his head to look at the tall girl beside him who hadn't opened her mouth since she arrived.
"..."
Chen Jingli stared at Ye Li without moving for a full ten seconds.
Only after the boy frowned slightly did she slowly say, "You are stronger than me."
What amazing perception!
Much better than Yang Wan, who just guessed blindly back then...
Ye Li was slightly surprised, then asked:
"So what?"
"So no." Chen Jingli replied calmly.
Ye Li's brows relaxed slightly, but he still calmly asked, "Then what use are you?"
Chen Jingli closed her eyes slowly, neither confirming nor denying.
I hate Three-No Girl...
I glanced at the system backend, which was completely silent.
Ye Li sighed. It was best if the other party didn't have any leverage over him, otherwise he would definitely beat him until his emotions were restored.
He stood up and walked out of the camp.
Just as I was about to wander around, I heard the law enforcement officers outside the camp talking in hushed tones.
"Can we hold on this time?"
"Definitely no problem. Didn't you hear what Captain Liu said? Three people at the Heavenly Gate Heavenly Gate Realm have arrived from the two Martial Arts University, and even the servant brought by that Miss Wu is at the True Blood Realm!"
Wow, that's quite a generous gesture! Are they treating us this way so well?
"Damn it, I heard that Senior Zuo has been throwing a tantrum these past couple of days, pointing his finger at our commander-in-chief and yelling at him!"
"What were you cursing about?"
"I only heard about it. Apparently, it's something like, 'I asked you to set up a blockade, but it's either windy or rainy, and after four days of encirclement, I haven't even killed a single sixth-tier Mutant Beast!'"
"..."
Ye Li was listening intently when he suddenly sensed an aura approaching him from behind.
He turned around and looked.
A young man with a cold and aloof demeanor walked over, a smile on his face, his steps unhurried.
It was Song Tao.
Standing before Ye Li, he cleared his throat and said loudly:
"Ye Li, right?"
"Is something the matter?" Ye Li asked.
"My name is Song Tao. Our young lady invites you to come over for a chat."
Looking at the young man before him, Song Tao's eyes held a hint of disdain as he slightly turned to the side. "Please."
Ye Li looked in the direction he indicated and indeed saw Wu Jie dressed in gorgeous clothes.
She sat on a chair under the tree, looking at the boy with a playful expression.
Seeing the young man looking at her, Wu Jie straightened up slightly, gently beckoned with her hand, her slender figure exuding nobility.
"I'm not going."
Ye Li withdrew his gaze and said calmly, "Does she not have legs of her own? Why did she send you to invite me?"
"How dare you!"
Song Tao frowned and shouted angrily, unable to resist taking a step forward. He had treated the other party with courtesy, yet the other party had directly spoken rudely.
What an unruly person!
His angry shout immediately attracted the attention of some law enforcement officers nearby.
Ye Li waved his hand and said casually:
"Go back and complain to your master."
"You!" Song Tao's face turned pale. As a servant of the Northern Wu Family, when had he ever been treated like this?
You have to consider the owner before you beat a dog!
You wait...
Song Tao glared at the other person fiercely, then jogged back to Wu Jie's side.
"Miss, not only is he not coming, but he's also been rude to you!"
Song Tao's face turned ugly, and he immediately gritted his teeth and repeated the conversation he had just had.
"..."
Wu Jie was speechless. She hadn't expected that the other party would send Song Tao back to complain, and Song Tao would actually come back to complain.
This made her feel like her social standing had dropped several levels.
"Useless thing."
Wu Jie frowned, stood up, coldly uttered a sentence, and walked towards Ye Li's direction.
No way.
Having already said those things to Chen Jingli, if she ultimately fails to keep Ye Li in check, where will she put her pride?
Even given Chen Jingli's personality, she most likely wouldn't take this to heart.
But this Second Miss of the Northern Wu Family was clearly a person with a very strong sense of self-respect.
Amidst the curious gazes of numerous law enforcement officers, Wu Jie finally stopped in front of Ye Li.
She could feel Chen Jingli's gaze, seemingly casually, drifting towards her from within the camp.
Ah... there was definitely a problem.
Wu Jie sneered inwardly.
There was absolutely no attempt to avoid the topic.
She leaned casually against the tree trunk, arms crossed, about to speak.
Then they heard the boy's teasing voice:
"Coming to avenge your own dog?"
Upon hearing this, Wu Jie's expression hardened, and she said coldly with some annoyance, "You'd better watch your mouth."
The initial intention to recruit them has largely diminished, replaced by a stronger desire to teach them a lesson.
But for the sake of saving face.
She took a deep breath and then whispered:
"I am Wu Jie, the Second Miss of the Northern Wu Family."
"Ye Li." The boy nodded politely.
The name "Northern Wu Family" sounds familiar; Jiang Qingzhu seems to come from a prestigious family called the Northern Extreme Jiang Family.
"You have excellent potential."
Wu Jie casually made up an excuse and spoke slowly.
In any case, the boy's strength is at most at the Third-Tier.
To have Third-Tier rank in one's first year is definitely a sign of exceptional talent.
"Come to my Wu family and serve as a nominal steward. When you break through to the fourth rank, you can choose a woman from a collateral branch to marry. You can choose any S-Grade Meditation Technique from the Wu family, and we can even provide you with A-Grade Divine Mansion Condensing Method for the Fifth Tier."
As Wu Jie's calm words fell, the dozens of law enforcement officers were all in an uproar.
They were not unaware of S-Grade Meditation Technique, but those were usually family secrets of prestigious clans, absolutely inaccessible to anyone but a direct descendant.
Even though Fengyun University's Book Repository Myriad Forms and profound, S-Grade Meditation Technique are definitely expensive and scarce.
Moreover, it's just a nominal position with no real duties...
Such conditions are truly heartening.
Feeling the awe-inspiring gazes directed at them from all around.
Wu Jie looked somewhat smugly at the boy, her eyes burning with desire, and asked in a statement of fact:
"How?"
At the same time, her attendant Song Tao also came up behind her.
He held himself high, smiling as he looked at Ye Li, waiting for the young man to agree to his terms before offering a few words of praise that were both veiled and sarcastic.
So what if you were trying to be so unique?
Faced with the Wu family's formidable resources, wouldn't they have no choice but to obediently bow their heads and act like dogs?
"Not good."
In the dead silence.
Ye Li's chuckled voice rang in everyone's ears, "Conditions that are like giving money to a beggar, and you can talk about them with such pride, you're quite something."
Having said that, he strode off as if he hadn't heard a word and headed into the camp.
"..."
Wu Jie's confident smile instantly froze on her face.
The terms she considered quite generous were described as "sending off a beggar"?!
What's the difference between this and slapping her in the face in public?
Originally, it was just for fun, to annoy Chen Jingli.
But now.
Wu Jie's face was grim. She turned her head to look at the other person's receding figure, her cold voice suppressing extreme anger:
"Ye Li, what arrogance! Once the mission is over, my Wu family will definitely have a serious relationship with you!"
Hearing the threat in her words.
Many law enforcement officers felt a slight jolt in their hearts.
Song Tao, who was initially furious and whose face was twitching with anger, quickly calmed down upon hearing these words.
He then looked up with a hint of schadenfreude at the receding, slender figure.
I intended to mock them for being ungrateful.
But the next second, Song Tao realized something was wrong.
Because that slender figure not only didn't blur or disappear, but instead began to grow larger and larger in our field of vision!
P. S.: The two chapters are nearly 5,000 words long; the author really did their best.
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