Crimson Moon Club Gathering Officially Begins

If the agent hadn't insisted on charging me three thousand yuan as a toll, I definitely wouldn't have broken through, right?

If I hadn't broken through, I would have obediently come to Kindling City, found a cheap little hotel, and waited for the gathering to begin. Then I probably wouldn't have met Dracula so soon. If I hadn't met Dracula, I wouldn't have been hunted by the city's entire law-enforcement force because of the counterfeit money... Dracula was truly shameless... And if I hadn't been hunted, I wouldn't have ended up sleeping on the streets in the middle of the night, right?

If I hadn't slept on the streets, I wouldn't have met the Hell Legion. If I hadn't met the Hell Legion, I wouldn't have encountered Xia Chong. If I hadn't encountered Xia Chong, I wouldn't have entered the Kindling Building, met Number Two, entered God's Nightmare, or learned about Kindling's plans...

...The more Lu Xin thought about it, the more miraculous it seemed.

If he hadn't learned about Kindling's plans, perhaps when all the rituals appeared, he would have simply treated them as local customs of Kindling.

Perhaps none of this would really have happened?

Of course, given Mom's designs for Staff Hider and Pale Hand, it was inevitable that the two sides would collide.

But at least it wouldn't have caused this Hell Designer to misunderstand things so badly...

That logic flashed through Lu Xin's mind, and he felt it made perfect sense. Kindling had clearly been the one to make the first move...

Yet under the Hell Designer's fervent gaze, he didn't say it aloud.

After all, it had only been three thousand yuan...

He had some pride, at least. Instinct told him that admitting this would probably be rather embarrassing.

Besides, if he thought about