"Huh? What does that mean? What's map fragment No. 1?" Su Miaohan looked bewildered. "And what do they mean by the item indicated by the first clue? Don't we have the first clue? How did the Hero Team get it?"
Su Miaohan was slow on the uptake, but Lin Aofan beside her was a different story. The instant he heard the announcement, he erupted, pointing right at Lu Xiaoxiao's nose as he berated her:
"See? See? I knew you women couldn't be trusted! You should've let us keep such an important clue ages ago, but you just had to hog it!"
"And now look! You lost it, didn't you? Let it get out, didn't you? Happy now?"
Faced with his accusations, Lu Xiaoxiao fell somewhat silent.
Well... call Lin Aofan stupid, and yet he had immediately realized she was the source of the problem. But call him smart, and he had somehow never considered that she might be a traitor. He had even supplied her with an excuse about losing the clue, leaving Lu Xiaoxiao with rather mixed feelings as she looked at him.
But just because he hadn't figured it out didn't mean the rest of the Pirate Team couldn't.
"Easy, Lin. The clue isn't lost. I have it right here." Ye Xinglan soothed Lin Aofan, his expression grave. "Xiaoxiao just shared the note with me. It's not what you think."
Although he was speaking up for Lu Xiaoxiao, there was already a hint of suspicion in the way he looked at her.
After a pause, Ye Xinglan asked her, "Xiaoxiao, is there anything you'd like to explain?"
Xiao Yichen also turned toward Lu Xiaoxiao. He was just about to ask whether she had run into anyone from the Hero Team in the woods that afternoon when he saw