...
Hearing Ning Rongrong's extremely cunning suggestion, Xuan Hao remained silent for a full five seconds.
Then.
Under the almost ghostly gazes of Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Na'er, Xuan Hao casually wiped his hand on the storage soul tool at his waist.
"Whoosh."
A tattered burlap sack, whose contents were unknown, appeared conspicuously in his hand.
"..."
Xiao Wu and the other two were completely dumbfounded, their eyes practically popping out of their sockets.
Seriously? Bro, are you serious?!
"cough..."
Seeing the three girls looking at him like he was a pervert, Xuan Hao coughed lightly, then put on a compassionate and righteous expression, and said in a serious tone:
"Think about it, this is the middle of nowhere, and Dai Mubai has lost so much blood.
The smell of blood will definitely attract wild animals."
"If we just leave him here and ignore him, what if he gets eaten by wolves? Wouldn't that be even more troublesome?"
Xuan Hao brandished the sack in his hand and analyzed with righteous indignation:
"Therefore, in the spirit of humanitarianism, it is safest to hand the person over to professionals.
Brothels are a mixed bag, with all sorts of people, and there will definitely be someone 'kind' who will treat his wounds, at least enough to save his life, right?"
After saying that, Xuan Hao didn't give them a chance to refute him.
He turned around and strode back to the open space where they had been.
With practiced ease, he stuffed the already unconscious, blood-covered Dai Mubai into the tattered sack, then casually hoisted it onto his shoulder like a sack of rice.
"Alright, leave this to me."
Xuan Hao, carrying the sack, turned and waved to the four girls who were still bewildered in the wind:
"You must be tired after a day of training.
Go back to the hotel in the city, take a shower and rest.
I'll deliver this 'package' to its destination and then come back to the hotel to find you."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xuan Hao stomped his foot, and his entire body, along with the blood-soaked sack, instantly transformed into a blur and disappeared into the depths of the forest.
"..."
Watching Xuan Hao disappear into the direction he had vanished, the air in the spot fell into a deathly silence once again.
After a long while...
Na'er, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing's gazes, like three searchlights, suddenly turned to Ning Rongrong, who was standing to the side.
"Plop..."
Stared at by these three meaningful eyes, Ning Rongrong, who was usually fearless, couldn't help but feel a deep sense of guilt.
She awkwardly rubbed the hem of her clothes and whispered her explanation:
"Well... I was just joking!
Who knew that someone who usually seems so domineering and serious would actually carry around a burlap sack!"
"Besides..." Ning Rongrong puffed out her chest, trying to salvage the situation,
"That's Dai Mubai's own fault! Who told him to be so foul-mouthed and even try to lay a hand on Zhu Qing?
This is the retribution he brought on himself!"
Zhu Zhuqing, standing to the side, frowned slightly as she watched the direction Xuan Hao had left, a hint of hesitation flashing in her eyes.
Although she had completely given up on Dai Mubai, and could even say she was filled with disgust, he was someone she had known since childhood, and her upbringing still made her find this behavior somewhat unacceptable.
"Rongrong..."
Zhu Zhuqing bit her lip and said softly, "As the saying goes, a scholar can be killed but not humiliated.
Xuan Hao... would he really throw Dai Mubai into such a despicable place? Isn't that a bit... too much?"
"Relax, relax!"
Before Ning Rongrong could answer, Na'er, who always knew Xuan Hao best, stepped forward, patted Zhu Zhuqing on the shoulder, and gave her a confident look that said, "I've seen through everything."
"Zhuqing, don't worry. Although your brother is a scoundrel and will do anything to get what he wants, he still has a bottom line."
"He was probably just trying to scare us and tease Rongrong.
He wouldn't stoop to throwing a prince of Xingluo into a shady brothel where he'd be ridden by thousands and ravaged by tens of thousands... That's something only a pervert would do."
Na'er stroked her delicate chin, calmly analyzing Xuan Hao's criminal psychology like a little detective:
"Based on my understanding of him, the most likely reason he took Dai Mubai away was to dump him at the entrance of the most unscrupulous clinic in Soto City."
"Firstly, so that the doctor can stop the bleeding in time and save his life; secondly..."
A sly glint flashed in Na'er's purple eyes as she added softly:
"Brother Xuanhao will definitely leave a message, instructing the doctor to completely cut away that necrotic mass of flesh that could even lead to infection! To prevent future problems!"
"This..." Zhu Zhuqing gasped in shock.
"However..."
Na'er abruptly changed the subject, her tone suddenly taking on a hint of schadenfreude:
"It's unlikely they'll just throw him into the brothel, but..."
"Given Xuanhao's shrewd and profiteering nature, the possibility of him selling a dignified prince of Xingluo as a 'severely disabled slave' directly to some perverted underground black market boss... that's quite likely, isn't it!"
...
It was evening, inside a luxury suite at the Soto Grand Hotel.
Several girls had just finished washing up and were chatting in the living room. With a soft "click," the suite door was pushed open from the outside.
Xuan Hao dusted off non-existent dust from his body and walked in refreshed.
Before he could even change his shoes, Ning Rongrong, who had been impatiently waiting in the living room, rushed over like a gust of wind.
With her hands behind her back, her big eyes darting around, she stared at him with a gossipy expression and suddenly asked:
"How was it? How much did it sell for?"
"Two hundred gold soul coins."
Xuan Hao blurted out instinctively, even curling his lip in disdain, "Those black market guys are such a bunch of stingy misers.
I already told them it was a rare blonde heterochromatic breed, and they still managed to rip me off..."
He had only spoken halfway when Xuan Hao suddenly realized what he was saying.
He abruptly stopped changing his shoes, looked up, and stared at Ning Rongrong, who was barely suppressing a laugh, with a look of utter disbelief.
He then glanced at Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu on the sofa, who also had strange expressions, and exclaimed in astonishment:
"No... how did you know I sold him out?!"
Upon hearing this, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing all turned their heads and cast admiring glances at Na'er, who was sitting on the edge of the sofa, swinging her legs.
That little girl was absolutely right!
It's not that I'm afraid of thugs who can fight, it's that I'm afraid of thugs who understand economics!
They actually sold out the dignified Prince of Xingluo as if he were disabled!
"No one knows a brother better than his sister."
Meeting the gazes of the group, Na'er raised her snow-white chin with extreme arrogance, her purple eyes flashing with a cunning light that seemed to "see through everything":
"I knew it. With my brother's greedy nature, he would never let such a 'resource' delivered to his door go to waste."
"..."
Seeing Na'er's smug look, Xuan Hao awkwardly touched his nose, walked to the sofa, plopped down, poured himself a glass of water, and began to seriously explain... no, I mean, justify his actions:
"Hey, don't look at me like that. I'm not doing this just for those two hundred gold soul coins; this is a well-thought-out tactical arrangement!"
Xuan Hao took a sip of water to moisten his throat, and then analyzed the situation with a confident air:
"Think about it, Dai Mubai is at least a level 37 Battle Soul Venerable.
Even if he is seriously injured and… cough, has lost some important organs, when he faints from the pain and wakes up, can ordinary ropes and chains hold him?
He can definitely break free of the restraints with ease."
Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing exchanged a glance and nodded subconsciously.
With his Soul Master physique, ordinary black market merchants couldn't possibly hold him back.
So that's why!
Xuan Hao spread his hands, a shrewd glint in his eyes:
"I sold him to the darkest slave market in Soto City.
With Dai Mubai's extremely proud, arrogant, and volatile temper, when he woke up, he would find himself not only crippled but also being bought and sold like livestock..."
"What do you think he'll do?"
Zhu Zhuqing's eyes flickered slightly, and she immediately guessed Xuan Hao's intention:
"He will be enraged and, in order to cover up this extremely humiliating dark history of his, he will go on a killing spree and kill people to silence them!"
"clever!"
Xuan Hao snapped his fingers..
"Those people who buy and sell people in the black market are all heartless scoundrels.
Which one of them doesn't have the lives of a few innocent people on their hands?
They deserve to die a hundred times over."
"I threw Dai Mubai in there, so that he could experience the unbearable suffering of life, and also use his crazed hands after he woke up to uproot this cancerous gang in the underground of Soto City!"
Xuan Hao leaned back on the sofa, extremely satisfied with his actions:
"This is what you call maximizing the use of waste!
Plus, punishing evil and promoting good, acting on behalf of heaven, and using violence to control violence! How about that? Isn't my move full of righteous light?"
"..."
After listening to Xuan Hao's logically rigorous, even morally questionable, analysis, the four girls looked at each other, unable to find any reason to refute him.
Even the usually aloof Zhu Zhuqing couldn't help but twitch her lips slightly.
They cripple people, stuff them in sacks and sell them, pocketing the money themselves, and then expect the victims to become their free henchmen in their anti-gang campaigns...
What kind of righteous light is this?!
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