Sitting on the ground, Hong Lu fell into silent contemplation, no longer fiddling with his hair but occasionally sighing and staring blankly into the distance. He seemed to age decades in moments, a feat impossible for a boy of barely ten years, manifesting an old soul's depth in his gaze.
Hong Lu was driven to this point, wishing he could just curse out loud—all because of the pressure. The code on Xuan's note had indeed been deciphered, forming logically coherent sentences that conveyed Xuan's intended strategy. Yet, the nature of this strategy left Hong Lu utterly stunned.
Setting aside Xuan's overall plan, the issue of decoding the note was that 'X' referred to a horror movie world Team China had experienced, specifically Starship Troopers. The main reason for leaving such a note was to conceal the strategy from Demon Team's Xuan.
