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Chapter 326: The cult



"Your mission is to infiltrate the cult and gather information. For now, we do not know who the leader of the cult is but whoever he is, he doesn't show himself in public. We do not know how to find him either. So you will have to infiltrate the cult for that. We have tried that in the past but we were never able to get past a certain rank and meet him. With only this much information available, how you proceed will be up to you." A man explained to Wei Jun and Liu Yu as soon as they arrived in Shannau City via plane.

Wei Jun looked at the man explaining the situation and thought back to what the sect master had said. 'From the way he talked, it looked like he knew about the cult leader. Yet this guy says he's not known. Something doesn't add up.'

Wei Jun listened to the rest of the information in great detail. "As already explained, you are a married couple with a certain profession. Your task is to infiltrate the office of this woman and gain her trust. Doctor Liang Yu. She's like a field agent for the cult who recruits members for it. She's desperate to fill her quota at the moment and since she seemed to be the easiest link, we have decided you use her to infiltrate the cult. How you do that will also be left to you." Once the man was done with his explanation, he paused if both of them had any questions.

Wei Jun remained silent while Liu Yu had an angered expression on her face with how the infiltration process was mentioned. Still, she was sufficiently afraid of the sect master and decided to go with the mission even though she hated the current conditions.

"Very well, since you have no questions, I will now leave you both to it." The man said and left the apartment where both of them were staying together.

"What do you think we should do?" Liu Yu asked. Wei Jun remained silent for a while before he said, "You will take the task of entering the sect from the doctor's recommendation. I will infiltrate it via the other method."

Liu Yu had no qualms with that and nodded. Still, she was worried about the fact that she would be flying blind in an unfamiliar territory.

"What if I'm caught? What should I do then?" Liu Yu asked. It was imperative to know about this beforehand. Since she would be the one doing the main infiltration, there was always the chance that she would be captured and tortured for information.

They needed to decide beforehand about which information to divulge to buy time and about which to remain silent.

"If you're caught," Wei Jun looked at her and said, "Then choose the wiser option and tell them everything."

Puzzled by his response, Liu Yu couldn't say anything in return. Wei Jun expected that so he sighed and added, "Of course, I'm not asking you to tell them everything at once. Begin from something low-level like the guy who delivered us the information or the guys who are already inside the cult. Deliver the guise that you have decided to side with them and decided to leave ours."

"Come to me at the end, if it ever became necessary. Never, under any circumstances, lie to them." Wei Jun said. While he didn't particularly care about Liu Yu, he couldn't just let her die due to his personal reasons either.

"Wouldn't that mean betraying the sect?" Liu Yu asked.

"Take a break and think for a moment. Who matters more? The people of the sect who have been planted in this city or you? The people who are positioned in this city have no future. They're useless to the sect. But what about you? You're the youngest master ranked cultivator in the sect if not the only one. Decide for yourself. Whose life is important?" As Wei Jun asked those questions, there was one thing Liu Yu couldn't help but admit. His decision-making, while rational, was ruthless as hell.

From the beginning, he didn't care about the people of the sect in the least. He was only favoring Liu Yu over them simply because Liu Yu could be more helpful than them if the enemy turned out to be someone strong. Even if that wasn't the case, as Liu Yu had said, they were flying blind in enemy territory. In such a situation, it was always better to have someone like Liu Yu who was strong enough to have your back than someone like the people of the sect in this city who aren't even important to the sect.

With the decision made, they left for their respective roles. The first step was the therapist who they didn't have a hard time with. She was also desperate to have someone to get into the cult so as soon as she saw an opportunity, she jumped at it. After all, who would miss two adult stars if they were to disappear overnight?

Besides, for the cult, who was better than an adult star? One that specifically owed her as well. With that all done, Liu Yu was easily able to enter the cult in a few days. As for Wei Jun, he didn't have a rather hard time entering the cult as well.

The cult didn't have a member card or identification system. You could enter as long as you knew the password and only those who were members knew the password. Some magic was used to make sure no one else ever became aware of the password so the sect had to sacrifice two of their people just to get the password.

Still, they managed to get it in the end. As Wei Jun entered the sect, he immediately drew eyes from all over. Most of the members in the sect were men but there were women as well. One thing about them that he didn't fail to notice was their bodies and their beauty.

Each and every one of them was incredibly beautiful and devastatingly curvaceous. If it was one or two, Wei Jun wouldn't have paid it any heed but all of the women were like so. Liu Yu would have no problem getting in with how beautiful and curvaceous she was.

However, he couldn't help but think that that was a requirement to enter the cult. His hypothesis was further cemented when he looked at the males of the cult. They were all incredibly handsome as well. If not for the temple-like interior of the building, Wei Jun would have definitely thought he had entered a fashion agency, not a cult.

And the detail to notice the most was…

Even in such a place, Wei Jun stood out. His charm attracted everyone in there, men and women alike. Of course, while women were attracted to him a lot, men around him were jealous of how he looked.

Wei Jun paid them no heed and looked at a woman who was alone among everyone. She had a few books in her hands so Wei Jun decided to help out of the goodness of his heart.

[…]

'What?' Wei Jun asked.

[Nothing, host]

Wei Jun dismissed the strange exchange and approached the woman. As he appeared in her field of vision, she abruptly came to a halt. Even with a pair of glasses, the woman was extremely beautiful. But, when compared to the other women in the surroundings, she wasn't as beautiful as them.

If Xia Lu was a nine, then the women in the cult were a solid eight, whereas this woman was a seven. He wasn't aware of the rules of the sect that well yet but if she was beautiful outside, in here, she wasn't as beautiful. In other words, she was the outcast of this place.

'Every place has them. This place is no different.'

"Um—Ho-How can I he-help you?" The woman nervously stuttered. Wei Jun could see how nervous she was and took about eight of the eleven books from the woman and said, "You seem to be struggling a lot so I thought I should help you out."

"Hu-Huh! The-there's no need." The woman replied, her expression red as a tomato in an instant. Wei Jun, however, simply smiled and moved next to her while he gestured with his face, "Ladies first."

The woman was already flustered. At Wei Jun's aggressive approach, she couldn't help but give in and began to walk. They shortly arrived before a door at which two men were standing.

"Who is he?" The guards had no problem with the woman entering but they asked as they saw Wei Jun.

"He's helping me take them in." The woman didn't stutter this time even though the men were sufficiently handsome. However, they weren't at the level of Wei Jun and that didn't seem to affect the woman in any way.

"Very well." The man didn't stop Wei Jun from entering. If it was a restricted area, he wouldn't have allowed him to do so but he honestly didn't care for what was inside behind that door. After all, what could they do in the library?

"Thank you for helping me." The woman said.

"It was my pleasure." Wei Jun said with a smile before he hesitated to ask something.

"What is it?" The woman, seeing his hesitation, asked.

"Well, you see, I'm new here and I don't know much about everything. If you could please explain some things to me." Wei Jun said.

"Huh? Didn't the recruiter explain anything to you?" The woman asked, her expression a little confused.

Wei Jun sighed and said, "He was more focused on the girl before me and didn't even glance at me properly." Wei Jun replied chalking everything to male jealousy. And since it was a good excuse, the woman believed it as well since she had seen it happen before. She smiled and said, "As me whatever you want."

"Thanks." Wei Jun replied with a smile before he asked, "Then if possible, could you start from the beginning?"

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