Chapter 101
Chapter 101
Wu Xiaojiu held up his fingers and explained it to the System point by point.
“He’s amazing, sure, but look at the era we’re in, look at the technology. No matter how amazing he is, he can’t outrun a shell. Europe is all about putting the ‘gun’ above all else, and this time he’s gone in alone. I’m not counting on him to work some miracle.”
Wu Xiaojiu scratched his ears and cheeks, but no matter how hard he thought, he couldn’t come up with a solution that satisfied both sides.
But he was already doing well.
Just now, when Bo Suihan had been in mortal danger, Wu Xiaojiu had not rashly charged in to throw his life away.
On that point alone,
the kid already had quite a bit of sense.
“Soldier King, are you still there? Your mic was full of noise just now. I heard glass and voices. Are you hurt? Do we need to break the door down right now?”
And right at that moment,
the walkie-talkie crackled to life.
Wu Xiaojiu’s eyes lit up. Although Bo Suihan had headed straight for the enemy’s lair alone, he had people behind him. Long Aotian’s assassins or whatever, those hundred thousand troops-some of them were still around!
He immediately reached out, picked up the walkie-talkie from the floor, and spoke into it in a rush. “Get in here, quick. The Soldier King has already been taken. I have something to tell you.”
Before he had even finished speaking, the door was kicked open.
A man wearing a large cloak and carrying an extraordinary bearing charged in. With a gun in hand, he aimed it straight at Wu Xiaojiu without a word and was about to attack.
“You can’t even tell friend from foe? What the hell! Put that down! Do you still want your Soldier King or not?”
Wu Xiaojiu hurriedly raised his hands. The man was clearly frantic too, but when he heard Wu Xiaojiu’s familiar voice, he realized this was the person who had just told him to come in over the walkie-talkie.
After hesitating again and again, he lowered the gun in his hand.
“Where is the Soldier King? And who are you?”
But the wariness in the man’s eyes did not fade. Wu Xiaojiu trembled as he got to his feet, both legs prickling with numbness. Hugging his shoulders, he pointed out the window and said, “Taken away.”
The man’s eyes lit up like an electric cannon suddenly connected to power. Without another word, he rushed toward the window. Wu Xiaojiu only lost focus for a second, and half the man’s body was already hanging out.
Wu Xiaojiu quickly reached out to grab him. If he hadn’t, the man probably would have jumped from a window hundreds of feet above the ground.
When he was hauled back in, the man looked displeased. He craned his neck and roared at Wu Xiaojiu.
“Are you a traitor? The Soldier King is in danger. Fine, you won’t go save him, but why are you stopping me? Don’t worry about me. Even if I’m smashed to pieces, I have to die at the Soldier King’s side!”
Wu Xiaojiu could see that he really was loyal, and also that he really was a reckless idiot. Fury surged up in him. He pointed at the man’s forehead and jabbed, jabbed, jabbed, jabbed, his voice sharp with anger.
“Are you even dumber than Han Qianduo? Have you thought about what floor this is? They must have used some special method to climb up here. Since the Soldier King was captured by them, he was definitely moved somewhere else immediately. What, you think the Soldier King is still hanging in midair waiting for you to jump down and save him? Can you stop talking about dying every single day and say something auspicious for once?”
The man shrank under the scolding, looking both cowed and unconvinced.
“Then tell me where the Soldier King is now. As long as you give me the address, I’ll take my brothers and smash their lair. I refuse to believe that no matter how heaven-defying their abilities are, they can beat our crew!”
That question really stumped Wu Xiaojiu. He touched his chin, then his nose, then his hand.
In the end, all he answered with was, “Mm.”
“What does ‘mm’ mean? The Soldier King is in extreme danger right now. Every minute and second we waste is the best rescue window slipping away. Are you going to tell me or not? If you don’t, I’ll shoot you with this gun.”
Wu Xiaojiu took a deep breath and pressed a hand to his throbbing temple. He carefully searched through the information in his mind while reaching out to stop the man from moving, and at the same time tried to placate him. “Shut up first and let me think. Those people showed up too suddenly. There was no news of them before. My brain isn’t some super UFO, you know. I need a moment to think.”
The man glared at him through gritted teeth, but there was nothing he could do except pace back and forth through the room with his gun in hand.
“System, is there any way for me to quickly find out Bo Suihan’s exact location?”
“Now that you mention it, there really is! But you’ll need to complete a side quest first.”
“Are you insane, or am I insane? This guy is about to lose his mind. If I tell him I’m stepping out to do a side quest so I can get news on the Soldier King, and then we can all head out to look for him, won’t he be in such a rush that he shoots me with his gun?”
Wu Xiaojiu screamed internally, but when the System heard that, it could only say there was nothing it could do.
“If you don’t do the quest, how am I supposed to give you a reward? Though there is technically one special channel for obtaining rewards, but the price is huge.”
“What price? As long as it doesn’t hurt my family or harm innocent strangers-even if it means screwing myself over-I’ll accept it. I’ll take the loss.”
There really was no other way. Wu Xiaojiu’s final words came out in the tiniest voice. Seeing that he had made up his mind, the System half-reluctantly told him the answer.
“Unless we wipe out all your current conquest progress. Bo Suihan’s affection toward you won’t change, but while his affection is at ninety-nine percent, you’ll need to make him fall one hundred percent in love with you all over again. Only then will the conquest count as complete after the reward is exchanged.”
The System sounded especially strained over those last few words, but Wu Xiaojiu only thought about it for an instant. Practically without hesitation, he nodded and agreed at once.
“Then that one. Bo Suihan is handsome, has a good character, and is well-endowed. Even if I had to conquer him for the rest of my life, I wouldn’t exactly be suffering.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the System quietly piped up in his mind.
“Well-endowed? Do you mean what I think you mean?”
“I meant he’s generous! I typed the wrong word in my head, okay?!”
That furious roar made the System realize they could not drag this out any longer. With no other choice, it immediately exchanged the reward for him.
Wu Xiaojiu only felt a tingling, aching sensation spread through his entire body. Then the System gave him a location.
“He’s at an abandoned aquarium on the outskirts of Moscow, shut down after a gas leak!”
The moment Wu Xiaojiu received the information, he snapped back to himself and shouted at the man, “You need to leave with me right now! There’s no time. He’s alone and outnumbered-he won’t be able to hold out for long!”
The man looked at him. A moment ago, he had been so anxious he could barely stand still, but now he did not move at all.
Wu Xiaojiu realized something was off with him and bounced in place while pointing toward the door.
“Hurry up and call the main force! Let’s go!”
The man silently shook his head at him.
“Are you a spy for the enemy? You didn’t say a word before, then you zoned out for a while and suddenly knew the Soldier King’s whereabouts? Is this a trick to lure us away from our base?”
Good kid, he had a brain. He was just using it in completely the wrong place.
Wu Xiaojiu was so anxious he felt like he was about to burst into flames. He could not care about anything else and went up to drag the man along.
“Just move already! You’re acting like you’ve got something wrong with you every single day. I’m the Soldier King’s family member. He was protecting me earlier. I pieced this together from what he told me, so move it! Any later and we won’t make it!”
And in truth, there really was no other option.
Bo Suihan had vanished without a word.
They had no way of knowing who the other side was.
Right now, the only lead they could act on was Wu Xiaojiu. If they did not listen to him, they truly had no clues left.
The man had no choice. He made a phone call, and the top ten assassins of Assassin Pavilion set out for Moscow together with a hundred thousand soldiers.