The security guard did not seem to believe me, but he still answered, "Wu Zui was just here. The three of us were supposed to be on duty today, but he suddenly said his stomach hurt and left. He probably went to the restroom. He should be back soon."
I hurriedly thanked him, but I did not think Wu Kaishan was really in the restroom.
There were only two possibilities for why he had suddenly made an excuse to leave. The first was that he had sensed some kind of danger and retreated to hide on his own. The second was that someone had come looking for him, and he had left with that person.
He was someone from another planet, and he was being hunted by powerful forces on this planet. He had no choice but to live under another name. Before long, he had blended into this world and become an utterly ordinary member of it.
He had chosen to work as a security guard, living at the bottom rung of society.
That made it easier for him to stay hidden. No one would cast their eyes on someone at the bottom of society. Who would pay attention to a minor security guard for no reason?
"Could he have sensed you approaching and slipped away ahead of time?" I asked Qin Song.
Qin Song gave a bitter smile. "I'm not sure either. But the people he fears seeing most right now should be people from where we came from. And since I can sense his presence, he can sense my arrival as well. So it's hard to say whether he ran away again because I was getting closer and closer."
That made a lot of sense.
I asked the security guard, "Can you tell me what kind of