This was way too much of a coincidence!
Just as the Native Council was about to make trouble, something had happened over in Dunis.
And even someone like Marco knew the risks were high. Fu Qian refused to believe Weihle and the others weren't keeping a close eye on things.
Or was Lycanthropy Disease a side effect of Weihle and the others' plan? A risk they had no choice but to take?
After all, the Night Watchers seemed tense, but not so much that they were going to cancel the Carnival of Noise.
If that was all there was to it, then everything was under Weihle and the others' control, and it wouldn't make much difference.
Unfortunately, based on past experience, the odds of completing a mission by simply lying around were really quite low.
And since Weihle and the others were being so tight-lipped about how they planned to snatch victory from the jaws of danger and hunt a god, Fu Qian thought it was essential to get a clearer picture of the mission.
So, after briefly analyzing what he'd picked up through reverse eavesdropping, he quickly settled on his next step: find out what had caused Lycanthropy Disease.
He swallowed the corn cake in two or three bites, turned around, and smiled at the watcher in the distance.
At that moment, Jimmy had gone somewhere to report in, leaving Old Joe alone.
Did he notice me?
To be fair, seeing Fu Qian suddenly turn around had taken Old Joe by surprise.
It wasn't that he sensed any danger or anything like that. It was just the instinctive reaction of a covert watcher whose subject had suddenly noticed him.
Of course, he quickly suppressed that guilty feeling. No matter how you looked at it, the other man was