"Mr. Jiang, I'm truly sorry. The reason I chose to meet you at South Manor is because everywhere else, including the other outlying islands, is under the estate's surveillance."
Shadow Heaven One wore a faint smile.
I seemed to hear something in his words. "You're guarding against the estate? Or rather, against Zhuangzi?"
Shadow Heaven One nodded. "That's right. I suspect there's something wrong with him."
His words genuinely shocked me.
Although Fan Yi had expressed some dissatisfaction with Zhuangzi, and even Jiang Ziyan had said she disliked him very much, neither Fan Yi nor Jiang Ziyan had ever said they suspected Zhuangzi. On the contrary, they had always emphasized one thing: all of their Mechanical people, including the Intelligent Humans among them, could never have any issues with loyalty.
But now, Shadow Heaven One had directly pointed the finger at Zhuangzi.
He said he suspected Zhuangzi.
"Do you have any evidence?" Jiang Ziyan was unexpectedly the first to lose her composure.
Shadow Heaven One shook his head. "I have no evidence, but my instincts can't be wrong. Mr. Jiang, although you are the estate's new owner appointed by Mister Xiao, do you know that you never needed to get involved in all this? Yet now, you're deeply entangled in it."
I was somewhat bewildered. "No, wait a second. What did you just say? I originally didn't need to get involved with the Returnees? You've got it wrong, haven't you? Do you think I wanted to get involved? I clearly couldn't leave, okay?"
"I know. But if I told you Fool's Wharf's mysterious disappearance had a great deal to do with Zhuangzi, would you believe me?"
Shadow Heaven One's words startled me. "What?"
I never could have imagined he would say that.
I had originally thought Fool's Wharf's disappearance was