Snake Tongue glanced again at the passenger seat and saw the still-unfamiliar face of that young bureaucrat. She wanted to ask some questions, but in the end decided to learn more first. There was no need, nor did she have the nerve, to ask questions that were too shallow.
But even if she said nothing, Ronan had questions for her. "What arrangements does your Madam Shan Chuan have lately?"
Clearly, Ronan meant Madam Shan Chuan, whom Snake Tongue controlled through projected power.
Snake Tongue sorted through the itinerary she had learned over the past two days and replied with the key points. "Mainly investigating Mister Yu's cause of death, confirming or ruling out the possibility that hostile forces were involved. Next week, she will go to East 824 District to preside over the district's welcoming ceremony. Also, someone named Zuo Tai asked her to help determine a person's condition."
"Tao Ju?"
"You know?"
"That was one of my experiments, testing the projection model for Cross-Boundary power. It was also the actual target of Unranked Divine Power..." Ronan briefly explained Tao Ju's situation, then laughed. "As it happens, the medium Tao Ju used for the ritual was also a camphor tree. You really do have an affinity with camphor trees."
Snake Tongue gave a bitter smile. She knew Ronan was referring to her former close collaborator, Sagaemon, the "divine tree" worshipped by many people in Ban City.
It was just that her "former collaborator" had not met a good end.
"Sagaemon has completely fallen into the Amaterasu Order's Land of Divine Treasures system... Is that part of why you chose to bring me here?"
"That's part of it." Ronan did not elaborate. "Now that Mister Yu's cause of death has been clarified, the Virtue Association can breathe easier too. As for