"Brother, aren't you going out to help?"
"I can see your men are pretty tense. Don't tell me the parasites are about to break in?"
"How about you take me and get out of here? I'm very important, you know. If something happens to me, who's going to find the Ink Stone Mine for you?"
Inside the room, Li Kangyu chattered on without pause.
The bearded man found him unbearably noisy and immediately grew irritated. "Shut up. You're not going to die. Stay here quietly and stop making noise!"
Li Kangyu replied with an "Oh," then saw the wall behind the bearded man bulge outward. Several cracks quickly formed.
The next second, the wall exploded with a boom, and the flying rubble slammed into the bearded man's back like cannonballs.
The bearded man was sent flying by the impact. He shot past Li Kangyu and smacked into the opposite wall with a loud thud, sticking there for a moment before sliding down.
His eyes had rolled back, and it was impossible to tell whether he was alive or dead.
Li Kangyu was startled. Without his glasses, he could barely see anything. He only vaguely noticed that a large hole had opened in the wall and that someone was climbing in from outside.
"Mister Li, Minister Li sent me to rescue you."
Luo Yan looked at the man squinting desperately and remembered that he was severely nearsighted. He moved closer and said, "Are you all right? I'm from the Jumang Department."
Upon hearing "Jumang Department" and seeing the Nuoxi Opera Mask on Luo Yan's face, Li Kangyu immediately remembered someone and said delightedly, "It's you, Minister Red Ghost?"
"My sister has been mentioning you a lot lately. She said that if she were ten years younger, she'd definitely win you over!"