A chill spread down Du Yu's spine all the way to his heels.
Why had He Suoyi appeared at the Legend Management Bureau?
Where were Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Mei Ghost, and the Eight Great Underworld Enforcers?
Where was Dong Qianqiu?
Countless thoughts crashed through his mind. He felt the world spinning around him as a deeply unsettling premonition spread through him.
Had everyone at the Legend Management Bureau been killed?
Would Xiao Qi be killed too?
Du Yu slowly opened his eyes, struggling to calm himself.
"Well? Did you understand what you saw?" Xiao Qi asked.
"I did." Du Yu nodded.
"Good."
Du Yu rapidly weighed his options. If He Suoyi intended to slaughter everyone, why hadn't he killed Xiao Qi? Did she still have some use to him?
If Xiao Qi died, wouldn't I be trapped in this legend forever?
But how could Du Yu save her?
"Du Yu," Xiao Qi called in an even voice.
"I'm here."
"I want to ask you something," Xiao Qi said.
"You want to ask me something?" Du Yu's heart pounded. He knew this was almost certainly a question He Suoyi had told her to ask, so he kept his voice as calm as possible. "Go ahead."
"If... the Legend Management Bureau ordered you to kill Zhang Jian, would you obey the Bureau's orders, or follow the legend's original storyline?"
What would you call that?
A genuine "death-trap question." If Du Yu gave the wrong answer, Xiao Qi would immediately lose her life.
"I'll have to give that some thought," Du Yu said ambiguously. "Knowing me, I'd definitely follow the legend's original storyline. But the Legend Management Bureau has treated me well, too. Sometimes, there's room to bend the rules..."
Xiao Qi fell silent for a while, then said, "Du Yu, in that case,