# 843
Chapter 843: I Want to Go Back
"What do you mean? You're still planning to go back to the Night Watch?" Demon Child's voice turned cold. "Don't you understand? In their eyes, you're simply not suitable to be a Night Watch member. They won't want you…"
"Whether they want me or not doesn't matter. If it doesn't work once, I'll try twice. If it doesn't work twice, I'll try three times… No matter what, I have to get in." Lu Baoyou's eyes blazed with unprecedented determination.
Lu Baoyou stopped, took a deep breath, as if making some decisive resolve, and slowly placed his left hand over his pitch-black left eye…
"What are you doing?" Demon Child's voice faltered, clearly flustered.
"I want to return to the Night Watch. You… cannot return."
Lu Baoyou's voice was extremely calm. A scarlet glow emerged in his eyes, and at the same time, his left fingertips gradually pierced into his own eye socket…
Gushing blood flowed down. His body trembled violently from the intense pain.
"Are you insane?!" Demon Child's terrified voice rang out again. "To become a Night Watch member, you'd go this far?!
Stop it, stop!
I understand! I won't speak out of turn anymore! No matter what I see inside the Night Watch, I'll pretend I saw nothing and won't leak a single piece of information. I really…"
*Squeak—*
Lu Baoyou's mouth opened soundlessly. He crouched down with his back hunched, blood streaming down his cheeks.
His left hand firmly gripped that pitch-black eyeball, trembling as he pulled it from his own eye socket…
In Lu Baoyou's remaining right eye, the scarlet light glowed again. The divine power of the Angel of Silence repaired his wound, and the bleeding gradually stopped.
"Finally… quiet."
He rose slowly, tossed his left eye onto the ground beneath him, and stepped forward, crushing it to pieces!
Lu Baoyou raised his head. On his face covered in bloodstains, his hollow left eye was tightly closed while his right eye glowed crimson like blood. He walked step by bloody step toward the stone monument, like a mad demon emerging from hell!
"I'm leaving."
He extended his left hand and gently touched the stone monument's surface with those blood-soaked fingertips, leaving behind a scarlet smear.
He murmured to himself,
"Wait for me. I won't bring shame to the Lu family… If you could do it, so can I."
He glanced one last time in the direction of the mansion, hesitated for a moment, then instead of choosing to go home, selected another rugged, treacherous mountain path downward, slowly trudging away…
…
Training Camp.
Screams from every direction rose and fell. Lin Qiye slowly opened his eyes, a hint of weariness on his face. He glanced at the time.
Two-thirty in the afternoon.
From the start of today's escape training until now, eleven and a half hours had passed.
After such a prolonged mass nursing summoning, coupled with constantly coordinating the situations of all the recruits, Lin Qiye was mentally and physically exhausted. It was even more draining than a battle against a Klein-level entity… Fortunately, only a very small number of recruits remained on the field, so he basically didn't need to worry about anything else.
Lin Qiye's spiritual sense kept watch over those few remaining recruits, his brow slightly rising.
"This batch has quite a few promising talents…"
…
"I can't do this anymore… I really can't! Brother Ding, wait for me…"
Su Zhe, dressed in recruit attire covered in dust, stumbled along behind Ding Chongfeng. After climbing over a door wall, his legs gave out and he collapsed to the ground.
Sweat dripping down his face, Ding Chongfeng turned around and looked at Su Zhe on the ground. "There's still two hours left. Hang in there…"
"No, I really can't move another step." Su Zhe waved his hand, panting. "Unlike you, Brother Ding, you came from a military background with excellent physical fitness. I'm just a shut-in otaku. Please don't push me…"
Ding Chongfeng's brow twitched. He pointed toward not far away, where a nimble girl was rolling and dodging through various obstacles.
"Your sister is also an ordinary person. She can do it, so why can't you?"
"That's different!" Su Zhe couldn't help but complain. "Are you calling a professional extreme sports enthusiast an ordinary person? You must have some misunderstanding about what 'ordinary' means! The distance she's covered parkour-ing could circle around Shangjing City more than a dozen times!"
"But she's still your sister, isn't she? As an older brother, always appearing so weak in front of your sister, isn't that embarrassing?" Ding Chongfeng said with hidden intent.
"…W-what can I do about that? I'm not satisfied either, but I'm really bad at sports!"
"By the way, your sister gave you the middle finger when she passed by earlier."
"…" On the ground, Su Zhe froze, then cursed. Gritting his teeth, he wobbled and stood up again. "That little girl dares to flip me off? Damn it, who does she think she is…"
Seeing Su Zhe stand up again, a sly satisfaction flickered in Ding Chongfeng's eyes.
"Hee hee hee hee hee…"
A cold, eerie laugh came from above their heads.
Ding Chongfeng and Su Zhe's expressions changed simultaneously as they looked up. On top of the high wall, a grotesque spider stared coldly at them. Its countless compound eyes gleamed with crimson light.
"Run!!"
The moment Ding Chongfeng spoke, Su Zhe had already screamed and shot forward like an arrow leaving the bow, instantly leaving him far behind.
Ding Chongfeng: …
These siblings are both monsters!
He couldn't help but mentally curse. He turned and ran in the direction away from A Zhu. Right then, a strand of spider silk弹射ed to his feet, sticking to his ankle. Losing his balance, Ding Chongfeng crashed face-first to the ground.
Damn it!
Ding Chongfeng's heart lurched.
At that moment, an agile figure sprinted over from the distance. A dagger sliced through the air, precisely cutting the spider silk beneath Ding Chongfeng's feet.
A girl rushed to Ding Chongfeng's side and forcefully pulled him up from the ground. Then, while dodging A Zhu's pursuit, she dragged him forward at lightning speed.
"You…" Ding Chongfeng hadn't yet recovered from what just happened.
"No need to thank me. Just a small gesture." The girl glanced back at him. "You're Ding Chongfeng, right? I saw you during the assessment… Your stamina isn't bad."
"Not bad, I suppose. I came from a military background after all." Ding Chongfeng adjusted his posture and ran shoulder to shoulder with the girl. "What's your name? It's rare for a girl to have such good stamina."
"Li Zhenzhen." The girl replied. "I'm a senior provisional Night Watch member. My stamina is decent."
Ding Chongfeng nodded, secretly记住了 Li Zhenzhen's name.
"We can't go forward anymore. Another team of 'mysterious' ones has surrounded us." A lightweight figure drifted silently alongside them on a broken wall, matching their speed. Fang Mo said without a change in expression, "Follow me."