"Wait, wait! What do you mean, your ability isn't used like that?" Nantian frowned. "What abilities do you all have, anyway? Why are you keeping them secret instead of coming clean? You're completely misleading me!"
"No one's misleading you. We just wanted to leave you behind, but you kept insisting on coming along." I pointed out the facts without sugarcoating them.
Nangong Yao had made it obvious enough. But this kid was completely hopeless at reading the room.
Nantian wasn't angry. He only stressed, "I'm doing this for my brother's safety. I don't know what secrets you're hiding. Are they more important than family?"
"We're keeping it from you for your family's sake." I sighed.
"Just keep quiet and follow us for now," the skinny man said, eyeing Nantian suspiciously. "You really don't have an ability?"
"No." Nantian shrugged. "If I did, I'd have already told my brother. I'm on your side now, so you wouldn't keep things from me too, would you?"
At least he had sound logic and had grasped the key point.
But it still didn't help worth a damn.
"Stop doing reckless things," I warned Nantian. "My ability is limited. I may not be able to save you. Your brother and the others are all in the real world. They don't even know what's happening here."
"I understand," Nantian said calmly. "But if you don't tell me anything, I can't make the right decisions. You think I'm acting recklessly, but why do you think I'm doing that? It's because you won't tell me the truth."
Nantian's logic had trapped him in a vicious circle.
His personality was clearly different from mine.
Back then, Gu Mo and Perfected One Xuanqing had brushed me off with lame excuses like "go with the flow" and "the time isn't right,"