97: Chapter 97 I'm warlike, not suicidal.
Queen Elizabeth looked at Bai Cang's newly regrown hand, her silver-white eyelashes drooping slightly.
The hand was very clean.
The knuckles were slender, the skin pale.
But beneath that layer of skin, the outline of an inverted sea city flashed and vanished.
Like a tide.
Like a street.
It also looked like a fragment of royal authority forcibly nailed into the flesh.
The Queen was silent for a moment, then asked very directly.
"You just said that you have the capital to flip the chessboard."
"Bai Cang."
"What board do you want to flip?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the air in the freight station tightened again.
The sea breeze after the rain blew across the broken tracks.
The water on the ground trembled slightly.
Everyone looked at Bai Cang.
Bai Cang raised his head.
The inverted sea city in his eyes flashed and vanished.
"The old board, of course."
"Humanity's decaying order, the arrogance of the Saint, the sluggishness of the Investigation Bureau, the conservatism of The Watchers."
He paused, the corners of his mouth curling up bit by bit.
"And those self-righteous old kings of the abyss."
He spoke very calmly.
But every word was like throwing a cigarette butt into a gunpowder barrel.
Su Jianguo felt his scalp tingle as he listened.
Good grief.
This isn't called flipping the chessboard.
This is called blowing up the chess room along with the boss.
The Queen did not retreat.
She just continued to ask: "Then what about the Great Xia?"
Su Jianguo answered almost instinctively.
"The villain of the Salvation Society is naturally going to destroy the world, so what does the Great Xia matter?"
Bai Cang: "..."
The Queen: "..."
Lin Wanqing: "..."
Executive Jiang Xu: "..."
Several gazes fell on Su Jianguo at the same time.
Su Jianguo did not change his expression.
He just felt that at such a time, one must speak harshly first.
In case Bai Cang really went insane, he could still cut ties in advance.
A brother is a brother.
But if his brother insisted on flipping the pot on the table, then he, Su Jianguo, couldn't accompany him to be scalded to death by the oil.
Princess Evelyn poked half her face out from behind the Queen and blinked.
"Uncle Night Owl, aren't you Bai Cang's younger brother?"
Su Jianguo's face darkened.
This child, she really knew how to hit a sore spot.
He cleared his throat and said seriously: "If he does good deeds, then yes."
"If he stops acting like a human, then no."
Princess Evelyn nodded thoughtfully.
"So, family affection has a disclaimer clause."
The corners of Su Jianguo's mouth twitched.
"Don't you have this in your royal family?"
Princess Evelyn thought for a moment.
"We do."
"That's why I said it directly."
She sighed faintly.
"Sigh, if I were an S-Class now, I would have already kicked my mother off the throne."
"Great Britain does not need a love-struck brain."
Su Jianguo: "..."
Bai Cang: "..."
The Queen: "..."
The air froze briefly.
The Queen did not look back.
But her fingers holding the scepter tightened significantly.
Princess Evelyn immediately shrank back obediently.
The Queen walked to Bai Cang's side, her voice lowered.
"He is not that kind of person."
Saintess Lin Xinglan sneered.
Holy Light lit up again in her palm.
"He is exactly that kind of person."
The Queen turned to look at her.
Saintess Lin Xinglan's face was still very pale, the bloodstains from her seven orifices not yet fully dried, and she looked extremely disheveled.
But her mouth was still not soft.
"Why did Neon sink back then?"
"Who opened the abyss rift?"
"How many disasters has the Salvation Society created over the years?"
She stared at Queen Elizabeth, her words icy.
"Queen Elizabeth, you can like a madman."
"But don't try to wash a madman into a Saint."
The Queen's gaze turned cold.
"The emotional problems of Great Britain do not require the judgment of the Saint."
Saintess Lin Xinglan raised her hand and pointed to the sea.
That sea surface had already returned to calm.
But everyone knew that just a moment ago, a taboo monster had swallowed half of the Sea Kingdom Authority and casually eaten six S-Class disasters.
"The Saint does not have the qualifications to judge him."
Saintess Lin Xinglan's mouth curled up.
"That monster does."
"At least for now, he is acting as a dog for that monster."
"That monster will not allow him to destroy the world."
"Those things in Neon are examples."
Executive Jiang Xu: "..."
He leaned on his dark gold spear, suddenly feeling that this sentence was not quite right.
What does it mean to act as a dog for a monster?
Although he was indeed scolded just now.
Although he did indeed have the rules left by that monster in his body.
Although that monster did indeed tell him to watch the ranch.
But he, Executive Jiang Xu, had never admitted to this position.
Bai Cang tilted his head and looked at Executive Jiang Xu.
"You don't look very well."
Executive Jiang Xu's voice was very flat.
"You shouldn't have accepted his power."
Bai Cang laughed.
"Do you have the qualifications to say that?"
Executive Jiang Xu raised his spear.
Dark gold patterns crawled from his arm up to his neck.
That was the residual trace of the World-Swallowing Prison Wolf's rules, and also the abyss brand that Su Yun had forcibly injected into his body.
"I was not voluntary."
"You were."
The sea current in Bai Cang's palm suddenly stood up.
A dozen transparent water blades hovered behind him.
In each water blade, a blurry sea city was reflected.
"Is there a difference between voluntary and forced?"
Executive Jiang Xu looked at him.
"Yes."
"I am not a slave to power."
"But you are."
The smile on Bai Cang's face deepened.
"Then do you want to have a go with me?"
At this moment.
The rain over the freight station stopped for a beat.
Two forces locked onto all the water vapor nearby simultaneously.
Behind Bai Cang, the virtual and real sea currents twisted into a blurry city shadow.
In front of Executive Jiang Xu, the gravity field pressed the broken tracks, causing them to sink inch by inch.
Two people.
One just obtained the Sea Kingdom Authority.
One was transformed by the World-Swallowing Prison Wolf's rules.
One is the leader of the Salvation Society.
One is an Executive of the Great Xia.
Yet, they both carried the marks of the same monster in their bodies right now.
This was very ironic.
Like two employees preparing to fight each other at the company entrance to prove they weren't the boss's dog.
The Queen did not hesitate.
She stepped behind Bai Cang.
The silver-white scepter tapped the ground.
"Great Britain does not participate in the internal affairs of the Great Xia."
"But whoever kills him, I kill."
Princess Evelyn raised her hand slowly.
"Mother, this sentence is already very much participating in internal affairs."
The Queen said faintly: "Shut up."
Princess Evelyn immediately lowered her hand.
Su Jianguo looked at Bai Cang, then at Executive Jiang Xu.
He cursed.
"Damn troublesome."
Then, he also walked behind Bai Cang.
Bai Cang looked at him.
Su Jianguo immediately stared.
"What are you looking at?"
"You blocking the tsunami just now counts as a good deed."
"Temporary younger brother."
Bai Cang was silent for two seconds.
Then he whispered: "Thank you, little brother."
He knew it.
His little brother wouldn't ignore him.
Even though the college entrance examination was coming up, even though he still had to hide his identity, even though he was injured.
He still came.
He even accompanied him to gamble with his life in such a dangerous situation.
Bai Cang's heart felt a surge of warmth.
In this world, he might not believe in order, not believe in the Saint, not believe in the Investigation Bureau.
But he would always believe in his younger brother.
Su Jianguo had no idea what kind of touching brotherly documentary was playing in Bai Cang's mind.
He waved his hand.
"No need."
"When you stop acting like a human, I'll beat you myself."
Bai Cang smiled.
"You can't beat the current me."
Black Flame rose from under Su Jianguo's feet with a boom.
"Say that again?"
The Queen said softly: "Don't have infighting."
Su Jianguo: "..."
Why does this sound so much like the main wife mediating a fight coming from your mouth?
On the other side.
Saintess Lin Xinglan stood behind Executive Jiang Xu.
Lin Wanqing held the black day and also stood over.
The black blade hummed softly.
It wanted to return to the sea.
It wanted to return to its true master.
But Lin Wanqing held it very steadily.
"Bai Cang, that drop of water in your body is not just power."
She looked at the center of Bai Cang's eyebrows.
There was a faint black water mark there, like a mark nailed deep into the Soul.
"That is an anchor."
"He can give it to you, and he can take it back."
Bai Cang raised his hand and pointed to the center of his eyebrows.
"I know."
Lin Wanqing frowned.
"And you still accepted it?"
Bai Cang asked back: "If I don't accept it, I die."
Lin Wanqing didn't speak.
This reason was too hard.
So hard that it couldn't be refuted.
Executive Jiang Xu stepped forward.
The ground cracked.
"Bai Cang, hand over the Sea Kingdom Authority."
"I can temporarily not arrest you."
Bai Cang laughed out loud.
"Executive Jiang Xu."
"Did you lose your brain from your serious injuries?"
"If I hand it to you now, what will you use to contain it?"
Executive Jiang Xu raised his dark gold spear.
"I will seal it."
The sea current behind Bai Cang surged.
"You can't seal it."
Executive Jiang Xu's voice was cold and hard.
"Then I will destroy it."
Bai Cang's eyes also turned cold.
"You can't destroy it."
Saintess Lin Xinglan raised the Holy Light in her palm.
"Then let's try."
The Queen's scepter lit up.
"Whoever dares to move him."
Lin Wanqing slashed the black day in her hand horizontally by half an inch.
A very thin black mark appeared in space.
Black Flame spread out under Su Jianguo's feet.
"Everyone calm down."
After he finished speaking, he added another sentence.
"Although I am not calm either."
Princess Evelyn hid behind the Queen and muttered.
"Is this Great Xia-style negotiation?"
"Show weapons first, then discuss morality?"
No one paid attention to her.
Because everyone knew.
One more step forward.
This city-destroying disaster that had just ended would turn into a civil war between top powerhouses.
And Linhai could not afford a second time.
Just as the auras of Executive Jiang Xu and Bai Cang were about to collide.
A figure suddenly fell from the sky.
Boom!
The tracks in the center of the freight station were snapped.
The water exploded.
A woman wearing a black tactical vest squatted in the pit, carrying a zanbato wider than a door panel on her shoulder.
The moment that blade landed, everyone's power fields shook slightly.
A gap was cut in Executive Jiang Xu's gravity field.
The virtual and real sea currents behind Bai Cang had a short hiatus.
The Holy Light in Saintess Lin Xinglan's palm stalled.
The black day in Lin Wanqing's hand also emitted a displeased hum.
The woman raised her head.
The corners of her mouth curled up.
"Who wants to fight?"
"Count me in."
The whole scene was quiet.
Executive Jiang Xu retracted his gravity field.
Bai Cang put away his sea currents.
The Holy Light in Saintess Lin Xinglan's palm stopped for a moment.
The Black Flame under Su Jianguo's feet shrank back half an inch.
Not out of fear.
But because it was troublesome.
The woman stood up and shook her short hair.
She was nearly 1.9 meters tall, her arms were full of old scars, and she wore a necklace made of Strange Tales teeth around her neck.
Every step she took, the ground sounded.
The Watchers S-Class Executive.
Codename — Dou Kui.
Real name, S-Class Executor Shen Yuan.
Ye Qingqiu's direct superior.
The evaluation of her within The Watchers was very simple.
If she can use force, she will never negotiate.
If she can behead, she will never arrest.
If she starts talking reason, it only means her blade is broken.
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan scanned the circle, her eyes getting brighter and brighter.
"Executive Jiang Xu, Bai Cang, Night Owl, two generations of Saintess, Queen of Great Britain."
She took a breath.
"What a fragrant game."
Princess Evelyn hid behind the Queen and whispered: "Mother, she said we are fragrant."
The Queen said faintly: "She is talking about combat value."
Princess Evelyn: "That's even more perverted."
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan's gaze fell on Executive Jiang Xu.
She dragged her horse-slaying saber forward.
The tip of the blade scraped against the rails, sparks flying everywhere.
"Executive Jiang Xu."
"I've been looking for you for three years, but you've always avoided me."
Executive Jiang Xu remained expressionless.
"I don't want to see you."
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan smiled even wider.
"It doesn't matter."
"I'm pursuing you one-sidedly."
Executive Jiang Xu: "..."
Bai Cang watched her, then suddenly laughed.
"The Watchers are here too."
"This just got lively."
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan turned to look at Bai Cang.
She stared at the trace of Sea Kingdom Authority between his brows, her eyes frighteningly bright.
"You're not bad either."
"Just leveled up?"
"The feel should be great."
Bai Cang: "..."
How is this woman even more annoying than his little sister?
Su Jianguo took a half-step back.
He had experience with this type of person.
Battle maniacs don't use logic.
If you explain to her, she thinks you talk too much.
If you don't explain, she says you're tacitly admitting it.
If you run, she gets even more excited.
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan looked at Su Jianguo again.
"Night Owl?"
Su Jianguo coughed, just about to deny it.
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan had already nodded.
"I heard you defected."
Su Jianguo's face darkened.
"I did not."
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan shouldered her blade.
"It's fine, I'll interrogate you after the fight."
Su Jianguo: "..."
This organization is doomed sooner or later.
Lin Wanqing said coldly: "S-Class Executor Shen Yuan, this is not the time for you to act out."
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan looked at her.
"Former Saintess?"
She paused.
"Can you fight too?"
The black day in Lin Wanqing's hand vibrated slightly.
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan was immediately excited.
"Good blade."
"Don't die yet, get in line."
Lin Wanqing: "..."
Saintess Lin Xinglan finally couldn't help but speak up.
"S-Class Executor Shen Yuan, you're late."
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan clicked her tongue.
"That's why I'm so angry."
"The half-king is dead, and the six S-Class Executives are dead too."
"With so many of you, you didn't even leave one for me."
She looked at the sea, her tone full of resentment.
"That The Rancher has terrible table manners."
"Didn't even leave any soup."
Executive Jiang Xu said coldly: "Do you want to find it and fight?"
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan fell silent for a second.
Then she said seriously: "I'm battle-hungry, not suicidal."
Princess Evelyn clapped softly.
"She's so clear-headed."
Queen of Great Britain glanced at her.
Princess Evelyn immediately stopped.
The arrival of S-Class Executor Shen Yuan actually caused a stalemate.
Executive Jiang Xu couldn't move.
Bai Cang couldn't move either.
Because as long as they made the first move, S-Class Executor Shen Yuan would definitely join in.
She wasn't here to break up the fight.
She was here to crash the party.
Bai Cang, who had just obtained the Sea Kingdom Authority.
Executive Jiang Xu, who had been modified by the rules of the abyss.
Plus an extremely battle-hungry S-Class Executor from The Watchers.
If these three really started fighting, Linhai, having just escaped a tsunami, would immediately experience the service of Vice-Leader Lu Chen.
Executive Jiang Xu retracted his spear.
"That's enough for today."
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan frowned.
"Are you chickening out?"
Executive Jiang Xu looked at her.
"Do you want The Rancher to come back?"
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan shut up.
This was a very solid reason.
Solid enough that she didn't want to be stubborn.
Bai Cang also dissipated the phantom of the Sea City behind him.
He looked at Executive Jiang Xu, then at Saintess Lin Xinglan and Lin Wanqing.
"I can refrain from causing trouble within the Great Xia territory."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked at him.
Executive Jiang Xu said coldly: "Conditions."
Bai Cang raised his hand and pointed at Su Jianguo.
"Lift the wanted order on Night Owl."
Su Jianguo was stunned.
He opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything for a long time.
Bai Cang continued: "He contributed to today's events as well."
"I'll take the blame for the Salvation Society."
"Remove the wanted order for Night Owl."
When he said this, his tone was steady.
But what he was thinking in his heart was completely different.
His younger brother had even given up his identity to help him.
As an older brother, if he couldn't even tear up a wanted poster for his brother, what kind of brother was he?
Saintess Lin Xinglan sneered.
"You think you can just say that and it's done?"
Bai Cang looked at her.
"Then I'll just stay in Great Xia."
Holy Light shone in Saintess Lin Xinglan's palm.
"Are you threatening me?"
Bai Cang laughed.
"No."
"I'm informing you."
Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain took a step forward at this moment.
She tapped her scepter on the ground.
Her voice was not loud, but very steady.
"One of the official topics of my visit to Great Xia this time is to submit a diplomatic clarification for Night Owl."
Su Jianguo looked at her abruptly.
Queen of Great Britain continued: "Great Britain is willing to guarantee in the name of the royal family that Night Owl will not participate in any terrorist activities in the future."
Executive Jiang Xu frowned.
"What are you using to guarantee this?"
Queen of Great Britain said indifferently: "The face of the Queen of Great Britain."
Princess Evelyn raised her hand.
"And the royal family's appetite."
Everyone looked at her.
Princess Evelyn cleared her throat.
"Mother means that if you in Great Xia don't lift the wanted order, our delegation won't leave."
"We'll eat your food, drink your drinks, and live in your places every day."
"My mother will also hold a press conference every day, with the theme —"
She paused, her tone suddenly becoming formal.
"《Why Great Xia Wrongfully Accuses a Psionic User Who Contributed to Stopping the Tsunami》."
Queen of Great Britain was silent for a second.
"Although the expression is vulgar, the meaning is correct."
Su Jianguo's eyes almost teared up.
Big brother.
You are so kind.
Your international connections are truly solid.
Executive Jiang Xu withdrew his gaze.
"The wanted order for Night Owl cannot be lifted by me alone."
Bai Cang said: "Then report it."
Queen of Great Britain added: "I will simultaneously submit a diplomatic note."
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan chimed in while shouldering her blade.
"The Watchers can sign one too."
Everyone looked at her.
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan was righteous and confident.
"If Night Owl regains his freedom, I can legally challenge him."
Su Jianguo: "..."
Please don't sign it.
Thank you.
Executive Jiang Xu was silent for a moment.
"I will submit a temporary review."
"Before the conclusion comes out, Night Owl is not allowed to leave Linhai."
Su Jianguo felt relieved.
Translating this meant he wouldn't be killed for now.
Bai Cang nodded.
"That's acceptable."
Saintess Lin Xinglan said coldly: "What about Bai Cang?"
Executive Jiang Xu looked at Bai Cang.
"Bai Cang remains the highest priority wanted criminal."
Bai Cang smiled.
"Reasonable."
Queen of Great Britain looked at him.
Bai Cang avoided her gaze.
"I have other matters."
Queen of Great Britain said indifferently: "You owe me one."
Bai Cang: "I remember the favor regarding the potion."
Princess Evelyn whispered: "Mother, he only acknowledges favors, not people, again."
Queen of Great Britain: "Shut up."
Bai Cang did not speak again.
His figure turned into a wisp of water shadow and disappeared into the rain-soaked sea breeze.
Su Jianguo also wanted to slip away.
He just wanted to go home now.
Go home to cook.
Go home to take a shower.
Go home and pretend to be an ordinary middle-aged man who threw out his back moving rice and knows nothing.
As a result, just as he moved one step, S-Class Executor Shen Yuan's blade was already held horizontally in front of him.
"Night Owl."
"Find time to have a fight."
Su Jianguo was expressionless.
"I have to go home to cook."
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan was stunned.
"You cook at your level?"
Su Jianguo sneered.
"If I don't cook, will the kid eat you?"
S-Class Executor Shen Yuan thought about it seriously.
"That's not impossible."
Su Jianguo turned and left.
This person is even stranger than Strange Tales.
Meanwhile.
Linhai No. 2 High School.
Senior Year Class 2.
The rain outside the window finally eased.
In the distance, the black tsunami that had covered the sky and sun had disappeared, and the sky looked as if it had been wiped with a damp cloth, revealing a streak of pale light.
The classroom was deathly silent.
All the students were still slumped by the windows.
Some were pale.
Some were still shaking.
Others still hadn't recovered from the shock of "almost drowning in the sea."
Li Hao slumped on Su Yun's empty desk, his voice trembling.
"Where's Brother Yun?"
"With such a huge flood, he wouldn't have been washed away to the East Sea, would he?"
Chu Youwei gripped the corner of Su Yun's desk tightly.
She didn't speak.
But looking at that empty seat, she felt inexplicably flustered.
From the moment Su Yun disappeared, everything outside became increasingly absurd.
Half-king level Strange Tales.
City-destroying tsunami.
Black giant shadow.
And that voice that came from the deep sea.
She didn't know why.
She always felt that all of this was related to Su Yun.
But as soon as this thought popped up, she felt it was ridiculous.
Su Yun?
The Su Yun who could get psychological trauma just from memorizing English words?
How could he possibly be related to those taboo existences outside?
Gu Lang sat in his seat, his face uglier than anyone else's.
The Corpse-eating Dog inside him had already curled up into a ball.
The aura that had just come from the depths of the East Sea had left Sequence 033 without even the thought of resisting.
That wasn't a gap in strength.
That was a gap in the food chain.
He looked up at Su Yun's empty seat, his Adam's apple bobbing.
Others didn't know there was something wrong with Su Yun.
He knew.
No.
To be precise, he knew there must be something wrong with Su Yun.
But he didn't know the problem was this severe.
Just then.
The back door of the classroom was gently pushed open.
A familiar figure carrying half a bag of bread walked in slowly.
Su Yun's hair was slightly damp, his school uniform jacket draped over his shoulders, looking like he had just returned from the small shop.
While unwrapping the bread, he asked casually:
"Why are you all looking at me?"
"Is class over?"
The whole class: "..."
Li Hao's eyes widened.
"Brother Yun!"
"Where did you just go?"
Su Yun took a bite of bread.
"Buying food."
Li Hao's voice changed.
"There was a tsunami outside just now!"
Su Yun glanced at him.
"So the shop was closed."
"I took a detour."
The whole class: "..."
Is that the point?
Chu Youwei stared at him, her voice very soft.
"Are you okay?"
Su Yun looked down at himself.
"What could be wrong with me?"
He paused, then added:
"It's just that the bread price went up."
"Price gouging during a disaster, I suggest reporting it."
Li Hao's mouth twitched.
"Brother Yun, is now the time to discuss the bread price?"
Su Yun sat back in his seat and opened his book.
"Then what should we discuss?"
"Discuss whether your homework is done?"
Li Hao's face went pale.
The fear of the entire Senior Year Class 2 instantly shifted from the city-destroying tsunami to a more realistic problem.
The Homeroom Teacher stood on the podium, opened his mouth, and for a moment didn't know what to say.
Gu Lang stared fixedly at Su Yun.
He wanted to see a trace of abnormality on Su Yun's face.
Fatigue.
Weakness.
Excitement.
Even a trace of fluctuation after just experiencing a great battle.
But there was none.
There was nothing.
Su Yun just sat there, calmly opening his English book.
Then he looked down and saw the word on the page.
Abandon.
Su Yun was silent for two seconds.
Slap.
He closed the book.
"Forget it."
"Today is not suitable for studying."