After sending the message, Yu Sheng looked up at the sky outside the window.
It had only just begun to dawn, and there was still plenty of time before work. Baili Qing's side might not respond for a while yet.
So he did not simply wait around. After sending the message, Yu Sheng found a small box that had originally been used to hold biscuits, put the "bullet" from the Hunter away inside it, and then went to the kitchen to prepare something to eat.
Huli and Eileen followed him over quite naturally—the former was planning to mooch some food, while the latter clearly still had some questions she had not figured out.
"How did the Hunter know you could bring the bullet to 'the outside'?" Eileen followed behind Yu Sheng in confusion. "They just shot you once and dared to assume that not only would you survive, but you'd also be able to get the bullet out and have a chance to find someone to analyze where it came from? Who passes messages to people like that?"
Yu Sheng was busy at the stove. He did not stop moving when he heard Eileen's question, merely furrowing his brow slightly as he thought.
The little doll had brought up the very issue he had been pondering ever since.
It was still hard to say whether the bullet was a piece of "information," but one fact was clear: in the Black Forest, the Hunter had fired at him without hesitation, and that shot had been aimed straight at his heart. Setting aside other motives, it had clearly been intended to kill him.
"So the greatest possibility is... they didn't know." After a moment of thought, Yu Sheng broke the silence.
Eileen blinked. "They didn't know?"
"An entity wandering through the Black