Stuck in a Chinese novel

"Whatever you want to say, say it," McCalligan said, making sure Wei Jun was heard loud and clear. He didn't want to make it look like his will wasn't taken into consideration, or Melissa's for that matter. While the truth was far from that, no one needed to know that. If Wei Jun was expressing his opinion in front of the investors, there was no harm in letting him. Whether his will was met with proper reciprocation or not was an entirely different matter.

"I wish for another girl." Wei Jun replied.

"Someone other than Melissa?" McCalligan asked.

"No. Someone else, along with Melissa." Wei Jun replied.

"Haha," McClligan chuckled, but he wasn't the only one to do so. Many others, along with Sun Ruan, chuckled at Wei Jun's words. While some would have thought they were offended or thought of Wei Jun as greedy, it wasn't so. Explore stories on My Virtual Library Empire

"Well," McCalligan said as he looked at Wei Jun with amusement, "Arent you a greedy fella?"

Everyone in the room chuckled, even the women, but no one ridiculed Wei Jun. To them, it was a natural choice. Wei Jun couldn't help but shake his head inwardly. Had his mother been here, she would have sliced his head in two. Well, his father would have, but the one to order him would have been his mother. She didn't like it when he disrespected women like that.

He still remembered the first time he did so. As he thought back to that time, his body couldn't help but shiver in cold, unbridled fear.

He shook his head and focused on the current issue. Wei Jun could have just asked for Natasha instead of Melissa, but the goal here was to marry Melissa and Wei Jun. These two were the ones who mattered. Protagonists of a story, if one could say. Natasha, in this sense, would be the sacrificial side character who was just there to elevate the standing of the main lead, who in this case would be Melissa. In simpler words, Natasha didn't matter to them. They didn't mind giving her away as a gift along with Melissa.

The world of the strong was filthy, Wei Jun was well aware of that even before he came to that world. With that in mind, he wasn't going to let them use him or those who were allies as they pleased. This was the shortest and best way to bring Natasha by his side.

Another reason he wanted to do so was because he wanted to increase his INT stat. Mark Wilson was good but not as good as Natasha, in terms of talent, he was quite average compared to her. If Wei Jun were to give the same amount of resources to Natasha, she'd grow much faster than Mark Wilson, increasing Wei Jun's INT stat, which helped him resist mana to some extent.

[Why not do the same with Melissa?]

[She's more talented than her]

'She's a proud one.' Wei Jun simply replied.

Wei Jun never had subordinates he couldn't handle. He always chose his subordinates and made sure to recruit only those he could control. Yan Rong was a special case, but she was crazy enough to betray her own organization for him, so he didn't have a problem with her. But Melissa was different. She was born and raised with the sole reality that there was none more stronger than her, and she possessed the chance to become one of the strongest people on the earth.

Se wouldn't be so welcoming of being under someone else. Especially Wei Jun, who was a man. If there was one thing that was common in all women, women who had attained strength, then it was their inferiority complex of men. He didn't particularly care about that, and he had no reason to unless they were to mess with him, in which case, he would have a great deal of problem with them. That was also why he tended to stay away from women like those. Even Liu Yu, who had tried to kill him a few times. Wei Jun stayed away from her because he didn't want to deal with a crazy woman like her. Melissa also, in some sense, was similar to Liu Yu.

It was always better to stay away from such kind.@@novelbin@@

"Very well," Sun Ruan said, "Since it doesn't look like anyone objects to your request, it will be met. You may leave now."

It was an order he couldn't refuse. It also meant there was nothing more he was allowed to say now. Wei Jun nodded and turned to leave. Once outside, he sighed and made his way outside of the mansion. Once he arrived, Lao Chen was waiting for him with the car prepared. Wei Jun got into it and went to his villa.

~~

The next morning, at six am sharp, Wei Jun was at the military base, ready to roll. There were already some people there, and some more arrived after he did. They all looked at him with masked disdain, but Wei Jun didn't care about them. His deal wasn't with them, after all. He ignored their concealed gazes and just waited.

In another ten minutes, General Ming arrived and announced the locations of the dungeons. Luckily, there was one in the Yuan Yin city, but its rank was S, so the team raiding it would be led by a grandmaster cultivator along with some mages for support.

Wei Jun was also part of that team. The team comprised a general, someone other than General Ming, twenty-four cultivators at the master rank, including Wei Jun, and five mages for support, out of which two were healers, one was a ranged attacker, while the rest of the two were trained in defensive spells to protect the healers and the attacker.

Cultivators mostly fought with their fists, but some also took up weapons. Out of the twenty-five present, three had bows, three had spears, and nine had swords. Only one had a shield, and the rest were empty-handed, in other words, fist fighters. Wei Jun belonged to the last category, and so was the general who was leading the mission. Wei Jun was informed that if he helped in clearing this dungeon, he would be expected to clear the rest of the dungeons, stating in his contract that he found a little strange.

'Could they just change the terms like that?' Wei Jun asked.

[If the slaved party is to perform extraordinary]

[Then yes]

By slaved party, the system obviously meant the B party. Party A was the one usually initiating the contract, so the term slave was often used to address the other party or, in this case, Wei Jun.

'Which means they can change the rest of the terms as well?' Wei Jun asked, worried that if he were to perform poorly, the terms would once again change.

[Not necessarily]

[There's always a limit]

[Besides, if you fault or uphold your contract, you'd be punished anyway, so such instances are rare]

[Of course]

[They could be magnanimous and increase your time, but contracts usually don't work that way, and it doesn't look like the general who initiated the contract with you has much knowledge of them]

Wei Jun nodded. Each and every word the system had said made sense. Even in lending contracts, the other party could be merciful and forgive the party who couldn't pay on time. Of course, that mercy was accompanied by a hefty interest, so Wei Jun wasn't an amateur to not know what that really meant.

"I am General Shao. I will be the lead commander of this mission. Your jobs have already been assigned to you. Some of you might not be used to working with some present, so I will make this quick. Make it happen. I don't know how you do it, I don't care how you do it, just make it happen. Whether you're new or not, mistakes won't be forgiven. Get it through your thick skulls." The General calmly said all of it, but a clear threat was present in his voice that he had delivered with an utmost straight face.

There were mages and Wei Jun, who seemed to stick out of the group since they were the only ones not wearing the standard military uniform. Wei Jun didn't mind his words. He couldn't feel any animosity for himself in those words, and since that was the case, those words were for everyone, not just him.

Satisfied that he wasn't being treated unfairly, Wei Jun prepared himself for the hunt. It wasn't long before the whole team was prepared and ready to dive in. Wei Jun noticed that the team this time was different. All of them had expensive equipment on them, not just guns, and all of them had a silver ring on them, some had bracelets.

[Storage artifacts]

[They must be for the corpses they hunt]

'I see.' Wei Jun replied before he entered with the team and felt the usual change in his surroundings while passing through the dungeon gate.

However, as he ended up on the other side of the dungeon gate, he couldn't help but say just two words…

"What the…"