When Darkness Falls, Light the Lamp
Chapter 585

A Connection Beyond Sight

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That would have allowed Xiao Ke to pin the blame even more firmly on Long Phu.

But events had unfolded nothing like that.

Leaving them behind...

Could it be because... Xiao Ke calculated that I would escape?

This was a two-layered calculation, a contingency Xiao Ke had prepared.

Only after I struggled so hard to deal with Long Phu did I discover that Xiao Ke had shown mercy.

So I was supposed to recognize the difficulty and back off, abandoning any thought of recovering the inheritance?

Luo Bin kept working through the possibilities, reviewing everything over and over.

He genuinely could think of no other explanation.

And the conclusion he had reached only showed how cautious and deeply layered Xiao Ke's schemes were.

But could he give up the inheritance?

Though he could use Rewind, he had not finished reading both books. He had only skimmed the parts he could absorb, so that he could study them repeatedly.

Besides, even if he had read them all, using Rewind was completely different from directly consulting the physical books.

This matter was far from over.

Xiao Ke's schemes were vicious beyond measure.

He left talisman marks on people, making it easy to take control of them whenever he wished.

Until he eliminated the man, Luo Bin would never eat or sleep in peace.

Outside Nanping City, mountains rose one after another along the route north.

The mountains were not tall, but among them stood a peak shaped like the shaft of a brush. It was Greedy Wolf.

At its foot lay a patch of old graves. Untended for

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