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"It's been so long..."

Su Yuehe's voice was very soft, her fingers pinching the edge of her sleeve.

Hong Yuan wasn't very good at handling this kind of situation. She scratched the back of her head and turned back to give Chen Guan, the only one who hadn't left, a wink.

Coffin Bro, help me!

Chen Guan received the distress signal and went over.

"Go ahead, it's not easy for your mother to come all this way."

Su Yuehe pursed her lips and shuffled her toes on the ground: "She didn't come to see me; she came to work."

"Then why were you sitting so straight in the meeting room just now?"

Su Yuehe was taken aback. Did she... have one?

Chen Guan didn't say anything more, patted her on the shoulder, and left with Hong Yuan.

We should give people some private space.

After walking about twenty steps, Hongyuan glanced back and excitedly exclaimed, "She's gone!"

Chen Guan didn't turn around. He grabbed Hong Yuan's head and continued walking away into the distance.

Both of them have good perception, so why are you staring at them so openly?

Let's go further away and see.

At the end of the corridor, Su Yuehe stood in front of Su Jin.

Deputy Commander Song tactfully took his leave and hurriedly disappeared around the corner.

Although he was incompetent, he was a master at flattery and could naturally see what was going on.

The mother and daughter looked at each other from a meter apart.

Su Jin spoke first, her tone unchanged from the meeting: "How did you hurt your hand?"

Su Yuehe raised her right hand; the injury had long since healed, leaving only a small bruise. If Su Jin hadn't asked, she would have almost forgotten about it.

"It's a minor matter; it's already been taken care of."

"I've read the action report from the Liu Family Manor. Your performance in that incident was satisfactory."

Pass.

Su Yuehe bit the inside of her lip, her expression remaining unchanged.

"Thanks……"

Su Jin's gaze lingered on her daughter's face for a moment. She opened her mouth slightly, her Adam's apple bobbing slightly, but in the end, she asked another question that she already knew the answer to.

"Are you in the eastern group for tonight's exploration mission?"

"Um."

"Stay close to An Changqing and don't act alone."

"understood."

The conversation stalled there, and the air remained silent for several seconds.

Su Jin switched the folder in her hand from her left hand to her right hand.

"Have you eaten yet?"

As these words were squeezed out, Su Jin's gaze fell on the promotional slogan on the wall next to her.

Hmm, your handwriting is quite neat; you deserve a promotion...

Su Yuehe paused for a moment, then stammered, "Not yet."

"The canteen is on the north side of the camp. The food isn't bad. Let's go grab something to eat."

After speaking, Su Jin turned around, her high heels clicking on the cement floor with a steady rhythm, without looking back.

Su Yuehe stood there, watching her mother's figure walk away, her eyes reddening slightly.

After a while, she took a breath and turned to walk in the opposite direction.

Chen Guan and Hong Yuan had already left the barracks area, and Hong Yuan was still talking about Shenzhen.

Baal's voice suddenly broke out: "That woman is not simple."

Chen Guan silently replied in his mind: Which one?

"Su Jin, 12th rank. Lord Baal can count the number of humans at this level on his fingers."

"nonsense……"

Barr's statement contains a wealth of information comparable to the idea that Trump is a man, not a Walmart plastic bag. Although Su Jin has never been known for her strength, given her position, her strength is certainly not simple.

"No, I'm not just referring to strength. But as for the specifics, Lord Baal can't tell yet. That woman is too strong. If I were to forcefully probe, she would also discover my presence."

This was the first time Chen Guan had heard a hint of apprehension in Baal's tone.

In my memory, he was always a carefree and unflappable person.

Even Astaroth, who was also a demon god, spoke of it with disdain and never showed the slightest fear.

Baal, that demon, is truly both insane and incredibly powerful.

Does His current behavior indicate that Su Jin's strength far surpasses that of Astaroth?

Does this sound like a word?

That's what Chen Guan thought, and that's how he asked the question so frankly.

"Kid, you don't understand." Baal shook his head and explained, "Is individual strength always the key to victory? In terms of strength, Lord Baal in his prime could easily take on all the demon gods by himself."

"Let me tell you, the power of an individual is nothing compared to the power of the world."

"The world has its own rules of operation, just like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. One of these rules is the balance of yin and yang."

"What is the balance of Yin and Yang? Simply put, it means that humans and demons must be equally strong, otherwise the balance will be broken. Why do you think Lord Baal bound his power? Because I am too strong, so strong that no one can contend with me."

"My very existence has disrupted this balance. Once the balance is broken, prosperity will turn into decline, and humanity will have a chosen one, just like the hero in your human fairy tales, whose innate mission is to defeat me, this evil dragon."

"As long as I don't die, or am not weakened to the balance value, heroes will keep emerging. Lord Baal is really annoyed by this, so he chose to make a deal with the hero from a hundred years ago, binding his own strength to maintain this balance."

"So, the balance you're talking about is humans and demons restraining each other?" Chen Guan asked in his mind.

Baal's laughter was languid: "That's roughly the idea. To be more precise, it's that the will of the world will not allow any one entity to dominate."

"You treat it as a rule, a kind of underlying code. If the power of any party exceeds the threshold, it will trigger its countermeasure mechanism."

"Is this how heroes are made?"

"That's right." Baal's tone was somewhat nostalgic, yet detached: "Every era has one or two guys who are born to cut me down."

"At first, Lord Baal thought it was quite interesting, playing with them to pass the time."

"But then I got annoyed. One after another, they would come and go, like weeds that could never be cut off. So I simply locked myself up. The world became quiet, and I could finally get a good night's sleep."

"However, although the rules of heaven and earth are domineering, they are not biased. If the demons are weak, a genius demon with outstanding talent will be born. The last one was the kind Lord Baal. This is why Lord Baal was able to suppress all the demon gods."

"That's why the hero didn't kill them all. If Lord Baal were to die, a new demon would naturally emerge and sweep across the world with invincibility. Oh, that would be a disaster."

Chen Guan was processing the information in those words.

The Demon Lord bound his power to avoid being targeted by the world's will. It sounds absurd, but coming from Baal's mouth, it seems perfectly reasonable.

"What about Su Jin?" Chen Guan asked the question that concerned him most. "What does this have to do with her? Is she a hero?"

"She's different." Baal's tone was unusually serious. "She doesn't have that feeling of a hero. The An Changqing next to you does have a bit of a hero's feel, but she's dangerous."