"You..." Xiao Ran suddenly spoke, his voice steady and detached. "Very good. You know exactly what your greatest advantage is, and you know how to display it appropriately. Neither abrupt nor rude, neither off-putting nor overly direct. Most impressively, even if what you're thinking is something entirely different, your eyes and heartbeat remain perfectly natural. But not everyone will fall for that."
As Xiao Ran spoke, the woman's expression and gaze did not change in the slightest. She merely pursed her lips in a faint smile, casually adjusted her glasses again, and presented herself as gentle and refined.
But to Xiao Ran, expressions, words, and eyes could all deceive. Only one's emotions and thoughts could not be fully controlled. Although Xiao Ran could not directly sense what others were thinking, he could perceive their emotions. His perception of these four A-Class Pilots was not particularly strong, but aside from the bearded man's self-abandoning, carefree attitude, which put him at ease—
—the unwillingness, panic, and resentment Xiao Ran sensed from the other three, especially this woman, were enough to show that her inner thoughts were far more complicated than she appeared. Xiao Ran understood that, yet still pretended not to.
Xiao Ran also did not know that when Naza, then the Impact Legion's only S-class Pilot, had been forced out of the legion, the woman before him had played a major role in it. She had both proposed the idea and helped carry it out. Naza's departure from the Impact Legion had a great deal to do with her.
As for whether this woman had been involved with any of the other men in the Impact Legion, no one could say for sure. After all, in Prometheus, as long as one was willing, every day could be one's first time... So