Yu Guo could neither raise his head nor speak. He could not even hear Luo Ge's questions clearly.
No one knew what he had gone through during that day and night alone in Haunted Academy, but everyone was certain that he was the key to this mission.
Luo Ge bent down slightly and examined Yu Guo's eyes, finding nothing within them but murkiness and detachment.
He frowned inwardly and gave Qiu Taoyu a look.
Judging by her appearance alone, Qiu Taoyu was a ruthless woman. Expressionless, she walked up to Yu Guo and began searching him, piece by piece.
Zhong Feiluan and Mo Lan, guarding the entrance to Room 1715, immediately looked away at the sight and returned their attention to the hallway.
Song Yitong turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to it. She merely frowned tightly as she watched it happen, while calculating something else in her heart.
Shan Xin's face showed a trace of displeasure. He stepped forward, seemingly intending to stop them.
But before he could approach, a hand suddenly pressed down on his shoulder. Frowning, he turned around and saw only Chen Xu's face.
Surprised and angered, he shook off Chen Xu's hand and shouted in a low voice,
"You're from the Seventh Branch too. No matter what, Yu Guo is our companion. Are we really going to let them humiliate him like this?"
Luo Ge and Qiu Taoyu had clearly heard him, yet neither responded, nor did they stop.
Qiu Taoyu even quickened her movements, carefully reaching her hand inside Yu Guo's clothing as she tried to find something.
As Chen Xu looked at Yu Guo's barely surviving state, a flash of pity and sorrow passed through his eyes as well.
Before the Tiannan mission had begun, he had worked alongside this man