Extraordinary Realm from Persuasion System

While cursing Zhang Beixing’s ancestors to the eighteenth generation in his heart, Li Dongming forced a grin and said, ”Of course you’re not, Minister. You’re so understanding, so full of compassion—how could you possibly be a bloodthirsty killer? Even if someone told me you were the reincarnation of the Maitreya Buddha, I’d believe it. Just one look at that face of yours and anyone can tell you’re the kindest of the kind!”

You can poke holes in anything, but never in flattery.

Even though he knew perfectly well that this flattery was fake beyond fake, Zhang Beixing didn’t say much.

After pondering for a few seconds, Zhang Beixing slowly opened his mouth and said, ”Just go ahead and divine. Even if the result is bad, I won’t take it out on you.”

”If you feel it’s too dangerous to stay with me, I’ll allow you to head to Great Xia on your own and report to me there in your own way. I’m giving you 48 hours. If I don’t see you in Great Xia within that time, I’ll issue a wanted order for you—global manhunt.”

Zhang Beixing said faintly.

When he first heard that Zhang Beixing was allowing him to go to Great Xia alone, Li Dongming’s heart leaped for joy. He hadn’t expected Zhang Beixing to actually have a conscience—this was really rare.

Going to Great Xia alone on a single line would be so much safer.

He was rich anyway. As long as he hired a few mercenaries, he could safely reach the Wu Country border.

Once he got to Lanbo, he just needed to find the nearest international airport inside Lanbo, then fly straight to Great Xia. At worst he’d have to make two transfers. Not exactly hard.

Running was definitely not an option. Even if Zhang Beixing died this time, there was no way he’d bolt.

He was from Great Xia; he knew Great Xia’s ”temper” all too well.

Even if Zhang Beixing was gone, they would absolutely never allow prisoners like them to escape.

Once Great Xia’s national machine started moving, no matter what someone’s identity or status was, everyone was equal in front of a wanted order—no one got special treatment.

At this point Zhang Beixing was already getting a bit impatient. He waved his hand, turned fully around, and stared calmly at the slippery guy in front of him who was like a catfish.

”Stop talking nonsense and get on with it. If you don’t start divining, I’ll just kill you. You’re not that obedient anyway; even if I take you back to Great Xia you’re useless.”

Zhang Beixing directly laid down the decision for Li Dongming, scaring him so badly he didn’t dare slack off.

He didn’t have a backpack or anything on him at the moment, yet in an extremely short time he took out all sorts of fortune-telling tools.

Aside from the slightly bulkier set of Divination Sticks he hadn’t brought with him, he had everything else—Copper Coins, turtle shells, paper bills—nothing missing.

He laid them out one by one in front of Zhang Beixing.

The two of them spent over ten minutes on the divination.

After those ten-plus minutes, Li Dongming, who had been frowning tightly all this time, suddenly raised his head, his expression especially complicated.

He spoke with difficulty.

”Minister Zhang...”

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When the plane flew into the skies over the Capital of Wu Country, it took only a few minutes from breaking through the clouds to landing steadily on the ground.

The three planes landed one after another.

The Ninth Bureau’s dedicated transport planes had now arrived at the Wu Country airport.

This Wu Country airport was a place the Ninth Bureau had already come to three times.

During these three round trips, nearly two months had gone by.

In these two months, after repeated tug-of-war, this airport had changed hands several times between Wu Country and Russia.

As of now, the airport was firmly in Russian hands.

For the Ninth Bureau, whose hands the airport was in wasn’t that important.

No matter who held it, no one would be insane enough to have designs on Great Xia’s transport planes right at the airport.

Of course, if you wanted to try and hijack them, that was fine too—the three transport planes didn’t have much in the way of security combat strength.

Those guards—at most there was a single platoon.

In a zone with active war and conflict, the security strength of one platoon didn’t count for much.

But if someone really did make a move on them, then hehe-da, just wait for the tempering of righteous Iron Fist.

By then, no one should even think about running.

Every last one of you dies!!!

The Russian soldiers watched as the three planes landed.

A team of just a bit over twenty people came down from the planes. After boarding the assault vehicles and command vehicle that had driven off the transport plane, they swaggered straight out of the airfield.

They didn’t even bother to greet the Russians.

The three pricey transport planes were just left sitting there, with only a platoon of guards left to stand watch. No one bothered with them anymore.

Inside the command combat vehicle, Xu Feng looked at the screen of the onboard command display, which showed Zhang Beixing’s current coordinates.

The distance between them was a bit over sixty kilometers.

If everything went smoothly on the way, at most it’d take an hour to get there.

The comms device on Zhang Beixing had never been taken off. It was small, not heavy, so he just left it on.

Since it was military-grade, even the communicator was extremely well made.

For someone as rough on gear as Zhang Beixing, the comms device had still suffered almost no damage.

The battery’s standby time was a terrifying full month!

That was why, the moment Xu Feng and the others powered up the command combat vehicle, they were able to lock onto Zhang Beixing’s exact location.

Once they had Zhang Beixing’s position, they headed straight for where he was.

”Captain, we came straight over without notifying the Captain beforehand. Have you figured out what you’re going to say to him when we see him later?”

Yin Mengwei pouted as she spoke, her tone gloomy and sinister.

She’d been pretty against this sudden trip to Wu Country from the start.

They’d been busy for so long last time, and had almost died in Wu Country!

It was so comfortable back in Great Xia. The second batch of team members had been recruited, and there were so many handsome guys among them.

Tall, big, and good-looking.

Tsk tsk tsk, it was basically Heaven.

Especially those little brothers—clearly older than her, yet they kept calling her ”senior” over and over. Just listening to it felt way too good.

If Zhang Beixing had plainly ordered them to come to Wu Country, she certainly wouldn’t have refused.

But the reality was, Zhang Beixing had never said that. On the contrary, he’d specifically told Xu Feng to let them stay in the country and continue their vacation, get some proper rest.

This entire trip to Wu Country was completely Xu Feng acting on his own.

Once they saw Zhang Beixing, there was no guarantee they’d be praised—Minister Zhang might very well scold them instead.

Just thinking about what might happen later filled her gut with resentment.

She was just really annoyed, that was all.

Xu Feng only gave her a light glance and didn’t say much.

He wasn’t so petty as to get mad at this kind of questioning and use it as a chance to assert his authority.

”If you don’t want to go, you can wait back on the plane. It took five hours to fly here from home, and once we pick up the Minister we’ll fly another five hours back. Factor in the two or three hours lost on the road, and it only wastes half a day of your time.”

”I’ll take a week’s pay out of my own salary to compensate you for that half day. That way you won’t have any complaints, right?”

Faced with Xu Feng’s mild retort, Yin Mengwei immediately shut her mouth.

She was just venting, not pressing charges.

If they really did what Xu Feng said, then regardless of whether Xu Feng got in trouble when he saw Zhang Beixing, she was sure she absolutely would.

Once Yin Mengwei quieted down, Xu Feng didn’t press the matter.

Watching the locator on the screen, he saw their distance rapidly shrinking.

The reason Xu Feng had insisted on coming this time was that, just like Zhang Beixing, he had a vague, extremely uneasy feeling gnawing at him.

He didn’t know that Zhang Beixing felt the same way.

Unlike Zhang Beixing’s mere slight flutter of anxiety, he was already at the point of heart palpitations.

And those palpitations had started the moment Zhang Beixing had used hacker tricks to call in the missiles.