Chapter 798: Interrogation

He didn't know if that big bug could understand this sentence, but regardless, the big bug charged over, its wings rubbing together as if sparking, and said: "Where did you come from, you uncouth savage? How dare you plot against me! My servants are all gone; it must be your doing, right? Today, you must die here!"

Tang Zhao received the meaning of this sentence through his Glasses and felt a sudden realization: it wasn't that the bug had spotted a flaw in his appearance, but rather that while the bug was strolling through the forest, it had already discovered that the Fierce Beasts and Phantoms it had spent so many years creating had been cleared out, so it had been on guard for a long time. At this point, whoever came would be walking right into a trap. Tang Zhao even suspected that even if a real six-armed person had come, the big bug would have hacked away in its rage regardless, and at worst, it would have just claimed it made a mistake after the fight.

Tang Zhao smiled faintly, then focused his attention to begin the battle, condensing Sword Qi in the sword in his hand to fight the big bug.

This big bug was indeed not easy to fight. The carapace covering its entire body could contend with the laser Tang Zhao condensed from most of his Sunlight. Because its two wings were also heavily reinforced, it could erupt with incredible speed, and while moving, its wings could also transform into the sharpest blades, slicing the enemy, the air, and even space itself into two halves.

Tang Zhao initially took a "Wing Cut" head-on, and his Sword Light was actually shattered. If he hadn't escaped by riding the light, he would have been hard-pressed to survive the ordeal. He couldn't help but marvel inwardly, thinking: It truly is an upgraded weapon, powerful to this extent... It should be so, it should be so! My previous Sword Law and materials had only been upgraded once and were already very powerful; it has spent all these years on this, how could it not be powerful?

Tang Zhao suddenly felt a bit lucky: it was fortunate he hadn't rashly entered the cave to launch a sneak attack earlier. Although the cave was small and it couldn't maneuver, he would have only been able to hard-steel against its mostly golden body, like poking a turtle shell with a tree branch—he wouldn't have been able to poke through at all.

As for now, although he still couldn't poke through, he could at least make the turtle flip over.

After just a few probes, Tang Zhao had already found the winning opportunity and seen the big bug's flaw.

That was that it wasn't agile enough.

Fast speed and agility are not necessarily equivalent. The big bug's speed was bought with the absolute power of its wings, but it lacked well-developed, rich muscle groups, could not flexibly adjust its posture, and its neural reaction speed was not quite enough. Tang Zhao could completely use more flexible tactics to lead it around.

Of course, Tang Zhao could also choose to mobilize his power to unleash a big one, piercing its defense head-on; if he concentrated his power, he should be able to do it. But that would be too wasteful. Even if he won, that top-grade carapace, which had been exchanged bit by bit over decades, would inevitably be destroyed. Tang Zhao had never seen such top-grade material; he should at least get some out without harming himself to study it. Looking at this faint black-tinged-with-gold appearance, it might even be compatible with his own attributes and could be used to upgrade his sword.

With his mind made up, Tang Zhao patiently circled with his sword. Because his upgrades were too fast, he didn't necessarily have anything superior in terms of sword moves, but it depended on who he was comparing himself to. The big bug before him had almost only two moves: either "Wing Cut" or "Manyu Chongzhuang"—there was really nothing worth watching. Tang Zhao patiently led it around, step by step, out of the forest.

Suddenly, Tang Zhao stabbed his sword off-target, then charged in another direction.

The big bug hadn't cared at first, but when it focused its attention, it panicked immediately: the direction Tang Zhao was charging was exactly that water pool cave!

Although it had temporarily offered the cave to the six-armed person, in its heart, that place was still its number one life-saving treasure. Tang Zhao was an enemy with powerful destructive force; what if he destroyed its cave and water pool?

It didn't have time to think carefully; there was only one thought in its mind: Absolutely not! Therefore, it charged toward the cave.

Tang Zhao led in front, accelerating continuously. The big bug naturally followed, also accelerating with all its might. Its body weight was so immense that once it added speed, it could never stop.

Seeing they had reached the cave entrance, Tang Zhao suddenly made a turn, as if the refraction of light in mid-air, and flew back at a ninety-degree angle. The big bug, however, couldn't turn its head and slammed fiercely into the mountain wall!

Boom!

This sound was mainly the mountain collapsing. The big bug's head went completely through the mountain rock, like a loach plunging into tofu, and it wasn't injured. However, on top of its head, there was a Tang Zhao.

Tang Zhao was right on top of its head, casually cutting downward, suddenly slicing into the space between the big bug's head and its two-section torso. The next moment, a huge head came rolling down.

The process was very smooth; it was like a master butcher carving up an ox—nothing more than that.

Actually, the big bug didn't just have one flaw; it had another very obvious flaw, which was that it had only reinforced half of its body after all. Wasn't the other half of its body entirely a flaw? Although the front half of its body had also been reinforced several times, it was orders of magnitude different in quality from the back. Plus, its foundation was still an arthropod, and the three sections of head, thorax, and abdomen were quite fragile; it was no surprise that Tang Zhao seized the opportunity to slice it into two pieces.

After being sliced open, the big bug's body was still thrashing about, half of its torso continuously slamming against the cliff wall as if the enemy were still there. At this moment, it didn't consider whether it would destroy its precious cave by slamming into it, because it had no head and therefore could not think.

That head also wanted to say something, its mouthparts churning wildly, but it didn't manage to speak. After all, it relied on wing friction to emit buzzing, and now it couldn't command them. And the Glasses couldn't read thoughts from a distance to translate—at least not yet.

After a long time, it finally stopped moving.

Tang Zhao took out the Time Jar and packed the entire big bug, whole and intact, inside.

He was very interested in this bug's body, but now was not the time for cutting; after all, it was just a dead object and wouldn't undergo any more changes. He had to prioritize the living ones first.

Such as those two YoungMasters and its... loyal servant.

Tang Zhao walked into the cave on his own, first dragging out one of them—the six-armed person—and slapping him awake with some cold water, saying straightforwardly: "I ask, you answer."

The six-armed person opened his eyes, froze for a moment, and immediately began to shriek and wail.

Tang Zhao crossed his arms and smiled: "You should have understood my words. Don't play dumb; whether you can understand or not, the look in your eyes is different. And it is said that the high-level education of the Tianmo Jie includes the language of the Human World. Are you not high-level enough, which is why you can't speak it?"

The six-armed person continued to shout in the Tianmo language: "I heard that the nobles of the Human World can also speak the language of our God race, but you cannot. It seems you are also of a lowly body."

Tang Zhao smiled slightly, read this sentence on his Glasses, and said: "I can understand what you are saying, so you don't need to think about using an encrypted language to curse me. 'Also of a lowly body'... is this 'also' you admitting you are lowly? But I really didn't learn it well, so it takes a lot of Spirit to listen to your bird language, and I don't want that. Actually, I know it's tiring for you to speak the Human language too, but I am in control of the situation now; you have no choice but to listen to me. How about this, it seems you still don't understand your situation; I'll let you sober up." He beckoned, and the Sunlight transformed into a fist, punching him in the face.

This was actually a show of force before the interrogation, a small trick taught in the Jiandisi Xunying. Tang Zhao used this excuse to beat the six-armed person violently, stopping only when he saw him whimpering and begging for mercy. He had a measure of the man now; this wasn't a tough nut to crack. He said: "Alright, I'm going to ask you now, and you must answer in human language. Who are you, and what is your family background? What qualifications do you have to interfere with the ship's affairs, and how dare you claim to give others opportunities?"

The six-armed person groaned and said: "Mentioning my father will scare you... um, no, no, my father is the Tianming Shen Dashisi. He is one of the eighteen Tongtian Dashisi, and his status is extraordinary." He could indeed speak the human language, and he spoke it quite well, much friendlier than Tang Zhao's Glasses translation.

Tang Zhao recalled the knowledge he had about the Tianmo Jie and sneered: "Only a Tongtian Sacrifice? Isn't that a secondary level? I thought your dad was at least a 'Tianyou Dashisi'."

The six-armed person continued to groan: "If my dad were a Tianyou Shengjishi, how would you dare to touch me? But each Tongtian Sacrifice has tens of thousands of quotas in their hands. I am his beloved son; even if I'm not the heir, he values me. Arranging for a thousand people is no problem at all. I wasn't lying to trick that big bug; I told him he could get on the ship, so he would get on the ship. I am a person who keeps his word."

Tang Zhao laughed, just about to say: "Now those thousand people of yours can't get on the ship, even if you break your word," when he suddenly frowned and said: "What are you bragging about? Your dad can just take tens of thousands of quotas? To talk about tens of thousands of people, it has to be at least thirty thousand, right? If your dad, a Tongtian level, has thirty thousand people, how could the eighteen others of the same level have fewer than your dad? Does your level of dad divide up five hundred thousand people? Wouldn't each person in the higher Tianyou level have to take one hundred thousand? How is this number enough to divide? Are those Lesser God believers all ignored? I bet you wouldn't dare."

Although the six-armed person was bruised and swollen, he still had a trace of arrogance, trying to lift his head and saying: "Thirty thousand is too few; my father can at least decide the fate of fifty thousand people, and those few Tianyou Emperors can each decide the stay or departure of hundreds of thousands. Let the remaining less than one million be divided by those Lesser Gods. With their status, they might not even be able to scrape together hundreds of thousands."

Tang Zhao could barely control his expression from changing, wanting to blurt out: "Isn't it only one million people in total?" But he managed to hold back, knowing he couldn't reveal the bottom line to this second-generation ancestor and alert him. He said: "Millions of people need to be mobilized together in two or three months; I'm afraid you can't do it."

The six-armed person said: "We naturally have a way..." He looked at Tang Zhao's appearance and said, "Is this what you want to ask? Although it is confidential, it's not that I can't tell you. Even if you have friends and family you want to smuggle in, I can arrange it for you; that doesn't matter. You just need to dress up a little; with five million people mixed together, who would recognize who?"

Hearing "five million people," Tang Zhao was both shocked, angry, and sneering, and also had that expected feeling of "this is something the Tianmo would do." He said word by word: "Come, tell me in detail how the five million people are gathered together?"