"Wei Xiaotian …"
Hearing that the stranger pointed out his relationship with Xin Xiaoqi, killing intent quickly popped up on Xiahou Wuxin's face in fury. He gritted his teeth so hard that blood was flowing out of the corner of his lips. "If you knew it a long time ago, why didn't you point it out?"
"Why did we deprive you of the last hope in your life?"
The Immortal Cultivator named 'Wei Xiaotian', captain of the squad of gray Exos and Xiahou Wuxin's direct contact for the past ten years, was truly fond of laughter. He continued smiling. "We don't need an ignorant guy who has lost all hope to be our puppet. Only by hanging a carrot in front of the donkey's head can the donkey run faster. Xin Xiaoqi is your carrot. It's better to keep her."
Xiahou Wuxin moaned and completely shriveled.
"Master!"
In her anxiety, Xin Xiaoqi raised her daggers at Wei Xiaotian and glared at him. "Are you the 'angels'? Don't pretend anymore. I know you don't intend to let us go at all. You're just playing a game of 'cat and mouse'! Cut the crap. We will not go with you obediently. If you want to take us with you, just take our dead bodies with you! "
"Mice?"
Wei Xiaotian was slightly dazed. He was amused. "You think that you are mice? You are too arrogant, little girl."
The few gray Exos were about to lunge at Xiahou Wuxin and Xin Xiaoqi.
"Cr * p!"
Li Yao, who was lurking below their feet, was rather anxious. The gray Exos up there were definitely elites. Many of them were as strong as Jin Dan. Wei Xiaotian, their leader, was even an expert of Yuanying. With Li Yao's iron body at this moment, he was not confident that he could kill all of them without a sound while escaping from the surveillance in the sky. He could barely even rescue Xiahou Wuxin and Xin Xiaoqi.
Surveillance. Surveillance was the key. What a wretched laboratory!
"What do I do?"
Li Yao's soul gradually covered the entire battlefield like a vortex that was getting larger and larger. Every action and the distribution of forces in the dozen blocks nearby was sensed by him.
A bold plan popped up deep inside Li Yao's soul.
"Han Te, Coloured Glaze, it's time for you to take action!"
Li Yao summoned the two little fellows and gave them some instructions. Then, he asked the mental devil to crawl into Neltharion and follow them to protect them.
The two little guys soon disappeared at the end of the underground sewage pipe.
Above Li Yao's head, the leader of Liberty City was still making his final struggle.
"Wait!"
The expression on Xiahou Wuxin's face changed dozens of times. His eyes, nose, and lips were shivering for a long time. In the end, he managed to put on an obsequious smile and threw the chainswords and the storm bolters on his waist to the ground. He even summoned his strength and stomped on the magical equipment brutally.
"Lord Wei!"
His back was completely hunched. Rubbing his hands nonstop, he said in a low voice, "I've served 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' and you for so many years. Even if I didn't make any contributions, I should've been recognized for my hard work. Can you please put in a good word for me to the leadership? As long as I'm spared, I'll do whatever you want me to do."
"Alright."
Wei Xiaotian agreed quickly. His smile was even more intense. "Why don't you talk to them yourself? I'll certainly put in a good word for you nearby."
Xiahou Wuxin wailed in desperation. "Can I not go? Just treat me as a useless old dog and let me go. You know me. I am a smart man. I will not say anything that is detrimental to the Sky Realm!"
Wei Xiaotian's smile was gone. He sighed and said, "Leader Xiahou, I know that you are a smart man. So, what do you say?"
"I can trade for my life with anything."
Xiahou Wuxin pretended to be desperate. "In the past decades, I've built dozens of warehouses in secret and stored a lot of good stuff. As long as I'm spared, I can give them all to you — but only to you!"
"I just said that you were smart. Why are you acting stupid now?"
Wei Xiaotian shook his head in confusion. "How can you fool the eyes of the sky with your petty tricks that you think are undetectable? We know the coordinates and the ways to open the dozens of secret warehouses. However, as the saying goes, 'when the water is too clear, there will be no fish'. Just like 'Xin Xiaoqi', your most secret disciple, we are too lazy to argue with you about such trivia. Can such things be used as bargaining chips? "
"You do have a point, Lord Wei. Those secret warehouses are indeed not worth mentioning."
Xiahou Wuxin suddenly calmed down. With a weird smile on his lips, he said, "However, you may not know this, Lord Wei. The dozens of secret warehouses are just my disguises. How can I not know that my every move is under the surveillance of the sky? The reason for the construction of so many secret warehouses is just to cover the real secret warehouse. I promise, that is not a place on your surveillance list. "
Wei Xiaotian's face remained unchanged. "Are you trying to trick me, Leader Xiahou?"
"Perhaps. However, as the master of the Elysian Worlds who has lived the longest in the entire Land of Sins, I naturally know how to save my life better than anybody else. Also, Liberty City was built on the foundation of the super cities of the Martial Meritocrats civilization before Judgment Day. Below Liberty City are the ruins of underground cities that are thousands of meters deep and as enormous and complicated as a maze. You can monitor every inch of the land, but can you monitor every gap and every collapsed cave below the ground?"
Xiahou Wuxin said quickly, with both determination and desperation on his face. "Right now, I'm not asking you to let go of me, but I'm only asking you to let go of my only disciple. Even if part of her brain must be removed, her memories must be erased, and her brain turned blank, I'm willing to tell you the most precious secret warehouse as long as her life can be saved!"
Wei Xiaotian sighed softly and frowned, as if he were wondering why Xiahou Wuxin was so stupid. "Leader Xiahou, has it ever occurred to you that everything in the Land of Sins is a gift from the sky? Therefore, all the garbage in your secret warehouse was given to you by us, too. Now, you want to use the things that we gave you as a bargaining chip in the game with us. Are you alright with that?"
"Of course. Most of the things in the secret warehouse were given to me by you, but some of them may be things that even you do not know."
Xiahou Wuxin coughed softly. His lips and his eyes curled at the same time as he said, "For example, do you have the bodies of the trainers who really blossomed nine weird plants on their chests after they practiced the Nine Lotus Arts? As far as I know, the 'test subjects' that you found had seven man-eating flowers on their chests at best, right?
"Well, to be more exact, the 'test subjects that I found for you' had seven man-eating flowers on their chests at best …"
Wei Xiaotian's face changed color. "You hid part of the 'test subjects'?"
"Like I said, maybe," Xiahou Wuxin said.
Xiahou Wuxin said. "How can I not understand such a simple logic? As the manager of the Elysian World for decades, I've done too many clandestine things for you, and I've learned too many of your secrets. Do I really expect to enjoy my old age in 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'? Of course, I have to keep a backup plan for myself and make a good plan!
"Therefore, when I was searching for 'test materials' for you, I might've secretly hidden the first-rate goods in the best quality, or I might've left a lot of precious video files, but I sent the second-rate goods to the City in the Sky.
"I believe that the twenty-seven bodies and the more than three hundred and fifty video files will be of great help to your experiments.
"Also, during the heyday of the Martial Meritocrats civilization, a lot of precious heritages and secrets were left behind. They were not completely wiped out even in the global destruction of 'Judgment Day'. Perhaps I discovered something interesting during the construction of the secret warehouse, such as the secrets about 'Cultivators'. Those things might not be known to you, after all.
"Let's make a deal, Lord Wei. Let my disciple go, and I'll tell you the coordinates of the most precious secret warehouse and the way to open it. Then, I'll kill myself without leaving any trouble for you.
"Otherwise, I have a hundred ways to blow up the secret warehouse remotely. You won't get anything!"
As he reached the end of his speech, Xiahou Wuxin's face was full of aggression. His begging appearance a moment ago was entirely gone.
"Master!"
Xin Xiaoqi wanted to jump forward and fight side by side with Xiahou Wuxin, but she was locked onto by the auras of the few gray Exos. After every step, she felt that her body was being cut by blades. She could only cry and scream.
Wei Xiaotian's face was changing nonstop. His face that looked like a marble sculpture was even paler than before. After pondering for a moment, he said, "Alright, I promise you. If you dare to play any tricks, it will not be as simple as' die and be done with it '. I guarantee that I have ten thousand ways to mince your body of flesh and blood first and drag out your soul. You will not die even after decades of torture, City Leader Xiahou!"
"I know the methods of the angels very well. I dare not play such a joke on you, Lord Wei."
Xiahou Wuxin blinked and said, "However, how can I trust your promise, Lord Wei?"
"You don't have a choice."
Wei Xiaotian's smile quickly approached absolute zero. "We don't care about your insignificant video files and test subjects. You are free to terminate the so-called 'deal' anytime."
"That does make sense. My mistake."
With a bitter smile, Xiahou Wuxin suddenly said, "Lord Wei, now that we've all talked about it, and I'm about to die, there's a question that has been bothering me for a long time. I wonder, can you show mercy and let me know the reason before I die, Lord Wei?"
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