Chapter 214: Chapter 214: Idea.

Lu Xiao’s voice was calm when she spoke, as if she were chatting with an old friend she hadn’t seen in ages.

C Luo hadn’t expected Lu Xiao to not only remember him, but also the words they had exchanged before.

Her words caused his expression to shift slightly, but he quickly composed himself. He chuckled. “You haven’t forgotten me. That makes me happy. As for what you said… of course I remember. It’s just that I can’t follow through on it anymore.”

He no longer had a choice.

A trace of regret crossed C Luo’s face as he spoke.

“How can you say you can’t when you haven’t even tried? Just because someone has lived in the abyss for a long time doesn’t mean they belong to it. C Luo, you…”

“Don’t say another word, Your Excellency Lu Xiao. I know what you’re doing. You want to convince me to turn back, but I know very well there’s no turning back from what I’ve done. Thank you for your concern, but it’s a concern I don’t need. Besides, you’ve lied to me before. Now, I can’t tell if you’re lying to me again. So, Your Excellency Lu Xiao, please step inside. A one-for-one trade. You have no objections, do you?”

In that moment, Lu Xiao understood. C Luo wouldn’t listen to a word she said.

He wasn’t lying, after all. She really had done that to him back at the Black Tower.

Lu Xiao sighed. Just as she prepared to step forward, Admiral Clan grabbed her arm. “Don’t go!”

Noticing their interaction, C Luo spoke again. “I trust you’ve received my previous gift, Your Excellency Lu Xiao. You should know full well what we’re doing. You can refuse, but as for this teacher… we’ll just have to process her as excellent nourishment. Coincidentally, we’ve never experimented on a therapist before. Perhaps she’s just the raw material we’ve been looking for.”

It was a threat. A blatant, undisguised threat. Everyone knew it, yet they were powerless to refuse.

“Don’t be reckless! Let Teacher Sherry go, C Luo! Stop this. Nothing good will come of it!” Lu Xiao then turned to Admiral Clan. “Father, if I go, Teacher Sherry has a chance to live. They won’t do anything to me.”

Admiral Clan knew he couldn’t stop Lu Xiao, but he couldn’t bear to let her go. Watching his own little female cub walk into danger was, for the first time in his long military career, a challenge he didn’t know how to face.

“Your Excellency Lu Xiao, you’re out of time to stall. I’ll count to ten. If you’re not over here by then, I’m afraid you’ll never see this teacher again!”

“No need to count. I’m coming.” Lu Xiao broke free from Admiral Clan’s grasp and strode toward C Luo, stopping a short distance away. “Let Teacher Sherry go.”

C Luo smiled at her and let go. A mechanical cart appeared beside him. He placed Teacher Sherry on it, and the cart began to move toward the outside.

As Teacher Sherry drew closer and closer, everyone tensed, ready to act. The moment Teacher Sherry was clear, Admiral Clan lunged for Lu Xiao. He was going to get his little female cub back!

RUMBLE!

The ground suddenly lurched. Chunks of rock fell from the walls. Lu Xiao instinctively braced herself against a wall. By the time she had her balance, C Luo had grabbed her other hand. The heavy door slammed shut again, blocking her view, but the ground continued to shake.

Lu Xiao snapped back to her senses and glared at C Luo. “What did you do?”

C Luo smiled at her. “We did what should have been done long ago. Your Excellency Lu Xiao, since you’ve come, don’t even think about leaving. You’re not going back this time. Just relax and stay here with us.”

Lu Xiao shoved him away. The former warmth in her eyes was gone, replaced by an icy chill. “If anything happens to the people outside, I will never forgive you. Where is Platinum?”

He seemed surprised that she mentioned Platinum, but his expression quickly smoothed over into one of acceptance. “So you already know who he is.”

“I’m not an idiot. I won’t be deceived by you forever.” Lu Xiao steadied her nerves. ’Things have already come to this,’ she thought. ’There’s no turning back for anyone. We can only press forward.’ She believed Admiral Clan would never give up on rescuing her. All she needed was an opportunity.

’At the very least,’ she was certain that after C Luo and Platinum had gone to such lengths to get her here, it wasn’t to kill her.

’In terms of safety, she should be secure for now.’

’I’ll just have to take it one step at a time.’

Seeing this complete shift in her attitude, so unlike her usual gentleness, made C Luo deeply uncomfortable.

But he also knew all too well: there was no going back.

Forcibly suppressing the bitter feeling in his heart, C Luo said, “You don’t need to be so hostile toward me. I won’t do anything to you. If you want to see Platinum, follow me.”

Lu Xiao didn’t answer, simply following him down the corridor.

After passing through a series of encrypted doors, they finally arrived deep inside the underground base. Platinum, dressed in a white lab coat and gold-rimmed glasses, was working at an instrument. Hearing them approach, he turned, a smile instantly spreading across his face as he rose. “Your Excellency Lu Xiao, welcome to Black Tower headquarters.”

“So it really was you. Back in the Underground City, you were the one watching me through the monitors, weren’t you?”

Platinum smiled, his face a mask of harmless innocence. However, there was no trace of the shy, weak demeanor he’d shown before. It had all clearly been a disguise.

“You’re as sharp as ever, Your Excellency Lu Xiao. Nothing gets past you.” He then glanced at C Luo. “Her Excellency has come a long way. Get her something to eat.”

While he spoke, Lu Xiao’s gaze had already drifted to the various instruments nearby. The scale of this facility was even larger than what she had seen in the Underground City.

This was clearly the Black Tower’s main lair. Platinum himself had just called it the headquarters.

“Don’t be in such a hurry to see everything. You’ll have a long time here, Your Excellency. Plenty of time to get acquainted with it all. I believe that with your abilities and wisdom, we can create something truly wonderful for all the males in the Empire. We might even be able to help them completely break free from the affliction of mental instability. If that happens, you’ll surely become the most revered female in history. You must be thrilled, right?”

As he finished speaking, Platinum reached out a finger, as if to touch Lu Xiao’s cheek, but she coldly evaded him. “Behave yourself!”

Hearing this, Platinum suddenly laughed as if he’d heard a hilarious joke. “I heard you insist on having only one partner and that you rejected Admiral Fred’s confession. Is that true?”

“What does that have to do with you?” As she said it, Lu Xiao was actually quite surprised. ’He even knows about that?’ The fact that he did was proof they had been investigating and tracking her for a long time without her knowledge.

“Of course it has something to do with it. You’re not going back, you see. You can only stay here and be my female master. HAHAHA! But no rush. I’ll give you time to accept it.”

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