While the Golden-Haired Mechanical Girl was in the middle of the progress bar for turning around and leaving the 'Sage Silence Pool' space, another figure entered the 'Sage Silence Pool' space within Myriad Books Mountain.
It was Senior Eternal Fire!
The moment Senior Eternal Fire entered the 'Sage Silence Pool', he saw the true body of the 'Sage Silence Pool' that had been sucked dry. He hurried forward and caught the weakened 'Sage Silence Pool Dry', continuously pouring his spiritual power into it. The 'Sage Silence Pool' was a Sage's relic, and its existence was of great significance to the Confucian School. Nothing could be allowed to happen to it.
The projected image ended there...
The next part of the plot should have been the scene where Senior Eternal Fire merged with the 'Sage Silence Pool'; after that would come the scene of Song Shuhang entering with his attachments.
After the projection faded, Song Shuhang remained silent.
When he recalled the Golden-Haired Mechanical Girl shouting, 'Boss, save me!' in the projection, his heart had ached terribly.
Clearly, she had been stabbed to death by Song Shuhang in one strike last time... Yet he had never expected that, in a crisis, the first person the Golden-Haired Mechanical Girl would ask for help was still Song Shuhang, the restaurant owner.
After the projection faded, Senior Eternal Fire, possessed by the Sage Silence Pool, wore an awkward expression.
"Mutual appreciation? Destined by fate?" Song Shuhang turned to look at it and smiled naively.
If the Golden-Haired Mechanical Girl hadn't been missing an important core, the Sage Silence Pool would probably have been absorbed completely by now, without even a scrap remaining, right?
This truly was fate... a wicked fate!
Pavilion Master Chu's antenna pondered briefly before asking, "Is this little girl