Perhaps finally being acknowledged gave the White-haired loli some motivation. After listening very seriously to Bai Zhi's explanation, she immediately sprang into action with boundless energy.
"Uh... I think that should be enough, right?"
Looking at the Shadow guards Qingyi had summoned, which nearly filled the entire room, Bai Zhi could not help but speak up.
"There are already over two hundred Shadow guards in this county town..."
"But when it comes to finding people, surely the more Shadow guards there are, the better?"
With a wave of her hand, she let the Shadow guards she had summoned swiftly vanish from the room. Then Qingyi turned to look at him, brimming with confidence.
"As long as I'm around from now on, leave little things like summoning Shadow guards entirely to me. That amount of expenditure is nothing to me."
"...All right."
Bai Zhi opened his mouth, intending to say something, but in the end, he chose to say nothing.
—He truly could not bear to dampen her enthusiasm.
There were 325 Shadow guards available for summoning in total. He had previously summoned over two hundred of them in one go, while Qingyi had now summoned all of the remaining Shadow guards at once.
The sight of more than a hundred Shadow guards gathered in a single room earlier had truly been rather spectacular.
However, for some reason, when Qingyi had summoned those Shadow guards earlier, Bai Zhi had felt an inexplicable chill down his back...
"All right, now we just wait for news."
After assigning the task, the White-haired loli clapped her hands, her tone brimming with smug satisfaction.
"At the Shadow guards' speed, they can explore this entire county town in an hour at most."
"...Are you sure it'll take an hour?"
For some reason, Bai Zhi's expression turned