Chapter 1382 - 412: [Wu’s Secret]_3

Chapter 1382: Chapter 412: [Wu’s Secret]_3

"...If I tell you my secret, can you promise to help me?" Wu said in a helpless tone.

"No, I’m not really interested in your secret, but I need you to answer a question for me." Chen Yan said slowly.

"What?"

"Why are you asking me for help?" Chen Yan looked into Wu’s eyes. "We’re just acquaintances, landlord and tenant relationship. I warned you in advance and saved your daughter once, just a casual favor.

You’ve done something so significant, how can you risk everything on me and dare to ask me for help?"

Wu’s expression changed slightly, and he lowered his voice: "You have a familiar aura."

"Aura?"

"Yes, the scent of a cultivator."

Chen Yan was genuinely surprised.

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Wu is an assassin.

In his own words, he was once an assassin, and more importantly, a well-known and highly reputable one who charged a high fee.

He belonged to an assassin organization.

He served as a military officer, carrying a certain soldier’s demeanor.

However, he never served in the Dragon Country.

Wu was an orphan at a young age and was adopted by a pair of middle-class Chinese-American couple who owned a restaurant.

In his teenage years, a car accident claimed the lives of his adoptive parents. He survived the accident by a stroke of luck.

But after losing his adoptive parents, their restaurant couldn’t continue operating, and the bank confiscated it for unpaid loans.

His adoptive parents left a bit of savings. Fortunately, his parents were Chinese, as most Americans don’t save money. Only the Chinese have the habit of saving deposits.

With this bit of inheritance, Wu barely managed to support himself until adulthood, but that small amount of inheritance could never sustain him for a lifetime. In fact, by the time he was eighteen, the inheritance left by his adoptive parents was nearly exhausted.

He couldn’t even afford the property tax, and ended up losing the house left to him by his adoptive parents.

Continuing down that path, his future fate would be no more than surviving on the streets, joining a gang, and then one day getting killed by a bullet or being caught for committing a crime, and ending up spending years in federal prison...

In recent years, Wu and his adoptive family fit well a description: cutoff line.

But Wu chose a different path.

At eighteen, alone and destitute, Wu sold himself.

Okay, that’s a joke, but it’s not far from reality. He enlisted.

He joined the United States Army.

——Another legacy left by his adoptive parents came into play. Because Wu was adopted since childhood, his adoptive parents applied for his citizenship in M Country early on.

His physical foundation was very good, easily passing the medical examination, and the American military had long been struggling to recruit soldiers. More and more young Americans are reluctant to enlist.

The military has tried to do everything to recruit soldiers, even enacting regulations that may seem magical to Dragon Country People: for instance, certain minor offenders who are willing to enlist could even be pardoned for part of their crimes.

Simultaneously, they offered quite attractive enlistment economic benefits.

In America, upon enlistment, one could immediately receive a sum akin to relocation expenses, roughly one or two thousand dollars.

Then, during military service, one could earn about thirty thousand dollars annually.

At eighteen, Wu decisively enlisted. It was the only option for survival.

Wu possessed excellent physical fitness, a natural talent for physical activity.

Besides, his adoptive Chinese family had been paying attention to his physical training since childhood—his adoptive father practiced martial arts, not a martial arts master, but there was some family tradition of fighting technique, not sure of its effectiveness, but it laid a very strong physical foundation from an early age.

Wu’s military enlistment physical exam and fitness test data were excellent.

Moreover, being an ethnic Chinese with yellow skin, no connections or support, despite performing well in recruit training, he was assigned to military units where others were unwilling to go.

During the third year of Wu’s service, his unit was dispatched to a certain place.

Iraq.

It must be said, Wu thrived in the military, faring much better than at home.

His physical fitness was excellent, outstanding in training,

within the army, he developed remarkable military skills. By his fourth year, his service period ended (M Country’s military service is usually four years), but according to regulations, he chose to sign a contract with the military, continuing his service.

In the eighth year, he left the military.

Not due to fatigue but because he found a more lucrative path.

He departed from M Country’s military but headed to Europe, joining the famous foreign legion as an international mercenary. His outstanding service record and the difficult military missions he executed in the Middle East earned him a very high salary as an international mercenary.

For him, it was just about changing military uniforms, equipment, and battlefield—albeit with better pay.

"You know, I initially planned to stay in M Country’s military. My combat record was outstanding, my military skills high, and damn it, I even earned merits. If I were white-skinned, I could at least get a pretty decent rank.

Or, if I didn’t want to stay on the front lines anymore, I could return home, teach at some military academy with a good salary, and continue to be supported by the military until retirement.