Chapter 232: Whoever Has It Lives!

With a plop, someone fell to the ground.

To be more precise, it was not called a corpse.

The entire room immediately fell silent.

Jess looked at Baldy who lay on the floor. He was in shock and was unable to react to what had just happened.

‘What happened?’

‘Why did he suddenly die?’

‘Am I still alive?’

‘At such a close distance, I might have been injured by accident, right?’

‘But why doesn’t my body hurt at all?’

Countless questions emerged in the young Elf Guard’s heart. He had too much adrenaline in him right now to think straight.

Behind him, Crow and Ruby stopped in their tracks.

They had originally planned to leave the room with Baldy, but the sudden situation made them hesitate, they could not act so rashly.

Although they did not see any movements, they all stared at Mike closely. It was obvious that Baldy was killed by this man.

That hothead wielded a huge sword and did not seem to have the ability, or else he would have attacked long ago.

The young elven guard, on the other hand, had a blank look on his face. Clearly, it was not him.

Then, the most likely person that made a move was the guy that guarded the door.

This information was the conclusion that Ruby and Crow came to almost in an instant.

Mike raised his head slightly to look at the two of them. Then, he slowly raised his right hand and said, “Who has the item. Whoever has what I want, lives.”

Mike did not clearly say what it was, but Ruby and Crow could understand what he meant.

He wanted the dagger!

Or rather, he wanted the staff!

Within the moment of Mike speaking, Ruby suddenly attacked!

Mike saw the red-haired woman raise her hand to attack with his own eyes, but he did not react at all.

He knew he had a passive skill to block her attacks, so he did not need to take any precautions. What he did not expect was that the red-haired woman’s target was not him.

It was…

Crow!

That’s right, she attacked her companion!

An extremely small dagger fell from Ruby’s sleeve into his hand, and it cut towards Crow’s neck at an extremely fast speed.

Just as the dagger was about to hit Crow, an accident occurred.

Crow’s hooded clothing suddenly fell to the ground, as if it had suddenly lost its weight.

Ruby’s attack cut onto the hooded outfit, but the moment it hit, her expression became grave.

This feeling was not right…

It was an empty hood!

The next moment, a cold black dagger was placed on Ruby’s neck.

“I surrender.”

Ruby raised her hands slowly and released the right hand that held the small dagger.

Clank.

The dagger fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

Things got weird all of a sudden.

Jess, Timus, and Mike all stood still and did nothing. They stared as the two members of the Thieves Union started fighting by themselves.

The fight that occurred was quite interesting.

Clap, clap, clap.

Applause came from the entrance of the room.

Mike looked at the two people in front of him with a smile. He slowly put down his hands after he clapped and said, “Interesting.”

He looked at the two of them with great interest.

Now it was obvious that he no longer had to worry about finding the Umbrella of Meredith.

After all, the other party had already started an internal conflict.

He looked at the two of them with a rather playful look and asked, “Which one of you is Ruby?”

The red-haired woman pretended to be relaxed and said, “I am. Do you know me?”

“I’ve heard a few bits and pieces. I heard that you’re the one in charge of selling stolen goods in the Thieves Union.”

Then, he looked at the elven man behind Ruby.

That’s right, the silent Crow that hid under the hood was actually a woman this whole time!

“So… you’re Crow?”

Crow had not said a word. She just nodded slightly, which could be considered as a reply.

Originally, she did not plan to attack Ruby, but was only thinking of how to escape from this room.

However, Ruby took the initiative to attack her, so she had no choice but to counterattack.

That was how they came to a situation like this.

At this moment, Crow had officially harbored enough feelings of hatred towards Ruby to say that she was an enemy now and hated her to the bone. However, Crow did not dare to act rashly. After all, there were three people in this room.

And these three people were obviously not on the same side.

“Do you have what I want?” Mike looked at Crow.

When Ruby took the initiative to attack Crow just now, she could judge from this information that if Ruby had something that Mike wanted, all she needed to do was keep its distance from Crow and hand it over.

There was no need to attack Crow.

Therefore, Ruby was probably trying to steal something from Crow in exchange for a chance to live.

After all, Mike had just said. Whoever had something would live.

At this moment, the Crow heard Mike’s words and looked at the dagger in her hand.

She did not dare to let go of the dagger now because she was afraid of being attacked by Ruby.

Similarly, she did not dare to kill Ruby without permission.

Notwithstanding whether the actions she wanted to take would make the other three people misunderstand and attack her.

On the other hand, Ruby was on the same boat as her. Crow knew very well that although her movements were not completely restricted, her current status was not much different from that of a prisoner.

A captive did not have the right to decide the life or death of another captive.

Crow knew this very well.

Mike saw Crow’s eyes signal.

He walked over slowly, intending to withdraw his dagger. Crow was very cooperative as he waited for Mike to approach, and was always on guard against Ruby.

The most dangerous thing for Crow now was not Mike, Timus, or the guard Jess.

It was Ruby.

After all, Crow had just fallen out with Ruby and destroyed the other party’s only chance of survival.

She had to be vigilant.

Fortunately, Ruby also did not intend to attack her right now.

She too did not dare to act rashly in this situation.

At the same time, she quickly calculated in her mind what bargaining chips to use to buy her life.

“I have a proposal. I can give you a lot of money.” Ruby looked at Mike with a charming look.

She was not only using money to seduce Mike. She was also using her beauty. Ruby had to admit that she was pretty and had a great body. Besides, she was of the same race as Mike and was human.

Ruby thought that she could succeed in all aspects.

She even leaned forward slightly to make the cleavage on her chest more obvious.

Even though the forward motion caused the dagger on her neck to cut into the flesh slightly.

Blood trickled down the wound that had been cut by the dagger. But the next moment, just like the fate of Baldy, Ruby’s neck suddenly spewed out a large amount of blood.

Before Ruby died, her face had an incredulous expression.

She did not believe that there was anyone in the world who did not like money and beauty.

This time, however, she was wrong.

To Mike, this world was just a transit station.

He could not take money with him, and beauty was even less likely to tempt him. Who knew if this woman in the Thieves Union had any strange sexually transmitted diseases.

After dealing with Ruby, Mike looked at the last member of the Thieves Union.

He slowly extended his right hand and said in an emotionless tone, “Give it to me, and you live.”

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