Chapter 188: Beaten In Scheming
"You’re simply making baseless accusations at this point. Just because you want a share of the resources, you’re making up lies like seeing me steal from the crates!"
Han Xuhan had some experience with the art of guilty negotiations. In this deal, neither side was innocent. He was technically a thief, and Chen Yan was a blackmailer.
But openly admitting either guilty act would be a big mistake. What if someone here was carrying an apparatus capable of recording voices and images?
This was why Chen Yan kept insisting that he wanted to "borrow" from Han Xuhan. In tandem, Han Xuhan had to insist on his own innocence against all accusations.
"Hahaha! Baseless accusations? Making up lies?" Chen Yan shared another laugh with his coterie. Then turning back to him, he pointed at several members of his group.
"Him, him, and her, they all saw you do it, junior brother. If I file a complaint over this to the Sect’s authorities, it won’t be just my testimony against yours. Who do you think would win that contest?"
Han Xuhan scanned those three faces for the second time. All three were junior disciples from his generation. He had casually interacted with them many times in the past, not knowing that they were scheming together to stab him in the back like this.
He even suspected that these guys were the ones who had snitched about the whole matter to Chen Yan, hoping to earn some rewards and gain the senior disciple’s favor.
"Taking this to the Sect authorities won’t benefit you either," Han Xuhan finally said in a measured tone.
"Believe it or not, the sect authorities wouldn’t remove me from my position as the intermediary. Without me, there won’t be any transfer of resources between that party and our sect!"
The confidence in his voice this time was genuine because he was telling the truth. Xuan Zi wouldn’t even dare to punish him harshly as long as the deal with the Holy Land was useful to him in any way.