Was this a woman's intuition? Honestly, Xu Xiaoshou found it hard to believe that even Storyteller had failed to notice anything.
Yet Luo Leilei had managed to suspect something merely because he had kept silent.
Go sit in the Ancient Book Space for a while?
Xu Xiaoshou's lips twitched.
I just went through hell to escape that blasted place, and now I'm supposed to go back in? Isn't that asking for trouble? She's got some nerve!
But was the second-in-command of Saint Slave someone a little girl like her could manipulate?
"Enough."
With a single word, Xu Xiaoshou cut off Mu Zixi, who had been talking animatedly.
"Master?"
Mu Zixi raised her head, confusion filling her large eyes.
Xu Xiaoshou sighed. "You said so much, yet aside from that final piece of information, everything else you said... was complete nonsense!"
"Hmph!"
A snorting sound of fury rang out.
Black lines immediately appeared across Mu Zixi's forehead.
Cursed, Passive Value, +1.
On the other end of the voice transmission, the spiritual connection likewise trembled, nearly snapping apart outright.
Dead silence reigned.
Feared, Passive Value, +3.
"Senior, I..."
Luo Leilei's hesitant voice emerged. She had no idea how things had been perfectly fine just moments ago, only for a single sentence from her to provoke Senior Wuxiu.
Before she could continue, Xu Xiaoshou interrupted her.
"You've been in White Cavern for so long, and this is all the information you managed to gather?"
Pointing at Mu Zixi, he said in a tone of disappointment at her failure to live up to expectations, "This old man has only been here a short while, yet the information I've obtained already far surpasses yours."
"Master..."
Mu Zixi forcefully stopped herself from jumping up to smack him, then forced herself to lower