Ghost Wine's hair was still wet. When he realized Yu Xing had messed it up even more, he lightly knocked Yu Xing's hand away and scoffed.
"What do you mean, 'well done'? I don't know what you're talking about. I just wanted to kill this fake, that's all."
"It dared to drug me with that lousy water. I really don't know whether it's stupid or just incredibly bold. Heh."
After denying everything, he even added a chilling little laugh at the end, just barely maintaining his arrogant, "I don't listen to anyone" ghost persona.
Everyone present calmly pretended to believe him. Zhao Mou had no way of dealing with his younger brother in this state, either. Amused, he turned to Ren Yi and said, "Let's put off studying its soul. It looks like it can't talk in this state anyway. I'll put it away."
As he spoke, he took out a golden birdcage.
Naturally, an item that could appear out of nowhere, ignoring the laws of physics, was a sacrifice. The birdcage was small and exquisite, seemingly made for keeping little birds, with a space about the size of a human head.
The bars weren't spaced too far apart or too close together, and the gold wires supporting the frame were very fine. They didn't obstruct anyone's view of the bird inside.
The cage was so exquisite it looked like a work of art. But a closer look revealed dark bloodstains clinging to many of its golden bars, hinting at danger beneath its splendor.
[Description: This is a sacrifice that refused to lose its unique properties after fusing with a Persona Mask. It looks like a birdcage, but what is it really? When the deducer Tian Ji first saw it, it was being used to hold a human head. A