The Golden Cage for Demons
"What does this mean?"
Li Bai raised the plane tickets in his hand.
The three tickets meant that his journey was about to take an unexpected turn.
"I don't know. I was only responsible for delivering the tickets!"
The Black man quickly waved his hands, indicating that he knew nothing else.
"All right, I've got them. You can go!"
Li Bai saw no telltale signs in the man's microexpressions, which meant he was telling the truth and wasn't lying.
At his level of expertise, he was practically a human lie detector. It wasn't easy to fool him with a lie told to his face.
Sometimes he didn't even need clear evidence. The instincts honed by years of experience were enough to distinguish truth from lies.
He handed the man a ten-dollar tip, and the Black man left, delighted.
"All right! We'll transfer to Bahrain Island!"
Li Bai was glad he'd called in a favor and left several days before the rest of the action team. It gave him some extra time to enjoy himself.
Even now, the Institute 507 action team was still deep in the Amazon rainforest. They were at odds with the people from Academy Under Heaven, the indigenous Kakaya people, and the Senkai Association. If not for the government troops, the entire Meteorite Crater might have turned into a battlefield in an instant.
As for where to go next, Big and Small Demonesses didn't really care.
Wherever Li Bai went, they followed. They had food and drink, and didn't need to worry about robbers or thieves, so they had no concerns at all.
The three tickets had arrived just in time. They barely had to wait before boarding began for the flight from Ambuli Airport in Djibouti to Bahrain.
They'd already endured