Exchanging contact information with Butler Pi Teng had been no more than a touch of wrists.
After finishing all that, Tai Yu stood by the street and watched Pi Teng get into the car. Ran Ming's vehicle drove away, disappearing around the corner and out of sight.
He did not hurry back. Instead, he wandered leisurely through the streets, getting farther and farther from the budget hotel. He paid a considerable "standard gravity fee" in real time until he entered the nearest Opportunity Chain Body Cultivation Center and, like a regular, booked a Quiet Room.
Throughout it all, the Brilliant Left Eye within the Spirit Demon Eye had kept staring at him with stubborn persistence.
Wasn't this fellow supposed to be watching Sheng Wu?
Mm, Zhe Rong seemed to have said that monitoring a Celestial powerhouse for too long could alert the other side. The authority status and degree of reverse interference between the Main Net and Attached Net were ultimately different. Then again, even without Sheng Wu, the Brilliant Left Eye—and the Black Inspector it represented—had been paying Tai Yu increasing attention.
Tai Yu acted as though he knew nothing. He sat meditating in the Quiet Room and did not use the search service of the Gray Circle. After sitting quietly for a while, the smell of alcohol faded, and he opened the Virtual Work Area. He brought up a Psychic Map from within—a Sketch Portrait of Azar, who had already fled elsewhere, and the basis on which he had "earned merit" last time.
That was not all. Tai Yu brought up another exceptionally clear image. This time, it was an actual photograph of Azar from the Black Inspector's intelligence files.
Viewed separately, neither seemed particularly strange. Put together, though, they felt similar yet not quite alike. The discrepancy