Chapter 71 — He Still Got the Better Deal (Please Recommend, Please Bookmark, Please Give All Kinds of Support)
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After dinner, Wei Zhao went to clear the table. The Lock&Lock boxes the dishes came in used to be taken away directly by Uncle Qing early the next morning and sent to the hotel to be washed by special staff, but since Wei Zhao had come he had felt it was not nice to leave them all greasy, so he tidied them up in passing.
"Brother Arrow, you really are a good homemaker. Whoever marries you in the future will be blessed! I'm going upstairs!" With that word of encouragement for Wei Zhao, Shen Yushu went upstairs.
Marry me? A chill ran through Wei Zhao, and his first thought was that this girl had a taste for playing the husband. But he was long used to Shen Yushu's impish strangeness and said nothing.
After scrubbing the food boxes clean and putting them into a plastic bag, Wei Zhao switched off the dining room light and walked toward his own room.
The second five-year term was almost due, and that left Wei Zhao feeling restless. Since cultivating the first layer of the Xuanyuan Yulong Jue, his physique had undergone a tremendous change, the meridians inside his body had become far firmer than before, and his skill and agility were much keener than those of a normal man.
In the eyes of ordinary people, he was already an expert among experts, yet that only made Wei Zhao look forward all the more. If the first layer was already like this, then the second layer... the third layer, what mighty power would they hold?
And beyond the stone door in the great hall of the cave, besides the later manuals of the Xuanyuan Yulong Jue, could there be other things as well?
Wei Zhao touched the jade pendant on his chest. This one pendant alone had already brought him endless benefits. If there were other treasures behind the stone door... Just the thought of it excited him!
Many times, by virtue of that pendant alone, he had saved his own life and the lives of his comrades! Even now Wei Zhao had not fully mastered or understood the functions of the pendant.
Yet the power of the pendant was most mysterious, as if it could read his very thoughts. If anyone within a certain range meant him harm, the pendant would send him a signal to let him know in advance.
It was precisely because of the pendant's early warning that Wei Zhao and his comrades had been able to turn danger into safety time and again in the bullet-swept primeval forest! That was the pendant's early-warning function.
There was another function. If someone he had met before, someone who had once meant him harm, was present within a certain radius around him, even if he hid his killing intent and for the moment released no malice toward Wei Zhao, Wei Zhao could still gradually lock onto that man's existence by means of the pendant's signal. The closer he got to that man, the stronger the signal the pendant sent him!
Duels between experts often came down in the end to sneak attacks and assassinations. If one strike missed, they would retreat swiftly and never grapple for long. Those who had crossed hands with Wei Zhao once, even if they escaped under cover, were in the end inexplicably tracked down and finished off by Wei Zhao.
That was why his teammates called him "the Eagle". Once the eagle fixed its eyes on its prey, few could ever escape.
Of course, the pendant had many more extended functions. It could warn of bad things, and it could warn of good things too, only the signals it sent were slightly different. Wei Zhao did not know in what way the pendant influenced him to receive its warnings. At least no one around him seemed to be affected in any way.
But as far as Wei Zhao had figured out, there were these three meanings so far. In other situations the pendant would sometimes send other signals, only Wei Zhao did not know what they meant, nor what conditions triggered its response.