The voice had not come out of nowhere, because Xu Le had already noticed Zhang Ji returning.
But he had appeared too quickly. It felt strange...
He had needed to take Ai Li with him to evade the Devourer Black Insect just now, leaving him with no energy to spare for watching Zhang Ji. That was how things had ended up like this.
Was this guy waiting specifically for me? Or was it a coincidence?
Xu Le looked up at Zhang Ji, and Zhang Ji looked at him at the same moment.
He had left deliberately earlier.
It had been to keep the Devouring Insect out of his subordinates' sight.
He would wander around outside, then find an excuse to return.
That would give the insect a chance to be born without anyone discovering it. A flawless plan.
Yet when he returned, he saw Xu Le and Ai Li.
Ai Li was beautiful. Hmm... that could wait.
Zhang Ji knew Xu Le very well-the guy from that morning...
With someone like him appearing here, he could pin the blame for this on him. Two birds with one stone, two gains in one stroke.
"Go. Capture them if you can. Kill them if you can't."
Zhang Ji knew perfectly well that killing him was impossible.
First, there was the stirring inside his own body, a stirring that came from Xu Le.
Xu Le had something he needed... coupled with the fellow's performance that day, Zhang Ji concluded that this man was anything but ordinary.
There was no chance of killing Xu Le with the riffraff around him.
So when the fighting reached its final stage, he would naturally have to act himself.
As for the woman beside Xu Le... heh.
Their previous string of victories had the mercenaries worked into a