Chapter 490 - 401: Old He Steps Down
Chapter 490: Chapter 401: Old He Steps Down
"By the way, where’s Wei Nan?"
While Lin Yi was eating, he realized someone was missing. He hadn’t seen Wei Nan since leaving the dorm.
Zhou Qi looked up at him. "He went home!"
"He’s been gone for almost a year, it’s about time he went home to visit," Lin Yi nodded.
"By the way, there’s something..."
Zhou Qi suddenly put down his chopsticks and looked up at Lin Yi.
Lin Yi was slightly taken aback, then said with a smile, "If you have something to say, just say it. Why are you hesitating?"
"It’s just... we want to join the Town Martial Department. Is that okay?"
After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Qi finally said it outright.
Lin Yi, who was shoving some Demon Beast Meat into his mouth, paused for a moment.
He looked up at Zhou Qi and Sun Tao across from him, and Shen Mengyi beside him.
"You guys? All three of you want to join?"
"That’s right!"
Zhou Qi and Sun Tao both nodded, and Shen Mengyi, beside him, also had an eager expression.
After a short pause, Zhou Qi continued, "The last time you asked us to join, we didn’t agree because we all had our reservations."
"After all, we had only just arrived in the New District, and our parents hadn’t settled in yet."
"So we hesitated. Truthfully, we regretted it even back then."
"Sun Tao, Mengyi, and I all want to fight alongside you!"
"But because we were too worried, we... This time, we’ve thought it through!"
"Our families are all settled now. Especially Sun Tao’s parents—when they heard he missed the last opportunity, they even gave him a scolding!"
"You could say that woke us all up. Since we came to the New District, it was to better improve our realms and cultivation!"
"Choosing Xingwu University naturally means we have to be ready to face danger at any time!"
"But we got scared and made the most cowardly choice. I know now that it wasn’t so much about having reservations as it was about us choosing to run away."
"This time, we’ve made up our minds!"
"Even if it means death, we want to die a worthy death. Let us join the Town Martial Department!"
After Zhou Qi finished speaking, Sun Tao and Shen Mengyi both nodded as well.
However, Lin Yi remained silent.
He neither refused nor accepted.
He just kept his head down, eating the Demon Beast Meat on his plate.
Time ticked by, second by second.
For Zhou Qi, Sun Tao, and the others, time seemed to stretch on endlessly in that moment.
Their hearts began to pound with uncertainty.
The longer Lin Yi remained silent, the more uneasy they became.
He didn’t speak until he had eaten every last piece of Demon Beast Meat on his plate.
He rubbed his stomach and said with a look of pure satisfaction, "You know, when you’re starving, there’s nothing more satisfying than a full belly!"
"This plate of Demon Beast Meat is enough to satisfy even the hungriest person!"
"When a person is completely full, the only thing on their mind is sleep. Let’s go. Time to head back to the dorm and get some rest!"
After saying that, Lin Yi stood up and walked out.
Zhou Qi, Sun Tao, and Shen Mengyi all looked at each other in confusion.
They didn’t understand what Lin Yi meant.
Why would he say something like that without answering their request to join the Town Martial Department?
’Did he agree, or not?’
For a moment, the three of them were completely baffled.
Not knowing what else to do, they all stood up and followed him out.
After they left the cafeteria, they walked across the grounds of Dormitory Zone 1. Other students were milling about, coming and going.
"Lin Yi, we want to join the Town Martial Department..."
"No!"
Just as Zhou Qi mustered his courage and caught up to ask again, Lin Yi shut him down before he could even finish his sentence.
At that, Zhou Qi froze on the spot.
Sun Tao and Shen Mengyi also stared at Lin Yi in disbelief.
In their minds, Lin Yi had always been the smiling Senior Brother Lin, the kind of person who would never refuse any request made of him.
But that single word, "No!", smashed into their hearts like a pair of giant hammers.
Before this, it had never even occurred to them that Lin Yi would refuse their request.
"Opportunities aren’t something you can just have whenever you want them!"
"They’re fleeting. If you don’t seize them, why would they wait for you?"
"Just focus on your cultivation at the university. If you get a chance to join the Demon Hunting Bureau in the future, that would be a good choice too."
"The Town Martial Department... was never a department that’s open to the public to begin with!"
"Besides, you might not even be able to pass the entrance physical!"
Without even turning his head, Lin Yi walked straight into the dormitory building.
His words were like an echo, reverberating endlessly in their minds.
Long after Lin Yi’s figure had completely disappeared, they remained standing there, unable to come to their senses.
A cool breeze swept by, sending a shiver down their spines.
Only in this moment did they truly understand the meaning of ’loss’.
「A night passed.」
The next day, Lin Yi left the dormitory early.
He was planning to go to Jingzhao City today to report to Old He.
After meeting up with Wei Shang, Feng Lei, and Shan Kui, they drove directly toward Jingzhao City.
It was a drive of over three hours.
By the time they arrived in Jingzhao City, it was almost noon.
They went straight to Old He’s office.