I Will Rely on My Father with All My Might! (Two-in-One Chapter)

All the big shots of Zelandia, even if the other party was clearly an investigation team sent from the Upper City to inspect, there was no reason to greet them proactively, especially after the Old Dwarf Tiger had latched onto Li Wei's golden thigh. It would be too demeaning.

Unless the other party was a Drow Matriarch, but how could that be possible?

However, it was also impossible to meet them at the R&D center. So, Li Wei and his group pretended to be inspecting the West Mining Area as well, and then had the dwarves bring the group of Drow over.

In the vast and rugged natural mine, the elf leading the group took off the light purple robe's hood, revealing the Drow's sharp, long ears and their cold, arrogant face.

Not to mention, apart from the Drow siblings who had asked him for work, this was Li Wei's first time observing this race, famous throughout Coriel, at such close range.

If one excluded the negative impression that almost all members of this race were bitches and their somewhat dark skin, their delicate features and devilish figures could be considered top-tier beauties. And it was rare that they were all dressed so lightly.

"No wonder they can almost monopolize Zelandia's entire third service industry. Thinking about it, the male compatriots of Zelandia are truly blessed with good fortune."

Li Wei's thoughts involuntarily drifted, until the shortest female Drow elf, who was about ten steps away from him, placed her left hand on her chest and bowed:

"Founder of Hogg Mining, Lord Hogg. Dishana Jadiel, eldest daughter and chief heir of the Jadiel Family of Gershon City, pays her respects to you!"

Li Wei was surprised by her humble attitude, and what impressed him most was the cleverness of this female Drow. Not only was her attitude proper, but the identity she presented was also very interesting.

After all, according to the intelligence from the dwarf brats under Tiger, their apparent identity was that of investigators sent by Gershon City to inspect. Ostensibly, she could mobilize the forces of Gershon City to help her investigate intelligence just by revealing this identity. Yet, she didn't mention it at all, as if she were just visiting as a Drow lady from an ordinary family.

However, Li Wei didn't have the leisure or time for those nobles to beat around the bush before getting to the point. He completely ignored it. He gently patted the steam bomb next to him, which still had a palm print on it, and said with almost indifference:

"Drow, put away your unnecessary little schemes. I am well aware of the situation of you elves exiled here, and I also know your true intentions. But I'm sorry, we in Zelandia have no intention or ability to get involved in your Drow disputes. It's too dangerous and uncontrollable. If you are just here to investigate the magical fluctuations from four days ago, here, this is the sample that Tiger and I made. You must have heard about it on your way here. It's enough for you to take back and report."

After saying all this in one breath, Li Wei, playing the role of an unfeeling wolf, gave Hogg a look, "Huozi, see them out." At the same time, he began counting down in his heart.

"Yes!" Huozi understood, deliberately putting on a show and taking heavy steps, unhurriedly approaching the Drow.

As expected, upon seeing Li Wei's uncompromising attitude, Dishana's face turned slightly pale, and she gritted her back teeth.

Although her apparent mission in Zelandia had been resolved so easily and quickly, she, who had come here at great risk, was absolutely unwilling to stop here.

However, the other party seemed to have guessed her intentions long ago! And the response, which completely deviated from the expected script, had almost overturned the few prepared speeches she had thought of on the way!

'Damn Gnoll! Savage native! Can't you follow normal logic and go through a process that shows some regard for both parties' faces!'

Dishana cursed Li Wei in her heart, wishing she could cut him into a thousand pieces, yet she had to rack her brains to come up with a reason to persuade him.

Jiaer, the guard captain standing behind her, also became flustered, unsure whether he should stop the Gnoll's advance.

Because Dishana had explicitly told her on the way not to act rashly! Otherwise, their fate might be even worse than being persecuted by their own kin!

"Miss Dishana! Please!"

Just as Huozi's furry claws were about to grab her slightly trembling shoulder, the young woman seized the last opportunity and spoke:

"Wait!"

"Oh!"

A burst of laughter erupted from the surroundings, accompanied by a tide of vulgar curses. A few heckling Dwarves even whistled.

The sons of the Underdark knew nothing of gentility. They only knew that their great leader harbored no good feelings, even outright malice, towards these Drow, and were naturally happy to oblige.

Facing such humiliation, Dishana almost bit through her lower lip. The next moment, as if making a life-or-death decision, she abruptly raised her head and looked at Li Wei with unprecedented seriousness.

"Lord Hogg! Since you've already guessed my intentions, I won't beat around the bush. Seven days ago, after that minor earthquake, a suspected Abyssal Gate appeared deep underground in the border area between our Gershon City and Iron Melting Fortress. Affected by the Abyssal Gate, large numbers of mutated monsters have been emerging from underground periodically! Because this matter has significant implications, it has even altered the standoff between Gershon City and Iron Melting Fortress. Tell me, at this critical juncture, what is Gershon City lacking the most right now?"

Without waiting for Li Wei and the others to answer, she continued, "Naturally, it's food, iron ore, and supplies! And if I were to tell those Matriarchs that the most important mining area, Zelandia, not only has a powerful outsider who has unified it with thunderous might, but has also doubled the entire Zelandia's mining efficiency with their Didi Miner Employment Reward Policy! More importantly, our Lord Hogg has not only solved the Cavens Rat infestation that has plagued them, but has also, through some unknown method, managed to domesticate them! This provides a continuous supply of rat meat and raw materials for leather armor! What do you think their reaction would be?"

Having blurted out this lengthy speech, half truth and half lie, at an extremely fast pace, Dishana could even hear her heart pounding against her chest. Yet, for some reason, as she watched their increasingly serious and grim expressions, she felt a hidden sense of satisfaction, a revenge for the humiliation she had just suffered. However, when her gaze fell back on the Gnoll leader, who showed no extreme reaction, a sense of inexplicable unease and nervousness washed over her, like the tension of being unable to hold back urination.

Her speech indeed landed like a steam bomb, and for a moment, the silence was absolute, a pin-drop silence.

But just as a sense of pleasure began to bloom within her, a sudden and loud clapping sound rang out.

Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap.

These claps struck her heart like hammer blows, making Dishana extremely nervous, even starting to doubt where her speech had gone wrong.

The Gnoll named Hogg, with a peculiar smile, was clapping and then asked in a low voice, "A very good speech. It's rare that you have some quick wit. Firstly, regardless of the truthfulness of this news, it does have some value. And this speech has reminded me of a few things. For that, I should thank you."

Dishana's tensed nerves relaxed slightly at these words, but the two words that followed plunged her into the abyss.

"But!"

Li Wei narrowed his vertical pupils and looked at her, his icy words piercing her ears one by one, "Can I interpret this as you, threatening, me?"

Hearing this question, like Thor's hammer, Dishana felt her heart nearly stop. But having come this far, she had no choice but to see it through to the end, stating resolutely:

"Yes! You can consider that I am threatening you right now! This matter of the abyssal invasion came very suddenly, but since the standoff between Gershon City and Iron Melting Fortress is in a stalemate, and to ensure we can fight those mutated creatures, Zelandia's production capacity must be guaranteed. Therefore, you..."

But Li Wei waved his hand to interrupt, "Stop! I have no interest in hearing your pathetic demands. I am merely making a final confirmation. Do you, truly, intend to threaten me in this suicidal manner? I always thought that besides some questionable lifestyle choices, Drow were at least intelligent. But your appearance makes me doubt that as well."

"You!" Hearing her intelligence suddenly questioned, Dishana's anger almost instantly overshadowed her fear. But in the next moment, she seemed to understand something and asked with difficulty, "What do you mean by a suicidal manner? I... I just want to seek cooperation. As long as I don't transmit the message upwards, the Matriarchs won't..."

Li Wei interrupted her ruthlessly again, his dwindling patience explaining a foregone conclusion: "Wait, do you take us all for fools? With your Drow ways, since you've brought only a few weak subordinates to this lawless land of Zelandia, wouldn't your sisters have sent Drow to follow you, using this opportunity to eliminate you, a competitor who has fallen into a pit? So, assuming your first piece of news is true, then other Drow would certainly know about the recent changes in Zelandia. Now that you've revealed such important information to us, to keep the secret and delay the arrival of your main Drow force, do you think we would let you live to report back?"

Dishana's eyes widened, seemingly having not considered this at all. Like a drowning person grasping for the last straw, she said, "Wait! Listen to me, we can deal with them ourselves. As long as they completely disappear, then..."

Bang!

With a dull thud, the steam bomb, already bearing a palm print, was smashed into a shower of iron fragments by Li Wei's wave. His patience finally exhausted, he roared at the Drow:

"Shut up! Foolish Drow! Your words at this moment are an insult to everyone's intelligence present! Since it has come to this, do you still expect me to keep you alive? To let you hold this leverage and constantly lord over us!"

Her last hope suddenly shattered, Dishana, like fluorescent moss withering in the depths without nutrients, slumped to the ground. She stared blankly at Li Wei, who had suddenly transformed into a tyrant, like a desperate prisoner who had just bet their life on the gambling table, resignedly awaiting the final judgment.

As everyone excitedly awaited Li Wei's final judgment on the elf, a barely perceptible ripple flashed through the air.

"Bind!"

After the sound of wind breaking was heard, everyone looked back and was shocked to see that Li Wei had turned his head at some unknown time, and between his jagged, sharp teeth, he was actually biting an arrow that was completely dull and lusterless!

Lord Hogg was actually attacked! And this kind of arrow!

"Damn Drow! Everyone! Find the despicable sneak attacker!" The Gnoll commander Huozi roared, his fur bristling with rage.

Before anyone else could react, Li Wei, who was in his original position, had already crushed the arrow with his teeth, and his figure suddenly disappeared from his spot. The entire wolf charged towards Dishana in front of him like a siege ram shot from a ballista!

Dishana also raised her head in a daze, only to suddenly see the attacked Gnoll commander pressing down on her with the force of a gale.

"No!!!"

This was an attack that ordinary people absolutely could not dodge! Dishana only had time to let out a piercing scream of terror.

"Bang!!!"

Accompanied by a deafening and terrifying rumbling sound.

Everyone only had time to see Li Wei, whose figure was already twisted, fly directly past the pitiful Drow priestess. With one claw, he slapped the head of the dark figure who had suddenly approached her from behind and was attempting to assassinate her, dragging its body down heavily onto the ground.

The unlucky fellow's head instantly shattered like a cracked watermelon, and hot blood splashed out in a fan shape, even splattering onto Jiaer's robe fifteen feet away. It even caused the rock and soil on the ground to radiate a spiderweb-like pit nine feet in diameter.

The body inside, which had completely lost its head, was also twisted and broken beyond recognition, as if it had been ravaged by a dragon.

Li Wei, who was pressing down on it, was enveloped in thick white mist, as if he had emerged from a volcano.

Under the sudden use of such immense power, two ferocious dragon horns inevitably manifested on Li Wei's head, and his entire body was covered in patches of crimson scales. His snake-like tail, as if mirroring his master's violent mood, thrashed and ravaged the corpse on the ground.

Facing such a violent and terrifying scene, everyone was shocked into silence.

Although Dishana didn't look back, she could feel the terrifying power erupting behind her, vast as the sea, and the astonishing rise in temperature. For a moment, a pool of pale yellow liquid involuntarily escaped from between her trembling legs, causing a foul, pungent odor to drift even into the already viscous air.

"A descendant of a Half-Dragon Gnoll and a Red Dragon, no wonder, no wonder." The old dwarf, who had only recently latched onto Li Wei's coattails a few days ago, muttered to himself with a vacant gaze, filled with the relief of having survived a disaster.

"Too powerful!" Huozi also marveled at his master's strength, followed by unprecedented excitement and killing intent.

Li Wei, who had done all this, slowly stood up, spitting out hot sparks from his mouth as he surveyed everyone. "Let me reintroduce myself. I, the son of the great Red Dragon Tibilus, am Hogg Sextus! The founder of Hogg Mining, the helmsman of Zelandia. Now, in the name of my father Tibilus, I shall exterminate these scum who dare to ambush me, leaving not a single one alive!"

"Yes! Master! I, Huozi, will surely carry out your will! Follow me! Exterminate them all, leaving none alive!"

"Yes! Lord! I, Tiger, in the name of the Duergar, will surely exterminate the enemy, leaving none alive! The Hammer of Dinggelian! Kill!!" The old dwarf Tiger quickly followed suit to pledge his loyalty.

"Kill! For the Master! For the glory of Lord Red Dragon Tibilus! Kill!!!"

Seeing a group of people eager to curry favor chasing after the Drow elves hiding in the darkness, Li Wei walked with heavy steps towards Dishana, who had fallen into despair. He grabbed her by the neck and lifted the disheveled Drow beauty, causing her pretty face, tear-streaked from excessive terror, to contort.

"I truly underestimated the guts of you Drow elves, to actually set your sights on me! At the same time, you should thank your foolish compatriots. Thanks to them, I've changed my mind now."

A complete chapter, so it's a two-in-one chapter. There won't be one tomorrow at noon. Also, asking for recommendation tickets!