"Three-Way Interrogation"

The scalpel in Xia Libing's hand vanished. Then she turned and beckoned toward Jiang Chun and the others, seemingly not at all afraid that the giant elephant right beside her might launch a sneak attack.

Jiang Chun noticed that after the scalpel vanished from Xia Libing's hand, the three coins that had somehow been hovering above her head dropped in unison into her upturned palm. She casually closed her hand around them and slipped them back into her coat pocket.

Jiang Chun instantly understood. The distinctly powerful force he had sensed from Xia Libing, different from the other perceptual elements around them, had mainly come from those three coins.

He could not help touching the string of small hex nuts hanging around his neck. Ever since the incident of the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Giant Crossing the Sea with a Storm," he had often been able to sense a vague connection with certain elements in his surroundings. He had picked up these hex nuts from a shipyard workshop, and he could feel an especially strong connection with them.

Later, when he encountered the "sea monster" at sea, it had been the hex nuts he carried that saved his life at a critical moment, allowing him to escape and further confirming that he truly had a special connection with them.

After those life-saving nuts were lost in the sea, Jiang Chun found many more and made them into bracelets and necklace pendants to carry on himself. He had also given many small nut accessories he made to the two children he had rescued.

Of course, after establishing direct contact with the Little Radish Platform, receiving the message Alice relayed after the "Antarctic Crisis," connecting with the organization back home, and becoming the Southeast Asia branch head, he had learned many of the secrets