One person: Starting with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, his grandmaster uncle emerges from seclusion.

"Goodness."

Zhuge Qing looked at this first-person perspective, which could be described as a crime scene, and clicked his tongue in amazement:

"I thought it was exciting enough that the foreign devils were invading."

"I never expected that in this backstabbing drama, it's always our own people who stab us the hardest."

Zhang Tianyi, however, remained completely calm.

He looked at Elijah, who was holding a gun and whose forehead was already covered in cold sweat.

"Wow, you're pretty good at playing the double agent game, aren't you?"

Zhang Tianyi gave a thumbs up in support:

"Continue, continue."

"You guys keep performing, just pretend we, the Taoist priests, don't exist. We'll just find a seat and watch."

The wind outside the royal city gates was blowing rather bleakly.

The pistol in Elijah's hand felt incredibly heavy at that moment.

He was an extremely intelligent and pragmatic man. As Nathan Wesley's intelligence agent who dealt with the outside world for many years, he understood the current situation better than anyone else on the island.

His plan was to take advantage of the moment when Alfonso was burning his life force to hold off Behemoth, shoot his stubborn comrade, break the barrier, and let Behemoth's army in to use as pawns.

Destroy the sacred tree with the help of external forces and completely end the disgusting rule of "all people being raised and sacrificed" on Nathan Island!

The script was written perfectly.

But the one thing I didn't expect was...!

These plague-ridden people from China, who should have been peacefully drinking tea in their guest rooms, actually crawled out from inside the wall!

They even saw the scene of his "backstabbing" clearly!

"Gudong."

Elijah swallowed hard.

He looked at Zhang Tianyi, who was standing at the front, munching on sunflower seeds, and felt a chill run down his spine.

If this guy were to lose his temper now, forget about his plans, he wouldn't even be able to leave with a whole corpse today!

“That… Master Tian Shu.”

Elijah's mind worked quickly.

He smoothly slipped the pistol into its holster at his waist.

He spread his hands, revealing a deeply sincere, even somewhat melancholic, bitter smile:

"Let me explain. It's not what you see."

He pointed to Alfonso on the ground, his tone filled with sorrow:

"That kid is stubborn. He'd risk his life to protect that broken tree that uses us as nourishment."

"I'm helping him find liberation! And at the same time, I'm helping our king find liberation!"

Elijah took a deep breath and decided to reveal his trump card:

“Master, the rules of Nathan Island are too inhumane. The Divine Tree is actually a vampire, and the King, the Guards, and the islanders will all eventually become its sacrifices!”

"The divine tree can no longer be protected. I deliberately broke the barrier to lure Behemoth in, destroy the divine tree, and give everyone complete freedom!"

Elijah stared intently at Zhang Tianyi:

"You are a highly accomplished person, surely you can understand my good intentions in breaking with convention?"

These words were spoken with both reason and emotion.

The character of a "lone hero who is willing to bear infamy for the greater good" is vividly portrayed.

Zhang Chulan listened in stunned silence.

Wow, this guy's logic is flawless!

Zhang Chulan whispered to Wang Ye, "This is totally an anti-cliché protagonist script! To save the goddess, he's willing to transform into a dragon? I actually think he's kind of handsome?"

Wang Ye rolled his eyes: "Handsome my ass. Backstabbing is backstabbing, no matter how well it's packaged, it's still a dirty trick."

Just as Elijah was full of anticipation, thinking that his grand ideas would impress the equally unruly Chinese master before him.

Zhang Tianyi tossed the sunflower seed shells in his hand aside.

He clapped his hands.

"Hmm, the story is well-written. It's quite touching."

Zhang Tianyi looked at Elijah, but there was no emotion on his face.

"but."

Zhang Tianyi took a step forward, staring into Elijah's eyes, his tone revealing a knowing mockery:

"Isn't your plan a bit too presumptuous?"

Chapter 292 He who eats another's food is bound to do his bidding; he who takes another's money is bound to do his bidding.

"The rules are disgusting, and you want to flip the table, that's perfectly understandable."

Zhang Tianyi walked up to Alfonso, who was lying in a pool of blood, and flicked a ball of emerald lightning from his fingertip into Alfonso's chest.

"But the kind of people I despise the most in my life are those who stab their own people in the back."

"They don't have the ability to overturn the table themselves, so they have to rely on the power of those foreigners!"

Stimulated by the life-giving thunder energy, Alfonso coughed and miraculously opened his eyes!

Elijah looked at the awakened Alfonso and felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

"Alright, stop with your self-pitying melodrama."

Zhang Tianyi stepped past Elijah and looked at the dark mass of Behemoth's army outside the royal city.

Elijah's righteous speech had just ended.

Below the steps of the royal city, the sound of heavy military boots pounding the ground could be heard.

"Click! Click!"

Hyena, leading dozens of fully armed Behemoth warriors, surged into the ancient castle, isolated from the world for a thousand years, like a black tide.

The guns in their hands gleamed with a ghostly blue light, and the red dots of their infrared sights swept erratically across the walls of the hall.

"Alert! Seal off all exits!"

Hyena gave a tactical hand signal, and the team behind him immediately scattered like wolves and tigers, quickly occupying various high points and blind spots in the royal city.

Their movements were crisp and clean, clearly indicating they had received top-level military training.

However, when the hyena itself stepped through the gate and its gaze swept across the center of the hall...

His originally cold and ruthless steps came to an abrupt halt.

He saw the young man in white with his hands in his pockets, looking at him with a half-smile.

"hiss……"

The hyena felt a chill run down its spine and instinctively pressed the muzzle of the gun it was holding down lower.

She even turned her body slightly to the side, trying to avoid direct eye contact with Zhang Tianyi.

"Ignore them! Teams one and two, head straight to the back hall and find the divine tree!"

The hyena, speaking in a low voice, gave his men a discreet gesture.

The meaning is clear: if we can't afford to mess with them, we'll just stay away. As long as these scoundrels don't interfere, we'll pretend we didn't see anything!

Watching these foreigners avoid him like the plague.

Zhang Chulan scratched his head and moved closer to Zhang Tianyi:

"Master, are we just going to stand by and watch? These bandits have broken into the house and robbed us. Nathan Island is completely ransacked this time."

Zhang Tianyi took a bite of the apple, chewing it with a crunchy sound.

He watched the soldiers running around with guns, and instead of stopping them, he shrugged indifferently.

Why are you stopping them?

Zhang Tianyi spat out the fruit peel, his tone brimming with a clear-eyed reality:

"Human greed knows no bounds. Even if Behemoth didn't come today, other companies would come with their aircraft carriers tomorrow."

"That tree on this wretched island is a deformed product that should not exist in this era."

"Using living people as fertilizer to maintain rule? This inhumane system should have been eliminated long ago. Let them carry out a forced demolition, that's fine."

Elijah, who was standing to the side, lit up when he heard Zhang Tianyi's words.

It's like finding a kindred spirit!

“Master! You truly understand me! That's exactly what I was thinking…”

"Shut up."

Zhang Tianyi interrupted him without any politeness, glancing sideways at Elijah:

"Stop trying to find some psychological balance here, you traitor."

"I don't care whether this tree lives or dies, but I also despise your backstabbing behavior. Say one more word, and I'll whip you too."

Elijah reluctantly shut his mouth and obediently shrank back into the corner.

"However..."

Zhang Tianyi slowly turned around and looked at Wang Ye and Zhuge Qing and the others.

"We Chinese believe that if you take someone's money, you're obligated to do so; if you eat someone's food, you're obligated to do so."

"We just took so many of Nathan's treasures. Now we're just going to pack up and leave, watching these foreigners take advantage of us. That's a bit unfair."

Zhang Tianyi put his hands behind his back and strode towards the rear hall of the royal city: