BXBX NOVEL Chapter 103: Conclusion
Chapter 103: Conclusion
Who\'s there?
Adam was fully immersed in the battle between these top-tier adapters, particularly the incredible power that Sadou was displaying, and he was abruptly snapped out of his reverie by the sound of the applause.
He turned toward the direction where the voice was coming from and was greeted by the sight of a man wearing an oni mask with his upper body completely bared.
The oni mask was a very clear indication of his identity, but the most attention-grabbing feature on his body was his azure dragon tattoo, depicting a massive azure dragon that stretched all the way from his abdomen before wrapping around his shoulder.
In the east, it was considered to be taboo to have a dragon tattoo on the shoulder as it was considered to be a harbinger of terrible fortune. Unless one possessed immense power that could overcome the curse of such a tattoo, it was supposed to bring instant death.
Not only was this man\'s dragon tattoo coiled around his shoulder, its facial features were extremely menacing, and the fact that his psychic body bore such a vicious tattoo in the psychic world was an indication of the man\'s immense self-confidence and the absolute control he had over his own fate.
"I didn\'t think you would come as well, Oni-faced Dragon."
"Things are getting out of hand, so I had no choice but to come. Ever since that run-in between the northern and southern congresses, it\'s already been a very long time since this many people have died. As I\'m sure you\'re aware, it\'s not just money on the line this time. Instead, our actions will have a direct bearing on the power balance of adapters."
Oni-faced Dragon? Who could that be?
Adam was watching the masked man while speculating about his identity.
Cowboy had once told him that the Oni Organization had a Dragon, eight Onis, and 36 Tigers. Adam had already seen two of the eight Onis, and both of them were elite adapters.
As for the masked man, his aura and the reactions displayed by everyone else in the face of his arrival were both clear indications of his identity. He was the Dragon of the Oni Organization, the true leader of the hitman organization.
"We don\'t have much time left. Is it a fight that you want, or are you going to let us go?"
Sadou seemed to be unable to maintain his Great Sage form for very long, and while he was speaking with Oni-faced Dragon, his psychic body had already reverted back to its original form. "Now that you\'re here, of course I\'m going to have to let you all go."
"Good. Also, we\'re taking him with us," Oni-faced Dragon declared as he pointed at Hook.
Hook immediately let loose an anguished wail upon hearing this. "No! Please! Why do you want me? Isn\'t it the footage that you want? I can give it to you! I didn\'t dare to make any copies of it, and I haven\'t uploaded it to the internet, either. How about this? I\'ll toss all of my video equipment out of the car later, and we can all just forget that this ever happened!"
"I still haven\'t said anything yet!" Sadou protested in an exasperated manner, then turned to Dragon. "Having said that, I agree with his proposal. What about you?"
"I\'m taking him with me."
"You can try!"
Sadou adjusted his taoist robe as he stared intently at Oni-faced Dragon.
A silent impasse ensued between the two of them for about five seconds. At this point, all of the pedestrians and cars in the area had already fled the scene in accordance with the laws of behavioral logic in the psychic world.
It was only five seconds, but for Hook, it felt like five minutes.
He knew that judgment was being passed on his life.
"Fine, I\'ll allow it," Oni-faced Dragon conceded, then turned to Hook as he continued, "If you withhold any data, I will come to find you in person!"
Immediately thereafter, he departed from the psychic world with Oni no Miko and Oni no Hanzou.
At the same time, Adam and the others opened their eyes in the real world.
They were still in the self-driving bulletproof car, which was traveling very slowly along the road. There was an indentation on the side car window that had been left behind by an unknown object, and it was the source of that feeling of impact that everyone had experienced in the psychic world.
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However, no one paid any heed to the indentation, and they immediately began discussing what to do next.
"Are we really just going to hand over the footage?"
Adam was very reluctant to comply with the enemy\'s demands. At this point, it was clear that the southern congress and the psychic mutants were co-conspirators, and this footage was the key to exposing this conspiracy to the entire world.
"Of course! Did you not see how strong those people were? I\'m not taking any risks!"
Hook was frantically looking around, and he wasn\'t even considering the question of whether he was going to hand over the footage or not. Instead, he had already progressed to the next step, which was considering exactly how he was going to hand over the footage. He pulled out the psychic world footage capture device before looking around again.
"How do I give them the footage?"
Shortly thereafter, an answer to his question arrived in the form of a mechanical bee delivery agent. The mechanical bee hovered outside the car window, and the parcel chamber on its abdomen sprang open as it repeated the same instruction over and over again.
"Please place the parcel that needs to be sent in the parcel chamber..."
"Please place the parcel that needs to be sent in the parcel chamber..."
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"This must be it!"
The car was still driving along, and a large-scale psychic battle had just taken place here, so surely there was no one who needed to post a parcel. As soon as Hook saw the delivery bee, he immediately opened his car window before anyone had a chance to stop him.
"Let\'s think about this first."
"Think my arse! I don\'t want any part in this! All I want is to enjoy life!"
Hook tried to place the footage capture device into the mechanical delivery bee\'s parcel chamber as he spoke, but as soon as he reached out, both Shi Feng and Red Spider grabbed onto his arm to stop him.
"You don\'t get to call the shots here!"
Shi Feng was a congressman, while Red Spider was a bodyguard for hire from the pawn shop. Neither of them had any attachment to Hook, and they were both cold-blooded professionals who were dedicated to their cause above all else.
Back when Adam first awakened, Red Spider had watched dozens of people lose their lives just so she could coax him into the car.
When it came to ruthlessness, the northern congress was only going to be more extreme than the pawn shop.
The fact that both of them were stopping Hook at once was a clear indication that they regarded the footage to be more valuable than his life.
"What are you doing?" Hook was no idiot, and he immediately realized the situation that he was in. "I\'m dead if I don\'t hand over the footage!"
His words fell upon deaf ears.
The two people he was pleading with had no regard for his life, so it didn\'t matter how many times he emphasized that point to them.
Adam didn\'t want to see Hook die, so he explored the problem from a different angle.
"Do we know why Sadou let them go just now?"
"We can only assume that he wasn\'t confident in his ability to beat them," Red Spider replied. "Alternatively, perhaps he could fight them to the death, but he\'s only doing this for money, so he wouldn\'t take such a great risk lightly. The combination of Oni-faced Dragon and two elite hitmen definitely isn\'t one to be messed with."
"Then do we know why Oni-faced Dragon was in such a hurry to leave?"
"That\'s because there are Mechguard officers monitoring the situation outside, so he doesn\'t want any battle to go on for longer than five minutes."
"Alright, so from this, we can determine that Sadou isn\'t willing to risk his life for this cause. I know Sadou personally, and his personality is very similar to Hook\'s. He\'s a big enjoyer of life, so there\'s no way that he would step in to help us more than once against someone as powerful as Oni-faced Dragon. If we don\'t follow through on our agreement, I\'m certain that Sadou wouldn\'t fight Oni-faced Dragon to the death for our sake." Adam pointed at the mechanical bee outside, which was becoming more and more insistent as it continued to urge Hook to place the footage capture device into its parcel chamber. "Oni-faced Dragon is clearly in a hurry to finish things here. If we delay any longer, we could be killed at any moment. With Miko and Hanzou on his side, I\'m guessing it won\'t even take them 10 seconds to kill all of us, so you\'d better consider our situation carefully."
"You\'re right, but if we make a copy of the footage..." Before Red Spider had a chance to finish, the mechanical delivery bee\'s eyes gradually began to glow red, and she immediately changed her mind upon seeing this. "Fine, I\'ll allow it."
"I guess we have no choice," Shi Feng also conceded.
Thus, the two of them released Hook\'s arm, and he eagerly placed the footage capture device into the parcel chamber.
Everyone watched the mechanical bee fly away, and after waiting for some time, they were finally able to confirm that they were safe.