Chapter 4729 — Winning Hearts
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A moment ago the braided man had still been cackling coldly, but then a laser beam flashed, and in the next instant his entire head evaporated into thin air. The scene was so grotesque and bloody that even Scarface, a mountain bandit chief to whom murder and arson were everyday business, was struck dumb. Every last person drew a sharp breath and for a long while could not utter a single word.
Scarface had been wary of the brat before this, but never in his wildest dreams had he imagined the young man could be this terrifying. By the looks of it, he was not a hair inferior to the armored man!
How could he know that this had nothing to do with real strength? Even an ordinary child, so long as he could operate a laser cannon, could cut men down like grass.
"Who's next?!" Xu Lingchong leveled the laser cannon at the crowd, his face murderous, and instantly sent the whole pack scrambling with their hands over their heads, the scene descending into utter chaos.
Seeing that Xu Lingchong's eye seemed to have fallen on him, Scarface broke out in a cold sweat. In his panic he leapt forward and bellowed, "You blind fools! You'd dare provoke even a master of this caliber? If you're dead, you deserved it! Didn't I tell you to treat these two gentlemen properly? Is your skull stuffed with shit, that you can't remember something this important?!"
With that, Scarface turned and, his face wreathed in fawning smiles, said cautiously to Xu Lingchong, "Young hero, a great man does not hold a petty man's faults against him. It is all my failure to discipline them, letting these good-for-nothing idiots cause you trouble. How about I find you a place to rest your feet? I have some top-grade spirit tea—consider it my apology."
Scarface's skill at changing faces rather stunned Xu Lingchong. Since the man had voluntarily backed down, he naturally would not press the kill to the bitter end; after all, the fellow was a genuine peak early-stage Xuan Sheng expert. Even with the laser cannon, that instrument of mass slaughter, in his hands, without intelligent armor to shield him, his heart still quailed at the thought of facing an opponent of that caliber.
Otherwise, Xu Lingchong would not earlier have been frightened off by Huo Yudie, a mere Yuanying consummation cultivator. Being able to bluff Scarface now was already the best outcome he could have hoped for.
"No need. I'm in a hurry to be on my way," Xu Lingchong declined at once. He was terrified the man might see through him—how would he dare linger in a place like this? With that, he dragged Kang Jingming off without another word.
"Of course, of course, this way, please!" Scarface hastily stepped aside, and the rest of his underlings and lackeys likewise scrambled to clear a path, respectfully watching Xu Lingchong and his companion out of sight.
Xu Lingchong hauled Kang Jingming straight for the teleportation array without a moment's pause. On the other side, by contrast, Huo Yudie, likewise carrying the barely breathing Wei Zhao on her back, proceeded with the utmost caution, glancing behind her at every step, choosing wherever possible the paths they had taken on the way in, so as to minimize the risk.
That, however, slowed her considerably. After all, she did not have a top-tier weapon of mass destruction like the laser cannon; on the road, whatever she ran into, one blast would have settled it.
The whole way, at the slightest rustle of wind or stir of grass, Huo Yudie was trembling with fear, treading as if on thin ice. It was not that she was timid—the crux was that Wei Zhao's condition was far too precarious. He truly could not withstand the slightest mishap now.