Fenli's pupils constricted slightly, "You mean..."
"Although our adventure last night did not achieve total success, we've already made significant progress," Yong Xin said with a smile. "Hallman is dead. Have you seen any reaction from the other Bishops?"
Fenli said nothing, but he understood what Yong Xin meant.
The death of a district Bishop was once an earth-shattering event. The Sky Tower's Bishop would surely have called the remaining Bishops to discuss countermeasures and declare a state of emergency in Lyra until the true criminal was found.
These were the written rules.
But now, Hallman had been dead for a night, and none of these things had happened. There was only one possibility left.
The Bishops had completely lost their perception of the outside world.
And Lyra was now powerless to respond to the current situation.
It was like an old man in the twilight of his years, whose every breath expended all his energy.
