Let's Meet Soon

The F-ranks quickly rushed out the room to see what was happening.

As they stepped outside the room, their expression became horrified at the sight of Bai Jing. He was stripped to the machine with a pale face and passed out wet with sweat.

They paused for a moment and hesitated to say something. In the crowd Lu Yi was the first to react and rushed to the scene, "What the hell do you guys think you're doing?!"

Lu Yi was enraged seeing this and before managing to approach them he was held back by the security guards. 

One of the researchers at the scene arranged his white coat and looked up at him with irony and laughter. He replied in a calm manner, "If it isn't obvious enough already, we're doing our job. What else could we possibly be doing?" 

This made the teenager more enraged and reply loudly, " WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN?! CAN'T YOU SEE YOU'RE HURTING HIM??" 

As the situation became more escalated, Chan-Yeol stepped up from the crowd of researchers.

He sighed and pushed his glasses up, "You guys are so troublesome. As F-ranks don't you think you guys are being too arrogant right now?" 

'I mean seriously... Who would have the balls to scream at a researcher at Beiyin guild. Are you crazy? ' . Mu Wei had a gut feeling that this was most likely what the blonde was thinking. I mean, wouldn't you be annoyed when someone starts screaming at you during your project? 

Chan-Yeo had a bitter expression and glared at Lu Yi with annoyance. He turned tilted his head to the right side of the room and sent a signal to the guards.

"Although I don't usually resort to this method. I suppose using it just once this week would be alright. I give you permission to use your abilities on them."

He turned around and glanced at the F-ranks with a weird expression on his face and focused on the monitor near the machine. 

The security guards began to surround the panicked F-ranks and responded, "Yes sir."

Lu Yi was confused with this and was about to ask them what they meant when he suddenly felt sleepy. "What's going on? Hey, what did you guys do to me?? Hey. Answer m-" 

Thud. A loud bang on the metal floor echoed through the room. 

Thud. Another bang was heard. And another. And another. And so on.

One by one, they began to fall to the floor as they lost consciousness. However, among the pile of bodies lying on the floor. There was a long white-haired man standing amongst it.

Mu Wei who was not affected by anything silently stared at the people on the floor. He did not even notice people were using their abilities. 

Uh, am I supposed to pass out too? Or should I just use this as a chance to rank up? But seriously, what the hell was that? I didn't even feel anything. Is this seriously how the abilities in this world works? 

He glanced at the person who used the ability. The person was about 170cm tall, black hair, and ordinary features. Didn't seem like someone that had a high rank since only F-ranks were affected.

'It must be an ability that releases sleeping gas or something similar. Hmm the person who used it should be about C-rank. I suppose I could make an excuse saying I'm secretly a B-rank? Or maybe a stroke of luck? Seriously, it's tiring to do this all the time. Can't I just...'

"What the hell... Why isn't that one unconscious?"

The person who was using his ability on the F-ranks just now didn't even affect the white-haired person at all. 

He quickly turned around and shouted at Chan-Yeol who was busy on the monitor.

"Boss!! Boss!!"

Chan-Yeol turned around confused and asked, "What is it? Did you overdo it? "

He soon saw the white-haired man standing amongst the unconscious F-ranks on the floor. 

He had a face of disbelief for a moment and said with interest, "Oh? I haven't seen something like this in a while. This is surprising, I don't think we made a mistake when checking your information."

"Hey, white haired boy." Chan-Yeol called Mu Wei and slowly started approaching him with his lips curved up. He looked like a scientist that just found a new test subject or discovered a new formula. 

"You don't seem to be affected by their abilities at all despite being the lowest rank. Tell me, what sort of trick do you have up your sleeve?"

Mu Wei just looked at him with no emotions and said slowly, "It seems that I encountered a stroke of luck. Who would've thought that I was so lucky." 

Although, he kept an emotionless face throughout the conversation, Mu Wei's thoughts were in turmoil. 

'Stroke of luck? Am I even thinking straight? Even a child would believe Santa is real than this. What was I thinking? I should've just said I was a B-rank or something.'

Chan-Yeol still had the same face he had as before and thought to himself. 'Does this guy take me for a fool? Or is he just deliberately trying to piss me off from our previous encounter?'

When he thought about the young man in front of him trying to piss him off, he felt it was quite funny and decided to not push it further.

Mu Wei seemed to be impatient with his feet tapping the floor and asked him, "Is that all?"

Chan-Yeol chuckled, "Yes that's all, since you seem to be unaffected by their abilities you can go back to the waiting room and wait for your friends to wake up."

Mu Wei nodded and went back to the waiting room and sat down on a chair. 'Holy shit, that actually worked? Or was he just letting me off the hook? Well whatever, it's good enough that he didn't keep persisting on it.'

The guy who used his ability asked Chan-Yeol nervously, "Boss, what should we do? Did the system make a mistake in the ranking? I don't think any F-rank would've survived even for 5 minutes."

Chan-Yeol seemed to be thinking for a while and slowly said, "It's unlikely. I don't believe the so-called system would make a mistake as simple as this. However, it's possible that we may have a bug in our system. Inform the guild master about this and see what he thinks about it. He's the person that knows the system better than anyone. "

The person nodded and exited the laboratory quickly. 

After saying this, he went back to check on Bai Jing. He was still strapped on the machine and continued collecting data.

A few hours had passed, and the F-ranks slowly started opening their eyes. They slowly remembered what had happened and were vigilant of their surroundings.

Lu Yi was the first to speak and said, "Where are the doctors and researchers?" He looked around the room and noticed Mu Wei wasn't there. "Mu Wei? Are you there? Please don't tell me he got kidnapped."

He looked at the empty laboratory room they were in with all the others and headed to the waiting room to check if Mu Wei was to be seen.

However, when he checked the waiting room he was surprised by the unexpected view in front of him. When he opened the door, Mu Wei was sitting there relaxed and drinking coffee. He was even relaxed enough to put one thigh over the other and read a book.

Mu Wei seemed to sense his arrival and slowly looked up, "Oh it seems you guys are finally awake."

Lu Yi was confused and quickly told him, "We should get out of here! They-"

Before he could finish his sentence, he was cut off mid-sentence by Mu Wei.

Mu Wei put a finger on the middle of his mouth and made a shh sound. "Keep it down, your voice is too loud. There's no need to worry about such things, as they said it's completely normal to feel pain."

After hearing this, Lu Yi showed a confused expression. Mu Wei seemed to notice this and quickly explained.

"Did you not listen to them?"

"Huh?" Lu Yi stood there stupefied.

Mu Wei sighed and replied, "They said you would experience a bit of pain, right? That man who was first most likely had a low pain tolerance and couldn't take it anymore, so he passed out."

"Eh? Ehhh?!" Lu Yi needed a moment to process things. 'They did say that but...that man had a low tolerance?? It's almost hard to believe.' 

He was dumbfounded but eventually calmed down considerably after sitting down and pondering. Although, it was a bit surprising he did believe that it was possible and reasonable to an extent. 

Mu Wei noticed Lu Yi was the only one who came and asked, "Where are the others?"

"Huh? Oh, them" Lu Yi returned to his original state and said, "I don't know, I think they are still in the Laboratory room. I think the researchers and stuff went out for a bit. They weren't there when I woke up. Shall we go check?"

As they arrived in the room, they overheard one of the F-ranks screaming, "AHHH Don't come near us!!"

One after another joined, "Yeah! Y-You better back off! My ability is having really good strength." 

"And mine is uh never mind! Just stay back!!"

What the hell is going on now?