Yu Sheng wasn't surprised by Little Red Riding Hood's answer, because he didn't have any ideas himself.
Intuitively, of course he felt the two things were connected. After all, both Little Red Riding Hood and Old Zheng were entangled with the "Fairy Tale" Otherworld, and those Angel Cultists had targeted them both. The sacrifice in the white exhibition hall had clearly been some carefully arranged "ritual," and its purpose was obvious.
But as Little Red Riding Hood had said, there was still one crucial "connection" missing: what exactly were the Angel Cultists trying to achieve? A sacrifice had to be made for some purpose, right? They had to have a reason for choosing Little Red Riding Hood as their target, right?
For no apparent reason, Yu Sheng suddenly recalled something. It was a detail he had heard from the sacrificial victim when he had "spoken" with her in the white exhibition hall.
The sentence those two Angel Cultists had kept repeating while performing the ritual—
"Free the savior from the sea of suffering..."
Little Red Riding Hood heard Yu Sheng muttering softly and instinctively turned her head. "What did you say?"
"The Angel Cultists' objective: 'free the savior from the sea of suffering.' You should still remember that sentence. There was also 'help Her descend,'" Yu Sheng said. "Could it be that certain properties of the 'Fairy Tale' Otherworld can help a 'Dark Angel' trapped somewhere break free? Or perhaps... the 'Fairy Tale' Otherworld as a whole is actually a 'sacrifice' that can be used to bring the Dark Angel down?"
Little Red Riding Hood's eyes widened slightly.
"Let's treat it as a possible lead. I'll mention it to the Special Operations Bureau when I go there, too," Yu Sheng said slowly. "In any case, we now have one more