"You...aren't you in pain?"
Yan Changshou, his smile vanishing, looked at Fang Xiu, who remained calm, and finally managed to utter these three words.
Should I be in pain?
A rhetorical question nearly choked Yan Changshou to death.
"This is impossible! How could you not be in pain? How could you not be in pain?" Enraged, Yan Changshou intensified his curses.
Then... the power of pain within Fang Xiu's body grew even more intensely.
Seeing Yan Changshou gradually going insane, Fang Xiu decided to give him a way out in order to extract information about the plan.
"Stop your ridiculous tricks. I am born without emotions. I have no emotions, so naturally I cannot feel fear or pain."
Yan Changshou's increasingly manic expression faltered slightly. Emotional deprivation? Inability to feel pain?
Considering Fang Xiu's previous unwavering agreement to cooperate, it seemed that what the other party said made some sense.
This explains why Fang Xiu, despite being very sincere, showed no fear in his words and instead displayed contempt. It turns out that he lacked emotional intelligence and didn't know what fear was.
So it turns out they didn't mean to mess with me, but why am I still so angry!
call!
Yan Changshou took a deep breath and slowly calmed himself down.
"Since you lack emotions and have no fear or pain, why would you hand over the original mask and choose to cooperate with me? Logically speaking, someone like you shouldn't be threatened."
After he finished speaking, he stared intently at Fang Xiu, as if trying to discern something.
Fang Xiu could easily come up with dozens of reasons for such a simple question.
"You should be aware that I also have a cooperative relationship with the Poker Organization, which is why your previous assassination attempt on me failed. After all, the ability to foresee the future is highly sought after by any faction."
Yan Changshou nodded thoughtfully, agreeing with this point. That was the ability to foresee the future, and everyone would want to recruit such a talent.
Even he himself was like that, which is why he didn't kill Fang Xiu even after obtaining the Original Mask. It wasn't just to get Fang Xiu to kill the head of headquarters, but more so because he wanted to use his ability to foresee the future.
"The playing cards want to use my abilities, and I also want to use their abilities to help myself become more monstrous. Monstrous, in the end, also has the desire to kill and all kinds of negative emotions. As a human, I have no emotions at all. Although I have long been used to it, there was a time when I longed to experience human emotions."
"You became a monster to experience human emotions?" Yan Changshou's expression was as strange as it could be.
"Do you want to listen to what you're saying?"
Fang Xiu glanced at him calmly and said indifferently, "I don't blame you for not understanding, but you, who have emotions, are not worthy of questioning."
Yan Changshou's face darkened instantly, and the killing intent in his heart was stirring. He was no longer human, and his heart was filled with all sorts of negative emotions. If an ordinary person had dared to speak to him like that, he would have killed them long ago.
But Fang Xiu is different; he still has value to be used.
Moreover, Fang Xiu felt no fear or pain, which meant that all threats were useless.
"Good, very good. Since you want to become a monster, why hand over the Primal Mask? With the Primal Mask, you only need to slowly integrate to achieve perfect monsterization."
Fang Xiu looked at Yan Changshou as if he were an idiot.
Yan Changshou was furious when he saw this.
"Didn't you tell me to pay it?"
"I'm so angry... Ugh..." Yan Changshou suppressed his anger and said, "Aren't you emotionless? Why are you afraid of my threats? You'll just hand it over when I tell you to?"
“Being unafraid of death and not wanting to die are two different concepts. The hope of becoming supernatural is right in front of me, so why would I seek death? Aren't your and the Poker Card Organization's goals the same: to make everyone supernatural? In that case, I'll just wait. Is there a problem with that?”
Fang Xiu's simple words left Yan Changshou speechless, because he realized that what the other party said actually made some sense.
His face turned pale and then red, and after a long silence, he finally managed to utter three words: "No problem."
After saying those three words, Yan Changshou no longer wanted to chat with Fang Xiu, because he could barely suppress the strange power within him. He felt that if he continued talking, he might really lose his temper and start to fight, but for the sake of the plan, he couldn't do it.
Therefore, he planned to keep it brief, quickly finish explaining the task, and get Fang Xiu out of here.
call!
Yan Changshou took another deep breath, suppressing the raging killing intent in his heart, and hurriedly got to the point: "Fang Xiu, since we have the same goal, I won't waste any more time. Your task is to kill him with your scalpel tomorrow night when the head of headquarters awards you the spiritual weapon."
"It's that simple?"
"The most sophisticated assassinations often employ the simplest methods. Didn't Jing Ke assassinate the King of Qin using only a map wrapped around a dagger?"
"Well, and then it failed."
"That's why I didn't let you take the map."
The conversation between the two fell into a brief silence.
A moment later, Fang Xiu broke the deadlock.
What is a spiritual artifact?
Upon hearing the words "spiritual artifact," a glint of greed flashed in Yan Changshou's eyes, and he involuntarily stuck out his snake-like tongue and licked his lips.
“Spiritual artifacts are mysterious objects passed down from ancient times.”
Fang Xiu's heart skipped a beat. An ancient artifact? The era that Zhou Qingfeng ended? Or even earlier?
"Ancient artifacts are still artifacts, so why change their names?"
Yan Changshou shook his head at this moment: "There is a fundamental difference between spiritual artifacts and magical artifacts. Using magical artifacts too much will erode the mind of the spirit master. It can be said that they are not compatible with humans. But spiritual artifacts are different. They generally have greater power than magical artifacts and rarely cause pollution to the mind."
In other words, supernatural artifacts are more suitable for use by the supernatural, while magical artifacts are more suitable for human use.
Upon hearing this, Fang Xiu immediately lost interest in magical artifacts; a weapon that cannot corrupt the mind is not a good weapon.
Yan Changshou sighed slightly, "I wonder what kind of extraordinary skills the Spirit Masters of the past possessed that allowed them to create such powerful weapons as spirit artifacts."
powerful?
This piqued Fang Xiu's interest. Judging from Yan Changshou's words, it seemed that the power of the spiritual weapon was extraordinary, to the point that it could make a fourth-level spirit master show such an expression.
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