After Zhao Lingkong left, only Li Xiang, Andrea, Dale, and Jia Lan were left in the temporary prison.
Jia Lan vaguely sensed something and felt very awkward. If it was really the rumor, he really wished he wasn't there.
Dale looked at Andrea and Li Xiang warily. She hated Li Xiang to the core, but she was also very afraid of Andrea.
She was crazy, but she wasn't as crazy as the first lady of the Dong Ling family. Facing Andrea, who was far more powerful than her, Dale wouldn't act rashly.
The murderous intent in her eyes was as calm as water. She quietly waited for their reply.
Li Xiang smiled again and pouted at Andrea. "Do you want to talk, or should I?"
"You talk. I'll just provide the information." Andrea took out her communicator with a smirk. Thinking about the possible changes to Dale, she felt very happy.
Li Xiang shrugged helplessly. As expected, the maids of Night Shadow all had strange hobbies. Although he didn't get along with Owl's family, he didn't find it fun. On the other hand, Andrea seemed to be enjoying it.
"What are you guys talking about so mysteriously?" Dale covered her thigh with her hand. Her heart had been pounding uneasily ever since she saw this kid.
She had never felt such strong palpitation before.
"Same as before. You're not like Kuang Tie at all. His biological mother isn't you, Lady Dale Nidri." Li Xiang let out a long breath. The moment he said that, he took half a step toward Andrea. At the same time, Andrea opened a protection barrier.
"Hiss …"
Jia Lan gasped. The thing he was most worried about had happened.
Dale was stunned and paused for a few seconds. Then, she grinned. Her face was full of anger. She was so angry that she laughed and her body trembled slightly.
She lowered her head and slowly clenched her fists. After a while, she slowly raised her head. Her eyes were bloodshot.
"Did you call me here just to make fun of me?"
Once the aura of a Level-1 player was unleashed, even Jia Lan, a Level-3 Magician, would not be able to withstand it, let alone Li Xiang. Seeing that Dale was about to go berserk, she was forced back by Andrea's terrifying barrier.
"Haha …" Dale's face turned red as she glared at Andrea. "Do you really think I don't dare to touch you?"
"Don't be in such a hurry to get angry. Why don't you take a look at this video?" Andrea chuckled softly as she placed the communication device on the ground, and a recorded video started playing on it.
It was a splendid room. The layout and decorations were extravagant, but it was different from anything Li Xiang had ever seen. Clearly, it was not from the Subcontinent District.
As time passed, the image gradually became clearer and smoother. A man and a woman walked in from outside the door. The man's face was resolute and handsome, while the woman was tall and slender. Her bronze-colored skin and athletic figure were unique to the African people.
Soon, they became entangled and began to do some indescribable things.
From the image, it could be seen that both of them were slightly drunk. The man was obviously Owl, who was more than ten years younger.
Dale's face gradually darkened. The video was very detailed, and it was not fake.
Jia Lan felt as if her heart had fallen into an ice lake. She wanted to turn it off, but she didn't have the courage to touch the device.
"Hahaha …"
Dale clenched her teeth and her body began to tremble. She stared at the man and the woman as if she wanted to swallow them whole.
At that moment, her murderous intent made Li Xiang feel an inexplicable sense of fear.
This woman was about to go crazy.
That was all there was to killing someone.
Andrea waved her hand and the image stopped abruptly. Then, a series of information about the Kuang Tie and Owl appeared on the screen, including the time and place of the incident and the date of the Kuang Tie's birth.
That was all supplementary information, but even an outsider like Li Xiang could see some clues. The ultimate trump card was two things.
The first was the Kuang Tie's blood test certificate, which had been personally verified by the scholars of the Chronometer Tower. There was no trace of the Nidri family's blood in his veins.
The second was the video of the battle after the Kuang Tie's death, which had been sealed for a long time. Seeing Li Xiang and the Kuang Tie's bloody battle, and seeing him use the Ji family's unique vertical pupil magic, Dale's face finally turned completely black.
It was a terrible feeling. It was as if the whole world knew the truth, but she was being played like a fool.
Obviously, the two men closest to Dale knew the truth, but they worked together to hide it from her, the wife and mother.
"Who is that woman …?"
Dale's voice was a little hoarse, but the suppressed anger in it was frightening.
"Uh, do you really want to know? Really? " Andrea pursed her lips and deliberately asked to provoke Dale's nerves. She then smiled and said, "Her name is Pace, and she is a maid of the Ji family. Her real identity is the daughter of the Black King and a non-Lu princess. Her mother was born a slave, so she doesn't have any status. "
"Maid … Just a maid …" Dale gritted her teeth in anger. She couldn't believe that a lowly slave's daughter was the one who made her a cuckold!
"Where is that woman?"
"She's still working in a branch of the Ji family. She's living a comfortable life because of Owl. When the Kuang Tie becomes an excellent successor, she will be taken to the Subcontinent District. Owl will be connected to a branch of the Ji family through her. If he fails in the war in the future, he will have a place to stay, "Andrea said while looking at the woman. Andrea replied indifferently, her eyes showing some pity for this woman. "Of course, the premise is that Kuang Tie was not killed by Li Xiang."
That woman had been living a luxurious life since she was a child. She was the most dazzling pearl of the Nidri family's middle generation, as well as the current family master's favorite daughter.
She had married Owl because of his ambition and charm. She had come to the Subcontinent District resolutely despite her family's objections.
Owl had climbed to the top of the military thanks to the Nidri family's influence. However, she had never expected that the man's ambition would be far greater than she had imagined.
He wasn't satisfied with the status quo. He wanted to go further.
Clearly, the Nidri family wasn't enough to satisfy his appetite.
Only the five Sovereigns could do that.
But she had never thought that Owl would resort to such means.
"Are you trying to sever ties between me and him?" After a moment of silence, Dale suddenly raised her head and sneered at Li Xiang. "Even if the Kuang Tie isn't my son, so what? That bastard is dead. Are you trying to drive a wedge between me and a dead man? "
Andrea looked at the woman sadly and waved her hand again.
The video had crushed the last bit of reason in that crazy woman!
Jia Lan took a deep breath. If it weren't for Andrea stopping him at the door, he would have run away and forgotten about everything!
As a member of the Nidri family, he knew better than anyone how terrifying Dale could be when she lost her mind. Of the four of them, he was the only one who didn't need to be there.
But Andrea's eyes were clearly warning him not to act rashly.
The white bodies in the video kept assaulting Li Xiang's vision. He couldn't help but curse in his mind that the man was indeed full of energy.
If he had done that to Pest in order to build a relationship with the Ji family, then this group of women was completely unreasonable.
He cast a sympathetic look at Dale, whose lips had turned purple. He couldn't bear to look at her.
"Well, unfortunately, according to our investigation, your son, Wild Hunt, isn't your biological son either. As a matter of fact, the fetuses of your two children were sent to the Calamity by Owl. "Andrea's last sentence shattered everything.
Clean and tidy.
Li Xiang understood from the information she had given him that due to the players' genes and genetic factors being too strong, it was difficult for them to give birth to children after mating. Generally, they would choose to transplant the combined fetal cells into a petri dish to grow.
The children that grew up in this way would be exceptionally healthy and strong.
Li Xiang didn't approve of such fetuses. He believed that the mother's body was the best environment for them to grow. Of course, that wasn't important here.
Owl had sacrificed both his and Dale's sons to the Calamity.
This wasn't a groundless rumor. There was solid evidence.
This was also one of the trump cards that Night Shadow wanted to use against him.
Whether it was the ambition for power or some borderline behavior, these were all things that couldn't be avoided in the struggle between the military and the upper echelons. They were also permitted.
But everything that directly involved the Calamity faction was absolutely forbidden by the human faction!
Disasterization and mutation were already close to the White King's bottom line, let alone trade directly with the Calamity faction.
The Calamity faction was generally bloody, cruel, chaotic, and evil, but a very small number of them had learned the human way of thinking and doing things. They wandered among the upper echelons of the human faction and carried out some taboo transactions.
According to the information, after the Calamity faction had a certain degree of "humanity," they would also be ostracized by their own kind. The truly terrifying Calamity faction had no "humanity" at all, unlike the Calamity faction that understood human transactions.
For example, the thousand-toothed phantom that hurt Hestria did indeed simulate the form and thinking of a human, and even deceived Hestria for a time. But in the end, it was only a personality that it simulated in an intelligent form. It didn't exist, and it wouldn't be affected.
In essence, it only simulated a personality because it judged that it needed to do so. It was still a terrifying creature that was chaotic and disorderly. It didn't have the slightest emotion or rationality that humans had.
It could have the thought of a human, but it didn't have real thoughts. It just felt that it should have, so it simulated it.
And the Calamity faction that could carry out taboo transactions with humans did indeed have independent personalities and thoughts!
They believed that the mutated and disasterized humans were their clumsy imitations, and that they were the best solution to biological evolution. They were more perfect than both humans and Calamities.
Although neither side admitted to this point.
This small group of Calamity faction had been dealing with the human faction and the Calamity faction, trying to obtain more of the civilization's technology and so on.
This content was taboo among taboos. Even Jia Lan didn't know much about it. Only players who had entered the ranks of the players would have the opportunity to learn about it.
Andrea exposed it just like that in order to break Dale's last line of defense.
Your two sons aren't your own. Your husband has personally sent your own son into the Calamity's mouth.
"These creatures that think that they're at the top of the evolutionary chain love to eat human embryos with blood. They're pure and delicious without any contamination. "Andrea continued to provoke Dale.
"Enough!" Dale punched the communication device, smashing the mechanical device that was still playing the video into pieces. The ground shook violently, and fine cracks appeared on the ground.
"Miss Dale …" Jia Lan knew that he couldn't let Andrea continue to provoke her. Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Most of the higher-ups probably didn't know about this. Night Shadow was obviously planning to use this against him and the higher-ups behind him. As a member of their faction, Jia Lan knew that if these taboo matters were exposed, their entire faction would be finished.
He couldn't care less about Andrea anymore, so he didn't make a move.
"Psst —"
A cold blade pierced through Jia Lan's back.
Li Xiang's eyes narrowed. Even with his enhanced senses, he couldn't see Dale's movements clearly.
Jia Lan looked at the woman who was so close to him in shock. Only burning anger remained in his eyes.
"Cough, cough, cough …"
Even a Level-3 Magician couldn't block such a stab to the chest, let alone Dale, who was planning to kill him.
The cold silver blade twisted and instantly extinguished Jia Lan's life force.
"Offensive — Beast Bite." Dale was a Magician, and an offensive one at that. The moment she stabbed with the cold silver blade, she also cast an offensive spell.
A dark purple shadow of a beast appeared on Jia Lan's chest and gradually solidified. Then, it suddenly tore at him in a frenzy, easily crushing his taut muscles.
The human body was torn apart inch by inch like a toy. Dale's hands pulled left and right, and Jia Lan was torn into several pieces right before their eyes.
Blood spurted out, and flesh and blood splattered everywhere.
A rain of blood fell, drenching Dale.
In the midst of the blood, she looked a little better.
"Now, we can continue."
After killing a Level-3 Magician expressionlessly, she looked at Andrea and Li Xiang. She suppressed her murderous aura and waited for them to continue.
Li Xiang suppressed the fear in his heart. The explosive power of a Level-1 player made him suddenly realize that he'd underestimated the difference between players and Magicians.
It was said that players' physiques had already surpassed human limits because of the changes in their structure. But after seeing it with his own eyes, he finally understood how big the difference was.
A Level-3 Magician's body was like a piece of paper in front of them.
It was no wonder that players without achievements didn't have the right to enter the big circle.
Below the players, everyone was like an ant.
"Li Xiang will talk to you. He'll take full responsibility for this." Andrea shrugged.
.....
No one knew what had happened in the temporary prison. They only knew that in the end, even Lady Dale Nadri, who had come from afar, had almost been killed and had fled the border.
Commander Jia Lan had been blasted into a pile of flesh and blood. The entire 10th Legion had lost its backbone and had been forced to retreat from the border under Andrea's unreasonable pressure.
At the same time, a large number of aristocratic families' camps had also been wiped out.
At this point, only the military, which had no say in anything, and Andrea and the border troops were left at the border.
After leaving the temporary prison, Li Xiang boarded the airship. His expression was unfriendly. He frantically stroked the soft fur of the black cat in his arms, causing it to meow, venting its dissatisfaction.
"Meow, damn it, Li Xiang meow, stop stroking me meow meow!"
She couldn't take it anymore and finally exploded. But she was still mercilessly ravaged by her junior brother.
He still fulfilled his wish at the final ranking and kept stroking Senior Sister Zhe Yuan's Void Cat Spirit form.
Sensing Li Xiang's displeasure, Zhe Yuan didn't struggle and just lay quietly on his lap.
Looking at the sea of fire below, Li Xiang snorted coldly.
Teacher and the others had really planned it out.
Andrea took advantage of this opportunity to clean up Jia Lan and his army. She also took the opportunity to wipe out the aristocratic families and enjoyed the fruits of their labor.
And he was the one who had to take all the blame.
"Teacher said you'd definitely be unhappy meow." Zhe Yuan could understand Li Xiang's feelings. Night Shadow and the others had used his conflict with Owl to trigger Dale, but in reality, it was probably for something even more distant.
Roping in the Nadri family, Li Xin's relationship with the Ji family, and cleaning up the border. They must be planning something.
As one of the chess pieces, even though everything was for his own good, Li Xiang still did not like the feeling of being manipulated and forced to do something.
In this world, no one could manipulate him.
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