"Today is the funeral of my grandfather, the 14th head of the Huo family. Thank you all for taking the time to come; I am deeply grateful..."
"...Let us raise our glasses to send the old man on his final journey."
Yu Guihai raised his glass, drank half of it, and poured the rest on the ground in front of him. The others followed suit and drank theirs as well.
The funeral officially began. The master of ceremonies sang praises of the old man's life achievements and expressed his regret over his passing. When they sang "three minutes of silence," everyone bowed their heads, but gradually felt dizzy.
Some of the men, who had been living on the edge for years, sensed something was wrong and tried to run away, but a number of bodyguards in black suits came in. Their orderly and righteous appearance made them seem unusual.
Yu Guihai raised his head, his eyes reddening, and burst into laughter.
Everyone who was still conscious immediately realized that this was a setup he had orchestrated.
"It's you!"
None of Yu Guihai's bodyguards had been drinking. Regardless of what had happened, they immediately and dutifully surrounded him again.
Huo the Elder forced a smile and looked at Yu Guihai, angrily rebuking him: "Has the Huo family treated you badly? You've become the head of the family, why are you still doing this?"
Yu Guihai laughed even louder. After a long while, he pushed aside the bodyguards blocking his way, pointed at someone in the third row, and said, "The most famous drug lord in the country, 'Raven,' has been around for over ten years. Every time we're about to catch him, he always manages to escape. His real name is Huo Daniu, from the Huo family. Hehehehehehe, Huo Chenggong, you don't know yet, do you? The drugs your son is using are newly developed by his men."
Huo Laoda immediately looked at his much thinner son beside him, his pupils dilating as if experiencing a magnitude 9 earthquake or a magnitude 4 tsunami.
Yu Guihai then pointed to the person next to Huo Daniu: "His real name is Huo Ergou, an internationally renowned arms dealer. Ha, born in this peaceful era, yet he doesn't know how to be grateful. Instead, for money, he has repeatedly provoked wars between countries?"
Then he skipped over the scum in the fourth row, pointed at someone in the fifth row, his eyes bloodshot: "Huo Sanzhu, hah, human trafficking. Your Huo family has more money than you could squander in ten lifetimes, why do you still want to do this unscrupulous business? Ah, tell me, why!"
No one could answer him, because everyone else had collapsed from exhaustion.
Yu Guihai closed his eyes briefly and said, "I'll leave the rest to you comrades."
These bodyguards were ostensibly hired from a security consulting firm, but in reality, they were all military personnel. In order to enter smoothly and without alerting the enemy, they had been gradually entering the company before the plan even began, all for this day.
A middle-aged man dressed as the head of the bodyguards walked through the crowd and patted Yu Guihai on the shoulder: "Comrade, you've worked hard."
Yu Guihai chuckled self-deprecatingly, tapped his heel lightly, and gave a military salute.
He gave the information he had collected and compiled over the past year to his superiors, and then boarded a plane to Hawaii. He had already memorized the unfamiliar route. He knocked on the door, and Yu Weiwei was stunned for a long time when she saw him.
"Mom, I'm home."
As if it were just an ordinary outing, he gave his mother a hug when he returned.
Yu Weiwei's lips trembled, and her dry eyes trembled as well. She let her hands hang down and rested her forehead on her son's shoulder for a long time before finally raising her head.
She spoke with the utmost effort, in an extremely soft voice: "The Huo family..."
"The operation is complete."
Her dry eyes finally welled up with tears. She hugged her son back and burst into tears, calling out "Nannan."
...
On the other side, 001 stared at the merit meter, estimated that it was almost full, and immediately converted the merit into energy.
During this process, he winced in pain, his eyes brimming with tears as he watched the slowly increasing energy pool. He ruffled the tuft of hair on his head that was gradually glowing, muttering to himself, "How come it's only 1.8%... 2.1... 2.2... 3.0%... So slow, my merits, hang in there..."
Since arriving in this world, 001 has been in a low-energy state. Before that, he only had 1.8% of his energy left.
With a success rate of around 10%, he can contact the main system.
As the progress bar slowly dragged on, it approached 9.0%, and he began to worry again, fearing that the main system had already removed him from the list and that this contact was tantamount to walking into a trap.
Di Xiu also put down his work and waited with him. He was calm, because for him, the situation couldn't get any worse. However, if 001's worries came true, it would be something he owed him.
When the energy bar is full, 001's ahoge (cowlick) stands up and emits a light blue glow, and the same light appears in its eyes, which then gradually deepens and spreads.
The aperture seemed to be probing the weak points of space before converging into a deep blue band of light that connected to the unknown.
This is different from when he dragged Di Xiu away from the original world. Di Xiu recalled that he guessed that opening the space-time channel directly without exploration would consume more energy, although it was also faster.
001 remained in place for a long time, his "spiritual projection" ended, and he flew around the room in a frenzy. He accidentally rushed out of the wall and then crawled back in from another place.
"Hahahaha, the main system didn't remove me from the list, I, the 'Innocent Seed 001,' am back! La la~ la la la~ la la la la~"
Di Xiu let him rage on, but he couldn't deny that he felt relieved. Influenced by 001's emotions, he couldn't help but laugh.
001 suddenly rushed up to him and exclaimed in surprise, "Little Xiu Xiu, you actually smiled!"
Di Xiu was taken aback, then composed himself again. 001 reached out and lifted the corners of his mouth, chuckling, "Laugh if you're happy, what's there to be embarrassed about?"
"Oh right, I forgot about the important matter."
"Little Xiuxiu, this is the contract. We agreed on this before you came: you complete ten tasks, and we'll send you back."
Emperor Xiu read it quickly and signed it.
001 sent out the contract, along with a string of gibberish and Xia Hongfei's information. Seeing that Di Xiu was looking at it, he explained, "These are spatial coordinates. I'm sending them to the main system along with the information of the Great Vengeful Seed so that the main system can send me the memories stored there and the corresponding world lines."
He quickly received a reply, copied the information, and sent it directly to Di Xiu.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
