"A bowl?"
Gu Siming was the first to pick up the silver bowl, turning it curiously in her hands.
But after examining it for a while, she lost interest.
She tossed it back onto the table. "I don't see anything unusual about it. Maybe it needs a special kind of energy to activate, or maybe it's just an ordinary bowl. The Alliance's objective might not be to have us place something there at all. They may have withheld crucial information that we'll only learn once we arrive."
Luo Sanhuai picked up the bowl.
After examining it, he frowned. "There really doesn't seem to be anything unusual about it."
He set the bowl down and turned his gaze toward Chen Lin.
"Elder Chen, our mission is simply to put this bowl on the statue in the Thatch Cottage?"
Chen Lin nodded.
Luo Sanhuai looked even more puzzled.
"Then what do we do if we can't find the ruins, or if there's no Thatch Cottage or statue there?"
"Then the mission will naturally be a failure, and we can simply return the way we came."
Chen Lin answered truthfully.
Everyone exchanged glances.
"Isn't this mission a little too much of a farce?"
Beside them, Liu Rumian hesitated before voicing her opinion.
Although her cultivation was the weakest among them and she had little say, she still couldn't help pointing out something so contrary to common sense.
Chen Lin nodded again.
"It certainly doesn't make much sense. I suspect it's as Gu Siming said: crucial information has been withheld from the mission details, and we'll only learn it once we arrive. After all, they issued a True Treasure-grade Transmission Talisman along with this item."
At this point, Chen Lin looked around at everyone.
Seeing the doubt on Luo Sanhuai's face, he continued, "I