Gu Chi only said, "There's no need."
Qi Shan raised an eyebrow. "How could there be no need? Gu Wangchao, surely no one knows better than you how great a hidden danger it would be to leave these remnants alone. What you're doing is no different from feeding a tiger and inviting disaster. Better to take this opportunity to wipe them out completely, so we can sleep easy."
Almost the instant Qi Shan finished speaking, Shen Tang, who had been bent over her desk scratching her head, jerked it up.
"There's Killing Intent!"
Gu Chi said coldly, "You imagined it."
Shen Tang: "..."
Gu Chi pressed his thin, faintly blue-tinged lips together. He gave Qi Shan a smile that was not quite a smile and said, "Qi Yuanliang, you've been getting more and more careless. Heh. What, has killing your enemies and avenging yourself made you this lax?"
As soon as he finished speaking, his smile vanished.
Only after Gu Chi flung his sleeve and left did Shen Tang poke her head out from behind the pile of bamboo slips. Frowning, she asked, "Did you two argue?"
Gu Chi had tried to pass it off as "her imagination," but Shen Tang couldn't possibly be so bad at distinguishing real Killing Intent from a false alarm. Gu Chi had clearly let a little slip out just now. It hadn't been enough to make him act, but the warning had been unmistakable.
And Gu Chi's last words had been pretty telling, too.
He'd deliberately gone flapping his wings over Qi Shan's minefield.
If those two hadn't argued, then she'd do a handstand while processing official documents right here.
Qi Shan brushed her off. "Nothing happened..."
"Did something happen or not? I can make that judgment myself."
Qi Shan knew Shen Tang wasn't