The Crystal Skull? Rong Zaixu immediately stood up, looking extremely flustered and anxious.
“Mr Luo, you have taken this joke a bit too far.” Rong Zaixu showed an expression as if he was eager to explain.
“I must say, you acted very well.” Luo Chen slowly lit a cigarette and spoke while blowing smoke rings, but his eyes held a mocking glint.
“However, it is precisely because you acted too well, even to the point of overdoing it!” Luo Chen looked at Rong Zaixu.
“When you came to me back then, I found it strange. No matter who your Rong family offended, you could just hand over the Crystal Skull to gain the protection of the Horror Game!”
“Why go out of your way to come all this distance to find me?” Having the protection of the Horror Game was equivalent to having the protection of the experts from the entire world. Yet against all odds, Rong Zaixu did not hand over the Crystal Skull, but instead came to find Luo Chen.
“Why did your Rong family not hand over the Crystal Skull?”
“There are only two possibilities. First, your Rong family could not get the Crystal Skull. Second, your Rong family could not hand over the Crystal Skull!” But obviously, Luo Chen had analysed the situation. Given that Rong Zaixu could smoothly obtain the Crystal Skull tonight, the first possibility did not exist for the Rong family. Therefore, it could only be that Rong Zaixu was unable to hand over the Crystal Skull.
“Risking the annihilation of the Rong family rather than handing over the Crystal Skull.”
“Tell me, is this not quite interesting?” Luo Chen said sarcastically.
“Mr Luo, you have misunderstood. The Crystal Skull could only be brought out tonight. You saw it yourself. If I had taken the Crystal Skull by myself tonight, facing so many powerful enemies, it would be absolutely impossible for me to survive, and the entire Rong family would not survive either!” Rong Zaixu explained once again. Sweat beaded on his forehead, revealing a complex expression as if he had been misunderstood by Luo Chen and was anxious to explain.
“You know very well that this is just an excuse!” Luo Chen reprimanded coldly. If Rong Zaixu could have handed over the Crystal Skull, the Horror Game could have just waited until tonight. Why go to the trouble of issuing some sort of mission, gathering so many experts here? It would only require the cooperation of Rong Zaixu alone. In the end, it was because Rong Zaixu refused to hand it over that the Horror Game issued the mission.
“Then at the banquet that day, between the Wolf Clan and me, anyone with half a brain would know that the best choice should have been the Wolf Clan, yet you chose me!” Luo Chen spoke again. If one were to truly compare, before Luo Chen revealed his hidden cards, the Wolf Clan was indeed more suitable to curry favour with, but Rong Zaixu had insisted on choosing Luo Chen.
“Moreover, you overlooked one important thing. Did you really think I had any interest in bothering with ants like Rong San and Rong Si?”
“Are they even worthy of me killing them with my own hands?”
“I killed them with my own hands merely to test you!”
“But your reaction was quite unexpected!” Luo Chen deliberately paid attention when he killed those few people at the time. Rong Zaixu did not even frown, his expression cold to the extreme, as if it had nothing to do with him. Since Rong Zaixu had hired Luo Chen to protect the Rong family, how could he allow Luo Chen to kill members of the Rong family?
“What does that prove?” Rong Zaixu was still making excuses.
“It proves that perhaps you are not even a member of the Rong family!” Luo Chen gave Rong Zaixu a deep look.
“Mr Luo, all of this is just your speculation, and I have indeed fulfilled my promise by letting you get the Crystal Skull!” Rong Zaixu spoke again.
“Furthermore, you keep insisting that I am not Rong Zaixu. Do you not find that ridiculous?”
“If you are Rong Zaixu, then who is the ghost in the well?” Luo Chen’s voice was very low, but this time Rong Zaixu’s expression finally changed.
“What ghost?”
“Still pretending?” Luo Chen snorted coldly and stood up directly.
“A few days ago, I accidentally saved a Huaxia woman. That woman happened to live near the ancestral residence of your Rong family.”
“I stayed there that night. I saw the ghost of a child beside the dry well, and there was another ghost inside the dry well. That ghost looked exactly like you!”
When Luo Chen saw the ghost in the dry well that looked exactly like Rong Zaixu at the time, he also found it strange. However, upon making eye contact with the ghost, it was obvious that the ghost did not know Luo Chen. From that moment on, Luo Chen had almost formed his own judgement, which was why he eventually killed Rong San and Rong Si with his own hands to test Rong Zaixu.
“Still going to keep pretending?” Luo Chen looked at Rong Zaixu with a cold smile.
“Hehe, I must admit, you Luo Wuji are indeed not easy to fool!”
“But so what?” Rong Zaixu suddenly spoke very arrogantly.
“Right now, the experts from all over the world, including the Horror Game, all know that you, Luo Wuji, have obtained the Crystal Skull.”
“When the time comes, these people will only come looking for you. You, Luo Wuji, will have to take the fall whether you like it or not!” Rong Zaixu sneered.
“Moreover, do you think those terrifying major forces you offended will let you off?”
“You killed the Wolf Clan prince. Do you think the Wolf King will not come to settle accounts with you?”
“You injured the Black Phoenix. Do you think the Black Phoenix will not come to seek revenge on you?”
“Not to mention the endless experts fighting for the Crystal Skull!”
“You, Luo Wuji, are finished. Even if you discovered the truth, you will have no way to defend yourself!” Rong Zaixu laughed wildly.
However, Luo Chen’s expression remained completely indifferent.
“You are right, but do you not find it strange?” Luo Chen flicked the ash from his cigarette and looked at Rong Zaixu mockingly.
“Since I discovered all this beforehand, why would I go on a killing spree tonight?” Luo Chen countered.
This made Rong Zaixu suddenly freeze. That was right. If his Luo Wuji had discovered it long ago, why would he wade into this mess tonight?
“Let me tell you!”
“Because I simply do not care!”
“Whether it is your so-called experts from all over the world, or the several super forces I offended, I have not placed any of them in my eyes!”
“What if they come looking for me?”
“They are merely coming to seek death!” Luo Chen spoke with great confidence. If he had to worry about and fear these secular forces and the powers of this Earth, then how would he ever return to the Immortal Realm in the future?
“Hehe, you Luo Wuji are indeed arrogant, truly presumptuous!”
“Do you really think that killing a few giants at the peak of tier eight tonight means you can challenge the experts of the whole world?”
“If the true body of the Black Phoenix came here, she might not even need to lift a finger. Just a single sentence would be enough to kill those few people.”
“And the Wolf King is an even more terrifying figure than the Black Phoenix. Yet among the global experts, the Wolf King can only rank after the top one hundred.”
“You, Luo Wuji, are truly too narrow-minded and do not take the experts of the world seriously at all!”
“This world is far bigger than you imagine!” Rong Zaixu mocked coldly.