Bang~
Lu Bai set his now-empty bowl on the Desktop and asked, "So, can you take out your Golden Core?"
"I can."
Warden Xiong Pi answered without hesitation.
Lu Bai considered himself a decent person, so he followed up with another question: "Would it have any effect on you?"
To his surprise, that offhand question brought tears to Xiong Pi's eyes.
A surge of energy immediately churned around him as he prepared to transfer the Golden Core out of his body on the spot.
As he circulated his Internal Energy, he explained in a slightly bashful voice, "Brother Bai, there's no need to worry. The Golden Core comes from the same source as my energy, so I'll be able to refine it quickly."
Lu Bai nodded stiffly.
It was hard enough just to suppress his nausea when a hulking man like this put on a coy, girlish act in front of him.
Honestly, if Xiong Pi weren't ridiculously strong, with no good way to deal with him for now, Lu Bai would have loved to cancel the effect of the [Electronic Succubus] ability.
The vast, surging Internal Energy whipped up a gust of wind inside the restaurant, sending the calendar on the wall flapping wildly.
Fortunately, the commotion didn't last long.
Soon, everything settled down, though the temperature inside the shop seemed to have risen several degrees out of nowhere.
The source of the heat was a dazzling speck of light, cupped in both of Xiong Pi's hands.
The speck was only about the size of a fingernail, yet it released what seemed like an endless amount of heat.
This was the so-called Golden Core.
The Golden Core contained more than ninety percent of Xiong Pi's total Internal Energy. Once he extracted it from his body, he visibly weakened, even