The Key

Li Mingyuan was silent for a long time.

Then he gave a bitter smile, shook his head, and said, "Captain Meng, do you know? I suddenly regret it a little."

"Regret what?"

"Regret not running away before you came." Li Mingyuan said, "But I also know that even if I had run, you would have caught up with me. That blue halo of yours, that ability that leaves nowhere to hide... I couldn't have escaped."

As he spoke, he raised a hand and held it out before Xu Wuyi.

Xu Wuyi looked at him, took out the specially made handcuffs from his waist, and cuffed them around his wrists.

The instant the handcuffs locked shut, Li Mingyuan felt his power being restrained.

Though for a quasi-Grandmaster, such restraint was limited and far from impossible to break free from, it was merely a formality.

What truly restrained him was the person who had captured him.

He lowered his head to look at the handcuffs, then raised it again to look at Xu Wuyi, his gaze complicated.

"Let's go," Xu Wuyi said calmly.

Outside the small courtyard, Li Jinsong and Zhou Tieshan stood side by side.

They watched Xu Wuyi escort Li Mingyuan out. Seeing the bright handcuffs on Li Mingyuan's wrists, neither of them looked pleased.

Even though Zhou Tieshan did not agree with Li Mingyuan's actions, for someone to barge into the Sky Swallow Battle Corps and forcibly take away their dignified deputy commander like this...

But neither of them spoke.

Because they knew they could not afford to provoke this man.

Xu Wuyi escorted Li Mingyuan through the compound, across the training grounds, and toward the gate.

The warriors along the way all stepped aside. No one dared come forward to stop them.

Outside the gate, the black