About how my wife resurrected me as tentacles after my death.

There weren't many people in the meeting room.

Seven or eight people sat sparsely on either side of the long table, each with a different insignia on their epaulets.

Yu Wan sat in the far corner, her hood still up, covering most of her face.

The perspective did not shift to the head of the long table.

In the royal city, the Hunter Chief began to speak, summarizing the intelligence gathered from the expeditionary city.

The prioritization of several strategic objectives involves assassination and infiltration.

Wang Cheng's tone was neither warm nor cold.

Then he paused, looked up at Yu Wan, and stood up.

"Hunter Yu, please come with me."

Her tone was very polite, so polite that several people in the conference room looked up at Yu Wan at the same time.

The fact that a Hunter Chief uses the word "please" when addressing a Special Grade Hunter is itself a statement of attitude.

Yu stood up.

Then the black liquid seeped out from her collarbone and slowly merged into her body.

Her blood-red pupils were swallowed up by a bottomless blackness in that instant.

He's more familiar with this kind of thing.

In terms of rank and seniority, Yu Wan is just a newly promoted Special Grade Hunter in the Alliance.

But Wang Cheng is the Chief of the Hunters, and he is several levels above her in terms of rank and prestige.

To avoid being led by the nose in the upcoming conversation, Chen Yuan needs to step in...

Wang Cheng pushed open the door to a small office, gestured for her to come in, and then went behind the desk to sit down first.

Yu Wan did not sit in the spot he indicated, but stood to the side of the door with her arms crossed.

Wang Cheng didn't care, and then he spoke: "Yu Wan was born in March of the fourteenth year of the thirteenth era of the Alliance, and is twenty-three years old..."

"Wang Cheng," Yu Wan interrupted him. "What you're doing right now is dangerous."

Her voice was still Yu Wan's voice, but the tone was completely different.

It lacked its usual softness and indifference; instead, it possessed a calm chill.

Wang Cheng paused.

He knew that Yu Wan's identity could never be simple!

His Adam's apple bobbed.

Then, he silently placed the task briefing he hadn't handed out back on the table and pressed it down with his finger.

Fortunately, he hadn't assigned her any tasks, and thankfully he stopped in time.

That was really dangerous.

Although he is the Chief of the Hunters, it is only a nominal position assigned by the Alliance.

The old monsters hiding behind the alliance are the ones who truly hold power and have a voice.

"Which director...?"

He tentatively began to speak.

"You're not qualified." Chen Yuan said these words coldly through Yu Wan's voice.

Once those five words were uttered, Wang Cheng swallowed back everything he was about to say.

If she simply says, "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask," then he still has room to maneuver.

Whether or not to ask is a matter of attitude; whether or not you can get an answer after asking is a matter of authority.

But the words "you are not qualified" effectively limited his authority to a level lower than hers.

It's not that she's uncomfortable saying it, it's that he's not entitled to hear it.

The office remained quiet for a long time.

Wang Cheng seemed to want to say something, but then closed his mouth and nodded: "Okay."

Chen Yuan continued speaking, her tone as calm as before.

"Give me identities for two expeditionary cities, and the rest is up to you to do your job."

Wang Cheng remained silent for a moment.

The identities of the two expeditionary cities... are not difficult to determine.

He said that the dead end situation in the third wasteland last time could not possibly be resolved again.

That wasn't luck; it was because someone was there—someone of such high rank that he wasn't even qualified to know.

Moreover, he made such a huge mistake that a mole infiltrated the team, almost causing the entire army to be wiped out.

Instead of holding him accountable, the authorities awarded him honors.

Now he understands, it wasn't forgiveness, it was making amends!

Someone gave him a chance.

Yu Wan turned around and walked towards the door.

He paused at the door, didn't turn around, but simply turned his head and said:

"The Emperor will pardon you."

Wang Cheng was completely stunned.

But when he looked up, the figure at the door suddenly disappeared without him noticing.

Wang Cheng was left alone in the room, with only the undelivered mission briefing on the table.

He removed his hand from the paper and found his fingers were covered in sweat.

A small patch of my clothes on the back was already wet.

........

Yu Wan actually walked in through the main entrance openly and honestly, but she used a little bit of unspeakable trickery.

After leaving the house, the black liquid receded from Yu Wan's body, condensed back into small tentacles, and slid down her collarbone back into her neckline.

Her pupils turned red again, and she blinked twice as she stood beside the stone pillar at the entrance of the central tower.

When Chen Yuan possessed her just now, she was conscious and had her five senses.

That feeling was pretty strange...

Chen Yuan coiled his tentacles inside her collar, the tips of his tentacles resting on her collarbone.

Mmm, still fragrant and soft, very comfortable.

The situation in the capital is now settled.

The alliance no longer dares to assign her tasks casually, and no one will investigate.

It saved me a lot of trouble.

Moreover, he had an extra card in his hand: the promise of his identity as an expeditionary city.

Once the royal city has the identity documents sorted out, it will be much easier to find the ancient books in the expedition city.

When he possessed the body just now, he deliberately suppressed his aura, coupled with the passive effect of whispering.

Hunters of Wang Cheng's caliber possess considerable mental strength.

But in the face of the indescribable, they are only slightly stronger than ordinary people.

This will pave the way for the expedition to the city later.

Because of the evil god's claims, he increasingly felt that things were not so simple.

He used to think it was a system problem.

Resurrection, level up, skills—all the data is on the system panel; he just needs to confirm it step by step.

But now that I think about it, that line of text on the system panel...

Affiliation: Unnamed Great Old Ones

It doesn't look like a name that was chosen randomly.

The ascension of believers, the blood-drawing ritual, the whispers, and the other path that was torn apart—all point in the same direction.

That evil god is real.

Moreover, the relationship between the changes in him and that evil god was far deeper than he had previously thought.

Um... so...

Why not go back and reward Xiao Yuwan?

Today's all-out effort hasn't even been used yet.

I can gain a little more experience, and I'll be a little closer to the 100,000 experience bar for LV.12.

He rubbed the tip of his tentacle against Yu Wan's collarbone, then shrank back into that soft, warm area.

Yu Wan also felt the little tentacle moving inside her collar, her ears turned slightly red, and the corners of her mouth curved slightly.

She pulled up her hood and turned to walk home.