Dimensional Hotel
Chapter 177

Alongside the Wolf Pack

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Had you offended anyone before?

Yu Sheng's sudden question left Little Red Riding Hood momentarily stunned. It took her several seconds to realize why he was asking. She frowned. "Are you saying the museum incident was a trap targeting me?"

"Don't accuse me of being paranoid. There are a lot of suspicious aspects to this, but the most suspicious is why it happened to you. Do you remember that 'sacrifice' inside? If Huli, Eileen, and I hadn't stalled that vicious wolf that crawled out of the shadows, you really would have lost control," Yu Sheng said seriously. "And the reason you went to the museum and stepped into the white exhibition hall at that time was because you accepted a commission to retrieve a collection item—and it was a commission with a time limit. But now that we've investigated it, the commission was fake... That makes this 'coincidence' rather suspicious."

"The ones who created the sacrifice incident were two Angel Cultists." Little Red Riding Hood's expression suddenly turned awful, because she had always been deeply wary of anything involving those madmen. "You mean those lunatics who follow the Dark Angel deliberately set up a trap to deal with me? Why? That makes no sense..."

"That's why I'm asking whether you've offended anyone."

"...What could I possibly have done to attract the attention of those lunatics?" Little Red Riding Hood's brows knitted tightly. "You know I never deal with anything related to the Dark Angel. Normally, I only accept small and medium-sized commissions through legitimate channels, and more than half of them come from the Special Operations Bureau. The 'Fairy Tale' organization is also very cautious in its external dealings. We might have competitors in the Spirit Realm Detective business, but there's no way that would escalate into having 'enemies.'"

"Then

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