Certain to win?
Seeing Xie Chun's confident expression, Xiao Pu couldn't tell whether Xie Chun was sure of success or just blindly arrogant.
But now that things had gone this far, Xiao Pu knew there was no point in saying more. Ending the conversation on a sour note would be bad enough; provoking a falling-out would be far worse.
Xiao Pu had no doubt that if he fell out with Xie Chun, Xie Chun could make sure he never left this plantation. Xiao Pu wasn't unprepared for that kind of thing in this world, but he absolutely couldn't afford to turn against Xie Chun now. He still wanted to leave alive and return to Star City to reunite with his family.
His parents and girlfriend were in Star City. Xiao Pu didn't know whether they were still alive, but who would give up hope before the answer was clear?
That belief was what had kept him going until now, dancing with a pack of demons. He worried that if this went on, his hands would eventually be stained with blood and burdened with lives—that these demons would drag him into the abyss and make him sink alongside them.
Still, Xiao Pu was curious about where Master Xie's confidence came from.
Master Xie wasn't the kind of man to make wild claims. If he dared to boast like that, he must have something to back it up.
Was it simply because they had more people?
If it came down to numbers, could their few hundred men really outmatch the authorities or the military? Sure, the other side had only sent one helicopter into the mountains so far, but there was no guarantee that ground troops wouldn't follow.
Besides, the military had been silent. Did that mean it had simply vanished? Once