Silin shook his arms and looked very tired, "I've finally assembled another one! Oh right, Allen, are you hungry? "
Although Allen was completely hypnotized right now, and Silin could completely understand the opinions and speculations of the other people in Seven Lights about Shadow X from Allen's mouth, Silin did not ask Allen anything about Shadow X. For a person like Allen, talking about those things might cause Allen's subconscious to rebound, and it would appear that Silin was hiding something.
The crowd continued to struggle over Shadow X's true identity, but the Sector Championship was still going on. Knight was the only one who fought in the last two matches, but he was forced to use Thunderstorm Punch at the very last moment of one of the matches. Although it was just a fist shadow with lightning and he did not use Thunderstorm Punch in its entirety, it was enough to excite some of the students.
"Tch —" Knight's face was full of disdain, "You may look like a decent kid, but you're actually very evil and full of evil ideas. Those people who were tricked by you are still laughing and counting their money for you!"
When he was assembling in front of Allen, Silin's hand speed couldn't be considered fast. It was much slower than when he was assembling in front of Mo Heng. The reason he slowed down was so that Allen's eyes could keep up with his hand speed.
Crack —
Allen carefully looked at the stony-faced Knight. As expected, he was terrifying. No wonder those people did not dare to ask him directly. "Ahem … I'm sorry to disturb you. I'm here to look for Silin …"
Silin's voice turned deep as he said unhurriedly, "These parts must be assembled today. This is the mission my instructor gave me. There are a lot of parts, aren't there? "
"Uh … Silin, there's no need to trouble yourself. I'll leave after a chat."
In reality, what Silin said to Allen was not false. It could only be said that it was a little one-sided.
Allen woke up to the sound, and he saw a fully assembled machine on the table in front of his eyes. Silin had moved it into a big box, and there were already a few similar machines inside the box wrapped in shockproof bags. Looking at the date written on the shockproof bags, Allen blushed with shame. It looked like Silin was really busy from day to night.
Although he was a little absent-minded, Allen remembered what Silin had said to him and how he had answered. Looking at those spare parts and the assembled machinery in the study again, Allen felt that he was worrying too much. There was no way Silin was Shadow X. Didn't he see how busy he was?
He had only mentioned that Professor Mo did not wish for him to participate in the Sector Championship, but he had not mentioned whether he would participate or not. As for the fact that he didn't see Knight often but was very familiar with him … Well, it was true. Before the Sector Championship, aside from that mission, most of the time they kept in touch through the communicator. Even during the few days of the Sector Championship, Knight would return to his study right after the tournament to start working on the mission Mo Heng had given him. They would only see each other for less than an hour every day.
The further they went, the stronger the opponents they would meet. Although the system assigned them randomly, some of the veteran powerhouses and teams with high win rates would still be separated, so that they would not meet each other too early. However, with the appearance of the top 32, the flames of war in the Sector Championship were officially ignited. This was because after the top 32 had been decided, the fighters would draw their own lots. It was possible that the first match would be an extremely strong fight against an extremely strong one.
After staring at the jerky in Allen's hand for a moment, Knight wandered into the kitchen to get some food. He was obviously hungry after challenging Pride's fighter.
However, when he saw Allen sitting in the living room, Knight's face immediately darkened, "What's going on?!"
"Let's go to the living room."
As he spoke, Silin opened the storage cabinet in the study, only to find a small bag of red bean buns lying all alone inside.
"You want to ask about Shadow X, don't you?" Silin interrupted Allen's words, "I can't say anything about Shadow X. I've promised them."
The human brain was a very peculiar thing. Humans only had a small understanding of the brain. Even when the other party was hypnotized, one should not be presumptuous enough to think that one had complete control over the other party's thoughts. Different people had different ways of dealing with it. This was what Genya had told Silin when he was teaching Silin about hypnosis.
"I gave him the jerky in his hand, he didn't take it himself. There are still a lot of them in the storage cabinet. Don't be so stingy. "Silin said calmly.
"Yeah, there are a lot of parts. I spend most of my time assembling these parts every day. I don't have much time to do anything else." Silin's hand movements were still the same as before, "My mentor Professor Mo doesn't like me to participate in the Sector Championship …"
It was only when Allen looked at the time again that he realized that more than two hours had actually passed! When he thought back, the only thing he could remember was Silin assembling the parts. He actually stared at Silin assembling for two hours straight!!
That was why Silin had only used a curvilinear method and told Allen some seemingly irrelevant things. He wanted Allen to deduce the conclusion that Silin could not possibly be Shadow X from these things.
Allen's hand trembled when he saw Knight. He could feel the anger emanating from Knight's body. Could it be that Knight did not like visitors?
Allen let out two dry laughs, "It's mainly because we were too curious. We didn't even know that there was such an awesome person in Seven Lights."
Due to Silin's deliberate misdirection, Allen had indeed excluded Silin from the scope of his suspicion. It looked like Silin was in a difficult position, so the people of Seven Lights had shifted their target.
Then, when Allen placed his attention on the movements of Silin's hands, Silin's assembling movements began to change slowly. Without Allen noticing in the slightest, Allen's hand speed changed in a regular pattern. Matching this rhythm, the specific jumping of the parts and the trajectory of his hand shadows, Allen's consciousness was slowly drawn into a whirlpool.
Allen nodded, but his eyes were still unfocused as if he was in a half-asleep, half-awake trance state.
"Thanks." Allen accepted the jerky and water cup from Silin. He paused for a moment before asking, "Have you logged onto the Sector Championship platform before, Silin?"
Twenty of the top thirty-two groups were from Sector C, three were from the ten trade Sectors, and nine were from Sector B. The opponent Silin and Knight encountered in the top sixteen out of the top thirty-two was a group from the ten trade Sectors. It was also the group with the best record out of the three trade Sectors' groups. Just like Silin's group, they maintained a perfect record.
"Thank you for the compliment."
"That bastard aura of yours was too strong. I couldn't stand it, so I ran away immediately."
Allen: "..." Is this the point? I knew I was overthinking things. A person as big as him can't even compare to a bag of jerky.
While they were talking, Knight came bouncing down from upstairs while humming a little tune. It looked like he had won the fight against Pride.
Knight did not see Allen's figure when he came out, "He left so soon?"
Silin said that he promised 'them' and not 'him'. This further convinced Allen that Silin was not Shadow X. The 'them' should be referring to Knight and Shadow X.
Silin threw a bag at him, "What do you mean by 'what'? Do I look that bad to you? "
Silin took out two bags of jerky from the kitchen's storage cabinet and handed one to Allen. "Don't give me that. When did you become so bashful! This jerky is not bad. Try it. "
"You're overthinking. I'm just impressed by my extraordinary logical reasoning ability."
"What did you do to that kid?" Knight sat on the sofa and swung his legs while chewing on the jerky and asked.
"I'll let you in on a secret. Although Shadow X and Knight are very familiar with each other, they don't meet often."
While Knight went to the kitchen, Allen immediately stood up and excused himself. He felt prickles all over his body the moment he saw Knight. Knight's aura was too strong.
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