You Are Not Worthy!

Qu Yuanen and the others exchanged glances, their eyes filled with terror. They were assassins, indifferent to human lives—but those were other people's lives. As for their own, they cherished them dearly.

Chen Fei's habit of killing people the moment words failed made him seem even more like an assassin than they were. They knew it was a show of force, but it had indeed cowed them. They did not want to die.

"Will you let us go as long as we tell you everything?" someone asked in a low voice.

"Perhaps," Chen Fei said after giving it some thought.

Perhaps?

Qu Yuanen and the others' hearts trembled. That answer was far too ambiguous; it was practically the same as saying nothing. Whether they lived afterward would still depend on Chen Fei's mood.

Yet they lacked the courage to stubbornly keep silent and refuse to say anything.

"Someone posted a task at Rain Tower, demanding that Miss Ruan never return to Qin Hai City. The price was very high, which was why this operation happened. Everyone involved in this operation is here," Qu Yuanen said, forcing himself to speak.

Under normal circumstances, such matters were secrets. Other than the assassins who accepted the task, no one else could possibly know about them. But clearly, these were no longer normal circumstances.

When their lives could no longer be guaranteed, what were rules worth compared to their own lives?

"They paid enough that Rain Tower would continue the mission even with an Aperture Refining Realm cultivator involved?"

Chen Fei asked with interest. Had the Ruan Family staked their entire fortune on this?

"Yes. Even if there is an Aperture Refining Realm cultivator, the mission will continue, because the target is Miss Ruan, not an Aperture Refining Realm cultivator," Qu Yuanen explained.

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