Chapter 38 How Ridiculous Is the Wrong

Mina walked ahead, while Matt and Bo pretended to be attracted to her and followed not far behind.

As Mina walked, she suddenly headed towards a side road, which led to the Dragon Sky Training Ground.

At this moment, the group of people who had been waiting at the entrance of the Longkong training ground for more than half an hour were getting impatient.

"Minister Qiu, do you think that person might be afraid of you and dare not come?" a subordinate couldn't help but lean closer to him and ask.

"Wait another quarter of an hour. If they don't come by then, I'll go back and enjoy these two slaves. I spent a full 100,000 points on them, enough to buy ten of these."

Ugh! What bad luck! If it weren't for arguing with that guy, I wouldn't have wasted an extra 80,000 points!

This is a huge loss! Tonight we must recoup our losses and make a profit. We won't be satisfied until we've tortured them to the point of wishing they were dead!

Qiu Jichuan pointed at the boys and girls trapped in cages and cursed. If they weren't on the street, he would definitely have taken his specially made electromagnetic needle and started drawing on their tender skin.

This was his favorite foreplay before he released his pent-up emotions. Hearing their agonizing screams and watching their blood smear across their bodies would excite him greatly.

Just as Qiu Jichuan and his subordinates were getting anxious, they saw a young woman in a light gold evening gown walking over.

She has a stunning figure and a bright, elegant appearance, and she is holding a snow squirrel in her palm.

As she walked, she glanced back uneasily. Two men were following her; they walked when she walked and stopped when she stopped. They clearly had ill intentions.

The woman suddenly took long strides and ran towards Qiu Jichuan. As she ran, she twisted her ankle and fell into his arms.

When Mina threw herself into Qiu Jichuan's arms, she was internally screaming: Honestly, she really didn't mean to pounce on him!

It's all because of those wedge heels. They make me unstable when I run fast. Sneakers are much better; they're comfortable and stable.

Qiu Jichuan was a regular at the pleasure quarters and had seen plenty of such advances.

However, although the woman in front of him was beautiful and charming, her eyes were very clear and honest, without the slightest hint of vulgarity.

She must be the daughter of a middle-class family, who spent all her savings to buy a formal dress in order to attend a banquet or something similar.

Unexpectedly, they encountered two audacious thugs on the way, who dared to follow the girl in broad daylight, probably planning to take advantage of her.

Although Qiu Jichuan was no good, he always paid for women or men when he wanted them, unlike those two scoundrels who would use their fingers to get what they wanted.

He despised such lowly creatures the most. Since they had fallen into his hands, he might as well grab a couple of free slaves for the mine.

Thinking of this, he first pretended to be a gentleman, supporting the girl's arms with both hands to help her stand firm, then took a step back and said:

"Miss, be careful when you walk. If you fall, not only will this dress be ruined, but if you get hurt, your parents will be heartbroken!"

Mina couldn't help but sneer inwardly upon hearing this: This man really knows how to put on an act in front of others!

If she hadn't witnessed firsthand the entire process of him and Matt arguing over who got the slave, she would have thought he was a gentleman.

If this were a naive young girl, she would immediately lower her guard and treat him like a kind uncle next door.

As soon as Qiu Jichuan finished speaking, Mina felt a lightness on her shoulder as Hua Jingyi, who was simulating a snow squirrel, jumped to the ground.

This was the signal that everyone had agreed upon in advance, and Hua Jingyi confirmed that this person was indeed Qiu Jichuan.

Bo Yiyan, who was five or six meters behind Mina, had already begun to spread countless vines from the ground the moment Mina threw herself into the man's arms.

Upon seeing this, he immediately commanded Qian Si to make those thin, ghostly vines quickly crawl from his storage tube to his entire body. The tiny, downy thorns on the vines pierced Qiu Jichuan's skin, and the poison spread rapidly, plunging him into a state of paralysis.

Under normal circumstances, Qiu Jichuan would not have been able to contract the virus so easily.

The truth is, when Mina threw herself into his arms just now, he was so focused on her that he was only thinking about how to win her favor that he neglected the vines that were climbing up his trouser leg.

By the time he felt a slight stinging pain in his leg, it was too late.

Mina could clearly see that his facial expression had become somewhat stiff and his skin had turned a little bluish, which were signs of paralysis caused by the onset of the Ghost Entangling Vine poison.

She quickly pretended to be scared, shrinking closer to him and saying in a sweet, coquettish voice:

"Sir! I was being followed by those two scoundrels, and in my panic, I tripped and twisted my ankle. Sir, could you please help me?"

Qiu Jichuan was speechless at this moment, his eyes fixed on his subordinates, trying to convey a message through his eyes, urging them to come and help as soon as possible.

But what they saw was that they were all as if they were bound by invisible ropes, each with their mouths wide open and their bodies twisting desperately.

This is where Matt made his move.

To be on the safe side, he layered his mental net three times, not only binding their bodies but also sealing their mouths and noses tightly, so that they couldn't even make a sound, let alone escape.

Using a mental net to attack is more covert, as others can't see anything. However, Qiu Jichuan is A+ level, equivalent to a ninth-tier ability. Matt is worried that his seventh-tier mental net will be detected by Qiu Jichuan, thus alerting him.

It's much safer for Qian Si to take action. After swallowing 11 B-level guards from the Tara Mine, it also swallowed some high-level energy stones and has now returned to the ninth rank.

In a battle between equals, Qian Si launched a sneak attack, catching Qiu Jichuan off guard and increasing the likelihood of him falling victim.

Of course, even if something goes wrong and he discovers it, there's always Xiaobai, a level 10, to finish him off. No matter what, he won't be able to escape.

Only now did he finally realize how terribly wrong he had been!

The girl he thought was a decent person was actually in cahoots with those two so-called scoundrels.

The girl pretended to be pitiful and ran over to distract him, allowing the two scoundrels to take advantage of the situation and attack him.

Tragically, even now, he still couldn't figure out what methods the other party had used to poison him, leaving him paralyzed and unable to move.

Then he saw the girl casually take out an open metal ring and snap it shut around his neck with a "click".

He was all too familiar with that sound and that metal ring.

Over the years, he has personally put these metal rings on countless people.

Among them were outsiders who had offended him; some were superhumans from the zombie hunting grounds who tried to sell him crystal cores at high prices; and others were young and strong laborers swindled by his branch under the pretext of recruitment.

He enjoyed putting these metal rings on them himself, and he relished their anger, sadness, and despair upon learning that they had become slaves.

He named this inhibitory ring the slave ring.

He never imagined that he would be betrayed and shackled into slavery.

Next, Qiu Jichuan watched as one of the scoundrels, Bo Yiyan, took out a large pile of metal rings and, as if awarding medals, put them around the necks of his subordinates one by one.

"You! How dare you! You actually lay a hand on the Hua Jing family! Aren't you afraid of dying without a burial place?"

Qiu Jichuan shouted angrily, but because his tongue was also paralyzed, what came out sounded like a low sob, and apart from Mina who was very close, no one around could hear him.

Mina smiled happily at him, then feigned weakness and said, "Minister Qiu, I'm so scared!"

However, I've heard that if you have this, people can get whatever they want from you. I wonder if what they're saying is true?

Mina waved the remote control in her hand, casually turned on the control screen, opened the slave number display, then glanced at the number on the metal ring around his neck, and read it out word by word:

"Number HJXY5388666 has been found, it's here!"

As she watched her finger slide to the two red characters "Detonate" after the number, Qiu Jichuan's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets with nervousness.

"Please, please! Take your hand off there! If you accidentally touch it for more than three seconds, I'll be blown up!" Qiu Jichuan was so anxious he was almost crying.

"Huh? So this thing really can explode! Okay, okay, I promise I'll be careful and not let my hand slip." Mina exclaimed exaggeratedly, but her finger deliberately touched the red text.

"Ah! Help!" Qiu Jichuan cried out, tears streaming down his face, so scared he wet himself.

Mina only touched it once before moving her finger away.

Smelling the stench of urine and glancing at his wet pants, she frowned in disgust and said to the snow squirrel, who had already hidden far away, "Hua Jingyishu, come and do something about him!"

Then she turned around and walked towards the iron cage that had been thrown under a tree nearby.

The boy and girl locked in the cage had just woken up. Both of them were filled with fear and anger, glaring at Mina as if they wanted to kill her with their eyes.

"Hey! I'm telling you, you've got the wrong person to hate, okay?"