Chapter 491

Naturally, Leon couldn’t help but let out a sigh of helplessness as he slightly curled his lips, having not obtained any information about the location of the Crocodile Kingdom Royal Palace.

Thinking there would be gains but coming up empty-handed, Leon didn’t bother explaining to the bandit that the palace of the Crocodile Kingdom actually moves. He just tidied up his clothes that got wrinkled when he stood up and then sat back down in his seat.

Meanwhile, the female journalist who had been listening in the whole time, her cheeks flushed red from holding back laughter, leaned over with her lips tightly pursed and asked with barely concealed amusement, “Why are you telling him so much? Why don’t you just knock him out?”

“I do have the ability to just knock him out, but if every time something happens, my first reaction isn’t to think but instead instinctively rely on force, it’s easy to become… um…”

Leon paused unconsciously here, glancing at the female journalist before withdrawing his gaze and continuing without changing expression, “It’s easy to become a brute who doesn’t use his brain, so I try to solve problems using wisdom.”

“…”

Scoundrel! You talk and then suddenly pause halfway through, what’s the deal with that glance at me? “Got it.”

In the somewhat irritated gaze of the female journalist, Leon slightly tilted his head, looked toward the somewhat dazed Bandit Older Brother sitting beside him, and asked,

“I remember at the beginning, you said ‘we’ took over this airship, so you must have an accomplice, right? Where’s your partner?”

My partner…

After hearing Leon’s words, the Bandit Older Brother’s expression froze for a moment, then quickly shook his head and said, “You’re mistaken, I don’t have any partners!”

Alright, not only does he have a partner, but the partner should also be hiding among the passengers and hasn’t stood up yet.

Upon hearing this, Leon nodded but didn’t continue questioning. Instead, he touched the horn sticking out from his cufflink and quickly glanced around the souls inside the flying ship.

Sure enough, after the crisis of hijacking was resolved by just a few words from him, most people didn’t dare to speak out loud, but amidst their secretly relieved souls, one soul filled with resentment and anxiety stood out like xenon headlights on a heavy truck.

“Your partner is you, right?”

Turning back to look at the young girl dressed rather plainly sitting three rows away from himself, Leon smiled and asked, “And judging by your appearance, you seem to be the ‘mastermind’? He’s just the one doing the dirty work? Considering how he defends you and you two look somewhat alike… Are you siblings?”

“…”

This person… so terrifying! Facing Leon who was smiling gently but felt like a demon shadow dancing behind him, making her heart tremble, the girl sitting there didn’t answer but stood up directly, pulled out a second homemade nail gun, gritted her teeth and aimed at Leon:

“You’re some big shot, aren’t you? If you don’t want a hole in your head, immediately order your people to go to the control room and help us take over this airship!”

“But this airship is automatic…”

“Don’t lie!”

The similarly slim young girl angrily shouted, “If it’s just for recording weather, do you need seven or eight people in the control room? Even if this airship is really self-driving, those people in the control room must have ways to adjust the course!”

Tsk, she figured it out, this kid seems a bit smarter than Bandit Older Brother.

“?!!!”

Hearing the young girl’s words, Bandit Older Brother immediately jumped up from the ground, eyes full of shock and anger looking at Leon.

“You lied to me?”

“I didn’t lie to you, I just didn’t tell you everything, and besides…”

After replying to Bandit Older Brother, turning to look at the slender and small Bandit Younger Sister who looks younger than Anna by two years, Leon raised an eyebrow and said, “You seem a bit smarter than your brother, so you should know that the location of the Crocodile Kingdom’s royal palace isn’t fixed, right?”

“How to find the palace is none of your business!”

Looking warily at Leon, Bandit Younger Sister held the gun and gritted her teeth, saying,

“All you need to do now is send someone to the control room to get the control of the airship, otherwise I’ll shoot you dead!”

“But if I follow your orders, won’t I still die?”

“You two plan to use this airship for a suicide attack, and as a passenger stuck on it, wouldn’t I end up dying too?”

“As long as you obey, you won’t die!”

Seeing Leon still not cooperating, Bandit Younger Sister couldn’t help but flick off the safety of the nail gun, biting her lips and angrily said: “We’ve checked, there are twelve groups of safety boats with floating air sacs under the rear cabin, enough for everyone on board to evacuate. As long as you cooperate with us honestly, no one on the airship will die!”

Hmm, this sentence is actually true…

Looking at the soul of Bandit Younger Sister, Leon thoughtfully stroked his chin.

“So while your brother was covering his face, you didn’t stop him because you wanted him to keep living, leaving you to stay behind to… find the palace?”

“Shut up!”

Seeing her own thoughts laid bare in just a few words by Leon, Bandit Younger Sister stomped her foot, speaking sharply:

“You’re not allowed to say anything more! Quickly order your people to go to the control room! Or I’ll shoot!”

“If you want to shoot, go ahead!”

Glancing at the nail gun in Bandit Younger Sister’s hand, Leon smiled and said,

“As soon as you pull the trigger and the nails come out, I’ll immediately order someone to take over the control room. We’ll go wherever you say. How does that sound?”

“?!!!”

“Looks like I guessed right, neither of your guns can fire.”

Looking at Bandit Younger Sister’s lips that moved twice, her bright eyes flashing with a hint of despair, Leon smiled and said,

“I handle guns often too. Your guns might look fine on the outside, and even the rifling in the barrels seems restored, but the joint’s paint clearly looks wrong, and the size of the air reservoirs is off. They’re just high-quality replicas.

Come to think of it, the kingdom’s guards may be terrible, but they did quite thorough searches. It’s unlikely anyone could bring real guns on board, especially two at once. They probably aren’t that bad.”

What? Fake guns?!?!

Looking at Bandit Younger Sister’s pale lips and the nail gun in her hand that showed no signs of firing, the guests in the VIP cabin who had been trembling silently, afraid of being noticed by the bandit siblings, finally started talking.

“Scared me to death…”

“It’s fake!”

“Damn! Scaring people with two fake guns?”

And the one sitting next to Bandit Younger Sister, a silk-shirted fat merchant who looked like he weighed about three hundred pounds, suddenly stood up, his hands squeezing oil flowers upon contact, and slapped hard:

“You damn… ah!”

“Don’t move!”

Rushing over in two steps, Bandit Older Brother kicked the fat merchant down first, pulling out a small horn knife from his pocket and waving it around at the surrounding passengers, shouting fiercely, “I still have a knife without a gun! Whoever dares to touch my sister, I’ll… uh…”

“So she really is your sister, oh right…”

Taking out the old sniper rifle from the Mirror World and flicking off the safety with his index finger, Leon cheerfully asked in front of Bandit Older Brother’s stunned expression, “Do you want to guess whether my rifle is real or fake?”

(End of Chapter)