This time I chose Paladin

Nie Weiyang tracked Yang Wuji for a full fifteen days before apprehending him. This was a record for a scholar-type target, demonstrating his exceptional caution—perhaps due to the numerous times he'd been chased and attacked by bosses for damaging the environment.

However, in the closed cell, the other party was unwilling to answer any questions about the past, which caused great trouble to the intelligence department.

In the end, Nie Weiyang had a personal talk with Yang Wuji, and this guy finally gave in.

During the conversation, Yang Wuji mentioned some people and things. He mentioned that when he was a child, he was a representative of the Chinese class. Three months before the first blood moon rose, he was with his classmates and friends, but the rising blood moon broke everything. The Chinese teacher who had a good relationship with him fled with a group of students who were familiar or unfamiliar.

Out of necessity, they resorted to scheming against the tiger and formed a camp with a group of serious criminals who were released from prison by teleporting to the new world...

That was the last peace in his life, because during that half month, the mutant animals were not very strong, and the frequency of monster attacks was not high, so he could barely live like a human being.

He even picked up a fluorite while picking wild vegetables, processed it carefully, and gave it to the person he loved. The other party said that she liked it very much and would give him a gift in return, but just a few days later, everything changed.

This group of teachers and students were divided by the criminals. Some of them followed that group. Among them was a guy who could poison people. He was of the five-step snake bloodline and a poison master by profession. He poisoned almost everyone.

The person he liked had a high resistance to poison because of her special bloodline, but also had a large appetite because of her special bloodline, so she was the one who was most poisoned.

However, when she realized that the food was poisonous, she attacked before her enemies could, and with a fireball she collapsed the cave where the settlement was located, blowing them all out of the cave and forcing the students who had not yet eaten, including him, to run quickly.

"... Later, I secretly went back to see her. She was no longer recognizable. She was clearly a 'fire bearer' with a promising future, an excellent spellcaster..." Yang Wuji said, he did not say what the scene was like, "... She couldn't even see me, but was still smiling at me through the cage. The girl who couldn't hold back her tears kept smiling at me and mouthing sorry that the gift I gave her was broken.

"She told me that life is like fluorite, broken and gone. She thanked me for liking her but told me not to think about her. 'Go away, go away quickly,' she said.

"She was always a very open-minded and hardworking person. I don't know if she had any feelings for me, I just liked her energy—but she passed away like that, dying in front of me. I couldn't even hug her through the cage. She was like quicksand carried away by the sea, leaving my life. But what others see as sand is the sun in my eyes."

Nie Weiyang listened quietly and patiently, without saying a word.

On the other side of the enchanted glass barrier, Yang Wuji stood there. He looked more like a demon shrouded in a cloud of blue-green smoke than a human, clad entirely in a strange black hazmat suit with a swirling blue pattern, giving off an aura that made anyone walking away uneasy.

He had to remove all his gear. If he didn't, wherever he went, half the plants within a radius of dozens or even hundreds of meters would wither. However, removing this protective suit would cause the highly toxic gas to leak out, so he was allowed to keep it.

"She's open-minded, but I'm not," Yang Wuji said. "You've investigated me, and you probably know that I'm narrow-minded, mean, cold-blooded, and don't follow the rules. For the sake of hatred, I'll do anything... Consultant Nie."

Yang Wuji tilted his head back, his goggles reflecting Nie Weiyang's white hair, and then a cold mask appeared on his face. "I poisoned the most poisonous snake there because it poisoned my sun. Then I poisoned the people behind that gang. I followed the clues and found everyone who deserved to die, especially those Returned Christians. I want them to die of the poison under the watchful eyes of their so-called Lord!"

"I only think about how to poison those damned beasts and how to make myself stronger, but I'm not like some of the cartoon villains I watched as a child. I don't think I'm righteous. Because from the beginning, this was just a vent, a revenge. I know I'm crazy, I know I'm affecting innocent people, but now that I've come this far, I don't care what happens to others."

Yang Wuji was willing to tell Nie Weiyang all this because he believed in this Zhongzhou guardian who suddenly appeared and broke his joints, or because he resonated with Nie Weiyang, who was also an avenger but made a different choice. In the end, there was no conclusion to this matter.

He committed suicide by poisoning himself not long afterward, not even waiting for his verdict. The day before his death, he asked some scholars who were questioning and documenting his knowledge of poisons, "Can people who commit suicide go to heaven? Or... some good place after death?"

"I don't believe that," the scholar who answered the question said, "but from what I understand, in no religion or mythology can people who commit suicide go to those good places."

"That's good." Yang Wuji said, "Then I won't be able to see her anymore."

……

But you were so looking forward to seeing her that as soon as you saw her, you couldn't help but call her name.

Nie Weiyang glanced at Yang Wuji. The child was young and frail, completely different from the 'evil ghost in the fog' that was shrouded in poisonous fog and poisoned the water source.

His gaze moved, falling on Li Duo, on Lu Ran, and finally, on the man next to Lu Ran.

Yang Wuji's evaluation of himself in his previous life was actually correct. At that time, he was indeed narrow-minded, mean, cold-blooded, and unruly... His love and obsession with Li Duo could not make him appear like a person whose behavior was worthy of understanding. No, it would be better to say that this obsession out of love was not just for Li Duo.

When a person can harm innocent people for something so-called love, Nie Weiyang does not think that this person really understands what love is, because a person who ignores the weight of life cannot understand the meaning of love.

In any case, poisoning an entire body of water for the sake of an upgrade is an act of absolute cruelty and madness.

But that's all for later.

First of all, the opponent now is just a teenager full of youthful energy. In Nie Weiyang's eyes, his body is full of flaws, and those things have not happened yet... Whether a person is crushed or not, and when he is crushed, determines many things.

Second.

Someone might be dying here, but he has his own choice.

Chapter 70 I am Nie Weiyang

Nie Weiyang stood up from where he was and silently brushed off the dust on his body. He kept staring at the "big brother", his eyes behind the sunglasses calm and almost harmless.

Yang Wuji from his previous life told him that this group of people had some connection with the Guiding Sect.

"This sect appeared more than a month after we arrived in the New World," Yang Wuji said in his chemical protective suit, his voice dull and hoarse. "Its predecessors were some evil cults hiding among the people. You know which ones I'm talking about... I know you've been hunting them down. I'll tell you everything—what is your spiritual attribute?"

"I have read the entire "Voice of Glory," said Nie Weiyang.

"So high?!" Yang Wuji let out the only exclamation in the entire conversation.

……

"So little?" Yang Wuji's face looked unhappy.

At this moment, he, his teacher and several people were sitting around a table. On the table was a rough rattan frame with some ingredients inside.

Opposite him, a middle-aged man wearing glasses smiled broadly and asked humbly, "Brother Yang, what's the problem?"

"You said you wanted to take Lu Ran, Luo Chen, and Lu Hanwen with you. From now on, they no longer belong to Lianhe No. 1 High School, but to you, Baohu. By the way, bring this week's compensation." Yang Wuji ignored the teacher's attempts to stop him and stared at the man opposite him. "'Big Brother,' the compensation we agreed on for our cooperation was more than this."

Although this profession category lacks combat power, two of its initial three skills are fixed as "Identification" and "Analysis". Although the release of these skills requires many skills and a very high level of proficiency, as long as the scholar has the knowledge to understand the content of identification and analysis, he or she can gradually understand some unfamiliar things around them.

At least one-third of the teachers and students present at Lianhe No. 1 High School were scholars. Before this, they had reached a cooperation with a group of people who called themselves "Bao Hu" on the opposite side. They used the abilities of scholars to identify food ingredients and resources, and the other party had to do nothing to harm them and provide them with compensation.

Yang Wuji frowned: "Not to mention that you are going to take our people away. The amount of reward is not right..."

The seemingly elegant middle-aged man just smiled, but three students around him couldn't help but smile.

"Young man? Young man, go find them yourself outside!" Lu Ran shouted, "Return your people? Are we theirs?" He turned to ask the two young men on his left and right. They both smiled and shook their heads: "--See? We are just classmates, Yang Wuji! Don't try to control our personal freedom!"

Freedom?

Is this the freedom to run away to a gang of murderers? Is this the time to talk about freedom? Don't you know that freedom is relative?!

Yang Wuji took a deep breath. His eyes shifted slightly, as if wanting to look at Li Duo, but he held back. At this moment, the teacher next to him held him down and, smiling, pushed him out.

"Ask them if the meal is ready and the tea is boiled." The young teacher smiled like a father and an elder brother. "They have honored us with their presence, so we can't just leave them sitting there doing nothing."

Yang Wuji was pushed and stumbled a few steps, running several meters away. Then his mind suddenly became clear and he felt cold all over.

——How could he speak like that to a group of desperadoes?

Although that was indeed what he wanted to say, the teachers had already told him to control himself. In the past three months, he had never lost control like this! Was it because he was jealous of Lu Ran? No, that was not the case...

Yang Wuji couldn't help but look at his 'big brother', who was also smiling at him, with a strange purple light in his eyes.

At the same time, the scholar's professional skills were activated, and he identified that he had a hidden debuff on him - [Mind Interference]!

This guy... can interfere with other people's minds?!

Yang Wuji lowered his eyes and quickly left. He entered the crowd and subconsciously moved closer to Li Duo, but his eyes remained fixed on Lu Ran, unleashing his identification and analysis skills.

He quickly came to the conclusion: that guy had also suffered mental influence, and the degree was even more serious... but he didn't have much knowledge at this level and couldn't be sure to what extent the other party had been affected.

Yang Wuji scratched his head for a moment, then quietly called Li Duo aside: "Li Duo, Lu Ran doesn't seem to be in a good condition. You said before that he was an idiot..."

Li Duo was still pinching wild onions in her hand. She exerted force with her fingers, and with the crisp sound of the onion segments breaking, she gave a fake smile and repeated the original conversation between her and Lu Ran.

——One of the great advantages of being a spellcaster is that, like a scholar, you have a very good memory.

"..." Yang Wuji immediately dismissed the thought in his mind and made a prompt decision not to tell Li Duo about the mental impact.

——According to his own experience, that idiot could hurt others with his words, so he must have had such thoughts in his mind!

Bastard! Li Duo is so nice to him!

Yang Wuji tried his best to control himself, but it was still difficult for the young man to hide all his emotions. He turned around twice and suddenly whispered, "He's a jerk, I'm not."

He resisted the urge to say more. Li Duo looked up at him, looking like she was about to cry again, but she held it back and just nodded vigorously.

She had wanted to tell her teachers and classmates that Lu Ran had gone to the other side. But Lu Ran was always like this, and she didn't know if what he said was true. She couldn't say this in public either. There was no soundproofing in the cave, and it even echoed. If she spoke louder, many words would be heard by the people next door.

"I'm going back to pick some vegetables. Anyway, let's eat this meal first," she said. "Haven't we discussed this a long time ago? The other side won't hold back from attacking us..."

She turned, her gaze crossing the open space within the cavern to a larger settlement on the other side. Inside, several women sat vacantly, naked and distracted. Among them sat two pale, handsome young men in a similar state.

"..." She lowered her eyes, and the ends of her hair were as hot as fire for a moment, but when she thought about the fact that there were so many classmates with non-combat professions, her eyes quickly dimmed.

"If anything happens, just run, Yang Wuji," she whispered. "Just run, and leave us alone."

"What about you? What about Xiaoyu? She was left behind by Teacher Lin..."

"I'm the 'Flame Bearer,' and I fight better than you. Xiaoyu... Xiaoyu, try to take everyone with you. If you can't, then run on your own," the girl said softly. "It's better if a few can escape than if no one can. You guys run, go... find the army, find the police. They're better fighters than us, and there must be some who haven't dispersed yet..."

Yang Wuji opened his mouth for a moment, then said, "Okay."

The agreement was thus made.

Nie Weiyang shook his head slightly. He already understood what was going to happen next.

If someone else came, even if they wanted to save this group of people, they would probably have to sneak into this camp first, pretend to be friendly with "Bao Hu", become a teammate for the time being, and then slowly gain room for maneuver later...

But that's not Nie Weiyang's style.

Ten minutes later, a fully armed young man walked out of the deep forest. He wore sunglasses, carried a sword and a shield, and approached the entrance of the Baohu settlement camp.

Facing the vigilant man at the door, he nodded slightly.

"Hello," he said. "There are a group of students from Lianhe No. 1 High School here, right?"

Inside the cave, the "big brother" who heard the voice flickered for a moment before standing up and leading everyone to the cave entrance. The teacher from Lianhe High School quickly followed—for someone to suddenly come and ask for them by name at this moment was truly bizarre.

Arriving at the cave entrance, 'Big Brother' looked at the figure and his heart immediately tightened.

Where the hell did this tough guy come from?! Even though he had killed many people before, he felt that this visitor carried a terrifying aura that he couldn't imagine...

The 'big brother' was cautious and alert, taking small steps to protect the younger brother beside him.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"I'm here to look for Mr. Lin from Lianhe No. 1 High School, as well as his colleagues and students. I need to take them away, and I hope you'll be kind enough to leave them alone." The young man replied calmly, "As for who I am—

"I'm Nie Weiyang."

After thinking of five developments, I finally decided that this one was the right one.

Lao Nie: Give me some dignity, or I will help you all to be decent.

Chapter 71 "Is there no one to provide him with hospice care?"

"I'm Nie Weiyang."

If the name in this sentence were changed, the "big brother" might think, "Just because you tell me the name, I should know it? Just because you call for someone by name, I should let him go?"

But this name is Nie Weiyang.