Douluo Huo Yuhao: My Clone is Too Self-Disciplined

Chapter 80: Failure in the Assessment, A Dream of the Mortal World (10,000 words daily, please subscribe)

The next day!

As dawn broke, wisps of smoke began to rise from the banks of the Riyue River.

The people cooking over a fire were none other than the students from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

Late last night, with Ma Rulong leading the team, the Level 5 Soul Master squad successfully captured Dulong, the leader of the Dulong Mercenary Group. He is currently tied to a tree. As for the other mercenaries, they were of no value and were completely wiped out.

This was supposed to be a great victory, but no one was happy because Yoga Lin told them that the mission had failed and they needed to complete another mission to successfully advance to the next level of education.

The reason for their failure was simple: the slaves they were trying to rescue were incomplete; two people were missing.

This time, the mission issued by the academy was not to kill a certain number of slave traders, but to ensure the safety of all slaves in the hands of the slave traders.

Unfortunately, they failed; two of the slave boys had already escaped and their whereabouts were unknown!
Xiao Hongchen was depressed all night because of this incident. Due to the sudden change in circumstances, Dulong had foreseen the danger and fled in advance, resulting in Xiao Hongchen and his sister killing some henchmen without even catching a glimpse of Dulong.

His younger sister, Meng Hongchen, was also slightly injured last night and has not yet woken up. Fortunately, Lin Youjia checked on her and found that she was not seriously injured and had just fallen asleep, which put his mind at ease.

He had originally planned to finish the mission quickly, take his sister home, and continue his research on soul tools, but Lin Youjia told them that the mission had failed.

"Teacher, you watched them leave, why didn't you stop them? Xiaomeng fainted because of it and hasn't woken up yet. I'm going to give that bastard a good beating."

Lin Youjia simply smiled and said, "They left on their own merits, why should I stop them? My mission is only to protect your safety, not to help you complete your mission."

You've interrogated Dulong all night, and you know how they left. The two of them just walked right past you, so who can you blame?

Upon hearing Lin Youjia's words, Xiao Hongchen's momentum instantly weakened. He could only vent his anger briefly before sitting back down on the ground, sulking.

However, at this moment, Ma Rulong, with a solemn expression, suddenly spoke up. He had spent the entire night reviewing the whole incident, and through questioning and torturing Dulong and consulting other slaves, he came to a very unbelievable conclusion.

“Teacher, I have reason to suspect that the academy leaked our information about this mission. According to what we know, the boy that Dulong bought from Luoyun Village knew about our assessment mission from the very beginning.”

He not only accurately told Dulong our identities and ranks, impersonating us, but he even knew where we were lying in ambush. Teacher, this doesn't seem quite right.

Lin Youjia smiled slightly and nodded repeatedly, "Your analysis is indeed very correct, but your teacher is very certain that no one leaked any secrets about your mission this time. That boy could not possibly have known your identities in advance, unless his influence in the Sun Moon Empire is far greater than that of the Mingde Hall Master."

"How is this possible!" Jing Hongchen is one of the most powerful people in the entire Sun Moon Empire, and Mingde Hall is the symbol of the entire Sun Moon Empire.

In the Sun Moon Empire, even Shrek Academy cannot surpass the Master of Mingde Hall.

Since there was no shady dealing involved, they could only accept their bad luck. Just then, Meng Hongchen, who had been in a deep sleep, slowly woke up.

Her face was still streaked with tears; one could only imagine how much she had cried while she was unconscious! "Ugh, my head hurts so much..."

Seeing Meng Hongchen wake up, Xiao Hongchen rushed over excitedly, "Little Meng, you're awake! Is anything bothering you? You cried so badly when you were unconscious, it scared me to death."

"Did I cry?" Meng Hongchen rubbed her still somewhat dizzy head, trying hard to recall what had happened in her mind.

Then, her beautiful face turned red again, and tears streamed down her face. She hugged her brother's waist and buried her head in his chest.

“Brother, I had a dream yesterday. I dreamt of my deceased parents. In the dream, they didn’t die. Instead, they were with us as we grew up and with Grandpa as he enjoyed his old age. I felt so happy.”

"I don't want to wake up, because once I wake up, all those beautiful scenes will disappear, but in the end, it was just a dream."

Xiao Hongchen didn't know what to say. He cherished this younger sister very much. He had originally wanted to ask what that bastard from yesterday looked like and which way he went, but he couldn't bring himself to ask. He just gently hugged his sister and slowly comforted her.

At the same time, a trace of loneliness appeared in his eyes. His younger sister, Meng Hongchen, missed her parents, and so did he!

The two siblings were feeling sentimental, but Lin Youjia was not. His eyes were slightly narrowed, as if he was thinking about something.

Meng Hongchen was definitely not dreaming; he must have been under the influence of an illusion. Therefore, he could guess that the magical boy's martial soul was of the spiritual attribute.

And knowing their exact location was probably also thanks to his martial spirit.

Just as he said with absolute certainty, the boy couldn't possibly know anything about their mission, because it involved the siblings Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen, making it a top-secret mission.

All the investigators were from Mingde Hall, sent by Hall Master Jing Hongchen. The examiners were also elites of the academy, mostly sons of noble families from the Sun Moon Empire, and it was impossible for them to collude with others.

Therefore, there is only one truth: all of this was deduced by that mysterious young man himself, using his strange spiritual attribute martial soul to deduce it.

Perhaps his being sold into the Dulong mercenary group was a conspiracy in itself.

Of course, the specifics of the situation depend on the investigation conducted by the Hall Master of Mingde. Even without his report, those secretly observing had already relayed the information to him.
Moreover, the reason he didn't stop him was twofold: firstly, it was indeed against the rules; secondly, and most importantly, Mingde Hall had already arranged for people to follow the boy, so whether he stopped him or not was actually meaningless.

However, the performance of the second-best in the world really impressed him; he was fearless in the face of danger, neither arrogant nor humble, and his wisdom was unparalleled.

If it's true, as he says, that he's a student at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, that would be great.

But no matter how hard he thought about it, he would never know that tomorrow he would meet the second-best student in the world during the freshman assessment, and would even become his examiner, and be so shocked by him that he would question his existence...

(End of this chapter)