The group chat fell silent. No one replied for a long time.
Everyone in the WeChat group was a Dragon Rank big shot. What hadn't they seen? They'd long since trained themselves to stay calm in any situation, but even they were shaken.
A god had died—and a friend had witnessed the death with her own eyes. This...
Prime Minister Crane: What happened to the god's remains?
Feast Brother: Yeah, what about the God's Remains? What did you do with them?
No one doubted Xia Hongyao's story. Plenty of them knew she wasn't the brightest, but her character was beyond reproach.
She never made things up, and if she promised to do something, she always followed through. She was a good friend worth having.
If not for that, High Ponytail wouldn't have become the group's mood-maker and darling just because she was Xia Hongmian's younger sister.
If Xia Hongyao went to explore a God Ruins and rallied the group, she could absolutely summon a whole crowd of Dragon Rank big shots to back her up.
They weren't doing it for Xia Hongmian's sake. They liked and trusted Xia Hongyao herself.
Detective Xia: It went missing!
Sudama: What do you mean, it went missing?
Half-Heaven Conqueror: Could it have faked its death?
My Daughter is Number One in the World: @Detective Xia, your ability to organize your thoughts is getting worse. Even my daughter's better at it!
Xia Hongyao immediately sent an eye-rolling sticker.
Savage Uncle: Give us the details. What, you think we'll leak them?
Hot Pot Immortal: Exactly. We want details.
Everyone in the group was a big shot, with very high clearance within the Safety Bureau.
Xia Hongyao would submit a report on what had happened as top secret, but these big shots all had clearance to read