"Were you after this?" Zhang Heng raised the Escape Dagger in his hand.
Little Boy nodded. "There's a problem with this item's stats. It's already affected the game's balance and needs to be corrected. Can you let me take a look at the dagger?"
Her voice was not loud, yet every word reached Zhang Heng's ears clearly, just like the system prompts he had heard before.
"Of course." Zhang Heng did not refuse. If nothing unexpected happened, Little Boy before him was the reason Loki had been restricted after privately altering the main quest. Her help had also played a part in his defeat of Loki tonight. More importantly, she could keep him in the instance. Zhang Heng knew that if he refused to hand over the dagger, he probably would not be leaving either.
However, as Zhang Heng drew the dagger, he probed again, "This was originally yours, wasn't it?"
Little Boy did not answer. She merely glanced at the white-haired man beside her, and he shrugged. "I'm starting to feel like I'm your carrot."
Even so, he still strode carelessly over to Zhang Heng.
"The Butcher of Blaviken? Nice to meet you." Zhang Heng handed him the dagger.
"I've never really liked that nickname," the white-haired man said. "But thank you for cooperating." He took the dagger, inspected it, and then brought it before Little Boy.
She nodded at Zhang Heng. "Wait a moment." With that, she began tinkering with the dagger on her own.
Zhang Heng watched with his own eyes as the dagger in Little Boy's hands was broken down into a massive string of characters, hundreds of thousands of bytes long, layered and embedded together.
Half a minute later, Little Boy restored the dagger to its original state and handed it back to the white-haired