The villain's way to tame the protagonist

A large number of Hyena's thugs rushed into the slave markets belonging to the Evil Vultures, and these markets were caught off guard.

"The final, and decisive, key comes from the extraordinary..."

Marina put her last little finger together and said calmly and firmly:

"power."

boom!

As the tension between the Rat King and the Evil Vulture became increasingly tense, the hyena suddenly thrust a dagger into the table. He stood up, and a hideous, cruel and crazy smile appeared on his fierce face.

"The fact that he has forcefully swept through the slave market has already been established. The Evil Vulture and the Rat King now have only two choices: either fight back or accept the hyena's sale."

"If it were me." Marina smiled as she put her fingers together. "I wouldn't tell them that I found a new backer. I would let them think that this was my last desperate attempt before I went crazy... Unless someone was seriously injured, business people wouldn't fight a madman to the death."

"Uneven benefits promised to the secessionists."

The Rat King and the Evil Vulture stared at the jade on the table at the same time, remaining silent.

"A thunderous blow without any reaction."

Hyena's thugs basically wiped out all the major slave markets. Who could have thought that a guy who had lost his backing and had nowhere to go would suddenly go crazy and target the slave market?

"The tyranny of madmen."

The dagger nailed to the table reflected the hyena's fearless, cruel and arrogant smile.

Marina exhaled slowly. She felt her blood rushing and her violently beating heart surging with a tide of pride and satisfaction.

"That's my answer."

The girl turned to look at Anser and said with a bright smile: "I have completed your order, Mr. Anser, did I win?"

"Very good, very good, Marina."

Anser clapped his hands happily. "Better and more perfect than I thought... You lack a lot of information, such as the personalities, characters, and behavior patterns of the hyenas and other leaders. Even without asking me, you have built up a sufficient image in your mind. Was it confirmed when the hyenas talked to me?"

"Yes, judging from his appearance, figure, conversation, choices, and achievements... Mr. Hyena should be a person with meticulous thinking, but also ruthless means and determination to fight to the death. As for the other leaders... I can only consider that they are not stupid people."

Marina smiled shyly: "I was just lucky, I guessed it right."

"This is not luck, but the result of years of learning and growth... I've told you, Marina, you have an amazing talent."

Ansher smiled and touched Marina's head, causing the girl, who always behaved calmly and elegantly, to squint her eyes happily.

"but……"

Then, the words he spoke gently made Marina's expression freeze slightly.

"Next," said the young Hydra, "it's my turn."

"you……"

"I said, this is a game between you and me. Since you have made your choice, I should also be able to deal with it, right? I don't intend to let Mr. Hyena live so comfortably."

Anser chuckled: "Although it is my turn now, in fact, it was earlier..."

In the meeting scene, the Rat King and the Evil Vulture looked at each other with bad expressions, and then... a smile slowly appeared on their faces, and then quickly turned into a mocking laugh.

While Evil Vulture and Marina were still trying to figure out what was going on, sudden changes also occurred in the slave markets controlled by the hyenas.

It seemed as if the killers who had been lying in ambush long time ago suddenly attacked from the corner and killed the hyena subordinates who had relaxed their vigilance after taking over the slave market seemingly effortlessly. Even though some of them were the main force and had the strength to fight, they gradually lost the upper hand and finally had to flee in embarrassment.

"This..." Marina looked at the screen in disbelief. "How could this happen? Hyena... There is a traitor around me, and he is my trusted confidant? All the actions have been exposed?"

The benefit is only to make the opponents fall into disputes, but it cannot really settle the matter. The only thing that can allow the hyena to truly occupy the slave market is the established fact that he takes the initiative to attack.

With the support of Grand Duke Shenghui, he has been operating smoothly but has not been able to swallow up all the slave markets. Now that he has changed to "Faust" for support, there is naturally no reason for anything to change. So the only chance... can only come from this crazy, but profitable, killer move that is enough to make the Evil Vulture and the Rat King retreat.

The viciousness of this blow is that no one would have thought that the hyenas would dare to do this. On the other hand...if it were known to others, this plan would not only be meaningless, but would also destroy a large number of the hyenas' manpower.

Anser waved his hand and said with a cheerful smile: "No, it's not that there is a traitor around you, it's just a..."

"coincide."

He snapped his fingers, and an ordinary-looking man appeared in front of Marina.

"Remember him?"

"That's... the seller of the fake gem!"

"After he changed his face and followed us for unknown reasons, I kept an eye on him and read his mind."

"To put it simply, as a dealer of stolen goods, he was working under the name of Evil Eagle. After being shocked by your vision, Marina, he wanted to win me over and recruit me as a customer of Evil Eagle to bring some benefits to himself... Then, he watched us walk into Mr. Hyena's slave market."

While Anser was saying this, the hyena had already left the jade with an extremely ugly look on his face.

"He didn't want the hyenas to become too powerful because I could be a big shot, so he wanted to talk to me as soon as possible and introduce the evil vulture to me. However... I was too flamboyant at the auction, so he didn't do it because he was afraid of the risk of being exposed."

"until……"

"Until the hyenas, until I come," Marina muttered to herself.

"I was too anxious. When I thought about the legendary adventurer coming here, I thought I must not miss this opportunity. So I didn't even invite Mr. Anser to my office or some other suitable place to chat. I just started talking in the box. Outside the box... was the auction hall filled with bidders."

The girl slowly clenched her fists: "Using magic to eavesdrop may not be discovered. Even if it is discovered, it may not be discovered. As long as you have the courage..."

"Mr. Millipede happens to be an expert at hiding, disguising, and changing his appearance, which is why he is the best dealer of stolen goods in the outer city."

Marina turned her head to look at Anser and whispered in an extremely complicated tone: "So, you used this 'coincidence' to let the evil vulture know the hyenas' preparations, making him think that everything was ready, but in the end you destroyed most of your own elite troops? This is really, really..."

"absurd."

Anser whispered the words that Marlena could not: "That's ridiculous, isn't it?"

"……Yes."

"Then what do you think of this coincidence, Marina?" Anser said gently, "Did I deliberately arrange it from beginning to end?"

Marina thought about it and shook her head, "No, from the very beginning, until... until you discovered his identity and intentions, everything was not within your control."

"Yes, that's what we call a coincidence." Young Hydra looked down at the street below. The chaotic fight between the hyenas and other leaders' men had spread to the streets. The Rat King and the Evil Vulture didn't seem to want to let him go so easily, and his sea-blue eyes reflected the gradually chaotic scene.

"It's not me who chose something and decided on what path it should take. It's just someone who passed by me, just a feather falling from the sky, or even just..."

Anser's voice became somewhat unreal and ethereal:

"The fleeting thoughts that run through your mind."

Xitana was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Anser, her expression becoming a little worried.

Ansher smiled, perhaps out of habit or to reassure Hitana, but a fist-sized iron ball condensed out of thin air in his palm, and he casually threw it off the bell tower.

"I just provided guidance for these things, but the path... has always been their own choice."

The iron ball fell from the air at high speed and hit one person on the head in the melee, killing him instantly.

"It's just like the eavesdropping magic of Mr. Millipede. It's impossible to hide it from me and Lawrence, but I still condoned his behavior and hinted at it in this way to encourage him to continue doing it."

"Did I do anything?" Anser tilted his head. "I didn't do anything. I just made him more inclined to eavesdrop on the conversation between Mr. Hyena and me when given the two options of 'continue eavesdropping' and 'evacuating immediately'."

"So..." Marina murmured, "It's just a coincidence, just... a coincidence."

"Yes, it's just a more direct and fatal coincidence among countless coincidences."

Ansher smiled gently, but Marina felt a chill when she saw the smile.

She was not afraid of Ansher, but she was afraid of what Ansher's words represented... that suffocating and irresistible feeling.

"Marina, are you confused about why you chose to create a coincidence when you could have just crushed the hyena to death and won this unfair game?"

Marina, whose palms were slightly cold, said in a hoarse voice: "...Yes, Mr. Anser, please tell me."

"Because it is a coincidence, and it is also the purest...fact."

The devil raised an icy smile on his face: "Reasonable facts."

"Millipede did that because he is under the command of Evil Eagle. After Hyena's death, his boss will get a bigger share of the market, and he will get more channels. Therefore, he can't just sit back and watch Hyena have a chance to make a comeback. So, since he has the ability to eavesdrop, he will choose to take the risk... And since Hyena is extremely anxious and has no intention of paying attention to the outside world, and I'm 'doing nothing', he will undoubtedly choose to continue eavesdropping."

"The only 'deliberate' thing here is my inaction, but that's all. After all, the hyena knows nothing about this, and all he sees is his own failure."

"What did he do wrong? He did nothing wrong. He made the most appropriate and correct choice at the time. But it was precisely this appropriateness and correctness that led him to an unacceptable defeat. Because beyond this appropriateness and correctness, there appeared a coincidence that he could not see, predict, or calculate."

“It’s like fate, an absurd, funny, yet real coincidence.”

Anser took a deep breath, then exhaled slowly. He closed his eyes and a comfortable and bright smile appeared on his face:

"Without Mr. Millipede, I can still choose other ready-made coincidences. If there are no ready-made coincidences, I can create my own coincidences. Because for this black market, I can modify its internal rules, change the meaning of its existence, or even directly wipe it out. It is too small, too small for me, so small that it fits in the palm of my hand."

"Marina, tell me."

Anser leaned forward slightly and whispered in Marina's ear: "Now, as Mr. Hyena, how can you...change your own fate of defeat?"

"I……"

Marina opened her mouth. She wanted to say something, something practical and useful that could shed some light on this desperate situation, but she couldn't utter a word.

Change……

how to change?

How can this change? If everything and everyone around me can be turned into a coincidence that puts me to death just now by Mr. Anser's irresistible terror... who should I trust? No one has betrayed me, but I can no longer trust anyone? I even... even...

Even I can't believe it?

Marina trembled a little after coming to this incredible conclusion. An absurd and huge fear dominated her mind... Just assuming this, just thinking about it, she could hardly hold on.

"Marina."

A hand suddenly covered the girl's gradually pale face.

"Don't go too deep." Anser stroked her face, "I'm punishing Mr. Hyena, not you."

"...I, I know, Mr. Anser."

Marina took a deep breath and forced a smile: "I'm fine."

Anser stared at him for a while and asked softly, "Do you want to continue? Or end it here?"

Marina closed her eyes.

In her mind, the sad and sentimental words of Anelissa emerged.

"…The game continues, Mr. Anser."

The ordinary girl, who had no idea what she was challenging, said firmly:

"Even though it's hopeless, I will still try to defeat you."

Chapter 1.3: The Weakness of the Snake (W)

The game between Marina and Anser continues, but the black market below is no longer peaceful.

The hyena's thugs were fighting with the evil vultures and the Rat King's men. The roar of spells and the roar of warriors echoed under the high walls that separated the upper and lower cities. In this area flowing with chaos and sin, a huge wave pushed by the Overlooker was about to engulf and cleanse everything.

In the picture presented by Lawrence, the hyena was rushing to its lair with an unpleasant look on its face, and Marina stared at the scene and whispered solemnly:

"The most important thing now is to gather the remaining troops. Since they know my plan to raid other slave markets, they also know that I have the support of Mr. Anser and Faust behind me."

"In that case, they won't kill us all, but..."

But is it really that simple?

Could there be any coincidence that pushed the other three leaders to take the fatal action?

...No, that's for sure.

The girl's breathing became increasingly rapid. "Mr. Anser will not delay the punishment of the hyena until the second day, the third day, or even longer. Mr. Anser wants it... now!"

"Smart girl." Anser chuckled. "If you want to fight against the irresistible will, you must first understand... what He needs, so that you can make corresponding preparations."

"That is to say, there must be some reason why they dare to ignore the fifth-level legendary adventurer... coincidence... or something else, what could it be?"

Marina clenched her teeth, her mind flashing back wildly about everything that had happened since she entered the black market.

Mr. Anser saw far more than I did, but it was still within a certain range. Since he would not deliberately push something to happen, it must be an existing person or thing that was related to "making them dare to challenge the people behind the scenes"...

The waiter at dinner? The beggar who Xi'er gave gold coins to? The pickpocket who was exposed? No, no, no... the person who can pry the black market boss must have capital, wait... must it be? If it is a coincidence, does it have to be a person with capital?

Even though she knew what she was facing, Marina still mustered up the courage to try to challenge Ansher, but soon realized her own insignificance.

Her courage was feeble, her resolution worthless.

Even though the thought of that kind of horror had made her shudder, Marina found that she still underestimated it, far, a thousand times underestimated the cold and desperate terror that was strangling her throat at all times and in all places.