The player team had nearly turned over every grocery store and shop in town before finding a notebook wrapped in parchment in an old bookstore. Zhang Heng used that parchment to complete the Oath Ring ritual with Bessonova.
From then on, if Bessonova ever had any thoughts harmful to them, Zhang Heng would know immediately and stop her in time.
Of course, it would be best if such a situation never arose.
To make Bessonova realize this, Zhang Heng deliberately invited her to play a little game and told her to think about anything she wanted.
Bessonova thought about her boyfriend and whether the hospital would send someone to look for her after discovering she had vanished. Zhang Heng showed no reaction. But the moment she thought about how to escape, almost as soon as the thought arose, a Small Knife was pressed to her throat.
The chill radiating from the blade raised a string of goosebumps on the skin of her neck. Even Bessonova, bold as she was, was frightened senseless by the sight, and the way she looked at Zhang Heng changed completely.
"She says you're a devil," Coconut, who was handling the translation, said.
"Mm, then let her think of me as a devil." Zhang Heng paused before adding, "Ask her if she knows Dyaltov."
Coconut closed her eyes. After a while, she said, "She says she has heard the name. She knows Dyaltov is the Deputy Chief Engineer of Reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl. Some nuclear power plant workers who came to the hospital for treatment used to talk about Dyaltov in private."
"Is that so? What did they talk about?"
"Most of the time, they complained that Dyaltov was difficult to get along with. He was always shirking responsibility, often shouting at meetings, dissatisfied with