Chapter 188 Hua Bin, Tell Me the Truth. Besides Xi Xi, Are All the People in the Tent Yours?
After a while, Dai Hao returned. He instructed his adjutant to summon Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng.
At this moment, the adjutant led the way, with Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng following behind.
Dai Huabin was preoccupied with finishing his work on the evil Spirit Master and learning other necromancy, and felt nothing for his father, Dai Hao, whom he was about to meet.
Having been in this world for so long, he had barely seen his father, who was stationed on the frontier year-round. To say there was any deep father-son bond was pure nonsense.
He only had a deep affection for his mother, Duchess Zhu Ying.
She also doted on Dai Huabin the most.
They entered the commander's tent.
Dai Hao was resting his hands on the edge of the sand table, studying the terrain.
"Father," they both called out in unison.
Dai Hao straightened up and turned around.
His gaze went straight past his eldest son and fixed intently on Dai Huabin.
The look in his eyes was as if he were looking at a monster he had never seen before.
"Level 55?" Dai Hao stammered out these few dry words after a long pause.
Dai Huabin nodded. "I had a stroke of luck in the Star Dou Great Forest a while ago and managed to break through."
Dai Hao's face twitched twice.
A lucky breakthrough?
Your good fortune is equivalent to someone else's more than ten years of cultivation.
He, as the father, had spent most of his life fighting in the army, teetering on the brink of life and death countless times, and now he was only a Level 89 Soul Douluo.
My second son was only a teenager, but he was about to catch up with me.
Dai Hao took a deep breath, forcefully suppressing the shock in his heart. He pointed to the two chairs beside him.
"Have a seat. Was the journey smooth?"
The father and his two sons chatted briefly about everyday matters.
Dai Huabin's attitude was very polite and impeccable, but it also conveyed a sense of polite distance.
Dai Hao could easily sense it.
He felt a little bitter, but he also knew that he had been in the military all these years and had not cared about his family. He had no right to act like a father.
The conversation quickly turned to business.
Dai Hao walked to the desk, picked up a thick brown paper bag, and his expression became serious.
"This is the intelligence that our scouts recently risked their lives to bring back."
Dai Hao patted the paper bag.
"That group of evil Spirit Masters are entrenched in a valley deep in the Mingdou Mountains."
The terrain is complex, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
There were a few tough guys among them. Their exact cultivation levels were unknown, but they weren't too high, and their methods were extremely ruthless. Several reconnaissance teams we sent out were completely wiped out.
He handed the brown paper bag to Dai Yueheng.
"Yueheng, you are the senior student from the inner academy in this inspection team. Keep the intelligence safe and discuss a strategy with your team leader later. We must not be careless."
Dai Yueheng accepted the paper bag with both hands.
Just as Dai Hao was about to give a few more instructions on the precautions for the operation, he saw Dai Yueheng shove the paper bag into Dai Huabin's arms.
"Hua Bin, take this information and deliver it to Senior Sister later. Discuss the specific tactical arrangements with her."
Dai Yueheng spoke very naturally, without the slightest reluctance, and even with a sense of ease in passing the buck.
Dai Hao froze, his hand still suspended in mid-air.
He knew his eldest son all too well.
Dai Yueheng had been proud and competitive from a young age.
What's going on here?
In front of his father, he voluntarily handed over the responsibility to his younger brother?
"Yueheng, you…" Dai Hao couldn't help but speak.
Dai Yueheng scratched his head and chuckled.
"Father, don't let my age fool you. In our team now, apart from the three senior female students leading the team, the rest of us basically listen to Hua Bin. That kid is smarter than me, and his strength... cough, his strength is also stronger than mine."
Dai Hao felt that the stimulation he received today had gone too far.
Stronger than you?
You, a Level 64 Soul Emperor, are saying that a Level 55 Soul King is stronger than you?
Dai Yueheng noticed his father's confusion and leaned forward to add in a low voice:
"Senior Wu Ming, a seven-ring Soul Sage, activated her Spirit True Body, but Hua Bin defeated her with a single blow. I couldn't beat her even if I fought her."
The camp was so quiet that only the crackling of the torches could be heard.
Dai Hao stared at Dai Huabin, speechless for a long time.
After a long silence, he waved his hand, looking as if he had aged several years in an instant.
"Alright, you can go now. Be careful, evil Spirit Masters are not easy to deal with."
After leaving the commander's tent, the two brothers walked back side by side.
As the night breeze blew, the sound of patrols' orderly footsteps echoed through the military camp from time to time.
Throughout the journey, Dai Yueheng kept stealing glances at Dai Huabin, looking like he wanted to say something but couldn't, as if he was itching for something.
"Brother, do you have a stiff neck?" Dai Huabin felt uneasy under his gaze and stopped in his tracks.
Dai Yueheng rubbed his hands together, leaned closer, and asked in a low voice, "Hua Bin, tell me the truth."
"What truth?"
"That girls' tent next door..."
Dai Yueheng swallowed hard and pointed in the direction of their Shrek camp.
"Besides Xi Xi, are all the people inside yours?"
Dai Huabin was choked by those words and coughed twice.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Dai Huabin rolled his eyes at him, annoyed.
Dai Yueheng pursed his lips, giving him a look that said, "Stop pretending."
"Let me calculate it."
Dai Yueheng started counting on his fingers, beginning to calculate the accounts one by one.
"Lulu is your fiancée, that goes without saying. She's the official wife."
"That new blonde beauty, is her name Di Lingxi?"
"Just now at the camp, she kept saying, 'You grill meat for me,' and her eyes were so sticky they could practically stretch into strings."
"And then there's Bing Hanyue and Xue Qingyao, those two incredibly beautiful girls. The way they're looking at you is strange; they're completely focused on you."
Dai Yueheng got more and more excited as he counted, and he almost didn't have enough fingers to count them all.
"Ning Tian, that little rich woman, is so invested in you that she'd practically move the entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect over to give you as a dowry."
"Cui Yajie and Xiao Xiao are always around you. Even Wang Dong'er is practically drooling over you."
Dai Yueheng patted Dai Huabin on the shoulder, heartbroken.
"Even Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen act differently when they're with you than when they're with other people. Hua Bin, tell me the truth, have you been practicing some kind of evil technique to attract romance behind my back?"
Dai Huabin was speechless.
This was completely irrelevant.
"Stop guessing. It's not even close to happening yet," Dai Huabin explained dryly.
Looking at Dai Huabin's embarrassed appearance, Dai Yueheng already knew the answer in his heart.
He gave a thumbs up.
"Okay, I understand. We're all friends. You should hurry up and deliver the documents; your good friends are waiting for you."
After saying that, Dai Yueheng whistled and strolled back to the boys' tent with his hands behind his back.
Dai Huabin was left standing alone in the wind, bewildered.
Dai Huabin stood in front of the girls' tent, holding a brown paper bag containing information about the evil Spirit Masters, and sighed.
After Dai Yueheng's gossipy chatter, he now felt a bit pressured to even enter the tent.
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