A9 recognized her. Emily. It was an alias that had appeared in the comic, belonging to a logistics member of Canglan Agency.
“There’s a first-aid kit in the back. You can tend to your injuries. Honestly, how did you get yourself into such a state?” Emily glanced at her, clicked her tongue softly, and turned back around, pointing in a direction.
Despite her little-girl appearance, her words were full of worry. “What on earth were you doing? As far as I remember, the agency hasn't taken on any assignments recently.”
“Sigh. But with me here from now on, don't worry about the rest. Relax, I'm very professional.”
“...Okay, I understand,” Lin Mo said, her voice hoarse.
An air of unfamiliarity hung between them. In the front, Emily kept flicking useless buttons, presumably feeling just as awkward spending time in the same enclosed space as a creature like Lin Mo.
Unable to do anything about the awkwardness, A9 could only go back to reading the comic.
A9 already knew Lin Mo’s plotlines in advance, so there wasn't much worth looking at right now; the only thing interesting was the comment section.
However, when it opened the comment section, everyone was just spamming question marks. The screen was filled with question marks of varying lengths, with only a few scattered words loading in between.
What was wrong? Wasn't it just a cliché plot where she pretended to be innocent at first and then went on a killing spree? What was so weird about that? Had they never seen Lin Mo fight before?
Attention didn't actually correlate with screen time. Popular characters with minimal presence existed too; maintaining an aura of mystery could even fire up readers' imaginations. So A9 wasn't pleased that Lin Mo had so much screen time.
It returned to the comic chapters and switched over to reading the bullet comments, finally understanding where all the question marks came from.
—The female ghost looked so well-behaved, and the first to die was actually the one with the least screen time? I thought it’d be the most annoying one.
—You think the one playing the recording isn't annoying? If anyone dared to chop up bones while playing an audio recording downstairs from my home at five or six in the morning, I'd flip their booth and tear down their house.
—Looks like everyone present is a bad guy. Feels like every single one has ulterior motives and ill intent. The artist is so good at drawing shadows.
Then, the mood of the comments abruptly shifted.
—??????????
—?
—?????
Here it comes.
Looking closer, A9 saw that it was the scene where Lin Mo found the phone outside the manor and received the message from the #1 Genius.
Back to the discussion board.
[What the hell, she belongs to Canglan Agency????]
[After all that guessing, everyone got it completely wrong! People even made a special forum for it, and I scrolled past several analysis videos, but not a single one guessed Canglan.]
[Then why did she kill Forsiman? Aren't they in the same organization? Aside from Forsiman, who spends years wandering outside, Canglan is famous for being united and loving! Why would someone break that unity?]
[Could she be an undercover spy?! Forsiman frequently appears abroad, making him the easiest target to dispose of.]
[I thought the internal fighting within the Covenant of the Scales was intense enough, but to think Canglan is like this too.]
[No way... Could it be that she has a good relationship with Emily? Forsiman offended Emily one moment, and Lin Mo killed Forsiman right after to help Emily out?]
[...That's a bit too brutal. Yet why can't I find any words to refute it? That really seems like something the female ghost would do.]
...
[So chaotic, so confusing! Lin Mo is backed by Canglan, and Canglan stole a kill from the Covenant of the Scales. I know the two organizations have never gotten along, but I really don't get it.]
A9 realized this was yet another disaster of its own making. It remembered.
The bomb that had been buried for so long had completely detonated. In the comic world, Lin Mo had replaced Forsiman, taking over his position in the organization.
However, the readers didn't know this. In their eyes, Forsiman was a real, existing person, so naturally they were confused seeing how the plot was unfolding now.
Lin Mo, who also worked for Canglan, had killed Forsiman.
It had originally thought there wouldn't be much content about Lin Mo, since Forsiman hadn't had much screen time to begin with. But who could have predicted that the author would draw so much about Lin Mo!
Was there really nothing else left to draw in this world? Were they just milking Lin Mo for all she was worth?
It was finished. When the other managers saw this comic issue, they would definitely come to demand an explanation from it.
What was it supposed to say then? That because it dragged someone in to be a victim, it ended up being taken hostage by an outsider?
Losing face was secondary. What if they all viewed it as a traitor, reported it to the higher-ups, and had it erased?
For now, it could only hope that the comic didn't have too much influence and wouldn't draw the attention of other managers.
The comic quickly reached the scene where Lin Mo saved the person.
A9's fur puffed up in shock. They actually drew it!
The artist's superb skills rendered the environment extremely terrifying, with the entire manor looking like it was on the verge of collapsing.
Recollecting the scene from that time, A9 felt a bad premonition.
[Is everyone really a villain here? Who would have thought that Lin Mo would actually seem remarkably innocent among them? The blood on her hands almost looks like the least of all. Such a small street is truly a place of hidden dragons and crouching tigers.]
[If I didn't know better, I'd think it was a fugitive hideout. What a peaceful and rustic Lengjing City.]
[Honestly, the concentration of criminals anywhere in this world is like this. It's just that nobody dares to dig into it—who knows, you might dig up a ticking time bomb.]
[Lin Mo would actually save someone? Is that out of character for her? I don't see the point of her action, especially since Chen Xijian doesn't look like a good person either from what we've seen so far. But the art is so good.]
[...There are literally no good guys in this comic. The killer mentioned in the broadcast is 100% her. She's the only one without internal monologues, probably saved for the climax.]
[So it can be viewed that way...]
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