On the ferry to Lust Village, Ren Ye sat toward the inside with his arms folded and his eyes turned skyward. He looked utterly dazed, and no one knew what he was thinking.
With nothing to do, the other three rested with their eyes closed.
Suddenly, Old Liu seemed to remember something. He reached over and patted Ren Ye's thigh, saying quietly, "Right. There's something you still haven't explained to us."
Ren Ye slowly turned to him. "You mean Xu Bangzi?"
"Yeah. How did you spot him? And how did you manage to poison him and get him completely under your thumb?" Old Liu was very curious.
"Can't you put that sleazy brain of yours to work and go over the details yourself?"
"If I could fucking get my brain working, why would I be following you around?" Old Liu retorted, entirely unashamed.
Ren Ye was speechless for a moment before answering patiently, "First, people who work in anti-fraud make a habit of questioning everything. I never stopped being suspicious of how Xu Bangzi handled the traps in the Dragon Vault. The more I thought about it, the more his reactions seemed like those of someone very familiar with the traps, not someone entering for the first time. For example, everyone focused on how he managed to duck into the recess in the wall so quickly. But look at it the other way around. Could it be that he wasn't quick to dodge, but had been standing beside the recess from the start? And from that angle, he could see both the Secret Chamber and the cabinet that triggered the trap. I think that behavior came from an instinctive sense of security. It's like knowing a stretch of road well and knowing which street has potholes, so you instinctively avoid