"Oh my, someone seems awfully pleased with himself."
The President sounded completely unruffled by Mo Bai's taunt.
"Squeak, squeak."
The enormous rabbit beside Mo Bai looked up at the sky.
Up there was the sun that illuminated Lahai Luo.
It was not a real sun, but neither was it man-made.
It belonged to the Tunneler. It was the Tunneler's heart—and its source of power.
To keep the people underground alive, the Tunneler had torn out its own heart and hung it in the sky, giving them light and warmth.
The Day-Switching Ceremony was meant to return that heart to the Tunneler. An artificial sun would then provide the warmth and light Lahai Luo would lose.
Clearly, the Remnant Star Society had come to sabotage the ceremony.
"Ruining a terrorist organization's plans will always be a pleasure, no matter how many times I do it," Mo Bai shot back.
As far as he was concerned, the Remnant Star Society was an asylum full of lunatics.
Luring Threnodians into country after country made no sense to him.
"Is that so? But I told you, didn't I? I came for you, little Mo Bai~"
Snap!
Fingers snapped.
Even though there was only a rabbit in front of him, Mo Bai had unmistakably heard the snap after the President spoke.
This is bad...
He heard the mockery in her words.
And if the President was enjoying herself, something was bound to suffer for it.
Bzzz—
As soon as she finished speaking, the rabbit before Mo Bai dissolved into specks of light and vanished.
"Tch."
The sense that something was about to happen set him on edge.
"Calm down. Think it through. The Day-Switching Ceremony has to be the main target of their operation," Mo Bai muttered.
The President had said she came for him,