Did Luo Yuan have some irreconcilable blood feud with Wu Jun? Was he trying to get someone else to kill her?
But with Luo Yuan's strength, wiping out a little organization like the Luo Order would be effortless. If he wanted it gone, he could have done it long ago. Why take such a roundabout route?
It made no sense.
Ronan found questions like this far harder than studying Configurations or Hyper-configurations.
The Blood Demon continued, "I'll skip what happened in between. They made a killing, and when they'd started sorting through the haul and dividing the spoils, they found these unusual ones among a large batch of similar notebooks. You've seen what happened next. It was a very unpleasant experience."
Ronan asked casually, "How unpleasant?"
"Only one person from the first expedition survived: the Horned Demon. Or so he said."
Now there isn't even one left... I could say that.
In the end, Ronan did not. He merely remarked, "Not all notebooks are alike."
"Exactly. These notebooks are a different story. As far as we know, there are only four!" The Blood Demon held up four fingers. "The Horned Demon's botched experiment burned one beyond recovery—the one you just saw. That leaves three."
At that point, the Blood Demon noticed that Ronan's glass of water was empty. He snapped his fingers and beckoned a server over to refill it.
Ronan made no effort to avoid speaking in front of the server. No ordinary person would understand any of this anyway. "Will the remaining three notebooks be auctioned?"
"Only one is confirmed."
"What about the other two?"
"That's the real heart of today's deal."
The Blood Demon folded down his four fingers one by one until he had made a fist, emphasizing his point. But before Ronan's expression could change,