Chapter 1354: The Confrontation at the Exit
Si Kongchen leaned on the back of the chair and said, “Professor Bai has been in a bad mood these days. So, when I suggested doing so, he didn’t object. I guess he has no mood to think about this.”
“When do you plan to take action?” Wei Haichao asked.
Si Kongchen replied with a scornful look in his eyes, “Let’s first wait for the news from underground. I thought Xie Longyun would last longer down there and be helpful, yet she died so soon and wasted that precious drug.”
Wei Haichao looked at him as he stayed silent for two seconds and then said, “Weren’t you confident in her? How come she failed the job so soon?”
That was like a slap on his face.
Si Kongchen gave him a glance and said, “Reasonably speaking, she wouldn’t die so easily even if she failed to kill that woman. She might have encountered some kind of accident, I guess. We don’t know what happened down there. Professor Bai has said that humans should not set foot in that place.”
Wei Haichao nodded quietly.
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Li Zheng and the other two safely returned to the earth’s surface, all sighing with relief as they finally saw the sunlight. However, a few groups of people were waiting near the exit. As Li Zheng and the two showed up, those people immediately fixed their eyes on them.
A few seconds after Li Zheng and the two crawled out of the howl, they suddenly sprung up together.
Bang! Bang! Bang! A series of gunshots were heard and a few bullets sank into the ground. The bullets would have hit them if they didn’t jump up to dodge.
“Who is it!” Li Zheng gave a growl as he landed on a tree nearby, staring where the bullets came from with a cold look.
“Don’t push it too far! We are still here! What do you want!” Another voice was heard.
Li Zheng turned to find Xiao Licheng and his men near the shooters, so he immediately leaped off the tree and moved toward them.
“Oh, don’t get us wrong. We just want to offer this mister here some tea,” said a man, who was obviously the shooter.
Li Zheng saw the shooters and recognized the one talking in a bland tone as Li Yuelong, one of the Deputy Chiefs in Huaxia Base. He sounded as if he and his men didn’t fire their weapons at all.
By offering some tea, he was simply trying to get the first-hand information from the underground world. Huaxia Base wanted to be the first one to get the information and didn’t want the others to get it.
They fired their guns in front of everyone else on the scene. Clearly, they didn’t tend to pretend to be friends with Sea City Base people.
Xiao Licheng gave a cold smile and said, “I’m sorry, they’re with us. Since you guys don’t want cooperation, you should wait for your own people to bring out the message. We’re not gonna share information with you guys, bye.”
After saying that, he and his men turned to leave. But of course, Huaxia Base people wouldn’t let them go so easily.
“Stop! We are acting together now. We surely have the right to know what they know as well! You people have no right to hold the information to yourselves!” Li Yuelong wielded an arm. Following his move, his men quickly barred the road before Xiao Licheng and his people.
Li Zheng said coldly, “Acting together? Why don’t I know about that? We had agreed to act separately before we went down. So, what do we have to do with you guys?”
After saying that, he turned and said to Xiao Licheng, “Let’s go!”
In the next moment, all Huaxia people on the scene pointed their guns at them, not ready to let them go at all.
“No one is going anywhere today. Since you don’t want to come with us, we have no choice but to kill you. I still want to suggest you to just come with us though. After all, if we start a battle here, you people will have no chance to win. Isn’t that right?” said Li Yuelong with a cold voice.
He was merely a level-six superpower possessor himself, but he currently had a strong force under his command. Currently, tens of superpower possessors at levels four and five had barred Xiao Licheng’s way, and there were even more standing behind him.
Xiao Licheng had tens of people under his lead, but not all of them had superpowers. Moreover, the superpower possessors in his team were at relatively lower levels.
If there were indeed a battle to fight, the superpowers and weapons possessed by those Huaxia people would put the Sea City Base people on the scene into a disadvantage.
However, neither did Xiao Licheng nor Li Zheng was worried about that. Li Zheng made eye contact with the former and turned back to Li Yuelong as he said calmly, “Are Huaxia Base people allowed to do anything you want? Do you think that we’re afraid of you?”
As the atmosphere grew tenser and tenser, as if the fight were about to begin, a girl suddenly joined the conversation, “Ahyaya, what is happening here? I hate to say this, but you Huaxia People really like to solve problems by brandis.h.i.+ng your guns. You seem confident about your weapons!”
The people turned to find a doll-faced girl with long and curly hair standing on a tree nearby, with one hand holding the tree and the other resting on her waist as she looked at those Huaxia people and talked with a scornful tone. Behind her, were a group of people standing in straight lines, all wearing sungla.s.ses.
“I thought Green Mountain Base people wouldn’t show up until we made a move. Aren’t you being a little too impatient?” Li Yuelong first scanned Ye Yingyue’s face and body with her eyes and then said with a meaningful smile.
Ye Yingyue shrugged and said with an unfriendly tone, “You should thank me for stopping you, because if I didn’t, you and your men would suffer. Do you understand?”
The strong scornfulness delivered by her words displeased Li Yuelong. He pulled a long face as he glared at the girl and said, “B*tch, how dare you look down on us?”
Ye Yingyue looked at him with confusion and said, “What do you mean? Are you guys super strong? Oh, yeah, you do have a little more people than we do.”
“Yeah, you’re right. We’ve outnumbered your people! It seems that you really would like to know what might happen to you when you challenge us. I’ll let you give it a try then,” Li Yuelong stared at her and said viscously as he waved a hand. Following his move, the people behind him immediately turned their guns and fired at Ye Yingyue and her men.
Bang! Bang! Bang! As the gunshots were heard, the people who had Xiao Licheng’s way blocked pulled the triggers as well. Of course, Xiao Licheng and his men reacted swiftly by jumping away.
At that very moment, two figures flashed over from a distance away. The two of them had been observing the confrontation from a hill about two miles away from the exit of the underground world.