Wu Aiai furrowed her brow and said, puzzled, "I'll ask around for you later. But first, you have to help me take care of something!"
Seeing that Wu Aiai was interested too, Wang Yue smiled and asked, "What's the trouble this time?"
Wu Aiai sighed, sounding impatient. "There's a tardigrade who's over five hundred years old. He keeps trying to kill himself for no reason, and we have nowhere to send him back. It's driving us crazy."
Wang Yue was curious. "If he wants to die, why not grant his wish? Or can't you kill him?"
Wu Aiai nodded helplessly. "We tried a chainsaw, but it didn't work. The guy even drank gas and set himself on fire, but that didn't work either."
Wang Yue hadn't expected to encounter someone with such incredible vitality. He smiled. "I'll ask him later if he really wants to die. If he does, I can grant his wish."
Wu Aiai eyed Wang Yue suspiciously. "Are you really able to kill him?"
Wang Yue nodded as if it were obvious. "Of course. We cultivators use the energy of heaven and earth. No matter how powerful a tardigrade is, it's still a creature born of that energy."
Wu Aiai didn't understand what Wang Yue meant, but she took it as a biological explanation. After all, all living things had evolved under the influence of nature.
By the time she brought Wang Yue to the interrogation room, she soon understood what he meant by the energy of heaven and earth.
After entering the interrogation room, Wang Yue looked at Liu Guodong and asked coolly, "Are you sure you want to die?"
Liu Guodong saw that Wu Aiai had brought Wang Yue in, and assumed he was an accomplice she'd called over. He acted as if he had