"Please watch your wording. I was the one who risked my life to give you a chance to seize the Flesh Womb." Gao Ming surveyed Gao Yun's office. It was exceedingly plain, like a neighborhood administration office. Everything in the room served a practical purpose.
"We've worked together so many times. Why quibble over little details?" The Student Council President walked over to the desk. An enormous Hanhai Map hung behind him, covered in annotations. "Or are you still holding it against me for not going into the black fog with you?"
"I went into the black fog to uncover the truth, and you stayed in Hanhai to keep the spark alive. That was what we agreed on from the start. There's nothing to hold against you." Gao Ming deftly poured himself a glass of water and sat in a chair deliberately placed in the shadows.
Only after listening to Gao Ming and the Student Council President talk did the First Team Leader realize how close they were. They had worked together many times behind the General Investigation Bureau's back.
Most of Hanhai was still under the General Investigation Bureau's control. Neither the Ghost Story Players nor the Student Council amounted to much on their own, but if they had joined forces long ago, that changed everything.
At least in the East District and the Old District, they had already driven out the Investigation Bureau's forces entirely.
"Every time you want something from me, you start by acting as though you've suffered some enormous loss." Perhaps because he now had the Flesh Womb, the Student Council President sounded a little more human. "You gained so much in the black fog and became a Dream Ghost before everyone else. Don't tell me you came here just to show off?"
"How far