Siren's Deal (Part 2)

Siren tapped a finger lightly, and the document shot back onto the table, stopping exactly where it had been before.

Siren smiled. "That's right. What we want to buy are military-controlled goods. We're buying in large quantities, and we're pushing the price very low. But if I take Mr. Gu Xiechen's head and place it before you myself, do you think we can still make this deal?"

Gu Juechen and Elder Wu were both taken aback. Gu Juechen shouted sharply, "You know where he is?"

Siren smiled slyly, refusing to answer a single word. Elder Wu's eyes darted rapidly as he looked Siren up and down. The fleshy tumor between his brows reddened until it seemed ready to drip blood.

After considering it for a while, Gu Juechen said decisively, "Deal! But..."

Siren cut him off and said solemnly, "Within one month after the Gu Group hands over all the equipment, I guarantee that I will present his head to Patriarch Gu. Of course, if Patriarch Gu is willing to pay 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 raised two fingers. "Increase all the equipment listed in the document by thirty percent, reduce the price by ten percent, and transfer the additional payment into my account. Hmm, the Gu Group can obtain a large quota of Zakra Crystals 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 gave Elder Wu a strange look, then suddenly chuckled. "No wonder the Three Witch Sect's Grand Elder helped the Gu family seize power. So you're an unregistered Realm Master who hasn't been filed with the Federal Special Management Committee! Tsk, tsk, I really wonder what abilities your realm possesses. Hehe, with the Gu Group's help, your domain has expanded considerably, hasn't it?"

His words exposed Elder Wu's secret. Elder Wu's face darkened as though ink would drip from it. Amid shifting bloody light, the fleshy tumor between his brows transformed into a blood-red eye three and a half inches long, opening and closing. Elder Wu rose with a strange laugh. An eerie, sinister power filled the conference room. The moment anyone saw the enormous blood eye between Elder Wu's brows, they felt as if their souls were about to be ripped from their bodies.

Siren's expression changed drastically. A dazzling stream of light, like molten pure silver, shot from between his brows. It transformed into a hazy silver radiance that enveloped his body. The invisible sinister power in the air struck the light barrier tens of thousands of times in an instant. Ripples continuously spread across it, while large showers of silver light and clouds of bloody mist burst into existence. The silver glow in Siren's eyes grew brighter and brighter, until it seemed as if two silver spheres were about to erupt from them. Every furnishing in the conference room, including the alloy conference table and chairs, was crushed into fragments by two invisible currents. Gu Juechen and the others could only barely resist with their cultivation.

Dizang Temple, who had been standing behind Elder Wu all along, suddenly let out a tremendous roar. The thumb and little finger of his right hand pressed tightly against the long blade at his waist. Just as he was about to slash his right palm toward Siren, two streaks of silver light flashed beside him. Two beautiful married women, also dressed in kimonos, rushed out of the silver light. Their faces were like spring flowers, their figures like willow branches, enchanting and peerlessly gorgeous. The two women were stunningly beautiful, but the black shuriken in their hands were anything but. Four snow-white arms moved rapidly, and more than a hundred shuriken carrying a pungent stench screamed through the air as they blanketed Dizang Temple.

Dizang Temple could no longer spare attention to assassinating Siren. His body retreated like drifting clouds, while his right thumb and little finger viciously swept across the hilt. Three dark-green blade auras, shaped like wolf heads with gaping jaws, howled as they burst from the scabbard. More than a hundred shuriken collided with the three wolf heads, each over a meter wide. Though the wolf heads were shattered, the shuriken exploded into silver streaks that filled the sky.

The two women somehow produced meter-and-a-half-long tachi swords. Their blade light was blinding as they charged at Dizang Temple like mad tigers, shouting, "Die for the master!" They made no attempt to defend themselves and showed no concern for their own lives. Every slash targeted Dizang Temple's heart or neck, or else viciously struck at his lower body. Every blade was deadly, every move a desperate gamble.

Dizang Temple was an extraordinary figure at Elder Wu's side. Not only was his cultivation profound, but he also wielded the ghost blade Phantom Soul, secretly passed down for a thousand years by the Dizang Temple Clan. His personal strength had reached the level of a Jupiter-class Fighter in the Earth Federation's power system, making him one of the Federation's rare experts.

Yet such a formidable figure was forced into an awkward position by the two women, able only to defend passively. This was the Gu Group's headquarters, and Dizang Temple did not dare use overly destructive techniques. His blade style also emphasized trading life for life, an incomparably domineering fighting style. But risking one's life depended on whom one faced. Dizang Temple was perfectly willing to fight other experts of his own level to the death, but fighting two Realm Puppets created with Realm Power from Zakla Energy Crystals? He was not that foolish.

For a time, Dizang Temple was driven back again and again by the two fierce women. Several slashes nearly left marks on his body.

The blood eye between Elder Wu's brows slowly opened, and a soul-stirring sinister power shot out from it. An Inverted Swastika Seal slowly turned within the blood eye. Behind it, endless Blood Flame could vaguely be seen burning fiercely, while ten thousand Blood Lotuses bloomed atop the flames. Countless Fierce Souls and Malevolent Spirits howled and roared upon the Blood Lotuses.

The silver light barrier around Siren was forced back inch by inch by the sinister power, on the verge of shattering.

At that very moment, ten streaks of silver light flashed around Elder Wu. Ten beautiful naked girls, only seven or eight years old, rushed out amid the silver light, cheering and jumping. Shouting, "Long live the master!" they hugged heavy Heavy Magnetic Oscillation Bombs and charged at Elder Wu, who was right beside them.

Each standard-issue Federal military Heavy Magnetic Oscillation Bomb had the power of five hundred kilograms of standard explosives. Every one of those ten girls was carrying at least twenty!

The Gu family dealt in arms. At least half of the Federal standard-issue Heavy Magnetic Oscillation Bombs came from the Gu Group's arms factories. How could Gu Juechen fail to recognize the black, bread-like objects in the girls' arms? His face turned white with fright as he screamed hoarsely, "Stop! Let's talk this out properly! Peace is precious, peace is precious! Don't hurt our harmony!"

The combined power of two hundred Heavy Magnetic Oscillation Bombs was equivalent to one hundred tons of standard explosives detonating at the Gu Group's headquarters. It would be enough to blast half of Gu Tower into the sky. The Gu family could declare the Gu Group bankrupt today—every senior member of the Gu family was in the conference room. Aside from Gu Juechen, who was confident he could escape, everyone else would die here. The Gu family would be doomed whether they liked it or not.

The ten innocent, adorable girls tightly hugged Elder Wu's legs. Their large, pure eyes, utterly free of impurity, stared fixedly at Elder Wu's withered and ugly face. Between Elder Wu's shriveled old body and the girls' fair, tender bodies were pitch-black bombs with their safety pins already pulled.

Elder Wu sucked in a cold breath and gave Siren a thumbs-up. "Heroes truly emerge in their youth. You're ruthless enough!"

Siren spat out a mouthful of blood-tinged saliva, then nodded and smiled at Elder Wu. "Elder, you are still vigorous in your old age. You truly deserve your reputation as one of the Asian Dao Alliance's most influential veteran experts."

The sinister power surging through the conference room slowly dissipated. The two beautiful women who had fought Dizang Temple into a cold sweat, along with the ten girls, simultaneously transformed into silver streams of light and flew into Siren's body.

Elder Wu rubbed his chin and chuckled dryly. "Mr. Siren's realm is quite unique. Other than creating these beautiful little girls, it seems it can produce other things as well?"

Siren nodded with unusual "frankness." "Aside from these beautiful puppets that are utterly loyal to me, it can also create some basic weapons and equipment. Unfortunately, they are limited to only the most ordinary weapons and equipment. Still, if I can absorb enough Zakra Crystals and evolve my realm, the strength of the Realm Puppets can continue to rise. As for the weapons and equipment, they are limited to this."

Elder Wu's face twitched. He chuckled dryly. "That is already quite good." He wanted to curse aloud. Being threatened at point-blank range by two hundred Heavy Magnetic Oscillation Bombs had been thrilling enough; he never wanted to experience it again.

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

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

After pondering for a moment, Siren nodded. "That will be enough. Ten cubic meters of Zakra Crystals are far more generous than those miserly bastards at the Bit Pipe Association. Hehehe."

After counting on his fingers for a while, Siren nodded. "One month after all the weapons and equipment are delivered, I guarantee that I will bring Mr. Gu Xiechen before Mr. Gu Juechen. You hand over the man..."

Understanding his meaning, Gu Juechen said, "The remaining ninety cubic meters of Zakra Crystals will certainly be presented without delay."

"Perfect!" Siren nodded approvingly. With one kick, he shattered the thick bulletproof glass of the floor-to-ceiling window beside him and jumped out. A streak of silver light appeared beneath his feet, steadily supporting him more than nine hundred meters above the ground. He turned back and smiled at Gu Juechen. "May our transaction proceed smoothly!"

Elder Wu rushed to the shattered window as fierce winds howled through it. His face darkened as he asked, "Then where is Gu Xiechen now?"

Siren hurriedly shook his head. "That cannot be answered. It is the key to this business of mine. If you knew where he was and went to kill him yourselves, wouldn't I return empty-handed?"

Siren grinned slyly. "Sometimes exclusive intelligence is worth a great price. Elder Wu, the Three Witch Sect's intelligence network is no match for ours!"

Laughing loudly, Siren fell toward the streets below. The violent wind swept clouds and mist around him, instantly concealing his body.

Elder Wu glared furiously in the direction Siren had vanished and cursed, "Fall to your death, you damned bastard! Next time, I'll make sure you learn the power of this Elder's Soul-Refining Witch Eye!"

The blood eye flickered rapidly, then slowly contracted into a small fleshy tumor attached to Elder Wu's brow.

Gu Juechen slowly walked to Elder Wu's side. Looking calmly at the clouds and mist below, he said, "There is a traitor within the Gu family. Otherwise, Sacred Unicorn could never have known that we were hunting Gu Xiechen. Elder Wu, I will have to trouble you with this matter. I absolutely will not allow anyone in the Gu family to reach out recklessly—not even my own descendants! The Gu family can have only one voice: mine!"

Elder Wu's eyes lit up as he looked at Gu Juechen in delight.

Gu Juechen firmly pressed a hand onto Elder Wu's shoulder and chuckled. "Find that little bastard who violated my family rules. The reward will be... five cubic meters. How about it?"

Elder Wu smiled in satisfaction.

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