My Cell Prison
Chapter 921 - Chapter 921 Chapter 920 Negotiations

Chapter 921: Chapter 920: Negotiations Chapter 921: Chapter 920: Negotiations When the Dragon City Team arrived here, they had just transitioned from a tense escape to a combat-ready state, noticing that a battle might be imminent.

However, Han Dong displayed a face full of good intentions and spoke in standard Mandarin:

“There is no danger on this level; you can rest here for a while.

We escaped to this level about ten minutes ago and have thoroughly searched this area, confirming there are no ‘Terror Source Monsters’.”

Most members of the Dragon City Team naturally did not believe Han Dong’s words, dismissing them as ‘Demon’s lies’.

Indeed, Han Dong was lying.

He deliberately concealed the fact that his group had killed a Terror Source Monster, claiming instead that they had just fled to this level… but he had no intention of setting up the Dragon City Team.

In light of his enmity with the Capital City Engineers, having a complete fallout with the Dragon City Team would be truly troublesome.

Due to prior contact with Monk Gu Xu, Han Dong tried to build some sort of relationship… even if they could not become allies, maintaining neutrality and focusing on clearing the levels was preferable.

…

“Demon’s lies, expel them…”

Just as Xuanyuan Jade, full of righteousness and wielding the Trishul, was about to challenge Han Dong,

an invisible yet powerful arm stopped her in her tracks.

In an instant, Monk Gu Xu, the team captain, stood at the forefront of the team and thanked Han Dong across the corridor: “Thank you.”

He then turned and signaled his teammates to rest right there.

The constant high-tension state, deep-seated fears that invaded their bones, and the monster ambush they experienced upon leaving through the safety door.

The condition of the Dragon City Team could be described as extremely dire, even Monk Gu Xu himself had a severe injury that could affect his capabilities, merely hidden by his monk’s robes.

If they engaged in battle now with the well-conditioned ‘Demon Team’, they would be at a disadvantage.

Moreover,

Monk Gu Xu had previous dealings with Han Dong. He had verified Han Dong’s ‘Demon Form’ through a certain Heart-eye and identified the ‘Heart of humans’ within him…

Though Han Dong’s speech contained truths and lies, Gu Xu could discern that the intel about this level being safe was true.

So, using this opportunity to regroup was ideal.

Han Dong continued to speak kindly, “By the way, the second to last ward in front of you is the [Safe Area]… If you need a water supply, you can rest there.”

“Thank you, we will stay here.”

Thus, the two teams sat down to rest, separated by a corridor about thirty meters long.

Han Dong first turned to his teammates, “I will handle all the interactions from here on… you guys take a break.

Especially Miss Mary, tone down the hostility. If you want to acquire something useful from the Toad Ancestor, you absolutely must not make too many enemies. The two teams from Uncle Sam’s Country are trouble enough; if we stir up this team as well, we might get eliminated early.”

“Mmm…” Mary, who had been glaring the whole time, slightly relaxed her expression upon Han Dong’s words.

Dumps strongly supported Han Dong’s approach and added, “Just now in the [Preparation Area], from the looks in these Dragon City Team members’ eyes, it seems like they also have a bias against the Engineer Squad from the Capital City; capitalizing on this point might just work.”

“Alright.”

…

To tell the truth.

Han Dong himself wasn’t inclined towards ‘seeking peace’… after all, this monk had approached him in the Dream and subdued him with Buddhist teachings without a word.

Han Dong was quite unhappy about that.

But grievances aside, the monk’s strength was apparent, tearing apart Bloodhounds barehanded and even frightening the Earl.

Moreover, the other members of this Dragon City Team were not simple characters either.

Once opposed… the difficulty of the “Prometheus” world would escalate, which was not favorable for Han Dong to gain benefits.

“Huo Ziping should be junior to you all, right?”

Han Dong directly began the conversation with a familiar person from Dragon City… In a different dimensional universe within Dragon City, Huo Ziping, who was endlessly wielding his sword, also paused slightly.

“How do you know junior brother Huo?”

Xuanyuan Jade looked at Han Dong with surprise; the roots of Xuanyuan Jade and Huo Ziping were both from the [Arsenal].

After all, Huo Ziping was considered a benchmark among the younger generation, a swordsmanship genius that came once every century.

He had only undergone one [True Fate].

However, there was a problem during the event of fate.

Even though he successfully cleared it and everyone survived, his team lost in the confrontation, failing to secure the greatest benefits.

This was considered Huo Ziping’s first defeat… According to Huo Ziping’s description, he lost to a ‘special knight’ from the Holy City, without much detail discussed further.

It was also because of that experience that a great deal of Huo Ziping’s pride was chipped away; once he returned to the city, he went into long-term closed-door training.

Han Dong continued to add, “Last time, in the chain event ‘Clown Revival,’ I happened to run into Huo Ziping and Yu Wu.”

Seeing Han Dong directly mentioning the corresponding fate event and the somewhat famous [Listener – Yu Wu], Xuanyuan Jade became even more puzzled.

He even doubted whether, as a Demon, Han Dong had devoured the memories of a certain knight.

Or that the whole Holy City was already in collusion with the Demons.

After all, the toad woman standing next to Han Dong was an outright Demon… The moisture emanating from her body carried a distinctly polluting aura.

“Actually, the four of us are participating in [Big Expedition].

On the way, a medium-scale battle erupted… due to sudden spatial distortions on the battlefield, we were connected to a portal in the Demon City and forced to bear the label of Demons.

Miss Mary, as a member of the Demons, was in a similar situation, being pulled into the Door of Fate at the same time as us and forced to form a team.

However, we have already reached a preliminary cooperation agreement to help each other through the fate event, with the rewards being split equally.”

Although the Big Expedition truly existed, Han Dong’s narrative held many uncertainties.

Before the other party could express doubt, Han Dong proactively added:

“I know it sounds suspicious… but I really do not wish to be opposed to you.

Moreover, we encountered the Capital City Engineer Team when passing through the desert area.

Mr. Tesla’s team, like ours, belongs to a renowned elite team, and they are powerful… but another team exuded a strange aura, and the disposition and actions of that fifth-grade engineer made me quite uncomfortable.”

At that moment, Monk Gu Xu took over, “The engineers of the Capital City are primarily concerned with their own technological interests… You must be referring to [Novikov], who has been blacklisted by our Dragon City.

He once killed a warrior from our Dragon City.”

Han Dong was inwardly pleased, successfully shifting the point of contention, and his expression immediately darkened, infusing a mixture of anger and suspicion, “Huh? Why would he kill his own people?”

“Interests conflict.

However, the warrior on our side also bears some responsibility; he was of a rather volatile temperament… but Novikov was worse; this person needs to be regarded with more caution.

He came here as a fifth-grade engineer and certainly carries his own private agenda.”

“I will pay close attention to this man…”

“Be careful, a fifth-grade engineer is bound to be more powerful than us.”

“Hmm… thanks for the warning.

Since all of us have met here, it must be fate… Why don’t we share the intelligence we have gathered and collaborate to find the [Exit]?”

Seizing the opportune moment, Han Dong tried to build a bridge of relations.