MTLNOVEL Chapter 466: [365] Devour Transcendent! Golden Words! (4K for monthly pass and recommendation)_2
Chapter 466: [365] Devour Transcendent! Golden Words! (4K for monthly pass and recommendation)_2
“Actually, we don’t know either,” the bespectacled man said with a forced smile. Facing Pei Jinye’s gaze, he said with a bitter smile, “I know you don’t believe me, but our line of work is to issue tasks on behalf of others. The client only wanted that kid dead, we didn’t dare to ask why. He pays, we do the job.”
“That kid is so weak, couldn’t the two of you have taken care of him directly? Why go looking for someone else?” Pei Jinye’s eyes were inscrutable.
The bespectacled man’s eyes flickered, and he shook his head, “We don’t do the killing ourselves, just pass on the message and collect a finder’s fee. It’s all profit… If you truly are someone behind Pei Jinye, I apologize. I can give you the email address of the person who contacted us, but I’m afraid you won’t be able to find him; the address is fake. I can only speak to him when he contacts me; I can’t find him myself under normal circumstances.”
Pei Jinye said expressionlessly, “There’s no need to test where I come from.”
After he finished speaking, his figure dissipated.
But the bespectacled man stood in his place, motionless.
He didn’t show the slightest sign of relief.
He stood quietly in his place.
As if talking to himself, “Once my God’s Verdict is invoked, it should hold for at least a day. Once I recover my Vitality, I’ll turn the tables. Whoever tries to kill me, I curse them with endless bad luck.”
He waited for a moment.
The bespectacled man quietly observed his surroundings.
He continued to mutter to himself calmly.
Mostly, he was introducing his Golden Body Invincible.
After ten minutes.
The woods were silent.
The bespectacled man cautiously surveyed his surroundings.
After hesitating for a moment, seemingly certain that the mysterious masked man had really left, he finally moved to the side of his companion.
He kicked him with his foot.
He wasted more than twenty minutes, not worried that the guy might die from not being rescued in time.
Fortunately, he wasn’t dead.
However, at the moment, the horse-faced man was barely breathing. Although alive, at least half of his bones were broken, and he had long since passed out.
The bespectacled man cursed under his breath.
He bent down and supported the horse-faced man’s shoulder, “I declare—”
He didn’t finish his sentence when suddenly a hand covered his mouth.
The bespectacled man’s eyes widened in horror.
“I declare—￥#%”
“Pfft!”
The moment the dagger pierced his heart, the only words left in the bespectacled man’s world were, “Into dream.”
Endless darkness descended, and never before had Lin Xicong felt his world so desolate and cold.
Then, he completely sank into oblivion.
…
Countless memories flooded into Pei Jinye’s mind.
The bespectacled man, born in North Continent, surnamed Lin, named Xicong. In over thirty years of life, he had escaped death numerous times…
Having accessed Lin Xicong’s memories, even Pei Jinye could not help but acknowledge that the man was quite a character.
“Smart guy, too bad he didn’t use it for good…”
…
Three days ago, Lin Xicong received an anonymous contact wanting Pei Jinye dead, with a reward of ten million.
The two brothers, with the guidance of the contact, reached out to the Holy Alliance’s Niu Demon King, smoothly incorporating the task into the Holy Alliance’s planned ambush.
“Could the client be a Prophet?”
Pei Jinye frowned slightly.
Their planning began three days earlier, which meant that the Holy Alliance’s move was completely within the knowledge of the person behind the scenes.
Even the fact that Han Sen would arrange for him to represent them on an outing in three days was “guessed” by the contact.
If this wasn’t a display of the Prophet Ability, then Pei Jinye couldn’t guess what the client’s capabilities were.
“A master of network technology, a Prophet, with astonishing financial resources…”
Pei Jinye sighed slowly.
Who on Earth had he offended?
The attribute panel now displayed updated content.
…
[New Extraordinary-Human Genes: (False) God’s Verdict]
[Adding Extraordinary Ability: Golden Tongue (consumes Vitality, use with caution)]
…
“I declare you healed as new.”
Under Pei Jinye’s simple attempt, he saw the Vitality Value on the attribute panel rapidly deplete by eighty Cards of Vitality.
This darkened Pei Jinye’s face.
He was precise in his execution, fully aware of Lin Xicong’s condition.
Yet he had still wasted eighty Cards of his Vitality.
“… Chaotically, can it be refunded to me?”
All of a sudden, Lin Xicong started gasping for breath, eyes snapping open like someone who had nearly drowned, desperately trying to breathe.
But, being startled by the pair of fierce eyes glaring at him, Lin Xicong nearly suffocated on his own breath.
“You… you… I’m not dead?”
He quickly realized what had happened.
He touched his chest.
After confirming there were no wounds, he stood there in shock.
“Was it… an illusion?”
He looked uncertainly at Pei Jinye.
Pei Jinye sighed.
If he had killed this guy, it really would have been a waste of those eighty points of Vitality.
He reached out his hand.
Lin Xicong quickly shouted, “I declare, the attack ineffective.”
But to his horror, nothing happened after he yelled out.
“Where’s my Extraordinary Ability?”
Before Lin Xicong could understand his shock,
“Into dream.”
Darkness descended once more.
As he felt that desolate coldness again, he was somewhat bewildered.
It seemed as if he had experienced this scene before.
But he couldn’t remember it at all.
…
Pei Jinye did not want his eighty points of Vitality to have gone to waste; had it been a mere ten or so, he might have just let him die.
Considering the man’s intelligence, he was indeed a talent.
He implanted a Demon Seed, making the man his confidant.
While stripping him of his Extraordinary Abilities, he did not let the man become an idiot, instead performing a memory modification.