"That's right. It does look like someone went in."
While giving the old man's performance high marks, Fu Qian also agreed with his explanation.
By now, the two of them were standing in front of the strange building, and the evidence was unmistakable.
A carefully designed door, perfectly suited to the building's stacked-box style, had been brutally wrecked.
Though it looked just as old and decrepit, it shouldn't have been impossible to open. Yet its surface was riddled with holes, as if someone had failed to find the key and angrily shot at it for five minutes straight.
It had certainly done the trick. The largest hole was big enough for one person to pass through.
The scene of someone arriving here first and forcing their way inside practically appeared before their eyes.
"Looks that way. So you didn't know beforehand?"
Fu Qian observed the damage as he chimed in, though his attention was elsewhere.
"No."
The old man shook his head, confirming that this had indeed been unexpected.
"Then why did you say we could come here and look?"
Fu Qian pressed him, pointing out a contradiction.
"Because there are more people here."
The old man's tone was matter-of-fact. As he spoke, he even stepped through the gap first.
There was actually some logic to that.
Fu Qian naturally followed, finding it rather interesting.
Regarding the old man's earlier directions, someone might have thought he'd seen something while standing by the road, and that was why he'd pointed Fu Qian this way.
But in Fu Qian's judgment, the odds of Selena being spotted were very low.
Whenever she went out, she kept to a mysterious style, practically trying to tuck her head into her pants. Wouldn't she be even more cautious after coming all the way to such a