139. iation Breakdown

  As Li Aozi finished speaking, only the howling of frost and sand remained.

  "…Are you fug kidding us!?"

  Mei Xifeng roared, followed by a displeased driver Zhang Shengnan, who immediately aimed the mae gun at Li Aozi on the ground.

  "What a pity—seems like a Frost-Pted man is just a Frost-Pted man, always taking advantage when given a little."

  Captain Uzdar shrugged:

  "Mr. Li Aozi, it seems you don't uand what 'alive or dead' means—it means you be tortured to the brink of death, and no one will care."

  "Really?"

  Li Aozi chuckled, then ged his tone:

  "Then it seems you don't want a live hostage."

  His voice was magid his handsome face made it hard to look away. Every word was imprinted clearly in the crew members' minds.

  With a practical be of up to 88.4, his extraordinary charisma was almost like a magical power or entment to ordinary people.

  "—Hostage?"

  The Wolverine crew exged gnces.

  "Du Zexin, a Beta-rank 【Meic】, ae agent of Law III."

  Li Aozi said calmly:

  "Your intelligence should know I'm an Omega Energy user. I've already used my Omega Energy to create a blood clot in his brain. If I die, my Omega Energy will fail, and the clot will explode, killing him instantly."

  This statement was half-true. Li Aozi remembered Du Zexin's injury symptoms, making lying easy.

  These soldiers, though not as clever as Du Zexin or the professor, were much more cautious in serious matters than the Law IV agents.

  "Of course, I'm willing to surrender and hand over the hostage. I don't expect to escape, just take me away from the outside world."

  Li Aozi said:

  "You've destroyed the tracks, I have no way to escape. Please take me away, I don't want to die in this desote wilderness."

  He didn't hope to deceive them off the mobile armor; he just wao buy more time.

  Especially, it would be best if he could dey long enough to send away Meibi.

  Meibi was seriously injured, and this portunity to send him back—Li Aozi believed that with Du Zexin's intelligence, he could get by more easily than himself.

  Moreover, he had already told Du Zexin part of the information about Elf Isnd. Li Aozi deliberately didn't reveal the exact location, f Du Zexin to a his own, gather the anization, and colletelligence. Eventually, disc the truth about Elf Isnd would still require his help.

  This not only paved the way for himself but also ehat Davilin would immediately have a rudimentary team upon release.

  Li Aozi remembered clearly that in the First Frost War, only with Davilin's calm deployment and and could Frost-Pted resist the Tianhuan warriors' onsught. However, due to the domestic backsh from extreme feminist forces, Davilin was assassinated, leading to the full outbreak of the Frost-Pted civil war.

  pleting the "White Frost-Pted Bones" mission was extremely difficult at this stage. Some tasks could only be aplished by uniting the four nations and all the people of Azure Star, so Li Aozi o establish a deep work of es.

  Du Zexin had to return to Frost-Pted.

  The Wolverine's crew believed Li Aozi's words.

  "Damn it... those Law IV bastards hid the missioails again!"

  Uzdar clicked her tongue. Although it was on knowledge that Law IV often cealed information to avoid sdals, hiding such a crucial detail about a hostage articurly malicious.

  Law IV was an internal intelligend anti-terror enfort agency, with a pletely different mi from the military. Some matters might involve sdals or weaknesses of bureaucratic groups and bigwigs—but soldiers didn't care about those things.

  "That's why I hate politics the most."

  Uzdar raised her hand to press the microphone, eg to Nimotin:

  "Hey, aren't you ready yet?"

  Before she finished speaking, dozens of parachutes blossomed in the sky. Law IV agents cautiously opeheir parachutes at the appropriate airspad altitude, nding smoothly and f bat formations. The highly cyberically enhanced female agents quickly surrouhe lootive. Nimoti a team to check the rear bat carriages and then turo Li Aozi.

  "Law IV agent team, Nimotin's unit, 40 should be present, 40 present."

  She casually reported into the unicator, then turo the man before her.

  Li Aozi, though unarmed and looking older with a harmless smile, still made Nimotin cautious—she remembered how he had tricked her before, esg and easily killing the pursuing forces.

  And the ibal... a gea-rank 【Biochemist】, even if not bat-focused, was quite formidable.

  Thinking of this, Nimotin stopped iracks, fearfully maintaining a distance of teers from Li Aozi.

  "Are you seriously stepping back?"

  The unication el echoed with mog soldiers, but Nimotin didn't care. Her life was her own, and risking it for a measly 10,000 Derby sary wasn't worth it.

  "The target is highly dangerous, don't uimate him." Nimotin casually dismissed. "I o interrogate him here. With the mobile armor present, I ensure he doesn't act out."

  "Haha, with mobile armor here, not a Gamma-rank strongman, still trying to run?" The meic couldn't hold back, ughing out loud.

  The mobile armor was built for war. Even a Beta-rank strongman wouldn't survive long against thousands of shells otlefield—was there anything more intimidating?

  "I 't say." Nimotied coldly.

  "More importantly, go hahe hostage."

  "No need for your reminder."

  Nimotin signaled Yavanna to step forward, leading a team to retrieve the hostage from the lootive.

  The flict between the military and the Law enfort agents was not new. Both sides beloo different systems, each vying for funding.

  Acc to Frost-Pted's stitution, Law IV was the President's eyes and ears, answering only to the President, while Law III served the Parliament. The military, nominally anded by the President, was actually managed by the Ministry of Defense.

  Nimotin, though not very intelligent, uood that the Governor wanted her to risk her life for better cyberics, requiring more pay.

  Losing face was better than losing life—Nimotin thought, her gaze towards Li Aozi being more plex.

  "I hope you've been well, Captain Nimotin?"

  Li Aozi, looking rexed as if chatting with an old friend about breakfast, still had his remarkable charisma. Even with his gentle smile, Nimotin found it terrifying like a demon.

  She shook her head, forced posure, and sternly asked:

  "You're in our hands now, so it's time to fess—who exactly are you? What's your e with the Red Arrow Empire? Where are the fidential dots hidden…"

  Li Aozi listeo her barrage of questions, calmly giving half-true answers, his attention on the car's movements. Du Zexin was carried out on a temporary stretcher by Law IV agents, eyes closed, feigning weakness.

  Nieibi, his ag wasn't worse than mine.

  Subway Brotherhood driver Zhou Liefeng also raised his hands in surrender but refused to disembark, arguing with lead agent Yavanna.

  "I've reported to the tral station, you will pay for this."

  Zhou Liefeng, stripped of his exoskeleton armor, k on the ground, hands cuffed, face red with anger, gring at the Law IV agents:

  "Attag the old era's trairoying the old era's railway, do you know how serious a crime this is? The Frost-Pted people's aors built this undersea tunnel, even after the o gealed, it still brought hope to tless people. The subway line is a lifeline, you're digging your own graves, this is anti-human!"

  Bang!

  A female agent unceremoniously smashed Zhou Liefeng's spih her gunstock, cursing:

  "Shut up, you white-skinned pig, a mere man dares to criticize. The ones who start wars are you men."

  "Stop, he's a ral party." Yavanna frowned, immediately stopping her. "What you're doing viotes the treaty."

  "Treaty? The treaty protects people, the weak. What are men? It doesn't matter how many die."

  The female agent s Yavanna, coldly ughing:

  "Hah—you, a woman, wearing ae agent uniform, defending a male pig. Are you a man-pleaser?"

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