After placing her newly purchased coats into the storage ring Su Ran used for carrying items—
Kafka followed everyone out of the store.
But the moment they stepped outside, they bumped directly into a charming foxian beauty.
"Ah…"
After colliding lightly into Su Ran's chest, the foxian woman took a small step back—
Then intentionally stumbled forward again.
Smoothly and naturally falling right into Su Ran's arms.
"Are you alright, miss?"
Su Ran gently helped steady the familiar acquaintance who had "accidentally" crashed into him.
"I'm fine."
The woman stepped back shyly.
"My apologies. This little one was careless and ended up offending you, sir."
The Tsaritsa, standing behind Su Ran, felt her eyelids twitch violently at the sight.
This woman was way too fake!
That seductive little act was obviously intentional!
And her level was clearly much higher than that green fox girl's!
"Relax, it's nothing serious. Let's just pretend it never happened. I don't mind."
Su Ran dusted off his clothes.
If he didn't already know she was acting, he honestly might've been fooled.
After all—
This foxian woman truly was alluring.
Whether it was her appearance, personality, or mannerisms.
"If Sir doesn't mind, perhaps I could invite everyone to dinner tonight as an apology."
"This little woman is Tingyun, a Whistling Flames merchant representative from the Sky-Faring Commission of the Luofu."
Kafka, who knew the truth, simply smiled faintly and said nothing.
But Serval had already realized there was definitely something suspicious about this fox spirit.
She even suspected the Xianzhou had intentionally sent over a beauty trap to seduce Su Ran.
The Tsaritsa thought much the same.
So this was the beauty trap meant to lure Su Ran?
Do they really think Snezhnaya lacks beautiful women?
A mere fox spirit thinks she can seduce one of the Fatui Harbingers?
The two of them had apparently completely forgotten that they had literally discussed Tingyun earlier that very day.
Perhaps because the matter felt unrelated to them, they hadn't paid much attention to it.
And the joy of shopping had temporarily erased all memories of the morning's conversation.
"Can I bring a few more people along?"
"Of course!"
"Then let's exchange contact information first."
Tingyun quickly added Su Ran's contact.
But when she saw the glaringly obvious Herta profile picture—
She fell silent for a moment.
Although she knew the account was genuine—
It still felt ridiculous.
It was perfectly normal for someone like her, a Lord Ravager hated throughout the cosmos, to lack a proper interstellar account.
But this man was a renowned Genius Society member who had become incredibly famous recently.
How did he not even have his own account?
"Are you perhaps a fan of Madam Herta, Sir?"
Tingyun smiled warmly.
"Nope."
Su Ran glanced at his account—
Then decisively snapped a picture of Tingyun herself.
Immediately replacing the profile picture with her photo.
"Now I'm your fan."
Seeing this operation, Tingyun froze momentarily before quickly recovering into a shy smile.
"Is this your way of confessing to me?"
Tsaritsa: Wait, no! My Second Harbinger, how can you fall into this fox spirit's seduction trap so easily?!
Xianzhou women are dangerous! Don't get deceived!
Isn't this Queen a thousand times prettier than this fox spirit?!
We even have a daughter together!
Serval: …
Boss's resistance to charm attacks is way too low, isn't it?
He surrendered to her this quickly?
"If that's how you'd like to interpret it, sure."
"Come on—let's take a picture together too!"
Su Ran casually wrapped an arm around Tingyun's shoulders.
Without caring whether she objected or not, he directly snapped a photo.
However—
This overly forward action did alarm the mastermind responsible for infiltrating the Luofu and reviving the Ambrosial Arbor.
Because it was simply too enthusiastic.
So enthusiastic that she had already begun sensing something wrong.
Has he discovered me?
Phantylia couldn't help but entertain the thought.
Otherwise, how else could one explain this man's behavior?
Members of the Genius Society were not idiots.
This man had become famous across the cosmos recently.
He absolutely didn't resemble some lust-driven fool.
Phantylia immediately grew wary.
"Mr. Yang… don't you think we might've been scammed?"
The moment they left the Seat of Divine Foresight, March 7th started feeling like something was off.
That Helm Master's attitude earlier had already been strange enough.
Then there was that General.
And both of them had looked at the Express crew with expressions basically saying we're counting on you all.
Since when had the Astral Express become this powerful?
Welt adjusted his glasses.
"Most likely, Mr. Su Ran told them something."
"This is giving me a headache…"
"We only agreed to help out a little. Why does it suddenly feel like we're expected to carry the entire operation?"
March grabbed her own hair in distress.
She hadn't even had the chance to suggest using the Matrix of Prescience to inspect memories earlier.
And now somehow they were burdened with the safety of the entire Xianzhou.
The pressure was enormous.
"I'm not sure either."
"But General Jing Yuan has granted us quite a bit of freedom."
Welt also looked somewhat tired.
The Xianzhou seemed to have placed far too many expectations on them.
But he had come here to search for that man who resembled Otto.
Now not only had he failed to find him—
He'd also somehow inherited massive responsibilities.
Even with all the freedom the Xianzhou offered—
He no longer had the mood to sightsee.
"Hey! Why are you acting like none of this concerns you?"
March suddenly noticed Stelle's relaxed expression.
She didn't look pressured at all.
"Su Ran is here."
"He also has a Propagation Emanator."
"And the Xianzhou has their General too."
"That's three Emanators total."
"With people like that around, what's there to worry about?"
Stelle genuinely found it strange that the other two seemed so stressed.
If the sky collapsed—
Wouldn't the tall people hold it up first?
"Uh… good point."
Once she put it that way, March suddenly felt things weren't quite as terrifying anymore.
Three Emanators!
Last time, she had personally witnessed that terrifying Doomsday Beast get smashed apart in two hits by the Propagation Emanator.
Now the Xianzhou had three Emanators on their side.
What was there to fear?
"Sigh… you two are supposed to be the seniors here, yet neither of you is as mature as me—a rookie on her very first Trailblazing journey."
Hands on her hips, Stelle shook her head helplessly at the two of them.
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