Tap, tap, tap!
Black boots landed lightly on the ground. Lu E was in an excellent mood.
Her mission this time was to find a key and a person. Both were connected to a Class S Taboo Object in the Land of Exiles.
That was why Lu E had been lying low so carefully, trying to understand the situation here and infiltrate the circles of the wealthy or the nobility.
"Who would have thought... I unexpectedly picked up a Class C Taboo Object and learned something incredible. The nobles of Sky City and the Dawn Blade are at serious odds. They probably won't have time to worry about me now. That makes things easier."
She toyed with the eyeball Zheng Chengdong had left behind, then tucked it into her chest. Feeling the pair gradually stabilize their energy and take shape as a Taboo Object, she began humming a little tune.
She was still wearing Mengsha's skin, glittering with jewels and exposing pale flesh that made men tremble. Holding up her skirt, she hurried along Daffodil Street.
Some ill-intentioned men tried to intercept Lu E. She merely slipped elegantly through the crowd like a fish, and the men immediately screamed, doubled over clutching their abdomens, and passed out.
Lu E rolled her eyes seductively. "Men. Not a single decent one among them."
Suddenly, in the rearview mirror of a garbage truck beside the street, she saw the dusky sky, a figure racing across the low, densely packed houses beneath it, and Xu Ye's face.
Lu E's expression quickly darkened.
That damned bastard actually dared to chase her. If this weren't Night Spirit City, where the Crimson Eye could turn its gaze on her at any moment, she would have killed the boy long ago.
Tap!
Her boots stopped, then turned toward