The Painter Takes the Fall Again

"Impossible," Qin Songting said decisively. "A living Painter could never behave himself unless he was dead, and with his abilities, it was simply impossible for him to die.

"So he must have been involved. It was just that this time, too many parties were implicated, so he had been more cautious, hiding in the shadows and stirring up trouble.

"I even suspected that the Black King's emergence had something to do with the Painter. The Black King appeared at Black Mountain, and the Painter had also been at Black Mountain. There was no way those two things were unrelated.

"Earlier, Azure Dragon announced to the world that the Pangu USB Drive was not in the Black King's hands, but in Apocalypse. How had he learned that?

"The only people who could have known were my men, the Painter, and the Mortician!

"The Mortician was taciturn and dealt only with the dead. He would never have told Azure Dragon such news. That meant the Painter had leaked it!"

The more the Wolf Shepherd Lord listened, the more alarmed he became. "Could it be that the Painter single-handedly started this war? Years ago, he provoked the war between the Steel Brotherhood and the company. Now he had used the same trick again. Did he have some deep-seated grudge against Apocalypse?"

Qin Songting's voice turned grim. "Do not try to judge the Painter by normal standards. There is something wrong with his head.

"Apocalypse has no grudge against him. Maybe he was simply bored, or maybe he was just being an asshole. That kind of troublemaker should have died long ago!

"Go spread the news that the Painter started this war. I will have someone notify the Federation to increase the bounty on him and make this accusation stick."

The Wolf Shepherd Lord