Lin Xiaotian's face showed a brilliant smile: "I didn't expect your brain to work so fast. Come and tell me, what other backup plans do you have?"
"Do you want to show me something? Is it just the pile of things hidden under the table?"
"If you had given such an answer, I would have been a little disappointed."
The man in the black robe directly took out a remote control, his eyes filled with a defiant look: "You don't need to pretend in front of me. I don't believe you can remain calm in the face of such powerful explosives."
"I just need to press one of the buttons, and you will be blown to the sky."
"For us small people, you don't hesitate to risk your own life. So you'd better let us go immediately, otherwise, we'll perish together. But if you let us go now, you can still gain a treasure."
"Besides, it's not that I deliberately went back on my word, it's clearly you who wanted to force us to death."
Lin Xiaotian deliberately pretended to tremble his wrist, and the ceramic bowl he held in his hand fell to the ground.
"Crack!"
The ceramic bowl shattered on the spot.
Lin Xiaotian put on a look of accidental regret: "Everyone, I'm truly sorry. This is what you worked so hard to bring out of the tomb, and I accidentally dropped it."
"You really scared me. I didn't expect you to have so many explosives hidden here."
"This is your fault. If you hadn't scared me, I wouldn't have dropped it at the latest."
"Tell me, how are you going to compensate me?"
That last sentence almost made those people unable to react.
The man in the black robe was so angry that smoke came out of his ears: "Lin Xiaotian, are you crazy? You broke it yourself, and you want us to compensate you?"
The smile on Lin Xiaotian's face disappeared instantly, and a cold glint appeared in his eyes: "I already gave you a chance, but you didn't cherish it and instead wanted to kill me."
"Even at this point, you're still playing tricks with me?"
"Since you still want to pretend, I'll quietly watch your performance."
As he said this, he extended his foot, picked up a broken piece of ceramic, and kicked it out.
The broken ceramic piece turned into the sharpest blade in the world, whistling through the air and piercing fiercely into the black-robed man's shoulder.
The man in the black robe felt a piercing pain. He instinctively looked down and saw that a large piece of the broken ceramic had already penetrated his shoulder and was stuck in his bone.
The pain contorted his face.
"Lin Xiaotian, you're going too far! Aren't you afraid that I'll perish with you?"
"Let's stop wasting time with him. Boss, just kill him!"
"Yeah, at worst, we'll be heroes again in eighteen years. It would make me happy if Lin Xiaotian died. It's an honor for me to drag such a master down to hell as a stepping stone."
As they said this, their eyes showed eagerness.
Although most of this bravado was feigned, these people were indeed fearless of death.
They were all very clear that whether they were killed by Lin Xiaotian or sent to prison by him, their end would be the same: certain death.
After all, over the years, they hadn't just done wicked deeds; they had also engaged in double-crossings, and their hands were stained with countless lives.
Lin Xiaotian sneered: "I already made myself clear earlier. Since you can't provide more compensation, then leave your lives behind now."
"Use your lives to compensate for this bowl."
The man in the black robe said through gritted teeth, his eyes filled with a murderous rage: "Lin Xiaotian, we already gave you the most precious antique. You didn't protect it well, and it fell and broke. Now you want us to compensate you with a new one."
"Do you think you're so important?"
"Have you considered that we might really be pushed to a corner and gang up on you to destroy you? Are you sure you can withstand so much gunpowder?"
The smile on Lin Xiaotian's face became even more pronounced: "You said it yourself, you wanted to give that broken bowl to me."
"That means the broken bowl is already mine."
The man in the black robe didn't understand what Lin Xiaotian meant. His brows furrowed, and his eyes showed confusion: "What exactly do you want to say? Speak plainly, don't beat around the bush."
Lin Xiaotian said with a smile: "Your counterfeiting skills are too poor."
"And you promised me earlier that you would give me the rare treasure and tell me it was a priceless gem."
"I admit, a beggar's bowl used by Zhu Yuanzhang is indeed a priceless gem and highly collectible, worth tens of billions if sold. "
"But the crucial issue is whether this thing you gave me is real or fake. Don't you have any idea?"
"Look at what's inside after the ceramic fell and broke. Is it the kind of trace that can only appear after seven or eight hundred years of historical accumulation?"
Hearing this, everyone realized that Lin Xiaotian had seen through it long ago; it was a fake.
The man in the black robe's face turned dark.
His eyes were filled with anger: "Lin Xiaotian, you said you wanted a rare treasure, and we can give it to you now. But what do you mean by deliberately breaking this treasure?"
"Let me tell you, you won't get it today without going through us..."
However, before he could finish speaking, Lin Xiaotian's figure flashed like lightning, appearing in front of him almost instantly.
Lin Xiaotian raised his hand and slapped him hard.
The man in the black robe didn't even have time to see Lin Xiaotian's palm clearly before he felt a burning pain on his face.
He clutched his face and took a step back. Lin Xiaotian raised his hand and slapped him again, this time even harder.
He was sent flying more than half a meter high, his teeth all fell out, and his face was distorted.
When he fell to the ground, he was stunned and unconscious.
Lin Xiaotian stomped on the ground, and the shattered ceramic pieces were lifted into the air by the shockwave.
He casually scooped up a few ceramic shards, which appeared between his fingers, and he flung them out.
Except for the man in the black robe lying on the ground, everyone else had a shard on their forehead, their eyes filled with shock and disbelief.