"What exactly are the people of Fog City?"
Su Bai did not beat around the bush with Mayor Bai. He went straight to the most important question.
Mayor Bai, standing before Su Bai, looked a little surprised, as though he had not expected that question. But he quickly composed himself and said with an elegant smile, "Have you forgotten, Boss Bai? I'm a person of Fog City too."
Only then did Su Bai remember that, although this man held the title of "mayor," outsiders-that is, the players-should have seen him as just another person of Fog City, no different from anyone else. After all, no matter how high their status, the NPCs-non-player characters-in a game were still just NPCs. How could one possibly know the answer to a question touching on Fog City's deepest secrets?
"Your tone just now was rather strange, Boss Bai. It was as if you were certain I could answer that question." Mayor Bai probed Su Bai while studying him as he stood there firmly on his own two legs.
"And... could it be that you're an outsider rather than a person of Fog City, Boss Bai?" Mayor Bai still showed no trace of his true feelings.
Throughout his questions, Mayor Bai's gaze kept roaming over Su Bai. After studying him for a while, he even murmured admiringly, "Just as perfect as I imagined. With material this perfect, perhaps I really could make..."
"Make what?"
Though Mayor Bai had not finished his sentence, Su Bai's ears had still caught some troubling information.
Whether it was the admiring remark Mayor Bai had made while standing behind him, the questions he had asked one after another, or his latest muttering, all of it was probably deliberate. Mayor Bai had no intention of hiding anything from Su Bai. He