"Shen Luo?"
Gao Ming had a vague sense of foreboding, but he could not tell where that unease came from. "Could it be because Fate is watching?"
"You're back! Thank goodness you're back!" The young man bound in cursed chains was so excited that his words tumbled over one another. "While you were gone, those Unspeakable beings killed so many people. Ghost creatures, Players—they spared no one. They're nothing but a pack of bloodthirsty animals!"
"Then why did they spare you?" Gao Ming frowned. He had traced the Saviors' memories, yet a man was imprisoned in what should have been the site of the Saviors' shrine.
He was not a ghost creature and did not seem to have any special abilities, yet the Unspeakables from the other Blood Cities treated him differently.
"Did you betray Xinhu and let the other Blood Cities poison your fate, so they could corrupt and influence the Saviors through you?" Gao Ming assumed the worst, and his words nearly reduced the young man to tears. He felt so wronged that his voice choked up.
"I didn't do anything! Really! When the disaster struck, I went out to promote my Finance Course like usual. Xinhu's Players are all prejudiced against me. They run faster when they see me than when they see a ghost! But that day, I found a strange man in the city who was really interested in managing his money. We hit it off at first, but then all kinds of bad things started happening to him. He was furious and alarmed, saying Xinhu Blood City had discovered his plan and he had to act ahead of schedule. That was when I realized he was an Unspeakable from another Blood City!"
Shen Luo had done nothing, yet somehow, he seemed to have done