Chapter 181 : Chapter 181
Chapter 181: And Then What??
At Li Mu’s words, even the roots of An Xing’s beard began to tremble.
He was not even calling him Deputy Commander-in-Chief anymore. He had switched straight to “old fossil”!
But An Xing also understood very well that the more outrageous Li Mu’s form of address became, the more astonishing the good news he was about to bring would be.
Otherwise, if Li Mu only had one bottle of good wine, would he dare call him an old fossil?
Well…
It seemed he really would dare...
“Li, you little fossil, are you telling the truth? Then I’ll really send word to Thousand Victories Military Academy?!”
Li Mu immediately smiled.
“Truer than pearls! Go ahead and pass it on. You’ll understand once you come over in a bit.”
“Good!”
An Xing smiled. In any case, it was not his first time going mad alongside Li Mu.
He hung up the phone and immediately called Thousand Victories Military Academy.
Thousand Victories Military Academy.
The Principal’s Office.
After Principal Ling Dongshan hung up the phone, he slammed the phone in his hand onto the desk with a sharp crack.
The phone shattered into pieces on the spot.
“Arrogant!”
“It would be one thing if that new little bastard were arrogant! But that damned An Xing has actually grown bold enough to follow him!”
The Principal’s Assistant beside him broke out in a cold sweat as he listened.
Who was arrogant here?
Could you lower your voice, you living ancestor?!
Their military academy had indeed developed well over the past few years, but how could he dare call a Tiger Marquis with military achievements a little bastard?
Was he tired of living too comfortably?
As the newly appointed Principal’s Assistant, he had watched the academy’s results improve by leaps and bounds over the years while working his way up from other positions.
However, perhaps because he had only just become an assistant, he still did not understand many of the true internal reasons behind it.
He did not think the academy had the capital to stand against a military district.
Wanren Military District was indeed terribly lacking, but was this new Tiger Marquis’s way of doing things not obvious enough?
The one that was lacking was Wanren Military District, not Tiger Marquis Li.
He did not even know that the Vice Principal had led people to make trouble for Tiger Marquis Li.
He felt that it was time for him to find another job...
He advised in a low voice, “Principal, please calm down first. Tiger Marquis Li injured so many people all by himself. His strength is definitely not simple.”
“And judging from his way of doing things, he does not seem like someone easy to provoke...”
The Principal stared at him coldly.
“Not easy to provoke? What do you mean? Am I truly supposed to go over and apologize to him?”
“Hmph!”
“Send out a notice immediately!”
“Starting this year, Thousand Victories Military Academy will designate Red Horse Military District and Spirit Dragon Military District as friendly exchange military districts!”
It was true that Thousand Victories Military Academy had Abyss-Suppressing Army blood.
But it also had half of the education system’s blood.
Thousand Victories Military Academy was not a military academy under the jurisdiction of Wanren Military District. Rather, it had been jointly established by the previous Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Red Horse Military District and the Department of Education.
Red Horse and Spirit Dragon, the two great military districts, were also part of the Abyss-Suppressing Army. What Thousand Victories Military Academy did was still to deliver talent to the Abyss-Suppressing Army.
It had not violated any matter of principle.
It simply no longer wished to deliver talent to Wanren Military District!
What could Wanren Military District do about it?
“Understood. I’ll arrange it.” The Principal’s Assistant nodded helplessly and withdrew.
Wanren Military District.
An Xing arrived at Li Mu’s office.
The moment he saw Li Mu, he jabbed a finger at him several times in irritation.
“You. You really are a disaster waiting to happen!”
“You can say that later, all right?”
“Let me ask you something.”
As Li Mu spoke, he closed the door, directly dragged An Xing over to the sofa, made him sit down, and asked bluntly, “Do you know about something called a Sub-Profound Spirit Tree?”
An Xing’s brows jumped.
“I know...”
How could he possibly not know?
The Abyss produced countless resources, and most of them had not yet been developed for direct use.
The greatest task of research institutes everywhere was to develop these things into something humanity could use in various fields.
And among them, resources that could directly improve a martial artist’s strength were the top priority.
The Sub-Profound Spirit Tree had first been discovered and controlled by the Liang Family.
An Xing had been the first to approach the Liang Family and discuss purchasing it.
Unexpectedly, the Liang Family had taken advantage of the opportunity to make some excessive demands.
Not only did they want several elites from their family to take positions in the military district’s Quartermaster Department, they also wanted shares in a military-industrial-grade enterprise that manufactured weapons.
An Xing had refused on the spot.
Your Liang Family did not even have a fart’s worth of merit, yet you wanted to directly arrange for someone to become a military officer?
The Abyss-Suppressing Army had never had such a precedent, and he did not have that kind of authority either.
Of course, the Liang Family did not force the matter. At most, they simply refused to sell it to the military district.
The military district could not openly seize it by force either.
At the very least, with the military district’s current strength, it had not yet reached the point where it could ignore all families and factions.
“I have one right now. I plan to plant it in our military district.”
Li Mu lowered his voice as he spoke.
Gulp!
An Xing swallowed. He found it a little difficult to process those words when they were strung together.
“You have... a Sub-Profound Spirit Tree? And you plan to plant it in the military district?”
After he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked in shock, “The Liang Family’s tree...”
He knew that the Liang Family’s Sub-Profound Spirit Tree had mysteriously withered to death a few days ago!
That matter had even appeared on the news the next day.
Although the Liang Family was a first-tier family, the Sub-Profound Spirit Tree was also something they valued abnormally.
It was a genuine money tree in every sense of the word!
Li Mu raised his hand and interrupted him.
“What Liang Family, what Hot Family? I don’t know them. It has nothing to do with that thing of theirs!”
“To keep them from coveting it, let’s just change the name of ours.”
“We’ll call it the Big Tree Mystic Realm! Simple, concise, and self-explanatory. How nice.”
Li Mu spread his hands.
The corners of An Xing’s mouth twitched wildly.
If Li Mu had not mentioned changing the name, it would have been one thing. But the moment he did, An Xing became completely certain that Li Mu had done it!
Why would you change the name if you were not feeling guilty?
An Xing smiled wryly and said, “Changing the name or not is not important at all. If you really have this spirit tree and plant it in the military district...”
“The Liang Family will definitely come knocking!”
Li Mu frowned.
“And then what? Kill me?”
An Xing was stunned by Li Mu’s question.
That was right.
Seeing how righteous Li Mu looked, he had most likely not left the other side any evidence.
What could the Liang Family do to Li Mu?
What could they do to the military district?
At that thought, An Xing inexplicably became a little angry.
Damn it!
He had spent too long under that cowardly old bastard Hong Liangpeng.
Had he actually begun to instinctively fear trouble too?
Could Hong Liangpeng’s cowardly genes actually be contagious?
How unlucky!
“Good!” An Xing slapped the table and stood up excitedly.
“As long as you’re not afraid, there is nothing for this old life of mine to fear either! Pick the place. I’ll arrange the rest!”
Li Mu smiled.
This Old An truly still had some courage.
The Deputy Commander-in-Chief was in charge of funding. As for matters involving resources, Li Mu only needed to speak to him, and An Xing would naturally communicate with Hong Liangpeng.
Li Mu truly did not want to listen to Hong Liangpeng nag.
He asked with a smile, “What’s this? This old life of yours has nothing to fear so quickly? What did you call me earlier?”
An Xing’s old face immediately blossomed into a smile.
A trace of bashfulness even appeared on his face as he moved closer to Li Mu and said with a grin, “Heh heh, I said you were a seedling that brings wealth.”
Then the two of them immediately burst into laughter and bent over with it.
Li Mu laughed because An Xing, an old fellow at the Profound Rank Sixth Grade, had actually become a little coquettish.
As for An Xing, he was laughing at the same thing, though part of it was also because Wanren Military District had finally welcomed its own god.
Li Mu!
No wonder Li Mu had dared make him notify Thousand Victories Military Academy to come over and apologize, and to come in full force at that.
If they truly planted the spirit tree, then as long as Thousand Victories Military Academy dared kick up even the slightest fuss, the spirit tree would not be opened to them.
They would not need anyone else to act. Thousand Victories Military Academy’s own students would curse the academy leaders into paste!
Afterward, Li Mu grabbed An Xing’s hand and directly dragged him to the floor-to-ceiling window. Then he pointed at the huge empty space outside.
“Right there!”
Next, Li Mu followed the experience of the Pearl pilot program.
He had An Xing first mobilize twenty thousand soldiers and place them on standby.
The location of the spirit tree was set in the huge empty space between the front of the Instructor Department and Base One Hall.
That was because, from that open space, the area extending eastward toward Base Two remained an unobstructed flat expanse, while the area extending westward led to the Death Row Base Hall and likewise had a large amount of empty space.
It would be very convenient for the soldiers to gather, line up, and enter the Mystic Realm.
While An Xing was mobilizing the soldiers, Tang Meiying came to find Li Mu.
She reported to him the notice that Thousand Victories Military Academy had just issued.
She said that Thousand Victories Military Academy had just designated Red Horse Military District and Spirit Dragon Military District as friendly exchange military districts, yet it had singled out Wanren Military District by not mentioning it at all.
Moreover, this notice had already been released to the public. It would probably be on the news very soon.
In truth, Wanren Military District had quite a few graduates from Thousand Victories Military Academy. Even now, there were still at least five or six thousand of them.
And they were not bottom-level soldiers either. Most of them were elite grades at the Fourth or Fifth Grade, or even higher.
When Li Mu had beaten everyone from Thousand Victories Military Academy in the plaza earlier, many of the graduates had not dared shout too loudly. After all, it was their alma mater being beaten, and they also felt somewhat embarrassed.
However, that did not mean they sided with Thousand Victories Military Academy.
Once they entered the Abyss-Suppressing Army, soldiers increasingly valued strength and military merit.
Whether it was Li Mu’s accomplishments, military rank, or military post, all of them were existences they could only look up to.
Furthermore, in recent years, he was the benchmark figure closest to them in age, perhaps even younger than them.
After Li Mu finished listening to Thousand Victories Military Academy’s notice, he could not help finding it laughable.
He asked Tang Meiying, “How much do you know about the other one, Ironbone Military Academy?”