Looking at the fire deep inside the young man's frozen eyes that looked like black lotuses, Li Yao sighed softly and said, "Should I say that you are a newborn calf that is not scared of a tiger, or that you don't know your limits? Are you really confident that you can fool Li Lingfeng?"
"Perhaps Li Lingfeng is a hundred times stronger than me, but it is impossible for him to devote all his attention to me."
Li Jialing gnashed his teeth. "He is a powerful, busy big shot. There are too many enemies that he must crush and swallow every day. I'm afraid that a hundred schemes, a thousand traps, and ten thousand targets are spinning in his head every second.
"He has never really thought of me as an 'enemy'. I'm just a little lab rat that he's been keeping for a long time.
"I occupy 1% of his world at best, if not less.
"But for me, he represents the whole world that I have to conquer. I've been considering how to escape from his control for ten years with every second and 100% of my computational ability! I've envisioned thousands of possibilities and simulated almost ten thousand responses and changes in my head. Whatever the odds of success are, it's worth a try without caring about anything! "
Li Yao was silent for a moment, shocked by the young man's decisiveness again.
Li Jialing was still very young and naïve at this moment. If he had run into a real Cultivator of Starlight instead of himself, his plan would probably have failed.
However, Li Yao still saw countless black shadows on the young man's body, which made his nerve endings slightly hurt.
In any case, Li Yao could not leave Li Jialing alone. After discussing with the mental devil for a moment, he asked, "What are you going to do to win the trust of Li Lingfeng and Wuying Lan?"
After a brief silence, Li Jialing said, "You'll know in a moment."
"Then, how can I hide myself next to you all the time?"
Li Yao was not bothered by the young man's stubbornness. He continued asking patiently, "If you can really get in touch with Li Lingfeng and Wuying Lan at a close distance, it seems impossible for me to follow you in stealth all the time. It will be too risky, and I will be easily discovered."
"If the size of your magical equipment is not too large —"
Li Jialing said, "Just hide it inside my body."
"It is certainly a good idea to hide inside your body and conceal my existence with your flames of spiritual energy," Li Yao said. "But if the enemy scans your entire body, won't we be exposed immediately? Besides, there will be nowhere for my magical equipment to run to."
"I can tear open my abdomen and let you hide near my Dantian region. Then, I can activate Jin Dan and release chaotic spirit flames."
Li Jialing said, "Generally speaking, as long as they do not use large scanning magical equipment of mystic rays, it is not easy to discover them. I will try to resist their full scanning. In any case, it is worth the gamble."
Li Yao said, "You seem to like gambling."
"I don't like gambling," Li Jialing said. "However, for a man who has nothing in the first place, it seems unlikely that he will lose no matter how he gambles."
"Did you know?" Li Yao smiled. "My target when I snuck into Manjusaka was not you at all. I didn't even know that you existed at all. But right now, I'm more and more curious about your past and your origins. I'm almost considering you to be the greatest reward of my trip."
"I'm more and more curious about you, too," Li Jialing retorted.
"You snuck into 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' by yourself and swaggered right under the noses of the unparalleled experts such as Li Lingfeng and Wuying Lan, but you don't look like a Cultivator from Starlight or a native of the Covenant Alliance. Right. We've talked for so long, but I still don't know your name."
For some reason, Li Yao was unwilling to make up a random fake name to fool the young man who was very similar to his foster father.
Besides, in the Imperium of True Human Beings, "Vulture Li Yao" was a meaningless Mr. Nobody at all.
He smiled and said, "My name is Li Yao."
"A name is just a code name," Li Jialing said. "So, what kind of person is hiding under the name 'Li Yao', and where are you from?"
"What about you?"
Li Yao asked back. "'Li Jialing' is just a code name, too. What kind of past and origin are you hiding under the code name?"
For the first time, confusion beamed out of the young man's eyes. After a brief daze, he sent out feeble waves. "… I don't know. However, after I regain absolute freedom, I will certainly figure out who I am, where I am from, and where I am going!"
Looking at the young man's eyes that were enshrouded in mist, Li Yao seemed to have seen Earth that was still hidden in the unknown. He was slightly absent-minded again.
Seeing that he did not respond for a long time, Li Jialing said, "I will help you gather intelligence, and you will find a way to help me escape from 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'. If you agree to the deal, I will begin."
Li Yao asked, "Start what?"
Li Jialing licked his lips and suddenly bulged his eyes to the extent that they were about to be ripped apart. Hundreds of bloodshot streaks were bouncing out of his eyes, and his hands and feet were extended to the midair in a twisted way as if they were being pulled by invisible threads. He was jumping crazily like a fish that had been thrown onto the shore!
"Ahhhhhhh!"
The roar that came from the depths of his throat was simply like a thousand drills that were about to drill out of his chest. The flesh that had just healed all over his body was torn apart again, and blood spurted out, turning him into a crimson "man of fire"!
With great difficulty, the young man retracted his hands and held his head tightly. He howled, twitched, and rolled on the ground in pain. Snot and tears gathered, blood and white foam spurted out crazily.
Li Yao was rather shocked by Li Jialing's abrupt action. If he hadn't heard Li Jialing say that it was about to begin, he would've suspected that the guy was really bewitched or that some mysterious power inside his body had gone out of control.
However, he saw that the youth's ten fingers were deeply embedded in his head, almost squeezing his eyes out of their sockets. It was as if if he didn't do so, he wouldn't be able to suppress the impulse of his brain exploding.
Dong! Dong! Dong!
He bashed his head hard into the ground and the wall. Every time, the ground was shaking, as if crystal bombs were exploding in the tiny secret chamber, leaving shocking traces of blood!
"Don't … Don't push me!"
Li Jialing's face was twisted as he bellowed vaguely. Anyone who saw him would feel that he was in the excruciating agony. "Don't push me anymore, you b * stards! You b * stards!"
Thick blood was flowing out of his eyes, nostrils, ears, and mouth. His chest was a mixture of blood and vomit. He couldn't have looked more hideous, terrifying, and pitiful.
"I didn't know that the boy was a great actor!"
The mental devil exclaimed. "Although he is still a bit immature, he is brutal, disobedient, and has such remarkable combat ability and acting skills. He also knows how to hide his claws and fangs. He is definitely a talent that can be nurtured!"
Li Jialing was so brutal to himself that even Li Yao and the mental devil felt creeped out, not to mention the researchers of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" on the other side of the wall.
At this moment, Li Lingfeng and Wuying Lan were both dealing with more important missions. Only a few researchers were stationed in the room.
Li Jialing, on the other hand, had always been a walking dead. He was never willing to hurt anybody or hurt himself. Therefore, he was not very dangerous.
Therefore, seeing his violent and painful appearance all of a sudden, the researchers were more or less at a loss for what to do.
Hiu! Hiu! Hiu!
More than ten red spots appeared on Li Jialing's body. Powerful anesthetics were darting at him from all directions.
However, he was much more agile than the green-haired gorilla just now. He turned into a cluster of bloody mist and dodged all the powerful anesthetics!
"Chi —"
The door of the secret chamber was opened. More than ten fully-armed Immortal Cultivators in Crystal Suits swarmed in.
"Don't come any closer!"
Li Jialing seemed to have seen ghosts when he saw them. With fear and desperation all over his face, he crouched at a corner and cried, "Don't come any closer. Don't come any closer!"
"Don't be scared. Calm down."
The voice of the Immortal Cultivator in the lead was as mellow and gentle as it could be, giving a sense of infinite trust. "You are sick. We are here to help you."
"No! No! No! "
Li Jialing shouted desperately. "I'm not sick. Don't send me there for refinement again. I don't want it. Save me. Save me!"
"Alright, alright. You are not sick, and we will not send you back. All in all, calm down first."
The Immortal Cultivator's voice was even mellower and gentler. He opened his arms and said, "Trust me. Everything is over. What you need most right now is rest. A good rest."
"Don't come any closer. Don't come any closer. My head hurts. My head hurts …"
No matter how the guy tried to persuade him, Li Jialing was still mumbling. His pupils and the whites of his eyes seemed to have been completely melted, emitting more and more brutal brilliance, as if a dam deep inside his brain had been completely broken, unleashing the most ferocious beasts that had ever been seen before. His mumbling became lower and lower, too. "If you come any closer … If you come any closer …"
He seemed to have lost his self-awareness and was caught in extreme chaos.
The Immortal Cultivator gestured to the left and right. A few Crystal Suit immediately surrounded him without a sound.
"Don't come any closer!"
For a moment, the confusion, indifference, and desperation in the young man's eyes were all gone, replaced by the most typical cruelty and brutality of a pure Immortal Cultivator.
"Shua!"
The muscles all over Li Jialing's body were tightened into iron ropes. His blood and sweat, together with violent flames of spiritual energy, darted out like a storm, disrupting the enemy's vision.
He took the opportunity to dash into the middle of the Immortal Cultivators. Stretching his arms and opening his fingers, he grabbed the heads of two Exos more than easily.
BAM!
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