At the muzzle of the Soul Guidance Gun, energy began to gather sharply. Faint light flickered within it like lively stars, as if in the next second it would fire a lethal ray.
Driven into a dead end, Bai Xiuxiu's mind instantly flashed with the face of her mission target, Nan Fusheng, and without thinking, she shouted, "Wait, I'm here to find Nan Fusheng! The Governor of Skysea City—Nan Fusheng! I'm here to find him!"
Her mission target, Nan Fusheng, was the Governor of this city. Surely, once she gave his name, it would make the woman in front of her hesitate, right? At the very least, it should delay her resolve to kill her, shouldn't it?
At this moment, she had no other choice. She could only pin all her hopes on that name, trying to use it to save her own life.
"Buzz—" The Soul Tool Penetrating Ray let out a piercing sound, followed by a loud bang! The ray streaked past Bai Xiuxiu's cheek like lightning and slammed hard into the ground.
Still shaken, Bai Xiuxiu looked back with trembling eyes at the crater that had been blasted into the ground. It was the mark of a brush with death. By the smallest margin, her head would have ended up like that crater, blown to pieces by that terrifying ray.
"You said you came to find the Governor of Skysea City, Nan Fusheng?" Aqua's voice drifted over.
Like a startled deer, Bai Xiuxiu instantly came back to herself and hurriedly nodded, her voice carrying a trace of urgency and fear. "Yes, yes. I came to find him."
A trace of doubt appeared on Aqua's face. She looked Bai Xiuxiu up and down, then continued asking, "What business do you have with him? And what are you to