First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?!

Zhan Tingzhou was completely stunned. Wait... you... you’re... how can you be this brazen?

Given Yu Xiao’s temperament.

You really aren’t afraid he might snap and go crazy.

He had seen arrogant people before, but he had genuinely never encountered anyone as arrogant as Lu Ding.

Kill the man’s favorite nephew, then have the audacity to inform him about it.

Zhan Tingzhou found it somewhat incomprehensible. After all, in his previous life, he had lived cautiously. Sometimes, if he offended someone, he would hide for as long as possible.

If he could run, he absolutely wouldn’t fight. If he could negotiate, he absolutely wouldn’t fight. Only when he had absolutely no other choice, after meticulously preparing from all angles, would he strike down his enemy in one fell swoop, eradicating the roots completely!

He would absolutely leave no lingering troubles behind.

In the mindset of his previous life, he categorized everyone into three tiers: junior friend, fellow practitioner, and senior.He would address people more affectionately than anyone, appearing harmless and unassuming on the surface, but in reality, his knife would strike faster than anyone else’s.

Because he was a wandering rogue cultivator constantly searching for his younger sister, Zhan Tingzhou’s own combat prowess wasn’t particularly high. He just made do with whatever was available; as long as something was useful, he would practice a bit of everything.

He was the type who kept losing all the way on the bounty hunter path, and just when it seemed he was about to finally reap his reward, he was ambushed and killed by those two scoundrels.

Otherwise, he really might have managed to achieve a lifetime accomplishment award.

[Losing all the unimportant battles in a lifetime, but winning the most crucial one in your life]

A pity, he almost made it.

Anyway, in his previous life, he had never fought such an audacious battle as Lu Ding was fighting now.

He was speechless and didn’t know how to advise him. Having no experience in this, he could only follow Lu Ding all the way deep into the 749 Bureau facility in Xiankong Town.

There, they saw Fu Xinghe leading a team installing the Reshaper.

Lu Ding walked forward and asked, ”How’s it going?”

Fu Xinghe put down his work, stood up, and replied, ”Everything is stable, Brother Lu. After this, we just need to input the entire Xiankong Town data into the system and issue the stabilization and repair command. That’s all.”

”Alright, then please keep an eye on things here. I’m taking people up the mountain.”

Fu Xinghe bowed slightly. ”This is what I should do.”

Lu Ding turned and left.

.....

Meanwhile.

On the other side.

The Yu Family residence.

Yu Xiao sat with a teacup rotating in one hand, his phone being rubbed in the other.

He frowned deeply as he listened to the message sent by Lu Ding.

Beside him, his most valued eldest daughter leaned in and said, ”Father, you’ve already listened to it many times. What are you thinking about?”

Yu Xiao didn’t move, merely continued rotating the teacup in his hand. ”I’m thinking about how I should reply to him.”

His nephew was dead, and Yu Xiao felt some sorrow.

Although he had many children, he only had one nephew, and this nephew resembled him quite a lot.

Yu Miaoyin suddenly smiled. ”Dad, you’re not actually considering avenging Zhao Shaolin and offending Lu Ding, are you?”

Yu Xiao shook his head. ”That’s not it. If possible, I could even kill him with my own hands. After all, I did personally kill your brother.”

Among all his children, there was probably only his eldest daughter Yu Miaoyin whom Yu Xiao couldn’t bring himself to harm.

Because she was the daughter of his deceased wife.

That was also Yu Xiao’s first wife, who had been with him from having nothing to building everything they had.

Yu Xiao shared his entire fortune, including the authority within the Yu Family, with Yu Miaoyin. Even though people outside said only sons could continue the Yu family line, Yu Xiao never wavered in this decision.

He did this to assure his deceased wife in heaven that he would not fail her, nor would he fail their daughter.

Compared to Yu Xiao’s obsessive rationality, Yu Miaoyin’s rationality leaned more toward neutrality and calmness, though her personality was still somewhat influenced by Yu Xiao.

She spoke up: ”The words, you can reply however you want. After all, words themselves carry no weight.”

”Although we don’t know how Zhao Shaolin offended Lu Ding, this must undoubtedly be Zhao Shaolin’s fault.”

”Furthermore, Xiankong Town—that small, insignificant place—I wouldn’t go even if invited. The situation in White Ridge hasn’t completely stabilized yet. If nothing major was happening, this Grand Duke Lu definitely wouldn’t have gone to Xiankong Town.”

”But the Zhao family is too small in scale; they simply aren’t worthy of Grand Duke Lu making a personal trip.”

”In other words, it’s highly likely Zhao Shaolin brought this upon himself by bumping into Lu Ding.”

”Now, Grand Duke Lu sending you this message is precisely to gauge your attitude.”

”So, you can say whatever you want in your reply. But after you finish speaking, you must immediately set out for Xiankong Town, apprehend my aunt, bring her before Grand Duke Lu, and kill her with a single palm strike.”

Yu Xiao was well aware of Yu Miaoyin’s ruthlessness; it could truly be described as the student surpassing the master.

But he genuinely hadn’t expected that Yu Miaoyin would open by suggesting he kill his own younger sister with his own hands.

Yu Xiao hesitated somewhat: ”How about... I go capture Zhao Feng, the head of the Zhao family, bring him before Grand Duke Lu, and kill him with a palm strike instead? Your aunt...”

Before he could finish, Yu Miaoyin interrupted him.

”No!”

”Dad, you need to think about it this way: does Grand Duke Lu care about a mere Zhao family? He doesn’t. Therefore, the life and death of the Zhao family is Grand Duke Lu’s decision to make; we cannot make that decision for him.”

”But my aunt is different. She is your own biological younger sister. You, as her older brother, disciplining your sister—isn’t that perfectly justified?”

”Moreover, think about all the dirty and disgraceful deeds my aunt has covered up for my cousin over the years. If judged according to the laws of the Great Han outside, it would be a death sentence, no question about it.”

”When the time comes, you kill my aunt. This demonstrates both your attitude and your resolve. Then, our Yu Family will position itself ahead of all the other families in White Ridge.”

”After the Zeng Family was eliminated, the slice of the pie that became available tasted quite good. I believe this definitely won’t be the last time.”

”If we obediently act as dogs, we will certainly live much better than those families who pride themselves on maintaining their dignity as humans.”

”Dad, those who achieve great things cannot be too attached to personal relationships or fear getting their hands dirty...”

Yu Xiao remained silent for a long while.

The reasoning was sound.

Furthermore, judging by Lu Ding’s character, being his dog would only incur the stigma of being a vicious hound, but wouldn’t involve humiliation of one’s dignity.

After all, Yu Xiao had personally witnessed how this Grand Duke Lu handled matters.

Having thought it through, Yu Xiao slowly stood up and sighed helplessly: ”Ah... little sister, look at you. Back then, I told you not to marry that country bumpkin from the county town, but you just wouldn’t listen.”

”Now see what’s happened? You’ve forced your older brother to personally clean up the family mess.”

”But rest assured, big brother will definitely make sure you don’t feel any pain.”

Taking a step toward the main door, Yu Xiao turned back to look at his daughter. ”Miaoyin, your father is going ahead now. If anything comes up later, I’ll message you. Keep an eye on your phone.”

”Understood, Dad. Go quickly, and be careful.”

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Lu Ding brought Zhan Tingzhou up into the mountain range of mineral veins, heading straight for Iron Stone Cave.

They twisted and turned along the path the entire way.

Basically, wherever Zhan Tingzhou said to go, Lu Ding went.

Without the slightest hesitation or doubt.

Professional matters should be handled by professional people.

This filled Zhan Tingzhou with immense confidence, further solidifying the speculation in his heart.

The look he directed at Lu Ding was completely filled with:

Keep pretending, just keep pretending!

You are definitely a reincarnator. Otherwise, why would you trust me so completely? I say go left, you go left; I say go right, you go right. You aren’t the least bit afraid I might lead you into a trap!