Li Yao observed carefully for a moment and discovered that the 'live streamers' were full of crystal cameras all over their bodies. A lot of floating crystal cameras were also hovering around them and shooting nonstop.
Their singing, dancing, roaring, flirting, panting like a mother, and chanting crazily, were all part of the performance for certain people on the other side of the crystal cameras.
"What a horde of demons and monsters, the night of a hundred ghosts!"
Li Yao found the Imperium of True Human Beings more and more difficult to see through.
Everything before his eyes was like an absurd dream and the worst joke.
What kind of country could have given birth to such … unique beings? Was it just a way of entertainment, or did it have a deeper purpose?
It was not the time to bother with the Immortal Cultivator players and the live streamers. Li Yao calmed himself down and avoided the areas where the battle was intense with the ground reconnaissance of Neltharion. He, on the other hand, zigzagged below the ground and tracked Xin Xiaoqi's escape route.
Naturally, Xin Xiaoqi did not know that she had been targeted by Li Yao a long time ago and that a tracker that was as thin as paper had been implanted into the jet-like magical equipment that she relied on for her escape.
She stopped somewhere deep inside Liberty City.
It was the old district of Liberty City.
Liberty City did not rise out of nowhere but slowly proliferated and expanded on the foundation of the city ruins.
Below the glamorous, almost abnormal appearance, the underground remains of the city that was as immeasurable as a maze were hidden. They were like beautiful flowers that had blossomed on a corpse.
After the savagery of 'Judgment Day' and the erosion of hundreds of years, all the buildings in the place were ragged and lifeless, like metal organs that were full of rust. Now and then, air was spurting out of the broken tubes, covering the panicked, desperate faces.
Even in the 'Elysian Worlds', there were still a lot of poor people who looked like ants. This place was the bottom level of Liberty City. It was a landfill, a sewage treatment plant, and a mass grave. There was also a fairly large slave market nearby. However, the slaves that were sold in the market were the lowest-level slaves who were skinny and dying. One spiritual puppet could be exchanged for three to five of them.
The fire of looting from the bandits and thugs had not reached this place yet, but the place was already in chaos. A lot of 'ants' had grown sharp claws and teeth and were struggling and biting each other, trying to find a way to survive in the torrents and swirls.
The translucent light beam overlapped with the rusty, lifeless, and panicked metal world before his eyes. Li Yao soon locked onto Xin Xiaoqi's location. It was an inconspicuous tool room surrounded by stench and dirty water in the middle of the landfill.
Li Yao smiled. Keeping Neltharion in the stealth state, he circled around the tool room three times.
Since the purpose was to deceive the enemy, it was naturally impossible to build the tool room to be impenetrable. Li Yao found a gap more than easily and controlled Neltharion to crawl in. Lurking in a corner, he scanned the entire tool room.
There were only two people standing in the tool room, but dead bodies were everywhere on the ground. The ground in one corner had been pried open, and an enormous metal box had been raised. It had been opened, and dazzling crystals, magical equipment, and nutrition drugs were inside.
Of the two people standing, one was naturally Xin Xiaoqi, and the other was a hunchbacked old man with white hair and sagging skin.
The appearance of the old man reminded Li Yao of a drowning dog — a Shar Pei, no less — who was struggling to survive.
Holding a broken chainsword, he breathed and coughed hard. There were wounds all over his body. His arms and his thighs were deep enough that the bones could be seen. The broken pieces of his armor were deeply embedded into his flesh. After every cough, new veins would be cut open, and a large cluster of blood that was almost frozen would spurt out.
His chest had also collapsed deeply, as if his entire breastbone had exploded. The wound looked like the mark of a fist.
It seemed that everybody on the ground had been killed by him, and he had paid a heavy price for it.
Li Yao sent the image of the old man to A Boxing Champion's crystal processor and received an affirmative reply. "Yes. He is Xiahou Wuxin. He has aged so much in such a short time?"
While Xiahou Wuxin was holding his chainsword tightly, Xin Xiaoqi was also holding two sharp daggers in her hands. The cat-like woman glared at Xiahou Wuxin.
The old man and the young woman were at loggerheads. The atmosphere was so intense that it could explode without a spark.
"Asshole, are you kidding me?"
Gnashing her teeth, Xin Xiaoqi burst into fury, as if she could not wait to lunge forward and bite Xiahou Wuxin's nose off. "Didn't you say that you had a way to send me to Manjusaka? What do you mean by 'helpless' now? Do you want me to forget 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'? What the f * ck is the meaning of this? Do you believe that I will butcher you, old b * stard? "
There was no telling whether it was because he was heavily wounded and dying, or because he was truly guilty, but the arrogance of the leader of Liberty City was nowhere to be seen. He was more like a haggard old man. Silent, he simply allowed the woman to curse and spray her saliva on his face like raindrops.
"I have been your disciple for twenty years. Technically speaking, I have been your disciple, but in fact, I have been your dog for twenty years!"
Waving her daggers crazily, Xin Xiaoqi shrieked, "Twenty years of life-and-death, twenty years of incognito, and time and time again at the risk of my life to help you do the most dangerous, sordid, and clandestine deals, but I have never enjoyed even one day of comfort in the Elysian World!
"So many times in the past, I've traveled among the major forces, wandering around those bandits and villains to help you gather information. Those guys are all psychopaths. Do you know that as long as my secret is exposed in the slightest, I'll definitely be skinned alive and tortured to death!
"We agreed that we would work for five years, and you would send me to Manjusaka, the City in the Sky. But five years later, another five years passed, and another five years passed. As a result, it has been twenty f * cking years, master!
"Alright. Let's not talk about the past. Let's talk about this time. Who are you asking me to deal with this time? A Boxing Champion, the most ferocious and brutal 'A Boxing Champion' in the Land of Sins, Lei Zonglie!
"Of all your disciples, which one of them was as stupid and naïve as me? I snuck into A Boxing Champion's army to help you get information and steal intelligence, and I even sent the assassins from the Valley of Thorns to A Boxing Champion's side to assassinate him at the risk of my life? I-I don't even know why I am still alive and kicking to this moment!
"Master, you son of a b * tch, you scumbag who deserves to be minced into pieces. Tell me, look me in the eyes and tell me, before I snuck into A Boxing Champion's army, how did you promise me that you would send me to Manjusaka after the battle?
"Hehe. Hehehehe. After twenty years of suffering, struggles, and battles, I have been waiting for this day. Now that your forces are gone, you want to just walk away? How can it be so easy?
"I don't care. No matter what the price is, and no matter who I have to kill, I will go to Manjusaka! Find a way to get me up there now, or I will really butcher you, old b * stard, old beast! "
Xin Xiaoqi had completely gone crazy. Her previously pretty face was now gnashing her teeth so hard that veins were protruding out. Her face could not have been more twisted.
Xiahou Wuxin had been listening in silence the whole time. At this moment, he vomited another cluster of black blood clots and looked even more haggard than before. Even the chainsword could not support his shivering body anymore.
He groped for the edge of the metal box and sat down. With a miserable smile, he said, "Xiaoqi, if you want to kill me, I deserve it. Come if you want, but there really is no 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'. Just give up on the idea."
Clang!
The leader of Liberty City, who had reached a dead end, threw the broken chainsword aside and heaved a long sigh. Narrowing his eyes, he seemed to be recalling the distant past, as if he were about to be butchered in frustration. Xin Xiaoqi was rather surprised.
Her cat-like green eyes rolled for a long time before she arched her back and said warily, "What are you playing at? Are you playing hard to get? Don't think that you can kill me just because you killed all the other disciples. You know that I am different from those garbage. Right now, you are heavily wounded, and your blood is running dry. Even if I cannot kill you, I am confident that I can escape and tell everybody that the leader of Liberty City is hiding here!
"Hehehehe. You must've hidden a lot of good stuff in secret after reigning Liberty City for decades, haven't you? I believe that the tough bandits who are killing and looting outside, as well as those who were loyal to you in the past, will be very interested in you and your treasures.
"All in all, tell me the way to 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' now, or I will really die together with you!"
"It doesn't matter now," Xiahou Wuxin said casually.
There was not the slightest hatred, fury, or cunningness in his eyes when he looked at Xin Xiaoqi. He sighed and said, "Everything is over now. Everything is useless now. It doesn't matter now. We are going to die anyway. I'm tired. I'll die in your hands right here.
"As for the secret treasures that I've collected in the past decades, they were yours in the first place. After you kill me, find the things that I've hidden in secret and find a way to escape from Liberty City. This is as much as I can help you."
Dumbfounded, Xin Xiaoqi stared at Xiahou Wuxin for a long time, but she still could not tell whether her cunning master was lying or whether he was speaking the truth when he was about to die.
Gritting her teeth for a long time, she burst into fury again. "Don't play tricks with me. I don't want to escape from Liberty City. I'm going to 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'. I'm going there. No matter how difficult, dangerous, and tortuous it is, I'm going there!"
"Did you hear what I said at the beginning?"
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