Windfall (Part 1)

Was The Other Side really Ronan?

Thoughts tangled and shifted within Gong Qi's spirit body, instinctively making him reconsider his earlier judgment. What he had experienced so far had already exceeded the bounds of common sense built over nearly a century of his life.

A young man—a young man who had only recently entered the Inner World circle—could perhaps explain his profound understanding of the Abyss Zone and Extreme Domain as mere parroted words meant to bluff people. But how had he gained such an accurate grasp of Gong Qi's mental sensing activities?

Even if it was not entirely correct, his grasp of the general direction was undoubtedly sound.

Even Gong Qi himself had never considered how one might determine the behavioral tendencies of an Extraordinary Species of the Mental Side without alerting the target. Beyond years of patient observation and meticulous analysis, it would surely require an exceptionally advanced method of observation.

Did such a method exist in this world?

Was that brat really just an overconfident little dog guarding its food and its door? Were Ouyang Chen and Wu Zhao perhaps lurking behind him?

No, that was completely unlike either of their styles!

Gong Qi's thoughts were thrown into turmoil, unable to settle on any conclusion.

When he had first come to Xia City, he had come for an exchange of interests. The Two Thousandths stake in Deep Blue and the immense secret behind An Weng and the Justice Cult's operation were what he truly valued. As for Ronan, he merely happened to occupy a crucial position and was someone from whom intelligence needed to be gathered. Gong Qi had not paid him any particular attention, only looked over some files. Even after becoming trapped in this Cloud Top World and struggling to escape, he had had no