Since the negotiations had already fallen apart, Belon decided to drop the act.
He laid out his grand ambitions, explaining what he needed Shi Li's abilities for.
"Don't waste my time with such obvious goals."
"Then let me ask you, for you to achieve all this, what price will Lili have to pay?" But Bai Qingye wasn't buying it. He cut Belon off, refusing to listen to his grand, ambitious pitch.
Because none of it meant anything to him.
Bai Qingye couldn't have cared less about any of it.
"She won't have to sacrifice anything. I'm not going to take her life."
"Just extracting her ability, plus a few small modifications to her body."
"But the purpose of the modifications is to allow her to better withstand the backlash." Belon said it so casually, as if the Shi Li he spoke of wasn't a living, breathing person.
More like a lab rat. And he, the researcher, even expected this lab rat not to die from the experiment, but to be eternally grateful to him for sparing its life.
