Chapter 208: A Deal
"That woman? The woman connected to the Crystal Skull?"
Han Su had already realized there were many things he couldn't piece together. Now, all at once, he felt as if the clues were finally coming together.
His hand, still gripping White Corpse's heart, unconsciously tightened a little. He asked urgently, "She—"
"Where is she?"
"She's been in Azure Harbor all along. She's been watching over you this whole time, hasn't she?"
White Corpse stared at Han Su and laughed maniacally. "The underground queen of Azure Harbor's mysterious world has been protecting you with everything she's got, hasn't she?"
"The Crystal Skull—hahaha! The Crystal Skull is just a dog she raised. Her pet—"
"That dog's been helping you in secret, too, right?"
"Otherwise, how do you explain the second Mechanical Fragment unearthed happening to end up in your hands?"
The second Mechanical Fragment?
Han Su couldn't make sense of all these things together. He only felt an inexplicable restlessness building inside him.
"How hypocritical!"
White Corpse looked at Han Su grimly. He could sense Han Su's confusion, and made no effort to hide the scorn on his face.
"Everything is obviously connected to you, yet you act as if you know nothing."
"I failed to become the inheritor because of you. I was treated as a Defective Product and discarded because of you. I've suffered through one agonizing transformation after another because of you. Even the Mechanical Fragments made specifically to control us are in your hands!"
"Everything was obviously ruined by you. Everyone is still suffering, yet you're safe and comfortable in the real world, protected by them. You—you even have the nerve to hit me?"
"You're the ones who treat human lives as worthless!"
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White Corpse's voice grew louder and angrier. Suddenly, an