So what was this supposed to mean?
If he hadn't been confident in his memory, Fu Qian would have thought he'd chosen this perfect vantage point himself.
But knowing he hadn't chosen it made everything seem even stranger.
These weren't Liliana's footprints. Had someone else been here, watching her?
If that assumption held, then alongside the two possibilities he'd already considered, there seemed to be a third—
The footprints really had been left while Senior Liliana was still around, but they weren't hers. Someone else had been observing her.
This was starting to sound more and more bizarre... But from another angle, it didn't seem that hard to understand.
Recovering from that strange position, Fu Qian stretched and remembered a certain friend he'd once shared a prison with.
That was right. Back when he'd been young and reckless, he'd ignored his "mother's" warnings and visited some pretty incredible places.
For example, there was that bubble inside the Gods' Burial Ground, the one Red Moon had strongly warned him was "dangerous."
It contained not only Mechanical Guards clad in armor, but also a crude prison cell deep within.
And inside that cell was the second living person he'd encountered in the entire Gods' Burial Ground.
When he'd barged into the cell, the man's first reaction had been to slam the door shut and ask Fu Qian to be his cellmate.
Because of that peculiar reaction, Fu Qian had suspected the man was something like the bugs in the Blood Lake.
In other words, he was neither a native nor a prisoner, but an Alert Method used by the Night Watchers.
He'd remained there, braving that strange corruption for the sake of world peace, and had actually succeeded in catching a lawbreaker.
Fortunately, Fu Qian had reacted quickly and decisively used a