Jiang Si's face tightened the moment she saw Agares.
His eyes were expressionless, but inside he was panicking terribly.
When did he arrive?
How long have you been here?
How long have you been listening to this?
Did she say anything suspicious?
wrong.
It seems that when she spoke to He Yan, she used the phrase "my prince"?
No, I don't think I brought it.
Did you bring it or not?
Jiang Si felt like there were two little people arguing in her mind, one saying she brought it, and the other saying she didn't.
After the argument, she shook her head, gasped, and asked casually, "Your Highness, when did you arrive? It seems He Yan was injured by you. I got lucky, hehe, he's pretty weak."
Agares remained expressionless, his gaze sweeping over Jiang Si from top to bottom and then back again without leaving a trace.
Finally, he looked away from her and onto He Yan, who had been smashed into the pit and whose legs were covered in blood. He spoke in a hoarse and rigid voice: "He Yan has only been here for two minutes. He Yan is indeed quite fragile."
You've only been here for two minutes?
Then he didn't hear anything.
Jiang Siji breathed a sigh of relief almost imperceptibly, feeling that the vest had covered her up again.
However, in order to cover it up more tightly, she hurriedly changed the subject: "Your Highness, how many times was he struck by your lightning? It was because I heard several claps of thunder that I thought he must have been injured by Your Highness, so I slammed him into the ground."
"Three times!" Agares said, glancing sideways at the burning tail of the beast in front of him. "Can you put out the fire?"
“Sure.” Jiang Si casually waved her hand, and the blue flames on the burning tail instantly went out. “You want this tail?”
“Yes.” Agares bent down, retracted his nearly two-meter-long tail, and put it into the spatial button. “The Empire does not have a sample of the Zerg royal family.”
It turns out the tail is supposed to go into the lab.
Jiang Si didn't turn around, but pointed behind her: "It's ready-made, why don't you just tie it to the lab?"
Agares stepped forward, his dark eyes never meeting Jiang Si's gaze. "Even if the Zerg's crown prince is captured, he cannot be killed."
Jiang Si watched as Agares, who had just brushed past her, jumped into the pit and pulled He Yan out, then asked, "Why?"
Agares pulled a chain from his spatial storage, a very thin, pure black chain. He tied a knot in the chain and fastened it around He Yan's neck, whose face was covered in cold sweat and whose hair was disheveled: "Killing him means that a full-scale war between the two countries will break out."
"The Queen is old and no longer capable of fighting. He Yan is the crown prince of the Zerg and the only heir. If he dies, the Zerg will mobilize the entire nation to attack the Empire."
"There are tens of billions of high-level, mid-level, and low-level Zerg. The total population of the Empire is only 3 billion. The elderly and young people account for 60% of the total population. After deducting ordinary people without mental or physical strength, the Empire's number of people who can go to the battlefield is no more than 300 million at most."
“Once the war breaks out in full force, even if the Empire can resist, it will be at the cost of its lives. So only by keeping him here and imprisoning him can the Empire seize the initiative, lure and kill the Zerg's high-ranking generals, and carry out a slow and protracted disintegration of the Zerg.”
Okay, he's a marshal prince of the empire, a national idol, protecting the entire empire. We should think about the bigger picture.
Unlike her in the post-apocalyptic zombie era, where she would just take action against anyone she didn't like.
He Yan was pulled out of the pit and sat on the ground, panting heavily, staring at Jiang Si with gloomy eyes.
"Then you'd better make good use of this little bug this time. Can such a thin chain really hold it?" Jiang Si pointed to the thin chain around He Yan's neck. Her cheap husband was tethering the little bug like a dog, and she had some doubts about the quality of the chain.
Agares fastened the other end of the chain to his wrist, glancing slightly at Jiang Si. "It stays on, Miss Jiang. Want to try?"
Jiang Si met his gaze, her heart skipped a beat, she took a step back, and waved her hands: "No need, no need to try. I'm interested in binding others, but not in binding myself."
A barely perceptible smile curved at the corners of Agares's lips: "Is that so? Miss Ajahn certainly didn't disappoint me, and has surprised me once again."
Will he be surprised again?
Surprisingly, she was so strong that she slammed He Yan into the ground.
Jiang Si wasn't sure what the words meant, her eyes darting around quickly. She chuckled dryly, "Your Highness, I'm mainly just taking advantage of you. You said it yourself, you struck him three times with lightning. I'm just someone who picked up the scraps."
Agares lowered his eyelids and said meaningfully, "Oh, I forgot to tell you, I summoned three bolts of lightning, but none of them struck him!"
The ginger shreds cracked immediately, "..."
What does he mean?
Has his identity been exposed?
impossible.
There's absolutely no way he could have known she was his wife.
At most, people doubt her abilities and believe that she is hiding her strength.
"Okay." Jiang Si barely suppressed her breath, and the lie came out so easily that she almost believed it herself: "I admit that I'm a bit of a villain. I used He Yan to try and take advantage of me, and I used some underhanded methods on him."
"But you can't blame me. I also wanted to catch it as soon as possible so that it wouldn't affect our game. Besides, he himself said he wanted to turn 310,000 people into Zerg parasites. I think that's a bit scary, so his explosive power is a bit stronger."
"Is it really just that you have a bit more explosive power?" Agares asked in a deep, hoarse voice, devoid of emotion. "Or do you have other abilities besides plant-based and fire-based powers?"
Does her cheap husband really just doubt her abilities?
Why did she feel like there was a huge pit in front of her, waiting for her to jump in and put a lid on it?
Jiang Si made a tough decision and decided to shed an insignificant disguise to appease her cheap husband and stop him from pressing her further: "Yes, I have other abilities; my fire-type ability has mutated."
“After I was struck by the lightning you summoned, I mutated. I didn’t mean to hide it. I didn’t know it either. When I was at a disadvantage in my fight with He Yan, I used my fire-type ability and unexpectedly summoned lightning.”
"You must have seen that blue lightning bolt. But the lightning I summoned had no destructive power whatsoever, at least not against He Yan. I don't know why."
Agares' dark eyes were half-closed. After a long while, he said, "So that's how it is. I thought my careless subordinates had told you all about He Yan, making you feel sorry for your husband, which is why you didn't hold back and beat He Yan so badly."
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