He explained everything about the Paper Figure as quickly as he could. Yao Shunyu was stunned at first, but quickly caught on. "Kill and burn, and wear a golden belt; build bridges and roads, and leave no corpse behind." Those lines clearly corresponded to the four tasks they faced that night.
Building bridges and roads meant dying without a whole corpse, while the two tasks that seemed dangerous—killing and burning—were actually safe. The realization sent a chill of fear through Yao Shunyu.
"That crazy monk is a key figure. You can get clues about our world from him," Yao Shunyu said after gathering his thoughts. "It looks like the slips of paper Li Bai and I found must be useful, too. You might not need them, but Tang Qisheng and Zhu Jie might."
"That must be it. The worlds we're each in overlap with one another." Once he understood that, Jiang Cheng felt much more at ease. At least it proved they were investigating in the right direction.
But the next second, Jiang Cheng suddenly frowned.
Bzzzt...
Bzzzt...
A strange crackling noise suddenly came through the phone. After a few seconds, it didn't fade. Instead, it grew louder, and beneath the crackling, another odd sound seemed to be mixed in.
An inexplicable sense of danger welled up in Jiang Cheng. He quickly told them everything he had learned from Monk Huicong, including some of his own suspicions.
When Yao Shunyu learned that someone else had infiltrated their group, he reached the same conclusion as Jiang Cheng: at a moment like this, the only ones who would show up to disrupt things were the Night Watch.
And the carefully cultivated second-generation Crimson were undoubtedly the perfect pawns.
Before Yao Shunyu could ask anything else, the call abruptly ended. On the other