Chapter 2878 — Caring for Each Other
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Yet fly it did. Apart from looking a little ungainly, it flew with incomparable smoothness and ease, like a helicopter, able to rise and descend straight up and down, and it came down directly before Wei Zhao and the others.
"I have to admit, you little creatures are quite clever, making use of every resource available to you—you actually made it all the way here," the Five Baleful Dragon said, rolling its eyes at Wei Zhao and the others. From its tone, one could not tell whether it was angry or something else.
"So you've been toying with us this whole time?" Wei Zhao felt anger surging up inside him, yet there was nothing he could do. From the moment the Five Baleful Dragon had first flung them off the cliff, he realized he had never escaped the Five Baleful Dragon's control. It seemed the Five Baleful Dragon meant to play him to death.
"That's right. The first time you and this little girl came to the Five Baleful Mountains, I threw you off the cliff, and you climbed back up on your own. But I decided to let you go, so I paid you no more mind—who would have thought you'd come again? I can tolerate something once, but that doesn't mean I'll tolerate it twice!" The Five Baleful Dragon gave a sinister laugh. "The reason I didn't wound you before throwing you off the cliff the second time was precisely so I could toy with you—let you see a glimmer of hope for survival, and then, after you'd climbed back up, let that hope crumble away bit by bit!"
"So that's how it is..." Wei Zhao could not help but smile bitterly. "Then you came in person because you want to finish us off yourself?"
"I didn't originally plan to finish you off myself, but I suddenly realized that I had underestimated you before. Still, getting to personally kill cultivators with such high intelligence—that's quite a satisfying thing to do!" said the Five Baleful Dragon.
"Madman!" Wei Zhao was somewhat speechless at the Five Baleful Dragon's words. Had this creature suffered some setback in its childhood? How could its mind be so twisted?
"You're right—I am a madman. I've been stuck in this Five Baleful Wildlands far too long, and when something a little interesting finally comes along, how could I let it slip by so easily?" The Five Baleful Dragon regarded Wei Zhao and the others with a mocking look. In its eyes, they were nothing but its playthings.
"Then how do you want us to die?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Hmm... let me think!" The Five Baleful Dragon put on a show of pondering. "How about this—you kill each other, and the last one left alive, I'll let leave. How's that?"
Wei Zhao immediately furrowed his brow. The Five Baleful Dragon was truly as wicked as could be. Making such a demand was plainly just so it could watch a show—and as for the last survivor, it would have some other excuse to kill them too. This was obviously just toying with them.
Yet a flicker of hesitation crossed Zhang Naipao's eyes. But then he thought that Wei Zhao was stronger than he was, so if anyone died, it would be him—and Zhang Naipao dismissed the idea of killing one another. Besides, there was still Tianchan, whose strength was unknown; who knew whether she had some hidden card to play?
"What? Don't you believe what I said?" Seeing Wei Zhao and the others unmoved, the Five Baleful Dragon grew somewhat irritated. "The chance comes only once—miss it and it's gone. Does none of you want to live? Want to leave this place?"
Wei Zhao and the others said nothing. Tempting as the Five Baleful Dragon's words were, none of them were fools.