What? Who—who was about to lose control?
Mr. Old Neil?
Klein's heart leaped into his throat almost instantly. He looked at the mysterious man across from him, then at Old Neil, unable to stop himself from saying, "Mr. Old Neil, you..."
Old Neil himself remained fairly calm, though the slight tremor in his fingers showed that he was probably far from at peace.
Old Neil took a deep breath, then looked at the mysterious man opposite him and asked, "Were you the gentleman who just helped that Punisher avoid losing control?"
"Just lending a hand," the mysterious man—Luo Lin beneath Lucifer's guise—said with a smile. Looking at Old Neil, he seemed to see through the entirety of his life. He smiled, but there was an air of careless indifference in it.
Luo Lin had naturally appeared here in this guise on purpose, and he really had saved that Punisher earlier. Honestly, it had not been difficult. The main reason the man had been on the verge of losing control was contamination from a True Creator Spawn, and removing that trace of contamination was no problem for Luo Lin. It was far simpler than removing contamination from the Outer Gods.
So long as the root cause was dealt with before he completely lost control and his emotions were calmed, he naturally would not lose control anymore.
On one hand, Luo Lin had done this to test the effects of acting; on the other, he had naturally wanted to cultivate the image of a mysterious big shot, laying the groundwork for appearing before Klein and Old Neil now.
The facts proved that Luo Lin's earlier idea had been right. Acting as an Actor truly required some deliberate performance. After Luo Lin had displayed his holiness before others while wearing Lucifer's guise, the