Chapter 400: A Desperate Dog Leaps Over the Wall
"Cui Te? What do you mean by that?"
When Tao Yu arrived at the RDA command room, Treya was already there. He heard her voice before he even entered.
As the automatic doors before him opened, Tao Yu could see the situation inside.
The other people in the command room were huddled to one side, too afraid to speak, while a rugged-looking man with a wild demeanor, shirtless, stood with his arms crossed, standing opposite Treya.
On his face and body were some strange patterns, under which Tao Yu's perception could sense a lurking unknown power.
Tao Yu's entrance attracted the attention of several people inside. Treya nodded as a way of greeting, and Cui Te gave Tao Yu a mocking glance.
"So, it was you, kid, who snitched? Tsk tsk, you've got some nerve, meddling in the affairs of the Floating City. Ignorance truly is without fear."
Cui Te looked at Tao Yu with a smile in his eyes, the tone of his voice relaxed, which seemed somewhat casual.
Tao Yu was taken aback at first but then smiled as well,
"You should have a communicator, haven't you contacted the present world..."
The issue with the gray mist would certainly not be leaked, and it shouldn't have fallen on his head so soon after the incident with the mane-fierce creature.
Even if it was just Qian Hao who had been defeated in a second by him, that should have earned enough respect.
There was no need for such a condescending tone.
His words seemed to take Cui Te aback as well, to speak to him in this manner?
Who gave him the courage?!
"Oh, maybe you don't have one because you used up your contact attempts with the present world over the Pavas incident?"
Tao Yu cocked his head and gave the other a sidelong glance, he had a communicator too and had roughly guessed what was going on. His own matters weren't that important, not to the extent that he'd be notified using some special means again.
"Kid..."
Cui Te's face turned cold, just a nobody...
But he hadn't finished speaking when he suddenly felt a tingling on his scalp and was locked in by a sharp presence, the air before his eyes seeming to twist.
Domain?!
Impossible!
Before he could react further, his Spirit Perception started to alarm him, sensing some dangerous event about to occur as he involuntarily began to leak his mental energy.
Almost at the same time, his mental energy felt as though it had been slashed by a blade, scattered into pieces.
A surge of severe pain erupted in his mind.
Apart from the mental anguish, irregular red gashes appeared on his body, from which blood mist sprayed out, looking extremely gruesome.
He staggered and couldn't stand firm for a moment.
As he moved, the gashes spurting blood on his body could be seen tearing further, initially appearing faint and fine, also a bit messy.
But as they began to misalign, they revealed bone-deep lacerations!
And it seemed as if every single gash was made at the joints of his bones!
Had it not been for the fact that his mental energy was originally robust, allowing him to neutralize some of it, one strike might have nearly torn him apart.
Roar~
An ursine phantom wrapped around him, forming a totem. The patterns on his body emitted a burst of light, resonating with his bloodied, wounded flesh.
But the next moment, the phantom bear completely shattered as Tao Yu's leg whip broke through the defensive totem, striking his face.
His entire face deformed due to the violent collision, appearing extremely distorted.
He was then kicked out like a cannonball, smashing through the command room's bulletproof glass and flying outside.
But Tao Yu was even faster than his backward flight, appearing above him and stepping down onto his face, descending rapidly and harshly onto the base's helipad.
Boom~
Dust and broken chunks of concrete flew everywhere.
The terrifying force of the impact caused the concrete of the helipad to spread out many cracks, and Cui Te's head was pressed firmly into the pit.
Then Tao Yu's shadow fell over Cui Te, and tadpole-like patterns started to spread.
"Quite tough."
Tao Yu seemed to be expressing praise for Cui Te, which led to Cui Te's furious roar.
The totemic runes on his body flashed again, as if trying to coalesce into something new, but the partially formed Sealing Tadpole Letters were locked in a tug-of-war with this energy.
"Want to die?"
The two casual words, combined with the activation of True Yuan under his feet, silenced Cui Te's ferocious voice. Then, the tadpole letters gradually covered him, locking the energy inside his body.
In fact, Cui Te's strength was truly not weak, probably touching the threshold of a World Breaker.
His strength was not as great as the old lizard's, but it was a few notches stronger than the injured mane-fierce creature. Explore new worlds at My Virtual Library Empire
The fact that he could resist the Sealing Tadpole Letters was telling.
Although it was only the quickest and most convenient Shadow Sealing, it was a technique that even the Jonin Masu from the Sand Hidden Village hadn't been able to break free from before.
By this time, Treya had already jumped out of the window and landed on the ground.
S
eeing Cui Te, whose strength was still above her own, and who had been incredibly arrogant earlier, now being stepped into the dirt by Tao Yu, her expression became somewhat subtle.
Having witnessed Tao Yu's strike in the gray mist, she actually already knew that he had held back.
Temor's strength was originally inferior, and he was taken by surprise. If the other party had used that strike, Temor would have definitely died.
Now, he could consider himself lucky to have picked up an extra life.
"What's wrong with him? What the hell got into him?"
Tao Yu turned his head to look at Treya and pointed to Temor on the ground as he spoke.
"After the incident with Pavas, Miss Sun felt that Temor was somewhat involved. Although there's no evidence, she plans to expel him as soon as the teleportation device is completed."
"Tsk tsk, the big shots of the Floating City sure have it good, huh? They even have a 'get-out-of-death-free' card? Why not just kill him?"
Those words from Tao Yu, spoken so casually, sent a shiver down Temor's spine as he lay trapped in the pit.
At this moment, he didn't even have time to ponder why the other's strength was so formidable; he could only manage to plead laboriously to Tao Yu, standing above him,
"It's not like that, really it isn't! I was just furious, that's all; I had no idea about Pavas's affair."
"And you wanted to kill my pet?"
Tao Yu shifted his foot slightly.
"I didn't know it was your pet. There was an Alien outbreak, right? I was just trying to eliminate a potential threat..."
By that time, Kisame and Hikariya Yo also heard the commotion and came running over with Little Black.
Upon seeing Tao Yu, Little Black immediately ran over, limping as if he had found his backbone; he shot a glance at Temor, who was underfoot, and then suddenly stretched out his back legs, as if he had changed to dragging them instead.
He also whimpered pitifully.
This made Temor, who was being stepped on and could only watch Little Black out of the corner of his eye, widen his eyes in surprise.
You animal, I didn't even hit you!
"Alien outbreaks are your doing, aren't they?"
"I really didn't know. I only knew you snitched, which led Miss Sun to kill Pavas and now I'm being swept away in the aftermath. I came over to find an excuse to give you a beating and let off some steam."
About to be expelled, Temor was prepared to be more reckless; anyway, as long as he was not seriously going to get killed, he figured he could just slap his butt and transport to the old Development Zone, where he still was a young master.
But who would have thought that there would be someone even more unrestrained here?
How dare you, belonging to the Floating City, huh? Have you even heard of the Floating City?
Even Miss Sun is only expelling me!
Tao Yu, standing on top of him, heard this anxious voice yet didn't feel anything unusual; it seemed like the other person was telling the truth.
However, because of the previous experience in the gray mist and the misled feeling he had looking at Sun Guangyao, he didn't trust these words.
Instead, he took out a piece of human skin parchment.
"Come on, let me confirm if what you're saying is true."
Seeing the item Tao Yu took out, Temor's expression froze.
Isn't that Pavas's item?
How come it's with you?
I even borrowed that Contract Document to use it!
Damn it, you were the one who killed him!
Originally, Temor wouldn't have thought this way.
Pavas killed by some Outsider? Impossible, what kind of joke is that?
But currently, he was the one pressed against the ground.
The opponent also had two extremely strong Ninja helpers; truly targeting Pavas, even relying on life-saving artifacts, one would probably still struggle to escape.
But now, he didn't dare to utter these thoughts, his hands trembling as he cautiously raised them to sign the Contract Document with Tao Yu, and incidentally swore to keep today's events secret...
...
"It wasn't him?"
Tao Yu eventually let Temor go. The young rich girl must have had her reasons for not killing him, and Tao Yu was not one to cause trouble everywhere.
Watching the back of Temor, who limped away after drinking his medicine, Tao Yu couldn't help but fall into thought.
"Temor, at least based on his past behavior, has always been seen as a brute, or rather, his barbarian family has always been that way, often being used by others without realizing it. But the barbarian family isn't weak, they rank just below the Starshine Twelve Families, so Miss Sun chose expulsion."
"He's indeed a bit reckless; it seems he was manipulated again, without even knowing who used him."
Tao Yu sighed. The person stirring the pot knew Temor's character well and simply used a native to convey the message.
Although Temor suspected there might be a problem, his rash temperament still made him charge out angrily. After all, in his view, it was just an Outsider—even if related to the Suns, giving them a lesson and a bit of color was completely fine.
Since he was leaving anyway, he would naturally be unconstrained.
"Furthermore, if the person releasing Aliens all over the place isn't caught, Pandora World is really going to become a bit troublesome."
Aliens on their own aren't terrifying; even the strongest Alien form of the Phantom Dragon on Pandora World could be dealt with.
But the species on this side are too diverse, and the breeding speed of the Aliens is too fast.
This resulted from Pavas's death and the imminent completion of the teleportation array, leading the remaining people to act in desperation...