Chapter 4400 — The Informer
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In ordinary times, as the man in charge of this region, he would actually have had a fighting chance to pull the wool over their eyes. Unfortunately for him, the mysterious figure standing beside the woman was the organization's second-in-command on Cloud Terrace Island, and he had just happened to be in these waters carrying out a mission!
"You blithering idiot!" The woman swung her leg up and planted her foot squarely in Wang Dayuan's face, sending him flying. She was furious. Better a godlike enemy than a pig-brained subordinate—and Wang Dayuan was exactly that, an absolute pig of a man!
"Miss Luan, shall I clean house?" the mysterious man said evenly, his voice cold, killing intent rolling off him in waves.
Oh, hell! Wang Dayuan, sent sprawling by the kick, was terrified out of his wits—and Ma Tianlang, still kneeling in the room, was scared half to death, staring at the mysterious figure shrouded beneath the black cloak and bamboo hat until his eyes nearly bled. These people were dead serious!
The woman's gaze settled on the two of them, and she seemed to be of the same mind. Losing two Xuan Ascension experts was a crippling blow to any other power, but for their organization, it was nowhere near that grave.
If the woman so much as nodded, Wang Dayuan and Ma Tianlang would lose their heads on the spot. For all that they were Xuan Ascension experts, before this powerful organization, under the very nose of this mysterious man, they had no chance at all of slipping away—otherwise, this man would never have become the organization's number two on Cloud Terrace Island.
"W-wait! There's one more—still alive, never sent to the experiments!" Ma Tianlang suddenly blurted out, seizing on a flash of inspiration.
"Is that so?" The woman's face showed a flicker of doubt. Even Wang Dayuan, terrified as he was, felt a private jolt of astonishment; he assumed Ma Tianlang had simply made it up on the spot to save his skin, since he himself had not been in the Moleng Sea area when it happened. The one who had been calling the shots was his deputy, Ma Tianlang, and no one knew the details better than he did.
"It's—it's true! Among the people brought back, there's one at the Nascent Soul stage. He was no use for the human experiments, so he should still be locked up to this day," Ma Tianlang said hastily.
"Yes, yes, there is one—we've had that Nascent Soul fellow locked away for ages," Wang Dayuan chimed in, finally catching on, nodding frantically along.
"Then what are you waiting for? Bring him here! Do you two actually want to die? Can't you see Miss Luan is already furious?" The mysterious man beside the woman gave a cold snort.
"Yes, yes!" Wang Dayuan and Ma Tianlang dared not dawdle. Clutching at this last straw, they scrambled and stumbled out the door to fetch the man.
A short while later, the Nascent Soul expert they had spoken of was dragged in, his face a mask of terror—and who should it be but Sun Hengbiao!
As a Nascent Soul expert, he had in fact stood a far better chance of escaping than the Golden Core cultivators. Unfortunately, Wei Zhao had beaten him half to death earlier, leaving his strength severely diminished. He simply could not run fast, and on top of that he was a conspicuous target and rotten with bad luck—the very first guard to come racing back had marked him.
Hauled along by Wang Dayuan and Ma Tianlang, he stumbled into the room. After a furtive glance at the woman and the mysterious man, Sun Hengbiao dropped to his knees of his own accord with a thud. He was no fool; he knew one could throw one's weight around before ordinary folk, but before these people, the slightest hint of defiance was nothing but a death wish.
"Talk," the woman said, her tone unreadable. "How exactly was the dungeon breached?"