Princess could not even think of a reason why the Night Watcher would refuse Xie Jiatu's proposal—he had said that all he wanted to do was leave the City of the Sun.
At that moment, the Night Watcher Otto indeed did not surprise Princess.
He slowly lowered the Black Long Saber in his hand and calmly said to Xie Jiatu, who claimed to be a god, "Until I see a way out, I have no intention of cooperating with either side."
The meaning was already quite clear.
Xie Jiatu smiled faintly. Holding the Scales of Good and Evil, he muttered something under his breath... Soon, the bricks in one wall of the final secret chamber began folding and contracting, one piece at a time.
It did not look like a door. At first glance, it simply looked like a gap, but a layer of hazy mist covered it, making it seem anything but safe.
"This is the passage out?" The Night Watcher Otto frowned, clearly filled with distrust toward such a bizarre gap.
Xie Jiatu laughed casually. "Human, I permit you to have doubts, but you should be clever enough to prove for yourself that this is the way out... Just because you have never used it does not mean no one has ever used it to reach the outside world."
The Night Watcher Otto immediately turned to look at Princess, while rapidly considering several possibilities.
This Princess, now isolated and without aid, might very well give the opposite answer. But she might also give the correct one, while he himself had no way to determine whether it was true.
She might want to recruit him and claim that the gap was a trap. But she might also know that the gap contained a trap and admit that it was