It doesn't matter what the lord is.

"Why should the King of the East deceive himself? It's better not to interfere in some things. Once you cross the line, it's a life-and-death struggle. If the territories under the King of the East were as strong as the King of the North, Hu Xiao, perhaps they could still protect themselves. The current King of the East has great strength but is caught in a dilemma. As long as he doesn't fight for that position, the King of the East's fate will probably not be much better than those who threaten me."

The smile on Snake Eyes' face disappeared in an instant.

It stared at Reed for a full half minute before it snorted and withdrew its intimidating power.

Lid was right. Although the power change of the demon clan would not affect all the kings, Shetong obviously did not have a golden ticket to escape death. The four words "dilemma" could not be more appropriate to describe it. It was difficult to take a step forward and sit on the position of the demon king, and it was even more difficult to take a step back and jump out of this dispute.

Even if your head is broken and bloody, you must keep moving forward, because there is a cliff behind you.

Snake Eye no longer tried to regain the upper hand by strength and momentum. It saw that Lid was indeed a rare tough guy. Because he refused to kneel down, his kneecap was completely crushed. Although he looked like he was standing there, he was actually unable to walk. The muscles all over his body were also squeezed out of shape. Blood flowed out from his feet like a winding stream. His face was covered with a thick black aura. Only his eyes were still clear and bright, hiding a biting cold light.

All the high-level demons in the hall were kneeling, and he was the only one standing.

But Shetong was not surprised. Rather, a human dared to go deep into the heart of the demon clan alone, dared to hide around it and assassinate the new demon clan in its territory, and played a bunch of old guys around. Such a person would not be afraid of anything. If he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy because of this pressure, Shetong would kill him without hesitation.

But Snake Eye still said:

"I don't like business. Business means exchange, which also means I need to lose something."

Lid shrugged his shoulders and said:

"Then get used to it. I don't like doing business with you either, but I still have to do it. There are so many things in the world that people can't stand. Before you reach the highest position, you have to hold back all your dissatisfaction."

Snake Eye turned around and said to Lid:

"Speak now. As you can see, my daughter is right here. If you want to take her away, please me as much as possible! If what you say next is not enough to impress me, then not only you... but also her, including that Yu Xicheng, everyone will die!"

Reed ignored its threat.

He looked at the demons around him and said:

"Does the King of the East think it's better to talk about things like this openly? Since it's a business, there's a possibility that someone will cut in. Does the King of the East really think his men are that reliable? I heard that the King of the East has been killing a high-level demon every week to replenish his son's body..."

Before he finished speaking, Shetong shouted coldly:

"Shut up! Do you really think I dare not kill you?!"

The black fog around it suddenly surged to an extremely high concentration, making it almost impossible to see its face.

Reed felt as if he had fallen into an icy cave. His entire body was as cold as it could be. His heart seemed to be instantly gripped by an invisible hand, and the blood in his body almost solidified into a piece of ice that could not be melted.

He clenched his teeth to stop them from chattering, raised his head and looked back at the snake pupil, without making any comment.

In the black fog, Snake Eye's chest rose and fell slightly twice, and there was complete silence in the palace.

After a moment, the black fog dissipated and the snake's pupil returned to its expressionless look.

It seemed to have successfully suppressed its inner anger and said coldly:

"You guys, please leave first."

The demons in the hall stood up one after another and retreated timidly. Ying Baiqing was the last one to leave. As he left, he stared at Lid with red eyes and stamped his feet in hatred. Shetong turned around again and said to Shemi, who was hiding behind a pillar and looking around:

"You go out too."

"Yes, father."

Shemi looked at Lid with a gloating look and quickly ran to the door. When he was about to leave the hall, he quickly braked and slid to the head of the demon rookie that Lid had thrown away. He grabbed the head and threw it into his mouth, chewing it with a crunching sound. While eating, he said incoherently:

"Don't waste it..."

When only Shetong and Lid were left in the empty hall, Shetong looked at Lid quietly and said:

"Your legs won't be able to move for a while."

Reed nodded.

Shetong turned around and gave an order to Fileta who was standing there in a blank tone:

"Go and kill him."

60. Deep-seated obedience

Following Snake Tong's order, Fileta, who had been indifferent to everything in the outside world, finally walked forward slowly, came in front of Snake Tong, raised her hand, and a vertical blood-red magic circle quickly took shape behind her, rotating and adjusting the angle, gradually aiming in the direction of Lid.

During this process, Shetong crossed his arms and said without any emotion:

"My daughter should have been stronger. If she was this weak, it would be a disgrace to me even if I gave her away. So I made her remember something, something engraved in her blood and soul."

The magic circle released by Fileta was composed of three rings, all of which were slowly rotating, gradually slowing down from the inside to the outside. There were four bright dots on each ring, like the four scales of a clock. When all the rings turned to the same angle, the bright dots converged into four lines, like a crosshair. In an instant, the entire magic circle made a crisp sound like gears biting together, and a crackling ball of light formed in the center of the magic circle and began to gradually expand.

Then, a red beam of light exploded and headed straight for Reed who was unable to move.

There is no deviation at all.

Reed narrowed his eyes. The radius of the laser cannon was very large, completely covering half of his body, leaving no way to avoid it.

So he raised his hand and smashed it directly, using brute force to confront magic head-on.

The skin on his hands slowly peeled off as if corroded by strong acid, revealing bright red flesh. When blood vessels burst, blood could be seen seeping out of the muscles, and then evaporating rapidly in the red light at a speed visible to the naked eye. Lid put a little more strength into his fist, directly shattering the magic that was bombarding him into countless splashes of light.

The residual power of the magic blasted holes in the hall and blocked Reed's sight for a moment.

When the red light faded, Fileta had already jumped to within a short distance. She pointed her hand at Lid's head, and there was a dark purple magic circle in her palm that alternated between light and dark. At this distance, Lid instinctively wanted to use his hand to directly shatter Fileta's throat, but he hastily restrained this impulse after raising his hand halfway. In a brief hesitation, the magic circle in Fileta's hand flashed, and directly blasted Lid out, rolling several times in the hall before stopping.

Fileta did not stop, she was now only focused on Snake Eye's orders.

Seven or eight magic circles formed in midair, aiming at Lid who was lying on the ground from all directions. A circle of raging flames burned on the ground, directly sealing Lid in the center, leaving him with no escape route at all. All the magic circles in midair began to charge, and once Fileta finished chanting, the powerful magic would be poured all over Lid.

"Humans are fragile and weak creatures... Although there are some exceptions, most of them are like this. That's why they get lost, doubt themselves, and stagnate. Only by erasing these emotions can humans be qualified to move forward. Unfortunately, my daughter can't do it. You, who risked your life alone to save my daughter, can't do it either."

Snake pupil narrowed his eyes and said slowly:

"Twenty-one years ago, I witnessed the complexity of you humans in Yuxi City. All kinds of emotions, all kinds of ethics, all kinds of insignificant beliefs, all kinds of hypocrisy. Including you, you came to see me with a slick and confident look, as if you were sure that I would agree to a deal with you. But you seem to have forgotten that only power is reliable in this world, just like my daughter had a deep relationship with you, but I only need to raise my hand to completely erase this feeling from her body, so that she can kill you without hesitation in the blink of an eye."

The magic circle was fully charged, and magic of various attributes turned the center of the fire into a hell on earth.

Thick smoke billowed, Reed's clothes were burned to tatters, and he kept coughing in the fire.

After discovering that the magic she had carefully constructed could not kill Lid, Fileta was like a broken machine. She did not take any further action, but fell into deep thought. Snake Eyes shook her sleeves, and a dagger fell to the ground with a clang.

"Take it up. There is poison in it that I personally prepared. Use it to smash the heart you once loved so deeply into pieces. If you fail, just commit suicide... Anyway, you are no longer worthy of my attention now."

Fileta squatted down, revealing her long white legs from the side of her robe. She reached out to pick up the dagger, stood up, and walked towards Lid step by step.

Reed tried to get up from the ground, but his kneecap was crushed by the pressure from Snake Eyes. Although it was slowly recovering, it was still difficult for him to stand up.

Fileta walked in front of Reed and slowly raised the dagger in her hand.

Reed half sat on the ground, looking at her from bottom to top.

Fileta was already very tall, almost as tall as Reed, and her slender and well-proportioned figure looked even more beautiful from this angle, but the cold light flashing on the dagger made it impossible to admire her at all.

Fileta paused, then stabbed the dagger into Reed's heart.

Normally, the dagger should have stopped for a while at this time, giving Comrade Lid a chance to show off his mouth cannon. Unfortunately, it didn't happen. For Fileta, any delay might make it impossible to complete the task of Snake Eye. After a moment's pause, her dagger stabbed Lid's heart neatly.

"Hey, hey, you don't show any mercy at all..."

Reed raised his hand to block Fileta's hand, but Fileta immediately changed her moves and stabbed him again. After several blocks, Reed raised his hand and hit Fileta on the back of the neck, wanting to knock her out directly, but he didn't expect that there was a hidden magic circle there. This blow instead broke several of Reed's finger bones.

Fileta immediately stepped back, turned the dagger around, and pointed it at her own neck.

When she first came to the demon clan, Shetong had told her that she was a very important chess piece. In order to ensure the safety of the chess piece, Shetong left many self-defense magic circles on her body. Once it was confirmed that she was under attack, the magic circle would start to work and bounce back the external attack.

Unless she wants to die, no demon from the East District can hurt her or knock her out and take her away.

This magic circle will generally not be triggered. If it is triggered, it means that Fileta has encountered an opponent that she cannot deal with.

So now Fileta began to carry out the second task given to her by Snake Eye: suicide.

Also without hesitation, Fileta held the dagger in both hands and stabbed towards her own neck with an expressionless face.

Snake Eye turned around, not wanting to see his hall stained with blood.

However, just as Fileta was about to take action, Reed suddenly raised his head.

He didn't move, but just said two words coldly:

"stop."

Snake Eyes thought for a moment that he was talking to himself, and a sneer appeared on his face. This boy probably didn't know how to ask for help. Since his kneecap was relatively hard, he would have to pay a price. There were countless powerful demons in the hall who knelt on the ground in fear under the pressure of the King of the East. Only this ignorant human boy insisted on standing even though he was as weak as an ant. What qualifications did he have?

Let Fileta die in front of him first to dampen his arrogance.

However, soon, Snake Eyes felt something was wrong.

There was no sound of a dagger piercing the throat from behind.

It turned around and saw Fileta standing there blankly, the dagger in her hand was still an inch away from her snow-white neck, but it stopped there. Snake pupils suddenly cast their eyes on Lid and found that he was still sitting there, tapping his knees like an old man basking in the sun, and said calmly:

"Kneel down."

Fileta's hand loosened and the dagger fell to the ground, with the tip pointing downwards, directly inserted into the hard stone brick.

Under the gaze of Snake Eyes, Fileta knelt down in front of Reed little by little.

For the first time, there was shock in Snake Eyes' eyes.

This was a scene he could not imagine. Since it controlled Fileta, Fileta had never disobeyed any of its orders. She had no emotions, no self-awareness, and even when facing Shemi's salty snake hand, she had no reaction at all. Because now she could not be called a living thing at all, but just a moving body, a puppet that obeyed the orders of Snake Eyes.

And now, this puppet obeys the orders of others.

"come over."

As these words fell, Fileta got on all fours and slowly crawled to Reed's side like a puppy wagging its tail.

Snake pupil frowned and shouted coldly:

"Take up the dagger and kill yourself, Fileta, you are of no use any more!"

After hearing this cold shout, Fileta seemed to remember Snake Eye's order, so she turned around again, slowly turned around, and stretched out her arms to the dagger stuck in the ground. But Lid suddenly raised his hand and rubbed her head. Fileta's movements stopped for a moment, and she knelt there blankly, like a child when her parents were arguing, not knowing which side to listen to. But in the end, she slowly turned back to Lid's direction, and the hand that was about to pick up the dagger held Lid's wrist, as if she was afraid that he would take his hand back, and at the same time rubbed Lid's palm awkwardly and clumsily with the top of her head.

At that moment, Snake Eyes suddenly understood.

It had been thinking wrong all along. Fileta's feelings for Lid were not just love. It was obedience, obedience deep in her bones, the kind of obedience that made her humble herself to the dust and thought about how to please her master from morning till night.

Snake Eyes could erase her emotions, but she had to keep her ability to obey orders, otherwise how could she be controlled? However, Snake Eyes did not expect that she would take precedence over her own orders when executing Lid's orders. Seeing her daughter lying in front of another man, with a dull look in her eyes but an instinctive smile on her face, Snake Eyes looked at Lid with a chill in her eyes.

"Girls should not be kept at home, King of the East."

Reed tapped his knees and slowly stood up.

The knee that was completely destroyed by the pressure has finally recovered.

He raised his head, facing the cold gaze of the snake pupil, without a trace of retreat in his eyes, and said with a smile:

"You were talking so much just now, I thought you were very good at controlling people's hearts. Now it seems that you don't understand it at all."

61. Two questions

Snake Eyes stretched out his hand, covered his face with his five fingers, and let out a dry and weird laugh.

He looked down at Lid, and every word he said was filled with terrifying pressure:

"Human heart? Humph, you two are just like ants in my eyes. What's the use of your hearts for me! Now it's easy for me to kill you. You dare to talk to me like this, human, do you think I can't do anything to you?!"

The whole hall was filled with black fog and was shaking.

Unexpectedly, Lid said openly:

"Yes, I really thought so."

He looked at Shetong and said with some sarcasm:

"The King of the East may not know that I only like to do things that are sure. It just so happens that I am sure of almost everything I want to do. I think there is no need for us to talk nonsense here anymore. Fileta can't kill me. You know this better than me. Choosing Fileta to attack me is just to test my bottom line. In the final analysis, it is just to gain the upper hand before the transaction. You, if you really want to kill me, it's very simple. Just now in front of so many demons, as long as you increase the pressure you released a little more, it will not only be my knees that are crushed-"

Lid extended his index finger, tapped his temple, and said calmly:

"And my head."

Snake Eye's laughter gradually died down. It lowered its hands and stared at Lid with eyes as sharp as knives.

Lid was right. It really didn't want to kill Lid. So many rookies of the East District Demon Clan had died. Even if it killed Lid hundreds or thousands of times, it would not be able to relieve its hatred. The reason why it met with Lid and dismissed all the demons, including his son, was because Shetong really wanted to talk. It had a desire, a desire to be the Demon King, a desire to trample the other three kings under its feet. As long as this desire was still there, it would never kill Lid at this time.

He couldn't kill him, and he was unhappy watching him, so he naturally thought of using Fileta to strike down his arrogance. When he thought about the people who once trusted each other turning against each other, Snake Eyes felt a surge of joy in his heart. He wanted to see Lid's painful expression and his helpless look. He had seen enough, and it would not be too late to talk again.

Anyway, including Yuxi City and Lid himself are all under its control, so Shetong still has a lot of bargaining chips.

But as if he could see what it was thinking, Lid suddenly said:

"King of the East, you just said that humans always care about insignificant things, while you demons only pursue power. But now, don't you think you are also like that boring human you mentioned? Whether it's Fileta's life or my life, they are not that important to you. Killing us will not let you sit on the position of Demon King, it will only make the situation worse, you know this very well. So what do you care about? Dignity? Face? A momentary sense of relief? I don't think these are what made you the King of the East."

The snake's eyes moved and it quickly glanced at the ground, as if recalling what happened before.