"(_) Hulu, let me ask you this—what made you do something like that?"
Facing Fang Ran's silent dead-fish-eyed questioning, Tang Bing sat back down awkwardly, pouting toward the side as she muttered quietly:
"Well, all those men offering free things that didn't cost money... I only ever heard that on legal shows."
L-Legal shows...
The answer was so reasonable that there was absolutely no way to refute it.
Finally understanding where this junior of his had gotten such a high level of vigilance against scams, Fang Ran looked at her with speechless embarrassment.
Hulu, what the hell do you usually watch?
"What the hell do legal shows have to do with it? That's not what I meant."
Unable to stop himself from rolling his eyes, Fang Ran looked at Tang Bing before him, sighed, and stared at her silently.
"I'm saying, Hulu, did you really think that if ordinary people found out about Night Battles, participants would just do nothing?"
"Come on, it's a secret concerning the existence of superpowers. Even if we take a thousand steps back, the relevant government agencies would still come knocking with your file."
"!!!∑(Дノ)ノ W-Whaaat!?"
The moment she heard that, Tang Bing immediately thought of keywords like "memory erasure," "detention," and "silencing," and cried out in panic.
Then, looking at Fang Ran as though she had just realized something, she stammered out an uneasy guess:
"So... I wasn't being investigated because... I moved in with you, Senior?"
"More or less. After all, participants have private connections around them too—family, friends, people who know the truth."
Fang Ran thought about the Night Bureau regulations he had completely forgotten, then looked at Tang Bing with the wicked grin of a big bad wolf.
"If you don't want to live here, Hulu, you can also go through