They had checked the timetable. Breaks lasted only two minutes in total, nowhere near enough time to exchange much useful information, let alone think things through.
Wang Peng could only walk stiffly inside, his face ashen under the Red-Haired Man's silent urging. The door closed behind him.
Wang Peng's departure left Mo Jingchun even more at a loss. His panicked gaze darted between Ying Lin and 39, as though he wanted to seek their protection but did not know how to ask.
Before he could speak, Ying Lin spoke first, slowly reciting familiar passages from the Bible to herself.
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails..." From the New Testament of the Bible, First Epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 13, verses 4-8.
She really did know it.
Ying Lin smiled. In surroundings like these, there was something almost unhinged about her smile. "39, do you know about the Illuminati? Ha, not the one from Marvel, of course."
The Illuminati? Why bring that up all of a sudden?
Xie De looked at her in bewilderment.
If she did not mean the Marvel version, then she could only mean the historical one.
Xie De had come across it while brushing up on European history.
The historical Bavarian Illuminati had been founded by the University of Ingolstadt in 1776, during the European Enlightenment.
At the time, the Catholic Church wielded immense power, and conservative church forces suppressed free thought. Influenced by Enlightenment ideas, believers in science from various backgrounds