Stuck in a Chinese novel

Chapter 327 The cult (1)

[Host]

'What?' Wei Jun asked as he left the library, leaving behind a blushing woman who didn't move for an hour. Experience more on empire

[You have the tendency to be a perfect womanizer]

'…' Wei Jun didn't argue. It was true that he wasn't a womanizer and flirted with women, but when required, he was easily able to seduce any female when necessary. Though they weren't his techniques.

'It's not like I mean to demean women, but women do the same you know.' Wei Jun remembered the conversation he had with his brother when he was young. After his first heartbreak, his brother simply told him this much.

'This is how people are programmed. Men especially so. That's why female assassins learn the art of seduction with great detail. So it wouldn't be unfair if you did the same. Playing with the heart of women? That's just things feminists say to turn the field to their advantage. If men cheat, women do so too. In the end, in this world, Damien, everything is equal and fair, while at the same time, nothing is equal and unfair as well.' His brother said in great explanation.

He still remembered his first lesson from his brother, 'People classify anything as bad as long as it goes against their policies. Women call you scum because it works in their favor. The same goes for men because they are scum. Don't be bound by what's right and wrong. Because that's a tale as old as chicken and egg. You will only be caught up in it. So do whatever you have to do to win. Who gets hurt in the way is none of your concern as long as it's not an ally.'

Wei Jun had lived his life over what his brother taught him. The first lesson was very special. It was the first lesson he learned after experiencing the first lesson of life. The cruelty that everyone would always and foremost think of themselves and their family. And his brother then taught him how to utilize that in his favor.

'This world is unfair. Life is unfair. But when needed, it's fair as hell.' Wei Jun replied to the system's words finally after he remembered the day he was betrayed for the first time in his life. The first time when his family name felt like a curse, not a blessing.

[…]

[I won't say what you do is wrong or right because I don't have the right to do so]

[But I will ask you this]

[Did you never make the same mistake again?]

'…' Wei Jun didn't have an answer to that. He did, but he couldn't say it. He simply brushed past it and said, 'If she is indeed hurt by my methods, I'll apologize.'

[I see]

'But I will also say this…' Wei Jun said immediately after the system replied, 'No one ever apologized to me.'

A conversation in which no one was right but no one was wrong either. That conversation could never come to an end. Just like the tale of chicken and egg, everyone was right in their own ideals. Wei Jun knew that well enough. Nothing he said would change the system's opinion and nothing the system said would change his opinion.

It was a never-ending conversation and Wei Jun would rather not delve more into it.

With the conversation with the woman earlier, Wei Jun had come to know about the mechanics of the cult. The cult wasn't as simple as it sounded. It was a cult that pursued the eternal life. It wasn't like Wei Jun wasn't familiar with these kinds of concepts. Even in the world he came from, a world where no supernatural power resided, or at least he thought didn't, had people like such who wanted to pursue immortality.

He had seen a businessman with sufficient knowledge, a non-believer, turn into a lunatic and sacrifice hundreds to think he could become immortal by sacrificing people and drinking their blood.

So the current world he was in, a world with supernatural powers, was bound to have people who pursued immortality. In the first place, according to Mark Wilson, most of the dark sects of the world containing evil magicians or cultivators pursued similar goals.

The woman didn't know about the internal ceremonies as she hadn't advanced in the cult that much, but there were ceremonies being held every week that the cult master himself attended along with the higher-ups of the cult.

There were simply three ranks in the cult. Adept, disciple, and Master. There were hundreds of Adepts but to become a disciple, one must perform well in the weekly ceremony for the cult. It wasn't the same one that the cult master attended but for the lower ones. The performance wasn't an issue for Wei Jun but what was being asked to do was a little unorthodox.

[I do think it's a little unorthodox]

'Yep.' Wei Jun couldn't help but agree. As he entered the ceremonial hall, he could not help but sigh. In front of him, hundreds of men and women, nak.ed, were engaged in the activities done behind closed bedrooms.

[It's an or*gy]

'It's a fuc*ing or*gy.'

Looking at the scene happening in front of him, Wei Jun was sure of one thing. 'This certainly isn't a place for Liu Yu.'

If he was uncertain before about Liu Yu's difficulty with this mission, now he was a hundred percent sure that she wouldn't be able to do this mission and would be caught on the first day.

The method of this ceremony was to collect. The more such immoral acts were conducted, the more the pillar in the room shined. And the more the pillar in the room shined, the more the necklace around everyone's neck shined. It depended upon their participation.

Wei Jun had taken the necklace of the man he killed and it turned out to be the necklace of someone new. He hadn't accumulated much energy. Energy accumulation depended on how much one had done it and with how many partners. It wasn't like all women were willing to throw themselves into this just because of the power gained from it. Consent from both sides was needed.

The women in the cult were very haughty and since they were lesser in quantity, their demand was equally higher. In other words, it was a simple case of supply and demand. Women didn't lack partners because each woman had about ten partners to select from. The problem arose when it came to men.

Attractiveness and handsomeness were a crucial quality if one wanted to be selected. Something Wei Jun knew he wouldn't have a problem with. However, the issue wasn't that he was lacking women. The issue was solely that he didn't want to.

As long as it was seducing them for a task in his favor, Wei Jun didn't have any qualms with that but he never slept with them. He felt nothing from doing so. He didn't even feel the desire to do so.

[That would make things a little difficult, wouldn't it?]

'Not necessarily.' Wei Jun replied. Sure, he wouldn't sleep with these women. But that didn't mean there were no women to perform the task with. He left the hall and arrived in the remote corner and took out his phone.

He dialed a phone number and waited for the call to be picked up. As soon as it was, Wei Jun simply asked before the other person could even speak, "How crazy are you?"

"…" There was silence from the other side but after a little while, a very charming voice replied, "Very~~~"

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"Why the long face?" Wei Jun asked Liu Yu who sat in the library while clutching her head. She remained silent to Wei Jun's question. Wei Jun chuckled to infuriate her even more but that didn't work either.

"I'm resigning. How can I even remain in such a vulgar place? Even in my dreams, I hear those vulgar sounds." Liu Yu complained. While she didn't like Wei Jun, he was the only one in the place whom she could have a conversation with.

"Hold it in. Some of the higher-ups have their eyes on you." Wei Jun replied.

"That's what makes me all the more angry. I'm not some who*e they can look at like that." Liu Yu replied.

"Then do what I'm doing." Wei Jun said.

"Never in a million years would I demean myself like that. Just because you have that loose woman, doesn't mean I have someone like that as well." Liu Yu said, insulting Wei Jun's companion but he didn't mind. He had to admit that while she wasn't a loose woman, she was a little strange.

[A little?]

'Okay, very, very strange.'

Since Wei Jun needed a partner, he called the one who was already his partner.

Yan Rong.

While he thought that she would have a problem in the cult, she didn't at all. No man dared to approach her because of her power and she quickly caught the eyes of the higher-ups of the cult just like Liu Yu.

Of course, she had only done the deed with Wei Jun, but she was… a little too enthusiastic.

[The word is insatiable, host]

'…' Wei Jun had no reply. He looked at Liu Yu and said, "Here you go. Your pendant is fully charged."