Chapter 300: Locked from Inside
After Gray Squirrel finished speaking, he slammed the table, grabbed his phone, and stormed out of the study.
Starlight watched his back disappear without expression. After a while, he raised a hand and lightly pressed his forehead.
Ever since losing the Gu Worm Master, he had barely had anyone useful by his side. The Puppeteer had effects similar to the Gu Worm Master, so the Star Society was determined to obtain the Puppeteer Card. That was also Starlight's main purpose for coming to Jingnan City.
He simply had not expected the Hidden Boss to come to Jingnan City. The uproar over the Corpse Dismemberment Case had clearly died down long ago, so he had no idea how the topic had become popular again.
"Sigh..."
A long sigh echoed through the study.
The antique clock on the desk ticked away.
The quiet room was so silent that a pin dropping could be heard. Starlight sat before the desk, his gaze tilted slightly toward the curtains beside him.
The curtains appeared still, but the tassels along their bottom edge swayed faintly.
He sighed again and said, "Come out. Your breathing is too loud."
The curtains trembled a few times, then a tense hand emerged.
That hand sluggishly pulled aside the curtains, and the person behind them slowly stepped out. It was Fang Ye.
"You knew I was hiding here..." Fang Ye stared at Starlight nervously, his heart pounding wildly.
He had heard every word Gray Squirrel said just now. He had never imagined that his employer was actually a Xenomorph!
He had thought this job would set him on the road to success, but instead he had come face-to-face with death. Now that he had discovered the Xenomorph's identity, could he still survive?
Should he run?
Or