Chapter 777 - Reaching A Deal (1/2)

The gentle ht chased the dark away, as a bird found its way to a branch and began to chirp

Giovanna and Stella blinked their eyes open at the saht that welcomed them was not Xia Lei but Arthur, Rosa and Theresa The three were sprawled about on the couch, still unconscious

“What happened?” Stella pal her best to recall yesterday’s events But to no avail, all she could remember was a ht?” Giovanna was equally confused

Where was Xia Lei? Why was he not here?

The Grey sisters were desperate for an answer

Stella hopped off the bed and tried to wake Rosa up “Rosa, Rosa! Wake up! Wake up now!”

Not sure if it was the vigorous shaking or the urgency of her screams, Rosa finally woke up The proxirabbed Stella’s arm “shi+t! We fell into his trap!”

At this moment, Arthur and Theresa finally stirred awake

Arthur’s first instinct was to ruh his shi+rt pocket frantically The fabric was still there He quickly took it out to peel it open and saw that the ht Hospitaller ed to recover them but why has he not taken the relic back?

Suddenly, the door opened and Xia Lei made his entry Held in his hand was a metal tray that was covered with a piece of red silken fabric So was hidden under it but no one had a clue of what it could be

The five glued their eyes to Xia Lei cautiously

“Good reeted Xia Lei with a sht?”

They all kept silent

Giovanna quickly scanned the bed fra for a knife or a pair of scissors Unfortunately, there was none of that sort

Xia Lei placed the tray on the coffee table, then seated himself opposite Arthur

Stella went to stand behind Xia Lei’s back sneakily

To which Xia Lei warned, “Miss Stella, it would be in your best interest to sit down quietly I’ all nice and friendly to you all because we’re not enee all that”

That made Stella halt her footsteps

Arthur stashed the fabric mass into his pocket He couldn’t understand why Xia Lei would leave the sacred relic with him, so it was only natural for hirinned “Mister Arthur, there’s no need to hide it, I saw everything”

Arthur decided to ignore him and dropped it further into his pocket “What do you want?”

“I just wanted to continue our discussion I’ht Hospitaller’swith further discussions,” answered Xia Lei

Arthur’s expression darkened, he went silent

Xia Lei s to talk to ot your paws on your sacred relic?” He then pulled on the edge of the red fabric to reveal its content underneath

The Knight Hospitaller members were stunned

Hidden by the red silk fabric were four blocks of silver metal Each one of them bore an uncanny resemblance to the one Arthur had in his pocket

“Weren’t you all here for this? What’s the point of going through such extre me and steal it away? Here, take it, there’s one for everyone” Xia Lei tossed a block to Giovanna

Giovanna extended her ar three were then tossed to Stella, Rosa and Theresa

Was this a large sacred relic giveaway?

The four ladies were perplexed by the sudden change of events, holding on to the freshly-received metal blocks They didn’t knohat this was about

“You tricked us!” Arthur couldn’t hold his irritation any longer, abruptly standing up froer

Xia Lei cal to do about it? You should consider yourselves lucky that I didn’t bury you alive in theout the silver metal from his pocket “How dare you place a fake block in the safe?! You kneas going to have soic is that? Why would I leave the genuine one in there knowing that it would be taken away? I ”

The fu man selo earlier that he ed to retrieve the sacred relic successfully but all his efforts now sounded like a childish prank He was already certain that he’d becoht Hospitaller

“Mister Arthur, I hope you haven’t forgotten that I run a ically advanced equipive you as ain, the only way you’ll get the real silvermy request,” said Xia Lei

Arthur decided to speak “I’d like to take a look at the real thing before calling Sir Angelo to update him”

Xia Lei then reached down into his pocket to retrieve another block He placed it down on the rab it, but he failed to lift the block off the tray Xia Lei’s grasp had found itself around Arthur’s wrist in the nick of ti

The Grey and Russo sisters quickly charged towards Xia Lei