Chapter 386: Chapter 386 Release People (Please Subscribe)
Upon hearing Shangxing’s order, Pei Yan glanced at Bai Ze not far away, reluctantly withdrew his foot, grabbed the lying Shitang Longsi, and whispered in his ear: "It seems you’ve escaped from my hands once again!"
"Are you planning to let me go back? I thought you would keep me here!" Shitang Longsi coughed out two mouthfuls of blood with satisfaction upon learning he was about to be rescued.
Hearing this, Pei Yan looked at Bals on the other side and laughed: "He has more secrets than you. You’re no longer of use to me. Do I need to worry about someone I’ve defeated twice in a row? Your bit of pride has been repeatedly ground into the dirt by me, hasn’t it?"
Before Shitang Longsi could retort, Pei Yan raised his long knife high and swung it down, a shrill scream erupted in front of him.
"Ahhhh!!" Watching Shitang Longsi being thrown in front of him like a rolling log, with his limbs severed and bawling, and seeing the bloody arm at Pei Yan’s feet, Bai Ze’s temples throbbed with anger: "What do you mean by this?"
"Our leader said each side backs off and you can take one person, but they didn’t say he couldn’t be harmed. This is my personal vendetta with Shitang Longsi. You can take him if you want! If you don’t scram, believe it or not, I’ll slaughter you all!"
Pei Yan’s almost insanely blatant roar echoed throughout the scene, followed by the roaring sound of machines. Over a hundred mechanical beings rose into the air, surrounding Bai Ze and his crowd, raising their arms with blue barrel muzzles, showing electromagnetic cannons ready to fire, just waiting for Pei Yan’s order.
"Fine! Pei Yan, I’ve remembered your name. Truly, seeing is believing. Today’s events left a deep impression!" Bai Ze said, glancing at Shitang Longsi on the ground: "Let’s go!"
After finishing, Bai Ze waved his hand, and a stream of light flew from the water into his sleeve. He turned and strode away. Lawrence and Hartman gave Pei Yan a fierce glare but were forced to lower their heads by his vicious gaze, reluctantly helping the convulsing Shitang Longsi get up, following closely behind with Mary in pursuit.
Watching the group from the Divine Court gradually disappear into the mist wall, Pei Yan turned and kicked the unconscious Bals at his feet, then looked up at Shangxing and sighed: "If I previously had only a fifty percent certainty that kid was bluffing, after cutting off Shitang Longsi’s last arm and he still accepted escape, I’m at least seventy, no, eighty percent sure now!"
"But as long as we aren’t one hundred percent sure, we have to let them go, right?" Shangxing turned his head, quite helplessly.
"Damn it, it’s not the first time! The Divine Court has no bottom line anymore, repeatedly using innocent civilians as leverage. This time, using that brat dressed like someone from De Yun Society, they just took him with a few mere words! What about the future! Our weaknesses have been exploited, and from now on, we will become overly cautious in every confrontation with them!" Ye Jiumu kicked an ice shard beside his foot, angrily spitting into the water.
"There’s no helping it. Villains will resort to any means necessary, and we can’t! But such situations won’t last long, the department is already working on setting up new contingency plans." He glanced around the scene and said hesitantly: "We can’t just lift the Defense Array here; otherwise, the water will flood this area! Let the people from the Three Pristine Department come in to handle the scene!"
After speaking, he looked at Pei Yan and said: "We need to stay here to assist the Three Pristine Department in cleaning up the scene. We can’t redeploy too many people to prevent the enemy from making a comeback. You have strong personal abilities with fast round-trip speed and electronic control capabilities, head to the riverbank and assist the Three Pristine Department there. Make sure to minimize the impact, and if you encounter any ambushes from the Divine Court, don’t linger in combat, retreat immediately, and signal us for immediate support."
"Understood!" Pei Yan replied, then kicked the nearby Bals and asked, "What about this kid?"
"There’s no time to waste, hand him over to the Three Pristine Department. Let them find a clean place and set up a Temporary Teleportation Array to send him away!" Shangxing said with a frown: "Your judgment is correct, not only this person, but others we’ve faced have shown strange abilities that don’t belong to the usual powers. We must get to the bottom of it, this Bals is the key!"
"Alright, you go to the riverbank! Leave this to us, rest assured, even if they make a comeback, we have the advantage in numbers! But you still have to watch out for your safety!" Zhao Yuanhu patted Pei Yan’s shoulder and urged.
"Alright! Then I’m off! Once I finish dealing with matters at the riverbank, I’ll come back and rendezvous with you!"
It turned out that Shangxing’s worries were not without reason, but the one who launched a post-event counterattack was not the Divine Court, but rather another unexpected person.
As the investigation team made their workflow arrangements and Pei Yan rushed to support the riverbank, the Divine Court, led by Bai Ze, broke through the Defense Array, entered a pre-setup Teleportation Array, and after three transfers over hundreds of miles, ensured the investigation team couldn’t track them to their new location, only then did the group breathe a long sigh of relief.
"Are we safe now?" Lawrence untied the rope from his waist, tossing the tied Shitang Longsi aside like garbage. After hearing a dull thud, confirming he was still alive, he discarded him and took out a bottle of cola from his naivete, drinking it greedily. Not finishing, he smashed the empty bottle to the ground and said resentfully: "We have to pay them back for this grudge, Bai Ze, we are safe now, you can unleash those beasts to teach them a lesson!"
Sitting on a chair with his head down, lost in thought, Bai Ze raised his head upon hearing this and looked at Lawrence as if seeing an idiot, sarcastically saying: "I used to think you all only lacked ability, but I didn’t expect your intelligence to be just as lacking. If Bals had said that, I could understand, but Lawrence, are you so scared that you’ve lost your ability to think?"
Hearing Bai Ze’s mockery, Lawrence’s face flushed red but dared not rebuke, and he timidly asked: "Could it be that what that mechanical person said was true!"
Leaning back into his chair, Bai Ze rubbed his temples in frustration and said in a deep voice: "Partly true, partly false. He indeed saw through our bluffing, but would he dare to gamble? Would he gamble with the gorilla beside him? Would the investigation team dare to? They don’t dare!" He looked up at the ceiling, muttering to himself: "I did indeed have a contingency. I only had three wyverns in total, showed them one, two in the river. That’s it; as for the remaining fish and that Fei, it was just an illusion created by me using the wyverns to ripple the water, tricking them temporarily. When their dispatched inspectors arrive at the scene, it will all be exposed!"
At this point, Bai Ze turned his gaze towards Lawrence, exhausted: "By then, it won’t be easy for us to leave once again!"