From the Heart
He didn't call the other person out. He accepted every hint they gave him without question, and only when it was over did he get up to see the scholar out.
After he closed the door this time, no one came knocking again. Xu Huo turned off the lights and sat alone on the balcony for a while. Before long, someone quietly slipped out of a room in the manor and headed toward nearby Rosewood Cove.
The botanist searched around the garden first. Finding nothing, he went into the greenhouse, but he had barely been inside when he came flying back out. A hulking figure emerged from the greenhouse's shadow. Madam Ti Hui, who had seemed somewhat stooped during the day, now stood ramrod straight and was actually Two Meters Tall. Looking down at the botanist, who was half-kneeling nearby, she fired her gun without pause. The specially modified firearm could inflict immense damage without making much noise. For a time, the garden was filled with the rustling sound of plants toppling to the ground.
With Madam Ti Hui tied up here, the others in the manor weren't idle either. The photographer had been waiting for an opportunity ever since the botanist left the manor, and had now entered Madam Ti Hui's room.
Most of the rooms in the manor were built with ordinary materials and had no special reinforcement, so Xu Huo could clearly sense everything happening inside even from outside. But Madam Ti Hui's room, the butler's room, and the places on the Third Floor where Mr. Wen spent his time had all been treated differently. Spatial control alone wasn't enough to figure out what was happening inside. There were also monitoring devices outside the Third Floor rooms, and probing with mental power would easily