"Heh-heh... One day, One Day, how did you figure it out? This old man was confident that whether it was my tone, my spells, or anything else that might expose my traces, I had changed them all into what they are now." Wang Naihe could not help laughing, the smile at the corner of his mouth still brimming with bold confidence.
That unique smile was not something just anyone could imitate. I had suspected him during this period too, but to suspect someone based on nothing but a smile would have been far too tenuous.
However, many suspicious things could sometimes be explained by linking them together. It was like a jigsaw puzzle missing only its final piece. The Wang Naihe before me was the perfect piece.
The journey from the marketplace to here had been long and winding. Following Linglong through all those twists and turns, tailing us the entire way, appearing behind us at the crucial moment, showing up at precisely the right time, and possessing a tacit understanding with me born from being extremely familiar with my habits—all of it had made me seventy or eighty percent certain.
Of course, what aroused my greatest suspicion was the Dongsheng Bell hanging from my waist. If it had been Wang Naihe's lifeline treasure, he should not have given it to me so easily. Yet he had handed it over without the slightest hesitation. No matter how I thought about it, that made no sense.
Qing Limò had also thought it impossible at the time.
"Where do you think you gave yourself away?" I asked in return. Of course, I would not tell him the reason. Only by keeping silent could I make him wary.
"Sometimes, I really do have to admire you. The fact that you managed to reach