Chapter 458 A Rat In The Hole

"It's you!" Polly exclaimed in surprise as recognition dawned on her. He was none other than Anthony.

"You know you have exhausted your energy. You will just injure yourself if you carry on. Wouldn't that be a pity? Do the reasonable thing and surrender now! I promise you I won't hurt you. I just need you to do me a small favor," Anthony said, a triumphant smile on his face. He knew that Polly was too hurt to continue the fight.

"Do you a small favor? Why would I do that?" Polly scoffed, narrowing her eyes.

"Well, I'll be honest with you. I want to take advantage of you to deal with Harley. As long as I have you in my hands, he will obey me like a trained circus dog!" said Anthony insidiously. He was so confident that his plan would work that he didn't even bother concealing his true intentions.

"You dirty rat!" Polly taunted him, tears forming in her eyes.

"Ha-ha, dirty rat? Fine. I am a dirty rat! Call me all the names you want, but you know as well as I do that you don't have a choice. If you don't do as I say, I have something even worse in store for you," Anthony sneered lewdly. Polly was a beautiful woman and Anthony had been lusting after her for a long time. Unfortunately, the feeling was anything but mutual. Polly despised him, and her heart belonged to Zachary, whom she adored. This made Anthony even more determined to get back at Zachary.

"Cut the crap. Let's fight!" Polly yelled, even as she struggled to support her own weight on her legs. With a heave, she raised her arm and pointed her halberd at Anthony.

Anthony snickered. "You look like you are about to fall apart. You won't withstand a single blow from me." He was arrogant and condescending, but what he had said had some truth to it. Polly's chances of surviving, let alone winning, were close to none.

"I'll give it a try and see if you are really that capable, you windbag!" Polly replied bluntly. Risky as it was, she would not allow such an obnoxious man degrade her in this way.

"Fine, as you wish!" Anthony retorted, his expression haughty as ever. Without even taking a single step towards Polly, he clenched his left fist. With a bright flash, an intense martial energy burst out of it, hot as fire. It circled around his left fist like a vice.

"You say you want to see if I'm capable. Well, why don't I show you the most unique skill of our Xiao Clan!" With that, he raised his left fist and smashed it onto the ground. Immediately, the flame-like martial energy split the earth and sank deep into it.

Polly felt the earth shake beneath her feet. All of a sudden, a looming shadow, shaped like a dragon, leaped from the

She was so stunned. Her lips moved but no sound escaped them. "It's...you!" she exclaimed in a weak voice.

"I know I'm handsome, but you don't need to be so surprised!" Zachary answered with a shameless smile.

Hearing this, Polly spluttered, laughing and snorting with anger simultaneously. But the breath caught in her lungs and she coughed, spitting out blood.

"You are badly hurt. Let's find a place to heal you first," Zachary said gently, frowning. Polly's condition was deteriorating quickly. He had not expected her to be so seriously injured.

"I'm fine. Put me down," Polly said, blushing and shaking her head. "You cannot hug me like this. It's inappropriate!"

Zachary snorted sarcastically. "You are so full of yourself. Do you seriously think I like hugging you? You look very thin, but you are actually quite heavy!" he panted theatrically. "I am really curious where all that weight comes from!" As he spoke, he glanced at Polly's plump breasts and thought to himself, 'Probably that is where the weight come from.' He chortled at that thought.

Polly's face, already red, blushed, an even deeper shade of scarlet appearing on the face. Weakly, she punched his chest with her fist. "I'm not heavy! How rude of you! How can you say such a thing to a woman? My weight is not the problem. You are such a weakling that you cannot even lift a skinny thing like me!"

Zachary sighed. "Since you know you are a woman, you don't have to work so hard. Moreover, they just wanted to use you to deal with me. All you had to do was pretend to cooperate with them. You didn't need to put yourself in such a dangerous situation. Look, you are injured so badly." For all his jokes, Zachary knew that if he had not arrived in time, she could have died.