At that moment, the pillar representing Liu Yang had completely disappeared.
Wang Hongyu's pillar was still there and had not changed much, but no matter what he tried, he could not reach him.
He Jie had tried many times, all without a response.
At first, he had wondered whether Wang Hongyu had defected to another elder after seizing Liu Yang's Void-Opening Sequence.
But he had activated the spies he had planted under the other elders and investigated, only to find nothing.
Only then had He Jie become convinced...
Wang Hongyu had probably left the Mechanical City outright after seizing the Void-Opening Sequence.
"Fuck!"
The thought sent He Jie into another furious rage.
He grabbed everything breakable in the room and smashed it in a frenzy. Porcelain, metal, glass-the sounds of things shattering rang out one after another.
Only after venting for quite a while did he stop, panting heavily, his chest heaving.
He stood there, his expression shifting for a long while.
Then he seemed to make up his mind about something.
"City Lord, are you dead or alive?"
He Jie's voice was low and cold, as though he were speaking to some unseen presence.
"You stripped me of my elder position the moment you arrived. Well done."
"Since you showed me no decency, don't blame me for returning the favor."
He took something out of his clothes.
It was a special key.
The key was pitch-black, engraved with strange patterns, with a faint dark-red glow seeping from deep within the markings.
Clutching the key in his palm, He Jie walked up to a cabinet that looked utterly ordinary and pressed the key against it.
The patterns lit up.
One after another, the twisted lines spread as though coming alive, interweaving until they formed the image of a hammer.
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