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Chapter 669: Love as a Mountain

"You all come out too." Ming Qi, in his warrior state, suddenly spoke to an empty corner.

"Is the Empty Angel just bluffing?" Aili, still in her invisible state, looked at her calm captain with a hint of suspicion.

They had just used a movement talisman, plus a high-tier invisibility talisman, to collectively teleport themselves invisibly near Heaven Squad.

"It's definitely His product. I can smell that scent from a mile away. Who doesn't have ten or eight of those lying around?"

If it weren't for the fact that mentioning the Main God's name in front of outsiders would trigger an annihilation, Ming Qi would have already unleashed his full rant mode.

"Come out, she really has found us." The captain, dressed in a sharp suit, adjusted his collar slightly, then smoothed his hair with an unknown amount of hair gel, before actively deactivating his invisibility.

"This is the first time I've seen the captain voluntarily tidy his appearance..." As a relative newcomer to the team, Aili had never seen her eternally ice-cold captain do something like this.

"Speak less, listen more." A woman with very low presence, who had been silently standing behind the Hell Squad captain as his assistant, patted Aili's shoulder meaningfully, hinting with her eyes that the two captains shared a long history.

As one of the few veterans in Hell Squad who had served with the captain since the same period, the assistant knew many past events that others were unaware of.

The death rate of Reincarnator teams in the Main God Temple was exceptionally high; many teams had gone through cycle after cycle of deaths, followed by cycle after cycle of new recruits.

...

"Han Luo, it's been seven years." Ming Qi greeted the Hell Squad captain like an old friend.

This display stunned the unsuspecting members of Hell Squad.

They had always known that Heaven Squad, whose reputation and strength slightly outranked their own, had a main member who was a pervert capable of both mental and physical splitting, but they had never realized that this individual was an old acquaintance of their captain.

"Yes, it's been seven years."

"Unfortunately, today isn't suitable for reminiscing. We have a guest here." Ming Qi smiled, looking at Bai Mo.

However, that smile was inevitably a little forced.

After all, she was the personality specifically responsible for combat and wasn't skilled at concealing emotions.

Aside from Bai Mo and a certain little girl hiding in a corner drawing circles, everyone knew they had a mission to kill Bai Mo.

To hide killing intent while smiling and conducting a transaction was truly somewhat beyond a warrior's capabilities.

"Hello, pleased to meet you for the first time." Han Luo naturally extended his hand to Bai Mo.

"You... should have just received a mission to kill me?"

Bai Mo clasped his hands behind his back, not accepting Han Luo's greeting.

This sudden turn of events instantly put Hell Squad on high alert, as if facing a formidable enemy.

"Love—as—a—Mountain—"

The first to secretly make a move was a certain blonde girl.

She tightly clutched a photo of a man in her hand, using it as a catalyst to silently and stealthily unleash one of her proud self-created Spirit Arts—"Love as a Mountain".

This self-created Spirit Art of the girl had no offensive power itself; it would only arouse a protective instinct in the enemy towards her, subtly implanting the illusion that "she is my daughter," thus softening their resolve to attack.

As a weak Reincarnator venturing through the Main God Temple, Aili had, in the beginning, concocted a whole slew of self-protective Spirit Arts using her own experiences.

Mental Spirit Arts with no offensive power could bypass most defensive mechanisms. It was precisely by relying on this "Love as a Mountain" technique that she successfully scraped through her rookie period.

"Completely ineffective?" From Bai Mo's eyes, she could tell that her "Love as a Mountain" had not altered his attitude in the slightest.

"No, wait, the more I look at him, the more he resembles that villain Xiaosan!"

"Old Hairy Face's eyes also look like Father's..."

"And the captain, why does his back also resemble his so much..."

"That muscle woman's profile..."

Aili suddenly realized that now, everyone she looked at resembled her former father.

"Father..."

By the time she realized she was suffering a backlash from "Love as a Mountain," it was already too late.

With hazy eyes, she could no longer control her weakening legs, ready to collapse onto the battlefield.

"Sigh... another pitiful soul." The assistant caught Aili as she was about to fall and helped her to the side.

As a battle-hardened Reincarnator, how could she not see that this was the backlash of a mental Spirit Art?

"I hope she recovers completely once she wakes up and doesn't see everyone as her father, otherwise we'll have to expend a Spirit Qi Pill."

"No matter how many people she's killed, she's still a child at heart."

Hell Squad's blonde girl, Aili, unfortunately collapsed to her own first move, despite still holding back a plethora of unused techniques...

"If 'Love as a Mountain' is useless, it means either his mental power is extremely high, allowing him to directly nullify or even reflect the Spirit Art, or he's a completely cold-hearted and ruthless person. Neither possibility is good news."

Han Luo and Bai Mo's eyes met, and for a moment, the atmosphere grew unusually tense.

...

"Let's continue discussing the deal." Bai Mo ignored the tense standoff, as if the blonde girl's collapse was merely due to low blood sugar from skipping breakfast, rather than a result of his own backlash.

"Do you find this very strange?" He asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Don't you just want me dead? It's not a big deal."

Bai Mo's words grew increasingly unsettling.

"With 300 percent profit, capitalists will sell the rope to hang themselves." Somehow, this sentence was the first thing that surfaced in their minds.

To be able to conduct business with someone even after knowing they intended to kill him, and without a change in expression, Bai Mo's thought process was clearly beyond their comprehension.

"Why?" This time, even Ming Qi Ling was stunned.

As Heaven Squad's long-standing negotiator, she knew well that the most difficult opponents to deal with were those with such inscrutable thought processes.

Bai Mo gave a stiff smile, offering no reply.

Yet for some reason, from that smile, they all read the four words: "God does not care."

...

"This is Count Weierstrass's private territory! Unrelated persons, leave at once!" Several security guards, leading German Shepherds, sternly shouted at a man and a woman in front of them.

But for some unknown reason, the German Shepherds, usually fiercely aggressive, were completely cowed today. Not one dared to charge forward and bark loudly; instead, they cowered behind the security guards, as if wary of something.

"Kill them."

"No, killing with such a disparity in strength violates the 'Holy Progenitor Colonization Regulations'."

"Article 162 of the 'Holy Progenitor Colonization Regulations': When a Holy Progenitor descends upon a new world, they shall, while possessing an absolute advantage in force over the natives, endeavor to avoid harming native life."

PS: Promoting a friend, "I Was Possessed by a System", a rather lighthearted novel (probably).