Chapter 391: Chapter 391: Artificial Eye (24)_1
“It seems that this Lady Li Min is up to something more than meets the eye,” Fu Qian observed, eyeing Roland who was on high alert, and thought to himself.
Presumably Rachel didn’t know that inside the tower, it wasn’t Li Min at all, but Roland, the Middle Tier Transcendent.
And this situation was undoubtedly very intriguing.
Li Min made such a big move, but she herself wasn’t here. There were only two possible explanations.
Either this was still a deception, with her tucked away somewhere else, secretly manipulating the situation to ensure her safety to the greatest extent,
or she never intended to complete the ritual in the first place and lured a group of people here while she had already gone off to do something else.
From Fu Qian’s perspective, the latter seemed far more likely.
He even had a vague guess as to where Li Min might have gone.
“Is there a situation?”
Roland, noticeably vigilant, didn’t get an answer from Fu Qian, so he couldn’t help asking again and instinctively looked outside.
It seemed that at the slightest sign of trouble, this one would be ready to make a break for it.
“A situation… indeed, there is one,”
After Roland asked a second time, Fu Qian finally spoke up, his tone slow and deliberate.
“What exactly is the problem?”
There was no doubt something irritating about Fu Qian’s demeanor, causing Roland’s brows to furrow.
As a character that he, Roland, watched over as he ascended to Transcendency, Roland initially had a natural psychological advantage over Fu Qian, along with an almost playful attitude.
Yet, after these past few days, that guy showed not the slightest bit of the expected franticness of entering a new world and even carried a mysterious air wherever he went, which felt quite awkward to others.
So, in this moment, Fu Qian’s attitude was inexplicably irritating to Roland.
“It’s simple, we’ve made too much noise,” Fu Qian pointed outside very honestly.
“It’s attracted the attention of the Night Watchman, as you know, they’ve been quite sensitive recently.”
“Now there is reason to believe that it won’t be long before this place is subjected to a thorough search.”
“After I noticed the situation, I informed Li Min, who considered it and then decided to abandon the ritual, asking me to come tell you to evacuate first.”
“Discovered by the Night Watchman?”
The news clearly startled Roland, who instinctively adopted a ready-to-leave stance.
But then he frowned and took a glance outside through the window.
“Li Min said for me to leave by myself?”
Sure enough, Li Min had fooled two people at the same time.
Following Roland’s line of sight, Fu Qian silently nodded to himself.
That was exactly where Rachel was located.
And from here, one could perfectly see the illusion of Li Min at the window.
The current situation plainly showed that Li Min told one true and one false version to Rachel, maintaining the illusion while her own true body was hidden in this tower, secretly commanding the overall situation.
At the same time, she had tricked Roland into staying here and, inversely, used Rachel’s illusion to make Roland believe that she was in the other tower.
There was a very clever point to this.
Roland, as a Middle Tier Transcendent, was clearly more powerful than Rachel and could sense some of the presences in the other tower, making him even more convinced of Li Min’s existence.
Meanwhile, Rachel, obviously unable to sense the situation here, would not realize that it wasn’t Li Min inside.
As for the purpose of doing this, Fu Qian believed it was partly to cover up her real whereabouts and partly to mislead Roland.
From Roland’s previous behavior, Fu Qian did not think of him as any kind of enthusiastic person.
He was probably like Teresa, always secretly leading various rituals, in order to increase his own power.
To him, both Fu Qian and Li Min were nothing more than tools that could be used.
In such a situation, his decision to come over and help was not necessarily with pure motives.
After all, Li Min was a newcomer who had only been in Posey for a few days, and despite Rachel’s introduction, it might still imply surveillance and observation.
Therefore, in this ritual, Roland was decidedly not willing to take risks, likely to leave at the slightest sign of trouble.
And through such means, the end result was that Roland mistakenly thought everything was under his control, even actually guarding the most dangerous position.
“Yes.”
Facing Roland’s question, Fu Qian wore an innocent face.
“Li Min meant for you to leave first, as it’s safer for everyone to leave in batches. He will stay a little longer to attract attention.”
In fact, Fu Qian was doing something similar.
When he confirmed it was Roland inside earlier, he had decided to just go with the flow.
Oftentimes, the truth fools people more effectively.
Roland was doubtlessly very suspicious, trusting neither Fu Qian nor Li Min at all.
If Fu Qian said all was calm, the latter might turn tail and run.
But once Fu Qian suggested he leave first, the former actually hesitated.
“Forget it, you guys are less powerful, so I will stay behind,” he said.
Roland squinted his eyes, but in the end, he did not move.
“In case something unexpected happens, it will be easier for me to extricate myself.”
Sure enough, he was afraid of being cannon fodder, used to attract firepower!
Fu Qian knew Roland’s mindset like the back of his hand.
The whole point of his previous statement was to give Roland this extra worry.
Worrying that Li Min was letting him go first on purpose, while the Night Watchman had already laid a trap outside.
And after he drew attention first, the others could take the chance to escape.
Taking into account that it indeed made sense, Roland, unable to confirm the situation, clearly did not want to take the risk and thus was not in a hurry to leave.
From his perspective, this choice was not too unreasonable.
After all, there was a major premise: his power was significantly higher than the others’.
Even if Fu Qian had not lied, missing the chance to flee first, when the Night Watchman arrived later, he could instead use the others to draw attention and escape with ease.
One must say, the mindset of some people is quite easy to figure out.
“In that case, I will go ahead first.”
In face of such nobility displayed by Roland, Fu Qian’s response was shameless.
He did not bother being polite to Roland at all, directly preparing to take his place.
…
Roland watched and was again filled with suspicion and concern, worried that he might be overthinking it.
However, after seeing Fu Qian’s punchable expression, he instantly calmed down.
This guy was extremely cunning; who knew whether he was deliberately making such a gesture to mislead him.
He ultimately decided to trust his own judgment.
But even so, when Fu Qian left without another word, Roland still felt a throbbing in his temples, his dao heart somewhat unstable.