Chapter 434: Despite A Thousand Worries in His Heart, He Still Had to Live

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

After Chen Jinrong’s firm command, Wang Xiao could only give up helplessly.

Following the guard to the lobby on the first floor, Wang Xiao asked the other party to wait for a moment. Then, he took out his communicator and dialed Zhou Xiruo’s number.

After about ten minutes, Zhou Xiruo rushed over in a hurry. As soon as she saw Wang Xiao, she realized that something was wrong. She was stunned for a moment before asking with concern, “You don’t look too good. What happened?”

“Adjutant Qi was attacked by the enemy and was severely injured.”

Wang Xiao looked at Zhou Xiruo with a lonely expression. “I don’t know if he can be saved.”

“What?”

Zhou Xiruo looked puzzled when she heard this. “Isn’t Adjutant Qi mainly in charge of civil affairs? When was he transferred to the battlefield?”

“It didn’t happen on the battlefield. He was attacked here.”

Wang Xiao pointed upstairs and frowned slightly. “Adjutant Qi was injured by someone with punches and kicks. There were no traces of a fight at the scene, which meant that the other party’s skills are very likely above his.”

“His skills were above Adjutant Qi’s? That’s impossible, right?”

Zhou Xiruo was stunned when she heard this. Her first reaction was disbelief. “Although he’s mainly in charge of civil affairs, he has also undergone systematic training. Even in the entire Kaiyang City, there’s not many people stronger than him, right?”

“That leaves only one possibility.”

Wang Xiao nodded thoughtfully. “The enemy’s appearance is not threatening, such as a girl or a child. Adjutant Qi subconsciously let down his guard, but the other party took advantage of him.”

“If that’s the case, it does make sense.”

Zhou Xiruo nodded in agreement. She paused for a moment and asked, “Did you hurriedly ask me to come over because you want me to help you investigate?”

“No, I called you here for something else.”

Wang Xiao waved his hand and turned to look at the guard beside him. “Do you remember what we said just now?”

The guard did not expect Wang Xiao to suddenly speak to him. He was stunned for a moment before nodding. “I remember almost everything.”

“That’s good.”

Wang Xiao agreed and said seriously with a solemn expression, “Although Commander Chen doesn’t want me to interfere, I still want to help. Please tell him what was said. Now, take us to the secret realm now.”

“Yes!”

The guard responded and walked to the front to lead the way.

Zhou Xiruo was confused when she heard this. She pulled Wang Xiao and asked softly, “What’s going on? What secret realm are we going to?”

“A secret realm where the military once mined the Black Gold Ore. However, the mineral reserves now are too low and can’t continue to be mined manually. It’s probably about to be abandoned.”

Wang Xiao replied expressionlessly in a low voice. He originally wanted to give Zhou Xiruo a surprise, but after what had just happened to Qi Lianjun, he no longer had the mood to keep her in suspense.

However, even though Wang Xiao’s tone was very calm, this news still made Zhou Xiruo happy.

However, seeing Wang Xiao’s worried expression, Zhou Xiruo did not show the joy in her heart. She only sighed silently and held Wang Xiao’s hand.

As they spoke, the two of them had already followed the guard to a room on the first floor. There were ten teleportation doors neatly arranged here, but they were all closed now.

“Well…

The guard looked at Wang Xiao and probed, “Did the commander give you the activation code you?”

“The activation code?”

Wang Xiao was stunned when he heard this. This was the first time he had heard the guard mention the commander, but he quickly reacted. He took out the note Chen Jinrong had given him and asked, “Is this it?”

“That’s right.”

The guard took the note and nodded. He pointed at the ten teleportation doors at the side and said, “I’ll go find someone to activate it now. When you see that teleportation door open later, you can just enter directly.”

With that said, the guard turned around and left. Wang Xiao and Zhou Xiruo waited in the room for a few minutes before a teleportation door not far away lit up with a five-colored light.

“Let’s go.”

Wang Xiao called out and was the first to enter the teleportation door. Seeing this, Zhou Xiruo immediately followed.

After the two of them disappeared from the room, the door suddenly opened and a handsome young man with slightly red skin walked in silently.

Looking at the only portal in the room that had opened, the young man’s lips curled into a smile. Then, he walked in without hesitation.

Blue Planet Secret Realm, [Blue Kite Forest].

From the scale of the secret realm alone, this should be a large secret realm. However, because there were no too powerful mutated beasts here, after the military’s evaluation, it was finally classified as a medium-sized secret realm.

As soon as Wang Xiao and Zhou Xiruo entered the secret realm, they were shocked by the vast scene here.

The dense forest was like a thick green carpet that almost covered the entire secret realm. Layers of mountains were endless. Even though they had already been destroyed because of mining activity, one could still feel the naturally majestic aura.

Zhou Xiruo put her hand on the pergola and looked into the distance with a shocked expression. “The military must have been operating here for decades for such a large-scale mining, right?”

“Not that long. No more than ten years at most.”

Wang Xiao replied casually without thinking, “There’s no pattern to the production of the mineral vein of the [Black Gold Ore], so in the early stages, they will use a large area and dig more. After confirming the location, they will focus on digging deeper. These mines should have been left behind during exploration. ”

“Wow! You even know about this?”

Zhou Xiruo looked at Wang Xiao with stars in her eyes. “You’re really amazing!”

Isn’t this the content of our classes?”

Wang Xiao glanced at Zhou Xiruo with an obviously speechless expression. “I Imow you want to make me happy, but isn’t this method a little clumsy?”

“Tsk! You treat my praise as an insult!”

Zhou Xiruo rolled her eyes at Wang Xiao angrily, and the admiration on her face disappeared. “There are so many mines. Where should we start?”

“Since we have to locate it first before focusing on excavation, the scale of mining will definitely be larger than exploration.”

As Wang Xiao spoke, he raised his hand and pointed at the largest mine not far away. “That should be the main mining area. It will also the most mineral elements left. Let’s start from there.”

Zhou Xiruo nodded. Then, the two of them walked towards the largest mine.

However, after taking a few steps, Wang Xiao suddenly turned around and looked behind him. Zhou Xiruo subconsciously turned around when she saw this, but she only saw a dense forest.

“What’s up?”

Zhou Xiruo frowned and asked in confusion, “What are you looking at?”

Wang Xiao watched for a while more before replying softly with a strange expression, “I keep feeling like someone is staring at us… Perhaps it’s my imagination. Let’s go first.”

With that said, Wang Xiao continued to walk towards the mine. From time to time, he would look back, but he did not discover anything.

At the same time, dozens of meters behind the two of them, a handsome young man stood on a tree and used the dense tree crown to hide. He was silently paying attention to their every move through the gaps in the leaves..