Captured Alive

"Emmmmmm... listen, let me explain... Ah! Don't squeeze chili sauce into my nose! Why are you carrying chili sauce around with you?!"

Xu Zifu hung from a tree with the expression of someone whose spirit had been thoroughly crushed. Before him stood the twin girls, Danzhu and Cang Xuan.

"Tell us the truth! Who exactly are you?! Otherwise... heh heh."

Danzhu planted her hands on her hips, looking as though she were interrogating a criminal, unable to hide the smugness on her little face.

"Didn't I already say... I was originally planning to climb into Kevin's Cryo-sleep Pod! I just accidentally climbed into the wrong one... Ahhh, don't poke my eyes!"

Xu Yanwu increasingly felt the inconvenience of having no body. Look at this—he was actually being threatened by a little girl.

"Who are you trying to fool? I'm not some two- or three-year-old child." Danzhu puffed out her cheeks as she repeatedly poked Xu Yanwu's eyes with a little twig.

Ah, this little girl is pretty cute...

Xu Yanwu thought.

No, wait! How could you possibly not know me?! I'm at least the so-called Head of the War Gods in your organization!

It'd be one thing if Danzhu were dumb! But I remember her sister Cang Xuan not being that dumb... Wait a second?

Cang Xuan, what are you trying to do?! Put down that tube of mustard! I think we can still talk this out!

Ten minutes later...

"I was wrong... I shouldn't have climbed into your Cryo-sleep Pod... Please forgive me..."

Xu Zifu wore a look of utter despair as he apologized to Cang Xuan and Danzhu, nearly burying his face in the ground.

More precisely, he was apologizing to Cang Xuan, who had held Xu Yanwu while sleeping for fifty thousand years. Otherwise, she would never help prove that he was Fire Moth's Head of the War Gods.

Sure enough, these two sisters have their clothing colors reversed, right? This black-hearted Cang Xuan should be the one wearing black...

"I won't forgive you...""We can forgive you if you agree to our condition."

Danzhu had still been sulking, but Cang Xuan interrupted her midway through speaking. "Eh, eh?"

Xu Yanwu trembled. "What condition...?"

I, Xu Yanwu, am a man of unyielding integrity. I wasn't scared even when facing the Herrscher of the End, yet I'm this terrified of two little girls. Ahhh, what a disgrace.

"Agree to it first."

Cang Xuan showed no mercy. "Otherwise..."

The expressionless girl gently shook the mustard in her hand, like a little devil.

"Big Sis, you..." Danzhu was very curious about what Cang Xuan intended to do.

"I-I-I-I'll agree, okay?" Xu Yanwu was on the verge of tears. "Put down the mustard and let's talk properly..."

"Fine. Then from now on, you'll be our servant."

Cang Xuan said it as casually as if it were nothing.

"Fine, fine, fine... Hm?"

Xu Yanwu's eyes widened.

Danzhu's eyes widened as well.

The two blurted out in disbelief at the same time, "Eh, eh, eh—?"

"Big Sis, what are you thinking? Making some unknown man's head our servant..."

"Danzhu's right. Look, I'm just a head. I can't do anything. Don't you think...?"

"All right, all right, Danzhu, watch for now." Cang Xuan motioned for Danzhu to be quiet, then said to Xu Yanwu, "Then, as a servant, shouldn't you answer our questions?"

Cang Xuan once again threatened Xu Yanwu with the mustard.

"Yes! Young Mistress! Your business is my business! Whatever you ask, I absolutely won't hide anything!"

Xu Yanwu surrendered without the slightest backbone.

"Then the first question: are you really the Head of the War Gods?"

Cang Xuan stared intently at Xu Yanwu, as though she wanted to see whether his next answer contained any lies.

"Mm... if you mean the name Fire Moth gave me,

then that should indeed be me..." Xu Yanwu said awkwardly. "You can actually call me by my name... My name is Xu Yanwu."

"Xu Yanwu?" Cang Xuan repeated his name, then asked her second question. "Then why did you wake up and end up in our Cryo-sleep Pod? And also..."

Cang Xuan's face faintly reddened, almost imperceptibly.

"Well... well..."

Xu Yanwu stammered. He did not know why, when he had wished to enter a Cryo-sleep Pod, he had instead entered the sisters' pod...

Still, it was probably for the best. If Xu Yanwu interfered on Little White Ball's side, who knew whether Kiana would still be born...

"Waking up was just a coincidence... As for why I was in your arms..."

Xu Yanwu smiled awkwardly. "That's a matter of metaphysics..."

"...We should just bury you after all."

"Don't, don't. How about I give you money? How about I make figurines for you? Don't look at me like I'm just a head right now. Once I find my body, I can do anything."

Xu Yanwu panicked and hurriedly began selling himself.

"Heh. You're just a head. Where would you get money...?"

Cang Xuan nodded to Danzhu. "Danzhu, bury this guy..."

"Got it!"

Danzhu had been holding herself back for quite a while. Now that she had her sister's permission, she immediately rolled up her sleeves with an eager look, preparing to bury Xu Yanwu alive.

"Eh, eh, eh, eh? Isn't that too cruel?"

Xu Yanwu panicked. Just as Danzhu's hand was about to touch him, his eyes lit up and he shouted, "I know where the Xuanyuan Sword is! Don't bury me!"

"How do you know where the Xuanyuan Sword is?"

Cang Xuan immediately grabbed Danzhu and planted one foot on Xu Yanwu's head.

Feeling the tiny, delicate little foot atop his head, Xu Yanwu's old face reddened. He kept warning himself inwardly, Calm down, calm down. Xu Yanwu, you're not into little girls, and you're not into feet. Calm down, calm down, calm down, calm down...

"Hey, Big Sis is asking you something! Why aren't you talking?!"

Danzhu shouted unhappily.

"Ah? Oh, oh, oh..."

Xu Yanwu composed himself and spoke. "If I remember correctly, the Xuanyuan Sword should be in the hands of this civilization's Youxiong Clan, and it will later be given to a girl named Ji Lin..."

"How do we know whether you're telling the truth? You came out of the Cryo-sleep Pod with us, so how did you know all this?"

Though Xu Yanwu could not see Cang Xuan's expression, he felt her foot pressing down harder. He hurriedly said, "I'm no one special, but I do have just a tiny bit of precognitive ability..."

"Then predict something right now."

Xu Yanwu froze. "Huh?"

"Since you claim to have precognitive abilities, prove it." Cang Xuan still did not release him.

"..."

What do I do?! I don't have precognitive abilities?!

Urgent question! How can I avoid being buried alive by two teenage girls?!

Right! Don't I have Wish Fulfillment?

"Mm..." Xu Yanwu closed his eyes and pretended to focus his power. "I have a premonition that in ten seconds, your underwear will be exposed..."