93: Chapter 93 Enemy

"An emergency meeting?"

After listening to Liu Wei's report, the rage on Qin Yu's face slowly receded.

In its place was an extremely grim and playful sneer.

It was truly a case of someone delivering a pillow just as he was getting drowsy.

He was just worrying about being unable to find the nest of those damn Lizardmen; he hadn't expected the Hope Barrier side to be the first to break.

Heavy losses?

Panic?

Begging for a meeting with him?

Qin Yu could almost imagine the suppressed frustration and anger on the face of the man named Xiao Feng on the other end of the line.

Just two days ago, he had been acting high and mighty, treating Qin Yu as a "savage" he could manipulate at will, clamoring for him to kneel and submit.

Now, he was forced to lower his "noble" head and come begging for help like a dog with a broken back?

Was there anything more ironic than this?

"Patriarch, should we... respond?"

Liu Wei looked at the sneer on Qin Yu's face and asked cautiously.

"Respond? Of course we respond!"

The corners of Qin Yu's mouth curled into a cruel arc.

"Transfer the communication over."

"I want to hear with my own ears what kind of pleasant words this 'high and mighty' Colonel Xiao Feng can say now."

"Yes!"

Liu Wei nodded immediately, took out a walkie-talkie-like communication device she had modified from her bosom, and pressed the connect button.

Sizzle... sizzle...

After a burst of ear-piercing static, a voice suppressing endless anger and humiliation came through the device.

It was precisely Xiao Feng!

"Is... is that Qin Yu?"

Xiao Feng's voice carried an imperceptible tremble.

Clearly, taking the initiative to contact this man who had just humiliated him and the entire Hope Barrier was a massive ordeal for him.

Qin Yu did not speak.

He just listened quietly, like a patient hunter waiting for his prey to walk into the trap on its own.

On the other end of the communicator, there was a brief silence.

Seemingly sensing Qin Yu's disdain, Xiao Feng's breathing became noticeably heavier.

But in the end, he still forcibly suppressed all his emotions.

"Qin Yu! I know you can hear me!"

Xiao Feng's tone became hurried.

"I don't care what grievances exist between us! Those can be discussed later!"

"Right now, we have a common, even more terrifying enemy!"

"A type of... humanoid monster we've never seen before!"

"Their speed is shockingly fast! Their strength is immense! And they are extremely cruel!"

"They appeared in my defense zone like ghosts. I sent out a full twelve-man Marine patrol squad, along with two Thunder Spear Warriors..."

Xiao Feng's voice paused here, filled with pain.

"...In less than five minutes, the entire unit was wiped out!"

"They couldn't even send out a distress signal!"

"We only found a pile of... a pile of shredded, unrecognizable corpses!"

"Qin Yu! Do you understand what this means?!"

"It means a completely unknown third-party force with high intelligence and terrifying combat power has set its sights on us!"

"We must temporarily set aside all prejudices! Unite! And jointly confront this threat!"

Xiao Feng roared all the words out in one breath.

He tried to use the common crisis to create an atmosphere of 'we are equal partners.'

However, what he received was still Qin Yu's silence.

And a bone-chilling... contempt that could be felt even through the electrical current.

"What... what exactly do you want?!"

Xiao Feng finally snapped, his voice carrying a hint of exasperated shouting.

"Are you going to just watch as we human survivors are eaten one by one by these monsters?!"

"Do you think that if our Hope Barrier is finished, your little Tribe will be spared?!"

"Don't you understand the logic that when the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold?!"

"Heh heh..."

Finally, Qin Yu spoke.

He let out a light chuckle filled with ultimate mockery.

That laughter traveled clearly through the communicator into Xiao Feng's ears, like a red-hot branding iron searing his dignity.

"When the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold?"

Qin Yu's voice was leisurely and cold, as if he were talking to an idiot.

"Xiao Feng, have you mistaken one thing?"

"From start to finish, I, and my Tribe, are the 'lips'."

"And you, and that broken fortress of yours, at most can only be considered an eyesore of a blister growing on the lips that pops at a touch."

"You!"

From the other end of the communicator came a loud crash as Xiao Feng smashed something in a fit of rage!

"Qin Yu! Don't push people too far!"

"I lowered my status to seek cooperation with you to give you face!"

"I admit you are strong! But no matter how strong you are, can you stop thousands of those monsters?!"

"Only if we cooperate is there a way to survive!"

"Oh? Cooperation?"

Qin Yu's tone became playful.

"Sure."

"I am not an unreasonable person."

"After all, everyone is human; helping each other is only right."

Hearing Qin Yu relent, Xiao Feng's breath hitched!

He seemed to see a glimmer of hope!

However, Qin Yu's next words were like a bucket of liquid nitrogen at minus two hundred degrees, instantly freezing all his hope along with his dignity, then crushing them into powder!

"You want to cooperate? No problem."

"My conditions are also very simple."

Qin Yu's voice suddenly turned sharp, filled with the unquestionable, imperial dominance and possessiveness!

"From now on, this so-called 'Human Survivor Alliance' will be ruled by me!"

"I will be the Alliance Leader!"

"Your Hope Barrier, all personnel, all weapons, and all supplies must unconditionally accept my unified command and deployment!"

"Including you, Colonel Xiao Feng."

The corners of Qin Yu's mouth split into a grim and cruel smile as he delivered his verdict word by word into the communicator.

"From today on, you and your Hope Barrier..."

"Either become my dog."

"Or, together with my future enemies... disappear from this world!"

"Choose one for yourself?"