Picking at his fingers was a natural reaction for him, but Chi Xiao, who had been watching him all along, took it all in.
When Chi Xiao examined Zhang Ji more carefully, she noticed some unusual things about him.
First was the hair on his hands... there was rather too much of it.
And it was not the black hair of an ordinarily hairy man, but a layer of fine, dense fuzz...
Viewed against the light, the fuzz was almost entirely white. It felt very strange.
Aside from that, there was something wrong with Zhang Ji's ears...
A slightly closer look revealed that Zhang Ji's ears twitched every so often.
Chi Xiao had barely paid any attention to Zhang Ji before, so she did not know whether this was a habit of his.
But after discovering something was wrong with Zhang Ji, she began watching him.
She only noticed the twitching of his ears after that, during the fairly short interval between Zhang Ji's arrival and Jidu's remarks.
Chi Xiao watched Zhang Ji throughout, and his ears twitched a total of eleven times.
If she listened closely, she could hear a buzzing sound with every twitch.
It sounded like some kind of insect rapidly beating its wings.
Normally, Chi Xiao would never have thought so much about it, much less associated a person with an insect.
But the abnormal Black Tide last night had left a deep impression on her.
Puppet and Angel's attention, along with Xu Le's specific instructions to investigate the hidden insects...
Chi Xiao had long had her suspicions about the being behind Xu Le. Although Xu Le had never said anything, the Power of Darkness that emerged from him and those mysterious dark vortices that appeared around him were all too obvious.
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