"So, Bookstore Owner, would you be interested in joining me to slay demons and vanquish evil?"
Inside the Forbidden Zone, Yuan Shan watched Fu Qian with a smile.
"Can I say I'm not interested?"
"No."
Before Fu Qian could finish asking, Yuan Shan answered outright.
"You have to come with me."
"Do you think I'd leave you out of my sight while I'm away from the base?"
I knew it.
Fu Qian sighed.
His earlier words had only eased some of Yuan Shan's suspicions.
In other words, she'd gone from wanting to slap him to death to sparing his life and seeing how he behaved.
He had a history of forcing his way into the Night Watcher base. At such a sensitive time, how could Yuan Shan let him out of her control?
With no demigod guarding the base, if he really did have hostile intentions, he could easily cause trouble.
Yuan Shan might seem easygoing, but she was the Night Watchers' leader in Shangjing, a figure with the power to decide life and death in the supernatural world.
She would never take that risk. There was no room for negotiation.
The upside was that he'd intended to go anyway. He'd only asked to make a show of reluctance.
After all, he was playing the part of an aloof master beyond the mundane world. Too much eagerness would arouse suspicion.
"Let's go. I'm actually a little curious myself."
"Now that's more like it."
After reinforcing the seal, Yuan Shan found the old man to stand guard and gave him a few brief instructions before motioning for Fu Qian to leave.
They didn't retrace the route they'd taken on the way in. This time, they went through a narrow stone corridor.
They made their way upward, and when they emerged aboveground,