665: Chapter 661: Too Smooth?
665: Chapter 661: Too Smooth?
The people from the Sima Family continued to dig, and as the pit became deeper and deeper, the group of excavators grew more and more excited!
“Master Zhang, we’ve already dug thirty meters, haven’t we?
Are we about to find the item?”
A member of the Sima Family shouted, and Master Zhang immediately nodded.
“Keep going!
It should be forty meters below the ground!”
Master Zhang was apparently the leader of this excavation operation, so no one dared disobey his orders.
All the people continued to dig, and before long, they reached the forty-meter mark.
“Huh?
There’s something!”
An excavator’s Luoyang shovel touched something hard, and he immediately reported it to Master Zhang.
Master Zhang ordered, “That must be it, be careful, get that item up here!”
“Yes!”
Two excavators immediately used their shovels to clear the soil around the item, revealing a finely made box with dragon and phoenix designs to everyone.
“Bring it here, let me see!”
Master Zhang said eagerly, and the two excavators lifted the box and brought it over to him.
“Master Zhang, is this the item?”
Everyone crowded around, asking Master Zhang.
Master Zhang said quietly, “I don’t know either, the master didn’t tell me what it looks like, he said you would know it’s the real thing when you see it…
But the master also said that if it is indeed the location marked on the map, it should be correct!”
To verify its authenticity, Master Zhang gently opened the box, but as soon as he opened it slightly, the box suddenly exploded!
“Boom!”
The explosion had great force, affecting everyone around Master Zhang, except for him!
For a moment, the group of excavators sent by the Sima Family were blasted off their feet!
“The timing is right!
Move quickly!”
At the same time, at Ye Tian’s command, the martial artists from the Night King Hall leaped out of the bushes, rushing towards the group of Sima Family’s diggers.
Though the explosion was powerful, these were not ordinary martial artists; each could utilize the force of nature, so they were not likely to be entirely wiped out!
“Who are these people!?
Daring to obstruct the Sima Family’s good fortune!”
“Don’t think you can defeat us just because you have more people!”
More than a dozen excavators from the Sima Family, besides a few at the core who were horribly mangled by the explosion, still had seven or eight men capable of fighting.
So, they did not regard this group of martial artists from the Night King Hall very highly…
Seven or eight people from the Sima Family immediately gathered their inner strength and absorbed the force of nature, causing a wild wind to whirl around them.
“Huh?”
Most of the martial artists from the Night King Hall hadn’t joined Ye Tian in his recent operations and weren’t familiar with the force of nature.
Seeing such strange inner strength, these martial artists were all amazed.
“Don’t fear them!
We are stronger than they are!”
Ye Xuong saw some of the martial artists hesitating and spoke sharply, hurling himself at a member of the Sima Family with all his might.
“Bang!”
The two were entangled together.
“And me!”
The Widow Elira was not to be outdone, picking her own opponent.
Her whip whipped through the air and she attacked another person.
“I’ve wanted to fight with you guys, to see if my strength is greater or if your mystical powers are,” she said.
The opponent did not dare to underestimate her and immediately counterattacked.
Dracula the Vampire, Shark Andrew, Poison Spider, all found their own opponents, and tangled with the group of Sima Family’s diggers.
Although the people from the Sima Family could use the force of nature, their inner force of nature was not pure, so in their matches with the martial artists from the Night King Hall, they also did not gain an upper hand.
And, since the martial artists from the Night King Hall outnumbered them, they quickly formed an encirclement, making it even harder for the group from the Sima Family…
“Whish whish whish whish whish~~~~~~~~”
Within a few moves, the Widow’s whip had already wrapped around the neck of an excavator, who immediately couldn’t breathe and was in agonizing pain.
“What kind of mystical powers are these, they are nothing special!”
The Widow laughed, and seeing the excavator had lost the ability to fight, two martial artists from the Night King Hall didn’t want to delay further, arriving swiftly and striking the excavator in the head with heavy palms.
“Crash!”
With a dull thud, the excavator’s brain burst open, and he died bleeding from all orifices.
“That’ll teach you to meddle in others’ affairs!”
Although victorious, the Widow wore a face of dissatisfaction, complaining about the two martial artists who had unexpectedly joined in.
“I could have handled such an opponent on my own.
Today’s fight was hardly satisfying!”
Ye Tian had not easily come out to execute a mission only to win it so effortlessly, which for the battle-hungry Black Widow, was somewhat anticlimactic.
“Be careful, this guy might turn into a puppet!”
Ye Tian approached Black Widow, offering a reminder.
Black Widow also became fully alert, ever ready for action.
However, the excavator in front of them showed no sign of irregularity post-mortem—it seemed that the puppet master had no intention of turning him into a puppet.
“…”
Ye Tian was slightly puzzled.
Ever since the successful sneak attack on the Sima Family using bombs, he had stayed on the sidelines, not engaging in the fight.
His purpose was naturally to stay on guard because since confronting the Sima Family, his opponents, whether defeated or dead, had been turned into puppets.
But this time, it was somewhat unexpected—why weren’t those dead members of the Sima Family turned into puppets?
Those who had been blown up, those defeated by the warriors of Night King Hall, were all eerily quiet…
“Hmph!
They didn’t turn into puppets, huh!”
Spying this, Black Widow pouted somewhat disappointedly.
Ye Tian then commanded, “Black Widow, go help the others.
This time, just leave one alive!”
“Yes!”
Since it was Ye Tian’s command, Black Widow naturally had to comply.
She swung her whip and attacked another excavator from the Sima Family.
Although the members of the Sima Family utilized the force of nature, the warriors from Night King Hall were prepared, so they were not afraid.
Moreover, the bombs had wounded many, and with the warriors of Night King Hall launching a sudden attack, this group of excavators from the Sima Family was utterly powerless…
“Boom!”
Ye Xuong’s fist heavily struck the chest of an excavator from the Sima Family.
The excavator had no chance of survival; his chest burst open, his organs shattered, and he died almost immediately.
“Swish swish!”
Vampire Dracula was also efficient, slashing his ghostly claw across his opponent’s neck, opening a huge gash.
Blood gushed out, and the man’s body went limp.
Before long, all members of the Sima Family were wiped out by the warriors, marking a quick and decisive battle that took less than ten minutes.
“Boss ordered, leave one alive!”
Black Widow Alice shouted loudly, and the warriors of Night King Hall finally restrained themselves and did not completely annihilate their foes.
In front of them, only Shark Andrew’s opponent was still barely alive, but he was surrounded by the warriors, with no chance of escape.
“Who are you people to dare oppose the Sima Family!”
This excavator gritted his teeth resentfully, unwilling to accept his fate.
“Swish swish swish~~~~~”
Amidst his words, a whip lashed from above.
The excavator had no time to react; the whip, as if it had eyes, wrapped around his hands and feet.
The one wielding the whip was none other than Black Widow.
After capturing the last excavator, Black Widow immediately grinned and said, “Boss, the task you assigned is completed, but this time, it wasn’t the least bit satisfying!”
“Hehe~~~~ there are still many strong opponents, but our strength is insufficient.
We must train hard to be ready for action!”
Ye Tian slowly approached the remaining excavator; naturally, the purpose of this operation was to extract some information from these people of the Sima Family.
Ye Tian had originally made meticulous plans about how to handle puppets if they appeared, or what to do if the Sima Family’s supernatural beast, the Great Ape King, showed up.
However, Ye Tian had not anticipated that this operation would go so smoothly, not only capturing all the members of the Sima Family but also securing a living witness.
With this, they could finally wrap things up…
“Boss, how should we dispose of these corpses?”
A warrior from Night King Hall asked Ye Tian, who looked around.
Over a dozen excavators sent by the Sima Family lay on the ground, not a breath of life among them.
Out of humanitarianism, Ye Tian wanted to bury these people, but on second thought, just burying them might allow the Sima Family to turn them into puppets.
Therefore, precautions were necessary!
“Burn them all!”
Ye Tian issued the order, and the warriors from Night King Hall piled over a dozen bodies together, then doused them with gasoline and ignited it with a torch.
The raging flames turned the bodies to ashes…
Just as the bodies were about to be completely consumed, three warriors suddenly leapt in front of everyone at Night King Hall.
—It was the Ding brothers, who had hurriedly ridden over after receiving Ye Tian’s message, but since they were too far away, they arrived only after the battle had ended.
“Ding Da, Ding Er, Ding San, you three are late!” Ye Tian said with a smile.
Unable to personally take down the people of the Sima Family, the Ding brothers naturally felt it was a pity.
A surprised expression appeared on Ding Da’s face as he said, “Ye Tian, how come the people of the Sima Family were so frail?
Killed in such a short time by you, wasn’t there anyone leading them?”
“Leading them?” A puzzled look appeared on Ye Tian’s face.
“Ding Da, what do you mean by that?”
Ding Er immediately added, “The people of the Sima Family, though mixed in quality, with some warriors not very powerful, would at least have someone leading them if they were to move out; otherwise, the entire team would lack combat power.”