"Brother?" The delight in the short man's eyes vanished in an instant. He looked at Ge Lianhuan in disbelief and urged, "Brother, hurry and agree!"
"Just two slashes. At most, you'll lose an arm. Senior intends to spare us; he won't kill you."
"That way, both of us can live!"
Yet Ge Lianhuan merely kept a gloomy face, unmoved.
The short man completely panicked. A trace of bewilderment and unfamiliarity showed in his eyes, as though, in a daze, he could no longer see through his own elder brother.
The giant head laughed even more merrily, as if it had long seen through everything, and mocked, "It seems your brother isn't as deeply devoted to brotherhood as you are?"
"Well? Are you still willing to take the remaining six slashes for him?"
The short man hesitated. When he saw Ge Lianhuan's previously evasive gaze turn toward him, carrying a measure of hope and longing...
The short man spat coldly and gave no further response.
Without a doubt, Ge Lianhuan's earlier indifference had utterly broken his heart.
"Just as expected. Just as expected... You're all nothing but hypocrites."
The giant head laughed smugly and wildly.
Its laughter was mocking to the extreme.
After continuing for a moment, the laughter inexplicably softened.
Even the faint aura it gave off seemed no longer quite so terrifying.
As the gentle laughter ceased, the giant head's savage mouth suddenly drooped. For an instant, its expression looked deeply desolate and sorrowful.
A moment later, it began laughing madly again.
Amid that crazed laughter, there seemed to be a hint of pride.
Listening to it, one could not help but feel, in a daze, that this giant head had once possessed a sincere bond of brotherhood.
Hiss, hisss...
The laughter stopped abruptly. Six fierce, terrifying auras gathered