Disciple, please come down the mountain soon. Your senior sister can’t wait any longer.

The hall fell into deathly silence, and the air was almost frozen. The silent bodyguards around opened their mouths and tried their best to breathe, but not a breath of air could be taken. They could only keep their mouths tightly shut and lower their heads, like ostriches in the desert, burying their heads deeply in the sand, pretending that they could not see the confrontation between the two big men.

The tall figure faced Pei Qingniao's questioning with a frivolous, even careless attitude and simply retorted without giving Pei Qingniao any face at all.

Pei Qingniao's face darkened again at a speed visible to the naked eye, as black as the bottom of a pot. He stared at the tall figure with an extremely gloomy look.

The tall figure didn't care about Pei Qingniao's expression. He looked at Fang Zhiming with interest. Seeing him slumped on the ground, staggering with a dazed look, he couldn't help but shook his head slightly. He raised his eyes and glanced at Pei Qingniao. A gleam of light flashed across his face, which was hard to tell whether it was sarcasm or other expressions. The tall figure pouted and said.

"So majestic and fierce."

"No matter how useless this guy is, he can still be considered a member of the Pei family."

"Even if he has committed a capital crime, just chop off his head and let him go. Why humiliate him like this?"

"Besides, even with this guy's identity and status, how could he make such a big mistake that would damage the core interests of the Pei family?"

"I think this guy is just unlucky. He must have offended you."

"Tsk tsk, just because I offended you, you made this guy kowtow and die here with just one sentence. You are so majestic and fierce. I think even the head of the family is not as majestic as you!"

Pei Qingniao's face suddenly changed after hearing the tall figure's words. The sky was not only covered with dark clouds, but also began to flash with lightning and thunder. A huge flood could erupt at any time. He spoke in a grim voice.

"Don't use him as a diversion here."

"I'm asking you, why didn't you come to see me as soon as you received the notice?"

"Besides, such a big thing happened up there. I don't believe you don't know about it. But why didn't anyone take precautions until I came down here? Why are you still defenseless?"

Pei Qingniao stared at the tall figure's face intently, and every word that came out of his mouth carried a chill that was enough to freeze the soul and poison a person to death instantly.

"This base is so important, but you are so careless. If something really happens, can you afford the responsibility?"

Pei Qingniao angrily scolded the tall figure, and the tall figure frowned slightly after hearing Pei Qingniao's words, and then relaxed his brows without any fluctuation in his expression. He let Pei Qingniao finish speaking before he spoke slowly.

"As for responsibility, I certainly can't bear it."

"But this responsibility is not mine. I don't know where to start if I want to take responsibility."

The tall figure crossed his arms across his chest and sneered at Pei Qingniao, who had a gloomy face.

"Your plan sounds great, but you forgot that if you want to put the blame on me and make me bear the responsibility, at least I have to make a mistake first."

"But have I made any mistakes now? Not at all."

"We were completely unprepared for what you saw, but the moment something went wrong up there, we switched to the backup power supply, ensuring the normal operation of all systems in the underground base."

"I also personally led a team to inspect the ventilation system and other important areas, and arranged for personnel to provide key protection to prevent anyone from coming in and causing damage."

"I even personally inspected the critical facilities and equipment on the lower floors, and there are no problems at all."

"And what you saw when you came in here was that everyone was training as usual, but you didn't know that I had already issued a martial law order to them. Everyone was relaxed on the outside but tense on the inside, ready for battle."

"If it was someone else but you who came in, I'm afraid they would have already drunk two bowls of Meng Po soup by now."

The tall figure took advantage of his height to look down at Pei Qingniao, with the strong sarcasm on his face not concealed at all.

"With this arrangement, once someone sneaks in, it will be impossible for them to escape!"

"On the contrary, the people upstairs are probably in real trouble."

The tall figure glanced at Pei Qingniao, whose face was gradually turning pale, and sneered before saying the following words.

"Of course, when the family decided to build such a base in the basement of Tianbo Building, they were attracted by its location. They wanted to hide in the city."

"This way, even if we want to do something underground, it will be more convenient."

"But how did our elaborate arrangement, which was even considered top secret in the entire Pei family, leak out, allowing them to blast us with incredible precision and even completely destroy our power supply and network?"

The sneer on the tall man's face gradually faded, replaced by terrifying murderous intent and anger. He stared at Pei Qingniao.

"Do you know what this means?"

"If there wasn't a backup power supply underground, and if it wasn't switched to the backup power supply the moment the power was cut off, and if there wasn't a real power outage, I'm afraid everything under the base would have been completely destroyed!"

"When the patriarch holds you accountable, what explanation will you give for this matter?"

The tall man just stared at Pei Qingniao, and his aura burst out of his body, like a huge invisible cover, tightly holding Pei Qingniao inside. Pei Qingniao felt as if a huge rock was pressing on his heart, and he even had difficulty breathing.

But Pei Qingniao had seen a lot of storms after all. Even if he had never eaten pork, he had seen pigs run. Naturally, he knew how to deal with the tall figure in a decent manner and turn the matter over.

She looked at the tall figure without showing any sign of weakness.

"Let's put it this way. The reason we were attacked was not because we provoked the enemy, but because the enemy came to the Pei family and used this trick to attack the Pei family."

"You stand here every day. I'm afraid you have cut off communication with the outside world, right?"

"You know, we are not the only stronghold that was attacked this morning."

"According to the data just reported, at least eight strongholds have suffered inexplicable attacks this morning, and without exception, all of them were arson."

"And even as I was talking to you, the attack on the Pei family was still going on. I was even knocked unconscious by someone just now, and was almost taken away!"

"Faced with such an enemy, we can just accept our fate if we are ambushed. It has nothing to do with us."

"But you are different!"