"Who the fuck are you!?"
After a brief silence, He Zheng could no longer hold back his furious demand.
His reaction was understandable. When he, too, realized that the other party had entered the Mysterious and Subtle, he immediately thought of Zhang Tie and Li Tianyang.
If this man had been following them all along, he might very well have been behind what had happened to Zhang Tie. Even Li Tianyang's troubles might have been the Patroller's doing!
Ignoring He Zheng's fury, Lin Yu scoffed, his gaze fixed on Ye Lin.
"I am looking for the Sacrificial Dagger, but I've never entered the Mysterious and Subtle."
"Even if I had, you wouldn't have been worthy of encountering me."
He Zheng's expression froze at Lin Yu's words. An Ke and Huang Liang were stunned as well, their earlier suspicions overturned outright.
Ye Lin frowned and began thinking rapidly.
Never entered the Mysterious and Subtle? We weren't worthy of encountering him?
If Lin Yu wasn't lying, someone must have told him about the Sacrificial Dagger. And that person could only have belonged to a team that entered after them.
As for not being worthy of encountering him...
That meant the Patroller was supremely confident in his strength. Even if he had entered, he would certainly have gone in after them.
So, after we left the last Examination, other teams entered it.
The Patroller is confident in his strength, but he entered this one before us... Restrictions? The system has restricted his strength.
Ye Lin's gaze sharpened.
"So someone deliberately left that dagger there to help later teams unravel the Mysterious and Subtle? But because we took it, your side suffered heavy losses. Once you got out, you wanted to find out who had taken it."
"Hera was very good at escaping, so