"Your Eminence?"
Hayden Ao froze for a moment, then hurried after him.
"Where did you bury that high priest's body?"
Qin Ran asked bluntly.
"The body?"
"Could it be...?"
Realization struck Hayden Ao, and his expression suddenly changed. He immediately said, "Please follow me."
Kamor Cemetery was the largest cemetery in Forest City.
Most of Forest City's commoners chose to be buried here.
As the high priest of the God of Forest City, Nell would naturally not have been buried here after a normal death. He should have gone to the more prestigious priests' cemetery.
But with the fall of the God of Forest City, everything had changed.
In fact, if Hayden Ao had not admired what Nell had done at the very end, Nell would not even have qualified for burial here.
He should have ended up without so much as a bone left behind.
Considering everything he had done in the past, that fate would have been more than deserved.
That was why Hayden Ao had not erected an inscribed headstone.
He worried that something unpleasant might happen.
Still, Hayden Ao remembered the grave's location perfectly.
"Right here."
Pointing at an unmarked headstone on the edge of the cemetery, Hayden Ao bowed as he spoke.
"Mm."
Qin Ran nodded. His gaze lingered on the headstone for a moment before turning to their surroundings.
Hayden Ao looked at Qin Ran in confusion but did not dare ask.
Qin Ran's earlier behavior had been enough to convince the branch chief that something was wrong with Nell's body, but now Qin Ran no longer seemed as urgent as he had just been.
What happened?
Did we miss something?
Or...?
While Hayden Ao was speculating, Qin Ran suddenly vanished from beside him, slipping silently into the shadows.
Hayden Ao's reaction was anything