Xu Mo’s move was far too sudden. Forget about the people opposite them, even the kidnapped Ye Yu herself didn't react in time.
The two of them were now inches apart. Feeling Bai Feifei's breath right by her ear, her face instantly flushed red.
She naturally didn't believe Bai Feifei would actually kill her. She only felt that they were leaning incredibly close to each other, and imperceptibly leaned back just a fraction more.
“What... what are you doing?” she mumbled in a hushed voice.
Wan Qianhong turned her head to look at “Bai Feifei's” sudden action. Her lips twitched as if she wanted to say something, but she forced herself to hold it back.
Everyone was shocked. Utterly dumbfounded, they stared blankly at “Bai Feifei's” display.
Friend and foe alike, everyone was stunned speechless.
Xu Mo ignored them all and grinned at the opposing crowd.
“Hey! Did you hear me?”
“You all know how fast I can kill. I could wipe out all these students behind me in an instant, understand?”
“So, my dear messengers of justice, to save the hostages, you must comply with all the demands of this villain.”
“For instance, how about we head over to that white building right now, drag out the City Lord, the Prophets, and whoever else, and have a nice little chat to see who ends up dead?”
Xu Linyuan was completely dumbfounded.
Hovering in mid-air, he stared down at the woman “holding hostage” the eldest daughter of the Ye family. His lips trembled for a long time, but he couldn't squeeze out a single word.
“Bai Feifei!” Xu Linyuan’s voice cracked. “Are... are you insane?!”
“Did you just fucking realize that today?” Xu Mo said, picking at his ear.
“So, what's it going to be? Do you agree?”
“Dad!” Ye Yu suddenly spoke up, waving at Ye Hanshan with an incredibly self-righteous tone.
“I've been kidnapped! Hurry up and do what the kidnapper says, or she's going to kill the hostage!”
These words hardly sounded like something a real hostage would say.
Instead of calling for rescue immediately after being kidnapped, she was demanding that they listen to the kidnapper?
Are you not even going to try and act?
Ye Hanshan: ...
Was his precious daughter really selling him out this blatantly?
Over on Xu Linyuan’s side, he, Huang Xin, and Li Tai were all utterly bewildered.
Xu Mo's move slapped them right across the face.
There was no need for them to frame her with any crimes anymore; she was willing to accept any accusation they threw at her.
The key question was, could they handle it?
Their earlier words, which had used the students as an excuse to place themselves on a moral high ground, now made them look like absolute clowns.
Now that she was using the students to threaten them, were they supposed to submit?
Submit, my foot! They didn't care about the lives of the students at all. They only wanted to pin the blame on her first, then forcefully kill Bai Feifei.
In fact, they secretly wished these students would just die too!
Xu Linyuan’s face turned from green to pale, then pale to green, before finally settling on a dark, livid hue.
Even if they wanted to argue, they truly had nothing left to say.
But now, the arrow was on the string; there was no turning back. Xu Linyuan’s eyes gradually bloodshot, and he began to grow irrationally desperate.
He whispered a voice transmission to those beside him:
“Do it!”
In the next second, Huang Xin was the first to strike.
His entire body transformed into a yellow whirlwind, appearing in front of Bai Feifei in the blink of an eye.
On the game panel, Huang Xin’s level was as high as Level 69!
He was the Head of the Huang family, one of the figures standing at the absolute peak of power in Dawn City.
The heads of the five major families were basically all top-tier Edgerunners. It was just that, occupying such high positions, they lacked both the opportunity and the desire to experience life-and-death struggles.
Thus, none of them had ever become a Prophet.
Enveloped in the sharp, whistling sound of slicing wind, Huang Xin’s figure emerged from the yellow whirlwind. His fingers flexed into a claw, lunging straight for Bai Feifei’s face.
“Give me back my son’s life!”
His face was contorted in rage, and the killing intent in his eyes had almost materialized.
Settling both old and new grudges, the Huang family was the very first family to clash with Bai Feifei, and they held the most direct blood feud.
Xu Mo raised an eyebrow, a wave of disdain washing over him.
Losing his cool already? His mental fortitude is way too weak.
Just then, a purple figure suddenly charged in from the side, steadily blocking Huang Xin’s path.
Boom!
The two figures collided in mid-air. The resulting shockwave swept across the area, knocking over several reporters who were standing over a hundred meters away!
It was Ye Hanshan!
Huang Xin stared deathly at Ye Hanshan with bloodshot eyes, his voice filled with disbelief.
“Ye Hanshan... you really want to wade into these muddy waters? The depths of this matter go far deeper than you think!”
Ye Hanshan let out a laugh and sighed, his tone rather helpless.
“I don't have a choice. After all, my daughter is in her hands.”
Huang Xin’s face twitched violently, his originally decent features twisting into a hideous, inhuman grimace.
“Are you fucking kidding me?!”
“Not at all,” Ye Hanshan replied very seriously. “Didn't you see? My daughter had a sword held to her throat just now. As her father, I can't just stand by and watch her die, can I?”
Huang Xin nearly spat out a mouthful of blood.
You call what happened to your daughter a kidnapping?!
During the few seconds he was blocked, Wan Qianhong had already moved.
Bloody light exploded in the air as the aura of a Level 61 Edgerunner swept outward.
She had the lowest level among all the Edgerunners present, but she was still an Edgerunner!
“You all know exactly why you came here and what dark secrets you're hiding! If you want to fight, then bring it on!”
In the back, Xie Jin grinned, using his mechanical arm to vigorously scratch his head.
“Holy shit, this is getting interesting. Coming out here was definitely the right call. Bro, let me join in on the fun too.”
Xie Xuan nodded, for once not stopping his impulsive younger brother.
Transforming into a bolt of lightning, Xie Jin also took his stand beside Bai Feifei.
Hovering in mid-air, Zhou Qingfeng reached out with his hand. Green light surged from his palm, transforming into a massive wall of wind that separated the students from the battlefield.
The text message Bai Feifei had sent him made it clear: the Dean of Qingping had been murdered, and it was connected to this very incident.
No matter what, his purpose in coming today was to side with Bai Feifei. Since the truth had yet to be fully revealed, there was way he would let the Xu family and their lackeys kill her without a proper explanation.
Thus, he released his own aura as well, sending a howling green wind sweeping across the entire area.
“Are we really going to have a civil war like this?” he asked, standing beside Wan Qianhong. “Has Prophet Liu been notified?”
Wan Qianhong shook her head, her tone turning somewhat stiff again.
“She won't interfere.”
Zhou Qingfeng: ?
At this moment, on Xu Linyuan’s side, six Edgerunners unleashed their auras simultaneously. Behind the ramparts of the North District, turbulent currents of elemental energy clashed wildly.
The scene instantly descended into utter chaos.
The surrounding crowd fled in panic. Even the most reckless reporters clutched their cameras and retreated, desperately searching for any safe blind spot they could find.
But how could such a place exist?
If ten Edgerunners fought with all their might without a powerhouse like Liu Yun to forcibly stop them, they could easily collapse half of Dawn City!
And at the absolute center of this storm stood the only person who had not reached the Edgerunner rank: “Bai Feifei.”
Xu Mo looked at the scene before him. He felt neither excitement nor fear, only a slight urge to laugh. He quietly muttered to himself:
“This Dawn City really has a hundred fancy ways to die...”
“Are we going to unlock a new one this time? We just dealt with those natural disasters, and now we're about to have a man-made one?”
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