Chapter 3245: Where Did You Drink?

Although Ye Chen had full confidence, Yin Xiaoyang still felt somewhat uneasy in his heart, and he couldn't help but ask Ye Chen: "Mr., how do you plan to deal with that Assistant Commissioner Song? Her strength is unfathomable; if you need it, I can organize the strongest brothers from the Embroidered Uniform Guard to rise up and eliminate her!"

Ye Chen said: "Since she is a high-ranking official of the Right Army Commander-in-Chief's Office, she still has some use for me; I cannot simply kill her outright."

Having said that, Ye Chen then said: "What is the organizational structure of your Embroidered Uniform Guard internally?"

Yin Xiaoyang said: "The Embroidered Uniform Guard is divided into three battalions, nine flags, and twenty-seven squads. Each battalion has one commandant and one deputy commandant; each flag has one flag commander and one deputy flag commander; each squad has one squad leader and one deputy squad leader."

Continuing, Yin Xiaoyang introduced: "Among the three battalions, the first battalion handles mining, the second handles production, and the third handles logistics and security. The brothers you saw on the platform when you arrived belong to the third battalion, mainly responsible for patrols and security; besides that, they also handle transportation and loading/unloading. Moreover, many brothers in the third battalion are working overtime to build watchtowers, as ordered by superiors to strengthen defenses."

Ye Chen nodded and said: "Summon all the leaders of the three battalions and nine flags. I will first go to meet that Assistant Commissioner Song. After settling her, I will bring her to see you."

Yin Xiaoyang hurriedly asked: "Mr., do you not need me and the brothers to assist?"

"No need." Ye Chen said with a calm expression: "Although her strength is considerable, it does not yet pose a threat to me."

Yin Xiaoyang clasped his hands and said respectfully: "Here, from top to bottom, over ten thousand people—everything now depends on you, Mr.!"

Ye Chen slightly nodded, then said: "Drive, to your office building."

"Yes, sir!"

Yin Xiaoyang agreed and immediately drove back.

When the car reached the front of the office building, Ye Chen isolated the vehicle's interior with spiritual energy and said to Yin Xiaoyang: "Gather them in the meeting room, but do not tell them anything about me before I appear."

Yin Xiaoyang immediately said: "I understand!"

Having spoken, he said to Ye Chen: "Mr., I will first take you to see that Assistant Commissioner Song!"

Ye Chen waved his hand: "No need, I know where she is."

Having said that, Ye Chen withdrew his spiritual energy, opened the door, and got out of the car.

At this time, there were not many Embroidered Uniform Guard members in the office building, as production runs 24 hours nonstop; aside from a few on shift rotation resting in the dormitory area, the majority are working on the front lines, with only a few supervisors staying in their offices on duty.

Assistant Commissioner Song is currently in the office on the fifth floor; her office consists of an outer and an inner room, each nearly a hundred square meters in size, and the decoration is quite luxurious.

The outer room is mainly for office work and receiving guests, while the inner room is for living, resting, and cultivation meditation, and it also has complete washroom and bathroom facilities. Since Assistant Commissioner Song came to Dukes Mining, her work and life have been based here.

This office was originally prepared specially for envoys; whenever an envoy comes, they stay here for a few days, making it the best room in the entire Dukes Mining, so Yin Xiaoyang naturally arranged for Assistant Commissioner Song to stay here.

Assistant Commissioner Song's personal name is Song Ruoyu; she just turned 24 this year, and she is the first cultivator the Song family has produced in hundreds of years, as well as their greatest hope in hundreds of years.

The fate of the Song family has been intertwined with the Wu family for hundreds of years, sharing weal and woe.

Initially, they had daughters marry into the Wu family to bear offspring for the Wu family; later, as the Breaking Pure Society grew stronger and the Wu family's secrets multiplied, Wu Feiyan demanded that the Wu people develop the intermarried families into collateral branches, so they could remain permanently tied to the Wu family.

Wu Feiyan's method of binding these collateral families was also very direct: poisoning.

The collateral families only need to honestly rely on the Wu family to receive a continuous supply of antidotes, and at the same time gain money, power, and status; but if they dare to defy the Wu family, their only fate is the extermination of the entire clan.

As for why Wu Feiyan wants to bind these collateral families, the reason is that as her lifespan grows longer and the Wu family's secrets increase, the future Wu family becomes increasingly unsuitable for randomly marrying outside families.

And since the Wu family is Wu Feiyan's natal family, and she cannot allow the Wu family's incense to be affected, she has instructed the Wu people to develop many collateral families like the Song family into the Wu family's breeding machines.

According to Wu Feiyan's requirement, Wu family women must not marry in their lifetime and must serve the Wu family for life; while Wu family men can only marry suitable women from the collateral families.

For hundreds of years, the Song family's greatest task has been to continuously deliver marriageable women to the Wu family for marriage with Wu family offspring.

As the two families have propagated in parallel for hundreds of years, their gene trees have long branched out, so the offspring born from Song family women and outside women have long since become so distantly related to the Wu family's descendants that the blood relationship can be neglected, far exceeding the range of close-kin marriage, thus ensuring the normal continuation of the Wu family's genes.

To ensure the provision of genetically excellent women to the Wu family, Song family men need to find outstanding Chinese women in the outside world, unite with them, and produce offspring.

And to protect family secrets, Song family men are often top-tier scoundrels.

They use false identities to court and discuss marriage with suitable women in the outside world; when the woman bears their child, one day they take the child and vanish together into the human world.

If it is a boy, they bring him back to raise him as the new generation of the Song family.

If it is a girl, they raise her entirely according to the Wu family's preferences; if she grows up and is selected by the Wu family to marry a man of high status in the Wu family, she can bring more wealth and opportunities to her family; if she cannot be selected by a man of high status in the Wu family, she must inevitably marry those Wu family descendants who are not valued or even despised.

After all, even if the Wu family men are worthless, they are still Wu family people, and the Wu family cannot let them remain bachelors for life; even if they have no prospects, they must at least start a family and have descendants to give an explanation to their parents and even grandparents.

And to guard the Wu family's secrets, they can only marry women from the collateral families.

Therefore, in the Song family, this kind of collateral family sees over 80% of marriageable women being selected layer by layer by the Wu family.

Due to the enormous disparity in strength between the two families, women who marry into the Wu family almost never have any status to speak of; being looked down upon by their husbands is normal, suffering injustice is commonplace, and severe cases may even be killed by their own husbands; yet even so, their natal families dare not raise any objection or dissatisfaction, after all, their lifelines are entirely held by the Wu family.

As for those fortunate women who were not selected by the Wu family, the Song family will not allow them to leave the family or marry and start a family, because they must remain in the Song family to guard the Song and Wu families' secrets for hundreds of years, serving as tools their whole lives.

Song Ruoyu is the only cultivator the Song family has produced in hundreds of years; indeed, one can say she is the only one produced by all the collateral families combined, so she bears the hopes of the entire Song family.

And Song Ruoyu knows the strength of the Breaking Pure Society and the Ying Lord, plus the constant exposure within the family, she fundamentally dares not harbor any rebellious thoughts toward the Breaking Pure Society; she only knows that if she wants to change her family's fate, there is only one path: constantly improving her strength and constantly taking on more important roles within the Breaking Pure Society.

Once her strength is able to catch the Ying Lord's eye, the Song family will certainly receive more favorable treatment; perhaps one day there will still be a chance to escape the fate of being a breeding machine.

Based on this heavy burden, Song Ruoyu is wholeheartedly devoted to the Breaking Pure Society, only hoping to have more opportunities to achieve merit so as to accumulate more capital for herself.

This time, the Commander-in-Chief's Office allowed her to independently take charge of the blood-replacement work for an entire garrison, which can also be seen as a manifestation of greater trust in her; she secretly thought: "As long as I complete this mission without any omissions and on schedule, the Commander-in-Chief's Office will surely give me more and more important tasks in the future; then, that will be a good opportunity for me, Song Ruoyu, to achieve merit and establish my career!"

Just as Song Ruoyu was inwardly dreaming of the future, she suddenly heard someone knocking on the door outside, interrupting her hopeful thoughts.

She came to her senses and asked in a cold, disgusted voice: "What is it?"

Outside the door, Ye Chen said: "Assistant Commissioner Song, the Commander-in-Chief has sent his subordinate to deliver a message."

"Deliver a message?" Song Ruoyu said disdainfully: "He is just a lowly Commander-in-Chief; if he has business, he should come see me in person instead of sending someone to deliver a message—what a big official airs he puts on!"

Ye Chen hurriedly said: "Reply to Assistant Commissioner Song, it's that some cargo has encountered problems and may not be completed on time; Yin Commander-in-Chief dare not delay, so he has summoned all the commandants and flag commanders, and they are currently discussing countermeasures; he truly dare not divert himself to delay progress, so he sent his subordinate to report to you."

"What did you say?" Upon hearing Ye Chen say that the cargo had problems and might even affect the schedule, Song Ruoyu instantly felt anger rise from her heart.

She focused her mind, and spiritual energy informed her that Yin Xiaoyang was indeed in this office building, and moreover, several heads of the Embroidered Uniform Guard were gathering toward him; thus she immediately used spiritual energy to fling the door open, stared at Ye Chen outside, and said coldly: "Tell me clearly, what exactly is the problem! If anything else arises that affects the schedule, I will first behead the person in charge!"

Although Song Ruoyu is young, she has regarded human life as grass since childhood.

This is not because she was born cold-hearted and unfeeling, but because she clearly knows that the Wu family has always regarded the lives of the Song family as grass.

From childhood to adulthood, she has unintentionally heard of no fewer than five incidents where women from the Song family who married into the Wu family were killed.

These people were her elders; the reasons for their being killed by the Wu family were also all far-fetched: some because they failed to bear sons, some because of accidental miscarriages, some simply because their husbands disliked them, and even some merely because they were greedy and ate too much, causing their figures to change.

And contrary to the matter of the Song family being regarded as grass by the Wu family, the Song family's attitude toward the women they find outside is also the same—disdainful and neglectful, even worse than how the Wu family treats Song family women.

Song Ruoyu's elder brother, a few years ago, entered society under a false disguise, seeking a suitable woman to reproduce with; he first had a child with a woman, and when that woman discovered that the elder brother still had a family in another city, the elder brother directly killed her to silence her.

That woman had not even had time to blame the elder brother for even a word when she was already shot dead by the elder brother; the reason was also very simple: the elder brother and the Song family could not bear any risk; their original intention was to wait until after the woman gave birth and the child turned one year old before finding an opportunity to take the child and disappear; since they were discovered, they directly killed her to eliminate future trouble.

Song Ruoyu, in such an environment, had become desensitized to killing; it carried no psychological burden for her anymore. These Embroidered Uniform Guards were far inferior in status to the Song family—merely a group of household slaves raised by the Broken Qing Society. Naturally, she cared nothing for their lives or deaths. Once someone provoked her or interfered with her, she would simply kill them without hesitation.

Ye Chen saw her face filled with killing intent and was genuinely surprised. Such a young face, such an extraordinary and otherworldly appearance and attire, combined with such a mighty and bloody killing aura, was truly shocking and unconventional.

Seeing that Ye Chen had not answered her question within three seconds, Song Ruoyu's tone immediately grew stern. She fixed her gaze on Ye Chen and shouted sternly: "If you don't speak quickly, I will chop off your head and personally go question that Yin-surnamed man!"

Ye Chen was left speechless, looking at Song Ruoyu's stern and murderous expression. He let out a light chuckle and said: "Little girl, where did you drink tonight? You're so drunk you actually want to chop off my head, brother?"