Chapter 944: Scheming Against Each Other (2)
“Surprised? Didn’t expect our next meeting to be under such circumstances, did you?”
Zhou Shisan looked at Li Xiaofei with a triumphant grin. “I told you, we’d meet again. It took a little longer than I’d hoped, but this moment is perfect.”
Li Xiaofei’s gaze swept the area but he didn’t see the succubus, Xue.
“Where is she?” he asked.
It wasn’t that he held deep feelings for her. She was a different race and had a different heart. He had saved her once during the banquet, and he considered whatever shallow tie that formed between them to be long since settled.
The only reason he came here was because he had planned to find Zhou Shisan anyway. This confrontation had always been part of his plan. He hadn’t expected Zhou Shisan to lose patience and make the first move. But that was just fine, since it gave him the perfect chance to turn the tables.
Li Xiaofei had always suspected that Zhou Shisan, for all his apparent cleverness, lacked true precision in his actions. He seemed like the kind of man who, driven by personal emotion, would execute seemingly flawless schemes riddled with exploitable flaws. When dealing with a fool like this, the best thing to do was to play along.
Zhou Shisan let out a hearty laugh. He gave a small gesture with his hand. One of the Yeniao Clan warriors stepped forward and smashed a chunk of ice.
Behind the pale-blue crystal was the succubus girl, frozen in place. Her once-beautiful face was frozen in a final expression of fear and pleading, etched in her last breath of life.
She was already dead. The severed arm’s wound had frozen over, and the blood that had poured from it was now locked in glittering crimson ice, like a red rose blooming in the darkness of the icy plains.
Even though he felt no real attachment to the succubus, at that moment, a surge of fury erupted from deep within Li Xiaofei. A flood of cold rage, like a tidal wave, threatened to burst forth and consume everything.
“You look very angry,” Zhou Shisan said with a mocking, taunting smile as he shrugged. “I’m terribly sorry. I didn’t plan to kill her at first, but as you know, the Frost Plains are just too cold. I barely brought her here, and she couldn’t even withstand the chill so she froze to death all on her own.”