Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 187 - 131 Waste City (Five)

Chapter 187: Chapter 131 Waste City (Five)

Maya didn’t answer, as if she remembered something, and said, "Sunlight? Starlight? Fire Dance? You’re from Fortress Company."

Starlight asked with some surprise, "How do you know?"

Maya replied, "I’ve been invited to attend an event at the Norma City Bruce Club. If I remember correctly, it was Miss Fire Dance’s coming-of-age ceremony. Sunlight, you are the heir apparent of the second largest director family at Fortress Company, and Fire Dance is your sister. Miss Starlight, you are the youngest daughter of the big boss at Fortress, and the fiancée of Sunlight, your childhood sweetheart."

All three were startled and exchanged glances. Starlight said, "I didn’t expect to meet someone familiar, is your brother Marlon also a member of the Bruce Club?"

"...Wait a moment." Maya pressed her headset. "Little brother, are you a member of the Bruce Club?"

Lin Wu answered, "Yes."

Maya replied, "Yes, but he has never been to Norma."

"Is that so?" Starlight glanced at Fire Dance and Sunlight and said, "Then we won’t bother you any longer, we are preparing to set up defenses nearby to rest. It was a pleasure meeting you."

"I’m also pleased to have met you," said Maya, nodding before stepping back and turning to leave.

Fire Dance asked from behind Maya, "Miss Maya, do you know someone named Lin Wu?"

Maya turned around, her expression unchanged, and said, "I don’t know him, is he a member of the Bruce Club?"

Fire Dance: "No, just a friend."

Maya nodded and left, and after walking a distance, she looked back to see the three from Starlight Base had already departed. Maya asked through her headset, "Hey, do you know the one called Fire Dance?"

"Haha, it’s a small world in the face of enmity."

"What’s the situation?" Why the awkward laughter?

Lin Wu said, "To put it simply, I got beaten up by Sunlight."

Maya asked, "Why?"

Lin Wu sighed, "Youthful ignorance, offended someone I shouldn’t have."

Maya said, "All three of them are members of the Fortress Company’s director families. As far as I know, they were raised very strictly. How did you manage to cross them?"

Lin Wu, discontented, said, "Hey, you’re very nosy."

There are several large families among the controlling directors of Fortress Company, all stemming from the legal protection of illegitimate children. From a legal perspective, you can’t go looking for special women, but you can provide for them; as long as there’s no marriage certificate, it’s not illegal, and your children have the same legal rights to inheritance as legitimate children.

Therefore, in most cases, the offspring of major families are the prey of beautiful women, who, no matter how well brought up, find it hard to resist temptation. These women’s sole goal is to become pregnant. Once they bear the child of a major family’s scion, they are essentially set for life. What if the father doesn’t acknowledge the child? They can go through legal channels for child support and compensation for emotional distress.

Within the big families, there’s also a distinction of 95% and 5%. Overall, the 5% achieve higher recognition, but on the principle of teaching according to one’s abilities, the 95% also produce many talents.

Fire Dance and Sunlight are full siblings sharing the same parents. Their generation in the family exceeds three hundred individuals, among which Fire Dance belongs to the 5%, while Sunlight is part of the 95%. However, Sunlight overturned people’s expectations, growing up to possess exceptional comprehensive abilities and gaining the favor of his grandfather. He became one of his grandfather’s personal assistants at the age of eighteen.

Lin Wu had seen related news reports before immigrating, knowing that Fire X, Sun X, and Star X had been chosen by the system. The news reported that they were the only three selected from the five major families of the Fortress Group. Faced with questions from reporters, Fortress Company did not evade. They revealed their decision to let those three take charge of Fortress’s Earth subsidiary.

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Lin Ma decided to rest in the warehouse opposite the park. The warehouse was spacious, allowing them ample time to respond to any zombie attacks. Maya gathered some branches to clean an area, where they laid out their sleeping bags. During their casual conversation, Maya also learned the remaining story segments about Lin Wu’s second girlfriend.

The girlfriend was very sincere and very fond of Lin Wu. She had laid out many demands on Lin Wu in the hopes of marrying him after graduation. She had planned out Lin Wu’s future.

After the marriage, due to Lin Wu’s status as a son-in-law, the family would provide him with a decent job. Lin Wu’s task was to prove himself competent at the job, gaining the family’s recognition and formally becoming a member of the family.

But that wasn’t the life Lin Wu wanted. Not that he was disdainful, but in the absence of worries about healthcare, retirement, and education, many young people aspire to live their own lives. Many need a job, but work is surely not the most important part of their lives.

Fire Dance is Sunlight’s only full sister. Seeing his sister lock herself in the bedroom, heartbroken and refusing to come out, Sunlight went to Fire Dance’s classmates to inquire about the situation and then sought to settle accounts, giving Lin Wu a beating. And thus, Lin Wu’s love story with Fire Dance came to an end.

The so-called Bruce Club, also known as the Elite Club, is a club made up of talented young people established by the major families. It includes outstanding members of the families and many external members. With its development, the Bruce Club became an unmarried Elite Club, holding two events annually for members to attend. In the club, many handsome men and beautiful women catch each other’s eyes and ultimately walk down the aisle.

Maya is also a member of the Bruce Club, and she knew Sunlight and Fire Dance had prominent statuses as legitimate children. The legitimate are children born from the marriages between two other families, who also hold important positions at Fortress Company.

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