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"Why aren't you speaking anymore?" Yu Mo looked at Mo Feimo and the others, who sat in dead silence, and demanded sharply.
But Yu Mo's words didn't get Mo Feimo and the others to open their mouths. Instead, they bowed their heads even lower, each of them looking dark as a storm cloud, as though they wanted to speak but couldn't bring themselves to.
"Did you finish the mission or not? Why has everyone turned into a bunch of mutes?" Yu Mo asked, baffled.
Whether it was Mo Feimo or Leiting Zhanhu, both of them were normally very talkative. Now they were utterly silent — how could that not be strange?
After a long pause, the assassin Qi Luo finally stepped forward and said in a low voice, "We didn't complete the mission."
"You didn't complete the mission?" Yu Mo's expression froze. He stared at Qi Luo and said gravely, "Tell me exactly what happened."
Qi Luo and Mo Feimo told Yu Mo the full story.
After listening, Yu Mo fell silent as well.
Nearby, the 39th-level Oracle Qi Lian — dressed in a pristine white holy robe, with delicate and lovely features — also showed a look of astonishment.
The shock wasn't over the deaths of Qi Luo and the others. It was about the black-robed figure who had appeared out of nowhere. Although Mo Feimo suspected it was Sword King Hei Yan, Qi Luo had actually seen the black-robed person's true face and could confirm with 100% certainty that it was Ye Feng's doing.
Ye Feng had long since been put on the watchlists of every major super guild and top-tier guild. His individual strength went without saying — absurdly powerful. Even if Yu Mo himself took action, the outcome would be far from certain, and losing was actually the more likely result.
So Qi Luo and the others being killed by Ye Feng wasn't really a big deal.
At most, you could chalk it up to Qi Luo and the others having bad luck. But that wasn't actually the case — and that was exactly why Yu Mo and the others were getting a headache.
The Hawk Legion's operation had been top-secret. Even Yu Mo himself hadn't known about it in advance — only twenty people in the unit were in the loop. So before the assault, there was no way Zero Wing Guild could have learned about any of it. Moreover, they had used Soul Imprisonment during the attack, making it impossible for the targets to leak so much as a word. The only option would be to die and log out to notify someone.
To claim that Ye Feng had shown up by pure coincidence was obviously impossible.
After all, Ye Feng's mount had been parading around White River City for quite a while, causing a sensation throughout the entire city. When Qi Luo and the others made their move, Ye Feng should have still been in White River City. So Ye Feng appearing in the Crystal Forest was no coincidence — he had learned about it afterward and rushed over to help on his own initiative.
But how far was the Crystal Forest from White River City?
Even with a mount, by the time Ye Feng arrived, the Hawk Legion should have already finished off everyone.
But that wasn't what happened.
Ye Feng had not only killed the members of the Hawk Legion, but had also saved his companions. The speed of his response was jaw-dropping.
This meant that dealing with Zero Wing's people from now on was going to be far more troublesome. One slip-up, and you'd end up sacrificing yourself in the process. Unless you dispatched a team capable of eliminating peak-level experts — but guild elites had their own matters to deal with every single day. Where would they find the time to go after Zero Wing's small fry?
And even if they actually did something like that, word getting out would only make the other super guilds laugh at them.
"No wonder even the Long Feng Ge couldn't do anything about this Zero Wing. So they have these kinds of tricks. Good — very good!" The corner of Yu Mo's mouth twitched slightly. Zero Wing's move had wrecked more than half of his plans, and a wave of indescribable fury surged through him.
"Yu Mo, are we still going to meet Hei Yan?" the Oracle Qi Lian asked from the side.
The original plan had been to teach Zero Wing a lesson, to make Zero Wing Guild understand just how dangerous their enemies were. Now that the Hawk Legion had failed, the deterrent effect had vanished.
"We're going. The Heart of Dark Sin wants that money, and there's no way I'm letting that go!" Yu Mo's eyes flashed with a sliver of crimson light, and his tone was resolute. "Since playing nice won't work, we'll have to use force. I refuse to believe that a newly rising guild without any backing can refuse to kneel!"