Ye Feng was startled by these words.
That bastard Ge Nan!
He guessed it so damn accurately!
But Ye Feng would never admit it.
"Hey, Ge Nan, don't spout nonsense without evidence! If you say I took it, I can say you took it!" Ye Feng quickly retorted.
Su Keqing, standing nearby, also chimed in, "Exactly, Ge Nan, no one thinks you're mute if you don't speak!"
"Hmph, Keqing and I were together the entire time and never entered the stone gate treasury. The only possibility is you!" Ge Nan insisted.
The man with the full beard heard this and asked, "Him?"
He then recalled carefully. After emerging from the stone gate treasury, he encountered Su Keqing and Ge Nan.
Therefore, it was impossible for them to have taken his egg. Ye Feng, however, emerged from a different side passage, the end of which led directly to his treasury.
For a moment, the bearded man seemed to have figured something out and quickly said, "Could it really be you who took my egg?"
Seeing this, Ye Feng really wanted to slap that bastard Ge Nan to death.
Outside!
Deputy Director Wu and the others waited for a while but still didn't see Ye Feng emerge, their faces showing worry.
"This is bad, could Ye Feng have been captured too?" Deputy Director Wu said.
The other three cultivators quickly replied, "Then, then we're finished! What do we do now?"
"No, we can't wait any longer! We have to charge in!" Deputy Director Wu declared.
He then raised his gun and fired several shots into the sky.
Bang bang bang!
The gunshots echoed throughout the entire cliff valley.
Instantly, everyone inside panicked and hid.
Seeing this, Deputy Director Wu announced, "Everyone inside, listen up! You are surrounded. Do not resist futilely..."
Inside the cave, the bearded man held a gun to Ye Feng, interrogating him about the egg's whereabouts.
"Kid, did you take my egg? I advise you to hand it over quickly!" the bearded man said coldly.
However, at that moment, he suddenly heard gunshots from outside.
Then, a subordinate ran out and shouted, "Boss Qiu, it's bad, it's bad! A group of police are attacking from outside, there are many of them, estimated at thirty to forty, or even more!"
Upon hearing this, the bearded man showed a hint of surprise and quickly said, "What? They're attacking? You three, keep an eye on them, I'm going to check!"
Saying that, the bearded man was about to go out.
But after a few steps, he suddenly stopped and pointed at Ye Feng, saying, "Right, lock this guy up separately and give him a good 'treatment' to get the information about the egg out of him!"
"Yes! Boss!"
The subordinate said this and dragged Ye Feng to another side, preparing to torture him severely to force out the egg's whereabouts.
However, as soon as he dragged Ye Feng to the side and was about to pick up a whip for severe interrogation, Ye Feng broke free from his ropes in the next second.
"What? You..."
Before the subordinate could finish speaking, Ye Feng knocked him out.
Then Ye Feng quickly followed, preparing to find an opportunity to deal with the boss, the bearded man.
However, as he followed, he suddenly overheard their conversation.
He saw a subordinate next to the bearded man say, "Boss, the police have found our cave. I think we should retreat quickly!"
The bearded man heard this and said, "What are you afraid of? Our cave is easy to defend and hard to attack. Dozens of police can't break in!"
The subordinate continued, "But what if they have reinforcements later?"
"That is indeed a problem! But we still cannot retreat!" the bearded man said.
The subordinate asked in confusion, "Why?"
"Because our Black Lotus Sect's Protector Zhao is coming today to retrieve something! We must wait for him at the very least before we can retreat!" the bearded man said.
"It's so late now, when will that Protector Zhao arrive?" another subordinate asked, confused.
The bearded man heard this, checked the time, and said, "Logically, he should have arrived by now! I don't know why he hasn't appeared yet!"
"Arrived long ago? What does he look like? Male or female?" the subordinate asked again.
The bearded man shook his head and said, "I don't know either. The only information is that he has a Protector Token. We can only hand over the item after seeing the token!"
"Protector Token?"
Ye Feng, listening to their conversation from behind, couldn't help but be startled.
Because when Ye Feng went to relieve himself outside earlier, he encountered a young man, who was also a strong cultivator who had just entered the Xiantian realm.
However, Ye Feng's attack was too heavy, and he killed him in one move.
He remembered that he had found a token with the character "Hu" (护) on it from him. Could that person be that Protector Zhao?
And the token Ye Feng found on him was the Protector Token?
Thinking about it, Ye Feng felt more and more that it was indeed the case.
"If that's the case..." Ye Feng immediately came up with a plan.
After the bearded man went out to check the situation and found only about thirty police officers outside, he didn't take them seriously at all.
He immediately walked back and proceeded to the place where Ye Feng and the others were being held.
However, when he entered the area where Ye Feng was, he found Ye Feng sitting there calmly and composedly.
"En? How did you break free from your ropes?" the bearded man exclaimed in surprise, quickly pointing his gun at him.
Ye Feng heard this, not flustered at all. He let out a cold snort and took out a token.
Seeing the token, the bearded man was stunned.
"This, this is the Protector Token, how, how do you have the Protector Token?" the bearded man asked in disbelief.
Ye Feng coldly snorted, "Hmph, you can ask such a stupid question?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a powerful aura erupted from Ye Feng's body.
The bearded man was at the late stage of the Xiantian realm. Although he couldn't tell Ye Feng's cultivation level, that aura was no less than his own.
He immediately said, "You, you are Protector Zhao?"
Ye Feng heard this, nodded, and then said, "That's right!"
"But, you, why are you with those police officers!" the bearded man still didn't quite believe it and asked.
Ye Feng frowned and said angrily, "You bunch of trash, you exposed the news, and they've already surrounded this place! If I didn't blend in, how could I get in?"
"Then, then why didn't you reveal your identity earlier!" the bearded man asked again.
Ye Feng looked at them as if they were idiots and said, "I was with them at the time. If I had revealed it then, wouldn't I have been exposed?"
Hearing this, the bearded man slapped his own head fiercely and quickly said, "Right, right, right, oh my, look at my pig brain, it's really something!"
Ye Feng said with a look of disdain, "With you like this, how did you become a boss?"
"Uh, haha! Protector Zhao is right to criticize me, it's my fault for handling things poorly! Please, come this way!" Saying that, the bearded man led Ye Feng to another side.
Upon arriving there, Ye Feng cut to the chase and asked, "Where is the thing I want?"