Chapter 1468: Successor

Although the Balu Monster is already mature, keeping a master around can always handle some extra risks.

Before coming here, the boss had already given the trio extra orders — besides Balu, he also wanted Guer.

Of course, the latter is the type that can be directly discarded if the situation doesn’t look good.

After all, the Balu Monster is mature, and its potential has been maximized, while little Guer is just a backup — it’s good to have him, but it’s not a big deal if not.

On the ground, Wen Yu’s twisting speed became slower and slower, more sluggish, with blood foam constantly spraying from his mouth and nose, and his life signal gradually becoming faint.

Until Howard grabbed Guer’s wrist, hoisting him onto his shoulder, the life of Number Three Uncle finally came to an end.

“Uncle…”

“Uncle!”

“Uncle!!!”

The voice changed from low to exceedingly shrill, and at this moment, Guer looked at Wen Yu, who’s fallen to the ground, snot and tears gushing out, he opened his hands, seemingly wanting to hold onto Wen Yu tightly, yet he was just moving farther away on Howard’s shoulder.

Until pain transformed into frenzy.

“You bunch of bastards!”

The attack suddenly launched, the Energy Wave hitting Howard straight in the face!

The explosive Energy Wave broke through Howard’s defense skills, leaving three bloody slashes on Howard’s white face — but that’s all it did.

However, under this attack, Howard couldn’t help but let go of Guer, retreating three steps. Then, squinting his eyes to look behind, he discovered Guer charging at him like a furious beast.

“Oh…”

To this, Howard only shook his head with a smile.

“Plan B!”

As soon as the words fell, gravity waves, iron storm, and sealing energy surged towards Guer like a tide, and within a second, results were achieved.

Guer’s small body fell to the ground like a broken sandbag.

Faith, sorrow, pain, bewilderment, all these complex emotions…

After all, they cannot be converted into power…

…

“Overestimating oneself!”

Like swatting a mosquito, Howard slowly withdrew his hand, snorted disdainfully, gave Guer’s life signal a simple scan confirming it had completely disappeared, then turned his head to leave.

“How do we explain to Boss Bai?”

“Just say this guy resisted fiercely, I couldn’t hold back, accidentally killed him; anyway, Boss Bai didn’t emphasize how important this little guy is. If he were really that important, Boss Bai would’ve undoubtedly informed us beforehand.”

Given Howard’s understanding of Bai, Bai couldn’t possibly make a fool’s mistake — if he didn’t stress it, it meant Guer’s existence was already dispensable.

And indeed, that was the fact.

Bai went to great lengths to establish a Rebel Army for Guer, aiming for Guer to “cultivate the Balu Monster ‘for his own future'” — doing things for oneself versus being forced to, there’s bound to be a monumental difference in quality.

It indeed went as Bai had planned — Guer toiled arduously, letting the Balu Monster smoothly enter maturity, with its potential fully catalyzed to the maximum.

By this point, Guer’s value had already been drained dry.

Still that saying…

The success of some things doesn’t hinge on how much effort you’ve put in or how much you’ve sacrificed.

What’s crucial is the timing, or luck.

And this time, luck was not on Bai’s side.

…

Howard and the other two followed their arrival path and left directly, and once the trio vanished over the horizon, inside the First Base of the Rebel Army, the fallen “Number Three Uncle,” abruptly twitched, the next second, Number Three Uncle shook his head lightly, leisurely sat up, showing no signs of being grievously injured.

“Tsk tsk, that guy Bai, has really recruited quite a few tough characters…”

Wen Yu mused over Howard’s trio’s ability while looking up at a spot not far away.

There, little Guer’s battered body lay flat on the ground, covered in blood, limbs twisted, looking as miserable as possible…

Wen Yu slowly got up, walked over to little Guer, gazed at the lifeless eyes wide open as if unwilling to die, and his eyes slowly narrowed.

He was pondering…

Pondering the moments spent together over the past two years.

For a moment, Wen Yu ultimately sighed.

Although humans and demons stand at odds, yet, over the past two years, little Guer’s voice and laughter faintly echo in the ears back, recalling his indomitable attempts to avenge Wen Yu following his death, Wen Yu, ultimately raised his hands.

Mystical power began to spread, a power that seemed to transcend time and life and death quickly poured into Guer’s body, and thus, the life flame that had already extinguished slowly rekindled, emitting a faint glow.

“Then, have you thought about how to handle him?”

In his mind, Number One’s voice sounded, to which Number Three just offered a gentle smile.

“We share thoughts, so however I think, you should be crystal clear, right.”

Far away in Yanjing, Wen Yu Number One shook a test tube, a smile seemed to hang on his face.

“That’s right, the Human-demon Conversion Technique is nearing success, let’s use this little guy as our first test subject.”

“If it fails, it’s fate; we’ve done our best. But if it truly succeeds…”

“Hehe, oh right, let me tell you something interesting.”

“Sun Xuewei is pregnant, delivering in five months, it’s a boy.”

Listening to Wen Yu Number One’s words, Number Three’s face also formed a smile.

“So?”

“Lately, Tang Haofei keeps bothering me about gifting his child appropriate presents. He believes the path to becoming a powerful expert should start from childhood, saying that since his father couldn’t achieve the goal of being the world’s number one, his descendants should carry that great task.”

At this point, Wen Yu Number One shook the test tube once more, observing the slowly blending two-colored liquid with an expression of anticipation on his face.

“I think we need to teach Old Tang a lesson, something like ‘Dragons birth dragons, phoenixes birth phoenixes, mouse children dig holes,’ what do you think?”

“Hehe…”

Number Three seemed amused by Number One’s jest, gazed upon Guer whose injuries had begun to heal, and spoke again.

“Having a child or something…that’s truly an ordeal for us; however, I think, if we need to cultivate an heir, this little guy before me serves as a target worth considering, provided he can endure the Human-demon Conversion Technique and our cultivation method…”

After these words, Wen Yu Number Three fell into silence briefly.

“But thank you, thank you for being so considerate of my feelings.”

“It’s nothing, we’re as one, aren’t we?”

“All right, I won’t participate in the matters regarding Bai’s side; as for the subsequent matters concerning the criminal evidence…”

Number Four has reached the designated coordinates and successfully infiltrated the vessel; the rest, leave it to me.”