Chapter 4289 — If You Won't Pay, Then Leave
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Chang Daoping's mouth twitched. He was choked speechless for a good while. Strip them of every valuable thing on their persons, and they called that a toll? Robbery was robbery—did they have to dress it up in such lofty words? Had spirit beasts really grown this cunning nowadays?
"What? You really won't pay? Fine, then. Turn around and go back to your sightseeing. Don't dawdle here!" The two azure-robed men's expressions were beginning to show impatience.
Cao Shishi, Luo Tuoxiang, and the rest all turned their eyes to Chang Daoping. Whether to go or stay was not a decision any of them could make alone; they could only look to Chang Daoping for his judgment.
But either way, being made to hand over not only the Star Ink Milk but every valuable thing on their persons—that would leave anyone sick with frustration.
The group was unwilling, and naturally Chang Daoping was unwilling too. He turned on his heel and walked off. Since the other side had put it that way, at least one thing was certain: they probably would not strike rashly. That was the only good news to be had at present.
Cao Shishi and the others were startled for a moment, then followed Chang Daoping toward the entrance, each of them uneasy at heart. From what the two azure-robed men had just said, if the group kept wandering about inside the ruins, they ought not to interfere.
But that was the trouble—it was no use. Even if they found ever so many treasures in the ruins, there was simply no way they could carry them out.
Because the moment they tried to leave, every treasure on them would be stripped away by the two azure-robed men, not one piece left behind. That was nothing but a waste of time—and the greater the gains, the more it would hurt.
Such an obvious problem could not have escaped Chang Daoping. A sudden thought stirred in Wei Zhao's mind: could it be he meant to get out by some other route?
"Oh, that's right—one thing I forgot to remind you of." At that moment the azure-robed man behind them spoke up again.
The whole group started as one, thinking the man meant to go back on his word after all, and one by one they turned their uneasy faces toward the two azure-robed men.
"There's only one way out of here: this teleportation array. Every other exit has been sealed shut, the Moon Shadow Array included. Now it lets you in but not out." The azure-robed man's face was full of mockery as he gave a harsh, cackling laugh. "Not that you could even find where the Moon Shadow Array is—and supposing you did, only someone with spirit beast blood could pass through it. Do you have any?"
At these words, Chang Daoping's face fell at once. Just as Wei Zhao had guessed, he had indeed been counting on leaving through the Moon Shadow Array. Even though he still did not know how to break out of it from within, he had after all studied the Moon Shadow Array for some time, and it was not as though he could find no thread to grasp at all.
That route would be far more troublesome than the teleportation array, but at least he would not be picked clean like this—and there was still a fair margin of time. Yet with one casual sentence, the azure-robed man had shattered that fine fantasy of his. (To be continued..)