It had to be said, this news truly caught Fang Zheng off guard.
He had originally thought the Thousand Mile Cult Leader would at least be some kind of final boss, but... she was dead already?
Naturally, Fang Zheng was intensely curious, so he asked the Divine Messenger what had happened. At first, she had no intention of answering, but Fang Zheng was practically a specialist in interrogation. After only a few exchanges, he had her spilling everything like beans from a bamboo tube.
Only then did Fang Zheng understand why the Divine Messenger had escaped.
He had originally assumed that she had seen through the Thousand Mile Cult's true nature as a cult organization and decided to turn from darkness to the light. To his surprise, that was not the case at all!
According to the Divine Messenger, a man named Akao Ikuma was one of the Thousand Mile Cult's high-ranking members and was close to the Cult Leader. Not long ago, he had found someone who looked very much like the Cult Leader to serve as her replacement. Akao Ikuma claimed that if anything happened to the Thousand Mile Cult, the double could take the blame and allow the Cult Leader to escape disaster.
The Divine Messenger had nothing much to say about it. Though she was unhappy with the arrangement, she had agreed to it.
However, one late night afterward, unable to sleep, the Divine Messenger had gone for a walk and stumbled upon a shocking sight in the woods behind the Thousand Mile Cult's mountain grounds—the double had actually murdered the Cult Leader and buried her in a pit!
The discovery left the Divine Messenger dumbfounded, unable to believe her own eyes. She had wanted to find out what was going on, but Akao Ikuma prevented