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Chapter 248 The Cult Leader is Innocent! [Second Update, Requesting Monthly Tickets]

"Young friend Zhang Heng, what is that bracelet on your wrist?"

Bai Yue felt that this strange, silvery-white wrist... looked very familiar.

bracelet?

Zhang Heng followed Bai Yue's gaze with a blank expression and looked at the Samsara wristwatch on his left wrist.

This thing seems to have been on his wrist ever since he woke up. It even has his main quest written on it…

Main quest!!
[Main Quest: Stop the Water Demon Beast from destroying the Nanzhao Kingdom. Completion reward: 1 B-rank side quest for the entire team, 5000 reward points]

If Baiyue sees this... wouldn't everything be over?
However, keeping it from Baiyue is definitely not an option! They have to make it vague...

"Reporting to the Master, this item is called a watch, which I purchased from a merchant from the Western Regions."

Zhang Heng explained, neither humble nor arrogant.

"Western Region?"

Bai Yue gleaned a key phrase from it, and he vaguely remembered where he had seen this kind of "wristwatch" before. He tilted his head and smiled gently, "Guardian Adam, you must have just returned from the Western Regions, right?"

Got it!

Adam had a bad feeling and immediately ran over, whispering, "Reporting to the Master, I have indeed just returned from the Western Regions, and the scroll from before was also..."

Suddenly, Bai Yue simply reached out her hand to him, and his body flew uncontrollably toward Bai Yue!

Then, he was suspended in front of Baiyue, unable to move an inch!
"An illusion..."

Bai Yue's senses were incredibly sharp. The moment Adam was brought to face to face, he noticed that Adam had used some kind of illusion to cover his left wrist!

His eyes narrowed slightly, exuding an imposing aura without anger. His hair and beard moved without wind, and another burst of spiritual energy struck Adam!

Adam felt his hair stand on end. Under the surge of spiritual energy, his body convulsed a few times, and the Reincarnation Wristwatch on his left hand appeared!

“Guardian Adam…it seems he still doesn’t trust me enough.”

Baiyue reached out and grabbed Adam's wrist, clearly seeing everything on the Reincarnation Watch.

A string of...unknown characters.

In the real world, Adam is a beautiful American, so naturally, his reincarnation wristwatch is inscribed with a string of English letters.

Bai Yue couldn't understand it, but that didn't stop him from questioning Adam's identity.

He grabbed Zhang Heng's wrist with his other hand! The box containing the peaches fell to the ground with a thud!
This time... Bai Yue frowned, having deciphered part of the text on it.

broken!

Zhang Heng had a bad feeling, knowing that things were about to go wrong!

The person who introduced him was also a reincarnator! Wasn't he just walking into a trap? If he didn't complete this infiltration mission, he wouldn't be able to become a sword cultivator!

"Stop the water demon...destroy...Nanzhao...Completion reward..."

Bai Yue murmured to himself, "Simplified Chinese and classical Chinese are indeed very different, and the left-right reading order also differs between ancient and modern times..."

But how intelligent was the great scientist Bai Yue? Based on the shapes of the characters he could recognize, he quickly arrived at an approximate conclusion.

Stop the water monster from destroying Nanzhao!
This is inextricably linked to his grand plan.

There has been a traitor within the Moon Worship Cult!

He released Zhang Heng's wrist, tossing him aside, and turned to inquire of Adam, who held the position of Protector. In Bai Yue's view, although he couldn't decipher the contents of Adam's watch, since Adam was introducing Zhang Heng, the two must have some intricate connection.

Adam, being of a higher status, should have been the superior. This subordinate, lacking even the authority to use advanced codes, was forced to issue such simple instructions using inferior codes.

“Guardian Adam, you are not as honest as this young friend Zhang Heng… Can you tell me why you kept it from me?”

Why don't you interrogate him, but you insist on interrogating me? I'm here to help you!
Adam was inwardly raging, but outwardly he could only explain, "Your Excellency, I had no intention of hiding anything from you... This is something I obtained from the people of the Western Regions!"

Could it be people from the Western Regions or Kunlun who want to stop him from destroying China?

Bai Yue was deeply puzzled. He had also traveled to the Western Regions to study, and he had seen this kind of writing before, and even learned a small part of it.

However, this did not allow them to decipher the contents of Adam's watch.

Indeed, learning is a boundless sea, and one must work hard to reach it... I still need to study more.

“Guardian Adam, I’m giving you one last chance… Tell me everything you know.”

Bai Yue spoke gently, but to Adam it sounded so harsh.

During the battle at Mount Shu, Adam also used a random scroll to escape when he saw the situation was unfavorable. Bai Yue may not have missed this scene.

His relationship of trust with Baiyue was already quite fragile. After all, Adam had promised to find a new teleportation scroll for Baiyue, yet he himself kept it hidden!
Adam wouldn't have risked returning to the Moon Worship Cult if he hadn't had to break the deadlock through the Moon Worship Cult.

Now, it's just an avalanche caused by the collapse of trust!
Simply pledging loyalty is useless; Bai Yue is an extremely suspicious person by nature... He won't be convinced without evidence!

But where did he get the evidence?
"Master, I'm innocent! Ever since I got this strange thing, I haven't been able to get it off!" Adam tried his best to act as if he was begging for mercy with tears streaming down his face.

"Humph--"

The leader of the Moon Worship Cult snorted coldly. How could he possibly believe such nonsense?

After being deceived time and again, the Moon Worship Cult Leader had lost his dwindling patience with Adam, and he reached out to grab the Reincarnation Watch.

"Shh!"

With a loud thud, Adam's hand was severed at the root, the fragments as smooth as a mirror, and for a moment no blood dripped down!
However, the watch did not end up in Baiyue's hands; instead, it seemed to have been teleported to the other wrist!

"A trivial skill..."

Bai Yue, losing patience, looked gloomy. It wasn't that he couldn't get it; it was clear that they didn't want him to have it!
"Shh!"

"Ah—" Adam cried out... In fact, his sense of pain was very weak, but if he didn't shout, Baiyue would probably think he was unusual.

Survive first... whatever you do, survive first!
As long as the watch's secret remains unsolved, given Baiyue's curiosity, she'll definitely conduct research on it...

Zhang Heng was almost dumbfounded watching from the side.

No, am I the undercover agent? Why did you grab him and start hacking at him? Is that right?

And is this watch really that mischievous? Will it be my turn soon?
After both wrists were severed, the watch somehow ended up on the ankles!
Once and again, there was no fluctuation of magical power.

Baiyue began to realize that something was amiss...

Space... a power similar to spatial teleportation!

That damned Adam, he really did have some teleportation tricks up his sleeve!
With two more swift sounds, Adam's legs were severed! This time, the cut was high enough to be considered an amputation below the thigh!
Then, this damned reincarnation watch appeared on Adam's neck!

"You really think I wouldn't dare kill you?" Bai Yue's voice was chilling.

"No! No, Master!"

(End of this chapter)