Chapter 4391 — Whose Turn Is It Now?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
A top-tier existence of his caliber was already wasting his talents merely garrisoning this little dungeon. Were human experimentation not the paramount priority of the entire organization, he would not have been willing to remain in such a place at all—and the trivial chore of extracting samples was certainly not something he needed to oversee himself.
Not only him—even the peak late-Nascent Soul expert could not be bothered to scrutinize the people in the dungeon. It was essentially done by order of arrival, with Sun Hengbiao, the "dungeon bully," helping to decide. So long as the Golden Core samples were provided on time, everything else was of no consequence.
"This one, this one!" Sun Hengbiao hastily pointed at someone.
Hm? Wei Zhao's brow furrowed at once—the person Sun Hengbiao had pointed to was none other than Lu Bianren, seated right beside him!
He had gone to such lengths to find Lu Bianren, and before they could even properly reunite, Lu Bianren was to be taken for human experimentation, his life or death thereafter unknown. Was there anything more infuriating in all the world?
Wei Zhao's mind raced, and in an instant his resolve was set: if it truly came to it, then he would have no choice but to unleash his ultimate weapon now. With the tremendous destructive power of a top-grade core-fire true-qi bomb, even a Xuan Ascension expert would struggle to react in time if caught off guard—and amid the chaos, he would grab Lu Bianren and flee!
Even so, the odds of success were hardly high, and unless it was absolutely unavoidable, Wei Zhao did not wish to resort to such a desperate gamble. He shot a venomous glare at Sun Hengbiao.
Sun Hengbiao might be a witless fool, but having suffered so greatly at Wei Zhao's hands, a shadow had already been seared into his heart. The moment he saw that hostile look, his heart lurched and a cold sweat broke out across his back.
By order of arrival, it truly was Lu Bianren's turn this time—but judging by this fiend's expression, he clearly did not want Lu Bianren taken. If he dared defy him, then even the half-life he had so narrowly salvaged might well be buried alongside Lu Bianren.
"Oh no, my mistake, I remembered wrong—it's this one!" Sun Hengbiao hastily corrected himself, quick to read the room, and pointed at random to a man by the door. He would have loved to point at Wei Zhao, but alas, Wei Zhao had only been dragged in today; the guards would surely remember him, and he was a Nascent Soul expert stronger than Sun Hengbiao himself, so they would not take him at all. Pointing at him would be useless—and once the guards left, Wei Zhao would surely be the first to beat him to death!
Had Sun Hengbiao known that Wei Zhao was in truth only a mid-Golden Core expert, he would likely have burst into tears and wept himself unconscious in the latrine.
Reality was simply that cruel. A chance to perhaps easily dispose of Wei Zhao had come his way, and he had not treasured it; later, even if he regretted it, the chance would be gone. (To be continued...)