"What exactly did you see in Shen Yeqing? This is important. Tell me right now!"
Xu Shuangrong's tone was no longer as polite as it had been at first.
She had only been courteous to Xiao Jingxi because she needed System L's abilities. Now that the systems had all disappeared, she no longer needed to be pleasant to him.
Their most pressing concern was to find out exactly what had happened.
Xiao Jingxi looked grim. Only now did he seem to realize that Shen Yeqing had set him up.
From Shen Yeqing appearing alone in the bathhouse to lure him into following, to his glimpse of Shen Yeqing's secret, to the system's disappearance.
It had all been a trap.
"I don't know. Shen Yeqing knocked me out before I could get a good look. This was probably his doing too." Xiao Jingxi still had no intention of telling the truth.
"..."
Xu Shuangrong could naturally tell he was hiding something, and she had no desire to keep playing games with him.
"In that case, let's go our separate ways."
Their partnership fell apart.
From their mutual distrust to the imbalance in their abilities now, everything indicated that they could no longer work together.
Or perhaps cooperating had been the wrong choice from the very beginning.
Xu Shuangrong left Xiao Jingxi's hospital room and tried to find the reason the systems had disappeared.
It was midnight now, only five hours since they had passed out.
Her phone had already been on her when she woke up. She checked the livestream replay and saw that the Production Team had brought them to the hospital. That meant Shen Yeqing had had no opportunity to act before nine, at least.
The problem lay somewhere in the three hours between nine and midnight.
Xu