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Chapter 429 – Mediocrity or Wisdom?
“Tsk… how stingy, whatever, so in the end you know about just as much as Snow, wasting my time.” Lin Xiao rolled his eyes and grumbled.
Looking at his expression, Nick couldn’t help but remember the uncomfortable feeling he had when he was new and being rebuked by the pope.
Why did a Saint have to be lectured by a brat? This Lin Xiao really knew some strange magic, right!
“Hey Nick.”
“What else do you need?”
“Don’t worry, you definitely know this… you mentioned earlier that you met Snow last night.”
“Yes.”
“Do you know what she was planning? Did she tell you?”
“… Why are you asking that?”
He felt strange from before, Lin Xiao was just an investigator yet he was interested in the internal affairs of the church and now he was concerned about Saintess Snow.
“Hm…” Lin Xiao hesitated and knew that his question was sudden, so he directly gave the reason, “To tell you the truth, I’m her brother.”
“… Hah?”
“… What?”
It wasn’t just Nick that was shocked, Claire who was eavesdropping also couldn’t help but cry out as they looked at one another.
Speaking of which, they have heard that Saintess Snow had a brother, but they never knew who it was, and it turned out to be Lin Xiao?
But… Saintess Snow is petite and cute with long blue hair and fair skin, but Lin Xiao had black hair with a dumb look, how could he be her brother?
“Saint Nick, there’s living dead ahead blocking the road!”
“Don’t be scared and get ready!”
“Hey Nick, you still haven’t answered my question!”
“We’ll cut it short and continue later!”
Nick walked forward and ignored Lin Xiao while preparing for battle.
“What’s he so nervous for, it’s just some small fry, you can easily take care of them.”
“How do you know if you have never seen them yet? What if there’s an ambush? … Everyone attack!”
Nick didn’t trust Lin Xiao’s baseless claims and left him behind as he ran over with everyone else.
Lin Xiao could only helplessly roll his eyes. He didn’t know if Nick was really stupid or pretending to be stupid, with how strong their team was right now, there was no way the enlightened society would come, so it was surely just a bunch of lost living dead.
And it was just as he expected. When Nick brought everyone over, they realized it was just tens of wandering living dead, so they easily took care of them and temporarily rested and reorganized in a safe place.
Nick suddenly remembered Lin Xiao’s judgement and began thinking.
“That kid wasn’t just guessing, right?”
At first, he just took Lin Xiao as a normal brat, relying on his slick tongue to latch onto Claire’s legs, a no-good pretty boy, but it seems he has some merit.
Nick wasn’t an idiot, while they were walking, he carefully observed the team and noticed something unbelievable.
Although Claire was the leader in name, everyone clearly respected another person’s opinion more, and that was Lin Xiao!
Could this kid be intentionally hiding something?
While they were resting, Nick quietly approached Lin Xiao with a bunch of questions to probe his background.
“Hey, are you really Snow’s brother?”
“If you don’t believe me, forget it.”
Lin Xiao didn’t bother with him and sat with ShenDai Ying and his maid while eating fruits and resting.
“Um… oh? This must be the Great Qin empire’s princess, ShenDai Ying, right?”
Nick changed the subject to cover up his awkwardness.
“Yes, hello.” ShenDai Ying smiled and nodded, then continued to lean on Lin Xiao while eating.
According to what Nick knew, ShenDai Ying was Lombard Kingdom’s Prince Caesar’s fiancée, so why was she so intimate with Lin Xiao?
What made Nick more curious was…
“Princess ShenDai Ying, your body seems to be…”
“Hm? What’s wrong with me?”
“Hehe, it’s nothing.”
Nick shook his head and didn’t continue speaking, then turned to observe the other strange maid.
It was his first time seeing such a cool and beautiful maid for Nick. She was currently kneeling next to Lin Xiao while expressionlessly serving her master. ShenDai Ying was to the right and she was to the left, two beauties one on each side, Nick didn’t even know where to look.
“Is she your maid?”
“No shit, who else’s maid could it be, yours?”
“Oh… what’s her name?”
“Elena.”
“Why is she wearing a collar?”
Nick curiously pointed to the collar around Elena’s neck.
Nick didn’t know if it was because Elena was too beautiful and it was just in his head but he felt something extremely dangerous from this woman like she was a chained lioness.
“Because it looks good.”
“What? Looks good?”
“You don’t get it?”
Since it didn’t look like Nick understood, Lin Xiao demonstrated.
He reached out and grabbed the chain on her collar and gently pushed it, the chain naturally swung back and forth over Elena’s deep abyss.
“Pervert, stop touching me, do you want to die?” Elena frowned and grabbed the chain to stop it from moving.
“I didn’t touch you, I just touched the chain, why are you so angry? … Besides, this collar suits you, it looks nice.”
“Your sense of beauty is already beyond saving.”
“Isn’t it? Nick, what do you think?”
“Me? Ummm…”
What’s so good about a swaying chain?
Nick sweated and hesitated, he could only sit down next to Lin Xiao and change the topic.
“Even if you are Snow’s brother… why are you inquiring about her?”
“Because she’s in a dangerous position.”
“Because she has the black core?”
“That’s right.”
“To be honest, I’ve also been thinking about that. Since she has that, she’ll naturally be pursued and she surely knows that. I wanted to join her team to protect her, but she chased me away without reason so I came to find you guys.”
“Oh, so that’s what it was.”
That seems like how Snow would do things.
“But I don’t understand why she rejected me?”
“It’s simple, she’s purposely acting weak to lure them.”
“Oh? So you’re saying she’s waiting for the enlightened society to ambush her, then she’ll capture them with the crucifix guards she brought along… that girl was that bold?”
Confirming his thoughts, Nick nodded and commended Snow’s bravery.
But Lin Xiao was more concerned about something else.
“Hey, how did you know she brought the crucifix guards?”
“Lin Xiao, I’m still a Saint and half a rank higher than her in Gotham Kingdom, how could I not know?”
“If you already knew, then why are you still acting dumb?”
“Hehe, don’t rush… I have something to show you.”
Nick waved his hands and called a believer to bring over a scroll to show Lin Xiao.
“Is this… a map for the way back to the city?”
“That’s right, but this is also Snow’s route back to the city! Look here…”
Nick explained while drawing it out for him.
“If I’m correct, then Snow purposely took this road with a side road to force them to ambush her midway… look, there’s a shallow marsh here where a lot of living dead can lay in ambush, once it happens, Snow can only take this small road to escape… I’m guessing she’s planning to pretend to lose and lure them into an ambush on the small road.”
Nick said everything he was guessing then silently stared at Lin Xiao waiting for his response.
What did this Nick want to find out?
ShenDai Ying was observing Nick and finally realized it. On the surface, it looked like Nick was sharing information, but he was actually testing Lin Xiao!
Everything he said earlier was part of the test. If Lin Xiao couldn’t find the hole in Nick’s words, then that meant he was just a mediocre person, and even if he was Snow’s brother, he was no big deal and nothing to worry about.
If he was a hidden wise man who bid his time, then he would carefully consider Nick’s words out of concern for his sister and try to find the problem.
So, what was the problem with Snow’s plan.