Horror of the Olden Days
Chapter 825

Special Question-and-Answer Game

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Fu Qian had told Su Gao to ask whenever she didn't understand, but he hadn't meant the second-rate fortune-teller Chie Kisaragi.

As he'd said before, even if she went around banging gongs and drums to announce An Jing Shizhi's death, no one would believe her right now.

But there was one person who would react strongly to his disappearance and care deeply about what had happened to him: Nepheli.

There was no doubt that this technical consultant from the Native Council knew An Jing Shizhi had come after her and Su Gao.

Now he was missing, and as the designer of the Promotion Ritual, she must have known Sybill's condition very well. And now Sybill had run into trouble, too.

It was easy to figure out why Sybill kept changing her mind from what An Jing Shizhi had said.

The demigod had two distinct wills in her head, and one of them had been forcibly twisted and implanted.

She even knew it was abnormal, but under An Jing Shizhi's brutal suppression, she still had no choice but to act according to that twisted will.

And what had happened at sea was clearly because An Jing Shizhi had lost his authority, throwing that brutal suppression out of balance.

Nepheli might not care how many people died at Yasui Company, but after what had happened to Sybill, she would certainly know something was wrong with An Jing Shizhi.

It was certainly hard to imagine a newly promoted First Order getting into trouble, but as a technical consultant, if she were cautious, she should have fled immediately.

That was certainly possible, but Fu Qian chose to trust Nepheli's scholarly nature. Driven by a thirst for knowledge, she would try to understand what had happened.

Fortunately, although Lady Nepheli didn't have the nerve to

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