Little Fear stood beside Lady Ji Huai, his fingers never stopping as his eyes swept around the room. He grinned and greeted everyone in the reception room:
"Sorry, I was practicing stealth. I heard you mention me, so I came over to join the fun.
"I'm pretty self-aware, aren't I? I even knew to put myself in the right place."
Being toyed with like this by the "Container," Ji Huai first felt instinctive embarrassment, then fury. Her whole body flushed red.
But at that very moment, the person behind her removed his hand. Suddenly, Ji Huai realized:
She should have been afraid!
The instant his fingers left her scalp, she completely lost track of his position and presence.
Even though she could indirectly confirm his location through the reactions of the others in the reception room, that rational conclusion was quickly burned through by the smoldering emotional fire in her heart, leaving her doubts impossible to settle.
She instinctively looked to her superior for help, only to find Zong Ju's eyes shining even brighter.
"This is Poison Fire Escape."
Though it contained the word "poison," it had nothing to do with toxins.
It referred to using the poisonous fire of emotions that had long accumulated and smoldered in human hearts to contaminate the five senses, six consciousnesses, and deeper spiritual perceptions, producing an effect close to invisibility.
Here in Pitfall Fire Hell, it was a thoroughly orthodox assassination secret art. Only those with exceptionally precise control over their own abilities and the psychological and physiological Changes of others could use such a method.
Lady Ji Huai falling victim to it proved that, to a considerable degree, she had already been completely controlled by Little Fear.
As a finance and risk-control officer, she followed a technical path and had not reached