Truth-Detecting Results

Angel had been halfway through silently chanting the Soul-Severing Murmur when he was suddenly interrupted.

A mysterious object? What mysterious object?

Angel was still completely baffled. What did Jiebo mean by saying he had intercepted a mysterious object?

The only mysterious object Angel currently possessed was the Dream Conch, and he had only acquired it an hour ago. Where would any other mysterious object come from? Could Jiebo have meant Lucas's skull? But he had never touched that mysterious object at all.

"What mysterious object? What are you talking about?" Angel frowned at Jiebo.

Jiebo looked at Angel's innocent expression and sneered inwardly. Keep acting. Go on, keep acting!

"That mysterious object in the mysterious space—do you dare deny that you intercepted it halfway?"

Hearing Jiebo's words, Angel finally understood.

Before this, he had never known why Jiebo had gone to such lengths to intercept him here—water curtains, threats upon threats, acting as though they would not rest until one of them was dead. He had indeed gone to the mysterious space Jiebo mentioned, but he had taken nothing at all, aside from taking Tulas's soul away.

Besides, back in Lost Song City, Jiebo had inexplicably given him many benefits, claiming it was to draw them closer. No matter how he looked at it, there had been no reason for Jiebo to make such a grand display against him.

So Jiebo thought he had taken Lucas's skull?

Angel nearly laughed inside. He knew perfectly well that he had taken nothing. Most likely, after he had left that day, someone had intercepted Lucas's skull along the way, and they had turned their suspicions toward him.

Even so, Angel still did not know how they had tracked him down.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I have never even heard of