The wind by the cliff was fierce, making it hard to keep one's eyes open.
Hou Guisheng rubbed his aching neck and studied the man before him, who looked somewhat human but even more like a ghost.
The Xu Nan before him seemed vastly different from the Xu Nan he had heard about.
The Top Ten Branches were full of talented people. Even as the Vice Branch Manager of Branch No. 1, Hou Guisheng was nothing particularly remarkable.
What people talked about most regarding Xu Nan was how he had gone all in, disregarding everything to become Gu Xingjian's enemy.
That was unprecedented in Tianhai Hotel.
It was precisely this behavior that had made Xu Nan seem, in most people's eyes, like a brainless brute concerned only with perishing alongside his enemy.
However, after meeting him today, Hou Guisheng had caught certain implications beneath Xu Nan's words.
Xu Nan seemed to possess a certain confidence.
Though he kept calling it a gamble, without a considerable degree of confidence, he could never have acted this way.
Xu Nan could go all in, but Hou Guisheng had far too many things to consider.
First, where had Xu Nan come from?
Hou Guisheng's gaze was sharp. Pretending to be deep in thought, he discreetly inspected the cliffside around them.
"Xu Nan possesses a great deal of information about Gu Xingjian. He must have previously been in the same place as him."
"He appeared out of nowhere. That means Gu Xingjian is actually hiding here; I simply have no way of seeing him."
This sort of spatial concealment was particularly troublesome for Hou Guisheng. Though he possessed many Sin Objects, he lacked any truly powerful Space Sin Item.
Moreover, Sin Objects could not be used often, or else one would merely be courting death.