Hotel Guesthouse.
The moment his consciousness linked to the Shadow Puppet was cut off, Bai Zhi frowned deeply.
He could fully share the Shadow Puppet's senses, so he naturally knew what had happened to it. The instant the Shadow Puppet was dragged into the living room by more than a dozen hands, it was torn limb from limb.
—In that instant, all of the pain had been transmitted to him without reserve.
Still, he was, after all, the first person to personally experience having his head slapped around on the ground like a football, so that little pain was nothing to him. The reason he frowned was something else.
Although the Shadow Puppet could not inherit the main body's Traits and Titles, its attributes were on par with his own. On top of that, it had been wearing the White Formalwear. No matter what, it should have been able to escape.
But in reality, the Shadow Puppet had been instantly killed.
...Under those circumstances, how had those two people managed to take someone out of that room?
And were those two people really the same two he had encountered in the elevator earlier?
Unconsciously tapping his fingers against the table, Bai Zhi pondered to himself.
Ever since arriving in Linjiang County, one strange incident after another had occurred, yet he knew absolutely nothing about what had actually happened here.
"...Send another Shadow Puppet over."
After some thought, Bai Zhi made his decision.
There was no way he could abandon the intelligence over there. It was one of the few breakthroughs in understanding the situation in town. As for whether those two people were the pair he had met in the elevator earlier, he would eventually get to see them in this guesthouse... after all, both parties were staying on the