"Hello, Mr. City Lord." Gu Yunxi greeted Elvis with a grin.
"You know him?" Jiang Wanshang asked softly.
"Nope." Gu Yunxi shook her head.
"Then why are you acting so... familiar with him?" Jiang Wanshang continued.
"Huh? Was I doing something wrong?" Gu Yunxi did not quite understand what Jiang Wanshang meant.
Jiang Wanshang rubbed her forehead. "Uh, there's nothing wrong with it... Forget it, I was just asking."
Elvis looked at Gu Yunxi in the communication projection, somewhat unable to make heads or tails of the situation.
Hadn't Brent and the others gone to search for the Annihilation Cultists? What was with this girl?
No, not just one.
At the edge of the projection, Elvis also saw two other girls. The silver-haired girl looked quite young.
"Brent, it seems you need to explain exactly what happened." Elvis frowned and said in a deep voice.
Brent coughed softly. "Actually, this is what happened..."
After greeting him, Gu Yunxi was pulled aside by Jiang Wanshang. No matter what, they were outsiders. The others were carrying out a mission, so it really was not appropriate to interrupt them.
"...That was more or less what happened." Brent gave a brief account of how the entire matter had begun.
They had only just arrived themselves and did not know the details all that well.
"So, you're saying these three girls completed your mission ahead of time?" Elvis asked, rubbing his forehead.
"Ahem, if nothing unexpected happened, then that is indeed the case." Brent nodded awkwardly.
He felt a little embarrassed even saying it himself. How humiliating.
They had come over in such a grand procession, only to find that the enemy had already been wiped out. In the blink of an eye, they had become battlefield cleaners.
"I want to speak with the three