45 Primordial Beas (2/2)

”The expert wanted to tempt Li Fang into doing a deal with them, but Li Fang is a righteous man. He instantly declined.”

”What does this have to do with our group?” the captain frowned as he asked, but Xue Wei did not hasten his explanation.

”My theory is that this expert was a Primordial Beast,” Xue Wei continued, and suddenly everyone gasped for air. ”I also think that most of us have already seen this Primordial Beast, as it was the same person who purchased the Black Horned Mammoth at the auction.”

Xue Wei continued, ”This woman released a killing intent when she saw me, but not one that contained any force behind it. It is truly peculiar – she could kill me easily, and from the killing intent, I could feel that she wanted to kill me, but she did not.”

”Now, I do wonder why she did not kill me. But after contemplating, I realized it was because this would make it too easy to guess who made a deal with her,” Xue Wei continued and the captain, who was feeling rather lost, suddenly focused.

”Are you saying that someone is doing all of this to kill you?”

”I do not know if I am the only target,” Xue Wei said honestly, ”but imagine that you have lost everything you once had because of a person. Would you not also make a deal with someone to get vengeance?”

Just as Xue Wei asked this, Li Jian scrambled to his feet, his body was trembling and his face red.

He lifted a hand and pointed it at Xue Wei, ”You are slandering me! You are trying to put the blame on me! But we all know that you hate me, and the reason behind this is that you want to frame me!”

”I have never made a deal with a Primordial Beast; I would never betray humanity! I may hate you, but I am not blind!” Li Jian continued to spit out words, but Xue Wei just crossed his arms over his chest as he listened with a mocking smile on his face.

”Are you blaming Li Jian?” the captain asked after a bit of time, but Xue Wei just laughed.

”I was going to blame the He family. I caused them to lose their most outstanding genius of the younger generation, and their family leader was also crippled because of me and Manager Su.”

”In all of Tiankong City, I expected the He family to hate me the most, but seeing how nervous and anxious you are, I wonder, Li Jian, are you perhaps hiding something? Are you claiming to hate me even more than the He family? Did you perhaps strike a deal with a Primordial Beast?”

Xue Wei was smiling brightly now, and his every single word caused Li Jian to become pale and unable to speak.

He cursed himself for having opened his mouth and said something in the first place, because now everyone looked at him with strange expressions. Did Li Jian genuinely have something to do with this?

Li Jian was the one who jumped out like an arrow from a bow, blaming Xue Wei and defending himself, but had he had any reason to defend himself? Why would he defend himself if he had done nothing wrong? Xue Wei had not even blamed him.

Thinking like this, everyone started to feel somewhat puzzled. Had Li Jian gone mad?

”You don't trust me?!” Li Jian scowled. ”I need to cool off!” he exclaimed as he stood up and got ready to leave the camp.

”We will be leaving in two hours,” The captain said absentmindedly while watching Li Jian enter into the forest in front of them.

”Captain, should we let him go alone? Will it not be dangerous?” one of the guards asked, but the captain just waved his hand. ”We have already killed all the beasts. I doubt that the Primordial Beast will make a move on a single person since it has not wiped out our group just yet.” The captain sighed.

”There are no Fierce Beasts left within the forest. All of them were part of the beast horde we fought. Just let him cool off, I am more worried that Xue Wei might be speaking the truth and someone truly made a deal with this Primordial Beast since it has never before been this dangerous.”

”We will take these two hours of break, and then we will move on. We will press our speed as much as we can so that we can reach the recruitment camp as soon as possible!”

While the captain spoke with his guards, Li Jian entered the forest. He was gnashing his teeth, and his nails dug into his hands.

He felt terrible, and he knew that although people did not fully believe that he had colluded with a Primordial Beast, the seed of doubt had been planted, and it would only grow worse with time.

”Ai, you look dejected,” the alluring voice he knew so well called out, and Li Jian stopped in his tracks as he looked at the woman he had struck a deal with.

”We had a deal!” he exclaimed. ”You promised me that you would kill Xue Wei! Why is it that so many of our comrades have died, but he is perfectly fine?!”

The woman started laughing, but her laughter was no longer the pearl-like comfortable laughter, but one that was maddening and filled with killing intent.

”Believe me, I wish to kill him,” she said as she wiped away a tear from her eye, ”but you see, I think you kinda misunderstood something. I never promised you that I would kill him,” she grinned, ”I promised that this world would not have the both of you in it!”