When Chen Xuan returned to the Myriad Mountain Great Wilderness, Xiao Kanong had already been beaten beyond recognition. His suit was soaked in blood, his cheeks swollen like watermelons, and nearly half the teeth in his mouth were gone. Honglian had tied him to a chair and was leaning nearby, catching her breath.
Even so, Xiao Kanong barely groaned. His swollen lips still curled upward slightly, as though he did not care about his predicament in the slightest.
That was until Chen Xuan walked up to him.
Once he saw who it was, he visibly froze. A trace of surprise appeared in his bloodshot eyes.
"Did Northern Heaven Institute... hold?" Honglian asked with concern.
"Yeah. They retreated." Chen Xuan nodded.
Unfortunately, his side had no way to press their advantage further. By the time he teleported himself back to the store, the Thousand Mechanisms Lock the Moon Array Formation outside the gates had also been lifted. Every ability user who had not entered the compound seized the chance to flee. As for the casualties and results within the compound, they had yet to be tallied. There was no telling how many prisoners they had managed to capture in the end.
Still, Honglian had probably been holding in a bellyful of anger. She had shown her former superior absolutely no mercy.
"Are you disappointed?" Chen Xuan walked up to Xiao Kanong and looked down at him. "You thought you'd caught a big fish, but it all came to nothing."
"I am." To everyone's surprise, he admitted it. Speaking through his toothless, leaky mouth, he mumbled, "I was merely an advance pawn of the Organization. Trading me for a powerful Wanderer would have been an excellent bargain. But I still underestimated you... This time, the Organization has truly lost."
"Heh..." Xiao Kanong