Chapter 154 - 148: Showdown Part 1
The rumbling sound of the train was the dominant theme throughout the sleeper car. Scenery flew by in reverse from the windows at high speed.
Lin Fei sat at the table by the window, quietly observing the outside landscape. He was a person who liked tranquility. Despite knowing Lin You wasn’t aware of his situation, anyone faced with direct verbal abuse would feel a sense of rejection. Lin Fei decided to wait until Lin You had calmed down before slowly talking to her.
From leaving the hotel until boarding the train, the two hadn’t spoken. Lin You was silent the whole time, occasionally glancing at Lin Fei but quickly looking away, unsure if it was because of the earlier incident or something else. She also didn’t hold her black cat, Feil, as she usually did.
Next to Lin Fei sat Shuang’er, the young girl clutching a large bag of chips and munching away happily. The bag was twice the size of her little head and looked rather adorably disproportionate.
Lin You sat opposite Lin Fei, silent, face down on the table. She had been like this since they boarded the train. Her posture hadn’t changed at all even after half an hour.
Chris, the foreign girl in the middle bunk beside them, was still wearing a look of indifference, sitting on a pull-out chair across from them, completely silent. Unlike Lin You, she seemed to naturally have a detached and serene disposition.
Jiang Nan also sensed the weird atmosphere between Lin You and Lin Fei and was considerate enough not to speak, so all four fell into an awkward silence. For Jiang Nan, this trip to Coastal City was odd; Lin Fei and Lin You had spent such a short and mysterious time there before heading back. Although she wasn’t the brightest, she could still sense that something was off. Yet, she didn’t say anything. She had come to Coastal City primarily to accompany Lin You.
Initially, Lin Fei had planned to have a serious talk with Lin You, but the train wasn’t the right place for it. With Jiang Nan and Chris right there, their eyes glued to them and the proximity too close, anything said could be overheard by the people around them.
In Lin Fei’s eyes, Lin You and the so-called mysterious people around her showed signs of folly. They were unprepared for sudden changes before a fight, collected incomplete intelligence, and had imperfect battle plans. Facing Dolanna who exhibited the real strength of a D-grade Peak, they immediately retreated and were seriously injured. Lin Fei genuinely didn’t know how Lin You had survived until the last moment in her previous life.
Moreover, he had obtained some information about the Energy Scepter, which was mostly from enemy intelligence agents who had approached Lin You with malicious intent recently.
The Energy Scepter, renowned as the grand core of the world’s foundation, was managed collectively by five major families, suggesting there were a total of five Scepters. It seemed that Lin You had been caught up in the whirlwind around one of them.