Chapter 918

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One pair of eyes after another were staring intently at Qin Ye, and he swept his gaze across all of them with an internal derisive sneer.

At the end of the day, all of them wanted to join the Zhu Rong plan.

Was that possible? Of course not! Several days ago, they had avoided him like the plague, and he was certainly not the type to forgive and forget so quickly.

He pretended to ponder the situation momentarily before declaring, "It's not entirely impossible for you to join the Zhu Rong plan."

All of the death gods' eyes were glowing upon hearing this!

No one dared to say anything, and they were all staring directly at him as if they were transfixed. Hela and Jörmungandr wisely decided to also remain silent. During these past few days, they had gotten an understanding of how Qin Ye liked to do things.

He wasn't necessarily going to repay all of his benefactors, but he most certainly wasn't going to skip out on revenge on all those who had wronged him in the past.

Qin Ye picked up his cup and took a sip of sake, further building the unbearable suspense, then continued in a slow voice, "During the coming month, we'll be sending people to the headquarters of the Coalition of Underworlds and the center of the four pillars located in the Maldives, where we'll be signing agreements to establish ties with all underworlds and expanding the Zhu Rong plan."

Everyone heaved a collective internal sigh of relief upon hearing this. If it weren't for their status and the current situation they were in, these death gods would've already sprung to their feet to scream and cheer!

Qin Ye was slightly disappointed as he watched the reactions of all of the death gods. Unfortunately, during their long existences, they had already learned restraint and were experts at masking their own emotions, so none of them erupted into celebration as he had hoped. However, he suddenly discovered that his opposition wasn't stunned, nor were they surprised or angry, but a faintest of cracks had appeared in the unfailing facades, and that was a piece of beautiful scenery to him.

Amid the intense scrutiny, he continued in an extremely calm voice, "After ties are established, we will immediately send Emissaries of Hell to travel to all nations for conducting inspection. The inspection criteria will include each nation's environmental friendliness, geographic location, corresponding projects, and whether they'll be able to satisfy the 42 prerequisites required for base stations to be built. After a lengthy period of inspection, construction on the base stations will begin, so there's no need to be in a rush."

A faint smile appeared on Hela's face, and she hid it by raising her cup to her mouth.

The surface of the sake in her cup reflected a series of faces that transitioned from elation to disappointment, then finally to despair.

"Yanluo Qin." Kuwal's voice was a little strained as he asked, "Roughly how long will the total inspection period take?"

They felt as if their hearts were being roasted over open flames, but Qin Ye wasn't in a hurry at all as he swirled his sake nonchalantly in his cup, looking as if he had all the time in the world. "There are so many underworlds out there, yet our Cathayan Underworld only has a single team qualified to conduct inspections on other nations. Even our most important allies, including the five nations of Northern Europa, the new continent, and the Alkebulan Underworlds, have to undergo inspection periods of over 10 years. There are around 30 underworlds present, and if each one takes 10 years to inspect, then it'll probably be about 300 years in total."

As soon as his voice trailed off, several death gods finally couldn't help but spring to their feet.

"Is that supposed to be a joke, Yanluo Qin?!" The question had been raised by a death god who appeared to be the captain of a ship. He was like a skeleton wrapped in deathly pale membrane-like skin, beneath which were bright red chunks of flesh. He was wearing the attire of a pirate captain from the republic era, and his tattered robes were edged with gold and fastened together by wooden buttons.

A skeletal owl was perched on his shoulder, and he stared directly at Qin Ye with his rotten eyes as he continued, "What kind of inspection could possibly take 300 years?!"

There was another death god standing beside him, who also appeared to be a ship's captain, but he was wearing a rotten robe and his inky-black skull was completely bare save for a white curled wig. Two specks of netherfire lit up in his eyes, and he slammed a gnarly hand onto the table as he said, "Yanluo Qin, we respect you as one of the four pillars and we chose you in the end, but is this any way to be treating your allies?"

The final death god was also a skeleton with a head of blonde hair, wearing robes worn by royalty during the 14th and 15h centuries. A belt was tightly fastened around her waist, and she stared intently at Qin Ye as she chimed in, "There are so many underworlds waiting for you, yet not only did you delay the banquet by an hour, you're toying around with all of the underworlds here! Don't you think you're going too far, Yanluo Qin?"

The entire hall instantly fell completely silent.

Qin Ye turned to the side and asked, "Who are these three?"

He didn't have any information surrounding these three death gods on file.

Hela replied in an indifferent voice, "They are the three death gods of the Caribbean, the captains of three death god fleets, and they just liberated themselves from the rule of the new continent during this past century."

Qin Ye nodded in response with an amused expression. "I see. It's only natural that such a new underworld would be so bold and brash, but unfortunately, that won't get you anywhere here."

The blond death goddess cast a surprised gaze around the table, and she discovered that not even a single death god had stood up to support them and echo their outrage.

No... It shouldn't be like this...

A sense of foreboding suddenly welled up in her heart. In her eyes, the Cathayan Underworld hadn't even made any attempt to hide the fact that he was toying around with all of the underworlds present. All of the death gods in this hall were extremely renowned figures where they came from, and she had thought that no one would be able to suffer such outrage in silence. Even she felt like a volcano that was on the