"I..."
"You..."
Looking at the wishing list in his mind, Ansheng suddenly saw Bena's wish. He opened his mouth slightly, with a face full of shock, and a bit of a dazed expression.
Goodness! This is just too good! I didn't know the wishing list had this kind of use.
Bena quickly surrendered because she knew she couldn't open the third layer of the site, but there were a lot of related documents stored there. She planned to use herself and other archaeologists as bait to help her companion with the chameleon gene escape.
Everything was planned well, even when the woodcutters arrived later to interrogate all the archaeologists present, the chameleon could use the time difference to escape the encirclement.
The plan was perfect.
But Bena must be a faithful believer. She prayed to God when she was caught, hoping everything would go smoothly and blessing her partner Romano.
However.
Her prayers entered Master Fox's wishing list word for word.
It let Master Fox know there was a beast warrior with chameleon genes hidden in the second layer of the site.
And from Bena's prayers, she seemed quite confident about that chameleon.
"Boom—"
Ansheng thought for a moment and directly slammed the fly swatter in his hand at the staircase entrance, blocking all the passageways, and shouted out the door: "Golden Leopard, hold the door tightly; there are many people in the second layer. Wait until I knock them all out before you open the door."
"!?"
Seeing Master Fox's action, the expression on Bena's cheeks froze slightly, but she didn't panic too much, still maintaining a smirk on her face.
"Raise your hands; I need to check." Master Fox walked up to the surrendering scholars.
The entire site had nearly twenty male and female archaeologists. Some had blond hair and blue eyes, while others had the facial features of Xia Country people.
But Ansheng wasn't too concerned about their specific backgrounds.
He tore off their jackets, ripped them into strips, tied their fingers and feet, packaging them like dumplings, and threw them at the entrance stairs.
"...then, since we're surrendering, shouldn't we get some special treatment?"
Seeing Master Fox tie everyone else up and leaving only herself, a suspicious blush appeared on Bena's cheeks as she mumbled:
"Later when you tie me, if you could... tear my pantyhose and bind me tightly? Ideally... you'd scratch me a few times, leaving some scars on my cheeks or front."
"Don't get me wrong, I'm not a pervert. You know in our field, loyalty is important. Look at me; I'm clean from head to toe, obviously a spineless traitor. That's not good at all. Just give me a little help for being honest."
Bena spoke seriously, hoping Master Fox, seeing her honesty, would give her a bit of a break.
No... it should be considered help, after all, surrendering without a fight is always disgraceful.
"Oh? You want something thrilling?"
Master Fox grabbed someone and tossed them at the entrance, side-glancing at Bena sitting at the table.
"No no no, not thrilling, just hoping you can help me a little. I'm a devout believer; we refuse any premarital impurity..." Bena said seriously, eyes wandering as she explained.
"Alright! Let's give you a bit of thrill then..." Master Fox took out a stun gun from his saddlebag, rushed to Bena, grabbed her collar, stared at her with wide eyes, and asked, "Quick! Where's your accomplice hiding? If you don't tell me, I'll make you eat pineapple jam with pasta!"
"Ah?"
Bena's expression froze, not expecting the thrill Master Fox talked about would be so thrilling—using pineapple jam with pasta? How's that different from eating crap?
Moreover...
Romano was exposed?
Impossible; his disguise was perfect, invisible to the naked eye, undetectable by thermal imaging; even the voice recorder and USB stick were shielded before inserted in him.
"Don't try to deny it!"
"Master Fox has a sharp nose! That flashy thing's cologne scent is completely different from everyone else present." Master Fox spoke while pressing the stun gun on Bena's thigh, flipping the switch.
"Oh..."
Bena let out a moan which startled Master Fox, making him look at the stun gun with surprise.
Wait, shouldn't its power be enough to make someone convulse?
How did it result in just a moan without any effect?
Single for two lifetimes, Ansheng didn't know that in reality, some played more extravagantly than in movies.
Wang Ya lay at the stairway door, peeking through the gap at the interrogation on the second layer with gritted teeth.
"You must mean Mano; he's not here. We have a tradition of surrendering with dignity." Bena didn't deny Master Fox's words but instead went along with them, bringing up the Xia Country's humorous breast joke.
"Buzz buzz—"
Master Fox zapped Bena twice again, finding her only breathing a bit rapidly but otherwise unaffected, while the hidden Romano didn't show himself.
Thinking about it, Master Fox electrocuted her twice more; Bena moaned twice, and the sounds were full of indifference.
"...Did you go through anti-shock training?"
Seeing no breakthrough with Bena and Romano still refusing to come out, Master Fox's face hardened, directly tearing off Bena's jacket, causing her to scream.
"Y...no! I'm a devout believer; you can't humiliate me like this." Bena exclaimed loudly.
"Shut your mouth!"
Master Fox tied her up too, stuffing all the remaining cloth into her mouth, and tossed her into the crowd.
Romano, hiding at the top, didn't dare glance at the ground, feeling extreme fear from the Spirit Beast's sixth sense: "... "
"Fine! Master Fox isn't a bad fox. Since you refuse to come out, I won't be the villain."
Master Fox said a sentence, turned and ran to their diesel generator room, dragging out all the remaining diesel and weapons.
Master Fox kicked the oil drums, spilling diesel all over the second layer, collisions with the site's walls echoing "boom—", the diesel splashing everywhere like waves, covering everything flammable.
"Diesel's ignition point is high, hard to ignite, but here's the good news."
"Diesel emits toxic vapor once ignited!"
"Golden Leopard! Go and dismantle the C4 upstairs, Master Fox will cook you a five-clawed Jin Long."
"It's dismantled; the foreigners were lying, those are not Black Gold upstairs, just nitroglycerin."
"Who cares, as long as it burns and explodes, bring it down." Master Fox shouldered a rocket launcher, aiming at the rooftop, the crosshair just aligned with Romano's hiding spot.
Trembling, Romano dared not look down to see what was happening.