Someone had passed her word? Wang Yue was startled and carefully recalled every detail, trying to find where something might have slipped through the cracks.
"Either the Emissary still had someone hidden in the gambling house, who thought something was wrong when they saw me arrive and then leave so quickly, or someone who learned the whole story after it was reported to the Prince's Residence passed word to the Emissary," Wang Yue said after a long moment's consideration.
The latter meant there was still an undiscovered traitor lurking within the Prince's Residence.
Ding Songyan wanted precisely for Wang Yue to suspect this, so that the residence would tighten its vigilance.
Only then did he turn his head toward Wang Yue:
"Actually, there's another possibility."
"Another possibility?" Wang Yue was taken aback.
Ding Songyan said sincerely:
"An evil object was sealed inside Ma Accountant's child. When I broke the seal and removed the yin evil, there was a small chance that the person controlling the evil object sensed it from afar, and thus realized there was danger lurking here.
"I've never read the Demon-Swallowing Evil-Eating Art or any similar martial arts, so I can't tell whether such a thing is possible. This is only a guess."
But if the person controlling the evil object really could sense its condition and changes to the seal from afar, then she could certainly detonate it from a considerable distance, killing in an instant.
In that case, even if Ding Songyan and Wang Yue could swiftly kill the Emissary, they would not be able to stop her from taking Ma Accountant's child to the grave with her.
For that reason, Ding Songyan had ultimately chosen to save the child first, even if doing so might alert the Emissary.
Wang Yue froze for a moment