The Ace of Hearts Bishop seemed to be on his way.
"Bandit Lord, why am I only noticing this now?" Xu Ye lay in the nutrient pod with his eyes closed, pretending to rest.
"Whoa-"
The Bandit Lord drew a startled breath. "Now that you mention it, that reminds me. We clearly learned from Wang Han that the Ace of Hearts Bishop was coming. We knew about it, yet somehow never paid it any attention. That makes no sense."
"There's only one possibility. Just like our last trip to the Cliff Forbidden Zone, someone's been secretly guiding us, making us overlook it. Goddammit, last time I thought we'd just been careless. I never imagined we'd fallen for it again. Damn it."
Xu Ye's heart sank. "Then why can we remember it now?"
The Bandit Lord explained, "Because our existential ranks are all fairly high, whoever it is can only influence us slightly. For instance, he can't make us forget the Ace of Hearts Bishop, but he can stop us from remembering him at a crucial moment. Yet the closer we get to things coming to a head, the less effective that guidance and suggestion become."
"To catch all three of us at once, he either used a Grade A or even a Class S Taboo Object, or he possesses a divine sequence."
Xu Ye grew solemn. "It can't be Ace of Hearts. According to the intelligence we gathered, he's been in the Land of Exiles all this time. His influence couldn't reach this far."
"It's probably that mysterious Bishop Ace of Spades."
Xu Ye had only encountered that Ace of Spades when Li Kang appeared. Afterward, even Wang Han's memories of the Eternal Church's last operation had revealed nothing about him.
Mysterious and powerful.
A dark specter haunted the skies