Qu Jianlei flipped through the information Xiao Hu had provided and suddenly noticed something. "Benjamin and Hula are close?"
Hula was also a Supreme, and his background was considerable. He was Maryland's grandstudent.
Above Supreme Maryland had once been an academy teacher, with a whole group of highly accomplished disciples under him.
When Qu Jianlei and the others destroyed Heavenly Inquiry, one of the Supremes they killed had been his student.
Hula had originally been at the Abnormal Affairs Research Institute, but later found a better job in the Alliance due to his exceptional talisman-making skills.
After the Taiqing Star incident, with Above Supreme Maryland missing, Master Hula had made a high-profile arrival on Taihe Star.
He claimed he wanted to find his teacher's teacher and repay the kindness of being recognized and valued all those years ago.
But Qu Jianlei was baffled. "Maryland, that Above Supreme... wasn't our doing."
Jing Yuexin nodded. "Right. We only took down Frederick. He was in the military district at the time."
Of Heavenly Inquiry's two Above Supremes, they had indeed only taken down one. They truly had no idea what had happened to the other.
Later, the Alliance announced that two Above Supremes had gone missing: Maryland and Frederick.
Digital Phantom had been able to confirm at the time that Maryland's disappearance had nothing to do with them.
Still, there had been no need to dwell on it. So what if one Above Supreme had been pinned on them? But now, it seemed rather strange. Maryland had vanished without a trace, yet his grandstudent had suddenly stepped out into the spotlight? "No need to overthink it," Jing Yuexin said blandly. "Kill both Benjamin and Hula, and see who else dares make trouble."
Benjamin was the one making things difficult for Lawrence. Kill him,