Chapter 165: See How Good I Am to You
The dim lights in the corridor flickered, illuminating the bloodstains.
"How rare."
A snickering voice came from beneath Xie Lan's collar. "You actually didn't make a move in secret?"
A shifty-looking rat crawled out of his collar and chuckled. "One Tong Family scared you this badly?"
"We already have enough material. There's no need to do something that costs more than it gains." Xie Lan walked ahead with his hands behind his back. "Besides, against an opponent who's prepared in advance, poison and curses are both less effective. Why bother?
"Let him fight those Evil Transformation Cult people. I still need to make a living in Yacheng later. Why make enemies of the Security Bureau and the Tong Family?"
He paused, his smile turning strange as he looked back.
"But he must be very regretful."
"Not afraid of thieves stealing, only afraid of thieves keeping you in mind."
After the elevator opened, Ji Jue could not help but sigh, his heart full of vigilance. How could he not know Xie Lan?
Even if he didn't know Xie Lan, didn't he know himself? He had spent the whole time pretending not to care, but who knew how long he had secretly been coveting this stuff of theirs!
Besides, rare treasures belonged to the virtuous, all right?
So many living Chosen Ones—if he ran Disintegration Art over them once, just the matrix alone would raise his experience bar by who knew how much, not to mention the materials.
What an enormous haul that would be?
What a pity, casting pearls before swine...
Later, he would secretly write to the Security Bureau and report him!
Just as Ji Jue's final invitation had been a test, the other party had also been constantly probing