Luo Fan looked at the Weird that had appeared. Its entire body seemed forged from gold and silver metal, taking a humanoid shape. It looked like an openwork metal puppet, and its bearing actually gave an impression of elegance.
Puppet Weird
"Welcome."
The Weird resembling an openwork metal puppet placed a hand against its chest, bowed slightly, and spoke to Luo Fan.
"You deliberately set a trap to lure me here. What do you want?" Luo Fan asked, looking at the Puppet Weird before him.
Yes, Luo Fan was deeply puzzled.
If it simply wanted to kill people, or to understand humans better by watching their choices between life and death, it would not have used Zhao Chunfeng as bait to lure him here.
So it had only one target. It had been him all along.
But this was his first time meeting it. Why had it gone to such lengths to lure him here?
"Forgive me for inviting you here in this manner. I brought you here today for just one reason: I hope you will return what originally belonged to me, sir," the metal Puppet Weird told Luo Fan, maintaining its humble, courteous demeanor.
"Your property? What property?" Luo Fan looked at it in astonishment.
This was clearly their first meeting, yet from what it said, had he taken something of its?
"An underground research institute. I buried a treasure beneath it. You should know what I mean now, shouldn't you?" the openwork Puppet Weird said to Luo Fan.
Hiss...
Hearing what the Weird said, Luo Fan could not help drawing a sharp breath. Understanding dawned on him, and he exclaimed in surprise, "You were the one who buried that incompletely formed Innate Yin Jade beneath the Underground Research Institute?"
"Correct. Now that you know, Mr. Luo Fan,