"What?"
Zhang Yingrui looked utterly confused.
"You want me to agree to Xiao Zhigang's request to assassinate you?"
Qin Siyang smiled. "What, can't we put on a little show together? I've seen your World Salvation Church's preaching videos on the Forum. Honestly, I think you're a pretty good actor."
Zhang Yingrui's tone turned cold. "Impossible. If I help you fool Xiao Zhigang and he sees through it, I'll be in serious trouble."
"Six grams of crimson crystal."
"Impossible. This isn't about crimson crystal. Xiao Zhigang has complicated connections. I..."
"Seven grams."
"Qin, I still can't agree to this right away. The fact that Xiao Zhigang managed to get a Vine Heart means he..."
"Eight grams."
"I think we need to consider this carefully. Perhaps there's a better option than deceiving Xiao Zhigang..."
"Nine grams."
"No, you..."
"Ten grams. If that's still not enough, then goodbye."
Zhang Yingrui swallowed, his eyes shifting a few times before he said, "Tell me the plan."
After his conversation with Zhang Yingrui, the last visitor was Holy Son Hu Chan.
Hu Chan still wore the same world-weary expression.
"Qin Siyang, I've come to see you."
"Yeah, thanks."
"I need your help with something."
"Go ahead."
"Lend me a titan reed inner leaf fragment."
Perhaps it was because he disliked Qin Siyang.
Hu Chan got straight to the point.
Qin Siyang wasn't offended. "Lend you one? When do you plan to return it?"
Hu Chan said calmly, "The kind of borrowing where I don't return it."
Qin Siyang's mouth twisted. "Your holiness, that's not borrowing. That's robbery."
"No, what you do is robbery. What I'm doing is borrowing."
"..."
"Lend me a titan reed inner leaf fragment."
"I've already given all of them away."
"Don't pretend. You're cautious. I know you must have kept some