Shen Le: Make Way, I'm Friendly Fire! Don't Shoot Me!

"Suspected battle ahead has ended—"

"The passage ahead has been opened. The entrance to the Secret Realm has possibly been sighted—"

"Enemies? There aren't any—"

Two young men from the Special Affairs Bureau were there. One stayed behind to guard the drone and the cardboard box containing Old You, not daring to move. The other trekked through the terrain and ran desperately inward.

When he reached where Alloy Master and Shen Le were standing, he was drenched in sweat. He looked left and right:

"You—huff—you—are you all right? What just happened? Where's the enemy?"

"What? Enemy?"

Shen Le and Alloy Master exchanged a glance. Identical expressions of surprise and bewilderment appeared on both their faces.

Of course, in Shen Le's eyes, the surprise on Alloy Master's fat face was so exaggerated that it could never fool an experienced Special Affairs Bureau officer.

By that logic, his acting probably wasn't very good either...

But I bet you won't expose me anyway. You'd be too embarrassed to. Shen Le gritted his teeth.

Then he lied with his eyes wide open:

"I don't know! When I came down, I saw Lao Jin rolling around in the water. After I used a Talisman to force the current aside, it was already like this!"

"That's right!" Alloy Master nodded vigorously. "I'd just reached that open patch ahead when the current swept me away. I couldn't even keep my footing! Good thing Shen Le came down."

The drone captured their expressions with perfect clarity, relaying the footage from station to station through the cave all the way to the command center.

At the command center, a group of sharp-eyed people enlarged the images on the screen, enlarged them again, and scrutinized them carefully. Then they looked at each other.

"They're making up a story."

"They're definitely