Monster Hunter, start with a wife!

"Oh?" Old Gao raised his thick eyebrows, revealing a look of great interest:

Tell me about it.

"Here's what happened..."

Cheng Zhuo recounted his experiences after leaving H0173 in detail, and also shared his speculations.

"You suspect that Star Iron City's higher-ups are conducting human experiments?" Old Gao's relaxed brows suddenly furrowed.

"I have that suspicion," Cheng Zhuo replied, but then his tone shifted, revealing a more pragmatic edge.

"However, I don't care about these things. I just don't want to get involved in these messy things. I just want to focus on my cultivation and gradually increase my strength."

"That's a bad idea."

Old Gao's voice deepened: "Come with me."

After saying that, he turned and walked deeper into the villa, passing through two carved wooden doors and stopping in front of a door that glowed with a fluorescent blue light.

Cheng Zhuo followed and found that the room was over a hundred square meters, filled with sophisticated instruments, and several virtual projection screens were floating in the air, displaying a dense stream of data.

At the far end of the room, Huangfu Bai was holding an instrument and testing something back and forth.

"Young Master's goal since childhood has been to use technology to defeat the Void Realm and save humanity! No one's doubts about him have ever affected his choices."

Old Gao's eyes revealed undisguised admiration.

Cheng Zhuo frowned slightly:

"Does Master hope that I, like Young Master Huangfu, have a heart to save the world?"

"No."

Old Gao shook his head decisively, "The point is not about saving the world."

He turned and stared at him, his tone solemn:

"With your current talent, and with me as your backer, you shouldn't have any desire to live a life of mere survival. Whether you save the world or destroy it, the key is that you must have the conviction to stand at the top of the world and look down on everything!"

Cheng Zhuo pondered for a moment, savoring the meaning behind his master's words.

Old Gao traced a line in the air with his fingertips, and the yin-yang outline reappeared:

"My Yin-Yang school emphasizes the combination of Yin and Yang, and the balance of strength and gentleness, but it is not the traditional doctrine of the mean. Gentleness is for oneself, while strength is external; one must have the courage to fear nothing. Do you understand?"

Cheng Zhuo pondered for a moment, then slowly nodded: "Disciple understands."

"It's still early, take your time to figure it out."

Old Gao patted him on the shoulder. "That colonel, his name is Liang Ye, right?"

"That's right." Cheng Zhuo nodded.

"You stay here and watch over the young master, don't let him go too far." Old Gao said, turning and walking towards the balcony. Without stopping, he leaped off the balcony, which was over a hundred stories high, his figure instantly disappearing into the clouds.

"I'll be right back."

Cheng Zhuo stared at the disappearing figure, a question lingering in his mind—

Was he going to reason with them, or to silence them...?

He withdrew his gaze and stepped into the "laboratory".

I had only taken two steps when my gaze was drawn to a pile of boundary stones stacked on a table against the wall—

On one of the boundary stones, which gleamed with a white sheen,

The four characters "Qingyan Cave" are clearly engraved on it.

"Oh, when did you get here?" Huangfu Bai's eyes lit up when he turned around and saw him.

"I was just about to look for you. Quickly give me your Silver Knight vehicle card; I tested it successfully, five days!"

Huangfu Bai spread his long, slender fingers:

"In five days, I will transform it into a super gravity body that ignores the rules of the dimensional gate's source power and whose firepower is comparable to a fourth-tier hunter squad!"

"Amazing!"

Cheng Zhuo praised him repeatedly and quickly handed him the card, but his gaze remained fixed on the boundary stone of "Azure Rock Cave." After pondering for a moment, he tentatively spoke:

"Could you give me one of these boundary stones?"

"Take whatever you like!"

Huangfu Bai readily agreed, without even blinking, and then lowered his head to fiddle with the vehicle card, his tone full of excitement:

"The material of this boundary stone is even more unusual than I expected. It contains remnants of mustard seed-like substances, which must have caused some kind of dimensional change when the Ruins collapsed..."

He kept spouting technical terms like "source force collision" and "boundary stone molecular reconstruction," leaving Cheng Zhu completely bewildered.

Cheng Zhuo listened patiently, but his hands moved swiftly.

He hurriedly put away the boundary stone of the "Green Rock Cave".

Cheng Zhuo discovered—

At this moment, Huangfu Bai completely lost his previous aristocratic demeanor, as if he had become a different person, giving off the feeling of a fanatical scientist.

This is not a change he made when switching personalities before.

Rather, it is a pure change in state.

That confidence, passion, and inexplicable sense of obsession...

Cheng Zhuo suddenly gained a different understanding of what his master meant by "having the belief to stand at the top of the world".

About half an hour later.

Cheng Zhuo then heard his master Lao Gao's voice coming from outside.

"Disciple, come out."

Cheng Zhuo quickly went outside.

But as soon as I stepped into the living room, I stopped in my tracks—

Two people were kneeling on the carpet in front of the sofa.

It was Colonel Liang Ye, and his adjutant who was always following behind him.

Cheng Zhuo wasn't shocked that Lao Gao was able to capture these two people; after all, his master's strength was unfathomable.

What shocked him was Liang Ye.

Everyone knows that this "Hyena" colonel is a notorious iron-blooded officer in the Star Iron City Hunting Army. He is ruthless, unruly, and doesn't look like a spineless coward at all!

How could it be so short, just half an hour...?

He knelt down willingly before his master, his back hunched, exuding an indescribable sense of humility.

His once sharp eyebrows drooped, and sweat still clung to his forehead.

They looked even more docile than the stray cats begging for adoption on the street.

"Knock knock!"

Liang Ye and his adjutant caught sight of Cheng Zhuo, as if grasping at a last straw, yet they dared not look him in the eye. They could only kowtow twice heavily to him, their voices trembling.

"Cheng Zhuo... Mr. Cheng! You are a magnanimous person, please put in a good word for us with Mr. Gao and give us a quick resolution!"