Chapter 1428: Discussing the Condition

The Aquarius Branch Director is hurt?

Hearing the female cleaner's words, Li Ang blinked, then adjusted the "grading" of this Aquarius Director down a notch in his heart, basically on par with Director Edward of the Scorpio Branch.

Although the situation this time was a bit special, and the King-Slaying Society had a lot of intelligence and was hiding in the dark to grasp the initiative, it was indeed difficult to guarantee that there would be no problems as the passive defensive side.

But as a Zodiac-level branch director, it was one thing to be held up by the Aquarius Director and fail to stop the other party from heading to the Earth's core, but to be hurt by a True God suppressed by the Watchtower Palace was really a bit unjustifiable.

If it were their Red-Haired Director who came, let alone being hurt by a sneak attack, she would probably laugh three times when she saw the sneak attacker, and then kill a dozen True Gods alone.

In short, he was as incompetent as Edward.

After secretly complaining twice, Li Ang, under the worried urging of the female cleaner, controlled the river of nightmares to accelerate. Not long after, in a mantle fissure, he found the Aquarius Director, who was lying on the ground with his butt up, licking the ground violently with his tongue with a cold smile.

Li Ang: (￣□￣；)

Meli: ＼(□l|l)/

Because the impact of the scene before him was too strong, even though time was quite urgent, Li Ang still froze outside the fissure for a while, only reacting after a while. He turned his head to look at the female cleaner beside him and said with some hesitation:

"Are you sure... he is your Uncle Grandpa?"

"..."

I am sure... but what should I do if I don't want to admit it?

Facing Li Ang's strange inquiry, the female cleaner's small white teeth bit her light pink lower lip again and again. After doing psychological construction several times, she turned her head away and let out a *hmm*, her small, delicate, and translucent earlobes blushing red from shame.

It's okay, I understand you.

After glancing at the female cleaner's embarrassed expression, Li Ang, who felt the same way, didn't say anything more. Instead, he reached out his right hand and patted her back lightly in a comforting manner.

If we talk about embarrassment, their Red-Haired Director is about the same. The people sent by the taverns in the capital to collect debts have already gone to their Virgo Branch to collect... *Hmm*... just get used to it.

However, just as Li Ang and the others were empathizing, the Aquarius Director, who was licking the ground violently in the fissure, seemed to sense something vaguely. He turned his head and looked toward Li Ang and the others.

Even though his pupils were covered with a touch of colorful light and his eyes couldn't directly lock onto Li Ang and the others' position, just that one glance of looking over with a cold face made Li Ang and the others' hearts tighten, as if they were being stared at by some top predator in the food chain.

"Uncle Grandpa!"

Startled by the Aquarius Director's cold eyes, the female cleaner hurriedly shouted:

"I'm Meli! You..."

"It's useless."

Looking at the Aquarius Director's ears, and seeing a cloud of mist vaguely near the ear canal, Li Ang shook his head slightly:

"Director Balto's hearing and vision should have been closed by himself. He can't hear us. It's better to directly..."

"Meli? Is that Meli?"

"?"

Looking at the blue-haired old man in the distance whose expression had suddenly softened, changing from full of murderous aura to full of doting, Li Ang was stunned, while the female cleaner explained beside him with some embarrassment:

"Like my nose, Uncle Grandpa has an anomalous object buried in the temporal lobe of his forehead, which can vaguely observe things at a close distance in a very special way."

"Oh..."

... While Li Ang and the others were talking, the blue-haired old man had already crawled out of the ground, ran out of the mantle fissure, and came to the two of them.

"Uncle Grandpa!"

Even though she had just felt his actions were a bit embarrassing, seeing the bloodstains on the blue-haired old man's front, the female cleaner still ran over, held the Aquarius Director's arm, and complained with some worry:

"Why are you hurt? *Oh my*! Such a big hole!"

"*Heh heh*, Uncle Grandpa is old. Both my vigilance and reaction speed are much worse than when I was young, and I was ambushed."

"Then you..."

"It's okay, my heart just exploded, and if you had come a little later, my heart would have almost grown back."

After pulling two sentences with a smile and pulling his clothes to cover the wound on his chest, the Aquarius Director blinked slightly, dispersed the colorful light covering his eyes, and then stared at Li Ang beside him.

"This must be the new Aquarius Director, right?"

The vertical line between his eyebrows split slightly, and the bean-sized black-yellow eyeball inside scanned Li Ang quickly. The Aquarius Director frowned slightly, and while closing his third eye, he also said with deep meaning:

"Director, may I ask what is the meaning of your current appearance?"

"No need for 'Director'. You can call me Li Ang. As for my current appearance, it was caused by invoking the authority of the King of Nightmares."

"The God of Pseudo-Illusion and Heart Lake of the King-Slaying Society is preparing to use the Heart Lake of nearly 100 million living beings in Hot River City to increase his power. And in order to stop him, I could only summon the river of nightmares first and take away all the souls in the entire Hot River City..."

After briefly explaining what he had done, the evil and arrogant Nightmare Li Ang smiled gloomily at the Aquarius Director, then raised his death-white arm wreathed in ominous black mist and pointed toward the front of the mantle fissure.

"Director Balto, there was a commotion deep in the Earth's core just now. I am worried that the people of the King-Slaying Society are preparing to break the blockade and release the Earth Three Tribes of the Stone Marrow Realm. So, should we talk while we walk?"

"That's what I was planning too."

After nodding at Li Ang, the Aquarius Director instructed earnestly:

"However, if we continue to go down, we must be careful of the fake images set by the Snow Plover... that is, the God of Pseudo-Illusion and Heart Lake. Although his strength is not strong, the illusions he creates are too real. Even I find it difficult to distinguish between true and false."

"The only way I have found so far is to get close and lick it with my tongue."

"Ah?"

Hearing this, the female cleaner was stunned, then looked at Li Ang's direction in confusion.

"To judge true from false, do you have to lick it with your tongue?"

"Strictly speaking, it's using your sense of taste to perceive."

Not noticing his grandniece's gaze, and looking at Li Ang, whose expression was not surprised, the blue-haired old man explained:

"The illusions created by the authority of the God of Pseudo-Illusion and Heart Lake are not necessarily all false, and can even possess physical entities, so it is difficult to judge true from false using only the five senses, and even intuition is not necessarily reliable."

"It's just that if he uses his authority with full force, he needs to rely on a certain medium. This medium should be a small part of his body tissue, and these body tissues that have left his main body will carry some tastes that things disguised by his fantasy should not have..."

"A bit salty, right?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1429 =====