"Brother Tong and I? Of course we're close. He's my big brother!"
"If Brother Tong hadn't helped me back then, I would've been kidnapped by criminals and taken deep into the mountains."
"What? You're saying Brother Tong is Shadow?!"
"I definitely didn't know. Brother Tong never told me."
"Can I contact him? Uh, I can't say for sure..."
When investigators approached Xu Xiaotian for information, he was surprised, but whenever the topic turned to intelligence about Guan Tong, he acted as though he knew nothing at all.
As for whether Guan Tong could be contacted, he said that although he had Guan Tong's phone number, they did not communicate in real time.
At most, he could send a message. Whether Guan Tong saw it, and whether he would reply, was uncertain.
Wang Yan and Chen Na were equally shocked when they learned that Guan Tong was Shadow.
However, Silver Fox and Zhang Minglu had already spoken with them once before, so this time they did not obtain any fresher information.
Only after the investigators left did Chen Na connect all the pieces.
Only then did she understand why Shadow had specifically contacted her friend Qing Jin to rescue her from Yongzhou Base.
And during the Earthquake Rule, why Shadow, who had used an item to disguise his appearance, had smiled at her...
And during Operation Falling Petals, after she used her ability, why the Mind Power she sensed had felt somewhat familiar...
So it had been Little Brother Guan all along.
Chen Na thought that he had helped and protected her far more than she had known.
This made her resolve even firmer. She had never intended to reveal information about Guan Tong in the first place.
Li Meng, meanwhile, felt both surprise and relief upon learning that