—Remember, your task is to obtain the final orb by any means necessary.
—You're so powerful. Why do you need someone insignificant like me to help with something like this?
—You already made your choice, didn't you?
It was so quiet that she could almost hear a heartbeat... her own. But Little Chu Rui clearly couldn't hear Xia Ji's heartbeat—not because her senses were insufficient, but because the other party simply had no heartbeat.
She nearly lost herself in thought, considering all sorts of reasons why Wolfeid would use her to retrieve the token—but she could never get to the bottom of it.
She had even made the worst possible plan: seducing Wen Duo, who should have been holding the token... But she had never expected the token to have been handed over to a puppet named Xia Ji.
Was she really just a puppet...? Could a puppet possess this level of precision?
Before the incident, she had only been a lowly maid. But she had worked at Qionghua Pavilion in White Steel City, which was practically the pinnacle of the maid profession. Those staying at Qionghua Pavilion were either rich or noble, or else powerful members of the Alliance. She had seen all sorts of strange and unusual things... Puppets were naturally among them. In fact, Huiye Qianfeng's luxurious residence had once contained a bionic puppet. It had quickly grown boring, however, and been tossed into the storage room.
—Puppet Humanoids shouldn't attack humans of their own accord... unless they've been illegally modified.
"You've been observing the token in my hand. There's a nine percent chance that you want to take it."
Amid the silence, Xia Ji's voice suddenly rang out... reciting the words without a trace of emotion.
Chu Rui instinctively raised her eyes. A trace of