Chapter 128 - A Contract to Sell His Soul
Several Gaian Catalyst-class destroyers landed on the internal division’s dedicated landing pad, ferrying these cadets toward the C-grade ruins.
“Who knows what they will experience and gain?” muttered Xia Fei with a hint of jealousy.
Anyone who had not been to any ancient ruins would certainly develop a desire to visit one. The ancient civilization was the most developed human society ever since they came to be; humans then had the most developed technology and the most power, bar none.
No other race had reached the heights the ancient civilization managed to reach. The war between humans and insectoids would never have happened in that era as humans already had technology and strength to dominate all beings in the universe, possessing powers nobody could compete with.
Sadly, the incredibly mighty civilization died at their own hands.
Xia Fei watched leave the cadets, who were lucky enough to be on some ancient ruins expedition, then he went with Moon Song to the internal division to go through the admission procedures.
“Have you been well?” Xia Fei asked with a smile.
Moon Song angrily complained, “How nice of you to ask. I dislocated my shoulder thanks to your shock bomb. Manjun had seven stitches on his nose. Other than that crazy Chen Dong, everyone else got injured.
And since entering the camp, Xia Fei had become synonymous with his maverick ways, declining various divisions and choosing to become a librarian instead; now, rather than taking this chance to be part of one of the Union’s core, he chose to become an independent Adjudicator.
Ye Jingshan immediately knitted his eyebrows, letting out a muffled snort as if he was holding himself back from outwardly reacting.
Kingston turned and took a look at Ye Jingshan, only to see the cool battalion commander hesitating for quite some time before he unwillingly nodded his head.
Kingston let out a bitter smile before sighing. “Come to think of it; you’re the second in the history of the internal division not to sign the contract. You are an internal division cadet from today onward; I’ll get people to help organize the rest.”
Just as he finished speaking, Ye Xiaohan stood up, volunteering herself. “Let me do it.”
Kingston nodded indifferently. Ye Xiaohan then gestured to walk out with Xia Fei. A few other instructors read the room and left soon after, leaving behind the skinny supervisor Kingston and Ye Jingshan.
After everyone else left, Kingston quietly said to Ye Jingshan, “Battalion Commander Ye, are we just going to let this matter go?”
Ye Jingshan helplessly nodded. “We’ll leave it at that. You may go on ahead; leave me in silence for a bit.”
Kingston stood up as he carefully left the room, thinking to himself, ‘Alright, the internal division now has a second cadet that declined to sign the contract, who also happens to be the first to be chosen before reaching Star Domain Rank. What’s going on with Battalion commander Ye? Why did he insist on choosing Xia Fei?”
Only Ye Jingshan was left in the office. He finally cracked, unable to suppress the anger within him anymore, and slammed his right fist on the alloy desk with anger in his eyes.
It took him quite some time to gather himself. He stood up and tidied his clothes before establishing a video-call. On the other side of the connection was the fat, old man at the library, Qin Mang.
“Teacher,” Ye Jingshan greeted respectfully. He never conversed with Qin Mang sitting down, and every time he talked to him, he would make sure that he was dressed neatly with a solemn look on his face.
“What’s the matter?” Old man Qin Mang had his legs crossed as he sipped Biluochun tea while munching on the five-spice sunflower seeds gifted to him by Xia Fei, looking incredibly relaxed. Xia Fei’s gifts to get on his good side fit Qin Mang’s tastes just fine, and he secretly took a greater liking to the clever young man.
Qing Mang had never cared about money, yet Xia Fei’s tea leaves and sunflower seeds managed to capture his heart. Sometimes, things like this would just happen, the smallest gifts achieving better results than the most expensive ones.
“Xia Fei didn’t agree to the contract.” Ye Jingshan knitted eyebrows.
“So what?” Qin Mang asked in response.
“Teacher, you already know this. If he doesn’t sign the contract, it means that he won’t be under the Union’s control at all. Doesn’t that mean that your wishes to promote him are in vain?”
Qin Mang let out a hearty laugh. “You’re such a fool. I think it’s a good thing. It’s his choice whether he wants to be a full-time member of the Union or not; must there be a connection between the two things? In short, just do the things I’ve told you to do. There’s no need for you to question things any further.”
“Understood.” Ye Jingshan nodded and stayed silent. Even a fool could tell that he was not in a good mood.
After ending the call, Qin Mang muttered to himself as he stroked the black cat in his arms, “Not bad. He even knows what he should accept and what he should reject. I didn’t waste my time, after all.”