A transmigrator's identity was Li Ye's greatest secret. All these years, he had been careful, restrained, and cautious.
So when Sophia questioned Li Ye—"How did you conclude years ago that our country would collapse?"—he immediately became wary.
The look in Sophia's eyes as she gazed at Li Ye was hazy and unfocused, as if she had drunk too much and her mind had grown unsteady. Yet it also seemed as though she was seeking answers in confusion, overwhelmed by the sudden decline of Soviet Russia.
At first, Li Ye had assumed it was the latter. In his previous life, he had seen many women struck by bad luck who, during the worst stages of their lives, would desperately seek help from every source, looking for the "guidance" of certain charlatans to untangle the knots in their hearts.
And the greater the fall, the more obsessed they became. The growth of certain spiritual-cultivation groups depended entirely on this endless stream of nourishment.
For people like Sophia and Alyosha, the privileged elite of the Soviet Russia era, the collapse of Soviet Russia would naturally make them feel the cruelty of such a fall.
But immediately afterward, Li Ye sensed that something was wrong.
He deliberately held Sophia's gaze for several seconds, and within her bewildered eyes, he discovered several sharp glints.
That sharpness was somewhat like Teacher Ke's when she had first met Li Ye, though her cultivation was far shallower. Still, she was trying to pry into the secrets in Li Ye's heart.
Could this woman be an agent?
Soviet Russia's intelligence agencies were famously formidable, and Li Ye's inspection delegation had been officially dispatched. Li Ye could not help drawing in a sharp breath.
To be honest, Soviet Russia's collapse had many causes. With a three-legged balance of powers, all