At that moment, Chu Mu controlled his avatar, walking slowly past the gentle woman.
Although he did not know why the woman had struck up a conversation with him, Chu Mu found it suspicious and decided to ignore her.
Just then, the woman spoke slowly:
"Oh, you aren't Heavenly Deficient. You're only pretending to be."
The avatar faltered and stopped.
Chu Mu did not know how the woman had seen through him, but her willingness to tell him clearly meant she did not intend to report him.
Of course, if his avatar actually left, there was no telling whether she would call the Cloud Knights to arrest him.
So, instead of making his avatar leave, Chu Mu turned him toward the woman and spoke in a hoarse voice:
"What makes you say that?"
"Because I'm Heavenly Deficient myself." The woman pointed to her dull, lifeless eyes. "Perhaps because I can't see, my other senses are especially keen. You may be holding a white cane, but your footsteps gave away the fact that you can see."
After a pause, the woman continued:
"Still, you must have experienced blindness at some point. Your footsteps clearly bear traces of your past. You're afraid to take long strides, and before each step lands, you have to think it over first. Only someone who has experienced darkness would understand that hesitation."
Hearing this, Chu Mu felt that the woman's analysis made sense.
He was indeed drawing on his past experience to simulate being blind.
But some things simply could not be concealed.
For instance, his Heavenly Eye perspective let him see the road, unconsciously making him a little less hesitant and a little more decisive.
That left him somewhere between blind and sighted. An ordinary person would not notice anything wrong, but he could not