The old man had already entered the arena. He cursed, "A bunch of trash."
The lead man's face looked awful, the color of liver.
The way he looked at us was filled with anger. He had never expected things to end like this.
The old man looked at me first, then turned his gaze to Qianqian. "If I'm not mistaken, this was your doing, wasn't it?"
Qianqian said coldly, "That's right."
The old man nodded. "I never expected you to have such abilities. It seems we were negligent. Our intelligence never mentioned that you possessed such powerful mental control."
Qianqian frowned. "Old guy, who are you?"
The old man smiled, but his smile looked even more terrifying than when he was not smiling.
"Jiang Xiaobai, do you know that you've been placed on the Apocalypse Kill Order?"
He was speaking to me.
Apocalypse Kill Order? What the hell was that?
I looked utterly confused, and Qianqian narrowed her eyes as well.
I asked the old man, "What exactly is this Apocalypse Kill Order you're talking about?"
"It is a wanted list maintained by our Administration Bureau. The five people at the top must be killed. We call the list of these five Must Killers the Apocalypse Kill Order because it was sent from the apocalypse. But that does not affect the validity of the order."
The old man had practically admitted outright that they were from the Administration Bureau.
And from what he said, this Apocalypse Kill Order had been sent from the future—more precisely, from the apocalypse, if I had guessed correctly. I had been to the apocalypse before, and that place had seemed truly hostile toward me. If I had not met the future Xu Qiuyan there, I might have died in that place.
And now, they had