Chapter 4402 — A Delicate Balance
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Conversely, if this present human experiment—so utterly critical—could be made a success, then the organization would from that point stand in an unassailable position; it could shatter the balance in a single stroke. By then Wei Zhao would have no time and no chance to grow at all—the great war would be over before it began, and the matter long since settled.
"Bring Wang Dayuan and Ma Tian in. This time there has been a mishap, but the human experiment must still go on," Miss Luan instructed.
The mysterious man nodded, and at once called in Wang Dayuan and Ma Tianlang, who had been waiting outside.
"Miss Luan," Wang Dayuan and Ma Tianlang called out respectfully. The two were still trembling with fear, treading as though on thin ice.
Though Ma Tianlang had, in a flash of desperate wit, dragged Sun Hengbiao out, and it had seemed to quell this superior's anger, still—to serve a ruler was to serve a tiger. Who knew what Miss Luan was really thinking? If she had truly set her heart on making an example of them, the two of them would hardly escape death.
"You two—how big a mess this time is, I need not say again, do I?" Miss Luan said, her face expressionless. "Because we failed to obtain the infant ginseng, our experiment has been hard going from the start. Now we are at the critical stage, and suddenly so many test subjects have run off—the whole progress of the experiment will be greatly delayed along with them!"
"Miss Luan, we know our fault! We will go catch them and bring them back right now—we guarantee the experiment's progress will not be delayed!" Wang Dayuan and Ma Tianlang flung themselves to their knees in a flurry, beating their chests in pledge. If they did not hurry and do something to atone for their crimes, and Miss Luan should settle accounts after the autumn harvest, their fates would be very uncertain indeed.
This time they truly had been pushed to desperation. Just now, outside, Wang Dayuan and Ma Tianlang had privately discussed it between themselves: they were prepared to go out and seize people with their own hands. With their strength as Xuan Sheng stage experts, snatching a few Golden Core stage experts would be child's play—so long as there was a suitable target, catching a few dozen at a go would be no trouble at all.
They would never have dared do such a thing before, lest they rouse suspicion; ordinarily they had to find some pretext that would not draw too much notice—like those people who had been locked up in the dungeon before.
But now, driven to desperation, there was no help for it. The human experiment was sorely short of subjects, and if they delayed too long, there was no guaranteeing Miss Luan would not fly into a rage. Of two evils, choose the lesser—so they could only take a bit of a risk.
"Hold on. Are you two idiots or brain-damaged?" Miss Luan frowned.
"Huh?" Wang Dayuan and Ma Tianlang froze at once, staring at each other.
"Hmph. All told, over a hundred Golden Core stage experts have already been seized here in the Demon Cold Sea. The waters of the Southern Continent are notorious for their chaos—even if a few were killed in broad daylight, no one would lift a finger. But over time, have you never considered that it might rouse the suspicion of the other great powers? Going out now to seize people in great numbers—do you still think the mess you have made is not big enough?" Miss Luan looked at the two of them with the expression of one regarding utter fools.
"Well..." Wang Dayuan and Ma Tianlang's mouths twitched. Their minds had been fixed solely on how to atone for their crimes—so long as they could slip past this hurdle with Miss Luan, who the hell cared whether those powers got suspicious or not!
In their eyes, all these so-called great powers could only throw their weight around locally. Before the center, where experts gathered like clouds, what were they but nothing! (To be continued...)