"Gao Cheng, Professor Jiang, just agree to it. The King is an extremely broad-minded person who especially cherishes talent. As long as you agree to join him, he'll definitely treat you well."
"Look, Keyun and I joined them, and aren't we living just fine? In fact, we're living even better than before. We can do whatever we want, and get whatever we want."
Liu Yue supported her brother, whose entire body was covered in blood, and glared at him. "Shut up! You shameless traitor. I never thought Xiao Qiao would actually be right—the traitor really was you."
Professor Jiang was furious as well.
He saw that his niece, Jiang Keyun, looked rather unwell, her expression filled with suppressed pain.
"Ding Hongguang, how exactly did we wrong you? How could you betray us and help these mutated humans harm us instead? Don't you understand the principle that those who aren't of our kind will always have different motives?"
Ding Hongguang didn't get angry. Instead, he shamelessly said, "Professor Jiang, Captain Gao, I'm doing this entirely for your own good. Once you're dead, you'll have nothing left. A miserable life is better than a glorious death. Why be so stubborn and make things difficult for yourselves?"
Liu Yue spat viciously at him. "Give up on that idea. Even if we die, we'll never become their lackeys and puppets like you."
"Liu Yue is right. Rather than being controlled like this and living like walking corpses, I, Gao Cheng, would rather die." Gao Cheng glared darkly at Ding Hongguang, regretting that he had been unwilling to deal with him sooner because of their slight past friendship.
Seeing that nothing would come of this, The King, standing atop the lofty stone platform, lost his patience. "Since that's the case, then I, Long Mouren, won't