Chapter 5117 — The Undercover
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"Is that so? Then can you answer a question for me? Don't worry, it's not a secret matter of your Center's headquarters—it's just to satisfy my curiosity." Seeing the other man had not attacked outright, Wei Zhao asked, "If I hadn't appeared, how long would you have stayed undercover here?"
"A year. If a year of investigation turned up no substantive evidence, then he's clean. Of course, that's no longer necessary now. Once evidence is found, the undercover plan automatically converts to a purge plan." Mute grinned. He was in excellent spirits at the moment and did not mind answering such an inconsequential question. Besides, in his eyes everyone on this cruise ship branch—Wei Zhao and Dafeng-ge included—was already a pile of corpses. What need was there to hide anything from the dead?
At that, Wei Zhao and Dafeng-ge exchanged a glance, and Wei Zhao suddenly shook his head with some regret: "What a pity."
"A pity about what? A pity you're about to be buried at sea?" A hint of amusement showed on Mute's face. He was a fine early-stage Foundation Establishment expert, an invincible existence in this secular world, and he did not for a moment believe anyone here could escape his grasp.
"A pity I don't know soul-searching techniques. Otherwise I could probably learn quite a few useful things from you. Isn't that a pity?" Wei Zhao smiled as though it were nothing.
"You don't seriously think you can deal with me?" Mute was delighted at that, and sneered, "I don't know how you saw through my cultivation level, but that doesn't mean anything. There has never existed an expert in the secular world who could stand against Foundation Establishment—never before, and never again."
"Tsk tsk. There ought to be a limit to ignorance. These days the Primordial Alliance has burst onto the scene, and Foundation Establishment experts are everywhere—there are even Golden Core experts. You don't even know about something this big? Do you not read books or newspapers ordinarily? Ignorance kills, you know." Wei Zhao's face was full of earnest sincerity.
"That... how is that possible?!" Mute was instantly shocked. For the past half year he had done nothing but focus on his undercover work at Dafeng-ge's side; he had not done anything else at all, and as for the Primordial Alliance, he had never even heard of it.
"Anything is possible. In your next life, pay a little more attention." As Wei Zhao spoke, he suddenly swung a palm strike at him.
A dragon's roar rang out of thin air. Mute, greatly alarmed, hastily tried to leap off the ship and flee. In his eyes Wei Zhao was now unfathomable, and before he had figured out the man's true strength he dared not strike rashly. Even if Wei Zhao was stronger than him, it did not matter—so long as he escaped and carried word back to the Center's headquarters, the headquarters' own experts would come to deal with it. He only needed to save his own skin.
Unfortunately for him, from the moment Wei Zhao saw through him, all of it had been a fool's dream. With Wei Zhao's current strength, dealing with a Golden Core expert might be a stretch, but handling a peak Foundation Establishment cultivator of his own tier was no trouble at all. As for a mere early-stage Foundation Establishment expert like him—that really was just a matter of one palm strike. (To be continued.)