Your emotions are a little too obvious.
Why the level had been sealed off was something even Lisha, the first to drive there, didn't know. That answer was undeniably disappointing.
But Professor Lisha's attitude had already told them plenty.
She'd seemed ready to disregard life and death from the start, and now Su Gao had vouched for her, making it absolutely clear she couldn't really be killed. By rights, Lisha should have been even less cooperative.
Yet when her "captors" questioned her, setting aside whether her answer was true or not, her attitude alone seemed unusual.
Was she putting on an act to mislead them, or had she simply stopped pretending now that things had come to this?
Fu Qian leaned toward the latter.
In fact, that was why he'd stepped forward now.
Escaping their predicament, clearing the way ahead, and reaching the Holy See safely... Those were, of course, the goals of their operation.
But as mentioned earlier, Fu Qian thought it was just as important to figure out why they'd ended up here—and why this particular group of people had come together.
So far, the mission had involved a bit of torment, and they'd certainly been walking on thin ice in their struggle to survive, but overall, it still felt a little too laid-back.
Rather than trusting the Warehouse to grow a conscience, they'd be better off staying alert to danger.
So whether he'd stayed silent earlier or was stepping forward now, Fu Qian had one unchanging goal: to find out what everyone was "really doing here."
Professor Lisha's reaction was certainly intriguing. It was hard to believe she'd just wandered here by accident.
"Well, that's quite a hassle."
But no matter how cooperative she was, questioning her would be terribly rude. Fu Qian immediately nodded again and