What If We're Wrong?

The Dark Star Bureau building had thirty-six floors, and the campus supermarket had thirty-six storage lockers. Was that a coincidence?

Li Banfeng had fought Mu Yuejuan on the thirty-sixth floor, and this black snake had inexplicably appeared in locker number thirty-six. That was no longer something coincidence could explain.

Thinking back on the fight, Li Banfeng had used Ride a Horse and Admire Flowers, blasting the black snakes on Mu Yuejuan's body flying in every direction. If the Dark Star Bureau and the campus supermarket lockers overlapped in some way, was it possible that one of the snakes had been blasted into a locker?

But even Mu Yuejuan had been unable to leave the Intertwined Vines and Pines Painting at the time. What were the odds that a snake could have been blasted out?

Mu Yuejuan might have fought Old Train, the Work Method cultivator, from the very beginning. She had used black snakes, and Old Train had sent one into the locker by some means.

What exactly was the relationship between the lockers and the Dark Star Bureau? Was this Old Train's Work Method, the Heavenly Woman's technique, or some technological product of the Dark Star Bureau?

Li Banfeng looked toward the campus supermarket, then in the direction of the Dark Star Bureau. As he pondered, the projector delivered the Simple Phone.

The call was from Ba Suan. "Seventh Master, more than a dozen passenger ships have entered Dingye City. Judging roughly by their draft, they may be carrying as many as fifty thousand troops."

"Fifty thousand?" Li Banfeng was startled. "Are you sure?"

"I can't say for sure. It's only a rough estimate. Their passenger ships are heavily guarded; we can't get close, and we can't confirm whether they're carrying soldiers. They could also be carrying military supplies