Chapter 86 Fierce Battle Among Companions
On the evening of the third day, Shuang Lingzi brought two human heads and the whereabouts of two senators.
"Why are you alone? Didn't that kid come?" Bo Yi asked.
“We’ve already sent him away. He’s still young, so he can go wherever he wants and nobody will notice him. There are plenty of orphans like him in their teens on Silverwing Star,” Shuang Lingzi said.
"It seems you people still have some conscience and are willing to take care of your younger friends. In that case, once we confirm the authenticity of the information you sent, we will immediately give you the third dose of the antidote."
"As for the fourth antidote, I'll give you a discount, half price, as long as you bring the heads of the last two people directly, and I'll give it to you in exchange," Bo said.
"No need. There were only four of us to begin with, and the last one is already dead." Shuang Lingzi said this with a hint of sadness in her expression.
After taking the second dose of the antidote, she personally verified its authenticity and immediately contacted Shadow One and Shadow Two.
The three of them were selected into the Hua Jing family in the same batch. The head of the family threw them, a dozen or so children, into the wild and made them fight over three portions of food.
At that time, the three of them were the least talented among the children in this group. It was Shadow Two who took the initiative to find her and form an alliance with Shadow One. The three of them defeated the other children one by one, killing and maiming them, and managed to survive by grabbing food.
Shadow Two was the weakest, and it was only through the combined efforts of Shadow One and her that he was able to persevere with the two of them until the end.
They were kept by the head of the family and became Shadow One, Shadow Two, and Shadow Three.
Shadow One is usually quiet and keeps a certain distance from everyone, while Shadow Two is the most gentle-natured.
He usually takes good care of her and Shadow Four, and often speaks well of Shadow One in front of them, saying that he is naturally aloof, but he cares about his companions.
Because of Shadow Two, the four shadows were able to maintain their comradeship and avoid acting independently.
But what she didn't expect was that when she and Shadow One arrived at the meeting place arranged by Shadow Two, intending to discuss how to obtain the third and fourth doses of the antidote...
However, Shadow Two had prepared sleeping pills for them.
At that time, fearing that things might change, she had already bought a flight ticket for Shadow Four to leave and had also forged a new identity for him.
She urged Ying Si to leave as soon as possible, but Ying Si couldn't bear to part with her, so before leaving, he specially bought a basket of pomelos and waited in advance in the hotel private room where they were having their gathering.
The boy leaned back on the sofa and fell asleep while waiting. Because he was a restless sleeper, he slid off the sofa, rolled over, and ended up under the sofa again.
When Shadow Two entered the private room, Shadow Four was woken up. He planned to wait until Shadow One and Shadow Three came in before jumping out from under the sofa to scare them and give them a surprise.
As it happened, they overheard Shadow Two muttering to himself with remorse: "I'm sorry, I can't betray the head of the family."
Because back when the patriarch left the four of us to be his shadows, he secretly gave me an antidote that could permanently cure the poison.
The master wants me to keep a close watch on the three of you in private to prevent you from developing any disloyalty towards him.
Over the years, I have been keeping an eye on you all while praying that you would never betray us. But I never expected that as soon as you had the chance to get the antidote, you would plan to betray the head of the family all at once.
But where can we shadows go after leaving the Flower Scenery family?
We were all orphans back then, and it was the head of the family who raised us. You are so ungrateful and heartless!
Moreover, the head of the family has already promised me that as long as I supervise you to complete this mission, he will marry me off to my cousin, Hana Keiko, from a collateral branch of the family.
Therefore, I have no choice but to drug you and take you all back to the head of the family for him to deal with.
However, out of consideration for our brotherhood, I will plead with the head of the family to spare your lives.
"The three of you are all quite capable. At most, the patriarch will delay giving you the antidote for a few days and let you suffer a little as punishment."
Shadow Four, who was hiding under the sofa, was completely stunned when he heard this.
He guessed that if one of the four of them was a loyal follower of the family head, that person must be Yingyi, because he usually worked the hardest when doing missions, and his relationship with the other three was very distant.
But he never expected that Shadow Two was actually the mole hidden among them.
While Shadow Two went to the restroom, Shadow Four replaced the three glasses of juice he had prepared for the three of them, which were laced with sleeping pills, with clean juice.
He then replaced one of the marked, clean juices with a drugged juice, and went back to hide under the sofa.
When Shadow One and Shadow Three arrived, Shadow Two excitedly told them that after being cured of the poison, he immediately left Silverwing Star with his special pass to go to a new planet and start a new life.
As expected, neither of them was on guard against him, and they both drank the juice he offered them.
Shadow Two raised his glass to them and said, "It's not convenient to drink now, but once we're completely free, we'll definitely buy a ton of alcohol and drink to our hearts' content, until we're completely drunk!"
Shadow Four watched him drink it all in one gulp, and Shadow One and Shadow Three followed suit, this time jumping out from under the sofa.
The moment Shadow Two saw Shadow Four appear, his first reaction was to run away, but unfortunately the drug had already begun to take effect, and he was not as fast as Shadow Four.
Finally, with tears in their eyes, Shadow Three and Shadow Four watched as Shadow One strangled Shadow Two with a tie, and Shadow Three burned him to ashes with a fireball.
Shadow One and Shadow Three saw Shadow Four off, and quickly completed their last mission in life—killing two people and tracking down the real-time whereabouts of the other two.
Then Shadow Three brings the results to Bo Yiyan to exchange for the antidote, while Shadow One provides backup nearby.
Actually, among the information provided by Tang Haohan, there were four senators whose security measures were not tight enough, making them relatively easy to assassinate. Xiaobai has already taken care of them in the past two days.
Bo Yiyan exchanged three doses of the antidote for the remaining eight.
Three of the heads were taken by Shadow One and Shadow Three, while the real-time whereabouts of the remaining five were provided by them. Bo Yiyan and Xiaobai had already killed three, leaving only two remaining.
These two assassinations were the most difficult. Bo Yiyan originally planned to exchange them for the fourth antidote, but unexpectedly, Shuang Lingzi and the others killed their fourth companion, so they didn't need the fourth antidote at all.
"By the way, after we finish dealing with things here, we're planning to go to the Central Star. Are you interested in coming along?" Bo Yiyan asked casually.
"You're planning to hire us? Without the control of poison, why do you trust us?" Shuang Lingzi asked in surprise.
"Heh, I think you've probably been brainwashed by your former master and turned into idiots, right? Is there no such thing as equality and mutual benefit in this world besides control?" Bo Yiyan mocked.
"Equality and reciprocity? But as far as I know, large families use suppression rings to control slaves to work and poisons to control ability users to work for them," Shuang Lingzi said.
"You grew up on Silverwing Star, and you're blinded by your own limited perspective, so naturally you don't know that there are many kinds of relationships in this world."
"For example, my wife Qiansi and I signed an equal contract," Bo Yiyan said.
"Qiansi, come out and say hello to this pretty young lady!" He raised his wrist, and a vine instantly sprang out and wrapped around Shuanglingzi's wrist.
Then she watched as the vines wrapped around her arm, forming four large characters: "Equality and Mutual Benefit."
Shuang Lingzi was stunned. There was such an intelligent exotic plant in the world!
Although she wasn't entirely sure if Bo Yiyan's claims of equality and reciprocity were true, she felt he had no reason to lie to her.
Given his uncanny abilities in medicine, he could easily tamper with the antidote when giving her the medicine, removing the poison from the head of the family and adding new poison to control them.
"Dr. Bo, may I discuss this with my colleague before giving you an answer?" Shuang Lingzi asked.
“No problem, but you’d better hurry. We’ll most likely be leaving Silverwing Star within ten days,” Bo Yi said.
“I will give you an answer in fifteen minutes,” Shuang Lingzi said readily.
She found Yingyi, who was hiding in the shadows at the street corner, and conveyed Bo Yiyan's message.
"So, you're planning to be employed by this Dr. Bo?" Shadow asked.
“They are mortal enemies of the family head, while we have betrayed the family head. As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Moreover, although the four of us are skilled in tracking and assassination, our combat strength is not top-notch, and in the future we will most likely still have to rely on a powerful force.
In contrast, I felt that Dr. Bo was more kind and generous. He didn't treat us like servants or slaves, but rather as people with whom he could cooperate on equal footing," Shuang Lingzi said.
“If we really decide to cooperate with them long-term, then these last two heads, plus the head of Alliance Speaker Herbert Dewey, three heads as our pledge of allegiance, will prevent them from looking down on us,” Shadow said.
Based on the other party's previous requests, he was able to roughly determine that Bo Yiyan and his group intended to completely eliminate the twelve senators of the Alliance Parliament.
Their ultimate target is naturally the Speaker of the Union, Herbert Dewey.
"What?! That's impossible! The last two heads were already extremely difficult to kill, let alone Herbert Dewey. It's a pipe dream!"
You haven't forgotten how countless times anti-slavery civilian organizations sent assassins to kill Herbert Dewey, and what was the result? Every time, they just sent their own people to their deaths!
We have provided them with the real-time whereabouts of these two individuals as agreed. Once they verify the results, we will be able to obtain the third antidote.
"My plan is that after you take the antidote and are cured of the poison, you should ask them to kill the patriarch before you agree to cooperate with them," Shuang Lingzi said.
"If they can solve these problems themselves, why would they need to cooperate with us?" Shadow One retorted.
"Hehe, well said!" Bo Yiyan suddenly appeared from behind them.
Shadow One and Shadow Three were so shocked they almost jumped up. As shadows cultivated by the Hua Jing family, they considered themselves to be first-rate at concealment, but they never expected that Bo Yiyan could track them down so easily.
"How about this, everyone work together to take those three heads first, and then kill Hua Jingxin together," Bo Yi said.
“The four of us will work together. You two will be in charge of perimeter security to prevent any accidents, while the other two will be responsible for beheading,” Xiao Bai said, teleporting over instantly.
At this point, Shadow One and Shadow Three finally understood just how powerful these two escaped slaves were. No wonder they were able to fight their way from the Tara mining area all the way to the West Asia branch and then wipe out the Lin Dong branch.
Now they want to eliminate the entire leadership of the Alliance Parliament. Their purpose is self-evident: they can't swallow the humiliation of being forced into slavery.
Over the years, many extraterrestrials have been forcibly sold into slavery, including some intelligent and powerful escapees. But none of them have ever been able to do what they did, and to overthrow the authorities in just half a month.
"We are willing to serve you like dogs and horses!" Shadow One and Shadow Three bowed deeply, expressing their sincere admiration.
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