He suddenly felt that human life was actually so cheap.
"But that thief didn't die. He did as he was told. Mm, I don't know whether he was genuinely obedient or just afraid of you, but in any case, after listening to you, he left Phoenix City with a merchant caravan for Antai City that very afternoon."
"Now that thief is still in Antai City, alive!"
Zuo Xiaonian's cool gaze rested on Zuo Xiaoduo's face as she asked uncertainly, "You... all that stuff you said about Physiognomy-were you really not just making it up?"
Zuo Xiaoduo felt utterly muddled. He murmured, "How do you know all this in such detail?"
Zuo Xiaonian said evenly, "Before dawn today, Greedy Wolf's Scheme erupted. Although the nine bodies involved were found in different places, the manner of their deaths was identical... we learned about it before dawn. Then I remembered you catching that thief, because something had been very wrong at the time. From the moment you told me, I started paying attention. I felt that woman seemed to be fishing for bait."
"So ever since you told me, I'd been waiting for Greedy Wolf's Scheme to erupt. Sure enough, those nine people died inexplicably, and no one knew why." "But I had an idea. To be safe, I secretly investigated that thief again. When I discovered he wasn't in the city, I looked into his whereabouts and found that he'd left Phoenix City. He'd headed east all the way to Antai City!"
"And he went east because you told him to."
"Then, early this morning, I flew straight to Antai City and found this thief called Zhang Yuan. Yes, Zhang Yuan was the thief you beat up, told the fortune of, extorted, and then pointed toward a way to survive."
"I asked