At that, Old Qin lowered his eyes and said nothing more, obediently letting the roots carry him away.
Sheng An watched him go and frowned again.
Song Linwei kept sighing. "It's a shame Qin Xuan can't make prophecies either. Who knows what we'll face on this trip?"
After a moment of dejection, he rallied himself. "Still, we can't kill Hao Jingye, but he'll have a hard time killing us too."
They had been caught unprepared when Qiu Yu died.
This time, they would be extremely careful.
Outside Capital City.
On a distant mountaintop, a figure stood silently, watching in their direction.
"Will you choose to come out?"
He had already been waiting for a long time.
Inside the Capital City Base.
Sheng An suddenly spoke. "I've been wondering. Jiang Yu is only the key, so why did Hao Jingye want to kill her?"
Song Linwei had been about to stand up and leave. Hearing this, he crouched back down. The roof was iced over and too cold to sit on, so he chose to squat.
His attention was entirely on Sheng An's words. He frowned deeply. "Sister Sheng, what do you mean?"
Sheng An told him about her earlier theory.
Song Linwei's pupils contracted. He pressed his lips together, then finally said, "But he's an Otherkind... Perhaps he didn't know Jiang Yu was only the key, or that Little Fish Mint could get inside too. Otherwise, he would have copied Little Fish Mint's superpower long ago, wouldn't he?"
Sheng An shook her head. "Jiang Yu wasn't the one who died, yet it made us focus on the space. And did he really never copy Fish Mint's superpower?"
They had assumed he hadn't copied it, and therefore couldn't get inside.
But what if he had?
If he had, why hadn't he