"You are a good warrior. I don't want to kill you." Adeline said to Arabelle. "This human will bring you misfortune. Let me take him away."

"Stop talking nonsense. I don't care what you do to him. I just want to kill you, the alien." Arabelle replied.

"Wait a minute!" Howard ran between the two and tried to mediate. "Can't we just have a good talk? Everyone, please speak up if you have any demands..."

"Get out of the way!" Arabelle and Adeline said in unison.

Howard wisely hid back at the corner.

After failing to mediate, the two returned to a tense situation. The ball of light in Adeline's hand became brighter, and Arabelle's hand pulling the trigger gradually gained strength, and the revolver's cylinder slowly turned.

"Whoosh!"

But at this moment, a shell landed between the two of them at a very high speed. Neither Adeline nor Arabelle expected this sudden attack, so they had no time to dodge and could only take a defensive posture to withstand the possible explosion.

But the shell did not explode. Its outer shell fell off, revealing the electrodes inside, which then released a strong pulse of electrical energy into the surrounding area.

Neither Adeline nor Arabelle had guessed that the attack would appear in this form. No matter how fast they were, they could not exceed the speed of light, so they were immediately swallowed up by the expanding arc of light. After a brief burst of bright light and the sound of electricity, the two fell to the ground with smoke coming out of their bodies.

...No matter what happens next, at least now the two of them won't be able to fight for a while.

Howard hid in the dark and witnessed everything. Shortly after Arabelle and Adeline fell to the ground, several soldiers came out from the dark and quickly subdued the two people who had lost their combat capability. They were well-equipped and well-trained, and one of them even had a smoking rocket launcher on his shoulder.

Howard turned around and tiptoed to leave this place. It was not that he wanted to abandon the two of them, but he had no fighting ability now. He had to at least get the Om Messiah first and then find a way to notify Char before considering the next move.

As a result, he bumped into something as soon as he took a step back. He looked back and saw a tall soldier like a wall standing behind him. Before Howard could react, the soldier raised the butt of his gun and hit Howard on the chin.

five minutes later.

Adeline, Arabelle, and Howard were all handcuffed and taken to an open space. Howard and Arabelle wore ordinary handcuffs, while Adeline wore a pair of heavy black handcuffs, which were supposedly used to suppress the use of psychic energy.

There were two armored vehicles parked in the open space with their headlights on. The area where the strong lights intertwined was so bright that people could not open their eyes. Howard and the other two were pushed into this area, and then they were hit in the popliteal fossa and knelt on the ground. Then these soldiers retreated outside the light and stood guard around with guns raised along with the other ten or so soldiers.

Between the two armored vehicles, there was a man standing in the shadows where the strong light could not reach. After Howard and the other two were pushed in front of him, he slowly walked towards them.

First, his feet stepped into this area, and Howard saw that it was a pair of thick black military boots. As the other party continued to walk in, Howard saw the army green trousers tucked into the boots, as well as the hem of the military coat.

But the man stopped halfway, so his lower body entered the illuminated area, while Howard could only see a vague and burly outline of his upper body.

However, judging from his ability to mobilize electric missiles and military armored vehicles, this person is most likely an officer.

"An Eldar alien..." The officer stretched out his white-gloved hand to lift Adeline's chin, then looked at Adeline's appearance from left to right as if he were observing livestock. After looking at her ears and eyes, the officer began to pry open Adeline's mouth, as if he wanted to see her teeth, but Adeline turned her head away forcefully.

The officer wasn't angry at Adeline's reaction. Instead, he lifted Arabelle's chin and said, "A wanted former gang leader..."

But Arabelle didn't tolerate him and just opened her mouth and bit him.

“Ouch!” The officer pulled back his hand, nearly getting bitten by Arabelle, and then ordered the soldiers on either side, “Put a muzzle on her.”

"You guy! Who are you? What are you going to do?" Arabelle, who was being held down with a muzzle, asked while struggling and gritting her teeth.

"It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is that you should thank me." The officer's tone was gentle and elegant. "If I hadn't taken action just now, one of you would have died there. And, human lady, that death would most likely have been you."

"I would be very sad if any of you died." Suddenly the officer's gentle tone turned cold. "Because you won't get much money for bringing back a body, it will cost me a lot of bounty."

"Fuck you!" Arabelle tried to rush towards the officer, but was knocked to the ground by the butt of a rifle.

The officer glanced at Arabelle and said, "I advise you not to struggle, or you'll suffer more."

Finally, he looked at Howard.

"Unlock him." The officer ordered both sides: "Don't hurt his hands."

Soon Howard's handcuffs were uncuffed. Howard got up from the ground and touched his cheek with his hand. The place where he was hit by the butt of the gun was swollen, and it seemed that his jaw was a little dislocated.

"Are you the chef who ran from the Upper Nest to the Middle Nest and can make magical food?" The officer reached out and patted Howard on the shoulder, his tone seeming quite friendly. "I hope these rude men of mine didn't scare you."

"I am." Howard responded briefly.

"The masters of Dingchao are very impressed by your abilities and want you to serve them exclusively," the officer said in a friendly tone. "This is a rare opportunity. I wonder how many people in Shangchao would be willing to spend their fortunes just to meet these important figures."

"I didn't have the option of saying no, did I?" Howard said.

"How could you not have it?" the officer said with a smile.

"I can serve those big shots, but you have to let this human and the elves go." Howard said, and he was naturally referring to Arabelle and Adeline.

"You only have the power to agree or refuse, but you don't have the power to bargain," said the officer.

Howard suddenly jumped up and headbutted the officer in the chin.

The officer didn't expect that the little guy would have the courage to attack him, so he was caught off guard and received a solid headbutt from Howard. He leaned back and retreated repeatedly, and finally fell on the hood of the armored vehicle.

Howard then rushed forward, riding on the officer's body and repeatedly punching him in the head.

"Crack, click, click!"

There was a mechanical noise, and the surrounding soldiers pointed their guns at Howard.

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