Chapter 73 Misunderstanding

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

Three canisters filled with mutated gas were tossed in front of Liu Xialai. Dugu Tianfeng stared at Liu Xialai and asked coldly, "This is what you call two?"

Liu Xialai looked at the three canisters on the ground and suddenly burst into wild laughter.

"Hahahaha! You're finished! If you drop them like that, the mechanism inside the canisters will be triggered, and the mutated gas will spread throughout this base. You'll all turn into monsters, and ultimately become parts for the War Behemoth!"

"Aren't you here too?" Li Chenzhou asked.

"Hahahaha! Are you an idiot? Do you think we, the Liu family, wouldn't have a way to defend against the mutated gas we created?" Liu Xialai shouted maniacally. "Accept your fate! This world will belong to our Liu family sooner or later. Everyone else will become War Behemoths, fighting for us!"

"They probably can't resist this mutated gas, right?" Li Chenzhou suddenly looked at the other members of the Liu family who were imprisoned together, including Liu Xiaohui and Liu Buzhu.

"So what? Such a great plan requires sacrifices. They are members of the Liu family; this is their responsibility!" Liu Xialai glanced at Liu Xiaohui and Liu Buzhu, and suddenly grinned hideously.

"No! I don't want to become a monster, Grandpa! You must still have the antidote to the mutated gas, right? Give it to me!" Liu Buzhu's face turned pale upon hearing this, and he rushed forward, shouting loudly.

"Shut up! A good-for-nothing like you was originally just a decoy for our Liu family. Only by seeing someone like you being favored in the Liu family will they be at ease with us!" Liu Xialai kicked Liu Buzhu away and roared, "Now, your mission is complete. Rest in peace with your uncle, who only knows how to embezzle, in the underworld!"

"What?" This time, even Liu Xiaohui was stunned, looking at Liu Xialai in disbelief.

"What are you afraid of? The canisters have been thrown in here for so long. Have you seen anyone mutate?" Li Chenzhou said with a smile. Then, he walked over, picked up the canister with the hole he had punched earlier, and tossed it to Liu Xialai. "You might be mistaken, or your family might be mistaken. There's nothing inside these canisters at all!"

Seeing the hole, the madness on Liu Xialai's face suddenly froze. He reached out tremblingly to touch the hole, even sticking his finger inside to confirm that what he was seeing was real!

"This... this is impossible!" Liu Xialai's voice trembled. He turned to look at the other two canisters, suddenly rushed over, and pressed a button on one of them. After manipulating the panel that lit up, his body suddenly stiffened.

He had chosen to release the mutated gas, but there was nothing in the canister... Could it be that he was just a pawn of the family too? Otherwise, why would there be no mutated gas in the canisters? The elders had solemnly handed the canisters to him and even arranged for people to help him hide them.

"I understand. It's all fake. These are all decoys. The real trump card is there. No wonder... one week later..." Liu Xialai muttered, then burst into wild laughter. "Hahahaha! Pawns, discarded pawns, we are all pawns, and now we've all been abandoned! Hahaha! The Liu family will eventually rule the world, but alas, I won't be able to see it!"

"Liu Xialai, where is 'there' that you're talking about?" Li Chenzhou, who had been watching Liu Xialai intently, asked.

"Hehe! I am a member of the Liu family. Even if I'm abandoned, even if I'm a discarded pawn, I will not betray my family. Want to know where it is? Wait until I die, and go to hell with me. Then I'll tell you!" Liu Xialai looked at Li Chenzhou, smiling hideously. "Boy, since it's all fake, then I'll tell you, you don't have to waste your effort, because you can't find the place where the mutated gas is truly deployed. They even deceived us. You still want to find it? It's impossible! One week later, let's all go to hell together!"

Liu Xialai seemed to be stimulated and appeared somewhat manic. This was not surprising, as he had originally thought that he was an important figure in this plan, who would not be abandoned. He had always fantasized about seeing the Liu family rule the world, and himself controlling a part of it! But now, he realized that he was also one of those to be abandoned, so naturally he couldn't accept it.

Liu Xialai misunderstood. He was certainly not a discarded pawn. Being assigned to a base as a giant figure, no matter how unimportant, the Liu family would not abandon him.

Liu Xialai thought this way mainly because he saw that the canisters were empty, with no mutated gas inside, so he started thinking in other directions. He didn't believe that the mutated gas in the canisters had been taken out by Dugu Tianfeng and the others, because he knew that these people didn't have the ability to do so!

Dismantling canisters and releasing the gas was not the same as fighting Devourers. It wasn't something you could do just because you were strong!

Liu Xialai never dreamed that Li Chenzhou would have the Slaughter System, capable of directly recovering the mutated gas inside the canisters. This in itself was incredible, which was why he misunderstood!

Li Chenzhou and the others hadn't expected Liu Xialai to react this way. They simply wanted to do as Li Chenzhou said, suddenly throwing the canisters to Liu Xialai, to judge from his reaction whether the Liu family had any backup plans.

But now, Liu Xialai's reaction made Li Chenzhou feel a little depressed, because... this guy had misunderstood, so the things he showed couldn't be judged normally.

Dugu Tianfeng also frowned as he looked at Liu Xialai. Finally, he waved his hand, ordering people to continue detaining Liu Xialai and the others, while he led Li Chenzhou and the others away.

"So? Little Li, what's your judgment?" After bringing everyone to a large conference room and sitting down, Dugu Tianfeng took the lead in looking at Li Chenzhou.

"The Liu family has other arrangements!" Li Chenzhou said with certainty, "This can be confirmed from his words, but... judging from this guy's current state, it's probably impossible to get any more information from him. So we can only infer from what he said before!"

"What he said?" The giant figure from the Feng family looked at Li Chenzhou and carefully recalled, "That's right, he said 'one week later.' He mentioned this time limit before, and he emphasized it again just now! Has anyone thought of anything?"

"One week later? Isn't that..." The giant figure from the Wang family seemed to have reacted, speaking out loud, while everyone else also seemed to have suddenly realized something. Only Li Chenzhou was still completely bewildered...