Only This Once

Only This Once

"What are these people doing?" Several Black Shoulder Badges, hidden in the air to keep watch, exchanged puzzled looks. One of them said, "Could they be hiding something special?"

"Are you blind? Can't you see that the butler's holding a spider?" another snapped angrily. "Who would hold a funeral for a spider? They're obviously messing with us!"

The group immediately realized they'd been spotted. After reporting the matter to their superiors, they left the airspace above the Ancient Castle.

That group had left, but there would surely be another. Xu Huo asked Mr. Dong whether he could sense what was happening around the Ancient Castle.

The grounds were fairly large, with no other homes nearby. The open space and abundant greenery made it ideal for ambushes and surveillance. But the Black Shoulder Badges had chosen to approach from the air, which suggested they knew something about the Ancient Castle.

"The area around the Ancient Castle that was approved and registered by the District 011 Government is all within my care," Mr. Dong replied.

There were quite a few castles in the Ancient City District, and this one wasn't entirely isolated in the countryside, far from the city. As a result, its private grounds weren't very extensive. Xu Huo had seen Mr. Dong control the Ancient Castle and assumed he was an item of the same type as the painted woman, but it seemed there were differences.

Mr. Dong's true form was probably connected to spiders. He was intelligent, too, but compared to the painted woman, who could maintain a human form, Xu Huo thought he was more like Yan Jiayu's stone lion.

"Then I'll trouble you to take care of any Players spying around the Ancient Castle."

Mr. Dong bowed slightly and gave a gentlemanly salute. "It's