After expressing a slight bit of goodwill, Sephrano left with his attendants.
No sooner had he vanished around the street corner than Xiao Xiao silently appeared beside Zheng Qing, giving the young publicly funded student quite a fright.
"How are you so fast?" Zheng Qing looked at the Book of Law in Xiao Xiao's arms and said in surprise, "I thought you'd stay in that shop for a while longer."
"Buying a book isn't like picking a wife. Why be so meticulous?" Xiao Xiao adjusted his glasses and replied unhurriedly, "Go into the bookstore, see a book, take it, pay for it... It wasn't that complicated to begin with. Besides, it wasn't that I took little time. You and Sephrano just talked for rather a long time. I never knew you two had so much to say to each other."
Zheng Qing let out a heavy sigh.
Then he briefly recounted Sephrano's earlier words to Doctor Xiao. At the end, he summed up, "What do you think he wants? To have people ambush me east of the lake and shove me into a mud pit to eat a mouthful of yellow mud?"
He had no qualms about assuming the worst of the other party.
Unlike him, Xiao Xiao's view was somewhat more objective and fair.
"Perhaps he truly was extending goodwill." Doctor Xiao shifted the book in his arms upward and said thoughtfully, "Setting aside the conflict between Jiuyou and Alpha, the two of you have no fundamental conflict of interest... And with the school enforcing a curfew now, while the Blood Kin Society is about to change leadership, objectively speaking, one less trouble would benefit everyone."
"So you mean we can go check near the mud pit?"
"Why not? That's the heart of the academy, and you have an