Ghost Granny was furious. She glared at Lu Yin. "What exactly do you want?"
Lu Yin snapped, "I don't know. Let me think."
Ghost Granny froze. He didn't know? What kind of answer was that?
Hai Qiqi was confused, too.
Everyone around them was stunned.
Lu Yin genuinely didn't know. If he took Hong Ying hostage and left the Falling Star Sea, the Flying Horse Manor and the Tong Family would surely surround him at every turn. Someone like Madam Hong, a Universe Imprinter, might even make a move. And if he tried to escape back to the Outer Universe, he might expose that passage. He could close it through runes, but that would take time, and he didn't think he could succeed while under the nose of a Universe Imprinter.
Besides, he wasn't sure which mattered more: the passage to the Outer Universe or Hong Ying. What if the Flying Horse Manor abandoned Hong Ying, or the Tong Family risked breaking with the Flying Horse Manor and didn't care whether she lived or died? Then he might really lead these people to the Outer Universe.
Taking Hong Ying hostage and returning to the Outer Universe was too risky. Who knew who might show up? He also didn't dare bet everything on Mr. Mu. He had a feeling that Mr. Mu didn't care whether the Outer Universe lived or died.
If he couldn't leave, then he could only go to the Cangmang Continent.
Ghost Granny felt that this man was impossible to reason with. She ordered her subordinates to move all the miners out of Sea King's Heaven. She would send all the men away, so the worst possible outcome wouldn't happen.
But Lu Yin noticed and immediately warned them, "Nobody's allowed to leave. Anyone who dares to leave, and