"Fellow Daoist Luo, you ran pretty fast."
Ye Lin looked at Luo Rulie before him and the figures surrounding them, then suddenly smiled.
"Cut the nonsense. Leave behind every treasure in your hands and on your person, then obediently await execution. We'll deal with you afterward."
"If you honestly do as I say, I can seek lenient treatment for you. Otherwise, I'll hand you over to the City Lord."
"Then whether you live or die will be anyone's guess."
Luo Rulie sneered.
If this had been said to any other Vice City Lord, his words alone would have scared them pissless.
Yet the expressions of the two before him did not change in the slightest.
"You make it sound so righteous, City Lord Luo. I think your purpose is the same as ours, isn't it?"
Ye Lin sneered. How could he not know what these people were thinking?
Now that chaos had broken out, as the City Lord's most loyal subordinates, the first thing they should have thought of was maintaining order in the city. Instead, they had rushed straight for the City Lord Mansion.
And they had brought so many people.
Unless... they had known all along that he was here.
Otherwise, there was no way they could have arrived so quickly.
So there was only one possibility now: these people had come for the treasures, just like him.
But the fact that they had come here at the first opportunity also confirmed his suspicions. The City Lord Mansion truly did have good things hidden within it.
"Vice City Lord Ye, I don't have time to waste words with you here."
"Since you refuse to hand them over, I can only make my move."
Luo Rulie said impatiently. He had no time to argue with Ye Lin.
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