The bar was still quite lively at three in the morning.
Many young men and women were still wildly shaking their young bodies.
"Wow! Look, a super handsome guy is here!"
"Oh my god, he's really handsome! Let's go, let's go ask for his contact information!"
Jiang Yuan had just entered and hadn't even had time to look for Chi Zhongyue when several heavily made-up women in skimpy clothes walked up to him.
"Handsome guy, all alone?"
A woman wearing a midriff-baring vest, a tight skirt, and high heels asked with sparkling eyes.
"Handsome guy, add me on social media? Want to have some fun together?"
A short-haired girl next to her invited.
The third girl was even more direct, reaching out to drag Jiang Yuan to a seat while saying, "Oh handsome guy, why are you being shy? Come on, come on, let's have some fun~"
"Let's have fun here first, then we can find a place to have even more fun later~ The four of us together~"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Yuan immediately perked up.
These girls... are they playing this wild?
He twisted his body slightly to avoid the third girl's "Nine Yin White Bone Claw." Just as he was about to refuse them, a small, white, slender hand grabbed his elbow.
He turned around... and looked again. It really was Chi Zhongyue!
Chi Zhongyue ignored Jiang Yuan's strange gaze and just stared calmly at the three girls.
She didn't say a word, but her aura made the three girls smile awkwardly. They looked at Chi Zhongyue's perfect figure, pouted, and left sensibly.
After the three women left, Chi Zhongyue pulled Jiang Yuan's arm and walked inside.
Pushing through the crowd, she directly took Jiang Yuan to the restroom and pulled him straight into the women's restroom.
There was still a woman in the women's restroom who had just finished using the toilet and was pulling up her pants. The door was open. When she suddenly saw a man enter, her first instinct was to scream, but when she saw Jiang Yuan's face, she immediately held it back. She just looked at the two of them ly, with a hint of envy.
She didn't say anything, pulled up her pants, and left gracefully, not caring at all about what Jiang Yuan had just seen.
That was quite free and easy.
Jiang Yuan, who had never been to a bar before, was truly shocked.
Wait, are people really this open???
That can't be, right???
Jiang Yuan touched his face. Hmm... normally, a guy would be beaten up as a pervert, but only a man as handsome as the second most handsome man in Sushan City could receive such treatment.
"What, reluctant to leave? Want to go back and have fun with those three girls? Am I interrupting you?"
Just as Jiang Yuan was feeling proud, a faint voice beside him gently entered his ears.
The voice was very calm, but it made Jiang Yuan shiver all over. He said righteously, "What are you talking about!"
"I'm just amazed that even with heavy makeup to make yourself look ugly, you can still outshine all the others. Truly a natural beauty, the most beautiful in Yanxia!"
To be fair, Jiang Yuan was indeed telling the truth.
He didn't recognize Chi Zhongyue at first glance because she was wearing extremely heavy makeup.
When others wear heavy makeup, they cover their flaws to make themselves more beautiful.
But Chi Zhongyue was different. She wore heavy makeup to cover her beauty and make herself uglier.
She had even dotted several freckles on her face!
But even with her deliberate attempt to look ugly, she was still super beautiful. With her perfect figure, the three girls at the beginning were immediately defeated.
Chi Zhongyue rolled her beautiful white eyes, but didn't pursue the matter of Jiang Yuan deliberately changing the subject. She became serious and said, "Let's not talk about this. Come with me."
With that, she pulled Jiang Yuan into one of the bathroom stalls.
Closing the door, she began rummaging through her bag and quickly found a pile of various cosmetics.
Jiang Yuan sensibly bent slightly and closed his eyes, letting Chi Zhongyue apply makeup to his face.
"Done."
After about a few minutes, Chi Zhongyue finished applying makeup to Jiang Yuan. She looked left and right at her masterpiece and nodded in satisfaction.
She didn't realize how close they were at the moment. When she spoke, her warm breath brushed against Jiang Yuan's face, fragrant, a faint scent that perfectly embodied the idiom 'breath like orchid'.
"Thank you."
Jiang Yuan smiled slightly, his gaze gentle and his tone soft.
With this atmosphere and this distance, not acting would be a waste of the acting skills he had worked so hard to study over the past half month!
Chi Zhongyue's expression stiffened slightly. She turned her head away uncomfortably and said, "No need... let's go, to my place."
She opened the bathroom door first and walked out.
Jiang Yuan followed behind, couldn't help but sigh.
To be honest, in terms of acting, he still had a lot to learn.
Just now, how naturally Chi Zhongyue had shown her discomfort. With that level of acting skill, he still had a long way to go!
He quickly put aside his thoughts and asked in confusion, "To your place?"
Chi Zhongyue walked ahead without looking back. Her voice sounded very calm as she replied, "Yes, my other place."
"I've never lived there before. If that place isn't safe, then nowhere in Sushan City will be safe for us."
Jiang Yuan nodded slightly,, and followed Chi Zhongyue as they quickly left through the bar's back door.
...
Chi Zhongyue's place was in an apartment building, on the 26th floor. It was a two-bedroom, two-living room, one kitchen, one bathroom apartment.
The decoration was simple and warm, but since she had never lived there and had bought the apartment several years ago, there was a thick layer of dust everywhere.
Fortunately, the furniture, sofa, bed, etc. were all covered with cloth. They just needed to remove the cloth and mop the floor to make it livable.
Working together, they quickly cleaned up the place.
"You can stay in this room. The toiletries and towels are in the cabinet under the sink. Find them yourself."
Chi Zhongyue pointed to one of the rooms and said to Jiang Yuan.
"Okay!"
Jiang Yuan had no objection, but he didn't rush to rest. He frowned and asked, "Have you received any news about the investigation into the Second Group?"
When it came to serious matters, Chi Zhongyue immediately lost her usual gentleness. Her willow eyebrows furrowed as she shook her head and said, "No, I don't know any more than you do."
"Don't think about it. Team Leader Wang and the other high-ranking members must be handling this matter. I believe there will be results tomorrow."
"Now get some sleep and rest well to deal with any unexpected situations."
Pausing, Chi Zhongyue added, "You still look energetic. I'll go wash up first. I'm going to sleep anyway. You can wash up later and then go to sleep."
"Oh right, by the way, make your own bed. I won't take care of you."
Jiang Yuan nodded: "I'll handle it myself. Go wash up."
Chi Zhongyue went to wash up and take a shower. Jiang Yuan sat on the sofa, frowning as he thought for a long time but couldn't figure anything out, so he stopped thinking.
As Chi Zhongyue had said, there should be results tomorrow.
Just as he was about to go make his bed, he suddenly blinked and looked at Chi Zhongyue's room.
Her bed was also empty with just a mattress. According to the actions of warm male protagonists in movies, TV shows, and novels, he should make the bed for the female lead at this time, right?
Think and act!
He took out sheets, a duvet cover, and a blanket from the cabinet in the room and quickly made the bed.
By the time Jiang Yuan had also made his own bed, Chi Zhongyue had just finished washing up and came out.
Of course she wasn't wearing pajamas. She was wearing proper clothes that could be worn outside during the day. She was wiping her hair with a towel and casually said, "I'm done washing. You go... huh?"
She looked in surprise at her neatly made bed and nodded slightly: "Not bad, you're learning quickly."
"I can tell that you've really put a lot of effort into learning the art of disguise."
"Keep it up. I'm going to sleep first."
"Oh right... starting tomorrow, if there's nothing else, I'll teach you the next disguise course."
Jiang Yuan asked in surprise: "Do we still need to continue acting as a suitor?"
Chi Zhongyue didn't look back as she entered her room. A moment later, her faint voice floated out: "Continue. Your current acting skills have only just touched the threshold. You need to continue to deepen them."
"Oh, okay, no problem!"
Jiang Yuan was full of confidence. In order to play the role of a suitor well, he had been recalling movies and TV shows he had watched on Earth during his free time these days.
Warm guys, overbearing CEOs, puppy boys, wolf boys, hamster type, sheep type, tiger type, cat type... and so on.
This was just the beginning. There was still a long way to go!
Chapter 28: Explosive Growth in Strength
Midnight.
Ninth floor, Jiang Yuan's bedroom.
Jiang Yuan waited quietly for the survival point settlement at midnight.
He didn't know how many he would get, but he thought it shouldn't disappoint him.
23:59
00:00
Congratulations on successfully resolving a crisis, killing a First Grade Initial Rank, and surviving for 24 hours.
Comprehensive calculation, reward: 1088 survival points
...
"1088 points?!"
Jiang Yuan had thought there would be quite a few.
But this number still far exceeded his expectations!
Jiang Yuan was overjoyed. This was unprecedented wealth.
Based on the calculation that each level of divine power requires 100 survival points, wouldn't he be able to immediately advance to Second Grade Initial Rank?
He smiled. The temptation was indeed great.
But Jiang Yuan definitely wouldn't do that.
Theoretically, rapid advancement doesn't work. The body can't handle it, the soul can't bear it.
Even without these reasons, someone who advances quickly might not even be able to defeat someone a small realm lower.
A paper tiger, as they say.
Moreover, if he wanted to become stronger in the future and climb to higher realms, he had to be steady and solid, first consolidating his current realm before considering the next one.
Putting aside this tempting thought, Jiang Yuan planned how to use these survival points.
Adding the original 4 points, he had a total of 1092 survival points.
He definitely had to increase his soul first!
Immediately, he began frantically adding to his soul.
25...
26...
27...
Until he was about to increase from 30 to 31, he suddenly discovered that each additional point now required 20 survival points.
After thinking about it, he temporarily stopped adding.
With 1042 points remaining, he would improve his strength, endurance, and speed!
His strength was 10 points. Jiang Yuan increased it by 20 points at once, consuming a total of 200 survival points.
When he tried to increase it further, like with his soul, each point now required 20 survival points.
Jiang Yuan roughly understood the pattern.
He stacked his 11 points of endurance and 10 points of speed all the way up to 30!
This consumed a total of 390 survival points.
452 points remaining!
At this moment.
Jiang Yuan felt an earth-shattering change in himself.
It was even more significant than the change when he entered the rank!
In fact, each point increase in strength, endurance, and speed brings considerable changes.
Not to mention increasing them by 20 points at once.
The massive improvement was not just a multiple of the numbers.
To describe it...
Let's put it this way.
This afternoon, Jiang Yuan had a spar with Lin Le.
They both entered the rank on the same day, but Lin Le had trained earlier. No matter how lazy Lin Le was, Jiang Yuan couldn't beat him.
But now!
If they fought again now, not just one Lin Le, but three, five, or even more Lin Les wouldn't be his match!
Jiang Yuan's biggest shortcomings now were only combat skills and practical experience.
If we were to describe the current improvement in a more intuitive way...
The current Jiang Yuan was equivalent to a Second Grade Initial Rank with insufficient divine power!
In fact, some Second Grade Initial Rank might not even match Jiang Yuan in terms of strength, endurance, and speed!
This.
Is the importance of these three attributes and the necessity of improving them!
Too important.
A person's strength is not just reflected in their realm.
After being excited for a while, Jiang Yuan continued adding points.
With such a large improvement in the three attributes, he needed time to adapt, so there was no need to improve them further.
The same applied to divine power. It was best to improve divine power after fully adapting and consolidating his current strength.
As a disguise agent, the importance of soul strength is self-evident.
What's more, in more than ten days, he would have to go to the provincial capital to participate in the Faith Ceremony.
Immediately, he began frantically adding points to his soul again.
This time he directly increased it by 17 points, bringing the total to an astonishing 47 points, consuming a total of 340 survival points.
The remaining 112 survival points were kept as backup.
After all, now that he had discovered that his soul could recover, he definitely had to keep enough survival points for emergencies.
Opening his attribute panel again, all the data had undergone earth-shattering changes.
Name: Jiang Yuan
Strength: 30
Endurance: 30
Speed: 30
Soul: 47
Divine Power: lv4
Strength: Third Grade Initial Rank
Survival: 112
...
The Divine Power column had moved down, above the Strength column.
This was another small feature Jiang Yuan had discovered. He could freely adjust the display position of each attribute on the attribute panel.
This adjustment made it feel much more comfortable.
Compared to the shabby state at the beginning, the current attributes were much more impressive.
His strength was already incomparable to before.
Even if Xiong Yong launched a sudden attack on him now, Jiang Yuan didn't know if he could defeat the opponent, but it would be almost impossible for the opponent to kill him...
If he couldn't beat him, he could still run!
Unless Xiong Yong was a Second Grade Initial Rank with all three attributes at the peak of this realm!
Or even beyond the current realm!
But the possibility was really low. This required a lot of time, a lot of energy, and most importantly, talent.
Xiong Yong definitely had enough time, given his age.
Energy was unlikely. He had to work every day. Talent was even more impossible.
If he had such powerful talent, why would he be a security guard? He would have long held a position in the Zhengyong Demon Cult he believed in.
At least a Hunter position would be guaranteed.
Looking at his attributes with satisfaction, Jiang Yuan couldn't seem to get enough of them.
Especially his mind and even his senses had become more clear and acute than ever before.
"After my soul strength increased, even my perception became so acute?"
Jiang Yuan was very happy: "In that case... when fighting people with low soul strength, I have an even greater advantage!"
This was definitely another pleasant discovery.
Not only that.
His thinking had also become exceptionally agile.
This had nothing to do with intelligence; it just meant his brain reacted faster.
...
Early the next morning, Jiang Yuan went to the kitchen energetically to make a love breakfast.
Yesterday's love breakfast was ruined, so he would make it again today.
Life had to go on.
Disguise training naturally had to continue as well.
When he came back last night, he had bought a new lunch box at the supermarket, a cute pink one.
The breakfast was rich and carefully prepared.
Homemade sandwiches, heart-shaped ones, two pieces.
Seafood porridge cooked before going to bed last night.
Jiang Yuan had discovered that Chi Zhongyue quite liked seafood.
Taking the carefully prepared love breakfast, he strolled out the door.
As soon as he stepped out of the first-floor elevator and onto the outside of the building, Jiang Yuan suddenly felt something, his expression stiffened for a moment, then immediately returned to normal.
But he was extremely vigilant in his heart.
Just now, the moment he walked out of the building, that feeling of being watched that he had experienced before came again!
And there was more than one!
A total of seven pairs of watching eyes were on him!
Jiang Yuan was instantly terrified, his whole body cold.
He knew who five of those watching eyes belonged to.
Wang Dama, Hu Zhengfeng, Wang Rou, Chi Zhongyue, Lin Le!
But what about the other two?
Assuming one of them was from Xiong Yong, then... who did the other watching eye belong to???
Or maybe...
Like yesterday, were they gangsters or killers hired by Xiong Yong???
It was even possible that Hu Zhengfeng and the others weren't watching him the entire time.
Jiang Yuan was numb.
One wave had not subsided, another wave arose. Just one Xiong Yong had caused him and the second team so much trouble. If there was another hidden mastermind, Jiang Yuan would really be at a loss!
He had to find out!
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan suddenly frowned, clutching his stomach, pretending to have a stomachache, and turned back into the building.
As soon as he entered, that feeling of being watched disappeared.
At the same time, Wang Rou's voice came through the hidden earpiece: "Jiang Yuan? What's wrong? Do you have a stomachache?"
Jiang Yuan exhaled, with a hint of gravity: "No, I might... have discovered Xiong Yong!"
There was an immediate silence in the hidden earpiece.
The next second, Wang Dama's slightly excited voice immediately sounded: "That old bastard finally showed up!"
"Where is he? Did you sense him???"
"Wait... Did your soul break through???"
There was no one in the elevator. Jiang Yuan whispered: "After entering the rank yesterday, my soul did have a significant breakthrough."
"But... I can't be sure if it's him. I just sensed someone watching me in secret."
"First tell me your locations, and then tell me if all your eyes were on me when I walked out of the elevator just now?"
There was another silence in the earpiece.
Wang Rou asked gravely: "Do you mean... you sensed more than just Xiong Yong and us?"
"Wait, you... you even sensed Team Leader Wang's presence???"
"Your soul strength..."
By the end, Wang Rou's tone was filled with incredulity.
She wasn't surprised that he could sense them.
Jiang Yuan was a disguise agent with super strong soul strength. If he couldn't do this, what kind of disguise agent would he be?
But the key point was, Wang Dama was a Middle Rank powerhouse!
And a Middle Rank Second Grade at that!
Wasn't this soul strength a bit too exaggerated!?!