"Thank you, Master Wei. You have finally made an old dog like me understand what kind of world I have been living in."
Xiahou Wuxin took a long breath in relief and smiled. "In the past, I always thought that the Land of Sins, or the Martial Meritocrats Sector, was a laboratory with no exits, a transparent but sealed cage that could never be broken.
"But now, it seems that not just the Land of Sins, even the entire Imperium of True Human Beings outside, and even the entire universe, is a cruel slaughterhouse of flesh and blood. It is an enormous prison. Nothing more! What's the difference whether we can escape or not? "
The meaning behind his words was dejected, as if he had really lost all his fighting spirit.
"Not a prison, but an army," Wei Xiaotian said casually.
Wei Xiaotian said casually, "Gather the flesh, soul, and will of all human beings, build an invincible, invincible army, charge in the infinite sea of stars, and shape the greatness and pride of the civilization of mankind. That is the significance of the Imperium's existence and the value of your sacrifice!
"The civilization of mankind …"
Xiahou Wuxin chewed on the few words carefully and smiled bitterly. Suddenly, he lowered his voice and said, "But if that's the case, there's still something that I can't figure out. Cough, cough. Cough, cough, cough, cough!"
He kept his voice as low as possible. Then, he suddenly coughed sharply, attracting the attention of all the gray Exos, including Wei Xiaotian, to him.
At this moment, in the sewage pipes that were not very deep below their feet, Li Yao and A Boxing Champion had fine-tuned every component on their body, every bearing, and every chip to the best state, ensuring that they could unleash the highest combat ability.
Han Te and the Coloured Glaze, in the meantime, had found their target, which was an enormous warehouse less than two kilometers away from Xiahou Wuxin and the rest of them.
The elites of the Godly Fist Union were confronting the main force of the defenders of Liberty City who were defending the warehouse.
Both parties were seasoned soldiers that A Boxing Champion and Xiahou Wuxin had personally trained. They were completely different from the mobsters that had been temporarily recruited. Despite the collapse of order and the chaos in the city, they still maintained a certain degree of discipline and combat ability under the suppression and control of their respective leaders.
Both sides wanted to seize this warehouse that seemed to be large in scale and rich in resources, but they could see the strength of the other side, so they did not recklessly fight.
It was because there were still countless mobs and stragglers patrolling in the surroundings, peeking their heads at them stealthily like hungry hyenas waiting for the result of the battle between two lions. They even wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight to take advantage of the situation.
Naturally, they wouldn't let these small groups of bandits succeed, but they were also reluctant to leave so easily. For a moment, there was a deadlock.
Shocking changes occurred at almost the same time in both places.
Hardly had Xiahou Wuxin raised the last question when he coughed so hard that he could barely stand. While vomiting blood, he staggered and fell toward Xin Xiaoqi beyond his control.
At this moment, Wei Xiaotian was already on the alert.
However, his wariness was not as high as Xiahou Wuxin's speed!
For a moment, Xiahou Wuxin seemed to have shed the shell named 'weakness' and turned into the dominating, invincible leader of Liberty City again. He reached Xin Xiaoqi after only one step and tried to push her chest heavily. "Xiaoqi, go now!"
He was going to sacrifice himself to pave a bloody path for Xin Xiaoqi!
The few auras that had locked onto Xin Xiaoqi were all disrupted by his overwhelming fighting will. A couple of gray Exos were greatly shocked. They all lunged at his front and Xin Xiaoqi's back, trying to block Xin Xiaoqi's retreat.
Xiahou Wuxin, on the other hand, grinned hideously. Dozens of veins that were as thick as vipers were immediately tied up on his dry chest and his dry arms. He exerted his strength and punched a gray Exo with his fleshly body, knocking the enemy almost five meters away. The plate armor on the arm of his crystal suit was exploding like a flower blossoming in the sky!
Then, Xiahou Wuxin did something that was beyond everyone's expectations.
A moment ago, he was clearly pushing Xin Xiaoqi out of the battlefield. He even intentionally roared so that everybody would think that he was going to sacrifice himself to protect Xin Xiaoqi.
But out of his expectation, he suddenly took a deep breath. A force that looked like a swirl from nowhere sucked Xin Xiaoqi back and threw her at the place where the gray Exos were densest.
But he seemed to have grown a pair of wings. His arms were spluttering nonstop as he soared into the sky and dashed dozens of meters away from the battlefield. He was about to flash into the burning and collapsing alleys deep inside the ruins in the blink of an eye.
Just now, he had said so much and pretended to be completely dispirited and desperate. It turned out that it was all a bluff. He still wanted to find a way to escape, and he didn't even hesitate to sacrifice the life of his only true disciple!
"Hehe!"
Wei Xiaotian sniffed. The expression on his face did not change at all, but lackluster gray brilliance was shining around his Crystal Suit. Dozens of tiny flying swords darted out and darted toward Xiahou Wuxin from all the weird angles.
The other gray Exos realized what was going on. They also loosened the surveillance on Xin Xiaoqi, who was still dancing in midair. Locking onto Xiahou Wuxin, who was as fast as a ghost, they lunged at him while roaring as if they had been fooled.
The third change took place when the tiny flying swords hit Xiahou Wuxin.
Xin Xiaoqi had been thrown at the gray Exos brutally as a 'meat shield', but somebody seemed to have kicked Xin Xiaoqi's bottom brutally. The spurting magical equipment on her hands and feet spurted out tremendous air currents, too, which allowed her to take an abrupt turn and refract her out of the battlefield!
Xiahou Wuxin and Xin Xiaoqi had been surrounded by more than ten gray Exos. The enemy's positions were so delicate that not a single gap could be found.
However, after Xiahou Wuxin's first, second, and third changes, pretending that he was going to sacrifice himself to save his disciple, and then asking his disciple to be his scapegoat so that he could escape on his own. In the end, he was still going to sacrifice himself to protect Xin Xiaoqi. Finally, he tore a tiny gap in the enemy's perfect battle formation and sent Xin Xiaoqi out!
"Hahahaha!"
Dozens of tiny flying swords were focused on Xiahou Wuxin at the same time. Smoke was rising in the fire and blood, but Xiahou Wuxin's coarse laughter was echoing inside the smoke.
A gray Exo lunged into the smoke. Then, the sounds of metal being twisted and bones being broken echoed, followed by a series of explosions!
When the smoke and dust gradually dispersed, a shadow that was even more magnificent than A Boxing Champion appeared in the middle of the boiling blood and burning fire!
He was about 2.2 meters tall. Perhaps, he was not very tall in the Land of Sins where monsters were everywhere. But his shoulder width was almost two meters, too. He was a square block that was filled with muscles.
Muscles were overlapping muscles, and tendons were entangled with tendons. He was almost like a mixture of steel and cement.
The dense bone spurs and crimson eyes that filled his entire arm, as well as the enormous nostrils that were spurting out fury nonstop, made him look even more ferocious than the Fist King's iron body!
"Hehe. Hehehehe!"
He roared like a caged animal.
Everybody in the Land of Sins knew that Xiahou Wuxin, the leader of Liberty City, was an expert in flying swords. His style was fast, agile, and unrestrained.
Nobody had ever seen Xiahou Wuxin in such an explosive state before. He was even more like a prehistoric beast than 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie!
"Is it because 'transformation' is particularly popular in the Land of Sins?"
Below the ground, Li Yao asked A Boxing Champion in a low voice, "Are the big shots too embarrassed to travel in the world without a 'second form' or 'final form'?"
"Well …"
A Boxing Champion's crystal processor was calculating nonstop. "In such a case, everything makes sense now. The combat ability that Xiahou Wuxin presented during the competition with me was obviously insufficient. It was at least forty percent lower than the data that I analyzed from the videos of his battles that I collected.
"Just now, I thought that he had learned the truth about the Land of Sins a long time ago and knew that he was nothing more than a tool for other people's research and entertainment. So, he was frustrated and lost all his fighting will.
"But from what I can see now, everything was intentional. He intentionally preserved his strength."
"He intentionally preserved his strength in front of such an unparalleled brutal man like you?"
Li Yao could not help but shudder for Xiahou Wuxin's sordidness and thoughtfulness. He was about to ask 'why did he do that' when he suddenly realized the answer.
"Are you suggesting that Xiahou Wuxin has been waiting for an opportunity, too, an opportunity for him, or at least his disciple Xin Xiaoqi, to get rid of the surveillance of Manjusaka completely?"
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao said quickly, "As long as Liberty City is not in chaos, and as long as he is the leader of Liberty City, there is no way that he can get rid of the surveillance and manipulation from the sky. There is no way that he can escape at all.
"Therefore, although he might've been scheming in secret for decades, and he might've even been preparing everything in secret since 'Xiao Qin', his childhood sweetheart and Xin Xiaoqi's mother, was killed by him in person, he never dared to act recklessly because there was absolutely no chance of survival when everything was peaceful and quiet.
"But when you led the army to attack Liberty City, it gave him a great opportunity to take advantage of the chaos.
"He pretended that he could not beat you and that he was heavily wounded. Then, he disappeared from everyone's sight, hoping to escape out of the city without alarming anyone. It was a pity that he was intercepted by the Immortal Cultivators, who forced him to expose his real strength that he had not exposed for decades!"
"Yes."
A Boxing Champion said, "Based on my logical thinking circuits and the analysis result of all the known information, there is a 93.3% possibility that that is exactly what happened!"
"That's great!"
Li Yao's crystal cameras were glittering, and his smile gradually turned hideous. "In such a case, we are more confident that we can keep the entire gray squad here!"
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