"So, it seems you believe Chun's story?" Sun Miao looked at Cheng Shi and continued communicating through the beeper.
"Whether I believe it or not is irrelevant. Sympathy has never been among the reasons a cooperative relationship can be established. The History School should understand that better than I do."
Indeed, whether they could walk the same road depended not on truth or falsehood, but only on benefits and drawbacks. Sun Miao nodded in agreement.
But when Cheng Shi saw Sun Miao nod, he knew they were not truly on the same side. Still, at least for now, they were walking the same road of mutual benefit.
At that moment, deafening shouts rang out across the Borogao Highlands. The Iron Law Knights were carefully searching every corner of the military camp. No matter how effective Silent's concealment talent was, this was not a good time to turn back.
An investigation should never be carried out when the target was at its most vigilant. Haste had never produced good results, so Cheng Shi and Sun Miao decided to remain in the river valley for a while longer, at least until the turmoil on the highlands had passed.
The two began wandering aimlessly through the river valley. Each of them held a pile of secrets outsiders could never know, so every exchange concealed a hidden edge, and every probe carried an unsolved riddle.
Thus, the two people with different motives chatted from the surface to the underground, and from reality to the void. They seemed to have talked about a great many things, but when they thought back on it carefully...
It seemed that neither of them had learned anything new.
Sun Miao was clearly growing irritated with Cheng Shi's evasive tactics. She stopped hiding her intentions, and the leading nature of