"Uh... mind-reading?" I froze.
Chen Xiao Qiu's deduction had nothing to do with what I was worried about.
But thinking it over carefully, given the clues Chen Xiao Qiu already knew, there was no way she would think of something like changing the past.
Her conclusion, on the other hand, made perfect sense.
If our enemy had the ability to read minds, then to deal with him, we couldn't reveal all our cards. We'd have to keep our plans well hidden.
"Ye Qing is a ghost now, so she probably has an advantage in that regard and can make sure her mind isn't read. But for the other people in Greenleaf, and for Lin Qi and us, everything we know would probably be exposed to that ability. There's no way to resist it," Chen Xiao Qiu continued.
The Thin Guy rubbed his chin. "Well, that's true too. When you mention superpowers, mind-reading is the first thing that comes to mind, right? Mind-reading, bending spoons, chewing glass, and predicting the future! That's pretty much it. Oh, and shooting lightning, starting fires..."
The conversation seemed to have bolted like a runaway horse, and inevitably veered off track.
Guo Yujie and the Fatty added their thoughts, steering it even further off course.
"They also warned you several times not to ask too many questions before you knew what you needed to know," Chen Xiao Qiu said to me.
All I could do was nod.
We had completely different interpretations of those words now.
Chen Xiao Qiu saw it as keeping a secret. I did too, but the secrets in question had nothing to do with each other. Or maybe that wasn't quite right... I couldn't be sure whether Ye Qing had some ultimate plan, or whether the plan to change the world by