After returning, Lin Nai met with Wan Ye'er, Tang Hongshan, Lin Yuxi, and others who were having dinner at the restaurant.
When Ye'er saw Lin Nai, her eyes lit up.
However, that's just the girl's personality; no matter how much she feels inside, she won't show it directly, especially when other people are around.
Lin Yuxi, A Guang, Dingzi, and the others immediately went to greet them with great enthusiasm.
"Lin Nai, you're back!" Lin Yuxi exclaimed excitedly. "I heard you advanced? Tell us how the competition went!"
Lin Nai asked in confusion, "Didn't you see the live broadcast of the match in the family surveillance room?"
Nail spread his hands and explained, "In this round, we only saw your situation in the mountains and forests in the early stages. The later scenes were cut. The competition organizers said that the later illusion scenes were confidential and could not be made public."
Lin Nai seemed thoughtful: "Is that so...?"
Then, Lin Nai gave a brief account of the situation in the previous round of the competition.
"Haha, I knew you could do it!" A-Guang put his arm around Lin Nai's shoulder: "You actually broke through the illusion of 20+ national-level illusion masters. After the competition, when the media interviews you, you'll definitely become famous again!"
Lin Nai said calmly, modestly, and honestly, "Actually, it's nothing. That illusion master used the lowest level of illusion magic, so breaking it isn't much of a skill."
"If it's broken, it's broken!" Ah Guang said nonchalantly. "The point isn't what level of illusion it is, but whose illusion it is! Who can say that defeating a boxing champion who's lame, has a dislocated arm, a high fever, and a sty doesn't count as defeating the boxing champion?"
Linnaeus: "..."
“That’s exactly right,” Ah Guang said, picking his nose. “Anyway, as long as the media puts in a lot of effort, the general public won’t care about the details, and they won’t use their brains to think. They only care about the result.”
"By the way, Linnai," Old Zhang asked from the side, "Why are you so late? I saw that the contestants from other schools came back a long time ago. If we hadn't heard from the referee that you had advanced safely, we would have thought you were eliminated and were too embarrassed to come back to see us!"
Linnaeus paused for a moment and said, "After the competition, I was taken to meet with several leaders."
"Leader?" Ah Guang was taken aback. "What leader?"
“I’ve seen many of them on TV, but I can’t recall their names right now.” Lin Nai thought for a moment. “But I remember that besides Principal Kyoto and Principal Du Hua, there was also a military strategist, Marshal Sun, and an old man whom I heard them call Elder Ji.”
Everyone's eyes widened in disbelief: "??!!"
Tang Hongshan, in particular, looked utterly astonished: "Marshal Sun?! Elder Ji?! Are you serious? Marshal Sun and Elder Ji met with you in person?!"
Linna: "Mm."
"hiss......"
The crowd exchanged bewildered glances, gasping for breath several times, but no one uttered a word.
Linna asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
"What's wrong? Brother Nai, don't you know who Marshal Sun and Elder Ji are?"
Old Zhang quickly lit a cigarette to calm his nerves before slowly saying, "Commander Sun is a unique military leader, the supreme commander of the dimensional army, and an apostle of the God of War. He is one of the strongest forces in our Yan Kingdom!"
"As for Elder Ji, he is an extremely mysterious figure who controls countless mysterious organizations, including our Night Watchmen, who are just one of his forces."
Lin Nai raised an eyebrow.
I see......
"So, what exactly did Elder Ji and Marshal Sun want to see you about? They certainly wouldn't have asked you for no reason, would they?" Tang Hongshan asked nervously from the side.
"Well, Commander Sun made a bet with me." Lin Nai thought for a moment, but didn't mention Dark Moon.
Mr. Ji said that Dark Moon is a top-secret special organization, and even the closest people cannot reveal any information about it.
Lin Nai was not afraid of being punished by Elder Ji and the others.
They were afraid of implicating Tang Hongshan and his group.
After all, sometimes knowing secrets you shouldn't know can be dangerous.
Tang Hongshan was taken aback, then looked puzzled: "A bet? What kind of bet?"
“He said that if I don’t win the championship this time, he wants me to transfer from the Night’s Watch to the Military Academy.” Linnaeus shrugged.
"Huh??" Lin Yuxi exclaimed in surprise, "Is he trying to steal her away?"
Nail asked, "And if you win, what's his bet?"
Lin Nai said calmly, "A Yellow Soldier Token."
Everyone was even more surprised. The Yellow Soldier Token is a military mobilization token exclusive to military strategists. It is a military token that only Yellow-level generals can possess and can mobilize one hundred extraordinary warriors from another plane's army.
The mobilization levels of the Yan Kingdom's dimensional army are divided into four levels from bottom to top: Yellow Army Order, Black Army Order, Earth Army Order, and Heaven Army Order.
Huang Bingling can mobilize one hundred extraordinary warriors, equivalent to a centurion.
The Xuanbing Token can mobilize one thousand extraordinary warriors, equivalent to a centurion.
The Earth Soldier Order can mobilize 10,000 superhuman warriors.
The Heavenly Army Order can mobilize 100,000 people!
Above that are marshals like Marshal Sun.
Strictly speaking, even the Yellow Soldier Token can only be obtained by soldiers who have fought countless battles, made outstanding achievements, and possess both combat prowess and strategic acumen.
So everyone was quite surprised that Commander Sun would use such an item as a wager.
“But…” Old Zhang took a drag of his cigarette, then exhaled deeply, saying with some worry, “It might be a bit difficult for Lin Nai to win this bet…”
The others nodded in agreement, seemingly sharing the same viewpoint.
Even Lin Yuxi, who always blindly favored Lin Nai, showed a very worried expression this time.
Lin Nai asked curiously, "How so?"
“Lin Nai, you might have been tricked by Sun Shuai…” Tang Hongshan sighed. “If you had participated last year… or the year before, the year before that, the year before that… or even ten years ago, I think you could have easily won the championship, but this year…”
"What's wrong this year?" Linna asked.
"This year, disciples from Guigu Valley are participating." Tang Hongshan gave a wry smile: "I'm afraid it won't be that easy..."
"You mean Mu Xun?" Lin Nai immediately recalled the cold, world-weary-faced boy she had just seen at the entrance of the conference hall. "Do you know him well?"
Tang Hongshan shook his head: "No, we know nothing about him. We've never even seen his true strength before this competition."
Linna asked curiously, "Then why do you say that?"
"Take a look at this, and you'll understand." Tang Hongshan took out a tablet, quickly swiped across it as if looking up some information, and then handed it to Lin Nai.
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