"So you're saying you drove along behind me, and then you awakened?"
Chu Sheng was full of confusion and bewilderment.
That wasn't how it had been when he awakened his Sequence.
"What did you say?" A Xin looked at Chu Sheng, her brows furrowing slightly.
Now she, too, sensed something was wrong.
Her face, which had been brimming with joy, suddenly showed fear and helplessness.
At this point, not just A Xin but Chu Sheng could also tell something was wrong.
Her failure to hear the initial knock on the window could have been explained by her not having come back to her senses.
Her failure to respond to his later questions could just barely have been explained by her not hearing or paying attention.
But she hadn't heard either the knocking on the window or his words, and now she had said she had awakened.
Putting all those things together, Chu Sheng suddenly looked at her with pity.
Every Sequence Adept paid a price when they awakened their Sequence.
Captain Hui had told Chu Sheng that after his awakening.
Zhu Qing and An Xi each had their own prices to pay.
Even he himself had paid a price.
Although the prices the three of them paid hardly counted as prices at all.
Still, he had always remembered that a Sequence came at a price.
Although Captain Hui and Old Man Li had never told them the prices of their Sequences, the two of them looked much like ordinary people.
And the prices Zhu Qing, An Xi, and he himself had to pay were relatively small.
So he hadn't attached much importance to it.
Only now, seeing A Xin, did Chu Sheng realize how fortunate he was that his price was merely his hair turning white.
Captain Hui came over