Some said learning to disguise yourself was the first real step toward maturity. Knowing how to hide your thoughts, learning to play dumb and abandon shame, and remaining unruffled even if Mount Tai collapsed before your eyes, no matter what accusations or doubts you faced-only then had you reached the starting point of success.
Leaving aside whether this philosophy of life was overly utilitarian, twisted, and extreme, if that was the standard by which a person's maturity was measured, Ding Ying and Lou Changfeng were undoubtedly the finest specimens of their kind.
Their intensely selfish natures had long since honed their ability to remain completely composed even when their lies were exposed and someone pointed in their faces and demanded answers. At the same time, they could produce an utterly convincing expression of grievance at being misunderstood and wronged.
Ding Ying seemed to take a long time to recover before she said, her eyes filled with shock, "Brother Biyun, you... what do you mean by that?"
Zhang Biyun looked at her calmly. "That Humanoid Puppet that exposed Bai Ze and his group-Lou Changfeng was secretly controlling it, wasn't he?"
"Wh-what... why would you think I was controlling it?" Disbelief appeared on Lou Changfeng's monkey face.
"When Bai Ze and the others were exposed, you two happened to return to your true forms. The Infiltrator Token can only be used once every thirty days. With such a precious opportunity, why did you activate it so rashly?" Zhang Biyun asked quietly.
Lou Changfeng answered almost without thinking, "I told you before! The reason we returned to our true forms was that Bai Ze's group had alerted those seven Corpse Puppets... We were worried everyone would be in danger, so we instinctively used the Infiltrator Tokens!"
"You know there weren't that many of