Most people were only surprised by how blunt the butler was. They weren't particularly afraid; none of them were new to missions, and they understood full well how dangerous this place could be.
Raincoat Man looked at him and asked quietly, "Then what about the people who found the bodies? How did they die?"
This time, the butler didn't shake his head. A trace of fear appeared in his hollow eyes. "I don't know. The circumstances of the discoveries were strange. Some... some of them didn't look like human bodies."
"Didn't look like human bodies..." Nobody could imagine what that might have looked like.
The butler clearly considered the topic taboo. Before long, he resumed his businesslike manner and urged them, "All right, everyone. Please sign."
After what the butler had said, everyone was reluctant to sign the declaration, but they had no choice. It was clearly a necessary part of the mission. The fat man was still hesitating when the old man to his right gently touched his arm. "Come on, young man. We can't avoid it. Just sign." The old man let out a long sigh and advised him like someone who'd been through it all before.
"I know. Thank you." The fat man stopped hesitating and quickly wrote his name. It wasn't as if he didn't understand.
The old man had signed as well. The butler came over and collected the agreements one by one, inspecting each for a few seconds as if worried someone might try to cheat.
But just as the butler finished looking over the old man's agreement and was about to put it away, Jiang Cheng suddenly stood up, rushed over, and grabbed the butler's wrist. "Wait!"
He was so fast that nobody had time to react. The butler's face darkened at once,