"Gratitude received. Passive Value +1."
Looking toward the direction where Five Declines of Heaven and Man had vanished, Xu Xiaoshou finally understood the intent behind Water Ghost's actions just now.
This fellow looked like a madman and held grudges fiercely, but his stance was clearly defined.
Everything he put on was for outsiders to see.
At the very least, when he had forced Five Declines of Heaven and Man into a corner and made Xu Xiaoshou step in to save him, his real aim had been to make Five Declines of Heaven and Man owe Xu Xiaoshou a favor.
While he himself took on Five Declines of Heaven and Man's resentment instead.
"What a strange person."
"I clearly beat him up badly once. Did he forget that so quickly?"
Xu Xiaoshou felt that this favor was completely unnecessary.
Yet what he could not understand was that Water Ghost and Five Declines of Heaven and Man seemed to have held some deeper exchange beyond their spoken words.
In any case, when Five Declines of Heaven and Man finally left, Xu Xiaoshou could not see any resentment in him toward what Water Ghost had done.
"Yesterday, today..."
"Perhaps Water Ghost saved Five Declines of Heaven and Man before?"
After muttering to himself, Xu Xiaoshou could not figure it out and simply set the matter aside.
He could not understand the encrypted exchange between those two, but the favor Water Ghost had forcefully sold just now looked somewhat familiar.
It reminded him of some small incidents when he had first met Five Declines of Heaven and Man in the First Hall of Sin.
Looking at what followed, Five Declines of Heaven and Man had indeed been like Water Ghost toward him—outwardly sinister and scheming, but good at heart.
But back then,