Life Hanging by a Thread

The day after the New Year holiday ended, Chen Xuan returned to Jiangcheng.

Although his parents did not quite understand why he was going back to work so soon, Chen Xuan insisted, and they did not ask further.

Of course, Chen Xuan was not going back to work for a job.

He needed to establish a new way to contact Jiang Siqi as soon as possible.

"The safest method is face-to-face." Lin Qing gave her opinion. "No electronic devices means absolute safety. That would be hard to achieve in the future, but there are plenty of places without cameras nowadays."

Chen Xuan agreed. "Then how do we notify her about the meeting?"

"What about delivering a letter?" Liu Shuyue said. "I don't really understand the surveillance and tracking methods you mentioned, but as long as we personally hand the letter to her and watch it be destroyed, there shouldn't be any risk of leaks, right?"

"Mm... invisibility? I'm a little worried about scaring her." Just thinking about it made Chen Xuan feel it was rather creepy. Jiang Siqi had been staying at the company lately. A transparent person suddenly handing her a letter, then standing beside her until she finished reading it before taking it back... If Jiang Siqi screamed in fright, that would be troublesome.

"There's no need to make it so complicated." Liu Shuyue smiled. "Just use a talisman messenger."

"A talisman messenger?"

Before heading to Mount Everest, he had borrowed Talisman Arts from Liu Shuyue, but he had returned it long ago.

After hearing her explanation, Chen Xuan realized Talisman Arts had something so useful—it used the letter itself as a talisman. Once folded into a bird, it could automatically fly to the recipient within line of sight. It could also be set with a destruction time;