A Difficult Choice

The Old Lady had lived long enough that no old scandal or long-buried secret could escape her notice.

As for Mu Yu, she only mentioned her in passing—a prodigy not much older than herself.

But she mysteriously hinted that this woman had a very unusual relationship with Paranoid.

Yet when Qu Jianlei asked further, she refused to say anything more. It was truly exasperating.

This time, Paranoid had taken the initiative to step forward, which explained quite a lot.

Qu Jianlei was more than happy to use the opportunity to dump this burden on him. Kill or release her—at least someone else would make the decision.

Qu Jianlei considered himself fairly decisive when it came to killing, but when it came to people who could either be killed or spared, he truly was not good at making the call.

He leaned toward avoiding indiscriminate killing, but the Empire placed more importance on killing the wrong person than letting anyone go. So... let someone else worry about it.

He was only considering how he and Paranoid should escape after killing someone, minimizing the repercussions as much as possible.

About ten minutes later, Paranoid and the woman emerged. "Let's go browse the mall."

Qu Jianlei rolled his eyes at him. That sentence alone told him what had happened.

Still, he could not be bothered to ask. That obsessive fellow had plenty of faults, but reliability was not one of them.

Of course, he was nowhere near as dependable as the Old Lady, but it was basically impossible for an ordinary person to fool him.

So Qu Jianlei only said, "Figure out how we're getting away."

Once they reached the parking lot, dragging someone into the restroom would already look highly suspicious and could not withstand a determined investigation.

It was necessary to