The entire leadership team of Yu County left by helicopter, while Shangguan Qiangwei and the mysterious man stayed behind. Shangguan Qiangwei sensed that Ru Huan was no ordinary person and wanted to cooperate with her.
"I never imagined that such a tiny insect could have such power!"
"The situation looks very serious. I don't know if these three extraordinary individuals can handle these insects. If they can't, we'll have to abandon these places and use chemical weapons instead!"
"We need to find out where these insects came from, and then we can eradicate them!"
"Let's deal with the immediate issues first," the old man said, frowning as he watched the dense crowds spreading from Langcheng to the surrounding counties from the helicopter.
"We're almost there!" the helicopter pilot said to the VIPs behind him.
"A miracle, it really is a miracle!" The people on the helicopter looked down and saw that the surrounding area had been invaded by swarms of insects, but there was a pure land in the midst of this insect swarm. This pure land was burning with raging flames, which blocked the insects from the outside.
A group of people slowly descended the rope ladder and arrived at Lijia Village, then headed directly in the direction Ruhuan and the others had indicated.
"The people who came this time are different?" Li Xia watched as a group of people, led by an elderly man with white hair and a youthful face, walked directly towards her.
"Ru Huan? Hello, I'm from Tiandu, my name is Bai Xiaochun, people who know me call me Old Demon Bai, it's nice to meet you!" The white-haired, youthful-looking old man smiled and introduced himself to Ru Huan.
"I don't care where you come from. I said the day after tomorrow, so it's the day after tomorrow. Even if you came from the sky, it's the same," Ru Huan said coldly without shaking hands with Bai Xiaochun.
“I know we’re not here today to urge you to resolve the insect incident. We’re here to attend the funeral of your spirit slave,” Bai Xiaochun said, looking at the coffin placed in the main room.
"Oh? They're guests, Hyena, greet them and don't be impolite. Lixia, they've come for your mother's funeral, greet them!" Ruhuan said.
"Huh? Isn't this the maid from the Shangguan family? What are you doing here?" Bai Xiaochun suddenly noticed another woman on the ground. This woman's face looked like it had been scorched by fire, covered in wrinkles, and looked like tree bark.
"Old Demon Bai? Heaven sent you down?" Shangguan Qiangwei asked, looking at Bai Xiaochun.
"It wasn't assigned; it was my own choice. After all, I've been staying in Tiandu for too long and I'm feeling a bit stifled, so I came out to relax," Bai Xiaochun replied with a smile.
"It can't be that simple, can it?" Shangguan Qiangwei looked at Bai Xiaochun, trying to see something in his eyes, but apart from his smiling eyes, she couldn't see any secret at all.
"Who is this?" There was another person standing next to Shangguan Qiangwei. She felt like she had seen this person somewhere before, but she couldn't remember where.
"My people!" Shangguan Qiangwei said casually.
"What? You two know each other?" Ru Huan asked, looking at the old man and Shangguan Qiangwei who seemed quite familiar with each other.
"Not really, just nodding acquaintances," Shangguan Qiangwei said, glancing at Bai Xiaochun.
"Yes, yes, we're just nodding acquaintances. Besides, the roses of the Shangguan family aren't something just anyone can see!" Bai Xiaochun said with a smile.
"I can't be bothered with your business. This woman initially hired this person to kill us, but she failed. Now I've caught him, let's see how you deal with him. If you feel it's inconvenient to deal with someone you know, then I'll do it!" Ru Huan looked at the person lying on the ground. He looked exactly like Director Mao, but he wasn't as pot-bellied or greasy as Director Mao.
"Let's talk about this later. Let's go and offer incense to the deceased first."
Bai Xiaochun waved his hand, then led his group of people to Li Xia. Li Xia gave Bai Xiaochun three incense sticks, which Bai Xiaochun accepted. He then bowed to the portrait of Li Xia's mother and placed the three incense sticks into the incense burner. The people behind him followed and went in to pay their respects to Li Xia's mother.
When Bai Xiaochun came out with his men, the hyenas had already set up three more tables and were preparing food for them.
"I don't care about your personal feud, nor can I interfere. So whoever loses, accept the consequences. The victor is king, the loser is villain. This has always been the way of Longxia Kingdom. Defeat is defeat, and the victor has the right to deal with the loser," Bai Xiaochun said expressionlessly.
Ru Huan looked at Bai Xiaochun without saying anything, but nodded slightly. She also agreed with the old man's words.
"I lost, Ruhuan. If you give me a chance, I can let you walk around freely anywhere except in Longxia Kingdom!" Shangguan Qiangwei's voice was very hoarse, her whole body had been irreversibly damaged by the hyena's flames.
“I can manage without you. I’m not interested in any of these things. I just want to know where the door to your world is,” Ru Huan said.
"A door to our world? Does our world even have a door?" The group felt that Huan was talking nonsense.
“Yes, once I find this door, I will leave here and go find my mother, my master, and my three older sisters,” Ru Huan said, a hint of melancholy in her eyes.
"So you mean you're not from this world?" Bai Xiaochun looked at Ru Huan, a sharp glint in his eyes.
“Yes, I’m not from this world. My world is called the Human World. In the end, I went from the Human World to the Battlefield of the Gods to find my mother and master, but I couldn’t find them. Then, I ended up here in a daze,” Ru Huan said.
“We also call this place the human world. According to our ancestors, this world is divided into five layers: heaven, earth, man, gods, and ghosts. Gods live in the heavens, ghosts live on the earth, and we humans live between heaven and earth. So we can become ghosts or gods. We have many legends about people becoming gods and becoming ghosts after they die. Some animals or plants absorb spiritual energy and gain intelligence, and can also cultivate to become immortals,” Bai Xiaochun said.
"Are there still people here who have become immortals?" Ru Huan asked.
“I don’t know. People are destroying mountains and forests on a large scale. There are very few places with spiritual energy left. Everywhere, people are destroying the ecological environment under the guise of science. Places with abundant spiritual energy no longer exist. It’s a tragedy!” Bai Xiaochun said.
"Science? Like the iron birds that fly in the sky, the iron boxes that run on the ground, and all sorts of other things, like cell phones, televisions, and iron boxes that look like snakes—these things are all made by science?" Ru Huan asked with some curiosity.
"Yes, these are all made by science, all kinds of things, civilian and military."
"Could I meet this so-called science? There should have been such talents in our human realm before, but I haven't been out of the human realm for long enough to have encountered them," Ru Huan said seriously.
"Ahem, science is just a noun. It represents a person or a group. The content of science is also very broad. It's the result accumulated by countless people through experiments, and then these results are applied to society," Bai Xiaochun explained patiently.
"So that's how it is. I thought science was just one person who could create so many things at once, which meant that person was very amazing," Ru Huan nodded to show that she understood.
"There's one more thing I need to tell you. I'm here for two reasons: first, to attend your spirit slave mother's funeral; and second, to see you. There are some things we need to discuss in person. You want Langcheng, and we can give it to you, but you cannot make Langcheng an independent country. That's something we strongly oppose!"
Furthermore, we plan to turn Langcheng into a municipality directly under the jurisdiction of our Longxia Kingdom's capital, Tiandu, to avoid conflicts between you and some local people. Langcheng can be given to you, but no one in Langcheng can use or sell drugs. This is the bottom line of our Longxia Kingdom.
"I'm here nominally your superior. I know that ordinary people like us can't control people like you, and I don't want to. As long as you don't cross the basic principles and bottom line of our Longxia Kingdom, we can turn a blind eye to whatever you do in Langcheng," Bai Xiaochun said to Ruhuan.
"What if I don't agree?" Ru Huan glanced sideways at Bai Xiaochun.
“That’s easy. We’ll execute another plan. You believe me, if we’re determined to eliminate you people, I think we can still find a way. No matter how powerful you are, a country can still wipe you out, it just comes at a price, just like this insect incident,” Bai Xiaochun said to Ru Huan.
"Okay, that's settled then. I'll give it a try and see if I can spend some time with you. You remind me of one of my friends, so you're very lucky," Ru Huan said, looking at Bai Xiaochun. Just as Bai Xiaochun came up to her, she almost mistook Bai Xiaochun for Shang San!
"Oh? Really? That means we're quite destined to meet," Bai Xiaochun said with some surprise.
Nothing happened that night. In the early hours of the morning, as dawn broke, Li Xia and the others began preparing for the funeral. Accompanied by Ru Huan and the others, Li Xia's mother's coffin slowly began to move out of the house as if it were floating in mid-air...
The coffin was slowly lifted and then floated very smoothly outside the embankment. Everyone was dumbfounded. This had already violated the law of universal gravitation. A coffin weighing nearly 200 kilograms was slowly floating and moving under everyone's watchful eyes, until it arrived outside the embankment, waiting for everyone to prepare for the funeral.
"This is not scientific!" One of Bai Xiaochun's companions looked at the situation with some curiosity. He was originally a staunch materialist who scoffed at idealism, but the current situation made his materialistic beliefs waver.
The person walked around the coffin but found nothing unusual. There was no oppressive aura, nothing to support it, and it was just suspended in mid-air above the ground.
"This is simply impossible!" the man exclaimed in disbelief.
“There are people there, but you people can’t see them,” Bai Xiaochun said calmly.
"Someone's here? And we can't even see them?" The man was a little confused, but then he suddenly realized something and ran behind the crowd in fright. No wonder he felt a bit strange when he was near the coffin earlier; it felt chilly.
"Mr. Bai can see it too?" Li Xia asked, looking at Bai Xiaochun.
“I can see them, I can see them all, I’m used to it. Alright, let’s go, don’t be late,” Bai Xiaochun said, looking at the dawn breaking in the east.
Li Xia was in front, Bai Xiaochun was on the left, and the hyena was on the right. All the people Bai Xiaochun brought were on both sides of the coffin. However, everyone knew that this coffin could float in the air, so they subconsciously stood a little far apart. But what they didn't know was that there was an old woman floating above their heads. The old woman had a rope around her neck and was looking at the people below with a ferocious and very cold expression...
They were about to leave the village! Everyone's hearts began to pound. They could already hear the swarms of insects buzzing in the air. Bai Xiaochun was also surprised, thinking that Li Xia had buried her mother in Li Family Village so that she wouldn't be disturbed by the insect swarm outside. But as he watched Li Xia walk out of the village, a relieved smile appeared on his face...
"Old Demon, should we follow them?" The people behind had already reached Bai Xiaochun's side. As they got closer and closer to the insect swarm outside, they felt a chill run down their spines, fearing that they would be overwhelmed by the insect swarm as soon as they went out.
"Let's see what you're capable of. Don't disappoint me, or this Langcheng might not even be yours!" Bai Xiaochun thought to himself as he looked at Li Xia in front of him.
Li Xia has now stepped out of the flames and is standing in front of the swarm of insects. There are countless insects, each taller than a person, still wriggling incessantly. Li Xia stretches out her hands and gently pushes them away!
The worms that were wriggling frantically just moments before began to change color rapidly. The yellowish-brown worms slowly turned frosty white, and then gradually solidified, becoming a patch covered in icicles! They were frozen in an instant!
A frosty white expanse rapidly spread through the swarm of insects, freezing them all to death in an instant! Li Xia spread her hands apart, and the frozen insects instantly turned into dust, revealing a road paved with insect corpses before everyone's eyes!
"Crunch, crunch..."
Lixia's footsteps on the path paved with insects made a series of sounds, as if she were crushing something.
The hyena looked at Lixia ahead, gave her a thumbs up, and then stepped onto the still chilly road...
The group arrived at the small hill in Lijia Village, which was used for burying people. Li Xia punched a hole four or five meters deep, and then white ice appeared on the walls of the hole! The ice filled the hole, leaving an ice pit just big enough to fit a coffin.
The coffin, which had been suspended in the air, slowly descended into the ice pit. A very thick piece of ice covered the coffin, and the soil on both sides began to push downwards, as if someone was manipulating the soil. Before long, a new grave appeared before everyone, with a transparent ice tablet nearly half a person's height, on which writing began to appear...
And so, accompanied by everyone, Li Xia personally buried her mother, then returned to Li Family Village, thanked everyone, and stood behind Ru Huan with the hyena, while Ru Huan sat opposite Bai Xiaochun and the others.
“You can go back now. We’ll take care of these bugs. Don’t forget our agreement!” Ru Huan said to Bai Xiaochun.
“No rush. We can leave once Langcheng is back to normal,” Bai Xiaochun said.
"Don't you trust me?" Ru Huan looked at Bai Xiaochun, who simply smiled and remained silent.
“Now that we’ve finished dealing with Lixia’s mother, I’m now the master of Langcheng. These insects dare to run wild in my territory! They must be asking for death. You two, go and wipe them all out, leave no one behind!” Ru Huan said to the hyena and Lixia behind her.
"Yes, my master!" Lixia and the hyena prepared to leave.
"Wait a minute, I have a small request. Is it possible to salvage those sites that have already been compromised? If so, please help them!" Bai Xiaochun said.
"Aren't you afraid that some of them might slip through the net and cause you another situation like this?" Ru Huan asked Bai Xiaochun.
"We're here with you all, so we're not afraid!" Bai Xiaochun said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll try!" After saying that, Ru Huan glanced at Li Xia and the hyena behind her. The two understood each other and left, heading towards the mountains behind Li Family Village...
Li Xia held a crimson worm in her hand and infused it with her spiritual power. Instantly, a layer of white frost appeared all over the worm's body! Li Xia was released by the worm, which began to flee rapidly toward its kind. However, as soon as it touched its kind, they seemed to be infected, their bodies covered in patches of white frost, which then spread from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, from a hundred to a thousand...
Countless insects began to freeze to death in large numbers, and the densely packed crowds standing in the insect swarm were also frozen in place by the white frost, unable to move. The white frost instantly enveloped these people...
"That's a good idea!" The hyena's eyes lit up when it saw Lixia's operation, and then it copied her method, and countless insects were instantly engulfed by the flames...
Ru Huan is now sitting in the office of the county magistrate of Langcheng. The entire city of Langcheng is engulfed in a sea of fire. This sea of fire is very strange. The buildings and plants show no signs of burning, but if there are any insects inside, no matter what kind of insects they are, they are all burned to ashes by this strange flame...
Thus, the city center of Langcheng and the surrounding counties and villages under its jurisdiction were all engulfed in flames. Those people who had been ravaged by insects were slowly burned to ashes by the flames. The fire burned for three days and three nights...
"How are you? Can you still hold on?" Lixia asked, looking at the hyena.
"It's nothing, I think it's fine," the hyena said, waving his hand dismissively.
"Now that the crisis is over, you can go back in peace, right?" Ru Huan asked, looking at Bai Xiaochun and his group.
“Yes, let’s stay here a few more days. After the crisis is over, there will be some cleanup to do,” someone behind us said.
"Clean up the mess? You're coming to handle this? Is this your idea, or did they do it on their own?" Ru Huan asked Bai Xiaochun, frowning.
"We'll leave right away, right away. The people below can't speak, please don't mind. Sorry, we're leaving," Bai Xiaochun quickly explained to Ru Huan, and then left with his people...
"Sir, what are you afraid of? The crisis has been resolved anyway. Whether we keep her or not is irrelevant now. We have Langcheng under our control, so what can she do?" the man who had spoken earlier asked.
"Believe it or not, once we get Langcheng back, none of us will ever leave that office!" Bai Xiaochun said.
“Yes, this woman is capricious. She might get angry and wipe out all her people, just like that deputy county head of Yu County. He died, and if we don’t fight back, the higher-ups will send a second group to contact him,” another person said.
“The first phase of probing is over. Let’s go back and talk about it later,” Bai Xiaochun said, looking at the iconic building of Langcheng—the Zhaixing Tower.
The Zhaixing Tower is an ancient building that offers a bird's-eye view of most of Langcheng. It has nine floors and is antique in style. It is entirely built of Phoebe zhennan wood, which is very valuable. As soon as Ru Huan arrived in Langcheng, she lived on the ninth floor and planned to stay there permanently. Now the entire Langcheng is hers, and she can live wherever she wants, which is very free.
“Master, they’ve all left,” a ball of flame said as it appeared before Ru Huan.
"I understand. If they don't leave, I'll kill them all! They promised to give me Langcheng, and now that Langcheng is basically back to normal, they want a piece of the pie? What a clever scheme!" Ru Huan sneered.
"Master, Chen Ze's leader wants to talk to you!" At this moment, Li Xia came down from above and said.
"Talk? Talk about what? Isn't it a bit too late to talk to me now?" Ru Huan asked.
“It said that if you don’t talk, it will turn Langcheng back into hell!” Lixia said.
"Really? Then I still need to go see this leader and see if it has three heads and six arms or an extra eye on its forehead!" After saying that, Ru Huan disappeared from the chair.
"This human killed countless of my kind. I tricked her into appearing this time so that I could kill this scourge and avenge my countless descendants. What talk? It's just a pretext." A creature that looked like it was exuding an earthy smell sat on the first floor of the Star-Picking Tower, waiting for Ru Huan to appear.
"Are you the leader of these insects?" Suddenly a voice rang out from the opposite side of this being, and then the void twisted, and a girl appeared opposite the being.
"Are you Ru Huan, the one who killed countless generations of my descendants?" the being asked Ru Huan directly.
"Yes, it's me. Didn't you want to talk to me about something? I'm here. Tell me." Ru Huan finished speaking and sat down in the main seat.
"We have no grudge against you, so why are you trying to exterminate my descendants? Aren't you afraid of our insectoid race's revenge?" the one stared intently at Ru Huan and asked.
"What's there to be afraid of? They're just a few bugs. We can just stomp them to death when they come," Ru Huan said casually.
"How arrogant! I wonder if you have the right to be so arrogant. You're just a mere human; I can destroy you anytime!" said the insect leader.
"Come, come, I'll sit right here and try to destroy me," Ru Huan waved to the creature, seemingly unconcerned, as if she didn't take the insect leader seriously at all.
"You're asking for death!" The insect leader was furious and couldn't help but attack, spewing a mouthful of poisonous mist at Ru Huan, but it was intercepted by a burst of flames!
"I'll play with you!" the hyena's voice rang out!
The entire Star-Picking Tower was instantly engulfed in flames. The human, whose entire body was wreathed in flames, snorted coldly. Countless legs sprouted from his body and he charged towards the hyena with incredible speed!
The hyena unleashed its fiery chains and hurled them at the insect leader, igniting a fierce battle! Flames raged, and poisonous mist filled the air!
Before long, the insect leader was tightly bound by the hyena's fire chains and could not move. The hyena manipulated the fire chains to slowly embed them into the insect leader's body! The insect leader roared unwillingly, trying to break free from the fire chains, but no matter how hard it tried, it could not break free.
With a "bang," the insect leader was strangled by the fire chain, and a crimson bead burst out from the insect leader's mangled body, trying to escape, but was caught by a quick-thinking hyena.
"Please, spare me! I promise I'll never come out again and cause you any more trouble. Please, let me go..." The insect leader knelt down and begged for mercy inside the bead.
"You still want to kill my master? You think I'll let you go? Dream on!" After the hyena finished speaking, the flames in its hand suddenly turned an eerie white, with the inner flames being black.
The insect leader howled in agony in the palm of the hyena's hand, slowly being engulfed by the flames and becoming motionless inside the bead, looking as if it were dead.
“Master, the matter has been resolved. Here, take this one,” the hyena said, holding the insect leader’s bead.
“You killed this one, keep it for yourself. This thing will benefit you and help you improve your strength,” Ru Huan said without even looking at the bead in the hyena’s hand.
"Thank you, Master," the hyena said, glancing at the bead in its palm before swallowing it whole!
A very strong, earthy smell immediately hit the hyena's head, and the hyena almost vomited...
"Hahaha, you've fallen for it after all. I knew you humans were incredibly greedy, wanting to swallow an inner core to increase your strength. But you didn't expect that, did you? My strength isn't anything special, but I can control someone's head and turn them into me, hahaha... This body is like it was tailor-made for me, hahaha, I'm rich now!" The insect leader suddenly came to life inside the bead and charged towards the hyena's head. Once he entered the hyena's head, the hyena would obey him, and he could use this body to kill the human named Ru Huan.
The insect leader charged unimpeded into the hyena's head, excitedly preparing to enter, only to find that the human's head was nothing like what it had imagined.
"Didn't you want to control me? Why are you hesitating? It's already inside my head, just one step away, hurry up and control me!" the hyena said from outside.
"How can you not have a brain? This is impossible, why is this happening?" The insect leader looked at the hyena's head and saw that there was no brain inside. Instead, there was a crystal-like object floating inside the hyena's head, burning fiercely, which looked very eerie.
"Not good!" The insect leader was startled and tried to escape, but the flames had already surrounded him, and there was no chance to run away now!
Suddenly, a crystal-like object floated right in front of them. A scorching heat made the insect leader feel the danger. The insect leader hurriedly spat out a mouthful of poisonous mist to try to counteract the suffocating heat, but the crystal-like object absorbed all of it as soon as it was exhaled!
"It's over, completely over. Since you want me dead, I won't let you get away with it!" The insect leader watched as its poisonous mist was absorbed by this strange thing, knowing that it was doomed. The insect leader gritted its teeth and prepared to activate its inner core to self-destruct!
Just as he was activating his inner core in preparation for self-destruction, he suddenly sensed something was wrong. When he realized what was happening, he discovered that he had been swallowed up by something that looked like crystal!
The insect leader hurriedly prepared to self-destruct, but as soon as he began to use his spiritual energy, it was rapidly devoured by this crystal-like thing!
The insect leader felt its spiritual energy flowing towards the crystal-like object like water, which it couldn't stop at all. It also felt its life rapidly slipping away. The insect leader let out a mournful howl of unwillingness inside the hyena's head, and then completely disappeared from this world...
"Master, I feel incredibly powerful right now!" The black flames in the hyena's pupils slowly turned grayish-white! A thin layer of mist surrounded the flames!
"It's nothing serious, just an inner core. Let me tell you, what I give you can only maintain your current state and condition for a maximum of two hundred years. If you want this power and condition to last longer, you need to find this kind of inner core to replenish it. The inner core you eat can also control the spells within it. Just like the hyenas now, you can spray poison mist like these insects and control them," Ru Huan said.
Hearing Ru Huan say this, Li Xia and the hyena felt a surge of excitement, wishing that those demons and monsters would come and cause them trouble.
"Alright, now that you've taken control of the insect leader's things, drive all these insects back to where they used to be. After all, humans are the masters of this world, and we can't kill too many. Just order them all to go back," Ru Huan instructed the hyena.
The hyena nodded, then walked out...
The insect infestation in Langcheng and the insects invading the surrounding counties all retreated at once, then began to surge in one direction, and soon returned to the depths of a primeval forest. The insect infestation was completely over.
"Are you telling the truth?" Bai Xiaochun asked, frowning at the intelligence officer beside him.
“It’s absolutely true. Many of us saw this hyena, Ru Huan’s spirit slave, wave his hand at the insects, and all the insects swarmed towards him, worshipping him. Then all the insects returned to the primeval forest!”
"It seems that Ru Huan has us completely fooled!" another person said with a sigh.
"Old Bai, you said you'd take responsibility for this, so look at the state of things now. Everyone's been fooled by this woman. What are you going to do about it?" Someone who already disliked Bai Xiaochun was ready to see her make a fool of herself.
"I'll call and ask," Bai Xiaochun said, ignoring the man's sarcastic remarks and silently dialing Ru Huan's number.
"Hello! Who is this?" a man's voice asked from the other end of the phone.
"You didn't save my phone number?" Bai Xiaochun asked, both amused and exasperated.
"No, who is it? If you don't tell me, I'm hanging up!" the man on the other end said impatiently.
"I am Bai Xiaochun. Please answer the phone with your master." Bai Xiaochun could only give his name.
"Bai Xiaochun? Is that a surname? I don't recognize it!" The man on the other end of the line hung up immediately after saying that.
"Who made the call?" a woman asked.
"I don't know, they're probably in advertising and sales," the man replied.
Bai Xiaochun was completely dumbfounded. He hadn't expected that the number he dialed wasn't Ru Huan's phone at all. His mortal enemies on the other end were even happier to see him in such a predicament.
"Call the office in Langcheng for me," Bai Xiaochun ordered his subordinate with a dark face.
When he called, no one answered. He then called all the departments, but none of them answered. At this point, Bai Xiaochun's anger flared up instantly, and he left the meeting room.
"Ru Huan, what exactly do you mean?" Bai Xiaochun asked Ru Huan with a gloomy face.
"What's wrong? Who made you so angry? Where did your smile go?" Ru Huan looked at Bai Xiaochun, who suddenly appeared in front of her, without any surprise. She could also do this from thousands of miles away. As long as she had seen this person before, she could use a magic technique to find him and talk to him. However, doing so would consume a lot of spiritual energy.
"Why isn't the phone number you gave me yours? Why don't you answer my calls to the Langcheng office? Why can your spirit slaves send all these insects back to the primeval forest?" Bai Xiaochun looked coldly at Ru Huan.
"Are you a walking encyclopedia of questions? Why are you asking so many questions? I never went to your Langcheng office. And the phone number you mentioned? I've never used a cell phone, so where would I get a phone number? As for the bugs, I've already taken care of that. Why do you have to dig so deep?" Ru Huan said calmly.
"Shouldn't you give me an explanation?" Bai Xiaochun's anger was almost uncontrollable as he looked at Ru Huan's attitude.
"Explain what? Why should I explain to you? Langcheng is mine now, I can do whatever I want with it, that's what you said, what? Now you want to go back on your word?" Ru Huan looked at Bai Xiaochun's furious appearance, picked up the cola on the table and took a sip.
"Hoo... Our people saw your spirit slaves send all these insects back to their former places. Don't you have anything to say about this?" Bai Xiaochun sighed and suppressed his anger. Now was not the time to completely break ties with Ru Huan. Bai Xiaochun told himself to calm down and not to get into a conflict with Ru Huan.
"You suspect I set you up? Just to trick Langcheng into coming to you?" Ruhuan finally understood why Bai Xiaochun had come to confront her so angrily.
“Fine, since you don’t believe me, then I have nothing more to say. You think I had my spirit slaves release the insects to create a crisis, and then we took advantage of the chaos to trick Langcheng into your hands, and then scattered all the insects. Not only did you not suspect that we did it, but you also seemed grateful to us, right?” Ru Huan asked Bai Xiaochun with a serious expression.
"Isn't that right?" Bai Xiaochun countered.
"Yes, exactly as you said. We wanted Langcheng, and then you fell for our little trick. You guys are really stupid, hahaha..." Ru Huan admitted it directly.
"Bai Xiaochun, hurry up and send people over to eliminate us, hahaha... I'm waiting for you. Call more people, otherwise I'm afraid you won't be able to defeat my two spirit slaves," Ru Huan said, and forcibly dispersed Bai Xiaochun's Thousand Miles Search.
"How is it? Is it them?" A group of people asked knowingly as they saw Bai Xiaochun return to the conference room with a livid face.
"I never thought that I, Bai Laoyao, who has schemed countless times in my life, would end up with such a disgraceful reputation. Sigh... Oh well, I don't want to get involved in what happens next. Anyway, the bug incident has been resolved. You can handle the rest yourselves," Bai Xiaochun waved his hand and left the conference room looking dejected.
"Judging from this, Bai Xiaochun has failed. Next, the higher-ups will probably send us to take back Langcheng. Everyone should be prepared and not underestimate this Ruhuan. It would be best to drag the special operations team down with us, otherwise we ordinary people are no match for him," said the remaining person who had long opposed Bai Xiaochun after Bai Xiaochun's men left.
"The old demon is still the old demon. He can't handle the things he promised, so he starts using us to kill people. He doesn't have the face to turn against Ru Huan and the others, so he can only send us," another person said.
“We can also refuse and let him face Ruhuan on his own.”
"You're overthinking it. He already included us in his calculations when he agreed to Ruhuan's request!"
"What a brilliant idea—to use someone else to do your dirty work, to discard them after you've served your purpose."
The meeting room became noisy for a while, with some suggesting that we shouldn't fall for this old devil Bai's tricks.
Some argued that even if it wasn't Bai Laoyao betraying them, we should still eliminate Ru Huan and take back Langcheng, because Ru Huan is now an unstable factor in the Longxia Kingdom...
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