"Mr. Xie, have you really found a way to survive?"
Having escaped, Qiu Zheyan carried Xie Zheng on his back with all his strength, still lost in the dream of survival.
He had been farther ahead and had not seen Mei Sheng expose everyone's identifying features to the Painter Ghost before they left.
Xie Zheng had no time to spare for him now. A thousand tangled thoughts surged through his mind, leaving him reeling.
Mei Sheng dragged all of us down with her, but that doesn't resolve the lethal trap right in front of her.
I already completed the Death Portrait for the Painter Ghost. Mei Sheng will still be the first of the four of us to die.
Then why was she so confident when she made this move to take us all down with her...?
They belonged to the same branch. Even if they were not close, they still knew something about one another.
Mei Sheng had always been a very low-key woman, even if her looks were anything but.
She had actually joined the branch quite early, but had participated in few missions.
Her only standout achievement had been holding her own against Ji Li in a battle of wits during the Kyoto mission, then playing a central role in the operation that defeated Xue Tinghai.
But her long period of inactivity had left people with little impression of her.
Xie Zheng knew Mei Sheng had a Sin Object, the Perfume Bottle she had obtained during the Kyoto mission, but it was only a support-type Sin Object.
It offered little protection against ghosts. Otherwise, he would never have been so confident about diverting the danger onto her.
But why had Mei Sheng made such a move under these extreme circumstances?
Xie Zheng sharply sucked in a breath.