Chapter 4389 — Most Peculiar
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Because of his relative strength, Sun Hengbiao had always made a point of not provoking him, and naturally he never went out of his way to provoke Sun Hengbiao either. But this newcomer was a vicious fiend who had beaten Sun Hengbiao into such a sorry state in a single exchange—clearly all the more unapproachable. Faced with Wei Zhao's question, he dared not be the least bit negligent.
"Oh? Then that is rather strange..." Wei Zhao could not help frowning.
He had heard a little about human experimentation. It was much like conducting scientific experiments: whatever the purpose, in order to find the most effective method, one generally selected a great many human samples, and those samples had to cover every conceivable stratum. There was no reason Nascent Soul experts alone should be excluded.
Unless the scope of the Zhongshu Merchants' Guild's human experimentation did not include Nascent Soul experts at all, but was aimed specifically at Golden Core experts!
Hearing Sun Hengbiao's words, the rest of the dungeon's occupants were thrown into panic. Apart from the blue-robed Nascent Soul man, every one of them was a Golden Core expert—did that not mean that sooner or later they too would be dragged out for this so-called human experimentation?
Everyone knew it could not possibly be anything good; otherwise the Zhongshu Merchants' Guild would never have seized them and locked them up here. Perhaps once the so-called human experimentation was done, they would not even leave a whole corpse behind. Every last soul present was nothing but a pig fattened for the slaughter.
"I've been muddling along here a long time, never causing them any trouble, and on top of that I've got everyone in this dungeon well in hand. So they just turn a blind eye to me..." Sun Hengbiao said, rather pleased with himself.
Trapped in this sunless dungeon as he was, he could hardly compare with the free and merry life outside—but to find a sense of superiority among these people was, after all, a rare sort of psychological comfort.
Wei Zhao did not find his words surprising. To manage a prison full of cultivators, one needed not only strict surveillance but also a compliant prison boss to help keep the inmates in check. An existence like Sun Hengbiao was no bad thing for the guards outside—on the contrary, they were glad to see it.
"So that means the other Golden Core experts were all taken away?" Wei Zhao asked thoughtfully.
"Yes. Everyone who came before me has been taken, and plenty who came after me too." Sun Hengbiao nodded, swept his gaze over the rest of the dungeon's occupants, and threatened with ill intent, "As for these people—it's only a matter of time for them too. Heh heh..."
The crowd could not help shrinking back their necks in fear. Even Lu Bianren, usually so composed, was visibly flustered. However strong an expert might be, they could never change their—
Yet Wei Zhao, himself a Golden Core expert, felt little worry at this moment. For one thing, he knew what human experimentation actually entailed; for another, compared with everyone else present, his strength was greater, and so his confidence ran deeper. He was sure he could handle whatever threats came his way.
"Apart from all that, what else do you know?" Wei Zhao pressed on. Since this Sun Hengbiao had been here longer than anyone, he must surely know the most.