Chapter 128: My Golden Finger Has Been Exposed

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Instructor of the Eight Hundred Thousand Imperial Guards?

That was Zhang Chu’s first thought when he saw the badge before him.

But a chill ran through him.

He had better hope for something decent. There was no way he was going to wear a cuckold’s hat!

Liu Tianhe’s maneuver left the passersby who had gathered to watch the spectacle exclaiming in admiration.

Everyone living in West Sand Garden was either a dual-force warrior from Binzhou or a high-ranking official from the city. It was an upscale residential compound.

The only exception was the warriors serving in the Armaments Division.

Fifty years ago, when the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda stirred and hordes of demon beasts flooded the city, the Armaments Division’s warriors and commanders fought at the North City Demon Gate. To protect the civilians and preserve the city’s fighting strength, they faced death without hesitation. One after another, they detonated explosives with their own bodies and perished alongside the demon beasts.

From that day onward, the warriors and commanders of the Armaments Division were revered by all.

To highlight the division’s special status, the higher authorities issued the highest order on the continent and built a residential compound in every city exclusively for active commanders of the Armaments Division. It was called “Mountain Suppression.”

That was why having a warrior in West Sand Garden directly appointed by the Armaments Division was such an enormous honor.

It was even luckier than getting a job at the Martial Arts Administration.

Before Zhang Chu could agree, the uncles and aunties nearby had already hurriedly filmed the entire scene and uploaded it as a short video.

They even gave it a sensational title:

“Shocking! Armaments Division Instructor Appears in West Sand Garden! Follow My Personal Account to Find Out What Happens Next!”

Just then, Zhang Daoyi called him.

“Kid, the rank of an Armaments Division instructor is on the same level as Fan Tianlei’s. You’d better celebrate while you can. If you dare refuse, I’ll have Xue Ying persuade you personally. You’re a celebrity in Binzhou now, and our Armaments Division has to win you over somehow.”

With that, Zhang Daoyi hung up.

“Zhang Chu, farewell!”

Liu Tianhe shoved the badge and appointment letter into Zhang Chu’s arms, then led his people into the vehicle and drove away at once.

“It really is true that fame brings trouble.”

Zhang Chu picked up his phone and looked at his own reflection in the camera.

“Brother, you died such a miserable death back then, and I took over your body and was reborn. You can finally rest in peace now, right? Don’t worry. I’ll definitely help you pick up plenty of girls.”

Bah!

I’d better focus on cultivating.

Over the next few days, Zhang Chu’s life became regular and monotonous.

From Monday through Friday, he worked at the Martial Arts Research Institute. In reality, he simply spent his time in the academy’s hunting grounds, forcing plants to mature and absorbing them.

After breaking through to seven stars...

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The Acceleration Field was terrifying. Each activation could last for seventy minutes.

In a single day, he could passively devour seventy plants.

A sapling that was only fifty years old could be transformed into a towering tree thirty thousand years old within an hour.

Absorbing one increased his mental power by five hundred points.

By the end of the day, his mental power steadily increased by thirty-five thousand.

But compared with the requirements for breaking through to eight stars, that amount was barely enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.

After all, to break through to eight stars, both martial power and mental power had to reach one and a half million.

Once work ended and the weekend arrived, Zhang Chu’s life became even more fulfilling.

Now that he possessed the identity of an Armaments Division instructor, entering the Military Techniques Arsenal had become increasingly convenient. He had even become familiar with the young woman in uniform at the front desk, who occasionally brought him meals.

Saturday.

Zhang Chu had just emerged from the Armaments Division’s Special Forces Hunting Grounds when he received a call from Wang Peng.

“Little Chu, come meet Uncle Li at his hotpot restaurant tonight. There’s something I need your advice on.”

“You took a week off. I thought you’d disappeared.”

After returning from Green City Mountain, Wang Peng had requested leave from school.

His phone had been turned off for the entire week. Even Li Dashan had no idea where he had gone.

That evening, at Li Dashan’s hotpot restaurant, Zhang Chu was completely bewildered after hearing Wang Peng’s complaint.

“You’re sure the people who came to the orphanage were your biological parents?”

“And yours too.”

“Little Chu, what are we supposed to do if everyone starts showing up and claiming to be our parents? Who could stand that? Come up with a solution quickly.”

Wang Peng had spent the past few days hiding from people.

As the saying went, fame brought trouble.

Zhang Chu and Wang Peng had become famous after a single battle, and their backgrounds had also been dug up.

Even the orphanage had become extraordinarily popular.

Sure enough, someone had shown up claiming to be Wang Peng’s biological parents, behaving as though their lives depended on it.

Wang Peng could not afford to provoke them, but he could avoid them.

So he had gone into hiding for a week before finally returning.

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“Well... no one has come looking for me yet. We’ll talk about it when they do.”

Zhang Chu took a sip of liquor and said nothing.

After taking over this body and being reborn, he had inherited its former owner’s memories.

He was not actually an orphan. He had been abandoned by his second uncle and second aunt.

They had not appeared once in all these years, so Zhang Chu had never paid much attention to it.

But now that people were pretending to be their parents, he felt a faint sense of unease.

“Damn it. They’d better not come looking for me one day, or I’ll kill the bastard with a single slap.”

“Drink. We’ll deal with soldiers when they come and stop water with earth.”

The two of them drank until they blacked out. Neither knew how they got home.

Late that night.

Zhang Chu was sleeping soundly.

The computer on the desk in his study suddenly powered on by itself. As if controlled by an unseen hand, it automatically logged into a forum, uploaded a short article and a short video, and began processing the upload.

The electronic lure Iron Egg scurried frantically beneath Zhang Chu’s bed.

“Warning! Warning! An intrusion into the local network has been detected...”

But Zhang Chu had drunk far too much. He merely rolled over and continued sleeping.

Early the next morning.

Zhang Chu was jolted awake by heavy pounding on the door.

“Who is it? It’s the weekend! Can’t a man sleep in?”

Wearing nothing but loose shorts and flip-flops, Zhang Chu opened the door with bleary eyes.

“What the hell? What’s going on?”

The moment he opened it, Zhang Chu received such a shock that he sprang fully awake.

More than twenty fully armed inspection-force warriors stood on either side of the entrance, with an armored vehicle parked directly in front of the house.

Chen Tianxiang, Fan Tianlei, and Luo Zhidong were all there.

“Teacher Chu, did you post that thread on the forum? Are you sure you awakened such an utterly heaven-defying battle technique?”

Fan Tianlei seized Zhang Chu’s hand, visibly agitated.

What thread?

Zhang Chu stared blankly at him. He pulled out his phone and logged into the forum, nearly wetting himself when he saw more than a hundred thousand private messages waiting in the background.

“For crying out loud! I actually leaked my own cheat ability!”