The tip of the Black Cat’s tail involuntarily twitched at the ntion of the word "traitor."
Then it managed to hold back again.
The devils’ cunning and suspicion were laid bare in several Seven Sins etings, and it had to be extra careful to avoid being publicly unmasked and hung on the Pillar of Fire.
"I do think your caution has so rit."
Belfinger shook the colorful feathers behind him, paced in small circles in front of the Red Fox, clicked his bird beak, and mused, "Ever since our last eting, Zheng Qing’s little group has suddenly beco much more vigilant... I had been watching them before, during the ti right after the New Year they were actually quite lax. Including Zheng Qing, he didn’t carry the Invisibility Talisman and walked around the campus openly for almost a week... Until after our eting, he suddenly began carrying the Invisibility Talisman again to class. This change can only be explained by the presence of a traitor."
The reasoning was rigorous and reasonable.
The seven animals around the conference table fell into deep thought, occasionally casting strange glances to their sides, as if looking through the masks and animal forms to see the real appearance of a traitor.
Black Cat had similar deep thoughts.
Except the other devils were thinking about who was the traitor in this conference room, while it was alert to the information exposed by Belfinger’s analysis—because those who can easily discern the change in Zheng Qing’s small group must be around him, perhaps even very familiar with him.
"We cannot rule out the possibility that their diviner is quite powerful."
The Blood-colored Bat on the other end of the conference table spoke slowly, breaking the silence in the room: "As far as I know, Xiao Xiao from Zheng Qing’s small group, nicknad ’Doctor,’ is a very talented diviner... He might have seen sothing in the Crystal Ball, thus prompting them to heighten their alertness."
"Even a real Great Diviner would find it very difficult to see what happens inside our conference room." Belfinger tilted his head, and queried Lucifer: "Do you think Xiao Xiao is a Great Diviner?"
The Blood-colored Bat was silent for a few seconds and quietly shook his head.
Belfinger nodded in satisfaction, his parrot-like peacock head rotated like a gyro in a 360-degree spin, sweeping his gaze over everyone in the room: "When I studied Philosophy of Magic, I read a sentence, ’As two negatives equal a positive in grammar, so in marital morality, two acts of prostitution count as a virtue.’ This is quite logical. By this logic, ’two traitors together turn into a loyalist, and a room with two devils becos Heaven’... So I counted, there are seven devils in this room, theoretically, one traitor must exist!"
What kind of ridiculous logic is this!
The Black Cat looked in shock at the peacock who made this inference—it had initially thought sloth was sloth because of the codena, but didn’t expect Belfinger to be so negligent in reasoning too!
Is there indeed such logic to determine a traitor!
Just as it was deliberating to correct the error in Belfinger’s inference, the Persian Cat suddenly spoke, catching it off guard.
"What Belfinger said makes a lot of sense." Lady Leviathan’s voice was as crisp and pleasant as ever, she first lightly complinted the peacock’s bold theory, then shifted: "But just now, when Beelzebub ntioned ’the application conditions for the Ti Converter are very harsh’ and ’none of the present can achieve this,’ I suddenly thought of our Lord Kannai..."
Her beautiful, watery big eyes looked at the Black Cat, seemingly devoid of malice: "If I rember correctly, our Lord Kannai had ntioned more than once that it works in a related departnt... I recall the departnt responsible for reviewing and managing the Ti Converter is the related departnt, isn’t it?"
The other six pairs of eyes turned to the Black Cat squatting in the center of the conference table.
The Black Cat squinted its eyes, ears forming into aeroplanes, restraining the impulse to pounce and give the Persian Cat a good beating. But it knew, compared to dealing with the Persian Cat, more critical at this mont was regaining control of the conversation in this room.
It coughed gently, without ntioning its work in the "related departnt."
"There’s a wizard from the United States nad Mark Twain, who said sothing like this—It’s not the ignorance that puts us in trouble, but the seemingly correct errors."
The Black Cat sat squarely in the middle of the pile of parchnt materials, its tone carried a hint of profundity: "Just like now. Discussing who is the traitor, who can obtain the Ti Converter, etc., these seemingly correct but misleading topics will not help our organization at all. We don’t need to know who the traitor is, we just need to complete the mission..."
As he spoke, he patted a piece of parchnt beneath him and raised his voice slightly: "What is the mission? Collect and organize all information related to Zheng Qing—his schedule, his daily movents, his blood or hair, his profile, etc. Among these tasks, thus far, the only task unfinished is collecting his blood and hair, in addition to so intermittent tracking records..."
The Blood-colored Bat raised his wing.
The Black Cat inexplicably felt this action gave him a very familiar feeling—for no reason, he felt this was the kind of move a Jiuyou student or Edge Academy student would make.
"What is it?" Lord Kannai regathered his thoughts and looked kindly at Lucifer.
Mr. Arrogance neatly folded his wings, his tone grave: "Regarding collecting Zheng Qing’s hair and blood, I have an unverified lead to share with everyone. According to reliable intelligence, Zheng Qing’s physical quality far exceeds that of a normal wizard, seemingly modified through Alchemy or similar magical enhancent... He can withstand ordinary sharp blades and Explosion charm attacks unhard. Therefore, gathering his biological information through ordinary ans is very challenging."
The other devils only seed slightly surprised at these words, they did not appear greatly shocked. After all, it’s not uncommon for wizards to undergo physical modifications; the fact a second-year student possesses the capacity to undergo such modification ans many previously gathered pieces of information need to be reverified.
Only the Black Cat, upon hearing Mr. Arrogance’s ’sharing,’ instinctively tensed its muscles.
The series of encounters Thursday afternoon together with Jiang Yu almost imdiately ca to mind, it didn’t even require Divination, it could fully ascertain the misfortune it experienced back then must be related to Lucifer.
Who exactly is this guy?
The Black Cat raised its paw, seemingly wanting to lift the mask on its face to see more clearly, but eventually restrained this impulse, simply adjusting the petite, egg-shaped mask.
"Very useful intelligence, very useful."
The Black Cat appreciatively nodded towards Lucifer, looking around, its tone increasingly amicable: "So, does anyone have any new ideas on how to collect Zheng Qing’s hair or blood?"
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