"According to you, Hera wasn't killed by the Patroller. Then how did she die?"
"And if the Patroller followed her in here to find the Dagger, does that mean Hera wasn't being hunted because of her potential?"
Huang Liang hugged the Sniper Rifle close after speaking. He cared deeply about this question, and even felt a little guilty.
If the Patroller really had come in because of the Dagger, then Hera had essentially died in their place.
Seeing the guilt in Huang Liang's eyes, Ye Lin shook his head and briefly explained:
"No, Hera probably wasn't killed by the Patroller. At most, the Patroller helped things along. As for what sort of Examinees get hunted, we can't be sure anymore."
"I'm certain the Patroller didn't kill Hera because her last words had two layers of meaning. Telling us not to look for her was actually telling us not to search the Safe Zone for clues."
"We all got that wrong before."
"She was already dead. Why would we still go looking for her? Conversely, if we really did go looking for her, the only place we could search was the Safe Zone she'd visited."
"And telling us to run meant we shouldn't confront the pursuer. As long as we didn't search the Safe Zone for clues, we could run anywhere."
"Hera didn't leave any clues to the solution because this wasn't the place to solve it."
Everyone froze when Ye Lin finished. He Zheng was especially incredulous:
"Ye Lin, I still don't understand what you mean. Are you saying Hera had already realized something was wrong here?"
"But how is that even possible!?"
"If the Patroller didn't kill her, who else could have? It's not like she could still be alive!"
An Ke and Huang Liang were just as confused,