Hardly had Li Yao concluded his sentence when hasty footsteps echoed outside the door. The thick iron door was pulled open by a noose, and Wu Mayan and Sha Yulan staggered in.
The moment the door was closed, they could vaguely hear shouting from the pathway outside.
Wu Mayan was out of breath from running. He waved his arms like wings and shouted, "Father Xiong, not good! According to the news from the Burning Sun Tribe, the expedition team sent by the Burning Sun Tribe, the Feathered Snakes Tribe, and the Giant Axe Tribe to look for the Oasis Tribe in the Dark Continent discovered that some Cultivators were attacking the Oasis Tribe when they found it!
"They defeated the Cultivators' attack together and interrogated the captives, only to discover that the Cultivators were preparing to assault the Oasis Tribe and launch a large-scale invasion of Iron Plateau with the Oasis Tribe as the base!
"A lot of rumors are spreading on the street. I wonder who is spreading them."
The young man breathed for a long time. His eyes glittering, he said, "Father Xiong is a mole planted by the space residents. You wanted us to send someone to get in touch with the space residents because you wanted them to find out more about us! The space residents finished their preparations a long time ago. They were already taking action in the periphery of the Iron Plateau Space Zone a few months ago. Now that your identity has been revealed, and their scheme has been exposed, they are simply going to attack by force!
"Right now, Furious Bears City is in chaos. All the tribes are sending their elites to the Oasis Tribe to find out what is going on!"
Li Yao and Xiong Wuji looked at each other, not surprised at all.
Wu Mayan was about to cry. "Father Xiong, you are not a mole, right? You are not a mole, are you? "
Xiong Wuji was silent. In the dim light of the fire, he suddenly saw that Sha Yulan's right hand was bleeding behind Wu Mayan. He frowned hard and rose abruptly, trying to grab Sha Yulan's arm. "Are you hurt?"
Sha Yulan took a step back and avoided his concern. She bit her lips and said, "Xiong Wuji, whether you are a good guy or a bad guy, I have been following you for a long time. You … have been using me as a cover all the time, haven't you? "
Xiong Wuji was dazed. The fire in his eyes seemed to have been covered in ice like a cold wind. After a long silence, he took a deep breath and said, "Of course not!"
His eyes became particularly deep, and his thoughts seemed to have returned to a long time ago. He said in a low voice, "Fifteen years ago, my foster father, Xiong Dachuan, told me the secret of my birth before he died, which made me confused and miserable!
"I grew up listening to the stories of the pioneers of Iron Plateau resisting the apocalypse. The rats in space who fled in panic were nothing to me. Although it's not a deep hatred, I don't think so. "
"As I grew up, I took those martyrs as my role models. I want to train myself crazily and become a real tough guy of Iron Plateau!
"Finally, I've made a name for myself in the tribe and become one of the few experts of the younger generation. I'm about to walk on the same path as the martyrs!"
"Who would have thought that the heavens would play such a huge joke on me and let me know that I was actually the descendant of those space rats!"
"Two whole years. I fell into the darkness and was unable to extricate myself. I also lost my direction in cultivation. There were a few times when I almost went mad and was consigned to eternal damnation! "
"When I was at my most desperate, you brought Xiao Yan to the Furious Bears Tribe.
"I knew that I was a descendant of space residents. Naturally, I was very curious about my two 'compatriots' from space. Therefore, I was very close to you and wanted to know what space residents were like from you.
"After we got in touch, I heard a lot of things that happened to space residents from you. I also saw that you treated the patients who were destined to die in my eyes despite the cold eyes of other people, even at the risk of being cursed and beaten up!
"You must know that it had nothing to do with you at the beginning, but if the patients did die, your end could've been much worse!
"From you, I discovered that the so-called space residents were no different from the Iron Plateau natives. Kindness, tenacity, and sincerity … The feelings that the Iron Plateau natives had could be found in space residents, too!
"When Xiao Yan began his training, and I saw that he gritted his teeth and endured the pain that many young people of Iron Plateau couldn't bear in order to prove the courage of space residents, I was greatly touched!
"If a space resident could become a qi-trainer and the best warrior of the six tribes of Iron Plateau, what was the fundamental difference between space residents and Iron Plateau natives?
"It was because of the two of you that I realized who I was and what I was trying to do!
"That was why I tried so hard to reach out to space residents so that the gap between the Iron Plateau natives and space residents could be healed and reestablished!
"I, Xiong Wuji, swear to the martyrs of Iron Plateau and to the billions of stars in the sky that my purpose is as simple as that. I have never done anything that jeopardizes the interests of Iron Plateau!
"Also, I definitely did not consider you as a disguise. I was … really attracted to you, fell in love with you, and wanted to marry you so that you would be my only woman!"
Xiong Wuji's roar was so loud that the iron gate was clattering.
It was the second time that Wu Mayan had heard it. He blushed in embarrassment and hid behind Li Yao.
Sha Yulan finally burst into tears and mumbled, "I — I believe you. I believe you …"
Xiong Wuji was overjoyed. "You really believe me?"
Sha Yulan smiled with tears in her eyes. "If a woman doesn't believe in her man, who else can she believe in?"
Xiong Wuji burst into laughter. "Good! Good! Good! As long as you and your son are on my side, it doesn't matter even if the whole world regards me as an unpardonable devil!
"There is a deep scheme behind the whole thing. The Oasis Tribe must be the pivot of the scheme! Xiao Yan, guard outside and don't let anyone approach the pathway. There's something that I need to discuss with your mother and Sand Scorpion! "
Wu Mayan was much calmer than before after the great changes he had gone through today. He gritted his teeth and walked out of the door without asking any questions.
This place was where the mad warriors were locked up. Of course, it was extremely solid and impenetrable. There was only one pathway leading to the ground. It had been heavily guarded by the qi-trainers dispatched by the six tribes.
Li Yao had been thoroughly searched when he came down.
Xiong Wuji closed the door again. He suddenly bent down and groped on the ground carefully. When he touched a certain spot in the southwest corner, he suddenly opened his eyes wide and exerted his strength. After a grunt, the spiritual gas of the 99th level of the Refinement Stage was fully activated. He grabbed the ground tightly!
As the muscles all over his body expanded, the 'ground' was lifted up inch by inch. It turned out to be a square boulder more than one meter in length, width and height!
The boulder. It happened to block a hole in the ground. After the boulder was sucked out with his spiritual gas, the dark hole was exposed.
Xiong Wuji said, "This boulder is a trap that I designed in person years ago. Only those above the 96th level of the Refinement Stage can lift it up!
"It looks like a regular boulder, but special minerals have been embedded inside it, which can block all spiritual gas and prevent anyone from discovering the secret chamber below!"
Li Yao said, "So, this is the prison of the mad warriors. It's Chief Xiong's secret base. "
Xiong Wuji smiled. "More than sixty years ago, a very strong man above the 90th level of the Refinement Stage was imprisoned in this prison. He was a qi-trainer who was mentally deranged!
"He was mentally deranged not long after the first battle of the apocalypse, and there was a long time between the two battles of the apocalypse. Therefore, he was imprisoned here for sixteen years.
"These Qi warriors who have gone mad are all extremely dangerous. They are as ferocious as wild beasts. Under normal circumstances, outsiders would never open the cage.
"Therefore, nobody knew that he was on a rampage. He kept his wisdom and dug out a long tunnel in the rocks below the ground with his bare fists after fifteen years. He even knew how to block the entrance of the tunnel with the peeled rocks as a disguise!
"This place was deep below the ground. It was impossible for him to escape no matter where he dug the tunnel. But as it happened, there was an underground river nearby. When he was discovered, the tunnel that he dug out almost reached the river!
"After that, people barely blocked the tunnel and abandoned the prison cell. When I became the chief and found out my identity, I used the excuse of repairing the prison cell as an excuse to set up my own secret chamber in case of emergency!"
"Come on!"
Xiong Wuji was the first to jump into the secret chamber. Li Yao and Sha Yulan followed him closely.
The secret chamber that was set up below the prison of the mad warriors turned out to be quite a large arsenal. Holes had been dug into the walls on both sides. All kinds of weapons were stuffed inside, ranging from coldly shining sabers and swords of Spiritual Qi to Spiritual Qi guns of crude caliber. There were even boxes of Wolf Fangs.
There were also several boxes in the corner. Xiong Wuji kicked them open, only to discover that they were filled with crystals of extremely high purity, which could be used for training or refined into magical equipment. They could even be refined into crystal bombs if they were installed with triggers!
"Kacha kacha!"
Xiong Wuji examined the maintenance of the guns and the sabers carefully. The sounds of the components colliding were particularly gloomy in the darkness.
Li Yao had known that Xiong Wuji would be prepared, but he didn't expect that the guy would build such an arsenal below the ground with so many lethal weapons. It was almost enough to equip a special squad!
Li Yao picked up a crystal from the box and examined its purity with his eyes. He mumbled, "Chief Xiong, it seems that Yan Chihuo was right. You are not a great hero with such preparations, but an out-and-out ambitious schemer!"
Xiong Wuji had won the trust of Sha Yulan and her son. His previous frustration and uneasiness were all gone. He regained his confidence and laughed heartily. "I'm not a great hero in the first place. That's just a label that other people put on me. I'm an out-and-out ambitious schemer!
"My ambition is to let the Iron Plateau natives and the space residents drop their prejudice, shatter the five thousand years of estrangement, and unite again!
"The space is too vast, and there are too many alien species. Even the Titan Warriors have launched 'possession between civilizations' against us! We are all human beings. Is there any reason for us to continue the internal strife?
"All human beings should unite and become the strongest fighting species in the boundless sea of stars. We will defeat all the alien species and make our civilization immortal. That is what an expert of human beings should do!
"In the past, I cursed the heavens for giving me such a fate. But later, I thought it through!
"Maybe, as a descendant of space residents, I've become the best warrior of the six tribes of Iron Plateau. Then, my destiny is not as simple as resisting the apocalypse!
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