At this moment, all five ability users had been completely subdued by Liu Yang. The female team leader wore an awkward smile on her face:
"I really didn't expect this handsome guy to be so strong. With your strength, you definitely don't need to do things like abusing survivors, since ordinary zombies aren't a match for you anyway.
You don't have to worry about collecting food either, so you're never short on supplies, and naturally you wouldn't target the weak.
I apologize for my earlier rashness. Now, I sincerely invite you in my capacity as a Hidden Dragon Organization team leader to join our Hidden Dragon Organization!
With your strength, you could at least become a battalion commander! You could manage over a hundred ability users!
You'll be heavily valued by the Dragon Empire and receive generous rewards. In the future, you can even have the Dragon Empire's most powerful ability user organization-the Hidden Dragon Organization-as your backer. Anyone who sees you will have to show absolute respect!"
A Hidden Dragon Organization battalion commander-this was a position that commanded awe from everyone!
Anyone who managed to enter the Hidden Dragon Organization was a powerful ability user, and every single one of them held a ranking on the Monolith!
The minimum entry requirement alone demanded a ranking within the top 1,000 of the Yellow Ranking!
And that was just for peripheral members.
Only Earth Ranking experts could be considered core members!
The five-person team led by Tong Bingjie was entirely composed of core members!
To become a team leader required holding a high position on the Earth Ranking!
To become a platoon leader required cracking the top 100 of the Earth Ranking!
And a battalion commander required an ability user within the top 1,000 of the Heaven Ranking even to qualify for the running!
In other words, this female team leader, Tong Bingjie, had already automatically assumed Liu Yang was a Heaven Ranking expert!
Originally, Tong Bingjie thought this was her ultimate trump card. Using the position of a Hidden Dragon Organization battalion commander as bait was an offer almost no one could resist.
Yet she never expected Liu Yang to simply reply with a calm expression: "Battalion commander? Is that supposed to be impressive? How many superiors are even above your battalion commander?"
Hearing this, Tong Bingjie instantly perked up, assuming the other party had been swayed by her pitch. She quickly answered, "There's only the brigade commander and the commander-in-chief. You could say you're under just two people, but above ten thousand!"
Liu Yang burst out laughing. "Heh... So a battalion commander is actually that pathetic... How low must your opinion of me be to say something like that? Even if you offered me the commander-in-chief position, I wouldn't even look at it, let alone some damn battalion commander!"
Tong Bingjie's triumphant expression stiffened instantly.
This guy had some serious nerve!
He actually looked down on a battalion commander's post, and didn't even want the commander-in-chief position?
A large, burly man beside her chimed in, "Brother, you clearly don't understand our Hidden Dragon Organization yet! In the Dragon Empire, our Hidden Dragon Organization is the absolute strongest ability user force!
You have no idea how much influence and power Qianlong commands! How can you utter such insulting words about us?
No matter how strong you are, do you really think your individual abilities can resist an entire official government organization?!
Besides, the entire Dragon Empire is in turmoil right now, and plenty of foreign ability users have already invaded. No matter how high or reinforced your base walls are, they won't withstand a top-tier ability user!
When you're completely isolated and helpless then, let's see what you do!
So if you join the Hidden Dragon Organization, you'll secure the ultimate backing. Brother, I advise you to think carefully and stop acting so arrogant!
Furthermore, every single one of us carries military satellite communication gear. Our coordinates were transmitted back to headquarters long ago, and your base is already exposed.
If you actually kill us, our organization won't stop hunting you down until the end of time!"
Liu Yang chuckled. "You guys don't need to ramble on. I don't know anything about this Hidden Dragon Organization, and I don't need any backers, but I can offer you a piece of advice instead.
Why don't you guys just join my base? I have three separate ability user bases; I can let each of the three guys here manage one. That's got to be a hell of a lot better than being low-ranking grunts in the Hidden Dragon Organization, right?
As for your backup, I'll be your backer! With me backing you up, who would ever dare disrespect you?
As for the two women, you can just stay by my side. Doesn't that sound wonderful?"
"Huh?" Hearing Liu Yang's proposition, Tong Bingjie's jaw dropped, rendering her completely speechless.
She never imagined that after extending an olive branch, Liu Yang would turn the tables and hit her right back with her own medicine...
Follow him, and the men get to run an entire base while the women get to be his personal companions right by his side...
Such an offer...
For any ordinary ability user, it was undeniably tempting.
But for members of the elite Hidden Dragon Organization, managing a mundane survivor base was beneath their notice.
Moreover, once you joined the Hidden Dragon Organization, defection or resignation was strictly forbidden.
Once a Qianlong operative, always a Qianlong operative!
"Forget it, looks like you all still have reservations. Since we've got time to spare, I'll just take you for a quick tour of my villa first." With a casual gesture, Liu Yang manipulated their bodies, lifting their feet off the ground and making them hover in mid-air as he led them toward the villa.
Ordinarily, since they were already subdued, Liu Yang could have just bound them tightly with his Soul Chain.
However, because they claimed to belong to the Hidden Dragon Organization-a faction Liu Yang had never heard of before, yet seemed quite formidable based on their boasting-he decided to play it safe.
If he detained these five right inside the villa district, the organization might not let the matter rest, and Liu Yang didn't feel like drawing unnecessary hostility just yet.
Besides, since he was currently in the middle of a simulation run, he wanted to observe their reactions and thoughts once they got a firsthand look inside his base.
The five floating captives wore expressions of pure shock.
This guy was simply too monstrous!
As fellow ability users, they could easily deduce that Liu Yang was levitating them by freezing the moisture around their bodies and manipulating the ice.
But still!
To simultaneously suspend five full-grown adults weighing over a hundred pounds each-just how astronomical must his mental energy reserves be?
It wasn't as if the Hidden Dragon Organization lacked control-type ability users, but most of them could barely manipulate small objects, and doing so drained their mental energy so fast they could only sustain it for mere seconds.
If other people had a teaspoon of mental energy, Liu Yang had an entire ocean!
Tong Bingjie's gaze hardened with stubborn determination. This guy was exceptionally powerful; if they could genuinely recruit him into the Hidden Dragon Organization, it would be a massive asset to the faction!
She would definitely have to keep brainstorming ways to convince him later!
Right as Liu Yang floated the group directly into the villa compound, everyone inside finally caught sight of them.
He Yushi and the others noticed Liu Yang returning with five frozen people hovering in the air and immediately hurried over with curious expressions.
They chimed in, "Whoa, Liu Yang, where did you fish up these ice sculptures? And what's that transparent one over there?"
Zhao Lina squinted at the floating form. "That transparent one is shaped like a gorgeous woman. Where on earth did you pick up this beauty mold?"