Free Web NovelChapter 99: Chapter 99: If You Don’t Have Strength, Don’t Run Your Mouth!
"Don’t panic, don’t panic, let me check the info." Xiong Jie was shaken—even if the survival rate for A-rank dungeons was low, at least it was a chance!
We’re already in the dungeon, can the surgery even go on?
Right now, he just needed to know: does the dungeon begin during the operation, or before it?
"Come on, let’s go to City First Hospital and check the files." Dungeons were opening up randomly all over the world, and there was barely any detail online.
"So does that mean he still has a chance at surviving?" Jiang Che’s eyes flashed with sudden hope.
"I gotta be straight with you, it’s really uncertain." Xiong Jie shook his head. "Not every dungeon is like the one we’re in. We can’t rule out something happened before he entered the dungeon. Just talking about A-rank dungeons—they’re not something ordinary people can handle."
"He’s not like you..."
"I’ve prepared myself for this, Uncle Xiong. No matter how it turns out, I still want to check." Jiang Che returned the file to the cabinet.
He walked over, a bit embarrassed, and stood by Xiong Jie. "Uncle, could you teach me how to use these later?"
"Is this called going online?" Jiang Che had only heard of it before. None of the hospital staff cared if they got online. There was a TV in the lobby, always playing cartoons. Crowds gathered to watch; he used to love it, but once he knew every plot twist by heart, he stopped.
Because no one ever played anything new for them.
"Even if you didn’t ask, I’d get you ready for this. My first thought was to get you a phone—so no matter how far apart we end up, we can call and talk anytime."
Jiang Che nodded; he knew about that feature—Tuantuan had just called him, after all.
"And—if you go online, anything you want to look up, anything you wanna know, most of it you’ll find there."
"Getting online is the fastest way to learn about this world." Xiong Jie wasn’t sure where to start. What the world was like, he had never taught before—because he felt everyone learns it growing up.
How you interact with people, how you understand everything, all gets learned bit by bit in daily life.
Someone like Jiang Che, who’s never seen the outside world—Xiong Jie had never met anyone like him up close.
"Perfect—you can check out what other dungeons are like too."
"For regular folks, we have to watch out for dungeons, but also those supernatural events breaking into reality. After that, the city turns into a hunting ground, evil spirits actively slip into the Human Realm...and start hunting."
"The hunting grounds aren’t as horrifying as the dungeons though; you can see all sorts of human experts teaming up to hunt evil spirits."
For ordinary people, whether it’s dungeons or supernatural breaches, it’s disaster either way.
Xiong Jie paused, suddenly remembering Flying Tiger never told them about the details of supernatural events breaking into reality.
He glanced at his phone—there was a countdown for the next supernatural incursion: three days.
Supernatural things break into reality once every ten days.
Three days from now is the next event.
"No clue if the incursion comes with some energy field warning." Xiong Jie muttered under his breath.
"Flying Tiger knows, right? Can we ask them?" Jiang Che frowned hard when he heard evil spirits could enter the real world. The first thing in his mind wasn’t family reunions.
Xiong Jie’s words stuck with him: if evil spirits enter the Human Realm, humans will team up to hunt them down.
If they can detect the energy—if Tuantuan and the others came, Jiang Che wanted to protect them.
Best if they never show up.
Family reunion? He wanted his family safe more than anything.
"We have to ask, but not right now." Xiong Jie eyed the Flying Tiger Squad’s contact number on his phone.
"Cheng, remember— the more you want something, the less you can look desperate for it."
"If both sides stand to gain, it’s all about who loses patience first."
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Ring ring ring—
Qin whipped out his phone. The call finally came. He knew Xiong Jie couldn’t resist after seeing only three days left until the supernatural breach.
They’d done it on purpose, only dropped a bit of dungeon info, left out the supernatural event details.
That was deliberate—they wanted Jiang Che and Xiong Jie to come begging.
"Told you they couldn’t hold back—the kid’s clueless, doesn’t know fear. But Xiong Jie, that old coward, couldn’t resist." Qin waved his phone, his brows almost dancing.
The caller was from an unknown number—no doubt it was Xiong Jie.
He gleefully swiped to answer.
"Flying Tiger Squad, right? Some things shouldn’t be hogged. We all benefit. And we’re not pushovers."
"Who the hell are you?" Qin heard a stranger’s voice instead of Xiong Jie’s, and snapped instantly.
Flying Tiger glanced over, and Qin had to cover the receiver and whisper, "It’s not Xiong Jie."
He’d been waiting for Xiong Jie to call, hoping to have him beg. Now some stranger called, and their first words were about not hogging things.
Didn’t they know he was waiting on urgent calls? Blocking the line with this nonsense!
With one sentence, Qin was already laughing in disbelief. Odds are, whoever called was here for Jiang Che.
A blank slate background, freakish base stats—he got why Jiang Che was every organization’s hot ticket.
But—!
Flying Tiger recruits with sincerity, with real resources. If you have what it takes, show it!
"Get lost, damn it! If you’ve got the chops, come compete. Stop with these lame tricks!" Qin noticed Miss Boss watching him, and blood rushed to his cheeks. He’d just been promoted to squad leader by her.
"No skills, don’t talk big." And he hung up right there.
"Who was that?" Flying Tiger blinked.
"Somebody after Jiang Che— told us not to hog him. But we’re not forcing him; Jiang Che can go wherever he wants." Qin fumed.
"Oh, that’s how it is. Must be other organizations found Jiang Che." Flying Tiger felt zero guilt using insider information to lure Jiang Che; a bit of intel, told early, is pure gold.
Not bribery, just good faith.
And Flying Tiger Organization has way more cards to play.
"If anyone shows up lately, just teach them a lesson." Flying Tiger’s eyes went cold. Talent is something you fight for.
She wanted Jiang Che to see Flying Tiger’s true strength.
Clack—
Hearing the phone hang up, the folks who’d just failed to bargain for Flying Tiger’s stash looked bitter. All they wanted was for Flying Tiger Squad to hand something over.
They had plenty of families—not pushovers.
"What’d Flying Tiger say? Willing to give us anything?"
"They said if you’ve got guts, go do it. If not, stop talking shit."
