"Yeah." The tenth elder walked in and someone brought a chair for him to sit down.
He sat down and looked at the girl who was confronting him. He didn't ask whether Sai Lan was dead or alive, but started chatting with Qiao Nian in a normal tone.
"You're wearing a human skin mask? It's hard to find 100% flawless human skin masks on the market. How did you do it?"
"This is the only technology in the world... Grandpa wants to buy it too?"
In the face of his questioning, Qiao Nian dared to touch the tiger's beard and challenge the authority.
"Don't even think about it, old man. I'm not planning on selling it."
"Huh." The old man raised his lips and narrowed his eyes: "Interesting."
He turned his head to look at Sai Lan who was controlled by Qiao Nian, and said calmly: "Little girl, you want to trade her with me?"
"You only have this daughter left, so your aunt is still quite valuable. At least she is more valuable than the group of people you sent to Continent F, right?" Qiao Nian did not comment.
The Tenth Elder's eyes were as ruthless as frost and snow, without any warmth at all: "Then you made the wrong bet. She knows her own value better than you do. Let her tell you if she alone can ensure that so many of you leave the Sixth Continent safely after you provoke me."
Sai Lan was completely dejected: "Father..."
The ten elders didn't even look at her, as if she was just an insignificant chess piece, and there was nothing to regret even if she died today.
"Tell her if you are worth this deal."
Sai Lan closed her eyes in embarrassment. After calming down, she said to Qiao Nian, "You see, this is the relationship between our families. I told you long ago that I'm not as useful as you think. If you were willing to sit down and talk with me before, we might have been happy. Now that it's turned out like this, it's nothing but a lose-lose situation for both of us... If you let me go now, we can still talk."
"Oh." Qiao Nian was unmoved, tightening the gun, looking at the old man not far away with bright eyes, and said with the same spirit as him: "Then I can't let my aunt go." "According to your standards, at least there is someone to accompany me on the road to the underworld, don't you think so, aunt?"
Sai Lan's muscles twitched under her skin, but she was still disturbed by Qiao Nian's deliberate question: "Do you think I'm joking with you?!"
Qiao Nian raised the muzzle of the gun and tapped her forehead, signaling her not to move: "Auntie, do you think I'm kidding you?"
Because of the gun in her hand, Sai Lan had to suppress her anger. Her lips turned blue from anger and she could no longer utter a word.
However, the Ten Elders had been observing Qiao Nian while watching the two people arguing, and were examining, judging, and analyzing her from her demeanor and behavior.
In less than two minutes, he seemed to have reached the conclusion he wanted. He raised his hand slightly and made a downward gesture.
Suddenly, a group of people filed in from outside, holding machine guns in their hands, and quickly squatted in front of the old man to form a human wall that made it impossible for him to escape.
Sai Lan's expression changed when she saw this scene. She pierced through the crowd and looked at her father. She lowered her voice and said in a deep voice, "Father, what do you want to do?"
The Tenth Elder faced the accusation indifferently: "Can't you see? She won't let you go unless I agree to her terms. But I can't agree to her terms and let her and her companions leave the island, so I have no choice but to sacrifice you."
Listening to his cold and merciless words, Sai Lan felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar, with a chill running down her body from head to toe, even down to the cracks in her bones.
She didn't even know how to answer.
"Old man, are you really not going to save your daughter?" Qiao Nian also saw that the old man had murderous intentions, and narrowed his eyes slightly, trying to find a glimmer of hope or a chance to counterattack.