Sandora’s terrifying appearance and the powerful force of the Abyss were very effective. The three men who had been acting tough now all collapsed on the ground as a stench emanated from their bodies.
Sandora’s appearance had actually triggered urination.
Seeing the three in front of me about to go insane with fear, I tugged at Sandora’s dress suspended in mid-air as I said, “Calm down; the human race’s mental faculties are quite weak.”
Sandora also seemed to notice that the three boy-toys in front of her were almost reaching their limits as she nodded and slowly touched back down on the ground. However, she did not completely transform out of her Abyss-mode. As much as her body had gotten back to normal, black flames still circled the right-half of her body.
After snorting for a moment, Sandora turned her head and said impatiently, “If I had completed my study of the human mental faculties, I would have directly taken their memories to read through!”
I turned to the bald man, who had just regained a little of his strength, and said, “Let’s start with names; what are yours?”
At this moment, the bald man had determined that the three of us were what humans called mutants (he was actually rather close to the truth). As a human being, he knew he should clench his teeth and not give in to these non-humans even till death. However, facing such formidable opponents, his feeble sense of righteousness for the human race disintegrated almost instantly.
Furthermore, that female demon (I’m not sure what Sandora would think of such a description?) had mentioned mind-reading. It seemed that even if he didn’t reveal anything, these mutants would have ways to find out what he was hiding from them. Since he could not resist no matter what, he decided to spare himself some pain and agony and actively tell us what we wanted to hear. The bald man thought about all sorts of reasons for his actions and completely abandoned that bit of dignity he had as a human being.
He swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva as he carefully looked at Sandora being encircled by the black flames and answered, “My name is Liu Ming; everyone calls me Bald Head Liu. This is Old Dao, and that is Hedgehog.”
“Old Dao? Hedgehog?” I grew interested and asked, “All these are nicknames, right? What are their real names?”
“As for this… I do not know either…” The bald man answered honestly.
I was very surprised. “You do not know? Aren’t they your henchmen?”
At this time, that bird-eyed man called Old Dao saw that Bald Head Liu had already explained so much and feared that if he didn’t speak up as well, he might cause unhappiness. He hurriedly replied, “This is our organization’s rule. Everyone within can only be called by our nicknames; no one’s real name can be divulged. I also just found out that Bald Head Liu’s real name is Liu Meng. As for my name…”
“I have lost interest in your real name.” I waved a hand dismissively. “However, you mentioned some organization; you guys have some powerful backing?”
“This…” Old Dao hesitated. As much as he didn’t dare to defy these people—having spent so long in the organization and having undergone training and a brutal education at keeping secrets, these now came back to haunt him as he paused and was deliberating whether to continue speaking.
“We are part of an assassination organization!” As Hedgehog had not joined the organization for long, he had not seen how those who had contravened the organization’s rules had died. As such, he did not have as many reservations and had blurted out the truth. “Our organization is called Blood Blade!”
This was proof that in many situations, a bunch of super loyal and brave warriors could be undone by a single traitor; these betrayals had severe consequences.
“Blood Blade.” I nodded as I finally heard something interesting. “Who sent you guys here?”
The three assassins looked at each other as they said in unions, “Liu Zicai!”
“Who is Liu Zicai?” I turned and asked Pandora, “Why do I feel that this name is somewhat familiar?”
The three assassins were breaking out in cold sweat. When they had received the mission, they had thought the target was but a small fry. Even if they killed him, Young Master Liu and the Ding Family would also soon forget about him. However, it seemed as if the situation was the complete opposite. This lad was rather formidable and the supposedly powerful Young Master Liu had not even registered in this boy’s mind.
Furthermore, from the looks of it, possibly even the rumored extremely powerful and mysterious Ding Family wasn’t going to mean much to these few people. After all, no matter how strong the Ding Family was, they were after all humans; they were insignificant to this bunch of unknown aliens. Looking at the futuristic soldiers from before… the three assassin’s hearts clicked: could these three have infiltrated among the human race to conquer Earth?
From a certain perspective, the trio’s conjecture was actually quite spot-on. The only 1.2-meter-tall little lass standing next to me had made it her life goal to expand the Empire’s territories while the blond Emperor / small sister-like person next to me was a brutal dictator that had temporarily declared a truce. As the only stable peace advocate among the three, the pressure on me was immense.
Based on a majority-rules principle, I could actually be directly disregarded. As such, to say that we were a devilish band of world conquerors was actually rather apt.
Pandora seemed to not be surprised by my forgetfulness at all. Actually, ever since I got to know her, she had not revealed a ‘surprised’ expression even once. I looked as she stretched out her small hand and pointed to the ground in front. Immediately, a young man’s hologram appeared suddenly. A woman’s voice explained, “Liu Zicai, District K real estate tycoon Liu Chensheng’s son. Left his mother’s womb at 10:15pm (and 43 seconds) on 3 July 1991.
“He has a certain status in human society. He is a proud playboy that has some idle members of society and other rich families’ young men as his underlings. His battle strength is zero, and his threat to me is non-existent. His value as a target is also zero. A comprehensive analysis of Liu Zicai is as such: he is a low-level carbon-based being that could be wiped out anytime. I recommend that he can be used as target practice for new recruits…”
Damn! That evaluation was brutal!
The three unlucky assassins were stunned by this woman’s voice. Young Master Liu—who actually had some respect in society—had somehow become a living thing not even worth evaluating by these unknown alien race beings. Their pride as humans was heavily affected. Fortunately, these men were shameless and selfish enough as they chose to remain silent in the face of an unknown number of humanoid soldiers around them.
I used the spiritual connection to express my strongest objections to Sandora. Although this worthless evaluation had been created as this scene in the novel required it, this was a little too much, right?
As that woman’s voice stopped, Liu Zicai’s hologram also dimmed. A huge amount of small characters surfaced in the air. These included detailed information on Liu Zicai; this even included how much he had urinated the first time it had happened when he was young. While I didn’t know if it was the truth or not—if it was, I could only say that the Xyrin Empire’s technology was indeed formidable.
I still had some questions, however. As I believed that the Xyrin Empire’s secrets could not possibly be leaked, no one would come after me because of my identity as an Emperor. Even if this information had leaked, it wouldn’t be such low-level assassins that would come after me; it would be the navy or army at the very least, combining some artillery forces and a Rambo-like character, right? What was wrong with this Liu Zicai that he would actually hire assassins to find trouble with me? My Big Sister had almost been implicated as well?
“Why did Liu Zicai ask you guys to come after me?” I asked.
“Because…” Liu Zicai hesitated. The original, logical reason had now become rather ridiculous after knowing my identity, “Liu Zicai thinks that you have snatched his woman…”
The three of us were stunned. After that, Sandora burst out in laughter while Pandora and I looked at her with a look of bewilderment.
“You guys are referring to Qianqian?” I felt that it was a little ridiculous; Qianqian was my girlfriend from the start. What was wrong with Liu Zicai?
Bald Head Liu nodded as he then looked at Sandora who was still covered with the black flames. He paused for a while and then said carefully and with respect, “Actually, he meant this lady as well…”
Bang—! The black flames exploded.
I looked at Sandora teasingly as I mocked. “It seems as if Liu Zicai’s is rather ballsy.”
Sandora snorted as she jibed at a spot on my back that no one could see.
I could feel a wave of strange feelings from Sandora’s mental waves.
“He is a foolish person.” I grabbed hold of Sandora’s hand that was still jibing me. I then said to the three quivering assassins, “A Xyrin Empress… a Xyrin Queen; he actually dares to lay a hand on them!”