26: Chapter 26 Departure into the Reality Secret Realm

"Click..."

The room door opened.

Looking at Xu Daili, whose eyes were a bit dark as if she hadn't slept enough, Chu Hong furrowed his brows slightly.

"Even though you live alone, you should still exercise some restraint when it comes to certain things..."

He reminded her indifferently, and without looking at her face which gradually flushed red after a daze, Chu Hong directly handed the two huge backpacks in his hands to her.

"These are what you need to synthesize today. There's no need to hold back; I hope to see results as soon as possible. Once we get material-producing collectables of golden quality, our Pioneer Squad will be able to secure a long-term profitable income."

Hearing this, Xu Daili couldn't help but feel a shock in her heart.

"Yes, Captain! I understand!"

Chu Hong nodded, then turned around to leave directly.

Seeing him so decisive, Xu Daili hesitated for a moment and couldn't help speaking up.

"Cap-, Captain, how about having breakfast together?"

Her face flushed with a hint of red, but what she got was Chu Hong casually waving his hand to refuse.

"I have things to do, next time."

Xu Daili: "..."

Chu Hong wasn't possessed by some sigma male persona; he genuinely had things to do today.

In a blink of an eye, half a month had passed since the assessment registration, and in a dozen days or so, he and Wang Suming would need to take the assessment.

By then, they would need to enter the secret realms of the real world.

Whether it was him or Wang Suming, it was their first time.

But fortunately, he had simulated it too many times...

When he arrived at Wang Suming's home, through the villa's wall, he saw that kid Wang Suming in the yard continuously training his shooting against a target.

The sound of "da da da" gunfire continued endlessly, and on the target some seventy or eighty meters away, clattering sounds rang out.

It basically stayed within the range of the eighth to tenth rings.

Father Wang watched from the side, but his expression was somewhat gloomy and ugly.

"Son, are you really going to take the assessment for Longming Sacred Academy? Your initial skill does allow you to carry more things than others, but... resupplies are not allowed midway through the assessment. When you run out of bullets, are you going to go bayonet-to-bayonet with the monsters in the secret realm?"

Father Wang earnestly tried to persuade his son Wang Suming to give up.

But then he suddenly saw Chu Hong standing outside the gate.

Wang Suming also saw Chu Hong at the first instance, his sweat-streaked face carrying joy.

"Brother Hong! You're here! Hahaha, come take a look, my marksmanship has improved by leaps and bounds now!"

Chu Hong walked in with a smile and greeted Father Wang.

"Uncle Wang..."

Father Wang nodded, his expression somewhat complex.

"Brother Hong, did you come looking for me because you're getting ready to practice and gain experience in a secret realm? I went to check out the Pioneers Guild these past few days, and there are still some relatively low-priced escorts. The two of us just need to find a three-person Pioneer Squad, and it'll form a full five-person team..."

Chu Hong smiled and waved his hand, cutting him off.

His demeanor became somewhat serious.

"Chubby, find a quiet room. We have business."

Wang Suming was stunned for a moment and glanced at his old man who was about to leave, the latter's eyes suddenly bursting with a gleam of hope at this moment.

"Brother Hong, you..."

"Find a room. Rest assured, it's a good thing," Chu Hong said with a smile.

Soon, Wang Suming brought Chu Hong into his own room. The room was spacious, and the walls were covered with many intelligence documents about secret realms that had clearly been organized.

Obviously, this kid Wang Suming had really been doing his homework during this period.

"Brother Hong, you, you wouldn't want to give up, would you?" Wang Suming asked with some worry.

Afterwards, he saw that after locking the door, Chu Hong gradually revealed a familiar bad smile that made his heart secretly cry out that something was wrong.

"Chubby, brother is doing this all for your own good. It'll hurt a bit, but you have to endure it..."

Wang Suming's complexion changed drastically, and the fat on his face trembled violently.

"Eh? Hey! Don't, Brother Hong, don't, don't do it Brother Hong, I, I'm not into that stuff! Brother Hong Brother Hong! Dad! Dad, save me!!!"

Chu Hong took out a bottle of entirely purple potion that shone with light, and under Wang Suming's wide-eyed, horrified gaze, he directly and forcefully poured it down his throat.

Outside.

Father Wang pressed his ear tightly against the door, but his expression was ugly to the extreme.

"Damn it, why did I have to listen to that bastard's nonsense back then and make the house soundproofing so good?"

Inside, Wang Suming screamed as he rolled around on the bed and floor.

Outside.

Father Wang couldn't hear even the slightest movement.

A full half-hour passed.

Only then did Wang Suming, covered in sweat and looking as if he had been broken in play, start rolling his eyeballs gently.

"Brother Hong, you..." He twitched his mouth and silently extended a middle finger toward Chu Hong, who was sitting in the ergonomic chair and recording with a camera in his hand.

"Damn, so this is Source Energy! Brother Hong, does this mean I've become a Stage One Qiyuan Pioneer? Won't that bastard Wu Gang already be left far behind by us?"

After adjusting his state, Wang Suming became directly psyched up.

From time to time, he condensed Source Energy in his hands, feeling that supernatural energy. The look in his eyes towards Chu Hong was already as if he were looking at his adoptive father.

"Brother Hong, where did you get that thing? It must be very expensive, right? How much is it? If push comes to shove, if you're really into that sort of thing, I'm not completely opposed to it either..."

He put on a coy and disgusting expression of "there's nothing I can do with you".

This made Chu Hong's eye twitch fiercely.

"Get lost!"

A pen holder was directly smashed at him, and Chu Hong rolled his eyes unhappily.

"Pack up, bring your things, we're entering the secret realm today!"

Wang Suming's eyes lit up: "Brother Hong, have you arranged for escorts?"

"Escorts? Who hires escorts for loot-running?"

Watching his own son, with a massive 45-slot backpack bought at huge expense strapped to his back, carrying a rifle and a few magazines, obediently following Chu Hong away.

The look of worry on Father Wang's face grew even more intense.

"Sigh..."

"What are you sighing for? Why didn't you stop him just now? Now you're sighing?" Mother Wang fiercely pinched Father Wang's arm, watching him bare his teeth in a grimace.

As a mother, she couldn't help but look anxiously toward the direction the two children left.

Pioneers Guild.

In almost every base city, it was a landmark building that could be seen at a glance.

The huge arch seemed to blend into the hundred-meter-high outer wall of Huangshan Base City.

Behind the arch was a huge fountain plaza.

And beyond that was a massive building resembling a Western-style castle.

When Chu Hong and Wang Suming walked in here, the massive Pioneers Guild was bustling with people everywhere. Chu Hong and the others even saw quite a few peers around their age.

In a dozen days or so, it would be the graduation assessment.

Anyone with some family background, or whose initial skills were valued by certain Pioneer Squads and invested in early on, had already begun entering the wilderness or trial secret realms after registering.

Chu Hong and Wang Suming came to a counter labeled "Secret Realm Registration Desk" and took out their respective ID cards.

"Hello, we are applying to go out and explore a secret realm."

They took the specially established "Academy Passage." The young lady at the counter looked at the two of them, each carrying a super-large 45-slot backpack on their back, yet without a single Pioneer escort behind them, as if they were going to a secret realm to stock up on groceries.

She couldn't help but look stunned.

"Just the two of you? Where are your escorts? Escort personnel must register together!"

The young lady kindly reminded them, but the two of them shook their heads one after another.

"Sorry, it's just the two of us. Just register us and issue the pass directly..."

The situation here immediately drew the gazes of quite a few people around.

Especially Chu Hong and Wang Suming, each carrying an exaggerated backpack big enough to obscure both their figures, gathering strange gazes onto them.

"That person seems to be Chu Hong, right? They actually came to participate in a secret realm today. I haven't seen him for over ten days since registration; I thought he gave up..."

"That fat guy Wang Suming dares to tag along with anything. Chu Hong is an orphan with no father or mother—if he dies, he dies. Why is a rich second-generation kid like him joining in on the fun?"

"Damn, these two must be crazy. Entering a secret realm for the first time without even bringing an escort? Are they going in just to throw their lives away?"

The surrounding people discussed animatedly.

Chu Hong's brows slowly furrowed as he tapped on the counter table in front of him.

"Hello, I suppose the Pioneers Guild doesn't require prospective Pioneers to have escort personnel accompany them on their first entry into a secret realm, right? If not, please issue the pass for us!"

He didn't want to attract too much attention.

However, just as tomato and egg stir-fry must have tomatoes, a shocking plot had to transition into face-slapping, and the author simply had to arrange for a villain to step up and invite a scolding while the protagonist was being watched.

It was as if some people were born with a major mission.

Namely, to make things difficult for Chu Hong, always managing to appear by Chu Hong's side at the most inopportune moments.

"Yo~ Isn't this our campus hunk Chu? You..."

Wu Gang's voice came from behind, carrying thick sarcasm and arrogance.

"Enough, Wu Gang! Since you want the child of Yanyan and me so much, I'll just give that child to you! Congratulations on becoming a father. I, Chu Hong, swear that in this lifetime, I will never contend with you for the child after it's born!"

"I wish you and classmate Liu Yanyan a harmonious and intact family of three for the rest of your lives!"

A huge roar suddenly erupted from Chu Hong's mouth as if his emotions had collapsed. Instantly, in the previously bustling Pioneers Guild, you could hear a pin drop.

In the deathly silence, pairs of bizarre gazes fell upon Wu Gang and Liu Yanyan, who had frozen in place right after failing to finish even a single line of dialogue.

Especially Wu Gang, who instantly felt weird yet seemingly admiring gazes focusing on him.

"Impressive, bro! Other people ending up raising someone else's child is always passive, but you're hardcore, bro! You like taking the initiative?!"