-"If you were the Zai Jiu Xunge from the Quiet Mountains, you would never resort to something as cheap as pretending to faint."
Dawn Cicada's voice rang out in the room, raising echoes.
Could this person not talk without putting someone down to make someone else look better?!
Yu Xunge stopped playing dead and raised her head to look at Dawn Cicada.
That was the only movement she could make. Two metal rings secured her wrists to either end of a cross-shaped Curio.
She had checked her current situation the moment she woke up.
There was plenty of bad news. What restrained her was probably a special Curio. Her four main attributes had been sealed, leaving her strength, agility, constitution, and intelligence at just 10 points each. All her SS-rank skills and those below SS-rank were grayed out. Even her companion lightning Magic Element had gone quiet, and all the equipment she wore to keep up appearances had been confiscated.
But there was good news too. The Gashapon Machine wedged in her tooth socket was still there, and her two Godly Skills, [Mysterious Power] and [Story's End], still worked. Both were still skills that cost nothing to use.
But while she was restrained, using those two skills would not change anything.
Yu Xunge scanned the cell, which she could take in at a glance. She saw neither Tulan nor B80, and her calls to them through the Pet Contract earlier had received no response either.
With her hands behind her back, Dawn Cicada strolled up to her, lowering her gaze slightly to look at Zai Jiu Xunge, who was half a head shorter than her. "Finished checking?"
Yu Xunge's gaze settled on Dawn Cicada. Being bound to the cross was not particularly comfortable, but she still curled her lips and