"Plenty of kids come here to learn from me, but few are as blatant as you." Zhang Mingli seemed to take a slight interest in Gao Ming. "Who do you want to kill?"
"I haven't decided yet." Gao Ming answered every question Zhang Mingli asked with complete seriousness.
"What if I teach you and you use it to kill me?" Zhang Mingli did not act like a teacher at all.
"I'll only act against someone who bears me ill will or wants to kill me." Gao Ming glanced into Zhang Mingli's little house. The crude wooden room was piled with "brand-new" books, most of them about how to be a decent person.
"A conventional answer. You'll have a hard time getting out alive like that." Zhang Mingli had no intention of inviting Gao Ming inside. "Go find a chair in the schoolhouse and sit down. Wait for my instructions."
Dreamfold Town was sinister and eerie, but the schoolhouse courtyard was an exception. Leaning against his door, Zhang Mingli spoke and behaved more like a Tester than one of the townspeople. After giving Gao Ming his instructions, he went straight back into his room. As he closed the door, he shook his head at Gao Ming. "Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals tricked you into coming to a place like this. You're another poor soul."
There was not a trace of respect for Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals in Zhang Mingli's words. His language was coarse, but when it came to Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals, he could no longer even be bothered to curse them.
Judging by everything Zhang Mingli had shown, he should be the man those players in the Forbidden Game were looking for. His personality and appearance both matched.
This is going so smoothly that it's making me uneasy. Gao Ming was in no