Deng Tao walked over.
"Give up. You have nowhere left to run."
The man turned around warily.
"Who exactly are you people? You're not Awakeners."
Those strange methods of attack, those thorns that couldn't be harmed at all, those cries that could confuse the mind, and that white smoke that could make people lose their sense of direction...
None of it was something an Awakener could do.
"Us?"
Deng Tao curled his lips. "We're people."
"You know you've committed a crime?"
"Do you know whose turf this is?"
No matter how foolish the boss was, he knew they had offended the wrong people. "I really didn't know this was your territory. Isn't this just a case of one family failing to recognize another?"
If he had known there were so many people here with such bizarre abilities, he would have turned around and fled as far away as possible.
Unfortunately, there was no medicine for regret.
What was done was done, and the offense had already been committed.
This was no longer something he could settle with a few words.
Xia Yun said, "Enough. Why waste words with him?"
"We should leave one alive, shouldn't we? Otherwise, it'll be hard to explain later."
Weng Xu was much more old-fashioned in the way he handled things.
"Leave one alive?" Deng Tao rubbed the stubble on his chin. "Do we need to?"
"We don't?"
"Keeping him around just means another mouth to feed. Besides, what can he do?"
Not to mention, they had killed so many of his companions. Anyone with even a little backbone would know to resist fiercely, or lie low and wait for a chance to take revenge.
If the man held a grudge, Deng Tao might even think a little more highly of him.
Of course, that made