Chapter 292
"They guessed right." Having just used Qiu Pang, Patrick generously decided to give Qiu Pang a little something in return.
"I was indeed one of the people who filled in the gaps, but of the nineteen people they mentioned, I'm only sure that four of them are openly on my side; I'm not sure about those behind the scenes."
"As for the other fifteen, they might be related to a few people in Class 6, or they might be related to Qin Su himself. After all, whether they are related to Qin Su or Class 6, they might know Qin Su's movements in advance, which would make it easier to quickly place people in his place. Apart from these people who can know the news in advance, we cannot rule out people like me who just sensed something was wrong and immediately joined the looting operation."
"There's another type," Qiu Pang listened attentively, but before Patrick could hit the nail on the head, she added quietly, "Like me, someone who can get involved in everything and is popular everywhere."
Interests are fluid; you can't really draw a clear line until the very end. Qiu Pang didn't know if Patrick thought the same way about him, so he decided to be frank and say it directly.
Patrick: "..."
He didn't say that because he was afraid Qiu Pang would overthink it and think he was being sarcastic. He didn't expect Qiu Pang to be so nonchalant.
"... I'm sorry." Patrick apologized for deliberately exposing Qiu Pang to the group in Class 6. "Among those who move among various factions, you are the most well-known and the most valuable. You are the best candidate to test whether anyone in Class 6 is impatient or prone to causing dissent."
He didn't want traitors to emerge and cause even greater losses when he finally united with other planets, so he could only secretly use Qiu Pang as a litmus test.
Qiu Pang said nonchalantly, "You see, to be honest, I don't really mind."
In layman's terms, he is currently the most hated person. The only people who know he is alive are his own men, who need an antidote every seven days and whose lives and families are in his hands, so they dare not betray him. The only other people who know he is alive are Patrick and Class 6. If he is Assassination, it must be someone from Class 6 who leaked the news.
"You're busy, so I won't bother you any longer." Having achieved his goal, Qiu Pang wisely took the initiative to leave.
Based on his past experience, the more candid he was, the more guilty Patrick felt, and the more compensation he would give him afterward.
With the tug-of-war over, Patrick breathed a sigh of relief. He turned on his Optical Brain, searched for Qiu Pang's name in a long list, and decided to escalate the situation. Forget about feelings; anything that could be exchanged for benefits was irrelevant.
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Setini Palace.
"Enough!" Kanasen's body was already weakened by Qin Su's torment, and after only about twenty minutes, he was panting like a bull, his forehead covered in sweat from the heat and exhaustion. He pleaded with the group confronting him for a ceasefire, "How about we cooperate?"
Everyone here had witnessed countless hellish scenes. Twenty minutes after Qin Su left, they joined forces to attack him, attempting to tear and devour his flesh and blood and seize his weapons.
Fortunately, for some reason, Qin Su gave him control of some of the weapons here when he left.
Even so, in a one-against-many situation, the vast majority of the "many" were not from Military District like Greyliff and his group. They were physically strong thanks to various cutting-edge technologies and medications, far surpassing his current physical capabilities. His control over the weapons was only enough to keep others at a distance and prevent them from truly threatening his life.
The temperature was already high, and the air was filled with the Pheromones left by the fierce battle. He couldn't bear the oppressive force caused by so many high-level Alphas releasing Pheromones together, and his head was throbbing. Fortunately, the others were in the same condition as him.
He didn't want to kill too many people at once. If Qin Su wasn't done playing around, and he killed all the unarmed people below this time, he might be the one killed by Qin Su in the next live stream. He hadn't forgotten that Qin Su said "keep up the good work" before leaving, which meant there was a high probability that there would be more live streams. He had to keep these people around to protect him. It would be best to maintain peace without fighting.
[You wouldn't believe it, would you? Once everyone released their Pheromones, they found their levels were basically the same. Not only could no one subdue anyone, but it also only made things more difficult for everyone else. It was a case of hurting the enemy a thousand and hurting yourself a thousand. It made me laugh out loud.]
[I get it now, the higher the Pheromone level, the more ruthless they are]
[This is putting the cart before the horse. It's clearly because they are outlaws from the start. Even if they were born betas, they can become top-tier Alphas through ruthlessness, making ordinary people with high-level Pheromones their storage vault for their use.]
[Vision sprayed several Perfumes haphazardly together, trying to outdo each other, and it really smelled awful. No wonder they looked so uncomfortable; they must have been suffocated by the stench, hahaha.]
"Heh." Greyliff couldn't help but sneer, looking up at the seemingly normal Electronic Eyes around him. Enduring the abnormally high temperature and the intense, manic Pheromones, veins bulged on his forehead. "So, tell me, how do you plan to cooperate?"
He didn't care what others thought; Greyliff just had a gut feeling that Qin Su wouldn't kill him until the very last moment. Qin Su must also know very well that, given his temperament, he wouldn't allow himself to die at the hands of anyone other than Qin Su.
Qin Su deliberately kept him alive, intending to torment him until the very last moment.
Only Kanasen had weapons. Whether he could persuade Kanasen to give him the weapons to attack Qin Su and force Qin Su to kill him, or he could have these people die quickly so that it would be Qin Su's turn to point his gun at him and hasten his death, it was all he desired.
No matter how much he tries to sow discord between this group and Kanasen, he won't lose out.
"Ceasefire," Kanasen said immediately. "I will not use my weapons against you, and you should cease your attacks on me..."
Greyliff interrupted rudely, "So, you can use our lives to satisfy Qin Su's bloodlust during his subsequent live stream, thereby prolonging your life?"
Upon hearing this, the others were jolted, their fighting spirit, which had temporarily subsided, was reignited, and they stared intently at Kanasen.
They remembered clearly that more than twenty minutes earlier, when Qin Su left, he made the aiming dot on his forehead disappear, enjoying their disappointed expressions, and said that thanks to them, today's live stream was very successful. He hoped they would keep up the good work, which was enough to prove that there would be more live streams of inexplicable hunting down them like today.
They had no way out; resistance would likely mean death, but not resisting would certainly mean death. Their only chance was to take advantage of Qin Su's absence, or even if he saw them in other ways, he would still choose to be arrogant and not stop them, in order to increase their bargaining power when they resisted.
Just as Greyliff was about to reignite the fight with a few words, before Kanasen could even curse Greyliff, a group of people who had only recently rested began to surround him again.
"I... I..." Kanasen's curses were drowned out by screams and the sound of shells.
Kanasen's eyes turned bloodshot as he watched helplessly as his Ghosts died one by one.
He's going to kill that troublemaker Greyliff right now!
Greyliff was well aware of the consequences of his actions. He used the human walls to dodge and fish in troubled waters, making it appear as if he was actively moving towards Kanasen, while pretending to be forced to retreat by artillery fire, thus causing even more deaths.
Separated by a wall, Qin Su would occasionally glance at the surveillance footage of the fierce battle and infighting next door.
Having witnessed his methods, Kanasen knew there was no way he would hand over the weapon to anyone else; he only wanted to prolong his own death. During the year-long ordeal he had been in, he even had the fantasy that Carnarson wouldn't kill him, and his mind was filled with the idea of having the kidnapped person take the bullet for him.
The hostages, however, were desperately trying to find a way to survive.
The two sides have a natural conflict of positions, and he is not worried at all that this killing, which is being 'digested internally,' will stop.
Aside from him, the only people present were those who were destined to die sooner or later. With the setup from the previous live stream, and now that the live stream was shut down, no one would know the truth behind this massacre.
But when people see corpses strewn all over the ground, they will speculate whether he was responsible for the scene of dismembered bodies.
With a conflict of interest at stake, he only needed to assess the hostages' physical condition based on his monitoring of their health over the past few years, allocate the appropriate time and resources, and hasten their deaths without personally getting involved too much. He could gain a bad reputation among the group's 'friends and family' and those with vested interests, while also earning a good reputation among the vast majority of ordinary people who were troubled by this group.
Watching the increasing number of corpses fall and the growing exhaustion of those still alive, Qin Su silently turned up the temperature and humidity in Kanasen's office.
Want to rest? No way.
The students of Class 6) have been released from the Atopulai Palace by Patrick. This is a path to success that he tailored for the students of Class 6). He absolutely cannot let it drag on for too long. If Patrick, in the name of his Federation President, unites all the planets and steals the moment of glory that belongs to Class 6), he must speed up.
Patrick wanted all the hostages dead anyway. Although he manually sped things up by a billion points to prevent Patrick from uniting with other planets to lead the annihilation, the details didn't matter. As long as they were all dead, there was nothing wrong with that.
Another ten minutes passed. Kanasen's mental and physical condition was already poor, and his available weapons and ammunition were limited. He dared not launch a reckless and indiscriminate bombardment. In addition to the weapons in his hands, Qin Su had also disabled the automatic aiming and firing permissions of the weapons on the wall behind him. He could only fire manually while relying on the Optical Brain to manually control the accuracy of the weapons above and around him. At his age, his mental reaction was already slow, and with the Optical Brain's calibration speed decreasing, his accuracy became worse and worse. He was once again grateful that Greyliff and the others had no weapons and relied entirely on manpower, which allowed him to maintain the situation where he could not break through the defenses.
In a daze, Kanasen heard someone below shout "Stop!" in a hoarse, angry voice. He then saw many people seem to be affected by this disheartened voice, and their attacks gradually subsided until they completely stopped.
During the attack on Kanasen, everyone's adrenaline surged, accompanied by the impact of residual Pheromones, making them largely unaware of their surroundings. However, as soon as they stopped, they immediately noticed the abnormal temperature.