I always felt things were not that simple. Something seemed off.
Ye Jinghong and I had fallen into their trap far too easily this time. That showed they had some real tricks up their sleeves. They had even cut off my connection with Ying Gou—one could even say they had suppressed him, preventing him from appearing.
After all, even if my connection with Ying Gou had been severed, someone as vigilant as him could not possibly have failed to notice. If he had noticed, he would definitely have shown himself. Yet he had not appeared even now. There was only one possibility: he could not appear, as though he had been sealed inside my body.
Of course, this was probably not a true seal, but suppression by some kind of method.
They had first lured me into their trap using ordinary means. I had assumed there was someone even more formidable behind them, so I came to Sanjiangyan, to Lake Heart Island, to find out who that person was. This woman had first stopped us from going to the Pavilion in the Lake Heart, and now she had suddenly appeared and wanted to help me escape. That was rather interesting.
I had been suspicious of this woman from the start. Now, I could almost certainly conclude that this was still part of their trap. Her purpose was to gain my trust.
But they had overlooked one thing. Since their methods were already so impressive and their calculations so precise, how could they possibly let this woman succeed so easily? They could not possibly have been unaware of her existence. If her stopping us outside the gallery had merely been a coincidence, then her entering this dungeon and taking me away could not possibly be another coincidence.
"Mr. Jiang, have you