Stuck in a Chinese novel

Aside from that, Wei Jun found many more points that didn't make any sense. In the novel, Lin Ruan was only shown to be a cultivator in the late second volume, when Wei Jun died. And also, how was Wei Jun able to attack her and almost kill her to the point where she barely survived with her memory gone?

From her earlier display, even if Wei Jun had employed a cultivator which he didn't, how was he able to still push her to such a stage?

[I wouldn't recommend believing in the novel too much]

[The future doesn't remain consistent]

[If a human chose 'A' in one timeline]

[There is a possibility he would choose 'B' in another timeline even though all the conditions were the same]

'No. There must be another logical explanation for this.' Wei Jun wasn't well informed in such cases but he was sure there was something that was missing. So far, only one possibility has come to mind. The survival of Sun Ruan.

"You are quite a high-rank cultivator, huh?" Wei Jun asked as Lin Ruan settled the last knocked-out mercenary on a chair.

She was about to punch him awake when she stopped when she heard Wei Jun's question. She had no qualms to answer that question so she replied, "Grandfather got me many elixirs to increase my cultivation. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to deal with all of these men so easily."

Wei Jun nodded inwardly at the logical explanation given by Lin Ruan. The explanation of the system could have been right in a sense as well but Wei Jun had a hunch that that wasn't it. That was why he had asked the question to satisfy his curiosity and also to understand how the changes in the novel were being affected by his decisions.

"I see." Wei Jun simply replied. Lin Ruan, on the other hand, said while she punched the mercenary, "I will tell grandfather about your cultivation. Although he isn't too happy with you for missing the family meeting this weekend, he might change his stance after hearing you are a cultivator."

It was a sight how she could nonchalantly say all that with a smile a man coughed blood on the ground due to her punch. Wei Jun also prepared himself. Whether it was to kill the mercenary or to face Lin Ruan. He didn't use Qi since Lin Ruan could sense that but he was prepared to use it at a moment's notice.

The man stopped coughing after a few moments. Although Lin Ruan's punch was strong, it was without Qi and the man was a seasoned mercenary although he wasn't a cultivator so he could take a punch.

When he stopped coughing, Lin Ruan grabbed him by his hair and said, "You have one answer and if I don't like it, I rip a hole in your chest like the rest of your friends."

Her expression wasn't threatening in the least. Instead, she was smiling but when she said such terrifying things with such a smile and a beautiful face, it was all the more frightening.

The man on the other hand understood what his fate was going to be so he remained silent. However, there was no contact between him and Wei Jun, and that relieved Wei Jun greatly. As always, Li Wei had done an amazing job.

The mercenary didn't know him. Irritated by his lack of response, Lin Ruan was about to kill him when Wei Jun stopped her. "Let me try something." He said.

Lin Ruan nodded and stepped back. Wei Jun smiled and knelt before him. If it was old Wei Jun, he would have opted to torture him the usual way but with the miraculous power of Qi, there was no need to do so.

Wei Jun grabbed the man by the foot and just let in one strand of Qi. He had experimented enough to know by how long he had before Qi dissipated when he would discharge it into someone. He had enough practice from Shannau City.

His Qi lasted about thirty seconds inside someone if they didn't have Qi already in their system. So if Wei Jun were to use this on a normal person, the person would be burned from the inside but even that would take time.

Depending on the place where the Qi was let in, the man would either die immediately, or he would be in a world of pain. Just like now, if Wei Jun let Qi into the man's foot, it would be a while before the Qi would reach his vital organs. The Qi itself would dissipate before then so there would be no damage to the innards of the man except for the current limb he was holding.

As he let out one point of Qi, the man began to seethe, let out the most painful screams Lin Ruan had ever heard. As for Wei Jun, he had heard even more painful screams so he wasn't really impressed. The screams went on for about thirty seconds while the left leg of the man was now red as a tomato, completely burned from the inside.

Wei Jun didn't touch it, worried that it might explode and let out its innards. As for the man himself, he had passed out. Wei Jun showed an act of mercy because technically, Wei Jun was the man's employer so he was sort of bearing pain for Wei Jun's sake.

Wei Jun put his hand in his pocket and sneakily pulled out a health pill from his inventory. He forcefully fed it to the man who had passed out. As soon as the pill was down his throat, his leg began to visibly heal at a very fast rate.

It wasn't red anymore and from the looks of it, no signs of damage remained except for the fact that there was not a sign of hair on the man's leg because they had been burned due to the immense heat of Wei Jun's Qi.

The man himself regained consciousness after a few moments and hurriedly looked at his leg which was now fully healed. He thought it was all a dream but he knew it wasn't when he saw a handsome man and a woman standing in front of him. The man had a charming smile on his face while the woman had an inquisitive expression on her flawless and beautiful face.

That expression wasn't pointed at him but the man before him. He didn't know what it was about but he knew that he didn't want to feel that pain again.

He hurriedly and loudly spoke, "I'll talk! I'll talk! I'll say whatever you want me to say. I'll tell you whatever you want to know, just don't hurt me. Just not that, anything but that! Please!"

Seeing him willing to chatter, Wei Jun stood up and looked at Lin Ruan with a smile, "All yours."

Lin Ruan still looked at Wei Jun with an inquisitive gaze but for now, there were more pressing matters at hand. She asked the man simply, "Who sent you?"

It was a simple question but everyone in the room knew the mercenary didn't have the answer to that. Such a contractor would definitely not know who his employer was otherwise no one would hire them. But Lin Ruan simply wanted a clue. She already had one, she just needed to make sure that once she ran that clue, it would be backed up by this one.

"All I know is that he was a man, who he was or what he wanted, I don't know any of it." the man hurriedly replied.

That was the extent of the information they were able to get from the mercenary. Of course, Lin Ruan wasn't happy with it but she herself had employed such people so she knew how careful these matters were.

Lin Ruan stepped forward and searched the man for a phone but she didn't find one. She looked at him with a raised eyebrow, without asking anything. The man understood what she meant so he said, "My phone is at the public locker in the Zounan metro station. Locker number 47."

Lin Ruan nodded with a smile and without any warning, snapped the man's neck. She turned to Wei Jun and said, "Let's go."

Wei Jun nodded and followed behind her as he asked, "Who owns this restaurant?" That was the clue, the first clue that Lin Ruan had. Such a scene and no one had come to inspect. It only meant one thing, the staff of the restaurant was either taken care of, or they were involved in this attack.

Lin Ruan and Wei Jun both were leaning towards both of the options. Telling all the staff that the restaurant had to be closed for the day was much easier than killing all of them. And then the staff was replaced with mercenaries to take care of the matter.

Wei Jun was impressed by how Li Wei had done all of this at such short notice. After all, the plan to attack Lin Ruan came to Wei Jun's head just two hours ago.

"Ours." Lin Ruan replied with a somber expression which meant she was also a little bothered by all of this. They both left for the station to get the phone from the locker.