Sea Monster's Deal (Part 2)

Siren tapped his finger, and the document shot back to the desk, landing precisely where it had been.

Siren chuckled, "That's right, we're purchasing military-controlled goods. We're buying a large quantity, and the price is very low. But if I'm responsible for bringing Mr. Gu Xiechen's head to you, do you think a deal can be reached?"

Gu Juechen and Elder Wu were stunned. Gu Juechen sternly demanded, "Do you know where he is now?"

Siren smiled slyly, refusing to answer a single word. Elder Wu's eyes darted rapidly as he sized up Siren from head to toe, the fleshy growth on his brow glowing a dangerous shade of red.

Gu Juechen pondered for a moment, then resolutely declared, "Deal! But..."

Siren interrupted him, saying solemnly, "Within one month of Gu Group handing over all the equipment to us, I guarantee to present his head to Patriarch Gu. Of course, if Patriarch Gu is willing to spend a little extra, I can capture him alive and present him to you."

"Capture him alive?" Gu Juechen's eyes lit up. He asked urgently, "What do you want?"

Siren held up two fingers. "All equipment as per the document, plus thirty percent, with a ten percent price reduction. The extra payment will be wired to my account. Hmm, Gu Group receives a large Zakra Crystal quota from the military. I need one hundred cubic meters of Zakra Crystals!"

Elder Wu roared angrily, "Greedy! One hundred cubic meters of Zakra Crystals?"

Siren glanced at Elder Wu with a strange look. He suddenly chuckled lightly, "No wonder the Grand Elder of the Three Witch Sect is helping the Gu family seize power. It turns out you're an unregistered Realm Master with the Federal Special Management Committee! Tsk, tsk, I wonder what abilities your Realm possesses. Hehe, with the help of Gu Group, your Domain has expanded quite a bit, hasn't it?"

With a single remark, Siren exposed Elder Wu's secret. Elder Wu's face turned so dark it looked like ink was about to drip from it. The fleshy growth on his brow transformed into a blood-red eye, three and a half inches long, opening and closing. Elder Wu stood up with a sinister laugh. The conference room filled with a strange, malevolent energy. Everyone who saw the giant blood-red eye on Elder Wu's brow felt as if their very souls were about to be ripped out.

Siren's expression changed dramatically. A brilliant stream of light, like molten pure silver, shot from his brow. The light stream transformed into a hazy silver glow that enveloped his entire body. The invisible malevolent energy in the void clashed against the light screen tens of thousands of times in an instant. Ripples flashed continuously across the screen, and large swathes of silver light rain and crimson mist erupted into existence. The silver light in Siren's eyes grew increasingly intense, as if two silver orbs were about to burst forth. All the furnishings in the conference room, including the alloy conference table and chairs, were crushed into fragments by the pressure of two invisible air currents. Gu Juechen and the others could only barely resist with their own cultivation.

Dizang Temple, who had been standing behind Elder Wu, let out a mighty roar. He pressed his right thumb and pinky finger firmly against the long saber at his waist. Just as his right palm was about to swing towards Siren, two silver lights flashed past him. Two beautiful women, also dressed in kimonos, but with faces like spring flowers and bodies like willows, enchanting, alluring, and peerlessly beautiful, rushed out from the silver light. The two women were stunningly beautiful, but the black shuriken in their hands were far from it. Their four snow-white arms moved rapidly, and over a hundred shuriken, emitting a pungent, foul odor, whistled towards Dizang Temple with sharp whistling sounds.

Dizang Temple, unable to attack Siren, retreated rapidly like flowing clouds. At the same time, he fiercely swept his right thumb and pinky finger across the saber's hilt, and three dark green saber energies, resembling open-mouthed wolf heads, roared out from the scabbard. The hundred-plus shuriken collided with the three wolf heads, each about a meter in diameter, and were smashed to pieces. Simultaneously, the shuriken exploded into a sky full of silver streams of light.

The two women produced katana, each a meter and a half long, from somewhere. The gleam of their blades was blinding. The two women, shouting "Die for our master!" like frenzied tigers, lunged at Dizang Temple. With no defense and no regard for their own lives, every slash from the two women was either aimed at Dizang Temple's heart, his neck, or maliciously at his lower body. Every strike was fatal, every move desperate.

Dizang Temple was a remarkable figure beside Elder Wu. Not only was his personal cultivation profound, but he also wielded the Ghost Blade 'Phantom Soul,' a secret art of the Dizang Temple clan passed down for thousands of years. His personal cultivation had reached the Jupiter-class Fighter level within the Earth Federation's power system, making him one of the rare powerhouses on Earth.

Such a formidable individual was forced into a defensive posture by two beautiful women, only able to parry passively. This was the headquarters of Gu Group, and Dizang Temple dared not use powerful techniques. His swordsmanship also emphasized an exchange of lives, an extremely overbearing, desperate sword style. However, to fight desperately, one needed to know with whom. Dizang Temple was quite willing to fight desperately against an expert of the same caliber, but to fight desperately against two 'Realm Puppets' refined from Zakla Energy Crystals using Realm Power, he was still too foolish.

For a time, Dizang Temple was forced to retreat repeatedly by the two fierce women, with several slashes nearly leaving their mark on him.

Elder Wu's blood-red eye on his brow slowly opened, and a soul-stirring malevolent energy shot out from it. Within Elder Wu's blood-red eye, an Inverted Swastika Seal was slowly rotating. Behind the Inverted Swastika Seal, endless Blood Flames could be seen burning fiercely, ten thousand Blood Lotuses blooming on the flames, and countless Fierce Souls and Malevolent Spirits roaring and raging on the Blood Lotuses.

The silver light screen around Siren was forced back inch by inch by the malevolent energy, on the verge of shattering.

Just then, ten silver lights flashed around Elder Wu. Ten beautiful girls, naked and about seven or eight years old, rushed out with joyous cheers. Shouting "Long live Master!", these girls, carrying heavy Magnetic Oscillation Bombs, lunged towards Elder Wu, who was within arm's reach.

Each standard-issue Federal military Magnetic Oscillation Bomb had a power equivalent to five hundred kilograms of standard TNT. Each of these ten girls was carrying at least twenty!

Gu Juechen's family was in the arms business. At least fifty percent of the standard Federal Magnetic Oscillation Bombs came from Gu Group's armories. How could he not recognize what these black, bread-like objects in the girls' hands were? Gu Juechen's face turned ashen. He screamed, "Stop! Please, let's talk this through. Peace is paramount, peace is paramount! Don't ruin the harmony!"

The combined power of two hundred Magnetic Oscillation Bombs was equivalent to one hundred tons of standard TNT detonating in Gu Group's headquarters. This power was enough to blow half of Gu Tower into the sky. The Gu family could declare the entire Gu Group bankrupt today. All the high-ranking members of the Gu family were in the conference room. Except for Gu Juechen, who was confident of escaping, everyone else would die here. Even if the Gu family didn't go bankrupt, it would be ruined.

Ten innocent and adorable girls tightly hugged Elder Wu's thighs. Their pure, untainted eyes stared intently at Elder Wu's withered, ugly face. Between Elder Wu's shriveled, aged body and the girls' tender, plump bodies were the dark, de-pinned bombs.

Elder Wu gasped for air and gave Siren a thumbs-up. "Heroes are born young. You're ruthless!"

Siren spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva and nodded at Elder Wu with a smile. "Elder, you're still vigorous. As expected of a prominent and influential expert of the Asian Dao Alliance."

The malevolent energy raging in the conference room slowly dissipated. The two beautiful women who had been fighting Dizang Temple to a sweat, along with the ten girls, simultaneously turned into silver streams of light and flew back into Siren.

Elder Wu wiped his chin and said with a dry laugh, "Mr. Siren's Realm is very unique. Besides generating these beautiful vixens, it seems capable of generating other things?"

Siren nodded with unusual 'frankness.' "Besides these loyal and beautiful puppets, it can also generate some basic weapons and equipment. Unfortunately, it's limited to the most ordinary weapons and equipment. If I could absorb enough Zakra Crystals to evolve my Realm, the strength of the Realm Puppets could continuously improve, but this equipment is still limited."

Elder Wu's face twitched. He said with a dry laugh, "It's already very good." Elder Wu wanted to curse. The experience of being threatened at close range by two hundred Magnetic Oscillation Bombs was too stimulating, and he never wanted to go through it again.

Gu Juechen wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He nodded at Siren with a smile and said, "Mr. Siren, I believe our transaction is feasible. Gu Group will have everything you need ready within two months."

After pondering for a moment, Gu Juechen narrowed his eyes and smiled. "All weapons and equipment can be prepared within two months, but for the one hundred cubic meters of Zakra Crystals, I can only submit ten cubic meters for now."

Siren pondered for a moment, then nodded. "That's enough. Ten cubic meters of Zakra Crystals. The misers at the Bit Pipe Association are much more generous, hehehe."

Counting on his fingers, Siren nodded. "One month after all the weapons and equipment are delivered, I guarantee to bring Mr. Gu Xiechen to Mr. Gu Juechen. One hand delivers the person..."

Gu Juechen understood and said, "The remaining ninety cubic meters of Zakra Crystals will be delivered on time."

"Perfect!" Siren nodded approvingly. He kicked open the thick bulletproof glass of the floor-to-ceiling window beside him and jumped out. A silver light appeared beneath his feet, steadily supporting him at an altitude of over nine hundred meters. He looked back at Gu Juechen and smiled, "I wish our transaction success!"

Elder Wu chased to the wind-howling window breach and asked with a grim expression, "Where is Gu Xiechen now?"

Siren quickly shook his head. "I can't answer that. This is the key to this deal. If you knew where he was and went to kill him, wouldn't I be returning empty-handed?"

Siren grinned slyly, "Sometimes exclusive information is worth a lot, Elder Wu. Your Three Witch Sect's intelligence channels are not as good as ours!"

Siren laughed heartily and plunged towards the street below. The wind, carrying clouds and mist, instantly obscured his body.

Elder Wu looked furiously in the direction Siren had disappeared and cursed, "May you fall to your death, you damned fellow! Next time, I'll make sure you know the power of this Elder's Soul Refining Witch Eye!"

The blood-red eye flashed rapidly, slowly condensing into a small fleshy growth attached to Elder Wu's brow.

Gu Juechen walked slowly to Elder Wu's side. He quietly looked down at the swirling mist below and said calmly, "There's a traitor within the Gu family. Otherwise, the Sacred Unicorn wouldn't have known we were hunting Gu Xiechen. Elder Wu, I'll have to trouble you with this matter. I absolutely will not allow anyone in the Gu family to interfere indiscriminately, not even my own descendants! In the Gu family, there can only be my voice!"

Elder Wu's eyes lit up, and he looked at Gu Juechen with pleasant surprise.

Gu Juechen firmly pressed Elder Wu's shoulder and said with a light laugh, "Find that little fellow who violated our family rules. How about a reward of... five cubic meters?"

Elder Wu smiled with satisfaction.

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Protagonist, young Gu, is about to gain his own independent forces and support from here! (To be continued)