89 Liars Among Us 1 (2/2)
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Yao Lan's right fist hit Xu Miao's gut. With just a punch from a 5th stage master, the ex-MMA champion passed out.
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= Poseidon Spa House, 20th Floor =
The entire top floor of the brothel was reserved as Xu Xiuying's private quarter. Only her legacy disciple, Xiong Zhenzhen, had the access right.
The floor was like a treasury. High-grade spatial safe boxes with the same size had been arranged in pre-made shelves as if they were deposit boxes in a bank. Over a thousand spatial boxes stored precious items, such as earth-grade items, sky-grade items, refined demon stones, refined yin or yang stones, core technique original manuals, rare array talismans, rare medicines, and other goodies.
In a way, this entire floor was Xu Xiuying's private stash, which contained 90% of the mountain goose branch's wealth.
Permanent protective and killing arrays had been placed around the stash for decades, and they were still active until this day. An invisible barrier prevented anyone, besides Xiong Zhenzhen and Xu Xiuying, from accessing these treasure boxes. They also created an illusion of a plain wall to disguise the section as if there was nothing to see.
Aside from the hidden stash, there was nothing that outsiders could see. Again, only Xu Xiuying and Xiong Zhenzhen could see the furniture and the decoration.
But today, two men and one woman were dragged here to face Xu Xiuying's wrath.
All of them had already been tied to a chair. Ropes bound their hands and legs. Black clothes covered their eyes, and gags had been inserted into their mouths.
Yao Lan brought all of them here while they were unconscious. The elder left Kang Yan alone since she was one of her VY disciples, and Xu Xiuying didn't order her to arrest Kang Yan. Fortunately, these elders hadn't realized that the girl had already lost her virginity.
”Now, you three fuckers…”
Xu Xiuying splashed cold water on Xu Miao, Xie Tian, and Jiang Lan's faces.
”Wake up!”
Xie Tian, Xu Miao, and Jiang Lan opened their eyes after the freezing water made their bodies to jump in surprise. But when they found out that they couldn't see or speak, they were shocked.
Xie Tian came back to his senses first since he had prepared himself to be killed today. He stopped struggling and listened to his surroundings.
A minute later, Xu Miao managed to recall what had happened to him and calmed himself. As soon as Xu Miao caught his breath, Jiang Lan regained her senses.
Yao Lan took off their blindfolds, so these kids could see who they were dealing with.
Xu Miao looked around the room and found Xu Xiuying, sitting on a wooden chair in front of him. On his left, Jiang Lan was there, being tied to another chair. On his right, Xie Tian was giving him an odd look.
Xie Tian didn't recognize Xu Miao in his Mao Miaomiao's appearance, but the latter was shocked.
'Xie Tian? What?'
Xu Miao wanted to make a sound, but the mouth gag prevented him from speaking a human language. He could only release incomprehensible words from his throat.
”Shut up!”
Xu Xiuying unleashed her aura. Although she wasn't serious and put enough spiritual essence enough to manifest her aura body, the pressure was enough to stun the three. Blood ran down from Jiang Lan, Xie Tian, and Xu Miao's nostrils.
Yao Lan pushed a little trolley with a steel plate and stopped it in front of Xu Xiuying. The prisoners could see three familiar spatial rings on the plate.
One of them was Xie Tian's lost spatial ring. The other one was Jiang Lan's ring, and the last one was Xu Miao's dummy ring.
Xu Xiuying glared at Jiang Lan, ”I want you to tell me honestly. If you don't, I'll kill you.”
Yao Lan took off everyone's gags, so they could speak.
Xu Xiuying picked two rings, Jiang Lan's ring, and Xie Tian's ring. Jiang Lan's ring was in her left hand and Xie Tian's ring was on the right, ”Are these yours?”
Jiang Lan broke a cold sweat. In reluctant, she glanced at Xu Miao.
The slave master slightly nodded, gesturing Jiang Lan to be honest.
Jiang Lan gulped and confessed, ”Yes. They are mine.”
”Which ring did you steal from Xie Tian?”
”… The one on your right hand.”
”And the other ring is your ring?”
”Yes.”
”Good,” Xu Xiuying released her Qi into the rings and poured their contents on the floor.
These rings were low-grade, and they didn't have a safety lock like the ancient oni's safe box or Xu Xiuying's treasure boxes. Anyone could access the items inside the rings if they could use Qi.
Jiang Lan's ring only had a hundred refined yin stones and copies of the ancient oni clan's skill books, which Xu Miao shared with her. As for Xie Tian's ring, a thousand of raw spirit stones came out.
Xie Tian frowned when he saw the remaining items in his spatial ring. Raw demon ores, high-grade magic items, and several technique books were missing. Also, the PIECE wasn't there.
Xu Xiuying turned to Xie Tian, ”Are these all of your items?”
Xie Tian glared at Jiang Lan in anger. He suspected that she might have robbed his items inside his spatial ring. Although he didn't know if Xu Xiuying took it or not, he wanted to make Jiang Lan suffer.
”Yes, but most of my items are still missing.”
”Ho?” Xu Xiuying grinned. She picked Xu Miao's dummy spatial ring on the plate and attempted to eject all items inside.
However, there was nothing in there other than spare clothes.
Xu Xiuying glared at the short-haired man, whose disguised form had been canceled.
”Now, son. I need you to be honest, too.”
”Okay?”
”What did you take from Xie Tian?”