Former Team 010 base.
The moment Baili Pangpang pushed open the villa doors, Jialan sprang up from the sofa, the flames of gossip blazing in her eyes.
Lin Qiye, who entered after him, saw this and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly. He silently shook his head.
Seeing Baili Pangpang's somewhat listless expression, the others tactfully refrained from asking how the date had gone. An Qingyu emerged from the kitchen carrying a platter of fruit and set it on the coffee table in the center of the living room.
"Qiye, that person we ran into today wearing a white Fox Mask, was he..." Cao Yuan sat on the sofa, seeming to recall something as he spoke.
"It was Cool Bro!"
Baili Pangpang declared with certainty. "He activates his ability by snapping his fingers, and he was even carrying my Soul Severing Blade. It had to be Cool Bro!"
Lin Qiye walked over and sat beside the coffee table, sighing with emotion. "I never thought he was really still alive..."
"I told you long ago. With the Heaven Returning Jade, he wouldn't die that easily," Baili Pangpang said.
"But why does that mask seem familiar? I feel like I've seen it somewhere before..." Cao Yuan fell into thought.
A moment later, Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang looked at each other and spoke in unison:
"Abstinence Hall!"
Lin Qiye asked blankly from the side, "You saw him while you were at Abstinence Hall?"
"Outside Abstinence Hall, the two of us ran into three people from the believers. He was among them," Cao Yuan explained. "Later, Pangpang personally tied them up, but we never saw them again after that."
"I saw him too. When we jumped down from Abstinence Hall's outer wall, he was watching us from afar," Baili Pangpang added.
Lin