He Kao’s pace didn’t change, still moving forward leisurely, when suddenly a snake darted out from the grass!
In fact, it was a rope. If it were soone else, they might have been startled or jumped in place, but this rope could not only fly but also wrap around things.
He Kao did not make any extraneous movents. His foot stepped forward onto the rope, and a wave of force spread out like a blast, scattering clods of earth and weeds.
The rope, as if alive, curled its ends trying to ensnare his legs but then fell feebly to the ground. He Kao simply walked over it.
On the open ground, Lan Jiwan had already fallen to the ground, rolled over, and was struggling to sit up with her hands.
When He Kao stepped on the rope, Lan Jiwan happened to be struck by a ga piece.
She had used her trekking pole to deflect a cannonball, but her back took a heavy hit. The last knight, appearing from nowhere, struck her, making it feel as if she had been kicked.
There was no breaking of bones, but her entire body trembled violently, as if in a martial arts novel where soone is acupressure-pointed, causing her Divine Qi to circulate poorly and her limbs to lose control, rendering her almost powerless.
Lan Jiwan could no longer control the rope and struggled to roll over, still trying to sit up and face Huo Qing, but her arms couldn’t lift her body.
Lan Jiwan watched the man wearing an eyepatch, walking towards her like a demon, trying hard to suppress her terror, but her expression grew more frantic and uneasy.
Her upper body had just risen halfway when she suddenly fell back again, propping herself up with her elbows on the ground, half leaning and half saying, "You, what do you want to do to ?"
She wore a lightweight, breathable quick-dry jacket, and with such huge movents and impacts earlier, the zipper had burst open. In this heat, besides her underwear, she wore nothing underneath.
Her waist was slender, and her sports bra was ultra-thin ice silk with no padding, not overly ample, but perfectly shaped for the palms to grasp.
She wore a mask, and yet maintained her reclined posture.
The seams of her pants had almost completely split, revealing her long legs, skin pale to the point of being bloodless, resembling exquisite porcelain.
He Kao: "This isn’t your ho, even if this hill is contracted to your family, just passing by isn’t illegal! We have no grievances or enmities and don’t know each other; you suddenly attack , so I’m curious, what do you want to do to ?"
As he spoke, his steps stopped five paces away, not moving closer, just looking down at Lan Jiwan from above.
Lan Jiwan didn’t reply, seemingly trying to curl her soft legs as best as she could, then asked shakily, "Who are you?"
He Kao: "You’ve clearly recognized , so why pretend you don’t know?"
Lan Jiwan knew she couldn’t play dumb and sweet. She had acted so decisively earlier that he couldn’t possibly believe she was innocent, so she spoke again with a terrified and uneasy tone, "Are you the Huo Qing that Ye Liangcheng ntioned?
I truly don’t know you, never seen your face or known your identity. Just now, I suddenly found a masked person here... I only acted to protect myself and didn’t intend to do anything to you."
He Kao: "I didn’t intend to do anything to you either, but you asked Ye Liangcheng so many questions last night, I want to ask you one question too."
Lan Jiwan: "What do you want to ask?"
He Kao: "Why didn’t you kill Ye Liangcheng?"
Lan Jiwan seed frightened and replied shakily: "Do you want to kill him?"
He Kao: "I didn’t want you to kill him, I just want to know why you killed another person without saying a word, but spared Ye Liangcheng?"
Lan Jiwan retorted: "Why should I kill Ye Liangcheng?"
He Kao: "Alright, let ask another question, why did you kill Gao Chenshu, also known as Redwood?"
Lan Jiwan bit her lip: "Because he deserves to die!"
As she spoke, she propped her body up with her elbows, writhing and slowly creeping backward, as if it was a subconscious reaction of fear, trying to distance herself from He Kao.
Perhaps due to the ground’s friction, her movents caused her jacket to slide open, exposing a shoulder... even more tantalizing.
He Kao seed unaware of her small movents, still standing in place without advancing, hands behind his back, calmly saying: "Ye Liangcheng already told you everything he knows, yet you don’t believe him."
Lan Jiwan: "I don’t dare to trust anyone!"
He Kao laughed. The Hidden Moth Gauze he wore was quite peculiar, obscuring not only his facial features but also his body shape in Divine Sense perception, making even his expression unclear.
But Lan Jiwan knew he was laughing.
He Kao: "You may not trust anyone, not even yourself for the illusions you see or hear, but you must unravel the fog and seek the truth. Ye Liangcheng has given you enough clues, you can investigate.
The Magic Sect and Technique have been around since ancient tis. If you’ve never heard of them or known where to look, you now have more than enough information.
The Huiming Shi Family is the fifth-generation Sorcerer Family of the Micro Realm Sect. You’ve seen the investigation and disposal report from the Ancestral Hall; you can verify it. If after verifying, you still find it unreliable, then that’s simply hubris!"
Lan Jiwan: "Hubris?"
He Kao continued to laugh: "Are you the progeny of the Creator God? Is the entire world, including all its people and events, made specifically to amuse you alone?
If you dare not believe, then verify. With your abilities, you certainly can!"
With those words, He Kao elegantly gestured, retracting the three chess pieces—car, horse, and cannon—and then turned to leave, his steps as leisurely as when he arrived.
Lan Jiwan was a bit dumbfounded. She unconsciously sat up—how could he just leave like that? How could he leave just like that!
In the magical combat earlier, he clearly won effortlessly, shouldn’t he say a few more words, do a few more things?
With Blue Magpie’s current cultivation skills, she is absolutely the strongest among Bitter Tea’s subordinates. But she wasn’t always this adept; during missions, she has experienced failure and defeat.
This is inevitable. Most of the tasks carried out by the team’s other mbers usually involve dealing with ordinary people, while every target she clears in missions almost certainly has cultivation powers.
Based on experience, if she failed, her opponents would imdiately use further ans to control her even more securely, and whatever actions followed would almost always include unmasking her.
This Huo Qing, however, clearly ca specifically for her, yet he didn’t even remove her mask. He didn’t check out her looks, nor did he search her belongings.
Not to ntion searching, Huo Qing didn’t even touch her. Besides stepping on that rope, he stood five paces away while speaking.
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