Chapter 569: Closed (3)
The private meeting with the chief continued for some time afterward.
I kept asking what it was about this floor that I didn’t know, what had to be done to open the portal stele.
I pressed persistently, but the chief dodged the answers with vague words.
“You’ll naturally come to know when the time comes. And what reason is there to worry already? Sooner or later, you’ll leave this place and return to the city anyway.”
“Why won’t you just speak plainly? Could it be—”
“It’s not because I have some other thoughts in mind. I’ve only been considering what might help you.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“You never know. There might be something about this floor that even I haven’t discovered yet. If I were to advise you, it would surely erase the chance to find those things on your own. After all, you’d just follow my advice.”
Is this like the saying that lions push their cubs off cliffs?
If so, I understand it even less.
The chief and I aren’t bound by any close parent-child ties.
I find it hard to trust that he “wants to help” me at all.