An indescribable sense of strangeness filled everyone's hearts.
"Yu Guo, Chen Xu, Lu Jingting, Lu Chi."
These four names had once been part of their life trajectories, but with the end of the Tiannan mission, that part had been forcibly and abruptly carved away.
There had been no cleanup at all, only the simplest and most direct erasure.
Especially one of those four, whose weight had been immense to both Ji Li and the others.
The feeling was beyond words. They could not say where it hurt; they only felt a suffocating heaviness in their chests, leaving them at a loss.
"The second matter."
Ji Li had no time to let them dwell on it. He raised his right arm and tossed Yu Guo's handbag onto the table.
Hong Fu perceptively rose to his feet and unzipped the bag. What lay inside startled him.
"The second matter is that there are some Sin Objects in here. Take them and divide them among yourselves."
Of the twenty people involved in the Tiannan mission, only Ji Li had survived. No one needed to mention what he had gained.
But the names and life histories of the other nineteen clerks had all been wiped away cleanly. That strange feeling still left everyone somewhat dazed.
For a moment, the sight of those Sin Objects did not cause much of a stir.
There were not actually many Sin Objects, mainly for two reasons:
First, Tiannan Academy of Drama was special. It did provide new Sin Objects, but the price of using them was being unable to leave the academy alive.
Second, most clerks, such as Lu Chen, Jiang Xi, and Ai Chen, had died without intact corpses, and their Sin Objects had been erased along with them.
Thus, Ji Li had not brought back many