At the hotel, Caesar had booked an entire floor of the Regent Hotel. Beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows of the executive floor lay the city's nightscape, but no one was in the mood to admire it.
They sat in the spacious living room, where the crystal chandelier illuminated everything brightly. Several printed documents lay spread across the coffee table, along with a cup of untouched coffee whose surface had already formed a thin film.
"That huge pit doesn't look like a normal geological phenomenon." Caesar leaned back on the sofa, his fingers interlaced on his knees. "No matter how you look at it, the timing is too much of a coincidence."
Chen Motong sat beside him, twirling a pen in her hand.
"Someone is covering something up." She picked up the thought, the pen spinning once between her fingers before stopping.
"If this was also caused by a Spirit Word..." Caesar narrowed his eyes slightly. Those icy blue pupils looked like a frost-covered lake beneath the lights. "Then whoever is behind it must be an extremely powerful Dragon Kind. Very likely something from the Earth and Mountain line."
He spoke slowly, as though he weighed every word carefully before saying it.
Lu Mingfei sat in a corner without a word. He lowered his head and stared at his fingers, no one knew what he was thinking.
At that moment, Finn suddenly sat upright on the sofa, wearing that mysterious expression that said, "I have huge news."
"Guess—" he drew out the word, "what I saw at the hospital?"
Caesar lifted his eyes to look at him. The pen in Chen Motong's hand stopped. Even Lu Mingfei looked up.
"Do you remember that long-legged Beautiful Ninja?" Finn lowered his voice.
"Mai Sakatoku?" Caesar raised an eyebrow slightly.
Long legs, beautiful, ninja—put those