Yue Xiaofei's words pierced Hou Liangbing's last psychological defense!
"Having you gone is very important to me!!!"
It was neither a threat nor intimidation, but the truest sentence of death!
At that moment, Hou Liangbing finally understood that he was not facing some greenhorn he could bargain with!
Begging, showing weakness, playing pitiful... none of it worked!
The shadow of death swept over him like a tangible tide, swallowing him whole!
"No! Don't kill me!"
His instinct to survive overwhelmed every calculation and hope of getting lucky.
Hou Liangbing no longer dared to hide anything. He hysterically shouted out the bargaining chips he hoped would save his life!
"I'll talk! I know why [Skull and Bones] wants to capture you! I know their real objective!"
"They want you because you're Yue Changlong's son!"
"They call Yue Changlong the [Black Emperor]!!!"
The [Black Emperor]?!
Those words seemed to carry an eerie power, detonating over the cemetery!
Most of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers present looked utterly bewildered.
What was that?
Some title from an edgy novel?
Yue Xiaofei found it strange, too.
He had never heard that name before.
His father had been the commander of the 7th Armored Company, the commanding officer of the Ironblood Division, and a legendary test pilot codenamed [Sky God Lu]...
How could he be connected to a codename like [Black Emperor], which sounded so evil and ominous?!
Could this have something to do with that missing stretch of his father's past in Eagle Country?
Was it also tangled up with his father's inexplicable amnesia, or even his wrongful imprisonment five years ago?
An enormous mystery, an invisible web, was slowly lifting a blood-soaked corner before him.
"Xiao Tian Ce!"
Elder Xu gave the order without a moment's hesitation.
"Use the highest authorization immediately.