God-Level Special Forces Soldier

Chapter 908 - 904: Payment and Delivery, Hand in Hand!

Xiao Tian knew this was a sign that the other side was getting anxious, but how could he not be anxious himself? In fact, in a sense, he was even more on edge than the Water Drop Organization.Because even if the one-hour deadline came, Xiao Tian knew the Water Drop Organization wouldn’t actually suffer any real loss, but it would be completely different for him; once time was up, they would definitely realize he’d been bluffing.

At that point, the situation would flip one hundred and eighty degrees in an instant, and the unlucky one would be him.

But anxious or not, Xiao Tian also understood that no matter what, he had to stay calm right now, had to give the other side the impression that he held all the cards and nothing could ruffle him; the more he maintained that façade of composure, the higher his chances of success.

However, during this period, Adison Claire absolutely could not be moved. As a relatively key figure in this incident, she was certain to be tightly guarded by the other side. Once she left their line of sight, countless new variables would spring up.

That forced Xiao Tian, who’d originally planned to send her to the lab first to erase the experimental records in the database, to temporarily abandon the idea.

He turned his head slightly. Seeing Adison Claire in her bathrobe, leaning against the wall with a pale face, looking utterly weak, Xiao Tian’s eyes flickered, but he didn’t make any move.

As for the Water Drop Organization telling him to change his terms, or to reduce the quantity of what he was demanding, Xiao Tian gave no response at all. He simply waited there with an indifferent expression, neither agreeing nor refusing.

In truth, he’d never expected the Water Drop Organization to produce all the treasures he’d listed in one go. By his estimate, getting one was one, one or two was fine, three or five would be even better.

Time ticked by second by second. When forty minutes had passed since the one-hour deadline, the middle-aged man who kept wiping the sweat from his face suddenly showed a look of joy, only for it to quickly twist back into a bitter grimace.

Xiao Tian knew they were finally getting to the main point, and quickly pushed aside the stray thoughts in his mind to fully focus on what was coming next.

...

As it turned out, Xiao Tian had still underestimated just how deep the Water Drop Organization’s resources ran. Although from all the things he’d listed they only produced a single piece of Gale Profound Iron, and it wasn’t even larger than an A4 sheet of paper, some of the other items they brought out as substitutes truly broadened his horizons!

Things like Hundred Flowers Dew, Blazing Poison Fruit, Pitch Grass—treasures that actually had a name to them—came out one after another, a string of seven or eight varieties in total.

Only the Hundred Flowers Dew more or less met Xiao Tian’s expectations, relatively speaking, but that was just by comparison. In fact, the other items were all the type that could be called priceless even if you had the money; they were extremely rare even on the black market.

Calculating their value, there was still a considerable gap to fifty million, but Xiao Tian felt it was about enough. After all, this was all "free" income; being too greedy would be unwise.

After seeing those medicinal herbs, each one worth its weight in gold, Xiao Tian couldn’t help but think of those foreign forces on Kunlun Mountain who ambushed Medicine Gatherers. It was hard to believe that none of them were connected to the Water Drop Organization.

With that, he more or less had a good idea where these rare medicinal materials had come from.

That thought made Xiao Tian feel all the more justified. It was just that now there were only a dozen minutes left before the hour was up, and the time he had to keep extorting them was clearly no longer enough.

With that in mind, he put on an extremely reluctant expression and gritted his teeth. "Fine! Give me the goods, and I’ll help you get Adison Claire under control right away, and I’ll also retract the messages I set up for scheduled sending in advance."

The middle-aged man in charge of the negotiation finally felt a great weight lift from his heart when he heard that, but he still didn’t forget the most crucial point: the experimental records in Xiao Tian’s hands.

Seeing Xiao Tian start fiddling with his phone, the middle-aged man spoke up. "Um, when can you hand over the experimental records you have?"

Xiao Tian chuckled. "Naturally, this is a hand-over-money, hand-over-goods situation. Once you bring out what I want, I’ll naturally send you the experimental records."

"How do I know you don’t have a backup?" the middle-aged man asked.

As he said this, the middle-aged man was sneering inwardly. In his view, Xiao Tian was already a dead man walking. Keeping him alive would only leave everyone constantly on edge, living in perpetual fear—absolutely intolerable.

He was only asking this as a matter of routine procedure.

Xiao Tian’s reply was just as crisp. "The experimental records are all on the phone in my hand. Don’t you have those teleportation Arrays or something like that? You bring me what I want, and I’ll naturally hand over the phone to you."

The middle-aged man’s pupils shrank sharply, and the look he gave Xiao Tian took on a newfound gravity. It seemed the other party was not dealing with the Water Drop Organization for the first time.

At least, when it came to the Teleportation Array, while it wasn’t some top-secret classified matter, the number of people who knew about it was definitely not large.

Anyone ranked Four-Pointed Star or above in the Water Drop Organization could carry out basic use of the Teleportation Array, and as someone in a relatively high position, the middle-aged man naturally knew how to use it.

In no time, Xiao Tian and Adison Claire, who was leaning against the wall, saw the middle-aged man close his eyes tightly, form a strange hand seal, and in just a few seconds his forehead was beaded with sweat.

A moment later, right in front of Xiao Tian, a circular Array slowly surfaced. The six-pointed Starlight pattern gradually appeared, flickering with white light.

Once the outline took shape, six fist-sized lights flared several times at the center, and then the entire Starlight diagram began to slowly rotate, revealing a pitch-black tunnel in the middle.

This scene was not entirely unfamiliar to Xiao Tian. It was just that this Teleportation Array in front of him was clearly several notches more advanced than the one Lauren had used, and the energy within it was in no way comparable to the former.

After the middle-aged man let out a muffled groan, Xiao Tian sensed a fierce wind rushing out of the Teleportation Array, and then a small lump of iron shot out of it like a geyser.

Xiao Tian instinctively reached out to catch it, but the instant he made contact with that iron, the force dragged him into a stagger, and he almost fell to the ground.

This must be the Gale Profound Iron, the perfect material for the bottom of a Pill Furnace!

Even so, although he knew what it was, Xiao Tian simply stowed it away quickly and didn’t rush to examine it on the spot.

Next, the Hundred Flowers Dew, Pitch Grass, and the rest of the items the Water Drop Organization had promised flew out of the Teleportation Array one by one. Xiao Tian stood beside the Array, holding his backpack wide open, waiting for each treasure to drop into the bag while he tallied the count.

...

At last, when the final item had been transported, the middle-aged man looked utterly spent. His face was as if he’d just washed it, chest heaving like a bellows, with more than a touch of dishevelment.

Just then, a young voice sounded in his ear.

"Well? Is it done?"

Hearing that voice, the middle-aged man’s whole body jolted, and he answered along the path of the voice transmission in a respectful tone, "It went well. I have not failed the mission!"