Xu Huo still hadn't rested. He sat by the window, watching the ever-changing lights outside through a gap in the curtains. The shifting light and shadow divided his face, while the parts of his body hidden in the gloom seemed to blend into the darkness, like a beast lurking in the corner.
He was thinking about what the Divine Envoy had said.
From beginning to end, the other man had revealed only one useful piece of information: a Saintess had been killed. But who was she, and where was she from? People would usually assume she was the Saintess here, since it was this temple that had been closed. That was only one possibility, though, and it depended on a Saintess having actually died.
That was right: Xu Huo didn't really believe the one piece of information the Divine Envoy had given him.
The local believers might think differently from people in other sub-districts, but everyone instinctively sought benefits and avoided harm. Under normal circumstances, after a Saintess was killed, the temple shouldn't announce it before the killer had been identified—unless it had been forced to.
It was actually difficult for secrets to leak in this sub-district's media environment. Even if one did, it wouldn't spread widely enough to warrant closing the temple and having the Divine Envoy come out to clarify things. Besides, the temple itself was the source of the news about the Saintess's death. It was as though the temple had deliberately released it.
There was no specific name or identity, and no one outside the temple had seen the killer. Given the temple's bizarre environment, it would be very difficult for an Outer District Player to sneak inside. Even if one had managed it, killing a Saintess and escaping while surrounded by the Goddess's power, a