A minor incident occurred while they were dealing with the Inspector and Doctor Assassin.
The agreed meeting time arrived, and Qin Xin's alarm rang right at midnight. Li Wufang had just finished setting things up and returned to the rooftop, while Wang Mou was still hiding somewhere in the shadows, secretly fiddling with something.
Cheng Shi frowned. He always felt uneasy about not guarding against others at the exact hour, but Qin Xin noticed his concern and said with a smile:
"Perhaps because we're both Existences, I'm confident that my perception of temporal fluctuations is fairly sharp. At least just now, there was no flow of temporal power anywhere in the area we could see, so you can rest easy.
"Still, you don't need to be overly wary of time. His methods... at least, they've never been strange."
Now that was strange!
I feel like you're mocking someone, but I don't dare say it.
Cheng Shi smiled and accepted Qin Xin's reassurance, thinking that perhaps he really had been too sensitive.
Once bitten by a snake, one remained wary of ropes for ten years.
But honestly, that one sentence had increased Cheng Shi's suspicions of Qin Xin by another notch.
As a Mirror Walker and a "rough" warrior skilled at facing enemies head-on, wasn't his perception a little too sharp?
He hadn't even moved, yet he could sense divine-power fluctuations across such a wide area?
Besides, the way he handled crises was far too "deliberate." With that sturdy build, he clearly ought to have been a fierce general charging into battle. Yet he always stayed behind the lines, looking like a strategist who had everything under control. Even when dealing with all kinds of trouble, he remained calm and graceful.
Did that... look like a warrior?
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