A few hours later, Pan Lin and Xiao Ya slowly woke up.
Qin Xuan relayed Sheng Ming's words to Pan Lin verbatim.
Pan Lin was momentarily stunned, then let out a cold snort, "What traitor from Myanmar, it's all just an excuse from that guy."
"From childhood to adulthood, every step he took was personally guided by me?"
"If anyone betrayed anyone, it was him who betrayed me."
"As for why he isn't killing me now, it's simply because he wants to see what my reaction will be after he seizes power!"
Although Pan Lin was constantly complaining about Sheng Ming, Qin Xuan and the others could tell that Pan Lin still had deep feelings for Sheng Ming.
Now, being backstabbed and usurped by the person he trusted the most, Pan Lin's disappointment was actually greater than his anger.
However, Qin Xuan did not give Pan Lin time for his melancholy.
He glanced at the moonlight outside the window, roughly calculated the time, and then asked Pan Lin very seriously, "How long do you think it will take for that Sheng Ming to seize military power?"
Pan Lin shook his head, "I don't know."
"The Pan Shan Army was built by me from scratch, so in all fairness, Sheng Ming shouldn't be able to sway them."
"But since he dares to do this now, he must have already figured out a way to control the military power."
After speaking, he pondered for a moment and slowly voiced his guess.
"If he falsely claims that you kidnapped me at the banquet, and then I am neither seen alive nor found dead, he might be able to persuade some of the troops to serve him."
"But the majority of the generals will still not believe him."
"I specifically instructed them that unless they were certain I had truly met my demise, they were not allowed to elect a new commander."
"If it proceeds according to this timeline..."
"I think it will take about seven days."
Qin Xuan tapped the ground with his index finger, "Seven days..."
"If you regain your freedom within these seven days, how many troops can you rally back?"
Pan Lin confidently replied, "Just one phone call, and everyone except Sheng Ming and his cronies will return immediately!"
Qin Xuan nodded, "I hope so."
Although Pan Lin showed immense confidence regarding military power, Qin Xuan remained skeptical.
Besides the defecting Sheng Ming, there were five other generals who had accompanied Pan Lin to receive Qin Xuan and his team earlier.
Three of them were sent on official business by Pan Lin before the banquet started, so they would naturally be fine.
But the remaining two, after the two sides met, were absent without any reason.
This made Qin Xuan suspect that those two generals might have known about Sheng Ming's plan in advance.
Or perhaps, this coup was planned and executed by the three of them together.
However, it was still too early to say anything.
Firstly, he had no evidence, and making accusations based on mere speculation would be seen as sowing discord.
In such a situation, it was best to avoid it as much as possible.
Secondly, the most pressing matter was not who did what, but how to escape from here safely.
"I'm quite familiar with this place. A few hundred meters behind the prison is the military camp's parking lot."
"All our armored vehicles are parked there."
"As long as we have enough weapons, my team and I can fight our way out and reclaim the armored vehicles."
"Once we leave the military camp, Sheng Ming's threat will not be as great as it is now."
After a moment of silence, the mercenary captain Wen Lin spoke in Burmese.
Qin Xuan pondered, believing there were two problems with this plan.
First, how to obtain enough weapons.
Second, how to ensure the armored vehicles were not damaged or moved by Sheng Ming and his men.
Wen Lin shook his head and said no more.
The first problem was relatively easy to solve; they just needed to find a way to kill some Myanmar soldiers and obtain their guns and bullets.
However, he had no way to guarantee the second problem.
Although they still had the keys to the armored vehicles, Sheng Ming controlled the entire military camp.
For Sheng Ming, towing away or even destroying the armored vehicles would be no difficulty at all.
"Um..."
"I think we can put those problems aside for now."
"Shouldn't we first figure out how to escape from this iron cage?"
"If we can't even get out of the iron cage, how can we get out of that brick house outside?"
Seeing Qin Xuan and the others at a loss, Hu Zi'an's talkative nature began to reawaken.
Qin Xuan thought, "That's right."
He immediately stood up with force, "I'll try to test the strength of this iron bar first."
Under everyone's gaze, he slowly approached the iron bars, grasped one bar with each hand, and pulled them in opposite directions with all his might.
*Screeeech...*
With an extremely faint metallic sound, the two iron bars bent slightly, but the degree of bending was too small to widen the gap between them.
*Iron bars: Oh my god, what are you doing? Although I can't feel pain, I have OCD! I must be straight!*
Hearing the iron bars' inner thoughts, Qin Xuan couldn't help but laugh out loud.
When he released his hands, the iron bars returned to their original state as the force disappeared.
"Not strong enough..."
Qin Xuan was somewhat disappointed.
He had expected that he could easily break through these iron bars, which resembled those in ancient prisons.
However, the strength required to bend two iron bars was far greater than he had imagined.
"Holy cow!"
"Bending iron bars with bare hands?"
"Boss, are you even human?"
Although Qin Xuan sat back down on the ground with some dejection, Hu Zi'an and Xiao Ya were still shocked by the immense strength he displayed.
Before this, they only knew that Qin Xuan's martial arts skills were quite good.
But now, they saw that his strength was enough to bend the prison bars!
Although this prison was dilapidated, the iron bars were not made of hard steel.
However, to deform the bars like Qin Xuan did, it would require at least several hundred, or even a thousand, pounds of force.
This was somewhat outrageous.
After all, even the world's top athletes could only exert a few hundred pounds of force with their arms alone!
"Tsk, what a shame. If you were a bit more monstrous, maybe you could have led us out of this iron cage," Xiao Ya teased Qin Xuan with a smile.
Qin Xuan was stunned.
"That's right, why didn't I think of that?!"
Unintentionally spoken, but intentionally heard.
When Xiao Ya said, "If you were a bit more monstrous," Qin Xuan's mind immediately went to two words: cultivation.
After cultivating with the medicinal powder at noon today, Qin Xuan clearly felt the changes in his body.
His strength had increased, and his reflexes had become faster.
Even his other senses, such as sight and hearing, seemed to have become sharper.
If his subsequent cultivation could achieve the same results as this time, perhaps in a few days, he would truly be able to bend these iron bars with his bare hands!
At this thought, Qin Xuan couldn't wait to rush over and give Xiao Ya a big kiss.
Because after arriving at the prison, he had been thinking about how to escape, completely forgetting about cultivation.
If Xiao Ya hadn't reminded him, he would still be here, racking his brain with Wen Lin and the others!
He thanked the confused Xiao Ya and quickly reached into his right pants pocket.
If he remembered correctly, after buying the medicinal powder today, he had casually put it all in his pocket.
Let me see...
Heh heh, got it!