One of them asked anxiously, "Isn't this madness? You've made the target far too big!"
"It wasn't me."
"It wasn't me, either."
"It certainly wasn't me."
"..."
They all stared at one another, the panic in their eyes growing ever more pronounced.
Every person present was a hardened figure who had weathered countless major upheavals. These men could watch a mountain collapse before them without their expressions changing.
But now... every one of them was starting to panic.
The rewards they themselves had put forward were already enough to trigger chaos. In fact, they had felt somewhat reluctant to part with them even as they offered them.
But then they had thought of posting the mission themselves and sending their own people to complete it. First, it would muddy the waters; second, these things would improve the strength of their own lineages' martial artists. They would kill two birds with one stone, keeping the rich waters from flowing into outsiders' fields...
But... how had it turned into this?
Now that someone else had slipped in the Heart of the Stars, Soul-Returning Pills, hundred-thousand-year Continuity-Replenishing Zhi, and Star Soul Cake, all worth many times more than what they themselves had offered, the whole affair had changed its nature!
These things were on far too high a level!
And... they had only discovered the additions after the bounty was published.
Generally, there was only one explanation for such a situation: overlapping missions.
Every indication showed that someone else wanted this Zuo Xiaoduo dead, and wanted it even more urgently than they did!
This overlap was truly going to be the death of them.
If Zuo Xiaoduo really did perish, they would be the first to face investigation and be held accountable!
"Just how much hatred does this brat inspire? His knack for